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An Examination of Violence Statistics

were robbed in the workplace. Between 1994 and 1996 violent victimizations in the workplace decreased by 21 percent, paralleling a...

Social Classes and Health Care

people who are uninsured, while many more are underinsured (Reports Say Millions Getting Second-Class Health Care Treatment, 2003)...

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, and Fathers

appears to be Lucentio, but should he be unable to produce his father (which would verify his lineage and financial status), then ...

Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance

basis of short-term results, but rather to build for the long term. Germanys Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) and Japans Mitsubishi pro...

Globalization and Sociocultural Change

means by which to create such commodities faster, cheaper and within "laboratories or non-traditional environments" (Technology-Af...

Impact of Technology

look to the Internet and they look to computerized programs which help with homework. The computer is perhaps one of the most as...

PEST Analysis of Nike

that Nike are making a success international markets such as Russian. With the current disagreement with the attitude of the US ov...

Rickshaw Beijing by David Strand

time these individuals and their groups began to organize to the point where they became politically active and engaged in the soc...

The Socioeconomic and Cultural Impacts of Apartheid in Africa

that was operative in the time of the lynchings during the 1800s and 1900s. Rather than seeing a group mentality or a societal ...

Overview of Teenage Drinking

fall along gender lines, with boys imbibing more than girls, statistics indicate that females are every bit as likely to drink as ...

Overview of the Prophet Muhammad and His Impact

his life at age twenty-four and soon became his wife. It was speculated to be an unusual marriage in that she was considerably ol...

Ozone and its Impacts

growing "hole" in the ozone layer during the mid-1970s, as recently as the late 1990s, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmo...

Global Manipulation by the Media

has a detrimental effect on elections. Some believe that the media was set on Gore. They contend that even if one contested medi...

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 ...

Youthful Consumers

approximately $2.2 billion of their own money in 1968; that amount increased to $4.2 billion in 1984, which quadrupled to $17.1 bi...

The Third World, HIV, and AIDS

AIDS was first discovered in New York and California among homosexual males and intravenous drug users in 1980. It quickly became...

Birmingham, UK's Architecture

may appear unsuitable to the mix. I contend that Birmingham has no more "ugly" or "monstrous" buildings than the next city, and h...

William Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic

be one of the social issues that Ross recognizes, but the ways in which corporations function in modern society are inherent to th...

The Internet Significantly Contributes To Social Democracy: Opinion

in which people live, work and interact seems a logical succession for maintaining mans existence throughout the coming centuries,...

Outsourcing by American Firms; Political and Economic Influences and Results

of the associated costs, including health insurance costs and legal costs. There are many areas of outsourcing, one of the major a...

United States v. Eichmann Supreme Court Case

Texas statute criminalizing desecration of the flag and had provided the flag protection language for the Flag Protection Act of 1...

Equality and the Birth of the United States

of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...

Bill Gates

vision guided him in his work (William H. Gates, 2003). That vision would also prove to be precisely on-target, and Gates would b...

3 Human Development Domains

1. The Microsystem: these are the settings in which the individual lives with differentiated roles in each setting. These are the ...

Technology and Theater of the Victorian Age

In eight pages this paper discusses how Victorian theater was impacted by new technology in terms of staging and social culture. ...

Overview of Government Surveillance

this legislation, although it increasing the ability of surveillance in some situation, such as when the Office of Fair Trading (O...

North American Human Social Groupings

human beings approach all of life. Defining and describing this change precisely is not an easy task. As Laslett points out, no ea...

Feminist Cinema and Psychology

political insights that can be gleaned from any motion picture. The major differences between a journalistic approach to a movie c...

'The Tragedy of the Commons' like Garrett Hardin How The "Tragedy Of The Commons" Applies To Using Forests As Wood For Fuel And Housing

an influential metaphor in the environmental movement" (Vandermeer, 1996, p. 290) - supports the fact that rainforests do not exis...

South Florida, Pediatric Asthma, and Health Promotion

of increasing costs still further and marginalizing greater numbers of individuals and families who no longer can afford the highe...