.... This mix eventually changed the Greek and Persian ways of thinking, architecture, and many other aspects of their lives not just the values. Another change in the Greek values during the change from Hellenic to Hellenistic period was the change from idealism to realism. They both dealt with the concern for the world. Idealism is the belief that the world should be perfect. Idealism evolved into realism. Realism is the belief that you should accept the world for what it is and not what it is should be. An example of idealism is that everybody should work in harmony to improve the Greek city-state. Realism was accepting .....

.... murder. On August twenty- fifth Snoop was driving his late model Jeep in Palms, California. He met up with Philip Woldemar iam, who according to Snoop's attorney, had a long history of threatening Snoop. Snoop's bodyguard shot Woldermariam twice in the back, killing him. On December eighth, Snoop was arraigned for murder, but later found innocent. Many of the lyrics in Snoop's songs degrade women, encourage the use of marijuana and glorify violence against authority. Another publicized case involves rapper Tupac Shakur. Many know him for his starring role in the movie "Poetic Justice" with Janet Jackson. Tupac Shakur's .....

.... more than one-fifth among seniors, with one in three (34 percent) now saying they smoked in the 30 days prior to the survey. Use of marijuana among seniors has also increased since 1992, reversing a 14- year trend. Among 1995 seniors, 21.2 percent said they had used marijuana in the last 30 days, compared with the low of 11.9 percent in 1992. During the same period, students' perceptions of the risk of marijuana use has declined, from 78.6 percent who perceived igreat riski in regular use in 1991 to 60.8 percent in 1995. Students' perceptions about the harmfulness of various other drugs have also declined, according to the su .....

.... is a result of the ever increasing divorce rate. Many couples are afraid of marriage and decide to live together with the intention to persue marriage if the temporary arrangement is successful. The couples hope to "minimize their chances of a potential disastrous marriage; any conflicting attitudes toward social activities, economic arrangements, or domestic chores will be discovered and hopefully resolved while the couple live together." (Carter, Sharon. "Trial Marriage". Ladies' Home Journal 14 (May 1993): 12-13.) If an unsolveable conflict arises, the couple can cancel their wedding plans and escape the painful exercise .....

.... be done by, adults. Child labor is where the children are exploited and also is when they are worked in conditions that are hazardous. 1 Child labor is a problem throughout the world, and especially in developing countries. Child labor is most common in rural areas where the capacity to enforce minimum age requirements for schooling and work is lacking. The children work for many reasons, the most important being poverty and the pressure upon them to escape from those circumstances. Though the children are not well paid, they still serve as major contributors to family income in developing countries. Schooling problems also co .....

.... these African Americans produce a high quality satisfaction. The people that doubt the work of an African American can obviously be seeing only the skin color. Lenita McClain states, "I am burdened daily with showing whites that blacks are people." Shelby Steele asks, "After all, since when had white Americans taken note of anything but color when it came it blacks?" Our nation, which is supposed to preserve equal rights to everyone, is weakened when certain Americans feel they are judged on a day to day basis by their skin color. Some might argue that blacks and whites are equal, but it is obvious through these essays tha .....

.... in the “project: they will continue to be labeled by most citizens, others may resent them for costing tax payers money to house and feed them. One classmate voiced her opinion on poverty and how it was a rut that can not be overcome easily. She believed that once on government assistance, if your earnings increased the government punishes you by raising your rent and giving you less vouchers for food and services, so you gain nothing. I believe many people in poverty believe this philosophy, so they do not attempt to get out of poverty and accept it as the norm. I totally disagree with this thinking. When you are off gover .....

.... understanding of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis you’ll need a few examples. My father came to America to go to college in 1966. He had grown up in Malaysia with their culture and language. My father grew up as a bilingual speaker, knowing the Chinese language from his parent’s upbringing and the schooling in Malaysia taught him some English, yet his English was not quite perfect. When my Dad came to America he had trouble adjusting to the English way of speaking. He knew what the basic words were and how to carry on a normal conversation but he didn’t have an understanding of a lot of the words in the English language. He m .....

.... amendment on August 26, 1920(Cooke, 157). Although African Americans gained suffrage through the fifteenth amendment in 1870 (Cooke, 151), it was not until the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that they were actually freed from discrimination by the government(Cooke, 150). Why is it then that in today's modern American society, an institution that prides itself on being "the home of the free and the land of the brave", a vast number of Americans are hiding beneath a shroud of ignorance when it comes to the issue of homosexuality? It seems that the gay community is being attacked out of fear and intolerance with th .....

.... and do what they have to do to save themselves before it's too late. Other situations which call for justifiable violence, in my opinion, are robbery at gunpoint and any other type of unprovoked violence. Other than self-defense, I do not believe violence should be tolerated at any cost. Hitting children when they do something "wrong" is not justifiable. I believe that if a child does something their parents don't want them to do, they should be taught not to do it anymore simply because their parents don't want them to do it. But, I believe that when you hit a child when they do something wrong, they don't repeat the acti .....