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Parole, Probation, and Sociological Factors

twenty-five years. Last year just under 2.1 million offenders are incarcerated around the country (Whitford, 2004). Another 15 m...

Various Factors That Contribute to Obesity

care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...

Education and Health Promotion

fundamental differences between the two concepts. Whitehead (2004), for sake of clarity, delineates the foundation of health-rela...

Global Air Travel and the Effects of Terrorism

for a long time. As such it may be that the affects of terrorism on air travel have primarily only affected how Americans travel. ...

Sociological Model Strengths and Weaknesses

to a problem. For example, if someone wants to lose weight, therapists sometimes ask what they gain by being fat. The individual i...

Personal Ethics Awareness Inventory

good. It is essential to do the right thing with the right consequence. For instance, debating about processes or procedures or ev...

Wright/Armageddon in Waco

presents views that see the tragedy at Waco as entirely due to the mistakes of government agents in handling the situations and no...

Global Terrorism : Strategies

large Muslim communities who reside in this region (U.S. Department of State, 2006). There have also been terrorist incidents in t...

A Sociological Analysis of Hannibal Lecter

in a particular human being, but it recognizes that a set of behaviors, socioeconomic status, biology and so forth create predicto...

Organizational Security; Terrorism and the Threat of Hezbollah

parties that represents Shiite Muslims, the largest religious group in Lebanon. In the Lebanese parliament there are 128 seats, He...

Conservation And The Environment

natural resources as did President Franklin D. Roosevelt forty years later (Petulla, 2001). Conservation to preserve the environm...

Using the Sociological Imagination to Interpret a Personal Situation

in society, sometimes, norms are let go of for a variety of reasons. Durkheim (1997) writes: "The hypercivilization... breeds the ...

The Concept of Community

to other behaviors which identify an individual with a certain group. Groups often identify with one another because they share b...

The Sociological Aspects of Weight Control

because he is becoming obese. His weight has led to a good many physical complications that he is attempting to deal with, but w...

A Local Smoking Ban: Controversy Verses Reason

to do so. Those of us that do not smoke resent the fact that everywhere we go we are confronted with second hand smoke. When you...

Impacts to California Water Resources

occurs during rainfall and snowmelts as well as from atmospheric deposits. Nonpoint sources can include everything from stormwate...

Uniform and Adaptive Strategies in International Business; Which is Best?

a company has made the decision to globalise there are many consideration, the decisions not enough. George S Yip outlines a pract...

"Sorrow Of War," "Perfume Dreams" And "In Country" - Review

one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...

Bioengineered Foods: Pros and Cons

Genetically altered food stuffs offer an avenue of meeting our food needs on the limited areas which we have available. G...

Geothermal Energy

the footprint we leave on the world. Geothermal energy is made possible because of the heat differential that exists betwee...

Approaches to Literacy

productive programs and pedagogies). Proponents of this thinking dont see literacy skills developing in a vacuum unconnected to ot...

Pierre Bourdieu and Art Analysis

field of "taste and aesthetics," and among other things, repudiates the idea that there is a "universal transcendent conception of...

Fast Food, Dietary Additives, and Other Food Concerns

Our conception of the ideal diet is shaped by a number of factors. As Pollan observes, many of these factors are political and sh...

Religious Colleges, Nondenominational Universities and Sociological Theory

the individual human action. To explain social institutions and social change is to show how they arise as the result of the acti...

Contrasting Stranger Next Door by Arlene Stein's Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner

the issue of homosexual rights has been handled in the state as a whole and how she became interested in how "discussions of homos...

A Grand Forks, North Dakota Casino Proposition Sociological Analysis

A family may be seen as a system. A business may be seen as a system. In this case, a community is used. Various concepts exist ...

Bulimia Case Study Sociological Analysis

at meals. Maria sometimes vomits after eating because she feels guilty about how much she is eating. This case study involves a v...

Sociology - Two Essays

to the fact that people learn behavior due to interactions with others (Andersen & Taylor, 2005). Conflict theory, on the other ha...

Schools and Adolescent Behavioral Challenges

having lasting significance, since it impacts not only on childs subsequent emotional and psychological development but also on th...

Al Qaeda and Bin Laden's Hacker Terrorism Models

term. He points out that "There is no organized body of legislation one might call the law of terrorism, and there is no inherent ...