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Juvenile Justice Juvenile Offenders
1,336 wordsThe post world-war II era saw an unprecedented rate of growth for America. The birth of Corporate America gave people an opportunity to move out of the cities and into kinder, more picturesque suburbs. Women were entering the workforce in greater numbers. With two income families, Americans had more money to spend on luxuries such as boats, vacations and hobbies as they never had before. This was the beginning of a time when living was good, the quality of life was high, and everyone seemed happ...
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802 wordsFreedoms just another word for nothing left to lose. (Kristofferson) This sounds like a very prophetic statement. But is it? At first glance you may make sense of it, but when you look beneath the surface of this statement, you will realize that it couldnt be any further from the truth. Freedom is the single most important privilege that we as human beings can possess and it is only when this privilege is taken away that we can truly say we have nothing else to lose. Freedom is the right to thin...
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Wadsworth Publishing Glass Ceiling
1,233 words... e working in organizations, at lower levels than men. There have been many explanations for this metaphor. The pipeline theory, focuses on the history of men in organizations, and explains that it takes twenty to twenty five years for the average man to climb the corporate ladder. Women, having only been integrated into upper management within the past decade or so, have not had enough time. Therefore, " as men and women enter occupations in equal numbers, then equal numbers of the sexes wil...
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Film Technique Harsh Reality
2,212 wordsFilm technique plays a vital role in the way an audience looks at a character or society in a whole. Lee Tamahori's film "Once were warriors" uses film technique in the crafting of the characters, the roles they adopt and the society they live in. Film Technique helps to exhibit the Here family as trapped in society, with a vicious cycle of alcohol, violence, male domination, unemployment and pointless parties. In order to try and free themselves from the vicious cycle or to just find peace and ...
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Give Away Freedom Freedom I Would Give People
458 wordsI see on the news, a five-year-old girl is injured in a car accident. As a result, she becomes paralyzed from the waist down. The doctors say she will never walk again. This girl must spend the rest of her life confined to a wheel chair. The freedom to walk has been taken away from an innocent child. When I stop to think about this I realize how much I take for granted the use of my legs. I remember how much I enjoy walking along a beach with warm, wet sand squishing through my toes. I realize h...
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Alcohol And Cigarettes Side Effects
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Punish Their Children Hitting Their Children Parents
496 wordsGallegos, et all 1 Physical Punishment Physical punishment has been a problem in hitting their children so they can have discipline or not hitting them because it is not right, so what can parents do and what can they not do? Should the parents hit them to learn discipline, or should they not hit them and figure out another way to make them learn what discipline is? Because many parents do not know or are confused in showing their children how to gain discipline they do not know whether to hit t...
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Obesity Epidemic In Children And Youth
1,212 wordsObesity Epidemic in Children and Youth (1) Nowadays, there are many objective indications as to the fact that ever-increasing rate of obesity among Americas adolescents actually represent the very immediate threat to biological well-being of this nation. In his article Childhood Obesity Statistics and Facts, Jayashree Pakhare provides us with the insight on the sheer scope of this threat: 16 % children (over 9 million) 6 - 19 year olds are overweight or obese. This is three times what it was in ...
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Kill A Mockingbird Jem And Scout
1,153 wordsTo Kill a Mockingbird German Finch, what can you say about him? Well, you can say that he is a great character. German Finch, otherwise known as Jem, was a key figure in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. This co-star of the book is in his teenage years and was mentioned in the first paragraph of the book. This type of literary action is usually used to signify a special role in the story. He was introduced as Scout Finch's brother who broke his arm at an early age in his life. He is also introduce...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Influence Of Marijuana
2,728 wordsWhat Is Marijuana Marijuana, a drug obtained from dried and crumpled parts of the ubiquitous hemp plant Cannabis sativa (or Cannabis indica). Smoked by rolling in tobacco paper or placing in a pipe. It is also otherwise consumed worldwide by an estimated 200, 000, 000 persons for pleasure, an escape from reality, or relaxation. Marijuana is known by a variety of names such as kif (Morocco), data (South Africa), and bhang (India). Common in the United States, marijuana is called pot, grass, weed,...
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Men And Women Number Of Women
2,084 wordsBrian S. Slevin Sexism-Patriarchy Sexism-Patriarchy Brian S. Slevin Sexism by definition is discrimination by members of one sex against the other, especially by men against women, based on the assumption that one sex is superior. It regards women as inherently inferior intellectually, psychologically, and physically to man. This view, is shared by both men and women, and has historically shaped institutions of world society. It has been continued through the cultural modification of groups of p...
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Grave Mending Wall
2,190 wordsDuologue And Monologue To Increase Dramatic Tension Duologue And Monologue To Increase Dramatic Tension mending Wall And home Burial The poems? Mending Wall? and? Home Burial? are about division, both on a physical level and on a mental level. ? Mending Wall? on first reading is a very simplistic poem about the annual repairing of a wall but after closer reading we can see it has a darker meaning. The poem begins with a disjointed sentence, which immediately attracts the reader? s eye. ? Somethi...
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People Who Suffer Bulimia Nervosa
2,541 wordsThe media Eating Disorders Hypothesis The media are inducing eating disorders by exhibiting pictures of stick´ like models. Personal Reasons for Research My own personal reason for choosing to research and find out about eating disorder is my ex-girlfriend suffered from bulimia, and I witnessed first hand how badly it affects the sufferer, and their loved ones. I would like to use this opportunity to find out how to help people who suffer, and to learn more about the diseases, so that if I...
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Elderly Woman Human Race
1,849 wordsEddie Vedder Is A Vampire Although at first he may seem to be just your average angst ridden lead man for a popular rock and roll band, Eddie Vedder, the vocalist and lyricist for Pearl Jam, may very well be a vampire. Although it is impossible to tell, everything points to his being an immortal. An in depth analysis of his lyrics shows that Pearl Jams second album, ? Versus? , has been used by Vedder as sounding boards for the complex emotions and change of perspective that come with ones trans...
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1,260 wordsEverything can be linked to everything! This is the ultimate anthropological truth. What drew my to the Great Wall is that the Great Wall isnt only a physical thing but it is also something that has stood for a culture. From a physical barrier to something that established safe caravan routes, the Great Wall has stood for it all. It represents China, in the current and in the past. This draws me to The Great Wall of China. The three dynasties that constructed the wall were the Qin, the Han, and ...
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Forest Fire Science Fair
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Papas Waltz Theodore Roethke
1,113 wordsResponse In " My Papas Waltz" , Roethke discusses a very heartbreaking and distressful situation. He talks about alcoholism in the family and how it affects the members of the family. Growing up in a family full of alcoholism and abuse, I can relate to the point of view that this poem is written in. Although it is very sad, all of these things the poet describes are true of a family cursed with alcoholism. The people in my household would drink all day long, starting with the morning c...
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Type Of Love Physical Attraction
1,850 wordsTheories of Love What exactly does the word love mean? Webster s dictionary defines love as: A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness. This is a very basic thought of the word love. Love does not have an finite meaning. You can love in many different ways. For example I might say I love my brother, and I also might say I love my car. But do I really love ...
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Physical And Mental Vita Nuova
1,187 wordsDante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in 1265. In his life, he composed two major books of poetry: Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy. The Vita Nuova is composed of love poems, sonnets, and lyrics. The Divine Comedy, is an epic poem segmented into three books, each of which recounts Dante? s travels through hell, purgatory, and heaven. The first section of The Divine Comedy, Dantes Inferno, is a narrative with a man named Virgil as his guide. Dante narrates his descent and observation of hel...
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Marry His Mother Kill His Father
1,000 wordsIt has been said that people can be blinded to the truth. The answer to their question or solution to their problem may have been sitting right in front of them all along. Yet, they could not see the answer. They were blinded to the truth. Associations have been made between being blind and enlightened. A blind person is said to have powers to see invisible things. They see into the future. The blind may not have physical sight, but they have another kind of vision. In Sophocles King Oedipus, Te...
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