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- 5921: Children And The Single Parent
- ... living apart hurts. For children, divorce is not a one time event, but a continued process. This is a traumatic experience for the children because it leaves them feeling alone, as if nobody in the world cares about them. Single parenting affects each child differently according to that child's age. Infants and young children can feel abandoned by the decision of parents to get divorced. Most infants and young children ... chance to heal old wounds and create a new relationship with their adolescent child. Over time, parental wars take a greater toll on a child's development. When parents fight, children lose faith, and the world becomes a scary place. Parents can find themselves picking up pieces of the adolescent’s life. Children become masters of manipulating parents to meet their needs. Children learn to take care of themselves first and ... opens the door to subtle and not so subtle attempts to persuade adolescence to make that decision. Most teenagers love their parents and this places them in a troubling position. Parents begin a tug-of-war, and the children are the rope. In Divorce and Your Child by Sonja Goldstein LL.B and Albert J. Solnit M.D., they state that as a condition of custody, parents should choose why ...
- 5922: Violence And Pornography
- ... immune and can’t expect it to get any better or to go away. Porn is here for good. Pornography is a multi-million dollar international industry, ultimately run by organized crime all over the world, and is produced by the respectable mainstream publishing business companies (Itzin 21). Although the publishing companies are thought to be ‘respectable’, people generally stereotype buyers and users of pornographic material as ‘dirty old men in ... the studies and examples from real life situations connecting pornography with violent behavior and sexual aggressiveness, none are more concrete than the activities the Serbian military are part of every day now in the Bosnian war. Part of the “ethnic cleansing” process the Serbs are practicing in Bosnia involves the gang-raping of all Muslim and Croatian women. Andrea Dworkin states that it is mandatory for the Serbian soldiers to rape ... Speech and the Porn Wars.” National Forum. 75.2 (1985): 25-28. Clark, Charles S. “Sex, Violence, and the Media.” CQ Researcher. 17 Nov. 1995: 1019-1033. Dworkin, Andrea. “The Real Pornography of A Brutal War Against Women.” Los Angeles Times. 5 Sept. 1993, M2+. Itzin, Catherine. “Pornogrpahy and Civil Liberties.” National Review. 75.2 (1985): 20-24. Jacobson, Daniel. “Freedom of Speech Acts? A Response to Langton.” Philosophy & Public ...
- 5923: Tobacco And Kids
- ... young to be independent thinkers and to not be swayed by the tobacco companies who are trying to take advantage of their mind and body. --- Works Cited "Bill Clinton vs. Joe Camel." U.S. News & World Report. 2 Sep. 1996: 12. Infotrac. Online. 27 Oct. 1996. "Selling Tobacco to Kids." America. 17 Feb. 1996: 3. Infotrac. Online. 27 Oct. 1996. Roberts, Steven. " Teens on tobacco; kids smoke for reasons all their own." U.S. News & World Report. 18 Apr. 1996: 38. Infotrac. Online. 27 Oct. 1996. Thomas, Roger E. "10 steps to keep the children in your practice nonsmokers." American Family Physician. Aug. 1996: 450. Infotrac. Online. 27 Oct. 1996. Breo, Dennis L. "Kicking Butts-AMA, Joe Camel and the 'Black Flag' war on tobacco." JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association. 29 Oct. 1993: 1978. Infotrac. Online. 27 Oct. 1996.
- 5924: Prison System
- ... of the most “maladjusted” people in society. Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. They are very insecure and are “at war with themselves as well as with society” (Szumski 20). Most inmates did not learn moral values or learn to follow everyday norms. Also, when most lawbreakers are labeled criminals they enter the phase of secondary ... still with no education or vocational skills will likely return to a life of crime. Often their life in crime will resume in weeks after their release. Although the best prisons and programs in the world will not cure the problem totally, improvements still must be made (Szumski 20). Prison inmates, are some of the most “maladjusted” people in society. Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. They are very insecure and are “at war with themselves as well as with society” (Szumski 20). Most inmates did not learn moral values or learn to follow everyday norms. Also, when most lawbreakers are labeled criminals they enter the phase of ...
- 5925: International Law
- ... and by being capable of enforcement by the application of external sanctions. The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, which succeeded the Permanent Court of International Justice after World War II. Article 92 of the charter of the United Nations states: The International Court of justice shall be the principal judicial organ of the United nations. It shall function in accordance with the annexed Statute ... occurs, the members of the Council may decide politically - but are not obliged legally - to undertake collective action that will have sanctioning result. In instances of threats to or breaches of the peace short of war, they may decide politically to take anticipatory action short of force. Moreover, it is for the members of the Security Council to determine when a threat to peace, a breach of peace, or an ...
- 5926: Analysis Of International Law
- ... and by being capable of enforcement by the application of external sanctions. The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, which succeeded the Permanent Court of International Justice after World War II. Article 92 of the charter of the United Nations states: The International Court of justice shall be the principal judicial organ of the United nations. It shall function in accordance with the annexed Statute ... occurs, the members of the Council may decide politically - but are not obliged legally - to undertake collective action that will have sanctioning result. In instances of threats to or breaches of the peace short of war, they may decide politically to take anticipatory action short of force. Moreover, it is for the members of the Security Council to determine when a threat to peace, a breach of peace, or an ...
- 5927: How Can Drug Trafficking Be Co
- ... trade. Where do drugs come from? Most of the marijuana Smuggling routes that come into the United States comes from the south. Columbia is one of the main contributors to the problems of the drug war. Not only does Columbia sell cocaine to the United States, it also sells marijuana. Columbia is responsible for over eighty percent of the cocaine distribution around the world. In Columbia cocaine production is the leading export and moneymaker of the economy. It even passes the production and export of coffee.(Melville, pg. 10) A major reason for this production and selling of drugs in Columbia is the Columbian Drug Cartel. The cartel is a world-wide organization that makes and sells drugs to make a profit. The reason they are so powerful in Columbia, besides the fact that it brings so much money into the economy, is that the ...
- 5928: Brown Vs. Board Of Education
- ... the Mexican children and ruled that school desegregation was illegal. The 1936 Berlin Olympics marked a historical moment in history when Jesse Owens broke the racial boundaries. This moment, much to the unhappiness of the world's leading political leaders, opened up the arena of world class athletics to a greater number of athletes regardless of race. Although this did not happen instantaneously, the Berlin Olympics marked the beginning of this trend. Finally, another event leding up to the Brown v ... cases regarding education, there were many important issues residing during this time period. The Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum, America launched their first satellite, the Second Red Scare was picking up pace, the Korean War began, and we had the entry of the Counter Culture. In addition, racial boundaries were being broken in athletics, with Jackie Robinson entering the Major League of Baseball, and in literature, with many black ...
- 5929: The Ineptitude Of The United S
- ... the U.S. since its origin. W. Haywood Burns once commented on the early legal status of black Americans in the U.S.: "The legal issue of the status of black people in pre-Civil War America came to a head in 1857 in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, which proved to be one of the most important judicial decisions in the history of the black experience in the ... Scott, and by extension, any other black person, could not be a citizen under the Constitution…" The Court’s decision in Scott set precedence until Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the conclusion of the Civil War. Even after Reconstruction, racism and inequality were still a part of U.S. society and law. The Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 can be used to illustrate this fact. The Plessy ... power" on the planet, the quiescent laws of the U.S. have inhibited state responsibility for civil and human rights. If the U.S. is to move forward and join the other nations of the world, it must improve its responsibility for human and civil rights so that it can fulfil the articles established under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- 5930: Tom Clancy
- ... novel, The Hunt for Red October. This book was noticed by President Reagan, who praised the book and helped boost it to bestseller lists. Clancy continued to use plots based on political issues of the world. All of his novels were on bestseller lists. Clear and Present Danger sold more copies than any other novel that was published in the 1980’s. Clancy has been called the creator of the "techno ... most unimaginable terrorist act is attempted. Using the cooling system at the Olympics, the terrorists will launch a deadly virus. They are immunized against the virus, but within a few years, the rest of the world will be killed. The Rainbow team manages to stop this and find the base where they were going to hide and manage to defeat the terrorists. Red Storm Rising follows the attempt of the Soviet ... would allow them to reach further into the Atlantic. The Russians become so power-hungry that they decide the only way to gain the power they want is to cripple NATO, then start a huge war. Clancy makes use of technical details in all of his novels. This adds to the realism. Most technical details are explained well so you do not get confused easily. He develops the characters well. ...
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