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- 1941: Education In Public Schools
- ... believe that this problem is happening because of the removal of God and prayer in public schools; the U.S. Supreme Court did this in 1962. Beginning in 1962, SAT scores plummeted. Teen pregnancies, teen sexual diseases, teen suicides, teen alcohol, drug abuse, pornography, and illiteracy rates abruptly increased 200 to 300 percent. Violence is one of the main factors effecting are schools today. Rape is a growing problem among juveniles ...
- 1942: Diversity Of The America
- ... solid and straightforward, while women seek a more compassionate candidate. In the 1996 presidential election, Bill Clinton focused part of his campaign on soccer moms. He stressed issues like womens rights, child support, and sexual abuse and rape. The issues that Clinton raised were important to these mothers and they tended to cast their votes for him. The diversity in social classes presents a difference in needs and beliefs. A ...
- 1943: Adoptees and Identity Formation
- ... transracial adoption concerns, feeling of rootlessness . . . . (McRoy et al., 1990). While searching for an identity, adolescent adoptees sometimes are involved in a behavior which psychologists term family romance. This is not a romance in a sexual manner, but rather a romance in the sense of fantasizing about birth parents and their personal qualities. Horner and Rosenberg (1991) stated that the adopted child may develop a family romance in order to defend ...
- 1944: Violence In Sports
- ... or because of, their aggressive style of play (Leonard, p. 171). Players who don't display the desired degree of aggressiveness may receive negative reinforcement through criticism from parents and coaches, lack of playing time, harassment by teammates, opponents, or spectators. These theories provide a basis for interventions that may curb excessive aggression, especially among young athletes. Terry and Jackson (p. 35) suggest that socialization forces, particularly reinforcement, offer the best ...
- 1945: Eugenics
- ... of this species and observed their behavior. They seemed to have the ablitty court the opposite sex by sense of touch and smell but little on physical apperance. These speicies mated with one anther through sexual intercourse. Their mates that they chose interacted with tehm for several months before any close intimacy or physical behavior ere apparent. These adults were of the ages ranging from 20-30 years of age. The ...
- 1946: TV Trash?
- ... Bennett says is true about daytime talk shows but if he would like to see a grand cultural uprising he then needs to look towards the home and family values. Taboo subjects like sex and sexual acts will always be present it our culture, but today in the nineties we have come to express them more openly. If these subjects will continue to plague our society the why not educate our ...
- 1947: Media Violence
- ... also tend to be less trusting of people and more prone to see the world as a hostile place. A Massachusetts study states, "There is a relationship between viewing media violence and the acceptance of sexual assault, violence and alcohol use. As a result, specific levels of violence become more acceptable over time. Then, it takes more and more graphic violence to shock (and hold) an audience" (Rund np). In an ...
- 1948: Gender
- ... high self-esteem. The women on the other hand are more extroverted and tender minded, qualities, which enable them to be all of the characteristics listed before. When gender differences are viewed at in a sexual aspect, the men are still the stereotypical pigs. Through relationships males are more likely to be involved for one thing, sex. The females, being much more sensitive and all, want love and compassion through a ...
- 1949: America and Affirmative Action
- ... country. When racial categories were created, simply being labeled a minority carried with it quite a slanderous stigma. Even to this day Black Americans combat lingering racism an stereotypes about their intelligence, tendency toward violence, sexual prowess, etc.... The idea that affirmative action policies introduce stigmas that did not already exist into the life of minorities seems nonsensical. To those who claim that this stigma undermines the effectiveness of Blacks because ...
- 1950: Affirmative Action Today
- ... professor of the Humanities, reveals in his article "Two Nations.. Both Black," how racial discrimination still plays a part in society: We [blacks] are still humiliatingly vulnerable to racism, in the form of random police harassment, individual racial insults from waitresses and attendants in stores, the unwillingness of taxi drivers to pick us up, systematic discrimination by banks and bank loan officers, wage discrimination in the workplace, and our perception of ...
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