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Social Bias

particular group, ethnicity or other social connection by virtue of the behavior or situation of only some in that population. Bla...

Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" - Technology

is how science fiction portrays this futuristic idea. Indeed, the extent to which films and books have expounded upon the potenti...

Critical Analysis: The Amish

the standards of natural application. The uncomplicated lifestyle the Amish lead is often subject to ridicule and contempt from o...

Is the Death Penalty for Juveniles Constitutional?

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

John Locke and Capital Punishment

be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...

Is Corporate Social Responsibility in the Interests of Business and Society?

help the company increased sales, reduce costs, or improved profits then there is a potential argument that corporate social respo...

Article Comparison #2: Kerwin & Cameron

which to hurl its stones of morality. The problem, however, is how the unwitting recipients of these proverbial peltings are at t...

Wuthering Heights: Civilization and Anarchy

man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...

Humor, Sexuality and Aging

and we cant go to her house. Im married and we cant go to my house. The Holiday Inn charges $98. The Hilton charges $139. We do it...

The Crucible: Minority Opinion

and they are clearly the minority. In this story the majority is the ruling force, the political body which is essentially compr...

The Shipman in The Canterbury Tales

way down the social ladder. The Shipman, i.e., the "sailor," is placed between Chaucers description of the Cook and the "Doctor of...

Gwendolyn Brooks/Old Black Woman, Homeless & Indistinct

as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...

Thoreau/Importance of Wilderness

requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...

Drugs and Prohibition

as long as they are not killing or harming people, as long as they are not damaging the life of other people. There is no real log...

Modern Gender Roles

Danica Patrick being stopped by a police officer. As the officer comes over, Danica begins to primp, suggesting that she will get ...

Butler & Eliot

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

Medieval Italian History and Literature

points out that "communal Italy" is "historians shorthand for the high urbanized areas of Lombardy and Tuscany between the twelfth...

American Society and Racism

in his introduction, "One of the paradoxes of a culture of fear is that serious problems remain widely ignored even though they gi...

Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia

environment which fed the development of the disease, relapse is not uncommon ("Schizophrenia," 2006). Complete recovery is a poss...

Reality TV/Why We Watch

lives. Ralph Rosnow, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Temple University, comments, "If people arent talking about other people,...

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing

solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...

Genetically Modified Plants/Pro & Con

In 2000, the National Academy of Sciences issued a report that concluded that "The committee is not aware of any evidence that foo...

Should The Church Be Marginal To Society

of England. If something that catastrophic were to happen today, would the Prime Minister respond to save the church? One can onl...

Advertising Hershey Chocolate

a small volume of "old," classic recipes from early in the 20th century, updated to take advantage of electric ovens with thermost...

The Social Role of Women and Auguste Comte

the basis for an advanced society" (p. 229). She quotes from Comtes Cours de philosophie positive (published in 1855) and explains...

Secret by Nurrdin Farah

Sholoongo is a woman transformed. She had gone to live in America and had long assumed that her "pact" with Kalaman would be hono...

Programs Targeting Juvenile Crime

gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...

Comparing Utopian Societies

our own society. Consider how the general population views its government and the politicians who hold political office. What we...

Society and Technology

of political life" (1969, 55). Mesthene sees technology as detrimental and provides examples. For instance, cities have mass trans...

Information Age and Social 'Technophobia'

who created the buggy whip? Many believe that technophobia is a modern syndrome, but in fact, it is not. During the Indust...