The advantages of conforming to society's expectations are obvious. You will be widely accepted as the norm and you are likely to be more popular than people who don't conform to society's expectations. You can be yourself and do whatever you feel like if you don't conform to society's expectations. You may not be as popular as a conformist, but y...
When parents send their children away to college, they expect them to receive a quality education that will prepare them for the real world. However, most parents do not realize that their hard-earned money is being used to purchase hard liquor. Recent studies show that 82.5% of all college students drink (http://www.edc.org/hec/pubs/binge.htm)....
s are alike in some aspects of life, while being dissimilar in other aspects. This idea is clearly exemplified when one compares their own experience and knowledge of culture in America to that description and portrayal of Nigerian culture as seen through Buchi Emecheta's novel, The Wrestling Match. Both of our societies can be looked at as paral...
Why should marijuana be legalized? Many people, old and young, everywhere in the world, partake in the activity of smoking this plant and buying paraphernalia. There are many substantial reasons to use this plant, besides for extra-curricular purposes. Marijuana should be legalized because it?s the holder of many beneficial uses...
When you hear the word gang you probably think of shootings in the news, maybe even neighborhood. But do you know the reasons why these gang members act like that? The police feel as if they're the victims, but in reality the gang members are. Blood and Crip made in America is a documentary that I have watched. In which a small club to help the com...
The following report will attempt to provide a brief, yet concise policy profile of Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar. Beginning with a short biographical review, the profile will proceed and concentrate on Senator Lugar?s major areas of public policy concern; Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, and in part, his 1996 Presidential...
Euthanasia has become an issue of growing attention. Jack Kevorkian, ?Doctor Death? is a good example of a technical dispenser of death. He is the most famous physician on the planet who makes a living by helping others commit suicide. If euthanasia is legalized then there will be more ?Doctor Deaths? in this world, which certai...
Los Vendidos means the sell-outs. All the characters in the play sold-out at some point during the play. The characters sold out both their races and their way of life. I would say that the person who sold out the most was the Mexican-American because he sold-out both his Mexican, his American heritage and way of life. He wanted to be perfect, so w...
Gang related incidents have been a chronic problem throughout the United States for several years now. Los Angeles, perhaps the area most troubled by gang violence in the country, is once again in the news. On September 17, 1995, 3-year-old Stephanie Kuhen was with her younger brother, 2-year-old Joseph Kuhen when the driver of the car taking the...
A Voice for the Voiceless Comment: I think the text shows just how cruel humans can be towards animals (chimps), which maybe all people from whom is descended. This is what I would call, ?no kind of life?, I mean, being locked up for medical purposes only. You cannot behave by instinct, like have a natural inborn tendency to...
With industrialization and globalization, more and more farmland, jungle, wetland and wasteland are swallowed up in the name of modernization. Therefore, a large number of wild animals are killed or driven out of their original habitats. In the past, the tribal people who lived peacefully in their ancestral land gradually lost their land, and the...
The police. Twenty-four hours a day, three hundred sixty-five days a year, this division of our government has a mandate to enforce the criminal law and preserve public peace. Understood in this mandate is an obligation to police everyday life matters that originate in the daily lives and activities of citizens within their community. Police int...
Yes, the military does have sexual harassment and discrimination against women in the nineties. "Firestone and co-researcher Richard J. Hurns analyzed a 1988 DOD Survey of men and women in the military and found that 51.8 % of men and 74.6% of women reported either experiencing or knowing of sexual harassment. Amoung the women surveyed, 70.1%...
With the emphasis on grades in school, there are study techniques that will help students learn more efficiently such as studying at decent times, learning the material the correct way, and using his or her time wisely. If the students study at a decent times, he or she stays alert and has full concentration on his or her studies. With full conc...