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Media and Inappropriate Language

beginning to use foul language more often (The Real Truth, 2005). Another author argues that "What is causing the increased am...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

Motherhood and its Ontological Assumptions

workforce will slack off as she, rightly, attends to the young infant. Thus, more credence is given to the male in the workforce, ...

Mass Culture: Will & Grace and ScrubsThe Societal Impact of Mass Culture

artistic form with an accepted place in art history: it has made the transition from low to high. In much the same way, certain te...

Deviant Behavior Such as Suicide

Many people have become very concerned with such instances of suicide because of political, social and/or religious reasons, and t...

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...

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...

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...

Gambling Interventions for Chinese-American Men

as "submission to the new culture or changing to the old" (Li, 1993, p. 99). Instead, by working out the conflicts, "a new awarene...

Event Management;' The Live Aid Concert

television scenes. The concert was a follow up to a highly successful record that was released the previous Christmas with the tra...

Perceived Injustice in The Epic of Gilgamesh and Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi

voracious sexual appetites by raping young village girls and claiming other mens wives as his own conquests on their wedding night...

Durkheim on Solidarity

to live and work together, a society forms and rules and norms of behavior are established because larger groups cannot function w...

Major Issues in Obesity

at least 30 kg/m2" (Allison et al, 1999, p. 1530). It was found that approximately 22% of adult Americans, about 40.5 million pers...

Factors that Impact on the Level of Economic Prosperity

a high level of disposable income there may be caution on the part of the consumers and they will save rather than spend the money...

Young American Adults from the Ages of Nineteen and Twenty Five and Prescription Drugs

psychological incidents requiring prescription drugs, have a tendency to misuse the drugs to a greater degree than their male coun...

U.S. Economic Stratification

in the power structure of the time to allow rule by the previously exploited working class (the proletariat,) and the termination ...

Death Penalty Issues and Problems

murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe that should be the case. This is because they...

External Environmental Factors and Marketing

Nike long has been viewed as an "anti-establishment" brand (Holmes and Bernstein, 2004), but with fully 34 percent of Europes foot...

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...

Angela Davis and Her Impact

prisoners who were apparently being held wrongly. It was this situation that ultimately led her to be on the FBIs most wanted list...

Christian and Islam Views on Creation

Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and God as Creator. However, at this point, with the intervention of the devil, there is a cru...

State Views of Michel Foucault and Emile Durkheim

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

Ethics of Crime and Punishment

theory (which considers social factors, disorganization, control and the learning process)and the rational choice theory (which co...

An Article on Neonates and Substance Exposure Critiqued

al, 2002). Of these children, 3.8 million live with a parent who suffers form alcoholism, 2.1 million live with a parent who abuse...