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Social Relationships Political Forces
1,236 words... indeed, a mythology about childhood. On the one hand, children are seen to possess a natural, spontaneous creativity, which is somehow released by the machine; while on the other, children are seen as vulnerable, innocent and in need of protection. Ultimately, both positions are symptomatic of the chronic sentimentality with which our society views children - of the very limited and limiting ways in which we construct the meaning of childhood, and thereby constrain the lives of children. At ...
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Peer Pressure School Environment
375 wordsIn order to create a safer school environment through positive peer pressure, you have to have at least two variables. That way, in case one doesnt work, you can always resort to the second, or even third method if needed. The first way could be to have a popular club dedicated to promote nonviolence, and the other way could be to always discuss having a safer school environment with the students. The first method would be accomplished by having an after school club dedicated to promoting nonvio...
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Forest Floor Feet Water
697 wordsDusk has fallen, and now its just starting to penetrate the canopy of the forest. The trees seem t web be dancing to the music of the evening breeze and the gentle rustle of leafs compliment the overall atmosphere. The songs of birds have been totally replaced by an orchestra of crickets and other insects, and I seem to be their sole audience. My eyes peer into the go web trying to make out what lies ahead, without much success. Soon I realize that I have to let my other senses take over in orde...
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Serial Killers Arnold Friend
1,101 wordsA famous short story is Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates. This stunning story describes how the seemingly perfect girl, Connie, is terrorized by the most abnormal man, Arnold Friend. Some would argue that he is the devil. Any argument that Arnold Friend is Satan can be used to say he is nothing more than a psychotic serial killer. While this prospect is horrific, it is considerably less disturbing than the devil knocking at your door. Though his persuasive behavior,...
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Deal With Death Wanted To Give Mikage
1,102 wordsAll people deal with death in different ways. In this story, Mikage has to deal with death her whole life. In her life everyone close to her dies, first her parents when she was young, then her grandfather when she was a young teenager, her grandmother when she was in college, then lastly her best friend and mentor Eriko. The first two deaths did not affect her as much because she was young and did not realize the ramifications of death. The last two deaths changed her life drastically. These de...
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American Medical Association U S News
742 wordsTobacco Advertising and its dangerous effects on young people. Tobacco Advertising Makes Young People Their Chief Target Everyday 3, 000 children start smoking, most them between the ages of 10 and 18. These kids account for 90 percent of all new smokers. In fact, 90 percent of all adult smokers said that they first lit up as teenagers (Roberts). These statistics clearly show that young people are the prime target in the tobacco wars. The cigarette manufacturers may deny it, but advertising and ...
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Ways Of Life Gang Violence
1,375 wordsThe movie Friday is a comedy, but it also depicts many important social issues. The story is set in the city of Los Angeles, California, in what could be called a high-class ghetto in my perspective. The main theme of the movie is about a young black man who looses his job and is influenced by his best friend to smoke marijuana. The movie also shows the relationships of his family and other members of his neighborhood. With a zany cast of characters and a hilarious script this movie touches on e...
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Picture Of Dorian Gray The Power Pressure
1,444 wordsEveryone has dealt with peer pressure sometime within his / her life. Just recently a friend, Julie, gave into smoking weed although it went completely against her morals. Her friend was so persistent and pushy in trying to persuade her to try it, that Julie could not fight it anymore and gave in. Julie explained later that she knew it was wrong and told how her conscience was screaming for her not to smoke, but the pressure and influence from her friend was just too strong. Many people have bee...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Social Problem
1,320 wordsWhen discussing the legalization of Marijuana, take a mechanistic view of one symptom of a much larger social problem. You cannot talk about legalizing marijuana without getting into discussions of other "Social problems." I am talking about all other "drugs" -- prostitution, health care, social security, or just about any other issue that we as a country, and as a people are dealing with. For the purposes of this paper, I will confine, or rather use the legalization of marijuana issue as a mode...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Anabolic Steroids
1,747 wordsMany athletes of all ages are turning towards performance enhancing drugs as a way of improving their performance by giving them that extra edge. This is not only wrong but its cheating and harmful to the athlete. Performance enhancing drugs have been around for hundreds of years. The Incas of the South America country Peru used the burned leaves of coca trees to give them great amounts of energy when faced with battles, hunts, ect. Even today they use coca leaves as a way of giving them the ene...
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Men And Women Sexual Attraction
1,566 wordster> Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Despite all the fashionable theories of marriage, the narratives and the feminists, the reasons to engage in marriage largely remain the same. True, there have been role reversals and new stereotypes have cropped up. But the biological, physiological and biochemical facts were less amenable to modern criticisms of culture. Men are still men and women are still women in more than one ...
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2,201 words... I will never forget. When my fish neared the boat, I felt more energized than I had when the fish first struck. At my fathers command, I netted the fish and hauled it into the bottom of the boat. I was nearly bursting with exhilaration. Released from the net, the fish dropped to the bottom of the boat with a hollow thud, and my jaw dropped with it. I stared in complete horror at the violently thrashing fish which was now at my feet. Within minutes, all of the fish's vibrancy, color and life ...
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Part Of The Game Deviant Behavior
950 wordsNature always has a way of balancing itself out, and in my opinion, deviant behavior is no exception. For every report we read about how playing in a sports program has kept someone off the streets and out of a life of crime, we come across another about excessive violence or drug use by an athlete. Sports definitely discourage off the field problems, but they also bring about a whole new set of on the field problems. Playing sports brings out the competitive sides of many athletes. To most athl...
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Analysis Of How Microsoft Should Spend Its Cash
1,041 wordsMicrosoft has a nasty problem: figuring out what to do with $ 31. 6 billion in cash. We can picture a sleep-deprived Bill Gates and a red-eyed Steve Ballmer toiling away night after night, trying to get Microsoft out of this predicament. It must be tough. So we decided to help them out by making a few suggestions on how Microsoft should spend its cash hoard. We " re going to propose a variety of acquisitions. While the company hasn't historically had an acquisitive culture, that seems to be chan...
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Low Self Esteem Anorexia And Bulimia
881 wordsCause of Eating Disorders In America, today we often hear of people who suffer from illness such as cancer, aids etc. what we often dont hear about is the illness that effects a lot of people each year that being eating disorders. Whenever I hear about eating disorders it remains me of one of my cousin who had suffered from anorexia. It all started when her family and acquaintances started to say that she was fat and chubby. In her family everyone is very slim and tall so her brothers started te...
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Order To Find Friends And Family
1,235 wordsA Lack of Companionship, a Lack of Joy Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel (q. in Davidoff 106). As long as man has existed, man has strived to have companions: to feel the love of friends and family. In J. D. Salinger s The Catcher in the Rye, protagonist Holden Caulfield rose from his sadness and found happiness only when he realized the importance of the love and companionship offered by friends and family. Holden faced many obstruct...
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Client Centered Differential Association
927 wordsPrison inmates are some of the most maladjusted people in society. Most of these inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and / or have little or no self-esteem. They are very insecure and are at war with themselves as well as with society. (Szumski 20) Most inmates did not learn moral values or learn to follow everyday norms. Also, when most lawbreakers are labeled criminals, they enter the phase of secondary deviance. They will admit they are criminals or bel...
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Effects Of Marijuana Smoke Marijuana
1,494 wordsPsychological Effects of Marijuana Marijuana tends to be disassociated with the conventional spectrum of drugs in today s society. Certainly we can agree that cocaine, ecstasy, and heroine are drugs and thus highly addictive and dangerous. But can marijuana be mentioned in the same breath as these drugs? It is not my point nor belief to disagree that marijuana is a drug that can be addictive. I place strong emphasis however on the fact that physical dependency is not nearly as common as psycholo...
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Sexually Transmitted Sexually Active
865 wordssexual pressures By: Anonymous E-mail: The media is just one of the factors responsible for the increase in teen sexuality. Throughout a humans adolescents years they are subject to a number of sexual pressures. Through research I have found that peers are among the most influential. An adolescent is not limited to peer pressure though. They face pressures from the media as well. I believe that media pressure is just a influential as peer pressure. There is also other pressure, from people such ...
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Joining A Gang Peer Pressure
781 wordsGangs are a violent reality that people have to deal with in todays cities. What has made these groups come about? Why do kids feel that being in a gang is both an acceptable and a cool way to live? The answers to these questions are pretty much impossible to find. Gangs are a direct result of peer pressure. To end gang violence you would have to find a way to see how these morals are given to the person. Unfortunately, the only way to do this would be to guess. There is good evidence though to ...
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