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The Black Community in the Works of Richard Wright

This 13 page paper explores the way Richard Wright describes the black community in his works Native Son and Black Boy. The writer...

Judith Rollins' All is Never Said

This paper provides a sociological examination of the text along with such applicable terms as social stratification, social map, ...

Illegal Immigration as Seen Through the Eyes of Ted Author Conover

of the total U.S. population (Larsen, 2003). While many of these immigrants unquestionably play a positive role in U.S. society a...

America's Best Drug Policy Option

of the crime problem, they carried with them the frustration of knowing that despite all good intentions, alcohol (like drugs) wil...

Teen Pregnancy

then offered up how research has demonstrated that children born to such women are at a clear social disadvantage, research that s...

Kenneth P. Wilkinson and the Idea of Community

is to try and come up with a working definition of community in rural America, which is not as easy as it sounds. He points out th...

Government's Sights on Healthcare Insurance

good first step would be with torte reform so that physicians are not required to order expensive and often unnecessary tests for ...

Pregnant Teens

discusses three aspects of teen pregnancy: statistics indicating how often it occurs; the effect of such pregnancy on the teenager...

Taiwan and the US/Comparing Domestic Violence

domestic violence, offering comparison to the legal standard on this issue in the US. In 1993, a horrific incident, the stabbing ...

Psychologists and Social Change

earn a good deal less for doing the same job. Lips (2003) reported that the earnings gap has persisted for decades and it does not...

Problems of Adolescence

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

Specific Leadership Theories

the mid- to late-1960s. Burns identified the difference between transactional and transformational leadership theories. In 1968, B...

Genetic Diversity and the Origin of Life

According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...

Family Violence

and physical injury with love is incomprehensible to most people, but the facts are undeniable: thousands of women suffer untold a...

The Breakfast Club/A View of Adolescence

"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...

Violence in Kaplan's 'Doe Season' and Jackson's 'The Lottery'

In five pages the violence associated with ritual is examined in this comparative analysis of these stories by Kaplan and Jackson....

Downsizing of Corporations

In seven pages America's corporate downsizing problems are examined in terms of worker displacement effects with a concise descrip...

Latin America's Free Market Capitalism

In five pages Latin America's economic development is examined in an overview of relevant issues including free market capitalism ...

Children and the Psychosocial Effects of Television Violence

to real-world violence, and thereby less empathetic to the pain and suffering of others (Chidley 37). Observations of teenagers re...

U.S. Dieting Problems

of her life, and was taken by her mother to her first weight-loss center at age 10, when she already weighed 125 pounds (West and ...

Language and the Impact of Violence in Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved

In five pages this paper references Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved in a consideration of how language is affected by viole...

Adolescent Suicide and Romeo and Juliet

This research paper analyzes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and compares its narratives to instances of adolescent suicide and fam...

School Violence and Population Statistical Charts

In eight pages this paper examines 4 APA charts regarding school violence which emphasizes the importance of statistical analysis....

US Juvenile Justice System

(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...

John F. Kennedy and a New Generation by David Burner

In five pages this book discusses Burner's 1988 text on JFK and the ways in which America's consciousness both social and politica...

Making a Reparations Case

things are different. Africans were seized from their homes in Africa and brought to the United States for profit. The motive was ...

The Domestic Violence Arrest Decision Reviewed

claim the authors, can go a long way toward assisting response to those in need (Robinson and Chandek, 2000). The authors ...

Reducing Teen Pregnancy Program Implementation

emotional stress that are associated with many social programs introduced in the school system, program coordinators have a diffic...

The Relationship Between Parent and Teen and Active Listening

of settings in which one wants the listener to perceive their interest and in which the listener wants to be able to control the t...

US Students, Schools, and Social Problems

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