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28 Jun 2010
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Sex and the media

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The average American child views about 4 hours of T.V. a day, and the average adolescent views about the same (Boyd & Bee, 284). It has been proven that the average American adolescent will view nearly 14,000 sexual references a year, and 66% of adolescents say they are influenced by television...

28 Jun 2010
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Elizabeth Bishop: Vision and voice

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

In an interview with Elizabeth Bishop given by the Assistant Home Forum Editor of the Christian Science Monitor, Bishop explained that poems come “in many guises.” This remains true for most of Bishop's poetry, as well as for the voice that is created by her words. For example, in...

28 Jun 2010
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Harry Potter with mass media

Thesis - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Since June of 1997 the words “Harry Potter” have become part of household vocabulary all over the world, and the bases for a seven book series. The story is of a wizard, Harry Potter, as he tries to pass and survive his seven years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Potter,...

28 Jun 2010
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Living on mars: The real and unaltered facts of a medicated teen

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Before I begin there are a few things that need to be sorted out. For one this book began when discussions arose regarding children and teenagers being medicated without any real bases, possibly at too young of an age, and therefore that psychiatrists were not doing a proper diagnosis. Second, is...

28 Jun 2010
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Weak versus woman

Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education

First appearances prove to be more often false or incorrect. It is the effort of going beyond the exterior appearance and discovering the real person underneath. Geoffrey Chaucer, author of the Canterbury Tales, demonstrated the relationship between natural appearance and the actual reality in...

28 Jun 2010
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Surpassing the untrained eye

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The nineteenth century was a time for growth across the world, with advancements in every aspect of life. The art of photography not only grew up during the century, but it also aided in the advancements in many aspects of society. With the constant improvements in technology, the abilities of...

28 Jun 2010
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Jazz's backseat

Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Jazz seems to have taken a backseat in the industry that it once ruled. It is no longer the most popular genre of music in America. Music has been the source of entertainment since the 1300's; it was known for being the art of the muse. For the next 600 years the music scene changed and developed...

28 Jun 2010
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The search leading to cool

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The word cool was developed into English slang following World War II to mean more than relating to temperature. By the 1950's and 60's cool represented a way of life, a relaxed indifference. This way of life was demonstrated and later followed by characters known as Beats. These Beats took...

28 Jun 2010
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Baruch college voting behavior

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

So, what was the purpose of the survey? Well it is easy to understand based on the questions of the survey that it was a questionnaire specifically designed to understand, see and analyze political behavior of students in Baruch College. Now I do have a comparative advantage in doing the analysis...

24 Jun 2010
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D'Emilio, John. 1993. "Capitalism and Gay Identity" Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. New York: Routledge

Essay - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education

In his article “Capitalism and Gay Identity”, John D'Emilio shows how the changing economy has directly affected sexuality and sexual identity. He begins by discussing the colonial era in America, when families were “self-sufficient, independent, and patriarchal.” Sex was for...

24 Jun 2010
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Assigning sex: The ethics of performing surgery on inter-sex infants

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Hermaphrodites have throughout history been in the center of mythology, scandal, and the perverse fascination of the public eye. They have been misunderstood and persecuted for centuries by those who are confused by their ambiguous genitalia. Today, such people possessing to some degree both male...

24 Jun 2010
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Philological sciences

Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Philological sciences are amongst the oldest academic disciplines. Teaching philological sciences to students aged between 15 and 17 is a real challenge. It's hard for the teacher to motivate children during their middle adolescency. The difficulties come from the fact that the teachers often...

24 Jun 2010
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Change is inevitable

Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

I think that throughout this era there was a definite tendency for the government to enforce change to somehow make the nation better. This, however, wasn't always the case as it sometimes led to a great downfall, but with the great risk of changing something that isn't necessarily...

24 Jun 2010
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The gilded age: Glitz and glamour or an era of order?

Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education

While many people contend that the “Gilded Age” was simply the golden age of “robber barons”, such as steel magnate Andrew Carnegie or railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, I posit that a more lasting impact of “The Gilded Age” is that of industrial consolidation and...

24 Jun 2010
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Social stratification

Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education

After reviewing the chapter on social stratification as well as the data sheet, I've come to the conclusion that poverty in the U.S. is vastly overlooked. For example, I had no idea that the percentage of people living below the official poverty line was 12.7% which translates to over 38 million!...

24 Jun 2010
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Continual change

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Throughout our history, we have been a nation of change. This change intensely manifests itself during 1865-1935. During this period, the United States experienced Reconstruction, the rise of industrialization, a massive influx of immigrants, territorial expansion, and technological and...

18 Jun 2010
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Urbanization of the world

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

In 2008, the global urban population outnumbered the rural population. Urbanization is characterized by the growth and development of cities in comparison to rural areas. The term urban previously referred to as savoir vivre, that is the organization of a specific lifestyle in accordance to the...

18 Jun 2010
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Social problems: The issues faced by young girls

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The District of Pau is composed of the Region Unit and two branches. Each branch consists of a multidisciplinary team consisting of social service assistants, secretaries, doctors, nurses, nursery nurses, midwives, specialist teachers, social counselors, family economists and psychologists,...

18 Jun 2010
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Cultural theory in the liberal world: A review

Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Critics of cultural theory espoused that it has become irrelevant in the modern age where terrorism (Eagleton, 2004 cited in Smith 2004), among others abounds. Further, they argued that it was not effective in dealing with the issues of “morality, metaphysics, love, religion, revolution,...

16 Jun 2010
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Culture and nonverbal communication

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The word culture is difficult to define, due to the subjectivity that lies in it. This means that the perception of the concept differs from person to person. The various disciplines that helped to interpret the concept are etymology, philosophy and sociology. Culture can be defined as socially...

02 Jun 2010
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Native Americans and culture

Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Native Americans have a past that is deeply rooted in the history of their culture. For Pauline Puyat to be raised in the world as an orphan is a slap in the face to her heritage; she does not feel connected to her heritage as thoroughly as if her parents raised her to believe in the Chippewa...

21 May 2010
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Virtue ethics & abortion

Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Virtue ethics is a complex theory. It focuses on analyzing the values that are instilled in any given human being at birth, the values they learn through contact with the outside world, family, friends, co-workers, school teachers and other relationships, principles and scenarios they encounter...

21 May 2010
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Crime and the media

Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The American criminal justice system uses deterrence to curb criminal behavior. Our current criminal system enforces crime control by emphasizing the imprisonment of dangerous offenders in hopes that it will deter future criminals. This plan is dated and flawed, because in this millennium,...

21 May 2010
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The internet and its effects on the income earned by music artists'

Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The U.S. record industry has taken a major drop in overall value over the last 15 years. The industry as a whole, worth $14.6 billion in 1999, is now only worth $8.5 billion (“RIAA - Key”). CD sales are also at record lows, while digital downloads, song and album downloads from the...

12 May 2010
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Education and the American dream: Breakdown in Mann's report

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

After gaining independence, USA began to face new challenges in its new found land. With the increase in population, more problems were faced in securing the prosperity and well being for the citizens. How and in what manner should the government enact upon to secure these unalienable rights that...

07 May 2010
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The commodification of babies: An attempt to control through technological advancements in human reproduction

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

We live in a capitalist society. From our moment of birth, we are being socialized to believe that life is a competition and we must continuously fight to win. Jobs have long ago become specialized and almost everything is a commodity. This shapes every aspect of our lives from the most private...

06 May 2010
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A system dynamics approach for village development planning with reference to India

Case study - 12 pages - Social, moral & civic education

This paper presents the results of a detailed 10-week long fieldwork done at the Tuljapur village in Thane district of Maharashtra a state in India obtained from modeling the observed data using the System Dynamics methodology. Various resource-technology-need linkages (forward and backward) were...

06 May 2010
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A branching process in an alternating random environment

Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education

A continuous-time branching process model of a stochastic population is considered in which the life-time and the reproductive capacity of the individuals are dependent on a fluctuating environment. Using an imbedding technique, an integral equation is formulated for the probability generating...

05 May 2010
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An unintended identity: A sub-cultural study of New York garage bands in the 1960's

Tutorials/exercises - 30 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The year is 1964, the exact day, February 9th. Many people mark the day as the historic beginning of the so called “British Invasion.” Some may even go as far to say the day changed the face of American popular music. It's significance is simple. The Fab Four, the Beatles, played on...

03 May 2010
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Intimacy in marriage: Identifying and eliminating barriers

Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Intimacy is a major component of marriage that can accurately predict marital satisfaction. Many areas of intimacy are identified, but emotional and sexual intimacies are thought to be the most important within a marriage (Worthington, 1999). Intimacy is defined and discussed in relation to...