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- 10291: Racism and the Ku Klux Klan
- ... black female caused an embarrassment to the white family. Another girl was beaten for breaking a fuid between a husband and his wife. Also a Grand Dragon, a Denver Doctor, was accused of forcing a high scholar to marriage, threatening him with castration. The Klan also led riots. In Meridian, Mississippi, in 1871 a black or white person got a pistol and shot someone in a fued. Minutes later there were ...
- 10292: Capital Punishment
- ... states are more likely to have higher crime rates than states that are more rural, such as those who lack capital punishment. They say states that have the death penalty have it because of their high crime rate, not because they have the death penalty. During the temporary suspension on capital punishment from 1972-1776, researchers gathered murder statistics across the country. Researcher Karl Spence of Texas A&M University came ...
- 10293: Television in the 90s
- ... have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the Western World, even though the teenagers here are not having more sex.(Spitz) Data suggests that the media represents plenty of effective sexual information for teenagers. The high pregnancy rate could be a result from inappropriate messages in the media, and a lack of information on television about abstinence and use of birth control. (Jones) The problem with sex and violence on television ...
- 10294: Homosexual Marriage
- ... have anti-sodomy laws though not enforced. As part of their agenda homosexuals not only want these things to be accepted and protected by the government, they also want them to be taught in public school as part of the sex education curriculum. Homosexuals believe they deserve the right to get married that since they think they are an oppressed minority . Let me first define marriage; according to the American Heritage ...
- 10295: Mockery of Native Americans
- ... like an official chief of a tribe. This way the children will know the difference and keep all of their respect. In all the Native American mascots should be banned from professional and collegiate sports. School nicknames and mascots constitute unauthentic representations of Native American peoples and cultures. Whether used for entertainment, comical, or symbolic purposes, this imagery degrades Native American people and cultures, and distorts Indian and non-Indian children ...
- 10296: Inhumanity
- ... change. This group will openly commit violent acts on the minority they are against, and may be prosecuted for it, but wont learn to be normal. Another simple example would be to children on a school yard, who call each other names and get into a fist fight. While neither child may be hurt, it is still an inhumanity. This form of inhumanity is, dare I say, more understandable. By understandable ...
- 10297: Performance of Employees
- ... simply sustain their current level of output so to avoid raising the required levels in the future. The employees could also decide to work for a different company or division that does not require such high levels. Other research has shown that money is not the greatest motivational factor. There are studies that date back to the 1940s, concluding that employees ranked other factors, "such as being shown appreciation for work ...
- 10298: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
- ... states that mothers and fathers should talk to their children about rap and sex crimes. This cannot work unless that relationship between the both of them is strong. Disobeying authority is a real self achieving high that a teenager has when doing the opposite of told. The movie industry makes millions of kids that sneak it to R and X rated movies. If the parents new that their children where doing ...
- 10299: Men and Women: Why are We So Different?
- ... complete and diverse manner. When interviewed by Natalie Angier, professor Virginia Valian showed that these differences are inherent by saying "You can take a person at random and list a bunch of adjectives- "assertive", "has high leadership ability", "is kind to children" - and the person would have no trouble matching them up with one sex or the other." This shows that society views certain characteristics as being distinctly male and others ...
- 10300: How the Media Can Effect Children
- ... with todays changing culture, more and more children are watching television so they can learn from it because parents are giving them the attention they need. Forty years of research conclude that repeated exposure to high levels of media violence teaches some children and adolescents to settle interpersonal differences with violence, while teaching many more to be indifferent to this solution. Under the medias tutelage, children at younger and younger ...
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