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Athletic Competitions and Allowing Anabolic Steroids

Today, many young people are experimenting with steroids. A study done by Blue Cross and Blue Shield found that about 1 million a...

Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

Perceptual and Spatial Divisions and Distinctions Among Social Classes

of the educational realm and explains the superiority of the performance between many children of privileged backgrounds. One good...

Mary McCarthy on the American Dream of Willy Loman

Loman in Death of a Salesman is a rather pathetic character. He is average, almost typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is som...

Interdisciplinary Perspective on Foods That Are Genetically Engineered

Sunflower oil producers once again are in trouble, and no one knows what effect - if any - that genetically modified foods have on...

Functionalism, Conflict Theory, and Neo-Marxism

economic advantage to such a system. In spite of Marxs (1998) negative claims with regard to the influence of capitalism, it can ...

Globalization and the Workplace

For example, the decline...

A Historical Perspective of Gender Inequality from the 1990s

that the bible does make careful distinctions between the role that women and men each play, but these are not ontological distin...

The Pro and Con Abortion Issue

to justify abortion in general is that of preserving the presumed right of self-determination or autonomous choice. The pitfalls ...

Evaluating Issues to Recommend Against the Cloning of Humans

many are negative. The concept of cloning only came to the forefront of public attention approximately thirty years ago. Even th...

Gangs and Social Jusitce

In a paper of fifteen pages, the author reflects on the issue of youth violence and the impacts on gang participation. This paper...

Parent View of Autism

son, "Kyle," who has Autism Disorder (AD). Denise stated that Kyle was diagnosed when he was 12 months old following an evaluatio...

Social Work, A Utilitarian Approach

This research paper/essay presents an overview of social work ethics from a perspective based on rule utilitarianism. The ethical ...

Ethnic Conflict/Israelis and Palestinians

dividing lines between these two groups are quite clear, and this distinction includes the differences between Jewish Israelis and...

Social Cognitive Personality Theory

reinforced to continue a behavior. He and a collaborator discovered that if a child came from a home where hostility was demonstra...

Bruner Piaget Vygotsky

steps (Bandura, 1999). His theory went against the prevalent theories of the day. One of the best known cognitive theorists is Je...

Diversity

dominant in relation to both numbers and the capacity to maintain status. The vying for power in this country may result in grea...

Cultural Analysis in Bourgois' "In Search of Respect"

thematic focus to the text, which is the exploration of the cultural and social forces that led to the development of crack dealin...

Portrayal of Women in Two Play by G.B. Shaw

that there is little, if any, true relationship or familial feeling between the two women, as Vivie tells Mr. Praed, "I hardly kno...

An American View of Dying and Death

that many adults have to being placed in nursing care (Ciechanowski et al, 2004). The degree of social isolation along with depen...

Social Stratification and Paradigms

is inevitable as long as some roles are valued more than others. As Davis and Moore point out, social inequality can be viewed as ...

Social Programs and Supply Side Economics

the debt crisis. To be sure, the United States economy is currently locked in a major predicament. The government continues adding...

Drones Societal Potentials and Concerns

This paper considers drone technology from both a positive perspective and a cautious one. Social informatics are paramount. The...

Hispanic Communities and Sexual Child Abuse

This research paper pertains to the prevalence and therapies associated with sexual child abuse, with a focus on Hispanics. The wr...

Self-Reflections

This essay presents a self-analysis with a personal reflection. The analysis focuses on the writer's adult development. Analysis c...

Weakened Human Interaction and Technology

This paper discusses the views of Anna Akbari and Andrew Sullivan pertaining to the issue of how technology has altered the nature...

Public Health, Social Networks

This research paper pertains to social networking from a public health practice perspective. Three pages in length, five sources a...

Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Wealth

novel awakens in the future, the year 2000, and at this time Bellamy pictures a utopian state that was achieved by the abandonment...

Issues Through Liberal and Conservative Lenses

liberal origins, the conservative had developed their own distinctive view of Social Security, which can be summed up in a single ...

Pop Art in a Social Context

Artists thought the Abstract Expressionists pretentious and over-intense" (Pop art, 2006). The art of the Impressionists a...