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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...

Is the "Freshman Fifteen" a Real Phenomenon?

gaining weight in college is no myth. It is a reality for many students and there are reasons behind the phenomenon. A study rep...

Society's Obsession With Celebrity

reported elsewhere, or the writer personally knows the content is true based on news broadcasts or other knowledge the writer has....

Burns - Transformational Leadership

few of the many theories will be discussed here. The theories describe how an individual can use the inherent strategies to become...

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

The Phenomenon of the Tsunami

in harbours. Scientists dislike the term tidal wave as used by the Press but there is a little logic in the term - some tsunamis ...

The Elderly and the Natural Life Span

This paper reviews how individual outlook combines with societal norms to determine whether aging will be a positive or negative p...

World Statistics on Child Labor

came from the "1991 trade liberalization" experience in India which generated losses in tariff protection for employers and brough...

Processes and Threads in Operating Systems

a procedure in execution, the entity to which processors are assigned" and so on (Muhammad, 2011). All things considered, the most...

Civilization Collapses and Transformations

Toynebee (1935, p5) describes breakdowns in civilizations as failures of those civilizations to ascend from the stage of primitive...

Violence against Women: The Sociological Perspective

looked at the use of sexualized violent imagery in advertisements and came to the conclusion that the use of such images impacted ...

Economic Frustration and Frustration-Agression Theory

As this suggests, the experience of being an American immigrant often includes "traumatic confrontation" with authority figures (P...

The Vancouver Riots of 2011 - A Hobbesian Perspective

with one another and with figures of authority in order to maximize the best interests of each individual. When left without a cen...

The Development of Social Networking Through the Internet

as it created an integrated approach as well as lead to the use of uniform protocols. It is not until 1997, after the web has be...

Different Investor Reactions to Acquisition Announcements

providing opportunities and the role that governance may have on the way business is run and how bids are made an assessed, all of...

Seventh Generation Culture and Structure

it is to protect the earth. This is a message that is likely to have a wide appeal, it builds on the preconceptions that larger co...

The Influences on Supply and Demand in the Low Skilled Wages Market

looking at this it can be presented on a supply and demand graph, with two line, one for supply and one for demand. The X axis is ...

Slavery in Two Worlds

slaves from Africa were sold mostly in the Americas. Wolf first discusses who bought these slaves and why, and then answers the q...

Cell Phones in the Academic Environment

and the negative sides of cell phone use in the academic environment and to present suggestions to bring those problems that do ex...

The Case Against Global Warming

influences. The urban heat island effect is an effect that will skew results, it is known that cities are often hotter that the...

Charles Ramsey and the Celebrity Phenomenon

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Charles Ramsey. The piece takes the form of a literary journalistic story. Paper us...

The Nature of Divorce

When looking at various phenomena in society, there are often individual and social factors at work. This paper looks at both and...

The Long Term Potential of Groupon and other Group Buying Web Sites for Businesses

The writer looks at the rise of the online group buying discount site in order to assess whether the concerns expressed regarding ...

Reverb - An Analysis

by the listener in as direct and uncorrupted a manner as possible. This requires an in-depth understanding of all the different wa...

The Clock, a Cultural View

This essay pertains to a Vincente Minneli film from 1945, "The Clock," which starred his wife, Judy Garland. The writer discusses ...

Why People Agree With Groups

Groupthink refers to a psychological phenomenon in which people are so determined to reach consensus some will set aside their own...