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- 681: Wealth & Poverty
- ... simplistic in their approach to the problem. I see a definite increase in the disparity between the haves and have-nots over the past twenty to thirty years. For example, the incredible salaries paid to sports figures and to corporate executives are ludicrous to say the least. The "middle class" may enjoy more material things today, bigger houses and labor saving devises, but no real increase in spendable income and a ...
- 682: The Wonderful War On Drugs
- ... likely to experiment as a way of rebelling against the system. Some people will tell you that the War on Drugs has been a great success, dont let them fool you. Almost weekly a sports star, movie star, government official, or famous musician is exposed for drug use. Go to the movies, turn on the television or radio, and you will see drugs are as much a part of the ...
- 683: Teen Alcoholism
- ... the equivalent of less than one drink hourly from the bloodstream. It also is assumed by some that drinking to get drunk is a "guy thing," an activity that, like cigar smoking and watching televised sports, belongs in the realm of male bonding. Statistics, however, show that the number of heavy-drinking young women is significant. A Harvard study found that a hefty 48 percent of college men were drinkers, and ...
- 684: Social Groups
- ... come from school. People with the same amount of intelligence stay together. People in these different groups interact most of time within there own groups. Usually groups that do not commit crime usually play games, sports or help each other. Sometimes there are fights within the group. Fights are not frequent among members of different groups although they can happen. The fights include physical and verbal fights. The most common are ...
- 685: Should The Internet Be Censore
- ... than trying to prevent these actions, adults must try to keep youth from feeling desperate enough to commit such acts. She feels that instead of focusing on eliminating the negative, focus on promoting the positive- sports, music, art, writing, dance, community service, and math and science because, Fairweather says as any parent can tell you, young people will find a way to get what they want no matter what obstacles adults ...
- 686: Jackie Robinson
- ... too strong and to brave to give up his dream to be a pro baseball player. Bibliography Working Bibliography Rowan, Charles. Wait till Next Year. New York: Random House, 1960. Dorinson, Joseph. Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. Falkner, David. Great Time Coming. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. Weidhorn, Manfred. Jackie Robinson. New York: Macmillan, 1993. Shapiro, Milton J. Jackie Robinson of ...
- 687: Influence Of Gangs
- ... Friendship, and a sense of belonging. Society often looks at lower-class minority teenager as low-class street hoodlums. Gangs only help reinforce this stereotype. As teenagers growing up, they do not have the nice sports cars of the nice clothes to show off as many other middle, upper-class teenagers do. Regardless of race or class, people associate material items with identity and status. And with these possessions, people use ...
- 688: Divorce
- ... on the divorce laws themselves the media plays a big part to, especially with the increasing amount of people who own and watch T.V. I mean that when adults and children see movie stars, sports players and wealthy people, whom most children see as role models, going through large publicized divorces, it sends a message that it's O.K. to divorce. For example, when the famous Donald Trump got ...
- 689: Child Labor
- ... America, the land of the free, home of the brave, a country that takes pride in its liberty and constitutional rights, with children working till all hours of the night making us clothing and sports equipment. Child labor is an infectious disease; it must be stopped before it reaches its height. The consequences of the spread of child labor is grave. There will be revolts from mentally disturbed children. The ...
- 690: Capital Punishment
- ... person is executed, then the problem lies in the court system, not in the death penalty. Furthermore, most activities in our world, in which humans are involved, possess a possibility of injury or death. Construction, sports, driving, and air travel all offer the possibility of accidental death even though the highest levels of precautions are taken. These activities continue to take place, and continue to occasionally take human lives, because we ...
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