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- 671: Hate Crimes
- ... the topic of hate crimes. Racial hate crimes are directed towards many different targets. There are people in the world who are of the following: Anti-White, Anti-Black, Anti-Native American/Alaskan Native, Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander, and also Anti-Multi-Racial Group. The people that are against any of these races, target them for hate crime, for either a thrill, a mission of theirs, or because they feel threatened ...
- 672: Youth Violence
- Youth Violence Over the past decade, criminal and violent acts committed by juveniles have increased dramatically. A national crisis is engulfing this country. Over half of the people arrested for murder in the United States in 1991 were under age 25 (Wilson & Howell, 1993). The Childrens Defense fund estimates that an American child ...
- 673: World Population: The Present And Future The Growth
- ... needed by us. WELD Weld is a contemporary Canadian sociologist that deals with population problems from an aspect that can be more easily understood by people of our time. In one article "Confronting the Population Crisis the twenty one most commonly used arguments to confound the issue." In this article, Weld is able to respond to those that don't view population as a social problem. Although I would like to ...
- 674: Affirmative Action Is Wrong
- ... 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 am ong whites and asian americans (D'Souza 1990, 231). Obviously, affirmative action is allowing undereducated citizens to get into college when the people that are qualified aren't getting accepted when they should. When we passed the equal opportunities ...
- 675: Affirmative Action: Why It Should Go
- ... successful on my own? Why do I need laws to help me get a job?² These African Americans want to be treated as equals, not as incompetents. In my idealistic world neither Black, White, Mexican, Asian, women or men would need anything, except their skills. In a statement released in 1981 by the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Jack P. Hartog, who directed the Affirmative Action Project, said, Only if ...
- 676: Social Security
- Social Security As we look toward helping shape the Social Security system of tomorrow, we need to remember that there is no immediate financial crisis. The long-term financing problem is manage- able-if we act sooner rather than later. However, there are choices to be made ... by the American people and their government representatives. There are a variety of ...
- 677: What is the Future of the Family in Canada?
- ... it tells me that people are still making commitments to one another." Furthermore, when he was going around the country and talking to people, he found that people are very quick to "point to a crisis in the family and to argue that nobody cares about the family anymore. But when asked about their own family, they suggest that it is still the core of their being, the core of their ...
- 678: Terrorism
- ... or commodity to trade to the rest of the world, wouldn't you take foriegn hostages to make enough money to feed your country? I believe that foriegn countries would rather help to solve the crisis before it reached the stage where terrorism would be put into effect. Negotiations prior to the problem's begining could benefit both sides of the table. 6)Three case studies that would provide further insight ...
- 679: The Roman Society
- ... torture in order to prove his own innocence or to discipline them. It was also his right to free any slaves that he owned if they showed their honor to him in a time of crisis, which he would have to prove. The right to torture slaves was not removed in Roman law until in 240 A.D. Many non-citizens were also treated as if they were slaves. They usually ...
- 680: Costs and Contributions: The Wave From South of The Border
- ... natives in average weekly earnings after 10 to 20 years, but not immigrants from the major country of origin--Mexico. Furthermore, immigrant children tend to follow in their parents' footsteps, meaning that the children of Asian immigrants tend to do well in school, etc., while the children of Mexican immigrants do not. Is this a problem to worry about? I mean, come on, a few illiterate children doesn't hurt anything ...
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