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Appalachia: Culture and Social Problems

The mountain peoples who populate the mountainous regions of the southern Apalachias are, by majority, the descendants of English ...

Poverty in the United States as a Social Problem: Causes, Theories, and Proposed Remedies

percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...

Cultural Differences in an Acquisition

The writer looks at the problems faced by Indian firm Nicholas Piramal India Ltd (NPIL) when acquiring a western firm. The managem...

Issues in Group Dynamics

In this essay, a hospital was used as the organization that had problems. The research team identified four problems related to gr...

Social Problems and the Theories of Emile Durkheim

In ten pages the theories of Emile Durkheim inclusive of anomie are applied to such social problems as poverty, homelessness, and ...

Decline of Organized Religion and American Social Problems

idea that crime is caused by a change in social norms. V. Conclusion All of these things have in common is that they are thi...

Tourism and Social Problems of Mauritius

to diamond cutting, gold and diamond jewelry imports, textiles, golf, spa, diving and windsurfing. Interestingly, Mauritius has b...

The Difficult Problem of the Nursing Shortage

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

Three Typical Social Problems

for black and Latino girls, however (Medical News Today, July, 2005). Black teens were more than twice as likely to become pregnan...

Social Control Problems

three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...

US Students, Schools, and Social Problems

social problems, Henderson reported that "a growing number of children are exposed to stressful family situations" including famil...

Muslims And Domestic Violence

universality of Islam, tending to believe it is a "grim and stern faith, given to forcible conversions, appalling treatment of wom...

The Significance of Social Networks for the Communities of China

people to make their own destinies - to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear that they would ne...

The Westies/Organized Crime Theory

where Irish American presence was predominant well into the 1980s. The organized crime studies that discuss connections between n...

Can violence in American society be controlled?

of appropriate parental guidance and role models that makes certain youths choose lives of violence. In the Old West violen...

Palahniuk/Fight Club

267). In other words, scholarship points out that men today are faced with a plethora of conflicting societal messages. They are...

Media And Domestic Violence

Disease Control and Prevention, impacts almost twenty-five percent of American women who are reported to have been abused at some ...

Prison Gangs and Their Effect on Prison Populations

recent national-level data reveal that gang members account for a very small proportion of any individual prison system" (Trulson,...

Street Gangs and Organized Crime

prostitution, and gambling (Bolz, 1995). They also engage in money laundering schemes (Bolz, 1995). This latter focus is the crux ...

Youth Gangs in American Society

areas. As this summation suggests, in this introductory chapter, the authors show that this topic represents a much more complex ...

Reaction: “The Heart Broken in Half”

that adolescence is a time of life that skews peoples thinking. People the age of the Latin Kings have a terrifying illusion of im...

Types of Terrorism

name from its founders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof; though Baaders girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin is known to have been the "real...

Films and African American Gangsters Past and Present

In a paper consisting of eight pages the African American gangster and gangs depicted in Boyz 'N the Hood and Hoodlum are contrast...

Drug Prevention/Delinquency

This research paper addresses two topics, delinquency and gang membership, and drug prevention programs, such as DARE, focusing on...

Inner City Schools and Survival

In seven pages this paper examines issues such as drugs and gangs that are plaguing urban schools in terms of various research s...

Sociological View of American Street Gangs

In twenty five pages this paper examines U.S. street gangs in a consideration of their origins and their status from a sociologi...

Fundamental Differences in Suburban Gangs

this model in that young people from white, affluent families are now being sucked into the gang culture. Fifteen percent of all s...

Always Running La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis Rodriguez

In five pages this book on Los Angeles gang life is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Street Gangs, Crime, and Fear in the Late Twentieth Century

This paper addresses the work, Fear of Crime in the Nineties. The author focuses on the effects of street gangs in inner-city are...

Criminal Recidivism

the adults in his life frequently quarrel and vent their frustrations physically; he, or a member of his family, may suffer one or...