How young is too young?
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
England has recently unveiled a new sexual education program focused on beginning such programs early in a child's development. The curriculum would introduce topics pertaining to a sexual nature starting as early as five or six years of age and would continue through middle adolescence in an...
Oil is the lifeblood of America
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In modern America, most activities of common life revolve around oil. All over the nightly news, every newspaper, and in everyday conversation there is talk about rising gas prices and the control oil has over people. In the painting above, the anonymous artist conveys the problem he sees in...
Water's role in the weather and the sustenance of life
Thesis - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
This brings to mind the question; what then is, water? Water seems like such a simple thing. Water is a fluid substance that makes up more than three fifths of the earth's surface. It is an absolutely necessary element for the sustenance of all life on earth including animal, human and plant....
The ethics of child sexuality
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The ethical status of children and sexuality has come to the forefront of our society's attention. There has been a strong attempt over the years to reduce sexual behavior in children. In the United States, the legal age of consent in most states is age sixteen, but some states have it set as...
Advertising photography
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Modern age is the age of advertising and all advertising involves pictures, whether still or moving. Our day starts with the newspaper and can we imagine a newspaper without advertisements? Preparation of advertisement material is a joint effort of photographers and other creative people to...
Diagnostic essay- Figuration in Heat
Essay - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The figure in Heat that I found most significant is Neil McCauley as a single man with no attachments. Neil McCauley is a middle aged professional criminal. When he was young, he was told to live in such a way that if he ever had to leave suddenly, he could do so with no baggage; literal or...
The country doctor: A reaction paper
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
For many people, medicine is almost magical and doctors are demigods. Because sickness leads to suffering, loss of function and even loss of life, the ability to heal is highly esteemed. The relationship between the patient and the doctor is termed “fiduciary' - it is built on trust and...
Leisure and the life cycle: The functions of leisure throughout the aging process
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Leisure is truly a universal human need. Every society, culture and region in the world has forms of entertainment and recreation designed to fulfill a wide range of needs. However, as people age many of their needs change, and thus their leisure and its functions change as well.( Kelly, 1982)...
The digital divide and its effects on work environments
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The nature and structure of an organization is often a hard thing to understand. It can be so flexible and elusive at times that it seems to be reminiscent of a unicorn or other mythical animal: much talked about and yet seldom seen. However, beneath every operating structure lies a model which...
The mass media and poverty
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
As long as societies exist, social problems will exist as well. Just as there is arguably no ‘perfect' human being, there is just as much reason to think that there is no such thing as a ‘perfect' society. It is a sobering fact that social problems are normal features of the society and...
The role of the trickster in indigenous legends and mythology
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Almost every culture in the world possesses a collection of stories, legends and myths which in some way or another represent aspects of that culture. Often, much of a culture's world view can be seen in the stories and legends that abound in it, as some qualities, traits or actions will be...
Climate responsibility
Essay - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
As the issue of climate change has transitioned from probability to certainty, the debate over how responsibility should be spread has heated up. Some have posited that developing countries should be exempt from greenhouse gas limits placed on production, leaving developed countries to bear the...
Climate change
Thesis - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
It is clear, in light of continuing climate change evidence that action must be taken to respond to these developing conditions and to prepare for potential future problems. The most important component of any action plan is maintaining our drive for scientific research into the effects of global...
Gender roles with respect to the American society
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The gender roles, or the fundamental behaviors assigned to women and men in a society, have been changing more rapidly since the industrial revolution. Yet as much as these roles have transformed over the last several decades, conflicting expectations and pressures still exist within our society...
The modern day exploitation of women
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
It is clear to see that the images portrayed of women in the media have changed the values of society as a whole, it has changed the way men see women and the way that women see each other and ultimately themselves. Should the entertainment industry be allowed to use the image of women in a...
True effects of video game violence
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Ever since the invention of video games worrisome parents have questioned the effects of the violence in these video games on their children. There has been a lot of attention on this issue, with it peaking in the late 90s and early 2000s. This was primarily because of the invention of more...
Between sexuality: The rise of the bromance
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
While some may call the film “Superbad” immature, unnecessary, and disgusting, I find it to be a heartwarmingly hilarious movie that details the so-called “bromance” of two best friends in the final days of high school. To the uninitiated, a bromance is not a homosexual...
Advertising and social influence
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Advertising is the most prevalent form of communication. The ubiquitous nature of advertising is mind boggling to say the least. According to David Shenk's book Data Smog, on an average day in 1971 Americans were exposed to about 560 advertising messages a day. By 1997 that number had exploded to...
The towel-head earns respect
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Imagine walking into a school with a totally new look, where people are judged for what they wear and are not based on who they are. By changing style into cultural style, one is judged with a different perspective. People open their eyes to see the cultural shift that has been taken place in...
Immigration of Chinese to the United States
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
As the Qing Dynasty started to decline in the late 19th century, many Chinese people sought a new life in a new land, a place known as “Beautiful Country.” The homeland was ravaged by political unrest, most significantly by the Taiping Rebellion which claimed almost 20 million lives...
Graphic design during hard times
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Design following the ascension of socialist regimes adopts a no frills schema. Art must propagate a political leader or laborer. In order to maintain exacting standards, symbolism is thrown out the door, save depictions of swastikas and the like. Progressive movements like Dadaism and Cubism are...
The Fourteen Points
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Fourteen Points, the proposals of President Woodrow Wilson, were designed to establish the basis for a just and lasting peace following the victory of the Allies in World War I. The proposals were contained in Wilson's address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in January of 1918,...
The concepts of ridicule and the ridiculous, oblivion, bereft, exemplar, Rasputin's revenge, dildo beach
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A professor was recently ridiculed for the creativity with which he draws up assignments. These assignments allegedly have no resemblance to the essays that are “normally” published in most of today's literary magazines. I turned this idea of mirroring published material over in my...
Bad human acts: Serial killers
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In America and many other countries there are thousands of criminals and brutal attackers. Serial killers are one of the many crimes that decrease the population. Some manslaughter includes thieves and murders. Other people have mental illness that triggers criminal acts, and then some just kills...
An essay discussing and analyzing issues that influence the nurse's role as a teacher in clinical practice
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This assignment will discuss the nurse's role as an educator in clinical practice and the factors that influence it. It will focus on two scenarios faced by the student nurse and will reflect on the issues raised. This topic has been chosen as the nurse has an interest in mentorship and education...
Analysis of the Indian economic sector
Thesis - 3 pages - Economy general
India is slowly emerging to be the next economic superpower of the world. It is often regarded as the other Asian giant, and has shown consistent growth in terms of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the years. This growth has been fuelled by enormous economic progress which allowed it to...
Erasing the black lines: An examination of a personal behavior change through the perspective of health behavior theories
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Gripping my Chanel “Espresso,” I outlined my lower eyelid. The process took only three minutes at most and was part of my routine every morning. This behavior began when I was fourteen, just after a couple weeks in high school. I only began to reconsider using eyeliner six years later...
Dewey is still in the room: A closer look at Lawrence Cremin's "Public education and the education of the public"
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In his speech “Public Education and the Education of the Public” first published in 1975, Lawrence Cremin questions the polarity between education and society in the John Dewey's progressive theory, saying that it “does not sufficiently particularize the educational situation as it...
The woman division
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
As scholarship on the role of women in the processes of development evolved, so did the assumptions and perspectives about factors at the very core of this field of study. Naturally, the most important and most difficult to fully grasp is “women.” When it began, the field was called...
The construction of the financial world
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Markieke de Goede's Virtue, Fortune and Faith, exposes the ambiguous scientific authority that the financial world has accrued over the years of evolvement. As de Goede presents the various nations that criticized and speculated the essential elements that make up the financial world today, she...
