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Gender Reversal in Indigenous Culture

American Native groups as well. For many indigenous cultutes, in fact, gender-reversed individuals have played important ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Fragmentation and Globalization

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at globalism. Societal fragmentation is held up as an antithesis to globalism. Paper u...

Child Abuse, Its Nature and History

were perceived and what sort of behavior was considered appropriate in regards to children has changed considerably over the cours...

THE PESTICIDE INDUSTRY, ITS CORE VALUES AND SOCIAL ISSUES

in which Union Carbide operates, the pesticide industry, is rife with situations such as that which created the Bhopal tragedy. So...

Addressing Drug Abuse

Drug addiction is one of societys most concerning problems. Whether the addiction is to a prescription drug or a street drug, the...

Homosexuality, Shifting Societal Views

This essay draws on sources to describe the shift from viewing homosexuality as a criminal offense and a mental disorder to a more...

Social Influence and Art from the Middle Ages to the Baroque

Art has evolved in response to numerous societal factors....

Natural Religion in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Thomas Hardys "Tess of the dUbervilles" was written in 1891. This was a time when the role...

The Causes of Poverty

Poverty, unfortunately, is a fact of life not just in third world nations but right here in the United States. The patterns of po...

Mechanisms and Addresses for Antibiotic Resistant Microbes

As is emphasized by the article "Microbes: What Doesnt Kill Them Makes Them Stronger", antibiotic resistance is becoming a seriou...

The Elderly and the Natural Life Span

This paper reviews how individual outlook combines with societal norms to determine whether aging will be a positive or negative p...

Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Study:

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

CANCER, ITS IMPORTANCE, AND SOCIETAL IMPACT

But what is the deal when these cells multiply, and why is this bad? Normal cells are needed to keep the body healthy - when they ...

The Positive and Negative Effects of Using Cloning to Treat Genetic Disease

Switching around an embryos mitochondria might appear innocent enough but we must realize that mitochondrial genes act well outsid...

The Importance of 9-11

indeed witnessed an attack inside our borders but that attack was limited both in its extent and in the continued threat that it r...

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 ...

Water Pollution and a Mitigation Plan

and modern technology. The most basic water pollutants or contaminants include "oxygen using wastes, radioactive material, sedime...

Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...

Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...

Autism and Environmental Determinants of Behavior

2009, p. 37). The causes of autism are not fully understood. There appears to be a genetic link yet the precise etiology has not...

Classical and Modern Rhetoric

one of the differences between classical and modern rhetoric. The only way to understand what it means to express oneself persuasi...

Breast Cancer in Women

"uninhibited in her sexual expression, regardless of her prior inclinations" (Thorne and Murray, 2000, p. 142). She will probably ...

Reform Movements in America from the Progressive Movement to FDR's New Deal

In a paper consisting of ten pages these two reform movements are compared and contrasted along with a consideration of how each m...

Thinking Sociologically

nervous breakdown following the death of his father, thereafter Weber became a hospital administrator, which obviously further inf...

“The Castle” : A Messenger

their idea of the Australian dream. The Kerrigans home, in their minds at least, is indeed their "castle". They willingly disreg...

Ragtime Music as a Societal Phenomenon

"Youve Been a Good Old Wagon but Youve Done Broke Down" (Ketch, 1993, p. 182). Sensing a popular music form, the New York song pu...