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Papers on Society and Social Issues
Violence In Media: You Are What You Watch
Number of words: 418 | Number of pages: 2.... crime, and fear of our neighbours. A permanent
impression is made on the innocent minds of young children too young to
read or speak. TV is destroying society's respect for human life. Daniel
Boorstin, librarian of US Congress, said that TV has the power "to conjure
up a self-created reality that can mold public values and influence
behaviour." The Canadian Government guarantees free speech and free press,
but conjuring up anti-social values for our children is hardly what they
had intended.
Like it or not, TV has taken over the role of passing down the
traditional values to our younger generation. It has replaced the role
fo .....
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Animal Rights
Number of words: 575 | Number of pages: 3.... of how much progress we have gained in human health with the use
of animal experimentation. To date some forty-one Nobel prizes have been
awarded to scientists whose achievements depended on laboratory animals.
Vaccines against polio, diphtheria, mumps, measles, rubella, and smallpox
would not have been possible without such experiments. There also would
not be such important techniques such as open heart surgery, brain surgery,
coronary bypass, microsurgery to re-attached limbs, organ transplants, and
correction of congenital heart defects. The list goes on about the medical
advances that required animal research. .....
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What If The World Had Only Two Faces?
Number of words: 611 | Number of pages: 3.... all they would see in the world would be their spouses’ face. That can have a negative impact on people and it may cause them to become furious and possibly violent.
Seeing the same individual over and over again would probably cause the mind to become bored. That would be plain and simply tedious. Not only would each person be “bored,” but so would the television world. What would it be like to watch a movie with each character possessing an identical face? It brings excitement to life to compare faces but in this world of two faces, it wouldn’t exist. There wouldn’t be different people or races. Some hist .....
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Teenage Violence
Number of words: 2436 | Number of pages: 9.... of some boys intimidating him. Also being a 14 year old, how do you handle this situation? This is not an uncommon situation for children anymore.
Crime frequents in and around schools and is threatening the well-being of the students, school staff and communities. Parents send their children off to school everyday all over America and they worry everyday if their children will return. As a parent you worry about your children becoming victims of violence. Parents want their children to be safe from crime. Teenagers want the same for themselves. No one ever chooses to become a victim of violence. Did you know teenagers experie .....
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Media And Society
Number of words: 1122 | Number of pages: 5.... is especially damaging to young children, age 8 and under, because they cannot tell the difference between real life and fantasy. Violent images on television and in movies may seem real to these children and sometimes viewing these images can even traumatize them with bad dreams and other types of things.
Despite the negative effects media violence has been known to generate, no official changes have been made to deal with this problem that seems to be getting worse every minute. The United States has shown this violence so much, that movies such as “Natural
Born Killers” and television shows such as “Mighty Morphin P .....
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Segregation And The Civil Rights Movement
Number of words: 5254 | Number of pages: 20.... possible place. The system of
segregation also included the denial of voting rights, known as disfranchisement.
Between 1890 and 1910 all Southern states passed laws imposing requirements for
voting that were used to prevent blacks from voting, in spite of the 15th
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which had been designed to
protect black voting rights. These requirements included: the ability to read
and write, which disqualified the many blacks who had not had access to
education; property ownership, something few blacks were able to acquire; and
paying a poll tax, which was too great a burden on most Southe .....
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Social Effects Of The Vietnam War On The United States
Number of words: 1686 | Number of pages: 7.... rule of Vietnam. Since America was fighting the Japanese as well they shared information with Vietnam to defeat Japan. After World War II had ended Vietnam, for a short time, became independent. However, President Trueman decided to support the French to regain Vietnam because of concern over the spread of communism. As a result the Vietnimh went back to prepare for another war against their oppressors. After their defeat at Dienbienphu in 1954 the French withdrew from Vietnam.
Instead of Ho Chi Minh taking over all of Vietnam after his victory, he accepted a temporary division of Vietnam with him being the leader of th .....
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Money Can't Buy Love
Number of words: 323 | Number of pages: 2.... with their spouse.. Living in a mansion or
million dollar subdivision hardly guaranties happiness or love. In million
dollar sub-divisions a person has no chose in what their lawn will look
like, or even what color their house will be. What kind of life is that?
In a small town, a person never worries about the little things and has
more time to love.
The "money can by love" article is absolutely a black and white
fallacy in every possible way. The author fails to point out any examples
that would badly represent her point of view. She never once speaks of the
majority of Americans who are middle class and heaven forbi .....
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Sexual Harassment
Number of words: 2046 | Number of pages: 8.... case, after a nine year
battle, in late January 1988. She was given what may be the largest sex-bias
award in history: up to two hundreds of millions for 1,113 other female State
Farm employees with similar complaints, and $433,000 for Kraszewski her-self.
Ann Hopkings was one of Price Waterhouse's top young executives. She
had the best record for getting and maintaining big accounts, but when she came
up for a partnership in 1982, she was denied because several male partners had
evaluated her as "too macho." They advised her to walk, talk, and dress more
femininely. In response, Hopkings quit the firm and filed suit under .....
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Civilize The Wilderness
Number of words: 516 | Number of pages: 2.... the modern conveniences that we have today. The fact is, that many people
believe that the wilderness is like an unborn country. A country that has
nothing and is striving to become more advanced. We see this as an opportunity
to better it and make it seem like we are actually helping. But, are we really
helping? In my opinion, no. I feel that we are destroying something natural
and something of beauty.
In many ways we are making the wilderness worse by civilizing it. We
put unnatural objects into the wilderness, and it destroys the wilderness'
natural beauty. Thoreau's ideal is to pretty much leave the wilderness as i .....
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