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Essays 181 - 210

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 Work and Factors for Change

can draw conclusions as to their effects on human behavior. Some of those areas include community, family, substance addition, di...

Ursula K. LeGuin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'

tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...

Sex Education as a Social Problem

about sex education is a conflict wherein the dominant group in the society is determining where and how this education should tak...

One Way to Determine Effectiveness of Leadership Development

A journal article is reviewed in this essay, Understanding the effects of leadership development on the creation of organizational...

The Potential benefit Of M&A's in Supporting Nigerian Economic Growth

During the early 20th century merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the United States provided one of the tools for economic gr...

Social Science Predictability According to Alexander Rosenberg

it is (L) that connects human behavior with the environment via "desires and beliefs" that the environment fosters in us (Rosenbe...

Geographic Comparison

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

Faulkner/Knight's Gambit

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

Social Learning and Social Control

genders. "Testosterone exerts powerful effects on human bodies, helping make them stronger and bigger. It also increases sex dri...

Substance Abuse Rehab Program Termination

In five pages this paper examines the termination of a rehabilitation for substance abuse program from the perspective of a social...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

Applied Social Research/Whyte and Yin

and racketeering. Whyte readily acknowledges that he had no training in either sociology or anthropology when he began the rese...

Taylor and Rawls/Premodern to Modern

a hierarchy in the cosmos."iii This hierarchy, which is typically referred to as the Great Chain of Being, was "gradually taken ov...

Assessment of Singapore and Mexico for Business Expansion

Singapore maintains a constitutional government. The original constitution that became effective in 1959 provided for popular ele...

Should a Company Become a Carrier of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?

is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of...

Collective Bargaining

the company does not have the attitude to reward individual pay contracts in order to attract high achievers. This can also mean t...

A look at Gandhi

Gandhi is discussed from a social work perspective. Various aspects of his achievements are explored. The micro, macro and mezzo l...

Social Welfare Policy in Canada

failure of the government to understand that many families are actually better off in the welfare system since it is often nearly ...

Fictional Gubernatorial Campaign

This essay discusses various campaign issues for a fictional character who is running for the governorship of Texas. The paper bui...

Female Gangs; Social and Historical CausesGirl Gangs, Historical and Social Causes

This paper examines the reality of female gangs. The author addresses social and historical reasons for their inception, as well ...

Debate Regarding the Issue of Search and Seizure

In nine pages this paper discusses the issue of search and seizure from a historical context which includes the exclusionary law a...

Psychiatry's Impact on African Americans

This research paper addresses how African Americans have been misdiagnosed by psychologists and psychiatrists. The writer relates ...

Profiles of Singapore, China, and Italy

olives in the agricultural industry; machinery, iron, steel, autos, textiles and shoes in the industrial context; fish, gas and ma...

Simon Bolivar, Liberation and Disappointment by David Bushnell

killed. He fled to Jamaica, then later to Haiti where he was able to gather together enough rebel fighters to mount another attack...

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

Philosophy and False Relativism

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

Protected Wildlife Areas, Oil Exploration, and Ethics

of the balance to be considered to be between "pleasures" and "pains" while John Stuart Mill changed the balance to one between "h...

Herodotus and Plato on Gyges of Lydia

about him, without the veil of nicety associated with polite conversation. Platos Gyges discovered the ring during a supern...

Philosophers and Justice Throughout History

an ends justify the means ideology. To Machiavelli, justice has to do with an end. One can take Machiavellis concept a bit furthe...