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Divorce

rates in the United States have increased dramatically in the past 25 years. Over 40 percent of the marriages among young Americans will end in . There is a lot of stress on all the people involved. The man has to deal with, usually, not seeing his children, being alone, and ...

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Female Genital Mutilation

is believed to have started in Egypt 2,000 years ago and spread from there. Only a few years ago, FGM was considered a cultural tradition, but now the United Nations has labeled it as a violation of human rights. Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United States has declared grounds for ...

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Black Like Me

by John Howard Griffin is a Multicultural story set in the south around the late 1950's in first person point of view about John Griffin in 1959 in the deep south of the east coast, who is a novelist that decides to get his skin temporarily darkened medically to black. What Griffin hopes to ...

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Families On The Fault Line

Lillian Rubin's book, , goes directly to the experience of everyday people and shows how the connection between economic decline and racial tension is continuously reinvented in America. She interviewed 162 families in all, mostly white, but including a substantial number of blacks, Latinos, and ...

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The History Of The American Bottom

The History of the American Bottom Two of the nations largest rivers meet in the American Bottom. The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers served as channels of change to the area, bringing outside influences of many different peoples to an Indian-inhabited land. Like the constant flow of the rivers, ...

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The End of History

IN WATCHING the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history. The past year has seen a flood of articles commemorating the end of the Cold War, and the fact that "peace" seems to be breaking out in many ...

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The History of the American Bottom

The History of the American Bottom Two of the nations largest rivers meet in the American Bottom. The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers served as channels of change to the area, bringing outside influences of many different peoples to an Indian-inhabited land. Like the constant flow of the ...

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Population Control in China and India

Overpopulation has been a growing concern for the world for many years, as well as how fast the population is growing continually. The theory of exponential growth is alarming to many individuals, it states that as the population gets larger the faster and greater the increase of the human ...

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Frankenstein vs Cloning

When the epic novel "Frankenstein" came out in 1831 the world's eyes were opened to idea of man creating another man, with science instead of through the use of reproduction. The story demonstrated the horrible fact that creating humans through scientific methods didn't fall into the natural ...

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Human Trafficking A Global Epidemic

Human Trafficking a Global Epidemic The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1963 by Abraham Lincoln. Many enslaved Americans were thought to be freed. slavery still exist today all over the world. This form of modern day slavery is called human trafficking. The United Nations defines human ...

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War and The African American Community

The importance (and lack of importance) of war in the African American Community In the lived, non-fictional reality of today's present, many individuals such as the African-American politician Representative Charles Rangle of New York City have called for the reinstatement of the draft policy. ...

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The Right To Die

The subject of Euthanasia is a heated battle, in which lines have been drawn between warring social, religious and political groups. Many people want this controversial institution erased from the volumes of lawful medicine, but others say that we should be able to choose our fates in extreme ...

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Domestic Violence

Found at the scene of the crime two dead bodies stabbed brutally, and left to die at their house. This was the story that shocked the country in 1991. This was the start of the O.J. Simpson domestic abuse case that is still going on today. Unfortunately events like this happen many times over ...

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Labor And Unions In America

The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At Lowell, Massachusetts, the construction of a big cotton mill began in 1821. It was the first of several that would be built there in the next 10 years. The machinery to spin and weave cotton into cloth would be driven by water power. ...

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The Presidential Election Of 1972

had two strong candidates, President Richard Nixon and George McGovern. There were many issues which had a great deal of importance to the election. The Vietnam war and the stability of the economy at the time were two main factors. The election ended in one the largest political scandals in ...

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Wyrd

This essay will discuss the novel wryd. It will explore some of the concepts that are found in the novel and attempt to extend the issues to a point at which they become more clear, and prove the assertion that, just as is a fast moving narrative that spans continents and ages, it is a novel of ...

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Romance And Gender Positions I

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night examines patterns of love and courtship through a twisting of gender roles. In Act 3, scene 1, Olivia displays the confusion created for both characters and audience as she takes on the traditionally male role of wooer in an attempt to win the disguised Viola, or ...

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Sexual Attitudes Have Changed

" over the last 50 years". Discuss. in the last 50 years, not so much sexual behaviour but societies attitude towards it. After the 2nd World War and in the 1950's sexual behaviour was a very taboo subject and not openly discussed. Sex was conducted behind closed doors and in the confines of ...

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Labor And Unions In America

The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At Lowell, Massachusetts, the construction of a big cotton mill began in 1821. It was the first of several that would be built there in the next 10 years. The machinery to spin and weave cotton into cloth would be driven by water power. ...

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Capitalism In Mass Media

- E.W. "Media are special because of the uniqueness of the product the business deals in. The commodity the media business sells is our most precious: news, opinion and ideas." Capitalism and its values are nurtured within the mass media. Popular American films have carefully targeted particular ...

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