V-Chip And Television Censorship
.... over their children's viewing habits, in fact it will function as a governmental usurpation of parental control. Under the legislation, it is the government (either directly or by coercing private industry),and not the parents, that will determine how programs will be rated. If a parent activates the v-chip, all programs with a "violent" rating will be blocked. What kind of violence will be censored? Football games? War movies? News reports?"
Even though the V-chip legislation has alread .....
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Friendships
.... good life. The paper will answer questions like what Aristotle meant by friendship, what kind of friendships exists, and why we need friends.
Throughout our life we get into different kinds of relationships. Some relationships we cannot choose like family ties. These are relationships we are born in, and we cannot break them anymore than we can stop breathing. Even denying their existence does not change the fact that your mother and father, brother and sister, are who they are. “ Other relationsh .....
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Foster Children: Happiness Or Heartbreak?
.... are reunited with their parents. There are those who are willing to take the chance that maybe they will be able to adopt their foster children sometime in the future. However, adoption tends to be an extremely long process because sometimes it is hard to sever the biological parents’ rights to their children. The people who decide to become foster parents are admired by a lot of people, especially because it is known that foster parents endure extreme emotional turmoil. However, one of the most obvi .....
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Violence In Music And The Media
.... The chorus goes as follows, “I’m a….COP KILLER, better you than me. COP KILLER, f**k police brutality! COP KILLER, I know your family’s grievin’ …F**K ‘EM! COP KILLER, but tonight we get even. I think just from those few lines you can understand why it was necessary to remove this album from stores. The first amendment right to free speech is crucial but you have to think of the safety of others when doing something like this and that is why the first amendment rights of this band were not damaged.
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Violent Crimes By Juveniles
.... children still find a way to work their imagination by watching. All the trash that is seen on TV takes its toll on the minds of juveniles and causes them to want to be like everything they see on TV. For example, children watch Power Rangers and turn around and try to do the Karate they see on anyone they can. They feel they are doing no wrong since the characters on TV are being praised for doing it. The violence on a simple show like Power Rangers can have a great effect on children. When you ge .....
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I Am A Feminist - Hear Me Roar!
.... the past discrimination is discrimination in itself, women continue to be oppressed in America by white males, and other laws and policies that give women more rights than other groups are fair due to women's past oppression. If you even disagree with only one of these issues, you're considered part of the right-wing backlash against the women's movement.
Feminists that disagree with this description say that all women are accepted in the feminist movement. But when looking at the leading wom .....
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Slavery: A Justified Institution
.... slavery dependent and fragile economy, Southerners were ready to fight for their survival with whatever means were necessary.
Proslavery whites launched a defensive against slavery which explained the "peculiar institution" as a positive good, supported, in fact, by the sacred words of the Bible and the philosophy of the wise Aristotle. The moral and biblical justification surrounding their belief that the relations between slave and man, however admitting to deplore abuses in it, was compatible .....
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The Debate On Gay Rights
.... did not create homosexuals, and that homosexuality is a sin. Many religious groups interpret passages from the Bible such as “thou shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Leviticus 18:22) This passage would be stating that men are not to be involved with men the same as they are women. These people believe that homosexuality is a choice for people. That they find people of the same sex know how to please eachother and lose their connection with God. An advertisement campaign was .....
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Marriage: Try It Before You Chance It
.... fetish of spending money. Since you and your bride are united as one in marriage, this means that her fetish problem has now become your problem. This exact situation is known to break 4 out of 10 marriages in the U.S. today. (Los Angeles Times) The last thing any happily married couple wants is to end up in a divorce court over an issue such as this one. By living together first, is one possible way of avoiding a situation like this.
Another example would be if any young lady were to marry a totally ho .....
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Social Norms Are Constantly Changing
.... school day today, a student has to do a lot more than cheat on a test to get in any real trouble. Some things that get kids in a lot of trouble now include looking up porn on the Internet and fighting. Swearing in class is usually punished with mild reprimand from the teacher. Fifty years ago, and even only twenty years ago, you didn’t dare say even the mildest swear word in the presence of a teacher.
Another norm that has changed a lot is what teenagers do for entertainment. In the early twent .....
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How Society Conforms In “The Lottery”
.... the lottery, but they never question it and believe that it is the only way to do things. Any other town that decides it is wrong and stops doing it is considered to be run by stupid youngsters who don’t understand the importance of tradition. The people in this village are so scared of change that they will keep allowing a human sacrifice every year for the benefit of the community. No one believes it is wrong or should be changed, and they all hope they don’t draw the wrong card and get chosen.
If y .....
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Television That Kills
.... many violent crimes have been stimulated by TV.
Movies have given people malicious ideas that led to actual crimes. John Leland tells of a man that was a victim of a crime inspired by the movie "Magnum Force" (47). The man was forced to eat Drano and had his mouth duct taped, just like in the movie (47). The perpetrators had watched "Magnum Force" three times the day before (Leland 47). A similar incident occurred concerning the 1995 film "Money Train". A man named Harry Kaufman was killed in a Brook .....
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Animal Testing
.... polar bears to study Alzheimer’s disease because they have the same aging patterns as humans with the disease. Also, the physicians and physicians-in-training who perform today's delicate cardiac, ear, eye, pulmonary and brain surgeries must develop the necessary skills before patients' lives are entrusted to their care. Neither computer models, cell cultures nor artificial substances can pose as flesh, muscle, blood, bone and organs working together in the living system. Only a living being can do this, .....
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Catching The Spirit
.... on the back while your team is going through the handshake at the end of a game. This season, my team and I lost the championship game of a tournament. After the other team received their trophies, my coach told me to go and shake their hands. I looked at him twice to see if I heard him correctly, because I am a competitor and after a loss, I am not too happy. Though, I shook their hands. Afterwards, I was proud of myself, and the incident gained me respect from my opponents and the people in the .....
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Human Rights And Trade In China
.... hundreds of innocuous demonstrators in that square. On June 4th, 1989, unsuspecting people gathered in Tienanmen Square, unaware of the machination the government had devised to cruelly murder them. Government soldiers then proceeded to kill them in cold blood. The incident was a tragedy for the victims, obviously, but it was also devastation to their democratic purpose. The Chinese government’s blatant disregard for any human rights have caused other Chinese people to shy away from starting their op .....
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