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Social Issues Essays and Term Papers
Pollution Control: Costs And BenefitsThe root words for ecology and economy share the same meaning, they both
mean "home regulation". Critics have said that the economy will grow much
faster without concerns of polluting the environment. When people began to
preserve and clean the environment we live in, they faced many problems ...
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The Police And CorruptionThe police. Twenty-four hours a day, three hundred sixty-five days a
year, this division of our government has a mandate to enforce the criminal law
and preserve public peace. Understood in this mandate is an obligation to
police everyday life matters that originate in the daily lives and ...
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Welfare Reform: A Matter Of JusticeMedicaid. It is the United States Federal Government program to aid
states in providing health care to the poor and impoverished who otherwise could
not receive proper medical care. In 1995 the federal government spent a
total of $77.4 Billion on Medicaid. This is up almost 300 percent from ...
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Improving EducationIntroduction and Program Overview
Due to the increased accountability attached to student scores, the focus of educators has shifted beyond the realm of the regular school day to providing intensive instruction in a smaller group setting. Extended day is an after school program, held on campus, ...
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Appearance Is Everything To The Youth Of AmericaAppearance is everything. The saying could be the foundation for a religious cult among American teens. Movies, music, and tv commercials create an Orwellian world where everyone think, acts, and looks the same. The youth of American is presently being exploited by large corporations that use ...
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Children Are Easily InfluencedWhen children are young, they tend to act different than when they
are older. They are not mature yet and are still easily influenced. Little
kids are usually very easily influenced by their surroundings. Whether it
is television, friends, family members, or just plain strangers, everyone
and ...
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Linguistic Bias, inclusive language, political correctness; call it what you will the fact of the matter is, due to recent rapid social changes the use of man as a generic term has lead to misrepresentation and exclusion of women. In as much as man increases his intellectual ability, he still struggles in ...
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Negative Effects On Soldiers From War"The 20th century has been dominated by the machine gun, the tank, the B-
52 bomber, the nuclear bomb and, finally, the missile. It has been
distinguished by the bloodiest and most destructive wars than those of any
other time." So said History professor Hugh Thomas and he certainly knew
what he ...
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Losing Someone You LoveThe loss of somebody very dear to you, perhaps somebody that you loved more than life itself, can be, and usually is, a tremendous blow to your happiness. It will cause extreme pain and you will feel as if the world itself has melted into a pool of liquid and no matter how hard you try you cannot ...
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Homosexuals: A Suspect Class??
The struggle for minority protection by lesbians and gay men has moved
to the center of American life at the outset of the 1990's. It is almost
certain that lesbian and gay issues will be a more eminent aspect of the public
consciousness and American political scene in the coming decade than in ...
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Welfare ReformWelfare as we knew it no longer exists. The American tradition of guaranteeing cash assistance to the poor came to an end with the signing of legislation. Under the old system the government provided benefits to the nations poor , which was mostly mothers and children. These benefits were ...
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Socialismis a type of economic system, a political movement, and a
social theory. is based on the idea that governments should own and
control a nation's resources rather than individuals.
was first used to describe opposition to the free enterprise
and market economies. The Industrial Revolution was ...
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Privacy Is The Best PolicyHow would one feel if a person looked through all of one's property
and belongings? Ponder on this question for a moment. Chances are, the
majority of whoever answers this question, all the answers would be
identical. The answer would all be, “ I would feel pretty bad!”
Considering this ...
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Child Abuse: Who's At Risk And The Outcomes??
As Rothery and Cameron (1990) report "It is now clear from historical and epidemiological analysis that although child sexual abuse is a recently recognized problem, it has always been present in human societies and people of all ages including those born early in the present century can recall ...
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Divorce And Love"I want a divorce." These words are constantly heard on television, books and households. In the past centuries, marriage was considred sacred and divorce was a taboo that everyone avoided. Some couples chose to spend the rest of their lives with someone that they did not love anymore rather ...
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Affirmative Action: Why It Should GoAfter the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, it became apparent that certain business traditions, such as seniority status and aptitude tests, prevented total equality in employment. Then President, Lyndon B. Johnson, decided something needed to be done to remedy these ...
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Curfews Should Be Established And Enforced By Parents, Not By The City LawKids behind bars, or under house arrest in what the city has planned to revert to. In a nation based on individuality and personal freedom, laws of restriction presents moral dilemmas that seem to contradict the fundamental values of the Western World. In particular, laws restricting a portion ...
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Prostitutionis an issue which has caused controversy cross-culturally and
historically and which has many individuals reexamining the logistics of it.
If is decriminalized it will become economically profitable
and feasible for not only the prostitutes, but also western society as a
whole. Without the 20th ...
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Homeless: What Has Been Done To Decrease The Problem??
One of the largest growing concerns in Toronto is the constantly increasing
number of citizens who are finding themselves living on the streets. With the
decrease in the number of available jobs, the population of homeless people has
literally boomed. My questions are not as simple to answer as ...
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FeministsWhile surfing the internet yesterday I came across an article discussing
women and their role in a changing society. The article, which was written by
Karin Crosbie stated that although women have come a long way in the field of
women's rights, there is still a long way to go. Crosbie stated that ...
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Women In The Labour Force December 17, 1992The past decades their has been a dramatic increase of women
participating in the labour force from countries all over the world including
Canada. In 1950, one Canadian worker in five was a woman. By 1980 this
percentage had doubled, and women are expected to make up more than 44 percent
of the ...
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The Hong Kong Chinese Communityis an affluent, educated, and swelling
population in the Greater Toronto Area. The enigma is why they have only made
marginal inroads into the political arena.
Olivia Chow, a Metro councilor representing the Downtown ward says "this
community has potential to be very powerful...it's nowhere ...
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Public School IssuesIntroduction to Education
As our world becomes more and more diverse, with new technologies bringing different spheres of understanding, different languages and diverse cultures into our living rooms and our classrooms, we become challenged. New ideas, new information and new reforms in our ...
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Concepts Of ViolencePushing, jumping thrashing, slamming, ripping, throwing, reveling, hurting; these words don’t appeal to everyone when it comes down to having a good time. In fact, many people would wonder why anyone would associate themselves with these types of actions. In Paul Tough’s article Into the Pit, he ...
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The Wild Life: Single And Married CouplesRecently, at yet another baby shower within my circle of friends, I
began to notice a subtle change in our relationships. After all of my
girlfriends arrived and were seated, I observed that we were divided into
two distinctive groups. One group clustered, rather uncomfortably, around
the couch. ...
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