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Society and Pornography

Some therapists say that pornography helps marriages by providing variety for otherwise good marriages whose sex life has gone Sou...

Radical Aspects of the Scientific Revolution

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

Contemporary European Drama Classification

In five pages this paper examines the social dramas of August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen in a consideration of modernism classifi...

Responsibility in Motley and Wright

Knock on Any Door by Willard Motley and Native Son by Richard Wright present different perspectives on sociology and race relation...

Hero Worship

In eleven pages this paper examines the societal pros and cons of hero worship with professional athletes including OJ Simpson, Dw...

Gilgamesh, 'The Odyssey' and Heroic Epics

In five pages this paper discusses the societal and immortality quests of epic heroes in Gilgamesh and Homer's 'The Odyssey' in a ...

4 Articles on Jewish Culture Compared

In six pages Jewish life and culture are considered in a discussion of 4 articles which offer contrasting views to Jewish societal...

What is Normal? Lahiri vs. Chabon

Mr. Pirzada Came to Dinner by Jhumpa Lahiri and Spikes by Michael Chabon are good sources for comparisons of what is considered a ...

Gunpowder's Invention and Historical Impact

and explosives has ranked among the top three most important elements of modern civilization along with printing and the Protestan...

Social Stratification Importance to Society and the Field of Social Work

they are essentially from different worlds. To many in America today, political ideology is at the crux of how the poor and home...

Sociology and Family Disorganization

African-American families, this paper does not apply that only African-American families suffer from family disorganization; rathe...

Voltaire, Moliere and Social Satire

money, not religion. Organ, a simplistic, but good man, has allowed Tartuffe to come into his home and take dominance over his fam...

Past and Present Needs of Society and the Montessori Educational Method

to the place and specific time, there were numerous commonalties in the educational situation of Maria Montessoris time. Inner ci...

Social History and Sexuality

mentioned and courses taken were important enough in the society to warrant public attention to them. The account of this single ...

A Tribute to the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team Who Brought Home the Medal

historical events. Instead there is an interplay between them, circumstance, and other major and minor players. At the time of t...

Thirty Questions on Complexity by Mitchell lWaldrop

complex systems, whether they are ecosystems, individual organisms, or economics, have certain characteristics in common. Complex ...

Societal Concept of Emile Durkheim

allow him a greater ability to define what served as the foundation for social change and how it changed and grew into other degre...

Tracing the Origins of the Internet

the Internet (1999). The concept that anyone in the world can publish information and have it instantly available to someone else...

Sociological and Biological Definitions of Sexuality

wonder that many are reluctant to place full responsibility for behavior and personality on genetics. Peele (1995) notes:...

US Society and the Internet

incredibly intriguing and checks every day to see what the weather will be like. From such simple perspectives as this we can see ...

Female and Male Inequality and Societal Consequences

leads to a number of societal dysfunctions such as unequal access to education, jobs and other societal positions. A number of so...

Shakespeare's Othello and Racism within Renaiisance England

of perspective came about. Though various ploys were attempted to regain old sorts of power, in the end, there was a rise in the m...

Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

vessel. The children are Nash, Martha and Travis, and their stories form the basis for the three major divisions in the text. The ...

Criminal Justice System and the Importance of Societal Understanding

give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...

20th Century Modern Artists

it can be said, changed to reflect this. Edouard Manet painted some of the most widely admired, critically discovered, and rever...

Societal Welfare in Henry Fielding's Shamela and Samuel Richardson's Pamela

ends up marrying her, presenting us with a sense of maintaining the health of a family and the individual. While the novel is made...

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eliza and Marie

This essay pertains to two women characters, Eliza Harris and Marie St. Clare, who are featured in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The wrier ...

Who's to Blame? Failure of the Bovary's Marriage

This essay examines the question of who is to blame for the failure of the marriage between Emma and Charles Bovary. The writer pr...

Societal Expectations, Twain, Krakauer

This essay considers Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and asserts that both protagonists were societ...

Let's Move The Whitehouse's Attempt to Intervene in Childhood Obesity

This paper emphasizes the importance of this program being part of a much larger societal framework. There are three sources in t...