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Text Analysis of 'Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy' by Susan Neiman

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

The Homeless Latino Population in Los Angeles

This paper confronts the issue of homelessness in Los Angeles with a particular emphasis on the homeless Latino population. The a...

America and Homelessness

In five pages this paper discusses homelessness in the United States with the emphasis being on effects on children and women with...

Homelessness Featured in 4 Articles of The New York Times

it is a realistic view of how corporate Americas downsizing and cutbacks are affecting the very core of the working population. L...

Deviance and Homelessness

difficult to define, but certain behavior patterns which fit nicely into psychology manual descriptions, are deemed to be such. Th...

Homelessness and the Media's Negative Portrayal

In seven pages this paper discusses the shift between the 1980s to the 1990s regarding the media's portrayal of homelessness from ...

Defining Deviance in a Homelessness Context

There is no question that homelessness represents the most "painful form of poverty" (Chitayat PG), with the deviance-defining pro...

U.S. Homelessness Situation

In eight pages this paper examines the increasing U.S. homelessness situation in a consideration of media distortion. Six sources...

Canada and Homelessness

well-oiled and beneficial program stopped in its tracks, however, when government cutbacks took effect, underscoring the fact that...

The Employment Situations in California and in America as a Whole

with links to Silicon Valley, but the "ripple effect" carried over into the myriad support businesses that depended on the revenue...

The Difficult Problem of the Nursing Shortage

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

Issues in Group Dynamics

In this essay, a hospital was used as the organization that had problems. The research team identified four problems related to gr...

Cultural Differences in an Acquisition

The writer looks at the problems faced by Indian firm Nicholas Piramal India Ltd (NPIL) when acquiring a western firm. The managem...

Case Studies: Caterpillar And Harley-Davidson

burst. The world went into a serious recession. To compound this event, the company suffered a 205-day strike by UAW workers (Bart...

High School Dropouts/North Toledo, OH

average dropout rate for Ohio high schools during the 2000-01 school year was 3.9 percent (Balistreri). On average, however, highe...

The Social Problem of Teen Pregnancy

rose from 40.5 births per 1,000 females aged 15-19 in 2005 to 41.9 births per 1,000 in 2006--a 3 percent increase" ("National Camp...

Alcoholism: A Significant Social Problem

those that imbibed but also those that did not. This means, of course, that those who imbibed consumed much more than 7.1 gallons...

The Social Problem of Substance Abuse

of the overall problem of substance abuse to inform potential methods for change, it is necessary to consider both the driving and...

Appalachia: Culture and Social Problems

The mountain peoples who populate the mountainous regions of the southern Apalachias are, by majority, the descendants of English ...

Poverty in the United States as a Social Problem: Causes, Theories, and Proposed Remedies

percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...

Global Environmental Problems: Social Responsibility

the twenty-first century. This lesson of not just integrating corporate social responsibility into an organizations infrastructur...

Social Networking/Associated Problems

Facebook accounts and 81 percent did not and, furthermore, only thirteen CEOs had profiles on the "professional networking site Li...

A Social Problem That Cannot be Solved, Drugs

This paper argues that the US War on Drugs is a total failure and that this social problem will not be solved using this approach....

Decline of Organized Religion and American Social Problems

idea that crime is caused by a change in social norms. V. Conclusion All of these things have in common is that they are thi...

Tourism and Social Problems of Mauritius

to diamond cutting, gold and diamond jewelry imports, textiles, golf, spa, diving and windsurfing. Interestingly, Mauritius has b...

Canada and the Social Problem of Childhood Obesity

greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...

Social Problems of Child Prodigies

the Tonight Show audience with a blazing solo (Jerome, Cheakakos and Horsburgh 131). At ten years old, Jacob signed a contract wit...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

Social Problems in Hard Times

Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...

Linda Mooney's Concepts in Understanding Social Problems

related industries such as welfare and social workers. This theory was expanded by other theorists to cover deviance and conflic...