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- 11351: Social Institutions
- Social institutions can be found all though out the world. Social institution is a system of statuses, roles, values, and norms that is organized to satisfy one or more of the basic societal needs. It may differ from place to place. One good example of ... The Dead Poets Society. It tells about and shows how each of the students at Welton Academy have different ways at handling their set of social institutions. Each student learns with the help of their new teacher, Mr. Keating, that they should be free thinkers and seize the day and not to waste life because it is very precious. Some important institutions that will be viewed are family and education institutions ...
- 11352: Social Stratification
- ... rigid division between the mobility and the peasantry. It was based on their access to control over land. This form of stratification dominated in medieval Europe for centuries, but existed in other parts of the world. Stratified societies developed from egalitarian societies. These societies have no great differences in wealth, power, or prestige between the members. Each member has equal access to the strategic resources of food and shelter. Each individual ... important tools are hoes for farming, but also make weapons and iron ornaments. They also work leather and wood, they re barbers, put traditional tribal markings on the women, they re responsible for shaving the new king s head, they re morticians, they re musicians and some are diviners and doctors . The female members of the Marghi society are potters. In some ways the Marghi caste system is similar to that ...
- 11353: Declaration Of Independence
- The Declaration of Independence was written to show a new theory of government, reasons why they were separating from England, and a formal declaration of war. It gave the 13 colonies freedom from England's laws. The man responsible for writing the Declaration was Thomas ... guilty of treason against the British Crown and executed. The result of the Declaration of Independence was that colonists gained their freedom. They had freedom of religion and had a better government. Look at the world today and see what it has accomplished. Blacks and women now have just as many rights as white men. I would have wanted to gain independence from the Declaration and separate from England. I think ...
- 11354: Sportsmanship
- ... as in hockey where it is not right to fightor hit a Wayne Gretezy or Mario Lemieux type of star player!. His economic incentive is to protect the team and if he does not, a new line of work might be in thefuture. All three of those theories relate closely to the role of the fighter in sport and why it is that he does commit the acts of violence. When ... it be in hockey, boxing or a bench-clearingbrawl in baseball. I can recall on numerous occasions where the media has hyped up a hockey gameinvolving two "tough guys" and creating a hysteria in sporting world wanting to see the outcome of thefight. Is this wrong for the media to be encouraging and glorifying the violence in sport? I don'tthink so because the fans want to see it and like ...
- 11355: Stolen Dreams
- ... that I could tell you that Shankar's story is unique but unfortunately it is not.The United Nations Labour Agency estimates that there are 250 million children from ages 5 - 14 employed aroun the world. These children are making carpets, manufacturing bricks, working in glass and metal factories, in textile factories, in sugar cane fields, in the tobacco industry and they even work making toys. The list goes on and ... overlooked by the officicials. Again profits far out weigh fairness. The are no easy solutions to combat this problem. International trade and investment seems to promote the growth of sweatshops. Many of them employing children. New tougher international labour standards need to be developed and sanctions placed on those countries that do not comply. Multi-National corporations must be accountable for the treatment of their workers as well as the age ...
- 11356: American Revolution - Causes
- ... the several constituent parts of the empite"", yet those duties were always imposed with design to restrain the commerce of one part". This statement by the colonist (John Dickinson), shows that th sole rason for new taxes is just for the British gov't to make money, at the expense of the economy of the colonies. Dickinson makes a important distinction between the rights of the colonies and the authority of ... being questioned and rebellion shortly will be forthcoming. "That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying it's foundations on such principles and organizing it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.". What the declaration is really saying, is that a society who has no or little rights (such as the colonies) should be destroyed, thus separation from England. A new society would follow, where the people of the society would have these rights necessary for self-autonomy. The Declaration of Independence was a strong justification for revolution. The Revolution follows the Declaration of Independence, ...
- 11357: American Revolution
- ... is economics. In theory the colonists accepted the principle that natural laws rather than royal decrees should govern the economy. In practice only the southern colonies were bound to England by the tobacco trade. The New England and Middle Colonies, unable to find markets in Britain, found prosperity by trading outside the empire. Any attempt to stop this trade would lead to rebellion and consequentially ensued. The idea of mercantilism where the channelizing of all trade through England, was a restriction upon economic prosperity of the New England colony. The major cause for revolution within the economic theory is of economic subordination of colonies to England. The Grenville Ministry passed a number of acts, but the main act of provocation to the ... at the colonial resistance to british law, therefore the British passed the Coercive Act or "Intolerable Act". The Intolerable act closed off the Boston Port, which closed off the center of economic prosperity (trading) of New England. England was also limiting the colonists to raw material production, which hindered the colonists' economic prosperity. The main reason for the revolution was economic. Their are many other reasons that do not support ...
- 11358: Sweatshops 2
- ... to work; some even use child labor. A 1996 survey of just California garment firms found that 99% were in violation of wage, health, or safety regulations. Lina, a former employee of Seo Fashions in New York City, said of the conditions there, Everything is dirty, the trash isn t picked up, and the bathrooms aren t fit for pigs to use. So how are manufacturers getting away with this? In ... production in the United States, while decreasing the competition of foreign countries. Unfortunately, however, many companies have beaten that trick with a trick of their own. As reported in an article from People s Weekly World, Wal-Mart Little Leaguer garments bear labels that say they are made in the United States, yet they were actually made in Haiti. Who knows how many other companies do the same. The Department of ...
- 11359: African-Americans In The Civil War
- ... Whereas McPherson relates the events cumulating in the passage of two laws that aided black enlistment, Wilson focuses on the actual enlistment. He notes that the first regiment of free blacks came into service at New Orleans in September 1862 through the efforts of Butler. Wilson credits Butlers three regiments of blacks as the first officially mustered into Union ranks. North Carolina and Kansas also organized additional black units where ... he reversed his 8 thinking. At the end of the Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln announced that the freed blacks "would be received into the armed service of the United States...." Lincoln planned to tap into a new source of fighting individuals, "...the great available and as yet unavailed of, force for the restoration of the Union.". Lincoln thought this would both weaken the enemy and strengthen the Union. The recruitment of the ... to testify in courts. Whereas other historians confine their accounts of black involvement in the Civil War, Catton notes in The Civil War that as a result of their fighting along side white soldiers a new attitude developed towards the blacks. Many northern soldiers had grown up knowing only the black as portrayed on the stage - grinning, big-mouthed, carefree 8 loving possum and watermelons and eating fried chicken. What ...
- 11360: 90s And 50s
- ... for months at a time, and there are computers in every classroom in school. We also have much better communication with each other by using phone or Internet and talk with people all over the world; while in 50's you would feel lucky if you would receive a letter from your love one on other continent for less than couple of months. In the 50's opportunities were very scarce for women and minorities. Today there are laws for equal opportunity employment. In the 50's invincible J. M. Fangio was ruler of Formula 1 race tracks all over the world. Now in the 90's that title belong to Michel Schumacher who is breaking records that seemed written in stone during Fangio's time. Important world issues were very different in the 50's, than now in the 90's. In the 50's, the cold war was one of the most important issues to deal with for Americans. Recent ...
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