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Youth Violence

Over the past decade, criminal and violent acts committed by juveniles have increased dramatically. A national crisis is engulfing this country. Over half of the people arrested for murder in the United States in 1991 were under age 25 (Wilson & Howell, 1993). The Children’s Defense fund ...

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The Salem Witch Trials

The domination of religion along with mass hysteria culminated in the conviction of over 200 men and women during the witch trials of 1692. Salem, Massachusetts endured a gothic nightmare of fear that sent twenty poor souls to meet their master, in Heaven or Hell (Robbins 56). New England in the ...

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Ida B. Wells 2

“One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.” - Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells was an important figure in Black American History. She was born a slave in Mississippi in 1862. Wells was able to gain an education and, later, became a journalist ...

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Alcohol Consumption By Adolescents

It's just another Friday night, but this time it's the guy's night out. What do many teenage boys have on their mind? They want to go cruising down the highway at 80 miles per hour with the windows down. Find some beer, and some women that they can get drunk, have sex with and have something to ...

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Society's Views On Family Values And Children As Reflected In The Novel The Handmaid's Tale

Society's Views on Family Values and Children as Reflected in the novel The In the olden days, religion and politics went hand in hand. The church either ran the land or had a strangle hold on the people. If the church thought there was one way to do something, one had to do as the church ...

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Gender Video Review

This video portrayed the many difficulties that people face when changing gender. Some of the most difficult aspects of changing genders for the people involved in this experiment were: completely changing their appearance (with makeup/hairstylists) dressing in drag, going out in public, trying to ...

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How Power And Gender Are Communicated In "1984" By George Orwell

Kara Newton Laura Peet English B1A 24 June 2013 How Power And Gender Are Communicated In "1984" By George Orwell 1984, by George Orwell, explores the issues of power and gender. Power and gender are represented and portrayed to the audience in certain ways. In 1984, George Orwell ...

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My Experiences With Race, Gender, Religion, and Social Class

Personal Essay As a thirty-something white woman, I have had many experiences during my lifetime with race and the social class structure of our society. This country is a vast pool of colors and cultures, however we are all for the most part locked into our own niches of reality, peering ...

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Measure For Measure: Isabella And Heroics

"MEASURE FOR MEASURE" INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the play "Measure for Measure," by William Shakespeare. Specifically, it will discuss how Isabella is saintly and heroic and has the best of the arguments in the play. Does her attitude ...

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Japanese Immigration To Hawaii

This seven page paper presents a detailed examination of the history and migration of the Japanese to Hawaii. The writer explores the migration beginning with the history and then offering an explanation of the migration as it pertained to the Japanese and how it affected those who migrated as well ...

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American Business Culture In Novels and Film

1. To generalize that "the study of films and novels about American business culture is a study of irony," is not necessarily true of all representations, but there are films and novels that contradict the American business culture, two of which we have studied: The Rise of Silas Lapham and ...

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Gender Equality

"Equality between genders can never be achieved." Do you agree with this statement? No, I do not agree that equality between genders can never be achieved. However, I do feel that achieving gender equality will definitely require a lot of time and effort. What exactly is gender equality? ...

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Corruption of Power in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and William Blake

'In political and social protest writing, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' Explore the significance of power as a corruptive force as it is presented in two political and social protest texts you have studied. Lord Acton, a famous scholar, historian and politician, ...

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The Philosophy Of Truth Making You Free

There exists a philosophy that, the truth will make you free. For example, exposing a conspiracy that does yourself and others harm can only set you free from further harm and related mischief. Whether or not the conspirators are the criminals of society or the highest branches of our own ...

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Newly Independent Nation Seeks Advice From Other Nations

A newly independent nation is seeking advice from other nations as it establishes its domestic policies on a variety of issues. Some of the nations and policies are Japan and there education system, Israel and womens right, and Englands health care system. The first area in which the nation ...

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An End To Genetic Diseases

The United States has a very diverse heritage. There is no "American" race. Americans are the blending of many cultures throughout many generations. With this blending of cultures comes a blending of genes. In the past, genes have not been well understood. They were not understood until ...

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Educating Rita

Entertainment from today's astounding visual effects in movies to men acting as women in Shakespearean plays some centuries ago, have always been and will always be appreciated by many. Even George B. Shaw's play Pygmalion, has given a few laughs, but not only made for engaging an audience in ...

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Essay On Human Sexual History

In the beginning, people repressed sex because they were scared of the truth around it. The church, mainly, transformed the beautiful act of making love into a cultural taboo. Because of its repression, sex could never have been talked about in a thorough, objective, and truthful manner. This ...

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Anorexia

Each year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. The vast majority are adolescents and young adult women. Approximately one percent of adolescents girls develop nervosa, a dangerous condition in which they can literally ...

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Contemporary Chicano Literatur

e Four days left to write my final paper. I do procrastinate. I had all semester and I waited till the final four days. I was in the library at the STCC Pecan Campus reading Walt Whitman's classic poem "Oh Captain, My Captain," taking a brake from the decision I was confronted with: what ...

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