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Community Concept

by any number of characteristics used for grouping individuals. These characteristics can include geography, relationships, cultu...

The Effects of Alcoholism

parents are much more likely to become alcoholics themselves than do those who grow up in nonalcoholic households (Powell and Garc...

Gays and Stereotyping

lose weight for genetic reasons and that of course they would be thin if it were possible. Similarly, homosexuals claim that their...

The Use of Breathalyzers

a few different models that are used by law enforcement officials today. One device utilized infrared rays, another uses fuel cell...

Globalization's Human Benefits

engineering, from the conditions of financial stability to environmental degradation, the fate and fortune of each of us are thoro...

1692 U.S. Salem Witch Trials

and paid a salary, and given free firewood. As one can see, this made the town Puritans upset and it seems it may have been a soci...

Michel Foucault, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx on Political Theory

similar: to attain virtue and the happiness which comes from a sense of right living, but such an outcome was seen as more worthy ...

Community and Corrections Nursing

does not receive (or seek) health care outside of prison. The literal captive audience allows health care professionals to offer ...

Aspects of Community Corrections

eligible traffic offenders choose the bracelets over a short jail term. Rather than spending up to a year behind bars, they are pu...

Original Settlements, Community, and City Distinctions

of family or kinship ties in addition to having the same beliefs, rituals and symbols. The Urban Revolution The urban revolution ...

Defending Wal-Mart

spend - are on the job. These stores with limited hours open after working people get to work and close before they get off for t...

Post 911 and U.S. Islamic Communities

States. Abdulwahab Alkebsi, executive director of the Islamic Institute in Washington stated after the attacks that "this is the b...

College Campuses and Merton's Deviance Theory

desire for material security, success, and comfort on one hand, and limited opportunities to achieve these things on the other han...

Organizational Structures and Health Care Management

structure that supports whatever methods need to be used in the process. Requiring that one vice president oversee nursing in two...

Marketing Considerations for a Professional Service

fairly strict about dentists advertising as well. Though manufacturers of all types of products can make outrageous claims about ...

'Community' as Understood by Rigoberta Menchu

with the social reform movements of the Catholic Church, Menchu and her family suffered terribly (Welker, 2002; Nichols, 1995). He...

Society's Mission and the Concept of Prevention

of health care approaches, including prevention and rehabilitation" (Smith & Moyers 311). Smith and Moyers point out why the Unit...

Community Policing Advantages and Disadvantages

of the Community Relations Services concerted national effort to facilitate community oriented policing in police departments and ...

Comparative Analysis of Nationalism

of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion" (p. 6). Th...

School Administration, Reform, and Planning

In response to the apparent crisis in our educational system, U.S. President Bill Clinton authorized, and Congress passed the "Edu...

Motherhood Critique by Black Feminists

child (Eckhaus, 2002). Just look at modern mothers for verification of this. Mothers today are torn between working, shuttling k...

911 and its Effects Upon San Diego's Islamic Community

communities after two of the hijackers of the jetliner which crashed into the Pentagon were linked to their community. Since the a...

Robert Rodriguez's Films and Cultural Identities

direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...

Service and Volunteerism in the US, Chile, and France

recently wrote that "a few years back, my wife and I hosted a high school senior from Yugoslavia (Serbia) who wondered what I was ...

Rev. Hooper's Last Words in 'The Minister's Black Veil' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

EDTA Chelation Therapy as an Alternative Treatment Approach

have taken years to develop. The most vocal proponent of the treatment, Elmer M. Cranton, M.D., maintains that the only effective...

Hispanic Community, Health Care, and Government

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

Maya Angelou Gives an Eloquent Voice to This Generation

this definition of black heroism and to the outline of a typical success story" (Walker, 1995, p. 91). Angelou is as simple...

Effects of Negro League Baseball

Frank Thompson in Long Island, who organized a group of Argyle Hotel waiters in the 1880s and ultimately merged with a Philadelphi...

Federal Policy and its Impact upon Economic Development and Communities

$100 billion of (mainly corporate) tax cuts" (Anonymous A clash of wills; The economy, 2001; p. NA). Some of the top United States...