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- 4501: Appearance Is Everything To The Youth of America
- Appearance Is Everything To The Youth of America Appearance is everything. The saying could be the foundation for a religious cult among American teens. Movies, music, and tv commercials create an Orwellian world where everyone think, acts, and looks the same. The youth of American is presently being exploited by large corporations that use tactful methods to get teens to fit the mold. MTV is a lifeline for almost all younger teens and many older teens as well. Aside from ...
- 4502: Gun Control and Freedom
- ... good transition between the free reign of accessing guns and the removal of guns from society completely. While the government has made some improvement, firearm violence will be ever present. It is a part of American culture. If ever the problem is resolved, it must come through a changed collective consciousness of the American people. This change can only occur through mass education; one cannot legislate people's minds, only educate. Instead of passing gun control laws or instituting new waiting periods for gun sales, the government should concentrate ...
- 4503: Racial Discrimination and its Effect on Our Society
- ... quit. Racism’s history goes way back. The Constitution of the United States recognized the legality of slavery, the ultimate form of discrimination. The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the constitutional amendments that followed the American Civil War (1861-1865) changed the legal status of African Americans, but a series of decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States struck down federal statutes designed to enforce the amendments. The most ... and other organizations should not need to learn fluent Spanish to accommodate their needs. Immigrants should at least learn our language to be a part of our country, to survive, and to interact as an American. Our country's affirmative action is a good example of how hard it is to govern a multicultural country. Some institutions under pressure to increase its low black enrollment, will offer free tuition to every ...
- 4504: India's Hunger Problem
- ... to prevent further disasters caused by the inadequate food supplies, along with the newly formed Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The actions by these two organizations are still taking place in Indian areas. The Green Revolution in India, brought new technology to help improve the farm output. Scientists from many countries developed new types of wheat and rice seeds that resulted in much larger harvests. These "miracle" crops were part of the technological advance in agriculture known as the Green Revolution. This drastic change has only been partly successful, however. It has helped farmers who grow wheat and rice but not others. These new seeds need certain fertilizers and irrigation systems that the farmers of India ...
- 4505: Effects of Media and Pornography
- ... tempting to believe that media influences males and overstimulates them through pornography to the point that they become aggressive towards females. This is completely baseless; just as pornography arouses or stimulates, it also satisfies. The American Commission on Obscenity and Pornography performed a study in which several college students were asked to spend one and a half hours in an isolated room with a large volume of pornographic media, as well ... that are socially unacceptable. Works Cited Christensen, F.M. Pornography New York:Praeger, 1996 Howitt, Cumberpatch Mass Media, Violence and Society. London:Elek Science, 1989 Harmon, Check Role in Pornography in Woman Abuse (city unknown) American Comission on Obcenity and Pornography 1997 Reising, Natalia “Society and Pornography” Cosmopolitan Jan. 1997 p91-102
- 4506: Youth's Fight to Gain Freedom From The Other Generation
- ... things such as sex, drugs, and racism. However, what they often tend to overlook is the large emphasis "freedoms" had on the era. This does not just refer to the freedoms already possessed by every American of the time. This focuses on the youth's fight to gain freedom or break away from the values and ideas left behind by the older generation. While some authors when writing about the sixties ... previous generation. The way left behind by the older generations is greatly influenced by events which occurred during that time. Unfortunately, because of many of these events, Americans lost their sense of hopefulness in the American society. The reasons are various: the dreams of the older left were perverted by stalinism and never recreated; the congressional stalemate makes men narrow their view of the possible, the specialization of human activity leaves ...
- 4507: The New Mass Society of the Nineteenth Century
- The New Mass Society of the Nineteenth Century Following the industrial revolution began a time of new mass social problems and change. The new industrialized society lead to problems in population, housing, unemployment, health issues and social reform. The changes that resulted from the new society lead to new ideas in medicine, social reform and the birth of a new middle class. The rise of new machinery following the industrial revolution lead former farmers to migrate into the cities in search of new jobs This rise in population lead to the formation of new towns. The rural migrants who moved to the cites were uprooted from ...
- 4508: Child Abuse in Today’s Society
- ... a child’s life is that the family - a child’s primary source for love, support, and security - can be the most abusive group that a child belongs to. The significance of the family in American society has been essential to our Nation’s history and tradition. Society assumes that parents act in their child’s best interest. Therefore, parents have the right to care for and protect their own children ... child. Laws that protect animals from unjust cruelty were in effect and enforced long before any cases against child abuse were argued. The first court case centering around child abuse was in 1874 when the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals challenged the court to recognize that a child was covered under the laws which prevent the cruel treatment of animals. This was the first time in history ...
- 4509: Divorce
- ... to settle any differences between them. Even though many families choose not for divorce, there are many ways to improve family relationships in daily life. The television series, Married With Children, portrays a classic “dysfunctional” American family in which the mother and father ridicule each other, argue, and plain out detest one another’s company. This obviously does not represent any majority of the American community but rather embellishes some characteristics in many homes. They have overcome the force to get divorced, but are still lacking some necessary steps for a good family. Things like marriage counseling, psychologists, family activities ...
- 4510: The Homeless Population
- ... These two trends include the growing shortage of affordable rental housing and a simultaneous increase in poverty. How many people are homeless throughout the world? The number of homeless is made up of 58% African American, 29% Caucasian, 10% Hispanic, 2% Native American, 1% Asian. Who is to blame for homelessness? As much as I would like to blame someone else other than the homeless people, they have a lot to do with it. Most of the homeless ...
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