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- 291: Child Labor
- ... with the squalor these workers live in and their staggering working conditions. They attempt to not purchase products made by child laborers (Boukhari 2). Children all over the world are suffering from physical, emotional, and sexual abuse that transpires from child labor. Physical abuse is common place in sweatshops where children work. If the child becomes too slow, or makes a mistake or whines, the child could be beaten, tortured, or slaughtered (George 35). Small children are forced to climb under dangerous working machines and handle hazardous items with bare hands. But even worse is the sexual abuse of children. The unscrupulous employers often pur-sue children as sexual prey, raping boys and girls everyday. Children are forced to live in brothels and have sex with men up to six times their own ages (Boukhari 4). Many of the carpet factories serve as ...
- 292: Teenage Pregnancy
- ... teenagers will become pregnant this year in Canada, and the number is growing. Many socioeconomic factors influence pregnancy rates, such as; different races, different religions, financial status, education and family background. Another influence is the sexual education children are receiving or not receiving at school and at home. While the problem of teenage pregnancy is acknowledged, solutions are coming slowly. Some parents feel that pregnancy is a result of the lack ... important a factor, according to a new study. (Fewer girls get pregnant when involved in community, E8) Toronto Sun, 1998) Other sources say: Sex education courses, advocated to prevent teen pregnancy but denounced as encouraged sexual interest, appear to have little or no effect on teens sexual activity. Such courses also have no noticeable effect on contraceptive use and pregnancy rates among teenagers. It was found that while students do learn about sex and contraception, they do not appear to alter ...
- 293: 1984: Summary and Reactions
- ... of his miserable life with his wife Katherine, that he has not seen in eleven years. Winston resents the intrusinon of the Party into the sex lives of its members. Also realizes the discouragement of sexual enjoyment, that makes any love affair with a party member impossible. Writing down the incident does not help him. He makes another entry in his diary, this one concerning the proles. He feels they are ... is sure it is the thought police and he will be arrested. Reaction We discover that people have a bond when it comes to sexuallity that the party connot control. Even thought the party rejects sexual relationships between its members. Sexual experience is no longer allowed in the society and Winston longs for one. He confesses in his Diary about his last expereince but it does not help. We find he has faith in the ...
- 294: Binge Drinking 2
- ... in learning impairment, hyperactivity, and personality and behavior problems, because today's society has accepted the casual use of alcohol (Effects, 1996, 1). Among men, research suggests that greater alcohol use is related to greater sexual aggression (Shalala, 1995, 2). Students living on campuses with higher proportions of binge drinkers experience more incidents of assault and unwanted sexual advances because of their peers drinking than do students residing on campuses with lower proportions of binge drinkers (Shalala, 1995, 2). Some campuses sponsor alcohol awareness events and classroom lectures and distribute information about alcohol ... rates of alcohol problems. According to Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services at The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, it seems that binge drinkers appear to engage in more unplanned sexual activity and to abandon safe sex techniques more often than students who do not binge drink (Shalala, 1995, 2). The purpose of this paper will prove whether or not Ms. Shalala is right or ...
- 295: Anywhere You Dare
- ... had a perception of its entire meaning. It is interesting to see how the advertisers for this particular advertisement try to pull people in and buy their product. This ad is an example of the sexual influence on our society s marketing strategies. We tend to deny that sexual influence has become a mainstream market in our society but if you look through an every day magazine you begin to notice how extreme it really is. In the Candies advertisement that I chose, a ... girl standing in front of three full shelves of condoms is pretty self-explanatory. What is interesting about this is that there are so many ways to advertise a fragrance, but marketers tend to use sexual concepts in the advertisements for fragrances. Using any type of sexual influence for an advertisement for teenagers can bring up some controversy. Many parents would believe that the ad is promoting teenagers to have ...
- 296: The Internet, Pornography, and Children
- ... the Internet.4 There are risks to a child that a parent should consider before allowing the child to access the Internet. Some of the risks include the following: 1. Exposure to material that is sexual, hateful, or violent in nature and the possible encouragement of illegal or dangerous activities. 2. The safety of a child and/or a childs family could be compromised by the child providing information or ... material. Child pornography is prohibited in all 50 states. The general statute states that child pornography is comprised of the following : 1) The creation or reproduction of materials depicting minors engaged in actual or simulated sexual activity (Sexual Exploitation of Minors) or 2) the publication or distribution of obscene, indecent, or harmful materials to minors.7 These laws require the knowledge that the person in the materials and /or receiving the material ...
- 297: 1984
- ... of his miserable life with his wife Katherine, that he has not seen in eleven years. Winston resents the intrusinon of the Party into the sex lives of its members. Also realizes the discouragement of sexual enjoyment, that makes any love affair with a party member impossible. Writing down the incident does not help him. He makes another entry in his diary, this one concerning the proles. He feels they are ... is sure it is the thought police and he will be arrested. Reaction We discover that people have a bond when it comes to sexuallity that the party connot control. Even thought the party rejects sexual relationships between its members. Sexual experience is no longer allowed in the society and Winston longs for one. He confesses in his Diary about his last expereince but it does not help. We find he has faith in the ...
- 298: Child Abuse
- ... 036,000 of the cases were substantiated as victims of child maltreatment. This figure represents about 16 out of every 1,000 children. According to the 1994 survey, physical abuse represented 21% of confirmed cases, sexual abuse 11%, neglect 49%, emotional maltreatment 3%, and other forms of maltreatment 16%. An estimated 1,271 children died due to child abuse and neglect in 1994. Based on that statistic more than three children ... dirty clothes, obvious fatigue and listlessness, a child unattended for long periods of time, need for glasses, dental care, or other medical attention, stealing or begging for food, frequent absence from school. You should suspect sexual abuse when you see: physical signs of sexually transmitted diseases, evidence of injury to the genital area, pregnancy in a young girl, difficulty in sitting or walking, frequent expressions of sexual activity between adults and children, extreme fear of being alone with adults of a particular sex, sexually suggestive, inappropriate, or promiscuous behavior, knowledge about sexual relations beyond what is appropriate for child's age, ...
- 299: Effects of Media and Pornography
- ... female community, relative to the amount of sexually explicit material that is published in magazines and that appears on television and in movies. A common argument is that the media portrays women as nothing but sexual playthings. It is also said that the media reduces women to a collection of body parts through pornography (Christensen). But why then are their no complaints of advertisements in magazines displaying only ears, for example ... taboo in many places. Realistically, the only way to prevent women from being seen as sex objects is for them to be seen as other things as well; but to say that women are not sexual beings would be misleading because both men and women are very much sexual (Christensen). Similarly, to say that women are singled out in the media is false due to the many examples of media where men are seen catering to the needs of women; something known as ...
- 300: Paradise Lost
- ... the killings of two of the victims were acts of rage or hate, rather than ritual, and that the third victim may have only been a victim of association. The prosecution has maintained that the sexual assaults on all, and mutilation of one of the victims were the result of an occult ritual, though no evidence has been produced to support this conclusion. 2. The possible assailants. Mr. Turvey has further ... to any of the defendants. 4. The presence of older injuries. The ME performing the autopsy on Chris Byers noted several healed injuries to the child that may have resulted from parental physical and/or sexual abuse. Mr. Turvey further stated that the nature and rage associated with the violent emasculation of Chris Byers indicated a possible custodial assault. His analysis of Chris behavioral patterns prior to his death indicates a troubled child with numerous social and behavioral problems possibly stemming from domestic abuse. 5. The lack of any evidence of sexual assault. The only victim with any overt signs of sexual assault was Chris Byers, and as stated earlier, this may have been more an act of rage than of deviance. Neither of the other ...
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