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- 5231: Gangs
- ... The long range answer to these questions can only be speculated upon, but in the short term the answers are much easier to find. On the surface, gangs are a direct result of human beings' personal wants and peer pressure. To determine how to effectively end gang violence we must find the way that these morals are given to the individual. Unfortunately, these can only be hypothesized. However, by looking at ...
- 5232: Yolen's Briar Rose: Review
- ... Born and raised in New York City, Jane Yolen now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts. When she is not writing, Yolen composes songs, is a professional storyteller on the stage, and is the busy wife of a university professor, the mother of three grown children, and a grandmother. Folklore is the "perfect second skin," writes ...
- 5233: Distribution of Condoms is Unnecessary
- ... condoms in schools. Now I see that condom distribution will only increase the number of teens having sex, thinking they are free from all harm if they use a condom.” [a friend,(name unmentioned for personal reasons.)] People need to be more informed as well as responsible, when it comes to sex. If people were more informed, or more responsible, they would realize that condom distribution is unnecessary.
- 5234: Is History Destined To Repeat Itself? McCarthyism in the New Millennium
- ... the organizations being blamed for inciting their rage, and they are the very antithesis of those who follow the admonition of Christ to "love one another." The "Truth in Love" ad campaign, which consists of personal testimony from homosexuals who left the lifestyle, never ran in Wyoming papers. Moreover, had the suspected assailants read the ads, this is the kind of "anti-gay rhetoric" they would have seen: "We believe every ...
- 5235: Public School Issues
- ... Reforms and Students at Risk: A Review of the Current Sate of the Art. The report cited Pittsburgh’s Prospect Middle School’s Multicultural Center. The school defined the elements of multicultural education as: "1) personal development and interpersonal relations of students; 2) fair and effective approaches to individual differences in learning styles that are believed to be linked to cultural influences; 3) multicultural representation in the entire school environment, including ...
- 5236: The Island Of Dr. Moreau
- ... had to take the book off the science-fiction shelves and onto the non-fiction shelves. It has created a whole new atmosphere in which to read this book one in such Wells predicted by writing this book. Wells would be disappointed at our disregard of his warning. Another important theme that Wells tried to convey to us was that doing experiments on humans and animals were unethical. He at first ...
- 5237: Friendships
- ... fact, but rather the friend himself that motivates us to do what we did. With a friend of virtue, we would want to be at the movie with him, and nobody else. We do get personal gratification from it, but we get it from a specific person rather than a general person. Some might object to this interpretation of friendships of utility and pleasure. They would argue that friendships, of any ...
- 5238: Does The Mass Media Cause Undesireable Social Consequences With Specific Reference To Pornography
- ... the concealment of the sex organs and teaching feelings of shame toward human sexuality is so common worldwide (Christensen 1990:4). These same feelings of shame are the chief reasons that sex is considered a personal and private matter. Contrary to the beliefs of many, the mass media did not create these settings; society creates this image. In some societies, women have no reservations with regard to living their entire lives ...
- 5239: Extreme Nationalism
- ... Yugoslav Communists led to acts of great cruelty, and that idealism is no justification for the crimes of Communist repression. Many devoted Communists and partisan combatants suffered greatly, and fought bravely, with no idea of personal gain or advancement in mind” (Denitch, 155). In 1988-89, the Serbian Intelligentsia and Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbian Communist party joined forces to initiate a revolution to create what was called a “unified Serbia.” Croatian ...
- 5240: An Interpretation of William Faulkner’s “Dry September”
- ... be in the South. One issue that stands out in “Dry September” is that of racial segregation. This very controversial subject has been a major conflict in the ninetieth century and still today. Faulkner uses personal imagery to portray the feeling that the reader is actually participating in the shocking racial discrepancies of a “dusty” Southern town. Faulkner sets the mood in the first paragraph of his story, with strong descriptions ...
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