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Papers on Society and Social Issues
The Ku Klux Klan
Number of words: 897 | Number of pages: 4.... white, which came into power in the southern states in 1867.
Dressed in robes with pointed hoods, for disguise and in an early attempt to frighten superstitious Blacks, the Klan launched a campaign of terrorism and violence against Whites and Blacks whom they considered traitors to their cause. The original Klan, which is not to be confused with the groups calling themselves by that name today, was organized in Pulaski, Tennessee, during the winter of 1865 to 1866, by six former Confederate army officers who gave their society a name adapted from the Greek word kuklos ("circle"). Its activities were directed against the Reconstruc .....
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Arranged Marriages Vs Marriages From Romance
Number of words: 984 | Number of pages: 4.... be rationalized is the issue about money. We are all aware that marriage should always accompany of financial issue but we also have to remember that this is not just about financial stability, but also about emotional security. More often than not, have movie stars and the rich and famous, been on the television screen with news about their broken marriages and drug overdoses. These people seem to have everything they want. However, they lack most things that do not have a price tag, such as love and compassion. Then these people run to addicting items, such as drugs and alcohol, to replace the things they lack. Everyone .....
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Animal Experimentation Is Acceptable
Number of words: 415 | Number of pages: 2.... and people surviving
otherwise fatal or paralyzing diseases. The Research Defense Society
stated that 50,000 people fill antibiotic prescriptions, 180,000 people
with diabetes survive because of insulin, 4,000 heart defects are corrected,
and 400 heart and heart/lung transplants are performed a year because of
animal research that is cruel. Also the Americans for Medical Progress
Education Foundation stated that the following were benefits to humans as a
result of animal experiments: antibiotics, vaccines, gene therapy, pace
maker implants, chemotherapy and organ, corneal, and bone marrow
transplants. Cruel animal research made .....
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The Potential Dangers Of Air Bags And Children
Number of words: 955 | Number of pages: 4.... to the air bag or who is thrown toward the dash during emergency braking or a crash.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has identified 86 crashes where the deployment of the passenger air bag resulted in fatal head or neck injuries to a child. Eighteen of these deaths were to infants in rear-facing child safety seats. Most of the other 68 children were determined to be completely unbuckled, or wearing only the lap portion of the safety belt at the time of the crash (Kids and Airbags).
To prevent these fatalities, NHTSA passed a rule in 1996 which requires vehicles with air bags to bear three new warning labels .....
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Animosity In Children's Sports
Number of words: 1208 | Number of pages: 5.... hold the responsibility
to behave appropriately also, and may face a game suspension and other
penalties. Parents often claim immunity to these consequences, and with
that privileged state of mind proceed to shred the rules of sportsmanship.
People like this often make the game unpleasant for others. These
overanxious parents take over the role of officiating the game, disputing
the calls, harassing the officials, often only children a year or two older
than the players themselves. The parents who attend the games often let
emotions take over and grow blind to the fact that their behavior is
inappropriate.
The constant bera .....
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Violence On TV
Number of words: 1625 | Number of pages: 6.... Violent television viewing does affect children. The effects have been seen in a number of cases. In New York, a 16-year-old boy broke into a cellar. When the police caught him and asked him why he was wearing gloves he replied that he had learned to do so to not leave fingerprints and that he discovered this on television. In Alabama, a nine-year-old boy received a bad report card from his teacher. He suggested sending the teacher poisoned candy as revenge as he had seen on television the night before. In California, a seven-year-old boy sprinkled ground-up glass into the the lamb stew the family was to eat for dinner. Whe .....
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Fetishism
Number of words: 957 | Number of pages: 4.... organ was a
reminder to men that castration is possible. This anxiety would cause the
fetishist to associate his or her sexual desire with another body part or object.
By doing this he or she can link sexual experience with another part and
forget about infertility, humiliation, or anxiety. Usually the desire is linked
closely to the genitals, it could be something seen when the genitals were first
viewed, such as, underwear, or something associatively linkable to the
experience (e.g. fur, which could be symbolic of pubic hair).
In some cases kleptomania has been considered a fetish. Many fetishists
develop a compulsive urge to .....
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Child Rearing In Victorian Times
Number of words: 1105 | Number of pages: 5.... and parent led totally separate existences, they were only
summoned to appear before their parents at a certain set hour of the day. Many
Victorian children like Winston Churchill and Harriet Marden recall such cold
relations between their selves and their mothers that they would be able to
count how many times in their life they had been hugged. Family life was formal,
although during that time child rearing manuals urged bonding and maternal ties,
mothers remained cool and distant. Children were a convenience to their parents,
they obeyed them as they would an army officer. Sir Osbert Sitwell once argued,
Parents .....
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Gambling
Number of words: 627 | Number of pages: 3.... game, so I decided to cash what I had out. The machine printed out a yellow ticket. I lost the rest of the credits and took the ticket up to the clerk and he told me that it was worth one dollar. I picked a scratch off and won ten dollars. This experience shows there is a difference between being eighteen and being twenty-one. If the machine will physically give you money, then you have to be twenty-one to play that machine. If the machine will give you a voucher or a redeemable ticket, then you only have to be eighteen to play it.
The age of drinking is twenty-one, because when you are twenty-one, you are supposed to be i .....
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Existentialism
Number of words: 545 | Number of pages: 2.... of the leaders of the Existential movement. Other popular
playwrights were Albert Camus, and Jean Anouilh. Just like Anouilh, Camus
accidentally became the spokesman for the French Underground when he wrote
his famous essay, "Le Mythe de Sisyphe" or "The Myth of Sisyphus". Sisyphus
was the man condemned by the gods to roll a rock to the top of a mountain,
only to have it roll back down again. For Camus, this related heavily to
everyday life, and he saw Sisyphus an "absurd" hero, with a pointless
existance. Camus felt that it was necessary to wonder what the meaning of
life was, and that the human being longed for some sense o .....
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