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Essays 1981 - 2010

Rhetorical Style of Michael Moore

he depicts "a working-class heroic persona trying to speak truth to power" (Mattson, 2003). This persona is "integral to Moores s...

A Review of The American Civil War The Last Capitalist Revolution

a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....

Hong Kong, Globalization, and Social Work

worlds finest economy" and Hong Kong culture is universally lauded for its values of "hard work, flexibility and rule of law" (Kw...

Hong Kong Family Therapy and Systems Theory

colleagues applied the same ideas to families and discovered that systems theory provided an ideal medium for gaining insight into...

Social Order and Humanity

speech offers a concise picture of the Athenian perspective on government, the social order and the citizens role in that order. H...

Four Types of Social Provisioning in Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation

1944). During communal activity, such as feasts, dances and other occasions, the chief distributes gifts to all and the "overwhelm...

Validity of Race

distinguishes among four "races" ("Race," 2005). With this new model, there seems to be a political message which is that race wa...

French Revolution and the Role of Women

XIV was only a child or at best a very young and inexperienced man. This was a time when, although he was officially the king, it...

Anthropology and Social Justice

into embarrassing intellectual difficulties. It becomes, most often, a term of art whose operational meaning is, We need a law aga...

Anthropology and Social Justice Convergence

involved has been the object of old prohibitions against effecting no changes within study populations. The very presence of rese...

Designing Entertainment Venues

gambling establishments has served to completely transform otherwise impoverished communities and even afford them the ability to ...

Transgendered Community and Civil Rights

themselves. There is a definitive move in fact, to abolish the term from the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorde...

2 Studies on Orphaned Africans Reviewed

2008, 2005). In Namibia alone, officials expect that 13 percent of all children under the age of 15 will be orphans by 2006 (Aids...

Social Conditions in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

or migratory work. This is where the powerful social issues come into play. In Boyles work we see the main character is a suppos...

Sitcom Defined

characters have done since. She did so because she was in reality presenting the factors that were important in keeping the Ameri...

Juvenile Law Case Study Analysis

he saw his little sister having sex, he might have been angry enough to throw something. However, whether or not he is guilty of t...

South Tech Charter High School and Social Studies Teachers' Evaluation

In eleven pages this paper presents an overview of a five chapter research study that considers this schools social studies' teach...

Skateboarders' Behavior

or research in regards to age group alone. Another thing to look for is the gender of those involved. Are they primarily male, ...

Societal Dependence and Cell Phone Technology

Its safe to say that cell phones are an ubiquitous part of society. While just a decade ago, that opera-goer probably would have b...

History of Opera in China and its Social Implications

Huaguxi Opera, also known as "Flower Drum" opera was first seen in Chinas Hunan province, with the first mention of it in 1695 (Ch...

Meaning of 'Social Accents'

was used by the first editor of the English Pronouncing Dictionary and the model of pronunciation that he preferred (Tench 107). T...

Ireland from 1879 to 1918 in Terms of Protestant Unionism and Catholic Nationalism

just the opposite during Irelands late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, proving to pull people apart who would otherwise ...

An Analysis of The Rise of Silas Lapham

economic and social world of the Laphams. It is also important to note that the Laphams are people from wealth that was earned thr...

Social Work and the Importance of the Christian Thought

as well as their learning abilities. The Bible teaches people that it is important, and crucial, to care for others and to neve...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

'The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer and Themes of Women's 14th Century Social Position

discontent with societys lopsided gender scale. The tale begins with Queen Guinevere pondering the fate of a knight who has been ...

Prejudices, Criminal Justice System, and Overrepresentation of Minorities

any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...

Affirmative Action Concept

male just to meet the necessary quota. As one student noted, "blacks can come into Berkeley with 900. Why is he going to develop...

Women's Rights and W.E.B. Du Bois

noble nature against the blighting American cast prejudice". (Ferris, 1913, pg. 599). DuBois recognized...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Marriage

When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...