Utopian Societies-The Impossible Dream
.... thought it should be totalitarian, Washington thought it should be democratic, and Stalin thought it should be communist. So who is right? Is anyone right? Under a utopian society, totalitarianism wouldn't be the best because that society would be more perfect for one person than another. Communism wouldn't be the right choice because the government would have too much control over everyone's lives and being controlled isn't ideal for many people. A democratic society wouldn't work either because you w .....
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Effects Of Advertisements
.... false misleading nature of advertising. Sometimes it is a fact that advertising tends to make people unhappy, because they cannot have what they see. However advertising can also have good effects in society, by giving positive information.
There are a lot of good, meaningful commercials. The government tries to prevent certain groups of people, mostly teenagers, from doing wrong and that is why it sponsors a lot of commercials that are against drugs. Also they sponsor ads that encourage people to .....
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How Can We Control The Drink Till You Drop Mentality At Colleges?
.... make descent grades during the week, but on the weekends they let loose and go on a drinking binge.
Some of them make the grades and continue on with their education while at the same time continuing their drinking habit almost religiously.
The people that go to college and drink heavily for the first time or mix drugs with large amounts of alcohol are the ones that are effected the most by binge drinking. There have been more and more deaths related to binge drinking every year and the numbers a .....
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Teen Drinking
.... serious stress. Many kids become extremely stressed out because of pressure from their families to do well in school. When mom and dad expect their child to get an ‘A’ and they get a ‘B’, things can get pretty tense around the home front. If a kid does not have any way of blowing off steam in a creative way, he or she will likely turn to alcohol to let loose and relieve some tension.
Many of today’s role models drink. I will use the example of the most popular movie of the summer, “I Know What You .....
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Youth Violence
.... to solve it.
One of the best predictors of aggression and violence in young people is family abuse. Being abused or neglected as a child increases the likelihood of arrest as a juvenile by 53% (league of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund. 1994, p.3). In Houston Texas, Judge Eric Andell stated that “95% of all youth seen in court share one very predictable problem: alcoholism in the family” (league of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund. 1994, p.5). Each day, nearly 3,000 children see their .....
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Advertisements And The Consumer
.... both for beauty soap. The second ad is for Resinal Soap (1922) and the third ad is for Lux Toilet Soap (1934). Resinal Soap manufactures incorporate fear. The manufacture claims if you do not use this soap no man will ever find you attractive enough to marry, even if you are intelligent and have a great sense of humor. The ad for Lux Toilet Soap shows several shots of a beautiful Hollywood star. She is giving her testimonial of the product. Through manipulating the star's testimonial, the advertiser fee .....
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Racism And The Ku Klux Klan
.... people and it was a town full of churches at the time of the Klan’s beginning (Wilson and Lester pg. 50). This birthplace was the birthplace of future misery and despair and the beginning of a new era( Oneline pg. 1).
On an evening in May 1866, a few young men met with one of the most prominent member’s office at a Pulaski bar. In the course of the evening’s conversation, one of the members said, “Boys, let us get up a club or a society of some description” (Lester and Wilson pg. 53). The group of .....
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Hate Crimes
.... was engaged in activities
promoting the rights of the targeted group.
· Coincides with a religious or cultural holiday, such
as Yom Kippur or Gay Pride.
There are many different types of hate crimes that surround us in the world. Many hate crimes are performed by actual hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), skinheads, and many other groups. Hate crimes and bias crimes are now recognized as a new category of violent personal crimes. Research by sociologist Jack McDevitt finds t .....
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Teen Pregnancy
.... abortion. On the other hand teens sometimes act on imulse rather than giving such an emotional issue a lot of thought. If the parent were forced to give consent it would assure thet the decision had been given much thought. Though it could also rip a family apart. People react to unexpected situations in life very differently. Some teens think that if they were forced to get their parents consent to have an abortion they would go crazy and never forgive them. The question is not however what the pa .....
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Interracial Adoption
.... and others do not care. How important heritage is to a person depends of the individual. The more you learn about your own heritage, the more enlightened you are to others. Some families celebrate their heritage by cooking certain types of food, with recipes handed down from generation to generation. Others celebrate holidays differently or not at all.
America is known as the “melting pot,” where people of different backgrounds live together. People with different background marry and start their .....
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Employee Drug Testing
.... with preemployment testing, investigate accidents by testing those involved and conduct random drug tests. Recent litigation has focused not on whether an employer may test but on how the test is done.
For preemployment screening, the ADA requires that medical exams not be done before the applicant has received a conditional offer of employment, but it specifically excludes drug tests. However, many companies hoping to avoid defamation suits retain a medical review officer to examine test resul .....
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Prison Overcrowding
.... jail. There have been many new experimental programs in which the government is trying to keep the prison population down. Some of these have proved to be very successful while others have failed. Although not everybody agrees on what the solution they do agree that something has to be changed.
Although many agree that mandatory minimum sentences are out dated and should not be imposed any longer, there are those who approve and support them. Those in favor of them have two strong reasons for .....
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Pre-Employment Testing
.... what kinds of information they need. Pre-employment testing can test any thing from skills to physical ability. The discipline of pre-employment testing is not a stand-alone function. However, A majority of companies feel that it is one of the three vital components in the hiring process. The other components are comprised of Screening and Interviewing. It is the employers responsibility to make the hiring decision as well as undertake the above components. It is the task of the person giving the pr .....
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Television Violence And Children
.... and all the results point to one conclusion: Television violence causes children to be violent and the effects can be life-long.
The information can't be ignored. Violent television viewing does affect children. The effects have been seen in a number of cases. In New York, a 16-year-old boy broke into a cellar. When the police caught him and asked him why he was wearing gloves he replied that he had learned to do so to not leave fingerprints and that he discovered this on television. In Alabama, a nine- .....
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Providing Jobs For The Disabled
.... hold back job productivity. Also remember that having a job, regardless of what it is, may often times be more valuable to the disabled, who may have had a hard time getting a job in the past. The satisfaction of having that job may be a motivating factor, and having motivated employees are what its all about. Another factor is they will be less likely to leave for another job (since it would be very difficult for them to find another one).
Woolworth's hiring of these individuals not only help the .....
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