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'War on Drugs' and its Negative Societal Impact

that the crime that goes with it is only relevant because drugs are illegal. If drug use was decriminalized, then there would be n...

Culture and Social Change in China

introduced many economic reforms which took into account global markets and the output of China increased nearly four times. Overa...

The Elderly Value and the Topic of Ageism

by a factor of 11! Consequently, the elderly, who comprised only 1 in every 25 Americans (3.1 million) in 1900, made up 1 in 8 (33...

Evolution of Women's Roles in the Islamic Tradition

in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...

Assisted Suicide and the Nursing Profession

Physicians occupy center stage in this modern-day morality play and remain the central focus of most analytical investigations. P...

How Important is Critical Thinking?

allows the student to explore a discipline in greater detail than he or she might have been able to do as an undergrad (Warwick Bu...

Media Coverage and the Consumption of Alcohol

alcohol as a positively valued activity (Snyder, et al, 2000). In other words, drinking, as it is portrayed in ads for wine, liquo...

Sociological Implications of Elmer-Dewitt Cloning Article

mainly, helping infertile couples have a batter chance of conception that had been experienced in the past. In other arena...

Learning Lessons in Billy Budd and Antigone

left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Competing Visions of Thomas Morton and William Bradford in 'The May Pole of Merry Mount' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and the Loman Family's Symbolism

finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...

Economic Growth, Empowerment and Views of Both Black and White Cultures

past summer, the publication Black Enterprise (05-03) announced its 31st annual report listing the "top" African American enterpri...

Comparative Analysis of Candide by Voltaire and Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

mouth of hell" (Rulfo NA). In this it is a reminder, not only of the past, but of the reality of a present that is intermingled wi...

Exploring Transsexuality and its Modern World Implications

issues involve health and human welfare, paternity and maternity claims, and military and personal-identification regulations amon...

Twentieth Century and Technological Changes

wealth was not distributed as equally and people were born in one place and mainly stayed put for much of their lives. Yet these d...

Poetry by Hardy and Eliot

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan

as adjuncts of male society, defined through the male gaze and the male cultural perspective....

Societal Concept of Emile Durkheim

allow him a greater ability to define what served as the foundation for social change and how it changed and grew into other degre...

de Tocqueville and Crevecoeur

However, as Lauter (2004) points out, Crevecoeurs perspective that all nations were represented and that these were being transfor...

African American Females and Discrimination

and even a lack of trust on the part of the black population (Zmuda, 2002). Women, in general, face a glass ceiling when attempti...

Analyzing Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

is constantly being reminded of the process of construction, whilst being involved in the construct itself in the form of the text...

Postmodernist Perspectives of Bauman and Foucault

It is therefore not possible to allocate it to...

Education Influenced by Ideology

where their "problems" are superfluous to the average person. Yet, the players do not see this as they are engrossed in their own ...

Island by Aldous Huxley

face. The descendants of the Raja and Dr. McPhail worked collectively to make the island the best of all possible worlds, by combi...

Men's and Women's Earning Power in America

that these girls and women were paid were considered high at that time. As long as labor was scarce, workers were too valuable to...

Colonization and 'King Leopold's Ghost'

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

A Character and Thematic Comparison of Desiree's Baby and Antlers

knowledge that Desiree has gone to her death, even though Arnaud will have to cope with a revelation that shakes the foundations o...

Child Welfare, Religion, Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Parental Rights

MD, CM contended that the parents ultimate refusal/postponement of the recommended procedures resulted in the "increased patient s...

Management and Change According to Henry Mintzberg

the next he or she may be talking to the local newspaper concerning the new state test score or finding a VCR for a teacher (Peter...