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- 1031: Sexual Abstinence
- ... death such as this, abstaining from premarital sex is the only reasonable and safe choice for today's teens. Bibliography Works Cited "Birth Control." Academic American Encyclopedia. 1994. Grolier, Inc. Feldman, Claudia. "Sex, Kids, and Crisis." Houston Chronicle. Nov. 1992. Sec. G, pg. 1. Ferriss, Lloyd, "The Case For Abstinence." Maine Telegram, Feb. 2, 1992. pp. 16 +. Holy Bible. King James version. World Publishing Co. New York, 1959. Leone, Bruno and ...
- 1032: Racial Profiling
- ... the media. In a recent poll taken by the child advocay group Children Now the children included said that,the news media tends to portray African American and Latino people more negatively than white and Asian people. Most of the major news media did not cover this story and the ones that did said, that the children were influenced by television news. (qtd in media blackface 4) On of the major ...
- 1033: Multicultural Education
- ... shows that the American population has changed more noticeably in the last ten years than in any other time in the twentieth century, with one out of every four Americans identifying themselves as black, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, or American Indian (Gould 198). The number of foreign born residents also reached an all time high of twenty million, easily passing the 1980 record of fourteen million. Most people, from educators to ...
- 1034: Affirmative Action
- ... to achieve ethnic proportionalism is to downplay or abandon merit criteria and to accept students from typically under represented groups, such as blacks, hispanics, and american indians, over better qualified students from among whites and asian americans.(D'Souza 1997) Many groups, such as AUAA (american united for Affirmative action)have formed because of this kind of discrimination. They are dedicated to the advancement of Affirmative action, equal opportunity and the ...
- 1035: Affirmative Action
- ... his boss know the situation as to why he would be a little late, the man told him not to bother coming at all. I can't help but feel that because he was American-Asian, he was discriminated against. However, my friend may have been fired for other reasons as well. It is one thing to deny someone the right to a job because of their physical or mental disability ...
- 1036: European Studies
- ... tendency of the Council Of Ministers to raise support prices to offset the impact of levies. In 1982 the budget costs of CAP had jumped by 11% and the price policy was once again in crisis. Intervention stocks began to climb. Generous price rewards in 1981 and 1982 meant that production levels were high and world markets became saturated. (13) Quotas were introduced in 1984 to try and force production more ...
- 1037: Communism East Europe
- ... and a later UN General Assembly meeting in 1960 in the US. (13) Although then relations began to break down again due to the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and the Eastern bloc became cut off once more, western ideas had already managed to penetrate the East. (14) The information that the capitalist West was thriving while the Communist Eastern bloc was ...
- 1038: The Clinton Sex Scandal
- ... recklessly, and people like Drudge, operating in the high-speed, high-competition world of the Web, aren't pushing us that way. For instance, Jan. 23, just a couple of days into the Clinton/Lewinsky crisis, when it was still just two people who both said nothing happened, television and radio commentators were already using words like "resign" and "impeach." Which, to me seems like a quick rush to judgment. Pack ...
- 1039: Child Prostitution In Asia
- ... locals for that matter think that children will be less likely to carry the AIDS virus, which is a misconception. It is estimated that 72.4% of the child prostitutes in Asia carry HIV. Many Asian men also believe that sex with a virgin will rejuvenate them, and that sex with a virgin will cure venereal disease. Many different countries have been promoting the brothels by selling child sex tours. Police ...
- 1040: American Drug Laws- Do They He
- ... that govern drug use are patently arbitrary and have their bases in racial prejudice and the comfort index of old male legislators. The first opium regulatory laws were enacted in San Francisco in response to Asian immigrants entertaining married white women in opium dens (Hamowy). The American and European tolerance for tobacco and alcohol use while fearing "counter-culture" marijuana, cocaine, and heroin is a strong prejudice based on ignorance of ...
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