... our children from the violence on our television. Television cartoons often feature dehumanized characters, such as Transformers and the Ninja Turtles, who engage in the destructive acts of violence by fighting our real life social problems. With acts of violence, kids learn to think that's how they should solve their problems. MTV's Beavis and Butt-head encourages fire, smoking, foul language, drinking and stealing. With these bad attitudes seen depicted as normal on TV shows kids are lead to believe it is cool be have that type attitude Is this what we really want our society, especially our younger generation, to believe? If we truly thought t ...
... education and action research for organizing and liberation. They contribute to the development of a strategic vision for the movement emerging in the ese new times-bringing together grassroots, scholar and cultural activists and youth on the basis of equality to join in the process of understanding and transforming our society. The work of Project South is funded by dues and contributions, in-kind work, and grants from the Atlanta Black United Fund, the Center for Responsive Politics, the Schumann Foundation, the Fund for Southern Communities, and the Mayer-Katz Foundation,(South). The following are the true statistics form the 1995 fiscal year and the co ...
... " The message of death spreads rapidly to other villages where the dead person has relatives or friends," showing that death is not only uses kinship to integrate individuals, but entire villages too. The Trobrianders are a matrilineal society, meaning that all descent groups and kinship recognition are passed through the mother. They are organize into dalas, matrilineal descent groups and kumilas, one of four named matrilineal clans. During Wiener's fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands, she experienced the death of an old chief, Uwelasi. The preparation of the burial of a dead person is a complicated division of responsibilities. These roles of obligation are fill ...
... "Our mission is to assist you in putting an end to environmental injustice by way of investigating and exposing environmental degradation, habitat destruction, poaching, clear cutting, pollution, animal cruelty, and government waste and abuse." To the right of the page is a picture of a bird staring forward and underneath that in caps "WE ARE WATCHING". After reading this one gets a true sense that EnviroWatch is looking out for the environment, almost like earth-friendly detectives. The design of their web site is very conducive to quick and easy access. This is definitely a plus for any newcomer who is browsing through the site to get a feel for the organi ...
... got caught up in the gambling fever. There was no way I could make it up. I was depressed for weeks and this was just one of the episodes that led to my divorce after we moved to Reno. Gambling is rapidly becoming America's favorite past time. It is now more popular than all sporting events combined. "In 1995, Americans spent more on gambling than the U.S. government budgeted for defense: around $500 billion in all, or $2,000 for every man, woman, and child" (Vogel 1). Gambling, or "gaming" as the industry calls it, is fast becoming a part of many people's everyday lives. For years, Nevada was the only place you could go for gambling, but now legalized gaming ...
... manifest function here of religion is to provide people with a unifying belief that will scare kids into behaving so they do not go to Hell. The latent function is that it is a slap in the face to every Easterner who has conducted themselves in a productive and positive manner. Many of the Christian right I am sure do not realize how offensive the notion is that Christianity is the only faith to recognize that killing and stealing are bad. What exactly are the "norms" that are so exclusive to Christianity? The Christian world is more afflicted with crime than Singapore ever will be, just take a walk through the super Catholic ghettos of Buenos Aires. ...
... They find the situation overwhelming, and the violence continues. Early Gangs In United States History No groups completely fitting the above description of gangs existed in America until the early 1800s, but from the beginning of the European settlement in America there was gang-like activity, especially when class distinctions came into being. Gang members tended to be from the poorer classes and tended to be from the same race or ethnic background. They banded together for protection, recreation or financial gain. The 20th Century Gangs In the early 1900s the U.S. economy worsened, the population grew at a rapid pace, and the gap between the rich and poo ...
... he will think that it is okay. The fact is that children who didn't have good parents, generally, don't grow up into very respectable adults. The old saying goes: “Monkey see, monkey do.” It may sound like a cheap cliche, but there is a lot of truth to it. While raising a child, a parent might find that sometimes the child is not learning the morals that the parent is trying to instill in their child. In that case, a parent should discipline him. Discipline shows the importance of values in a whole different way. When a child is punished for something he or she did that was wrong, he or she learns not to do it in fear of being punished, but after a whi ...
... an expletive, reflecting his opinion of the military draft. The Supreme Court threw out this conviction as a violation of the First Amendment. Surely the State has no right to cleanse public debate to the point where it is grammatically palatable to the most sensitive among us. Thus, the general rule remains that so long as the means are peaceful, the communication need not meet standards of acceptability. Some advocates of government action to restrict access to music have called certain music obscene and suggested that this might permit federal regulation. Such suggestions cannot be reconciled with First Amendment jurisprudence. Obscenity, which the Court has said ...
... is relative to culture. It also encourages tolerance towards apparently diverse cultures and thus different moral views. For example, to a certain culture abortion may be morally acceptable, cultural relativists would say that abortion is morally right for that culture. Whereas if another culture finds abortion to be wrong, then it is morally right that abortion be banned, for that culture. allows for diversity and differences between cultures, which in turn supports peace between cultures. is a meta-ethical outlook because this theory attempts to explain the status of moral judgments. It gives guidelines as to what may be moral. The divine command theory i ...
