Social Security
.... people believe that the income limits on which Social Security taxes are paid should be higher. They say that the current earnings limit of $72,600 in 1999 allows wealthier Americans to avoid paying Social Security taxes on some of their income. Critics say that Social Security is supposed to be a foundation for retirement planning. If wealthier people contributed more than they now do in Social Security taxes, they would either have to receive more-and in some cases much more-than they now do in benefi .....
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Greed
.... and most importantly, progress. Greed has created thousands of billionaires and millions of millionaires. But why is greed associated with evil? In their day, most capitalists like Cornelius Vanderbilt and John D. Rockefeller were depicted as pure evil. Vanderbilt stole from the poor. Rockefeller was a snake. But the name-calling did not come from the consumers; it was the competing businesses that complained. The newspapers expanded on these comments, calling them "robber barons." These are inaccur .....
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Cross-Cultural Ethics
.... in two ways. First, according to Jones, culture provides an unquestioned context within which individual action and response take place. Even rational action is subject to the cultural definition of what is a meaningful goal and what are available means(16). Culturally determined responses are built into the very physiology of the organism.
Second, culture pervades social activities and institutions. There is a strain toward consistency in culture—consistency of perception and style, as well as .....
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Minimum Wage
.... out the lower class people that need it the most, and help raise them from poverty.
One argument given to oppose minimum wage increase is that most minimum wage earners are teenagers from families who are not poor. This meaning that raising the minimum wage will not be effective in aiding those families at the lower end of the wage scale. This however is not true for it has been shown that only 11.7% of teenagers in families with above-average incomes would benefit from a higher minimum wage.
The o .....
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Realism
.... Regionalism sought to establish a common culture, such as cultural diffusion might accomplish. For instance, writings like these could educate certain groups about eachother.
Realism grew in this Country as a result of war and industrial hardships. Regionalism grew because of great improvements in transporation.
Jack London, a Naturalist, lost his father at a young age and had to cope. He also witnessed first-hand, the casualties of the California Gold Rush. “Buck did not read newspapers, or .....
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Psychological Perspectives
.... to see the brain activity of a person with mental disorders differs from that of normal brain activity. The biological perspective also deals with the different types of chemicals and hormones that are released by the brain and how they influence behavior. For instance, psychologists have learned that when the hormone prolactin is produced it stimulates milk production in women, but in laboratory rats, this hormone stimulated maternal behavior. So not only does the hormone affect physical changes .....
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Reducing Gun Violence
.... for answers.
Gun violence claims over 40,000 American lives a year. Among all consumer products, only motor vehicles outpace guns as a cause of fatal injury, and guns will pass them by 2003 (Violence Policy Center).
Their are many different methods in reducing gun violence, such as federal gun control laws, increasing penalties for gun-related crimes, banning handguns, reducing gun violence on the television, and different types of gun safety practices.
Today there are 20,000 different typ .....
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Affirmative Action: Why It Should Go
.... by white males, who controlled the hiring and firing of employees. The U.S. government, in 1965, believed that these employers were discriminating against minorities and believed that there was no better time than the present to bring about change. This action, that started with good intentions, would later lead to a different and more complex form of discrimination.
When the Civil Rights Law passed, minorities, especially African Americans, believed that they should receive retribution for the earlier .....
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Hate And Prejudice
.... religion, state of wealth, or a person dress. Some people try to deny that they are prejudice, while others thrive on letting everyone know. An example of this would be the Ku Klux Klan; a society organized to reassert white supremacy with terroristic methods. These people would show their prejudice by marching down city streets and by having loud outdoor campaigns and cross burnings.
As time passes on so does hate and prejudice from one generation to another, and if people do not grasp .....
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The Hippie Culture
.... 200). This new drug allowed a person to open their mind to new understandings and philosophies. But it wasn’t just marijuana that opened the minds of the youth; a new drug known as LSD came into existence: Depending on who was doing the talking, [LSD] is an intellectual tool to explore psychic ‘inner space,’ a new source of kicks for thrill seekers, the sacramental substance of a far-out mystical movement- or the latest and most frightening addiction to the list of mind drugs now available in the pill soci .....
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Natural Raised Killers
.... was raised as a normal child, brought up by a wealthy mother and father. "Bundy blames the excessive amounts of porn for all of his murderous ways," states Ron Mitchell. He came from a good home, had a good upbringing, and cannot seem to pinpoint anything in particular that would lead to his murderous spree.
The Picasso of the serial killing community, Ted was good-looking, charming, intelligent, self-assured, with a brilliant future, and deadlier than a rattlesnake. Using his good l .....
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Stereotype: Speaking Mandarin
.... introduce themselves to me but in Mandarin and I explained that I could only speak English, the expressions on their face dramatically changed into a frown and a bit of disgust. The Manger overheard the conversation and said, "You can't speak Mandarin? Oh, that will be a problem here," with a slight tone of disappointment, I felt offended and was determined to keep the job to prove to them that even though I could not speak my mother tongue I would learn the ways around the kitchen. That task was a .....
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Prejudice
.... prejudice brings up an interesting statement made by Vincent N. Parrillo, who said, "Although many social scientists have attempted to identify the causes of prejudice, no single factor has proven to be an adequate explanation. Prejudice is a complex phenomenon, and it is most likely to be the product of more than one casual agent"(573). To try and get rid of prejudice, we would need to find the source of where it comes from. Parrillo gives some of the sources, which are socialization, self-justificati .....
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Female Discrimination At The Citadel
.... in 1993, when the school mistakenly accepted Shannon Faulkner; thinking she was male. The war was waged so fiercely, and with such ill will, that when Faulkner withdrew after less than a week, the victorious screams of the other cadets was shown on national television.
Why is it that these male cadets and their leaders are so against the integration of females in the school. According to Bem Sex Role Inventory, people perceive some characteristics as more masculine than feminine and some as more f .....
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Evolution Of Profanity
.... profanity, mostly religious, which is probably one of many reasons that his works were and are so popular. "Shakespeare pushed a lot of buttons in his day- which is one reason he was so phenomenally popular. Despite what they tell you, people like having their buttons pushed" (Macrone 6). Because his works contained so many of these profane words or phrases, they were censored to protect the innocent minds of the teenagers who are required to read them, and also because they were blasphemous an .....
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