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America and Obesity

2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new ch...

Animal Rights, the Environment, and Social Welfare

basic human needs" (Anonymous #2, 1995, p. PG) such as ample food, clean drinking water, uncontaminated sanitation, and the availa...

Globalization and Social Change

could know about the happening. Never before has this been possible. With this globalization has come significant chang...

Queen Gertrude and Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet

thrown into chaos. The roles of Gertrude and Ophelia within the plays construct were painstakingly designed by the Bard to reflec...

Analytical Case Study on Family Therapy

of fatigue. She reports that weight has never been a problem, her blood pressure and routine tests have always been fine, although...

Culture, Demographics and Socioeconomics of the Black American Family

earned a bachelors degree by March 2000. This is considered as the highest degree of educational attainment ever recorded in Afric...

Hazardous Waste and Corporate Social Responsibility

addressing them. Hazardous Waste - The Problem The 1970s and 80s were a time when the U.S. first started to...

Cinematic Influences of 1960s' Society

the story of twelve men (all stereotypical white and middle class) who by luck of the draw are brought together to deliberate the ...

U.S. Civil War and Reasons for the South's Loss

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

Intervention of Iran, Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Motivations

Lebanese sources, Qasirs report indicates how a concern over priorities lies at the crux of separation between Hizbollah and Al-Qa...

Critiquing Barnes' and Bloor's 'Strong Programme' of Scientific Sociological Knowledge

counter the views of those sociologists who believe that this is not the case, that pure knowledge stands independent from social ...

Evaluation of Gerontology

be expected to become even more top-heavy in the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the econo...

Emotional Issues Faced by Creative and Gifted Children

provide that measure of acceptance that every youth aspires to achieve. These formations of like-minded and similarly aged teens ...

Late Nineteenth Social Darwinism, Realism, and Racism Commentary of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

and superstitious. Although Huck may not be racist himself, he no doubt has been raised in an environment of extremely racists ind...

Introduction to Old Testament Wisdom by Ceresko

book touches on many mundane matters. How to get through life and understand its wrath is truly lifes most contemplated topics and...

Social Interaction and Visual Impairment

or guilt, or they may find the child unresponsive. The child cannot discern visual cues, such as gestures, facial expressions, and...

Enduring Legacy of Freedom

against the terrorism in their own nation. The United States with its superpower status sits in the position of setting many of th...

North America Cultural Identity

of these norms. Although individual identity is also defined along subcultural lines in urban society, researchers must also be aw...

School Violence, Poverty, Racism and the Nation's Schools

as a whole, or toward an individual because he (or she) is a member of that group" (Spencer, 1998, p. 25). By and large, schools ...

A South Africa Global AIDS Perspective

Africans are currently HIV positive (AP Worldstream, 2002; MacGregor, 2002). Some 5000 are said to die each week from AIDS-relate...

Policies of Criminal Justice and Drug Issues

tend to have sufficient social and economic power to transcend even law enforcement agencies themselves. If profits from the drug ...

Conflict v. Functionalist Theories on Poverty and Crime

also state that group sports teaches hard work and patience, working toward a common goal and submission to authority, which are a...

Communication and Global Organizations

route that communication may take can be seen as ineffective in some instances, with the bureaucracy slowing down the transference...

Depression in Teens

depression from time to time (Types and Causes of Depression). Another type of depression is bipolar disorder, which is also refe...

European Community Development Issues

Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the former West Germany formed the European Economic Community (EEC) to provide a higher c...

Cybercafe Gaming

and into 1996 that the first wave of cybercaf?s came into being in noticeable numbers. "Newspaper articles around that time usual...

Social Security, Health Care Reform, and Public Policy

success; yet each time they faced defeat. The evolution of these efforts and the reasons for their failure make for an intriguing...

Belize and Conditions for Women

workers rights are in as much a quagmire as womens rights. So what is the solution? Identifying that poverty is one of the underl...

The Social Contract and Autonomy

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

Theory, Skills, and Standards of Physical Education

levels of health awareness and personal wellness goals. Students must understand how to best deal with stress, disease prevention ...