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Papers on Society and Social Issues
Marriage: Easy Divorce
Number of words: 355 | Number of pages: 2.... that we should just
get the divorce over with as quickly as possible and get to living our lives
again.
I know someone's dad who got into a relationship with another woman.
This person's mother got married at a very young age. She thought she was ready,
but she wasn't. After being married and having three children, her husband told
her that he had a girlfriend. I would favor a quick divorce in this example
also. Even though the marriage could have been avoided, the man isn't supposed
to get involved with someone else. Getting married ties the couple down to one
another. After you are married, there is no more dating, no mo .....
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Censorship On Televison
Number of words: 682 | Number of pages: 3.... enough to view “questionable” and “objectionable” material. Censors were instituted to tell the general population what should and should not be viewed and thus began this
travesty. Government organizations, such as the FCC, routinely and systematically subjugate and suppress the freedoms that we have to express ourselves as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Censors edit radio broadcasts, discriminately place “black-bars” over televised images, and even try to refine works of literature and art so that they meet "acceptable standards.”
As US citizens, we should be appalled that such practices are allowed. .....
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A Teens Guide For Choosing Friends
Number of words: 439 | Number of pages: 2.... with people of similar religious beliefs. By doing this your
friends will share your conscious and you will have good, clean, fun when
you are together. And a friend in Christ seems to always stay with you. Its
also nice to have a kid your age that you can talk to about things and they
understand.
Another important factor in choosing friends is ask yourself will
they pass the parent test? This means will my parents approve of them and
their family. I don’t mean this in a snob way. If they are raised with
parents that have drug or alcohol problems they will not pass the parent
test! You must choose friends that your par .....
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Teenagers
Number of words: 1158 | Number of pages: 5.... through puberty early can be very upsetting, especially if the teenager is being subjected to sexual advances. These advances can be so upsetting it may cause them to feel ashamed of their bodies, fear becoming a woman, and they may try to make their bodies go back to a child like appearance through starvation.
are under a lot of pressure to succeed and fit in. Many spend a lot of time worrying about what others think and they desperately try to conform to society's unattainable "ideal" body image. They are lead to believe that if they are thin, they will be accepted. Since many are constantly buying teen or fashion magazines, th .....
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Gender Roles In Men And Women
Number of words: 987 | Number of pages: 4.... is the little Dorothy, who is discriminated in the use of guns by her Uncle Bo in Gun Crazy. Although Dorothy knows that she should not use guns because her mother and aunt do no do it, she is still want to fire a gun. However, her desires are repressed by the males of her family (Allison 288). The family is first source of prejudice about gender role.
Trough the years, a human being has the psychological need to a role identity. Since an early age, children are looking for their role identity, and the children have the family as their first medium of communication with the world . In order to understand the world, the child fi .....
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Immigration: Pro
Number of words: 1097 | Number of pages: 4.... the
"politically correct" society we live in today allows for these discrepancies,
for in the Immigration Act of 1990 which brought up controls for immigration.
Behind all these legal documents there are reasons that spurred these
causes. Certain prejudices against certain races or religion. The prejudices
were not always a color issue as the current immigration problems are. In the
beginning it was primarily Europeans. In particular the Irish and German were
thought of negatively. The percentage of the Irish in the Mid-Atlantic went from
45.9% in 1870 to 48.5 in 1930. Germans in 1870 went from 31.4% to 35.6% in 1930
. The .....
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Prostitution
Number of words: 1529 | Number of pages: 6.... San Francisco Task Force is a group of researchers, police officers,
members of the San Francisco community, government officials and
prostitutes, who frequently meet to discuss the issues of prostitution and
to try to come to some solution. Although they may not always agree, two
issues they are in agreement about are that the $7.6 million dollars would
be better spent elsewhere and that prostitution should be legalized..
Robert Noce of Manitoba city council wants reform of the Canadian Justice
System and he would like to see prostitution become worthwhile to Canadian
taxpayers.
Quite frankly, for anyone to suggest to m .....
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Losing Someone You Love
Number of words: 617 | Number of pages: 3.... for too long and as a result, people rarely become trapped in a maelstrom of anxiety long enough to do any personal damage to themselves. That is not the case with depression. Depression over loss can be a serious problem. In a healthy context, depression enables a person to work on issues of competence, value, and strength in the midst of loss. On the other hand, if left unchecked, it tends to work like a giant leech attached to the body, slowly draining all semblance of life from its victim. It is not easy to reach the surface, when drowning in a sea of depression. Suicidal thoughts may emerge from the deep, dark recesse .....
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The Different Ways Of Raising Children
Number of words: 949 | Number of pages: 4.... children in Hong Kong have no human rights than the children who are raised in the United States. Traditionally, many parents in Hong Kong punish their children by hitting when they make some mistakes. Because of there are no formal laws to protect the children from getting hit, some parents even hit their children without any reasons. On the other hand, the parents in the United States do not hit their children easily because they all know this is not a way to discipline. There are some laws to control the parents who hit their children because children are also human beings. Actually, they have the same human rights as t .....
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Violence
Number of words: 856 | Number of pages: 4.... studied. It was found
that almost 56% of drinkers also used drugs while drinking. Interestingly,
white males were found to be more abusive than black males. The study showed
direct links from substance abuse to violence and crime.
With drug use and violence rising, a direct correlation can be seen.
Our society has created drug awareness programs in our schools, but obviously
something must be changed in these programs. They simply are not working. The
highest drug abuse numbers are seen in the teen year's age group. We must find
a way to lower these numbers and reduce the number of drug users, especially
children. When we h .....
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