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Female Genital Mutilation
<view this essay>.... marriage as a fourth wife to a man she had never met. The aunt scheduled her for the circumcision and she ran with 3,000 dollars that one of her aunts had saved.
What is female circumcision? The term covers three main varieties of genital mutilation (2). There is the "sunna circumcision"; this consists of removal of the prepuce and/or the tip of the clitoris. Ironically, sunna in Arabic means "tradition". This is done because it is believed that the clitoris is a very dangerous part of the female anatomy. In our culture, Freud stated in his book, Sexuality and the Psychology of Love, that the "elimination of clitoral sexuality is a necessary precondi .....
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Hawthorne Effects On Factory W
<view this essay>.... groups of workers were selected in the company and one group had no variations in its level of lighting while the other group were placed under the envoirement that had several variations from better to worse. The result was surprising, as output of both groups were increased.
The second experiment named Relay Assembly Test Room ((1927-1929) were conducted to further the investigation. In this experiment, a group of women were made to subject of various conditions that include the effects of changes in working conditions such as rest periods and meal breaks. Again, the result of the experiment shown that regardless of whether the conditions were improved or .....
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Political Correctness In Schools
<view this essay>.... in grade four. What had
happened was that I pondered onto school grounds with a tiny plastic
watergun. As I proceeded down the hallway a teacher took notice of my “
water-squirting” device. She approached me and ceased the toy from my hands
. Many elementary school educators believe that violent toys can lead, and
often do lead to violence if the children are allowed to play with the toys
in an unsupervised environment.
Something that used to be considered good clean fun has become a
constant frustration to teachers and parents everywhere. Many educators on
recess duty who have observed children at play have come to believe that
rough play which might look i .....
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Modern Americans Vs. Puritans
<view this essay>.... to children as they were growing up. In today’s society, that is not so true.
Parents do not care that much about honesty. They would like their children to live an honest life but they do not stress it as much as the Puritans did. This world is made up of lies. It was once said, “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” That could very well be true. Many of today’s infamous jobs are known for their lying skills. A lawyer in today’s society is taught to lie. Lying is a big part of today’s society, and the Puritans would not have liked that very much. They would have been rather upset.
The Puritans believed that self-reliance was a key to a successf .....
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The Use Of Pencils As Weapons
<view this essay>.... of the possessor and occasionally the bringing of criminal charges to bear. The use of weapons to do violence has had much the same results. In some schools, the students pass through a metal detector and/or are searched for weapons upon a regular basis. (Ch. 4 news at 6:00), However, when the weapons being used are common school supplies, what can one do? The number of students injured by their classmates with common school supplies such as pencils and pens are on the rise. A student carrying a gun or a knife is often busted before having an opportunity to use said weapon, one with a pencil on the other hand, they run free until they seriously injure or ev .....
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Censorship Of Academic Materials
<view this essay>.... has
the right to impose its ideas of politics, morality, or religion to a group
of students who have the right to inform themselves on all subjects and to
exercise their own sense of reason.
"The injustices of censorship were in full force at least as early as
1644, the year English writer John Milton wrote his famous Areopagitica to
defend freedom of the press" (Tax 154). Last year alone, there were more
instances of school censorship than any year since 1982 (Clark 171). The
most challenged books deal with the following subjects: sex, feminism, teen
rebelliousness, AIDS, homosexuality, the negative African-American
experience, and non-Christian viewp .....
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Theory Of Knowledge 2
<view this essay>.... or to the accumulation of developments connected with a particular nation, person, thing etc. c) a continuous usually chronological record of important or public events.” In the second part of the definition the key words are “past events especially in relation to human affairs”. History is written by and recorded by humans and there is always an element of bias in it. Because of this we can say that History itself is a very complicated and interesting maze of events which give us hope for the future, insight into the reality that is mankind and the fiction of how the events of our time have been portrayed.
Reality is often a word that .....
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Do Less Blacks Than Their Fell
<view this essay>.... and values changed in America and left blacks behind? According to Gaiter, the web can’t help us achieve our ‘50’s and ‘60’s ideals (p 643).” Blacks still want the traditional “American Dream.” Well, what is the “traditional” American Dream? Perhaps, the dream is to have a nice car and house, and a good job. But in contrast to Gaiter, I believe that these are the same things we want today. Nothing has changed except for the fact that entrepreneurs have emerged with the growth of the Web. People are finding ways to make money from avenues they never dreamed of. The “American Dream” as we know it has not vanished or been left behind, it has simply been revi .....
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