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Racial Discrimination And Its Effect On Our Society

... in which a group or individual is treated differently based on something other than individual reason, usually their membership in a socially distinct group or category. Racial discrimination has been, and still is a huge problem, with many attempts for solutions. Imagine not knowing the time because nobody will tell you. Why won't they tell you the time, or spare you some change? Because your different skin. Actually, because your skin is a different color, or because your a different kind of religion. You can help stop this; all you hav ...

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Urban Legends

... and mutate along the way is known as an Urban Legend (Cavendish 263). A more understandable definiton of an Urban Legend would be, they are stories that we have all heard and they are usually digusting or eerie,but yet so believable that we rarely doubt their validity. They are almost always false or grossly distorded,yet they endure for years. Urban Legend is a term popularized by University of Utah Folklore expert, Jan Harold Brunvand (Brooke 2). They comprise the many more or less believable and always amazing stories that so many sw ...

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Education In Public Schools

... morality. This was what our country was founded on and it has been replaced with humanism. One example of humanism in our schools is that they teach evolution, not creationism. Some people believe that this problem is happening because of the removal of God and prayer in public schools; the U.S. Supreme Court did this in 1962. Beginning in 1962, SAT scores plummeted. Teen pregnancies, teen sexual diseases, teen suicides, teen alcohol, drug abuse, pornography, and illiteracy rates abruptly increased 200 to 300 percent. Violence is one ...

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Working Mothers

... have sufficient time to bond with the baby, how will household chores be divided, and so on. When thinking of working women, two models come to mind. One of which is paid employment that has a protective and beneficial mediating effect. Employment protects women against certain negative aspects of being full-time homemakers and mothers, such as monotonous housework, dependence on the male partner for financial and emotional support, increases self-esteem because they are contributing to the world they live in. These women receive a renew ...

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The Influence Of Black Slave Culture On Early America

... string melodies punctuated by hand clapping, xylophones, and drum beats. Along those lines, an early type of slave music was the spiritual, which has its roots in Protestant hymns taught to the slaves. Spirituals were "long thought to be the spontaneous creation of African-American slaves and the only original folk music of the U.S." Spirituals told tales of suffering and struggle, but these true meanings were often hidden. An example is in the song "Gospel Train" with the lyrics, "Get on board, little children/There's room for many a-mo ...

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Love And Rejection: Breaking Up

... reasons for their deaths, but ultimately, the thought of not being together tortured to the point of wanting to take their own lives. This is a very extreme example of what can go wrong with teenage heartbreak. One minute they're inseperable - sharing their most intimate thoughts and details - the next minute they are faces across a crowded room or polite acquaintances at best. These are the consequences that come along with a breakup. We teens hear about love all around us, in music and movies, on TV, in stories. We hear that love will m ...

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Minority Groups: African Americans, Women, And Hispanics

... were also considered for 21.6% of all guards, 21.5% of all service occupation, cleaning, and building. Also 30.8% of all health service occupation (Macionis 1998). Less Education A mere of 75% have graduated high school, and 38% of all African Americans have completed at least one year of college. On the other hand 84% of European Americans have graduated high school , and 51% of them complete at least one year of college.(Macionis 1998). Less Medical Care In 1996 there was 19% of African Americans who didn't receive health coverage u ...

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Divorce

... of change in percentages. History has shown us that marriage has been worshipped as a sacred bond ever since it’s creation. Reversing that bond was very hard, and often impossible by the Catholic Church. Catholics may just be the largest percentage of religious people that get d today. That could be due to the fact that they are one of the largest religious groups in the world, but why such a dramatic change in moral? Since the middle ages, has become more common and more widely accepted as a part of human life. was once considered a ...

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Is Monogamy The Best Form Of Marriage?

... there is no marriage. Monogamy is the loving, sharing, and devoting one's self to another person for the rest of their life. Monogamy should be the most important aspect in a marriage. The Western Religious leaders and moralists believe only one spouse for life is the highest form of marriage. Some of the most "primitive" peoples are strictly monogamous in their ideals, while some "highly advanced" cultures have moved away from the strict life-long monogamy. Sociologists, Ford and Beech, have found that only twenty-nine of the one-h ...

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First Impressions May Be Deceiving

... When visiting Madison, Wisconsin, someone may pass by the UW-Fieldhouse and mistake it as a barn instead of a basketball arena. So too, the Karrmann Library can be easily mistaken for a bank as you come upon it from the exterior. The first feature about the Elton S. Karrmann Library that makes it seem as if it were a bank is the solid construction of the library. Much like the construction of a bank, the library was also constructed with security and protection in mind. Also, the impressive exterior of the library resembles that ...

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Bulldozing Our Past

... of marriage her husband died and the neighborhood’s prestige had faded. The community was now filled with drug dealers, prostitutes and vagrants. After living in the house, a large, two story, Victorian style, for over 60 years, the home had decade into a large pile of rubble with no windowpanes, massive foundation problems and filthy conditions. The Houston Historical Society had enforced a multi- million dollar order to refurbish the district. Unfortunately, they were not going to grant the owner’s of the elderly woman’s renta ...

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Creating The Safest Classroom And Lab Atmosphere

... as literature on the disposal of created waste. The following is an overview of precautions, safety measures, guidelines, and precedent which will theoretically create the safest, and most professional classroom and lab atmospheres. Information is presented on labs from the most innocuous, to the most potentially threatening. SECTION I THE CLASSROOM As simple as a classroom may seem, much thought should go into its design and construction. Seeing as how it will be the incubator of great minds, the classroom incorporated into room 643 sh ...

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