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- 2101: Racism: Issue In Institutional Racism
- ... its means of placing the truth and its allied freedoms in the hands of the powerful, furnishes the “chosen ones” with wide latitude to create theoretical arguments that justify and perpetuate systemic arrangements of inequality. John Winthrop outlined his reasoning for the British right to North American land in terms of natural rights versus civil rights. Natural rights were those that men enjoyed in a state of nature (i.e. Native ... Chinese immigrants (The Heathen Chinese 230-240). Another case of dualistic application of justice towards the Asian- American community is the case of Japanese-American internment during the Second World War. In 1942, Lt. Gen. John L. De Witt rationalized the deportation of Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans with “A Jap is a Jap”. When second- generation Japanese-Americans in the nation's ten concentration camps were drafted for the war ...
- 2102: Identities and How they are Formed
- ... Synthesis From this section of the course, Sociology 1, I have learned about different philosophies and ideas about how identities are formed. The philosophies that make the most sense to me are the ideas of John Locke, Jean- Jacues Rousseau, Charles Harton Cooley and George Herburt Mead. Also the ideas focused on in my exercise have as well helped me to form an idea where identities come from and what they mean socially. John Locke had the idea that people in a society truly want to live together in harmony and that people are not aggressive by nature. That people are born with a "blank slate" and that anything ...
- 2103: Fantasy's Integral Role In The Creation Of A Killer
- ... Andrei preyed on small children. He stalked many of his victims in train and bus stations and had a penchant for disembowelment and mutilation. He was also a cannibal and a sadist. And last is "John Wayne Gacy". John liked to dress in a hand made pogo the clown outfit to entertain children. This lonely and sadistic contractor also liked to young boys privately in a very different fashion. The prototypical organized killer, he ...
- 2104: Socialism
- ... BLANC in France. These moderates sought to achieve socialism by parliamentary means and by appealing deliberately to the middle class. Fabianism had as one of its intellectual forebears the utilitarian individualism of Jeremy BENTHAM and John Stuart MILL, and it became a doctrine that sought to reconcile the values of liberty, democracy, economic progress, and social justice. The Fabians believed that the cause of socialism would also be aided by the ... socialism would be the triumph of common sense, the inevitable outcome of LIBERALISM, the extension of democracy from politics to industry. CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM spread from its beginnings in England to France and Germany. Charles KINGSLEY, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow (1821-1911), and Frederick Denison MAURICE were among its founders. They in the main supported moderate social democracy, emphasizing what they understood as the central message of the church in social ethics ...
- 2105: Welfare Reform: A Matter of Justice
- ... it is against their will that this money is spent on caring for financially challenged individuals and families. I believe that Robert Nozick would consider the entire Welfare system to be unjust. The American philosopher John Rawls, however, has a far different idea of social justice. In his theory of Justice as Fairness, Rawls states, like Robert Nozick, that every person has inherent rights to basic liberties. These include life, freedom ... They need x-rays, chemotherapy, to have babies, tonsillectomies, infant immunization, and nursing home care. If current plans for Medicaid reform are enacted, many will loose even this last chance to receive decent medical care. John Stuart Mill's theory of Utility states that an action is good if it produces the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people. While all U.S. taxpayers would like to close ...
- 2106: The Population Problem
- ... be the best way to totally ensure that natural resources are used in the most effective manner. But if natural resources are not infinite the future of human survival is in jeopardy. Works Cited Bongaarts, John. “Can the Growing Population Feed Itself?” Scientific American, March 1994, pp. 36-43. Brimelow, Peter, and Joseph E. Fallon. “Controlling our Demographic Destiny.” National Review, 21 February 1994, p. 42. Brown, Lester R. “The Earth is Running Out of Room.” USA Today Magazine, January 1995, pp. 30-32. Calhoun, John B. “Not by Bread Alone: Overcrowding in Mice.” Man and the Environment. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown Company Publishers, 1971. Chen, Lincoln C. “A New Modest Proposal.” Issues in Science and Technology, November 1993, pp ...
- 2107: Existentialism in the Early 19th Century
- ... and Eugène Ionesco. In the United States, the influence of existentialism on literature has been more indirect and diffuse, but traces of Kierkegaard's thought can be found in the novels of Walker Percy and John Updike, and various existentialist themes are apparent in the work of such diverse writers as Norman Mailer, John Barth, and Arthur Miller.
- 2108: European Studies
- ... cit. ôTreaty of Rome (as amended) : Agricultureö (4)Gardner, Brian, European Agriculture : Policies, Production and Trade (Routledge, London, 1996) page 30 (5) Ibid., page 31 (6) Gardner, Brian, op cit., (1996) page 47 (7) Marsh, John S. & Swanney, Pamela J., Agriculture and the European Community (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1980) page 31 (8) Ibid. (9) Gardner, Brian, op cit. (1996) page 49 (10) Grant, Wyn, The Common Agricultural Policy (Macmillan Press ... Ltd., 1997) Houck, James P., Elements of Agricultural Trade Policies (Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986) Josling, T.E. & Langworthy, Mark & Pearson, Scott, Options for Farm Policy in the European Community (Trade Policy Research Centre, 1981) Marsh, John S. & Swanney, Pamela J., Agriculture and the European Community (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1980) Matthews, Alan, The Common Agricultural Policy and the Less Developed Countries (Gill & Macmillan Ltd., 1985) Moyer, Josling, Agricultural Policy Reform (Harvester ...
- 2109: The Clinton Sex Scandal
- ... took over many of his routine duties as part of her self-described "stewardship" of the presidency. She died on Dec. 28, 1961, the 105th anniversary of Wilson's birth. More currently, there was the John F. Kennedy scandal, his presidency which extended from 1961-1963 was peppered with his reputation of being a womanizer. The list had many famous names like Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Angie Dickinson, stripper Blaze Starr ... whom JFK has been linked," University of Virginia government professor Larry Sabato writes in his book "Feeding Frenzy," "not to mention a healthy dose of anonymous airline stewardesses, secretaries and aides. By many credible accounts, John F. Kennedy was not King Arthur but Sir Lancelot in the Camelot of his presidency." There were also other presidential scandals that weren't sexually related, such as Richard Mulhouse Nixon, who was in office ...
- 2110: College Fraternities
- ... Hazing, as defined by the Fraternity Executive Association is "Any action taken or situation created, intentionally, whether on or off fraternity premises to produce mental, or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment or ridicule."(pg. 48) As John P. Nykolaiszyn puts it, "If anyone is caught hazing, not only can fines be imposed upon the individuals, but conviction and even jail time could result. Organizations which practice hazing also run the risk of ... 1937 Klepper, Irving The portals of Tau Epsilon Phi Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia 1937 Morris, William, ed. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts 1982 Nykolaiszyn, John P. "Hazing: Greeks get a bad rap." The Beacon Feb. 13th 1996: 12.
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