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Family Values
<view this essay>.... my family watching me grow
from infancy to adulthood, guiding me with good values. Family unity is
communicating with each other. Unfortunately, my parents were seldom around
during my childhood stages. Therefore they were rarely home to guide me through
good family values. Now that I am an adult my parents are persistent to spend
time with me and teach me values not taught to me when I was a child. I believe
it's like teaching an old dog new tricks. A child needs direction from the
childhood up to adulthood not the reverse. I recall coming home from school to
an empty house. My parents were working to provide us with a home, things we
needed and wanted. Re .....
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Censorship From "Obscene" Material
<view this essay>.... They believe that some material is too obscene for society to hear or
see. The advocates of censorship get riled up because the movie rating council
doesn't give a move an R-rating for having the occasional f-word. One rap group,
2 Live Crew, has already had one of their albums banned because in one song they
used explicit references to male genitals and 87 references to oral sex. They
used the word "bitch" more than 100 times and the f-word more than 200 times.
Although most people agree that we are being overwhelmed with offensive
material, there is no consensus on how to deal with the problem. There are
three possible solutions. The .....
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Society's Influence On Morals
<view this essay>.... conditions, extreme
brutality is highly apt to occur.
The members of the Police Battalion 101 had the same ideas and
influences as the rest of the German citizens. Because of the racist teachings
produced by the German government, the entire German society was uniform under
the belief that they were the master race. The German were taught that anyone
different from their own kind (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) needed to be
removed from their society in order for it to prosper. The Police Battalion men
shared the same beliefs as everyone else, but they had to perform the dirty work
of killing approximately 83,000 Jews. Christopher Browning states in his bo .....
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Trans-racial Adoption
<view this essay>.... which will, in turn, minimize the effects that it will have on the
child , whether it be a white or black family that it is adopted by. There
is nothing wrong with transracial adoption a child can be loved by anyone
who is willing to love it because love is colorblind.
There are many minority children who are without permanent homes in
the United States, crossing the color bar is frowned upon by many people.
The debate over transracial adoption is whether or not it is in the best
interest of the child. The problem in today's society is that foster care
is preferred over transracial adoption. The reason being the children and
youth services would rathe .....
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Mark Schaller's Study About Fame
<view this essay>.... "celebrity." In a study done by Mark Schaller(1997) three famous people were investigated. One of these people was Kurt Cobain, the lead singer and writer for a popular band called Nirvana. Another person was Cole Porter. Porter was one of the most famous songwriters in the United States in the early twentieth century. The third person was the fiction writer, John Cheever. Cheever obtained the Pulitzer Prize in 1978.
The reason Schaller chose these three people is that they all had self- destructive tendencies in the forms of drugs and alcohol and also had psychological problems sometime during their period of fame. Each of the three were also writers wh .....
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Do We Need Protection In Our Schools?
<view this essay>.... finally hit the teenager stage of their lives, they would be going to high school now and their problems with drugs will most likely be a lot worse. They are using and dealing drugs in school. We would have a computer pick out certain kids for drug testing every couple of weeks. Special drug dogs would be brought in to sniff out the drugs as well. Drug testing is essential and we need to crack down on these "crack heads."
We have to face the fact that teenagers do have sex. We can not stop them from having sex but we can help them from making a big mistake. Condoms would be sold in our schools. Maybe they won’t be sold in public but they will be available in .....
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Linguistic Bias
<view this essay>.... that every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved..." (Miller, Swift) Radical feminists cannot eradicate what has taken hundreds of years of conditioning.
As anthropologists have taught us, change and evolution are a long term process who's roots begin with extremism. However, incidents such as bra burning at Berkeley during the 1960's did not facilitate the acceptance of woman over night, it was merely the beginning. Gender neutral language demands a reconditioning of society to see words such as "chairman, alderman etc..." not as a malicious attack upon woman, but as non-sexist, non-biased terms. "English language is .....
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Evil From Morals
<view this essay>.... God exists, there can only be one answer: evil exists
because God allows it, and moral evil exists because God has given us freedom of
choice.
Evil has been looked at in many different ways throughout the years.
Philosophers like Socrates and Plato believed evil was a matter of ignorance.
Ancient Persians saw good and evil as two principles, "engaged in a perpetual
struggle."(Collier) In reality, evil is merely the absence of good. "The essence
of all reality is good, evil is merely the faulty reflection of reality found in
a world of particulars."(Funk & Wagnalls) There can be many different types of
evil. Two of such types are moral evil and natural evil. .....
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