A battle has been in progress for years over whether equal rights and equal protection against discrimination should be extended to homosexuals. Recently this has expanded into the area of marriage. The topic of homosexual marriages is a prevalent issue today. Even in the nation?s capital, representatives are finding ways to make t...
Each day, the statistics on get more and more horrifying. A woman is beaten every 15 seconds, 22 to 35 percent of emergency room visits from women are because of ongoing partner abuse, 1 in 4 pregnant women have a history of partner violence, and 63 percent of young men between the ages of 11 and 20 are in jail for murdering their mothers abuser....
The rise of the ?American? women There are many things that were impacted after the World War I and World War II. For instance, there was the ?great migration? that changed the lives of an estimate of a half of a million African-Americans, which were given the opportunity to migrate from the South to the North. They were given t...
that officially make known minority viewpoints are generally widely stigmatised by the majority as social out-groups (Vaughan and Hogg, 1997). For many theorists, Social Identity (group membership) is an important source of self-esteem, they will cherish what identities they have, fiercely preserving their positive aspects of out-groups, whilst en...
What is Love? Why Are You Asking Me? Upon examination of the vast amounts of theories on love I can only find myself in a more convoluted state. Love is in fact a great mystery to me, and I have only achieved frustration in trying to explicate it. In Scott Peck's book The Roadless Traveled there are a conglomerate of avenues that are explored wit...
Throughout history, minorities have been ill-represented in the criminal justice system, particularly in cases where the possible outcome is death. In early America, blacks were lynched for the slightest violation of informal laws and many of these killings occured without any type of due process. As the judicial system has matu...
Instructor: Dr. Katharina Rout It is my goal as a parent to raise my children to be nonracist. In order to achieve this goal, I need to observe and assess everything my children will be exposed to, be it in the media, opinions of their relatives or the opinions and actions from certain groups within the Canadian society. The racial state...
I. Description of Communist Problem is a system of government where all the countries major resources in the are controlled by the Federal Government (Encarta). It is based on the principal that everyone gives the same and everyone receives the same amount of stuff. No one gets any more or any less. In theory, everyone provides the equal amount of...
Prison inmates, are some of the most ?maladjusted? people in society. Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. They are very insecure and are ?at war with themselves as well as with society? (Szumski 20). Most inmates did not learn moral values or learn to foll...
Today it seems as if everyone has a theory about fighting poverty, now it is not necessary to be moving in the theoretical plane. Our country has had successful anti-poverty programs that were effective back a century ago, effective because they were based on these seven points: affiliation, bonding, categorization, discernment, employment, freedo...
"Taking on anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers in the sanctified courtroom environment is like responding to someone who calls your mother a prostitute. By defending you raise the question that maybe she really was" Anonymous source drawn from Weiman and Win, 1986. The right to freedom of expression can be described as a war. It is a war tha...
To win an argument one must keep in mind the following factors: Is the argument worth fighting? Do you have the proper background to win the argument? Who is your opponent? And finally, do I have the proper argumentative behavior. Before getting involved in an argument, you must decide whether or not it is even worth fighting. Does the subject at h...
In recent years, political discourse about gun control and the Second Amendment has become increasingly volatile. Gun lobbies such as the National Rifle Association are more organized and aggressive and their issue agenda has evolved as new and more powerful weapons and militia appear. On the other side of the debate, the critical...
Television has changed over time. It used to be a wholesome activity for the family to sit in front of the tube together. It was a new technology that brought the outside world into the living room. Now TV, as it has so lovingly been dubbed, has become a source of corruption for the nation's children. As the world becomes more and more violent the...