... adopted internationally by residents of the United States. Many adoptive parents decide to adopt from other countries because of the greater flexibility and because they are not eligible to adopt from the U.S. Unlike agencies in the U.S., many foreign adoption agencies accept adoptive parents over the age of forty and allow parents to adopt more than one child. Also many agencies in foreign countries are more willing to accept single adoptive parents. One of the most important reasons for adopting internationally is that it can be quite fast; sometimes placements occur within one year. International adoption ...

... society, costing between $300 billion and $700 billion per year. These expenses are caused mainly by traffic accidents, traffic jams, and the environmental hazards created by the large number of vehicles on the road. Traffic accidents account for one of the major reasons that the current techniques of traffic control need revision. Traffic jams, along with broken cars and the lack of alternate routes, account for one half of the traffic congestion in the United States (Clark 387-404). Although the number of traffic accidents in the United States has slowly decreased over the past several years, it is still alarmingl ...

... of creating life was thought to be science fiction. A nineteenth century writing, Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein, portrays Victor (the creator) as innocent and the creation as evil at the beginning of the novel. Later, it becomes evident that the monster was not evil when created, rather that the creature was made evil by the surrounding environment. Victor's immediate response was, as Shelly writes, "Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath" (??). The monster soon understood that he was in fact hideous. Shelly writes, "Knowing social opinion, the monster explained afte ...

... for a child's misbehavior(Williamson, 1990). According to Straus(1994) reasearch shows that most parents of today suffered some form of corporal punishment. Now however, there seems to be a reexamination of this type of punishment. The frequency of use has begun to decline over the last decade(Straus, 1994). According to a recent study done by Straus(1994) 94% of parents approved of spanking in 1968. However, in 1994 approval of spanking has dropped to 68%(Straus, 1994). Several sources suggest negative effects of spanking include disturbance of learning ability, dissruption of a close parent child relationship, pa ...

... he could probably meet new friends if he would only try. He is in the 8th grade and he feels afraid of the other boys at his new school. He acts tough and has been in two fights in the last week. Because he is getting a reputation for as a (quote) "tough kid" he thinks that carrying a knife will make him safer. You are a student in his class. You two sit next to each other and sometimes talk during break. The boy feels he can trust you to keep a secret. He tells you of how he intends to take care of some boys intimidating him. Also being a 14 year old, how do you handle this situation? This is not an uncommon situat ...

... and third because homosexuals already have the same rights, they want special privileges, and since homosexuality is not in innate quality they don't deserve them. People who have been misinformed about what the homosexual agenda is think that is natural and that it should be legalized. I however, am opposed to this because homosexuality is not a natural alternative lifestyle. First let's define homosexuality. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, homosexuality is "having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex." Men and women are obviously biologically different. People of the same sex ha ...

... to stay in school. He needs to be ambitious and be forward looking, most important he needs to think American" (Page 382). In his statement he is only finding the bad of his people and stating it for the entire room to hear. He shows great disrespect for the Mexican heritage by saying all that is wrong with them. He shows their flaws, weaknesses, and imperfections. I believe your heritage makes up who you are and that is you, so you should never disrespect yourself by disrespecting your heritage. I believe thee way he sold-out was by disrespecting his heritage. the Mexican- American is still trying to decide weath ...

... to be the target of the media investigation. Throughout every story there seems to be truth and fiction; sensation and sensationalism. This is what I find so disturbing about the Littleton case. I know that school children don't usually kill each other before recess, and I can understand the want of the media to capitalize on the opportunity to instill in us some sense of pathos, but to take on the persona of the "older brother" with regards to how the media mediated this event was wrong in my eyes. By "older brother" persona I mean that they bullied us into believing what they believed. First we were suppo ...

... be big, strong, and athletic, whereas women are supposed to be thin, pretty, and big-breasted. I often wonder why we put so much emphasis on the way a person looks. I think females feel more of the pressures of looking "good". In the past, I've talked to some of my girlfriends and they told me that the pressure and competition they are faced with is stressful and painful. I told them that I am not too critical when checking out girls and when it comes to seeing other males bigger or stronger than myself, that I don't feel too much pressure of trying to look better than them. I am rather more concerned of my own ...

... many ethnic beliefs in the world, there are also great quantities of languages, that would mean all people should speak one language too, that would be very hard to acheive. An additional reason is that there is no uniqueness, things that would usually set people apart don't stand out as much, If you were very intelligent people probably would not bring it up because it would draw attention. If somebody brought attention to somebody smarter then others, people would feel jealous, angry, and not as smart. One last reason is that people get to make their own choices. Something people enjoy in life is getting to c ...