.... step with inflation and an ever increasing cost of living. However, as inflation increases, the purchasing power of the keeps dropping. The would need to be increased to keep earning workers at a decent standard of living. If the is increased it will help out the lower class people that need it the most, and help raise them from poverty. One argument given to oppose increase is that most earners are teenagers from families who are not poor. This meaning that raising the will not be effective in aiding those families at the lower end of the wage scale. This however is not true for it has been shown that only 11.7% of teenagers in families with abo .....

.... in the community. WHY PEOPLE JOIN GANGS There are many reasons people join gangs. Attention, excitement, peer pressure, protection, and financial gain are a few. In some families, gang membership is a tradition. Other people become gang members because they think gangs are trendy. Many youths do not realize the risks and hazards of gang involvement. Parents may not be aware of their child's involvement. Parents should discuss gangs with their child and actively discourage gang association. SIGNS OF GANG ASSOCIATION Parents should be aware of behavior changes in their children. Such changes include; a decline in grades, truancy, graffiti in the you .....

.... change. The advancements that nationalism provided failed to acknowledge the changes that women were hoping for. Once women began to fight for their own concerns, the strong backing that the nationalist parties had provided were quickly disintegrated. Nationalism is the fight one country has to gain independence from another country. In many cases, this struggle happened in countries that practiced colonialism. This is because there was an economic imbalance between the more powerful country and the country where raw materials were being taken from. The subordinate countries in this case began their quest for industrial status. Many of these countrie .....

.... think they actually have it easier than us. What we may think is so easy they think is much harder. And I think people need to realize that and help them out a little. I feel bad for the way they have to live their lives. Buchanan has many students who are disabled. It is very unfortunate that there are so many of them. Disability awareness is a very big problem in today’s society. Most of the students who attend Buchanan high school don’t take into consideration that they have feelings too. are real people just like us. They may think and act different that people we are used to being around. However they still need to be treated with kindness and respect. Pe .....

.... nudity and sex. Allusions are made to sex in every part of our life. Work, school, sports, and recreation are all forums through which unhealthy sexual views are expressed. One of the more predominant and obvious forums for the proliferation of unhealthy sexual desires is pornography. Pornography is displaying the human body in a perverse, sexual way. It can be found in film, magazine, television, on CD-ROM, and even the internet, and can range from "soft-core", depicting natural poses and action, to "hard-core", or depicting sex combined with violence, that any reasonable, decent, well-adjusted human being would recognize as horrible and disgusting. Mu .....

.... family. By 2030,the population is projected to hit eight to ten billion. With this rapid growth, concern for the future is inevitable. The planet can not handle anymore chaos and can not create enough food to disturbate to those who are in demand of it. A stable relationship with plants and animals must be attained or future populations will suffer. Problem About 140 000 million babies will be born, and 53 million will die which gives the overpopulated world an additional 84 million people per year. With the planet growing at alarming rate 230 000 per day people, With the increasing population, pollution is on the rise, making safe water scarce In Asia t .....

.... slight touch, or a verbal comment. Whatever the situation, there will be a variance in the degrees, as to what men and women constitute as being sexual harassment. "Psychological texts on sexual harassment outline various forms of behavior ranging from quid pro quo demands for sexual services to hostile jokes and sexual innuendo" (American Psychological Association, 1981, 1991). "Sexual joking, touching, and patting may be considered unwelcome sexual attention to some, but not others" (Gutek, Morasch, and Cohen, 1983). Women more often than men conclude that these forms of sexual harassment are serious and offending. Is there a difference between what .....

.... in the back, we noticed a man walk by several times, each time starring right at us. The man appeared to be lost and distraught. Finally, he stepped into the store and I approached the cash register preparing for an order. “Pay attention! Open the drawer, hand me the money, and no one gets hurt.” He proceeded with shaking his pocket and reiterating his words. “Sam-” he cut me off replying, “No, don’t talk to your friend, give me the money.” Words started vibrating, my every moved seemed in slow motion. “Here,” I managed to say. I handed over the whopping twenty dollars Swan Cleaners had made during the course of the day. Without counting it he ran out the d .....