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Homelessness and Social Problems

the main causes" (Morris, 1998, p. 241) to which women attribute their homelessness. Families with children, a population that re...

Canada and the Social Problem of Childhood Obesity

greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...

Social Problems and Children from Broken Homes

counterparts, in that it relates to emotions the students are only just beginning to cultivate. Indeed, college-aged children, wh...

Literary Realism and Social Problems

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

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...

The Employment Situations in California and in America as a Whole

with links to Silicon Valley, but the "ripple effect" carried over into the myriad support businesses that depended on the revenue...

Social Problem of Marriage

In five pages this paper examines the contemporary world and the social problem of marriage. Four sources are cited in the biblio...

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...

Social Problems of Child Prodigies

the Tonight Show audience with a blazing solo (Jerome, Cheakakos and Horsburgh 131). At ten years old, Jacob signed a contract wit...

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...

Palahniuk/Fight Club

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

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...

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 ...

John Gotti and Theories of Crime

in the Cosa Nostra (John Gotti, 2009). He stood trial several times but was always acquitted, earning him the nickname the "Teflon...

The Meaning of Tattoos and Body Piercing

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Gangs and At-Risk Youths A Comparative Attitudes Study

Woodson (2001) presents some startling statistics about the world into which American babies are being born in these opening years...

Juvenile Gangs and Sociocultural Forces

understand that theirs is a life of devastating poverty and extreme hardship, a life which bears little resemblance to that most o...

Crime, Gangs, and Law Enforcement Strategies That are Ethnic and Race Specific

contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...

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 ...

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,...

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 ...

Types of Terrorism

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

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...

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...