... a car and the right to vote. You are also bound to serve in the military. Nevertheless, one can't buy spirits before the age of twenty-one is achieved. Now, more than ever, fashion seem to dominate the youth's everyday. Perhaps the reason is that they feel insecure and think that the "right" clothes will give them a feeling of being accepted by the group. This phenomen has a negative side. What if a pupil can't afford to buy these clothes? Will he or she be excluded from the gang? Some schools in various countries have tried to solve this problem. They have introduced a rule that allows pupils to go at sch ...

... provide radically different views of culture and society they are both essentially trying to answer the same question: does the individual control society or does society control the individual? The relevance of such an argument might first be debated, for one might first respond to this question with some doubt; surely we have control of ourselves, do we all not have control of our own faculties at this very moment? At this moment you are reading or being subjected to a reading of this paper, therefore if this indeed is not fufilling some immediate obvious desire it is accomplishing some sort of other goal. Likely ...

... Hate Crimes, (2) Examples of Hate Crimes, and (3) Reasons for Hate Crimes. Hate Crimes are crimes done out of severe anger, ignorance, and lack of knowledge about other's ideas and beliefs. Racism is a belief that one or more races is superior to others. Prejudice is prejudging others. "Gordon Alport, a professor at Emeritus of Psychology at Harvard University and an expert at prejudism defines prejudice as.. `a hostile attitude toward a person who belongs to a group, simply because he belong to that group, and therefore presumes to have the objectable qualities ascribed to that group'(Lang)23" The most comm ...

... they are. They let teens do what they want to prevent arguments. The teens sometimes have no parental supervision and have the home all to themselves for hours at a time. Teens are able to take boyfriends or girlfriends home after school and do as they please. They even let their friends bring their girlfriend or boyfriend over. Parents can prevent their teens from having sex for a little while(teen sexuality 20). Birth rates are continuously rising. Many things like not using protection or just not being conscious play a role in preventing . Teens get pregnant because of many reasons: Sexual experimentation, ...

... we live in, they faced many problems such as brown-outs, increased inflation, more unemployment, and other economic setbacks. Thus, the economy and environment were handled separately with respect to the other. Of course, this upset many people and gave them a sense of insecurity in their jobs. Some said that the United States of America could not afford to preserve the environment and progress economically at the same time. In very recent times, those same critics have changed their stand and now believe that preserving and cleaning the environment while progressing economically are achieved mutually. Govern ...

... herself and her fellow female coworkers. Now, however, a woman who files a lawsuit is doing the exact opposite; she is hurting the progress of women in the workplace by using the courts as her protector, and commanding hostile attitudes from both her male and female coworkers. The first way that a woman who files a lawsuit is diminishing the progress of women in the workplace is by using the court system as an out, rather than handling a bad situation for herself. In 1991 The New York Times magazine and CBS news conducted a poll in which forty percent of 55 million of the nation’s working women had dealt with ...

... Action was created to make up for past prejudices in an effort to create more equality between majorities and minorities. It requires businesses to hire a certain number of blacks, Asian, Latin-American, and women so that it will create more opportunities for people of minorities. Colleges also require a less severe requirement for those of a minority party because the number of the people that did fit the requirement would not fit the quota. Thus, many more deserving majority Americans were denied jobs and acceptance to college because the quota had to be met. Affirmative Action promotes the hiring of less s ...

... with a street gang. Through the media it is presented that gangs are cool and the thing to do. We constantly see in music videos, artists with bandannas representing various gangs such as the bloods and crips, just to name a few. They show only the high life about it. The nice cars, the diamond rings, the women and the constant money. This is obviously appealing to the youth and the potential inductees to the gangs. However, with every good thing there also comes a bad side. The bad side is everything we don’t see. The life of crime, violence, and prison. Nobody really can understand that until they live ...

... paradox� which occurs when a person is given a position, privilege, perk, or other resource that historically and typically has been granted to Whites. For Whites, a scandalous paradox occurs when a person possessing neither legal rights nor social status receives preference over someone possessing both. An example is seen when a black person is given a position over a white person that historically has been granted to whites. “(The Journal Of Applied Behavioral Science, vol.34)� Gays and lesbians are other groups affected by discrimination. There have been many suits filed for people being fir ...

... the second largest group of Asian Americans after Chinese Americans. There have been more than 1.4 million Filipino Americans in the United States. A majority of them are living in California, with smaller populations in New Jersey, Hawaii, Illinois, and New York. I, myself, am a Filipino American. The language of the Philippines is very different from the United States. There is an assortment of languages spoken between the Philippines and the United States. English is the main language in the United States and is spoken by a majority of the U.S. residents. However, approximately 54% speak Spanish, making Span ...