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Essays on Social Issues
Title: Child Rearing In Victorian Times
Details: Words: 1105, Pages: 5... clothes and education and it was absurd to even consider the
child being neglected.
Mothers and Fathers were seen as special, glamourous guests, due to the
fact that they were never around and rarely seen by their children. This was
because child and parent led totally separate existences, they were only
summoned to appear before their parents at a certain set hour of the day. Many
Victorian children like Winston Churchill and Harriet Marden recall such cold
relations between their selves and their mothers that they would be able to
count how many times in their life they had been hugged. Family life was formal,
although during that time child rearing manua ...
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Title: Interpersonal Communication
Details: Words: 1042, Pages: 4... then becomes mass communication. In my definition it is vital
that feed-back be given to the person that is doing the communicating. When
feedback is not present then the lines of communication break down and then
there is no communication at all. Even if the message is perceived wrong
interpersonal communication still exists as long as the feedback is given. For
example: when you talk to someone that is hard of hearing and you ask them to do
something and they hear you say something other than what you said there is
still interpersonal communication, although it is miscommunication. If the
person, however, does not here the speaker at ...
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Title: An Ethical Dilemma
Details: Words: 548, Pages: 2... and as a result he is more successful than ever. It is obvious that the factoring companies have provided a valuable service for some, but lets take a look at the dissatisfied customers.
Orion Olson was injured at the age of three by a severe dog bite causing vision and neurological problems. When he turned eighteen he was already homeless but soon received the first $7500 installment of the $75,000 settlement. This money quickly took him off the street but did not last long. He then turned to a large factoring company by the name of J.G. Wentworth. He sold his remaining future payments of $67,500 for the lump sum of $16,100. He is now homeless again and has ...
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Title: Crisis: Generation X
Details: Words: 1590, Pages: 6... in a society "that has it easy." It is easy
for parents of the "X-ers" to believe this because all they've know is rise.
Rise in population, rise in American business, and rise in overall success.
These days all jobs are taken. The jobs out there are low paying and
demeaning to overqualified applicants. Left only to scrap by, it is not
unusual for an "X-er" to feel "Boomer Envy" described as the "envy of
material wealth and long-range material security accrued by older members
of the baby boom generation by virtue of fortunate births" (Generation X,
pg. 21). The fortunate thing is that "X-ers" have come to realize money is
not the key to life and community and ...
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Title: Japanese Marriage And Wedding Traditions
Details: Words: 2942, Pages: 11... made from the "Muko-iri" practice (for a bridegroom to enter the family of his aimed-at bride) to the "Yome-iri" system (for a bride to be accepted into her bridegroom's home). The change seems to have taken place in the 13th and 14th centuries by the rise of "Bushi" warriors in power.6
During the age of aristocracy, a bridegroom would nightly visit his bride at her home and only after the birth of a child or the loss of parents to the bridegroom or husband, the bride would be accepted as the wife in the man's home. Among common people, labor power was an essential factor to maintain a family. It was an accepted practice in the Tohoku area in northern Japan for a ...
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Title: Selfishness
Details: Words: 388, Pages: 2... person out. You can look at it the same way towards people who help the homeless or give to charity. The main reason they help is really for the satisfaction that they receive out of helping.
, however, in my opinion is too harsh of a word to use for these actions. I mean absolutely everyone seeks happiness and satisfaction in everything they do and therefore it is just human nature to act this way. is a term that can be used to describe people who do things only for themselves and do things solely for their own satisfaction unlike others who do it in part for their own satisfaction but also to actually assist that other person.
This new notion that I've learne ...
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Title: Society's Influence On The American Dream
Details: Words: 1190, Pages: 5... the essential items of life and concentrates his attention towards
material goals and impressing the upper class. Due to the loss of his best
friend, Babbit realizes his life has no meaning and rebels against society's
conformity destroying his reputation. Lacking the courage to be independent,
Babbit's dream of true ecstasy crumbles when he succumbs to hypocritical
lifestyle realizing that he needs conformity. Strongly influenced by a
sanctimonious society, Babbit, a man in search for himself, realizes that he
needs conformity to live.
Babbit dreams of improving his status in the community, not realizing that
hypocrisy is influencing every decision or act ...
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Title: Women In The Military
Details: Words: 2415, Pages: 9... women who have been fighting their way into record-breaking positions so their male peers would accept them. Two of these women are Shannon Faulkner and Shannon Workman. Faulkner was the first woman to become a cadet at the Citadel as she walked through the gates on August 12, 1995. Faulkner entered the 152-year-old military school located in South Carolina as a "knob," or a first year cadet. Upon her arrival, the military made exceptions to certain rules for her, one being that older male cadets could not go through her drawers looking for underwear that was not folded properly. A private bathroom with surveillance cameras was also constructed for Faulkner to preve ...
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Title: Is Psychology A Science?
Details: Words: 1661, Pages: 7... theories based
on what is observed. It examines each theory with rigorous and scrupulous
tests to see if it describes reality. The scientific method works well in
observing and recording physical data and in reaching conclusions which
either confirm or nullify a theory.
During the mid-19th century, scholars (although at that time probably
termed philosophers) wanted to study human nature with the aim of applying
the scientific method to observe, record, and treat human behavior that
was deemed as unnatural. They believed that if people could be studied in
a scientific manner, there would be a greater accuracy in understanding
present behavior, in predicting futur ...
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Title: Animal Rights
Details: Words: 761, Pages: 3... isn't right to cause pain, suffering, and certain death to animals just
for our benefit. Many scientists also agree that this experimental procedure
was wrong but only because primates have higher intelligence. I don't think it
is right for any animal of high or low intelligence, to suffer that way. In
other laboratories animals are confined to small cages or locked up so that thay
can't move. They are then used to test cosmetics and household chemicals. They
have chemicals poured on to their eyes and skin to see if they cause irritation.
These experiments would hurt the animals by causing burns and evn blinding them
sometimes. I don't think it is right to hol ...
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