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Sexual Discrimination
... against women, few understand the sexism directed against men." (249) Women and men should be treated as equals, however, more attention is directed towards discrimination towards women. In the 1990s, the men's movement arose in society to try and deal with the problem of sexism against men. This movement came about due to a medley of factors: women's criticisms of men's shortcomings as husbands, fathers, and lovers; the debilitating pressures of the economy and men's unequal responsibility to succeed in the workplace, to prove their worth by making money; and men's confusion over what it means to be a man today. ...
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Racism And Segregation In School
... boys had raped them, but then
they recanted and the boys were still on trial. The boys had a new life
when the police arrested them. After they were acquitted their reputations
were ruined. They probably couldn't get a job anywhere.
Another sign that there was racism prominent in America, the land
of the free, is that the African-Americans had to sit in the back of the
bus when there weren't even any white people on the bus. Rosa Parks was
even arrested because she wouldn't give up her seat to a white person. She
was in jail, but a year later a judge ruled against segregation.
One other proof of racism is segre ...
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Existentialism
... he made decisive
choice about his own future. That is the way to achieve dignity as a human
being. Existentialists felt that adopting a social or political cause was
one way of giving purpose to a life. Sartre is well known for the "Theatre
engage" or Theatre 'commited', which is supposedly commited to social
and/or political action.
On of the major playwrights during this period was Jean-Paul Sartre.
Sartre had been imprisoned in Germany in 1940 but managed to escape, and
become one of the leaders of the Existential movement. Other popular
playwrights were Albert Camus, and Jean Anouilh. Just like Ano ...
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Adoption Of Children
... children of their own.
There are a lot of people that try to be secretive when they know someone is adopted. They feel negative child is not biologically related to their family. What they do not understand is that being adopted was the best thing that could have happened to that child. It, for some can provide, the child the opportunity to grow up with parents and family that loves them just like one of their own. People should stop trying to hide the fact that they are adopted, or someone they know is, and instead be proud of it. There are several situations that constitute a need for adoption.
There are ma ...
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Teens: Obstacles In The 90's
... Trouble with money can also be a effect with drinking as a teen. Drinking can cause a kid to use his allowance for alcohol instead of lunch or other miscellaneous stuff. It can also lead a kid into stealing money to buy alcohol or stealing alcohol. Another of the effects of alcoholism is also trouble with the law. If a kid is drinking and driving or just have alcohol on them they can lose there licenses for a 6 months or more. They can also be put in juvenile hall or be kicked out of school. An alcoholics lifestyle also leads into other things such as drugs and sex.
Once a teen gets into this party lifestyle i ...
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Fingerprinting Kids
... Florida, Georgia, New
Jersey, California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana.) Most of this activity was
stimulated by the passage of the Missing Children Act in October 1982. What
the new law did was to legitimize the use of the FBI's national computer
network,the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) for non-criminal
purposes.
All of the programs are voluntary. In some cases the police
departments retain the records, while in others the fingerprint cards are
turned over to the parents for safekeeping. The apparent purpose of the
progra ...
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War Between Sexes
... and Cordes suggests a communicative solution.
According to Camille Paglia, rape is not new. She says " It has been a horrible problem for women for all of recorded history" (Paglia 406). She relates her Italian heritage to the old traditional punishments of the rapists. Since there is still social injustice between sexes and the biological difference between the genders, she conflicts with feminist arguments such as equality of men and women, sexual freedom, and ability of both sexes going any place any time. Academic Feminism is lost in the mist of social constructionism and we are not the products of the envir ...
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Why Kids Join Neo-Nazi Gangs
... middle and upper middle class neighborhoods than it is in lower income areas.
The focus in a gang of the middle and upper middle class neighborhoods is usually the promise of power over family problems, protection from other gang and problems with a boyfriend or power over insecurities.
HOW HATE GROWS
When a nazi member wants to recruit new teen age en-Nazis they would stand near a school yard. with their shaved scab and bomber jacket evoking images of a powerful and forbidden gang, this would quickly draw a crowd. Following a carefully drafted plan, he and his comrades burred those coons pnespects deeper into the en ...
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The Population Solution
... rate stays at 2.0 per
cent so that the number of people in the world continues to double every 35
years. How long, then, will it take for the world's population to weigh as much
as the entire planet? The answer is - not quite 1,600 years. This means that by
3550 AD, the human population would weight as much as the entire planet.... Even
if that were possible, it wouldn't give us much time. If the growth-rate stays
at 2.0 per cent, then in a little over 2,200 years - say, by 4220 AD - the human
populat i on would weigh as much as the entire Solar system, including the Sun...
and by about 6700 AD - the human populatio ...
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Drug Use Among Teenagers
... it's a Spanish word), hashish
("hash" for short), and hash oil are stronger forms of
marijuana.
All forms of marijuana are mind-altering. This means they change how the brain
works. They all contain THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the main active
chemical in marijuana. But there are also 400 other chemicals in the marijuana
plant.
LSD
LSD is very potent: the effective dose is measured in micrograms (ug) --
however, the lethal dose is literally thousands of times that, making the
drug essentially non-toxic. LSD can be administered a number of ways,
the most common: orally through paper, su ...
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