... have been applied to a news story in which two young teens from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Renee and Danielle Orichefsky, were killed in a dangerous driving accident. The driver was Ralph Parker, a twenty year old man from Halifax who lost control of his sports car as he attempted to make a turn on the corner where the girls were sitting. This article involves the day of Mr. Park's conviction, the reaction of the girls' parents and also the reaction of Mr. Park's mother. The problem of dangerous driving as viewed from a theoretical standpoint can easily be identified with the social control theory. The control ...

... occurring during the 1970's. The number of women in the civilian labor force jumped from 23 million in the 1960's to 31 million in the 1970's. This leap would continue and increase in the 1980's and on into the 1990's. The result, in 1995, is a female labor force that numbers over 60 million. This comprised 46 percent of the civilian work force (10). A reason for the rise in participation by women may be in the way women saw marriage and children. Fewer women saw marriage as a settling down. Women who had children began to return to their jobs. The number of working women that were either married or had chil ...

... not be used as mascots in professional and collegiate sports is the costumes that the mascots are dressed up in sacred outfits only worn by leaders of the Native American tribes. When they wear these they look like authentic clothes and chiefs. When they dance around like wild men it is mocking a chief. Since all Native Americans look up to the chiefs of the tribe it is not respecting them or their whole tribe. The Native Americans would also like to be treated with the same respect that other racial groups have gotten. The African American people were mocked with a doll with a big black head and huge lips to mo ...

... as anti-family. Unquestionably gay men and lesbians form families. They are established groups of individuals who interrelate in order to satisfy their mutual needs for love and affection. They are interdependent economically, psychologically and physically. Without question these social units formed by gay men and lesbians constitute families. Homosexual parents are not a negative attribute and is as moral and virtuous as heterosexual families ; therefore, the desire to be a parent is not only for heterosexuals. Gays, like non-gays, are often inclined toward parenthood. Don Clark, a gay father and clinic ...

... broadcasters, and enforces government censorship on the television industry. Even though the President has already signed the V-chip legislation into law, it remains at the heart of a heated political battle. The strongest objection raised to the V-chip by its opponents is that it violates the First Amendment Rights of the broadcasters. They claim that the government is imposing a system of censorship that will lead to "blander" and "less dramatic" television (“V-Chip: A Matter of Law� 21). Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who spearheaded the drive for the V-chip, argues that there is nothing in the legisla ...

... for a tooth. The Greeks and Egyptians even executed citizens for many crimes. Socrates and Jesus are among some of the most famous people who were executed. Although was widely accepted through out the United States, not everyone approved of it. In the late eighteenth century, opposition to gathered enough strength to lead to important restrictions on the use of in many northern states, while in the United States, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island abandon the practice altogether. Pennsylvania adopted a new law, in 1974, to distinguish the different degrees of murder and used mostly for premeditated murd ...

... What I did comprehend, however, were the group of men whistling cat calls, using obscene gestures, and yelling out threats in a very offensive manner. As Debbie hurried us to her car, I felt extreme anger, coupled with increasing confusion as to why the men would yell and embarrass the lady that was so kind to me and my brother. What did Debbie and her “sister� do so wrong? Years later, I am convinced that Debbie and her “sister� were a lesbian couple, and the incident at the McDonald’s was a bunch of stupid, homophobic morons. These days crimes targeting gay and lesbian couples are heard on the ...

... children in America. Less religious influence, persistent underclass unemployment and alternative lifestyles have contributed in the downfall of families and moral values. The nation and state have done little or nothing to provide help rebuild families and values. Family value has reference to what we believe about the family. It's concerned with quality of living and how you define quality of living. It basically gets down to what you think is the most important, in other words what you value. "Family values is nice when you've got Ward and June and Wally and Beaver. Unfortunately, the world has cha ...

... These disorders are always an unsafe way to go about losing weight. The thing is that these girls do not understand how unsafe these disorders are. One of these disorders is known as Bulimia the "binge and purge" disorder. In this disorder the girl eats whatever she wants and as much as she wants. Later she feels guilty or ashamed and she worries she has eaten too much. She then resorts to making herself purge all she has eaten. She does this until she has lost all of the food and feels relieved. This becomes habit forming and the teenage girl learns to binge and purge at every meal or snack. Anorexia is ano ...

... the love of your life and going to a football game, a person who is truly in love, and not just in love with "being in love" will sacrifice the game in order to be with that person. What is the greatest power of potential human speech? (words, language) All humans have the power to communicate with other humans, interact, and share their ideas. The power of speech is what makes it all possible. Communication is the most important thing in the success of a relationship, and for someone to say that they love another is to respect them and their ideas and to want to share with them. The most anyone can ever do ...