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To Help The Poor
<view this essay>.... give a poor child
foor, slothing and vaccination. Perhaps people in the industrialised
countries think these charity aids are needless, because the government
donates a share of its budget to help the developing countries. Yet
governments cut their foreign aid, the multinational companies take even
higher adventage of the cheap labour force in the developing countries and
if , after all, people think the future will offer equal chances for
everybody without any help from the rich, awakening from this fantasy is
needed.
The information the media give is inadequate, therefore people
should obtain information spontaneously. Yet, common people find it
fru .....
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Conformity In Society
<view this essay>.... the audience who laugh and call her 'freak'. The conservatively dressed, Jenny Jones, saves the day, saying, "I have some of the best fashion designers in the business who will give this misunderstood misfit some real clothes." During the brief commercial break, the girl is converted into a clone, a fashionably wonderful clone. To live in our age and era, it is completely impossible to live and escape conformity. This silent epidemic affects society as a whole and almost every aspect of each individual.
Conformity is the tendency of an individual to change their thinking and behavior to the social norms. The most apparent effect of conformity is shown in .....
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Violence In Music And The Media
<view this essay>.... there are thousands more whose values are being fashioned subtly through disturbing musical messages.”
I believe that one of the most prominent examples of violence in music is the controversial song by the band Body Count “Cop Killer” which was discontinued from all music stores after some police officers were murdered. The chorus to this song can obviously explain why it was discontinued. The chorus goes as follows, “I’m a….COP KILLER, better you than me. COP KILLER, f**k police brutality! COP KILLER, I know your family’s grievin’ …F**K ‘EM! COP KILLER, but tonight we get even. I think just from those few lines you can understand why it was necessary t .....
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Terrorism
<view this essay>.... And whose history? Terrorism is
not the simple, sharp-edged, bad-guy phenomenon we all love to condemn. No clear
line marks off politics from the threat of force, threat from use, use from
covert or open war. Who is or is not a terrorist? The suicide bomber, the rebel
guerrilla, the liberation front, the armed forces of the state?
Terrorism is fundamentally a political act. Terrorists act to advance a cause
they mean to create tyranny, either directly or indirectly, so that the
political order that they prefer can take the place of the current one.
Terrorists can be either rebels seeking to overthrow a state or states seeking
to overthrow the international ord .....
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Curfews, And Other Limits
<view this essay>.... always the case
though, some teens need every rule stated, or they might test your patients.
Parents should remember that they know heir teenager best, and they need to set
rules according to their own teen.
Drugs and other illegal things are often a problem with certain teens,
but some teens will never try drugs. Teenagers will turn to drugs for answers
to problems. To avoid having problems with your teen, spend time with them and
talk to them. In dealing with a teen who has taken illegal drugs, you as a
parent need to try to understand why you teen has committed the crime. Only
when you understand the child, then you can give the appropriate punishme .....
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The Positive Aspects Of Fraternities
<view this essay>.... events, events to benefit the homeless, raise money for
the poor and commit themselves to learn about one another.As a student makes
these commitments to a fraternity, the fraternity provides a structure within
where these commitments can be acted out, in such things as rituals of pledging
and initiation. A ritual is only one way of expressing a fraternities ideals and
aspirations. A fraternities name, tradition, and history carries much symbolic
importance to all who are apart of it. This is all important to the personoining
because it eiil only help the to better themselves by growin into he fraternity.
With all these commitments and traditions, or ritu .....
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The State Of The US Family
<view this essay>.... consisting of a husband, wife, and children, has slowly begun to become units of single parents. "In these single parent family units, have tripled since the 1970's where as the two parent families have decreased by 250,000. Two primary reasons…the high divorce rate and an increase in unwed mothers" (Henslin 323). With the high divorce rate and unwed mothers, there seems to be a lack of stability in the family. The children of these homes only have one parental role model to draw their elements of social integration from. Also, since our society is obviously based on two-sexes, these children are emerging unbalanced and unprepared to deal with the pres .....
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Images In Advertising
<view this essay>.... have to look good, a monster was born. Regardless of who we are, our lives are vastly affected by this advertising. This image is embedded inside our heads that the hourglass body, blonde hair and even the perfect smile are what it takes to be successful and likable in this world. Cosmetic purchases have vastly risen to an all-time high due to this false idea. Cosmetic surgery, which alters your looks to mimic someone else’s, is also in high demand. Why would you want to look like someone you do not even know?
When advertising a diet drink, the commercial shows you a slim, fit person that is the perfect height and weight. Society is led to believe th .....
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