Urban Legends
.... Brunvand (Brooke 2). They comprise the many more or less believable and always amazing stories that so many swear to be true but so few are able to prove. Urban Legends are usually told at sleepaway camps,schools, family reunions,cocktail parties,and even corporate coolers.They are also spread by word of mouth,news reports,read in the paper,on the phone, fax, email and online internet. There are the most effective ways in getting the story out (Elliot 11).
The Urban Legends we tell have much .....
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Families In China
.... children, often all living under one roof.
Land, the main form of wealth in traditional China, was divided equally among all the landowners surviving sons when he died. Living conditions for the average peasant are generally better today then they were in the past. There are more opportunities for education and greater security for the family as social unit.
Marriage in China has also changed. Today there is a law that provides for the freedom of choice in marriages. This law also states .....
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Juvenile Crime
.... most violent of juveniles, many of which had been tried as adults. Where they would stay until they reach their eighteenth birthday, and what would they get? A ticket to a high security prison, full of rapists, pedaphiles and others of their kin, ready to further pervert them and make them more efficient and darken their souls, or rape, sodomise and kill them for being the new arrivals.
We blame the gun, we blame society, we blame the parents of the child, who really deserves it? Who should the blam .....
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Unique Cultures Of The World
.... millet, sorghum, peanuts, corn, and soybeans are the main crops of the region. Chinese leaf, cucumber, and celery are the main vegetables of the region. Noodles, steamed breads and buns are more popular than rice, unlike in southern China. Mongol cuisine has influenced Peking greatly. This is made obvious in the way that this region’s people use mutton and lamb more than in other regions. Without a doubt, the one dish that has escaped from Peking’s borders and captured the imagination of people throug .....
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Communism
.... abolish the need for property and wealth, we can bring about world peace. Their answer was the government known today as communism. Almost every modern form of communism is based on Marx's and Engles ideas and writings.
So then I thought, why isn't communism an effective government? Then I thought that since communism was derived from logic and science, it must not have human nature factored into its fragile equation. Well then I looked at the Russian Government and thought about what led to its downfa .....
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Mark Schaller's Study About Fame
.... the Pulitzer Prize in 1978.
The reason Schaller chose these three people is that they all had self- destructive tendencies in the forms of drugs and alcohol and also had psychological problems sometime during their period of fame. Each of the three were also writers which was a vital part of Schaller's study. Schaller wanted to show that fame increased the self-consciousness in each of these people. To do this he analyzed the songs and stories written by these authors and found an increase in the a .....
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Getting Out Of The Ghetto
.... relitively low and the struggle continues. The fact that LeAlan Jones is young , a minority, and was born into the ghetto makes the struggle for success ever more difficult. Jones is deteermined to beat the odds, and get an education that will break the poverty that his family has been striken with. There is one major factor that is on Jones side, he was born in the United States. If Jones Had been lets say in India, his dreams of getting out of the ghetto would be next to impossible. In a caste .....
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The Politics Of Homelessness
.... pity for those less fortunate. (Not exactly the proper motivation, but it will do if they get the required results.) Once we buy into this image of the homeless, the solution should be easy for us to see: simply build more shelters and public housing. To the extreme right are those that say the homeless have only themselves to blame. Their position is that regardless of why people become homeless, they have the power to rise above it and rejoin society. To them, we should offer assistance only to tho .....
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Loyalty
.... from the silverback is enough to restore the peace . A stare or nudge from the leader also keeps the males behaving . With infants , even the firmest leader is often easygoing . He allows them to pull his hair , punch him , and crawl all over him . Once when a little gorilla leaned against a huge silverback , the male grabbed a long-stemmed flower and tickled the infant with it . Babies are in fact , popular with the entire group . Male and female gorillas hug and play with them much the way we do with h .....
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Racism
.... job and the person hiring is white. The black person has a higher education and more experience, but the white person is offered the job because he is white.
Sexism: is a way of thinking and behaving as though one sex is better than the other; especially, unfair treatment of women by men, caused by thinking this way. You should not treat someone different because of their sex. Woman and men are equal in most ways and can usually complete the same tasks equally well.
Narrow-mindedness: is another form .....
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Role Models: A Bright Red Peel On A Rotten Apple
.... Athletes are always in the spotlight, whether it's underwear commercials or endorsing french fries. The role models have an undisputed athletic ability, but all too many times they are only a bright red peel on the rotting core of the American role model apple.
Since the Greek sport competitions to the latter part of the twentieth century, appropriate behavior, which included achieving set goals, working for a meaningful cause and setting benchmarks for good sportsmanship, was commonplace in society. .....
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Teenage Violence
.... You two sit next to each other and sometimes talk during break. The boy feels he can trust you to keep a secret. He tells you of how he intends to take care of some boys intimidating him. Also being a 14 year old, how do you handle this situation? This is not an uncommon situation for children anymore.
Crime frequents in and around schools and is threatening the well-being of the students, school staff and communities. Parents send their children off to school everyday all over America and they worry ev .....
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Issues On Gun Control
.... (ACLU), Congress has had a tough time passing any legislation that would benefit the public and curtail the sail and manufacture of armor piercing bullets, automatic rifles and Uzis. Unfortunately, we tend to interpret the Constitution to broadly. Obviously, in the late 1700's, there were no deadly weapons to contend with. They had muskets, which could hardly be used in a very swift and deadly manner. Granted, the musket could kill, but if you asked any semi-sensible person if they would rather use a .....
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Guns And Children
.... back of the trigger, so that the trigger can not be pull to release a round of ammo. There are people that say they are just trying to keep there family safe from harm. Is there anyone that doesn’t want to be able to keep there family safe from any harm that might be their way. I want the same thing, but I also want to keep the children from harming them selves or others in anyway thinkable. I feel the same about that ,but if I was a parent or had a gun in a home with small children I would want to keep .....
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Existentialist View Of Human Condition
.... he chooses for everyone else. This is a view I really believe in. Everything we do in life effects someone else, whether we no it or not. Every time we drive our car. Every time we eat something, spend money, go for a jog someone else is effected. For an example: a man goes to the store and buys a stereo. First of all the clerk the clerk is effected because they have to check you out, so you have taken some of their time. The store is effected because they are minus one radio from their store. The .....
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