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Papers on Society and Social Issues
Women In The Military
Number of words: 2415 | Number of pages: 9.... the gates on August 12, 1995. Faulkner entered the 152-year-old military school located in South Carolina as a "knob," or a first year cadet. Upon her arrival, the military made exceptions to certain rules for her, one being that older male cadets could not go through her drawers looking for underwear that was not folded properly. A private bathroom with surveillance cameras was also constructed for Faulkner to prevent any foul play (Sack 6). The second of these two women was Shannon Workman. In 1994, she became the first woman to qualify as a female pilot who was combat ready in the Navy (Schmitt 15). Although the military and .....
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The Hong Kong Chinese Community
Number of words: 700 | Number of pages: 3.... North America and
Canada is very different from what they saw of politics in Hong Kong and China."
Dr. Joseph Wong, whose community activism has earned him the Order of
Canada, thinks that despite changes in Chinese attitudes, fear is still an
obstacle towards political evolution. People are not afraid to demand for equal
rights but the so-called mainstream politics and elected office is still
baffling to the Chinese. The Chinese community's history in Canada also plays a
major role in its reluctance to venture into politics. Following the completion
of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the federal government imposed a heavy .....
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Why Are There Poor People
Number of words: 451 | Number of pages: 2.... every day. He told me that I was
very lucky to have all the things that I had, and that millions of kids in the
world would die to have the life I had. I was still very confused about the
whole situation. Why wasn't every family like ours? What did those people do
wrong? My dad just said that was life . . . some people are lucky, and some
people aren't.
At first, I thought that all poor people were the same, but I later
found out that anybody can be poor. Through the years, I learned that not all
people are born into poverty, that some people can become poor over time.
People can have steady jobs and eventually layoffs .....
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The Problems Of Affirmative Action
Number of words: 592 | Number of pages: 3.... denied jobs and acceptance to college because the quota had to be met.
Affirmative Action promotes the hiring of less skilled workers, thus creating reverse discrimination. It upsets employers, forcing them to choose the best employee from a limited pool of minorities, not just simply the best employee. This creates a hostile environment where the employer is not satisfied with his choice, and where the peers of the employee look down upon him. All of these affect the moral of the workers and new employee, sewing new seeds of racism, when racism is what Affirmative Action was designed to extinguish. On the other hand, what if .....
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Native Culture Prior To Contact With Europeans
Number of words: 1009 | Number of pages: 4.... Indians of the Northeast Woodlands.
The Northern tribes of the Woodland Indians, west of the Hudson Bay, spoke Athabaskan tongue. However the main group is termed Algonquins of the Ottawa -- St. Lawrence region, Micmac of the Maritimes, Montagnais of Québec and Cree and Ojibwa of Northern Ontario and Manitoba. They were above all, nomad hunters, moving over their tribal hunting grounds in search of animals that would supply them with food and clothing. They lived in wigwams constructed of birch-bark, and used this paper-like, but strong bark to cover their canoes, in which they traveled. In the winter they traveled by snowsho .....
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Sexual Harassment
Number of words: 1688 | Number of pages: 7.... for sex
-Unnecessary patting or pinching
-Constant brushing against another employee's body
-Demands for sex accompanied by threats of termination
-Demands for sex in return for preferential treatment
qualified as components of sexual harassment.(Redress for Success, page 75)
Soon after that women began to realize that they could be sexually harassed by
anybody, such as by employers, supervisors, co-workers, customers, or even by
subordinate employees.(Redress for Success, page 74) With this new
understanding that they deserved equal treatment as their male counterparts,
women began to hold men .....
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The Problem With Affirmative Action
Number of words: 1337 | Number of pages: 5.... to the extent they require quotas, goals, or timetables, allowing only recruitment outreach efforts into applicant pools provided no numerical objective is associated with such efforts. (Source - "Some thoughts regarding the present affirmative action debate." by Leonard J. Biermann )
If the justification for affirmative action is reparations for prior injustices why are whites not considered? What about all the other ethnicities that suffered from historical institutionalized racism? Affirmative Action selectively discludes these people from preferential treatment, except for the females.
Another issue is the "immigration-wi .....
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Domestic Violence
Number of words: 514 | Number of pages: 2.... her significant other is around
· her significant other will not let her drive, get a job,
or go to school
· look for low self-esteem like she is unable to make
eye contact or she always looks away or at the ground when
talking
Some indicators that a male child is being abused are:
· serious problems with temper tantrums
· continual fighting at school or between siblings
· treating pets cruelly or abusively
· attempting to get attention by hitting, kicking, or choking .....
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Many Advertisements Use Codes To Convey A Fairy Tale To Consumers
Number of words: 728 | Number of pages: 3.... game. The computer falls into another pattern. This pattern goes in
the same order, clock-wise, but alternates between Magic (the game) and
something pertaining to the background of the game. The next objects are tarot
cards and a spell book, both of which follow the patterns. These objects,
along with the mood of the entire ad being dark, may be interpreted by the
consumer to mean death or the devil. This is based on cultural beliefs and
rituals. Most people believe angels and good guys wear white, and therefore
devils and bad guys dress in black. Also, people usually wear black clothing to
funerals, which is essentiall .....
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Child Labor
Number of words: 487 | Number of pages: 2.... even
countries such as the United States still have their share of problems. In
a recent awareness swap between American and Bangladesh children, both
groups experienced the sight of little kids laboring in sweatshops.
Although the UN wants to help, they are somewhat limited in their
abilities to make dramatic changes. If they put legal restrictions, such
as trade sanctions against imports from countries using child labor, it
could actually bring more harms to the children than good. UNICEF has
recently decided that in order to combat this problem, education is the
key. By providing education for the children of poor nations .....
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