Teacher's migration in the Philippines
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The proliferation of skilled persons' migration in recent years has led to liberalized immigration policies vis-à-vis highly skilled professionals from developing countries. However, the resultant effect of this is to trigger an exodus of skilled personnel in developing countries, with the large...
The talk show in relation to the free and democratic debate of the public sphere
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The materialization of mainstream broadcast television in the 1950s and the emergence of omnipresent dissemination of the format in the 1960s arguably blurred the traditional distinction between the personal and political by “producing a public sphere in which social questions are understood...
Amish may be good Neighbors, but not their horses
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
-English pop in small town of Loyal, WI, take issue with Amish's effects on road: presence on high-traffic roads, manure on roads and hitching posts -issue resurfacing after 3yr old agreement: no city requirement of diapers in exchange for Amish cleanups and nonuse of major roads -Amish important...
What would Weber say?
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
LOYAL, Wisconsin - Horse manure is the main concern of the non-Amish, or who the Amish call the “English,” population. Many Amish commuters that travel to town via horse and buggy have lately failed to clean up their horse droppings. The Amish use the banks and stores of the town, and...
Brown v. board of education
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In keeping with the theme of examining national mythologies, we should look at Brown v. Board of Education with a critical eye. By and large, our society accepts the idea that racial segregation in schools are inherently unequal, that is, the end result will be disparate even with equal funding...
What would Durkheim say?
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
ROANOKE, Virginia - The town is experiencing a divorce rate about twice as high as the national average, and is taking action to reduce the problems that result within the family. Due in large part to a suffering local economy, shifting cultural views towards marriage, and increased economic...
Much ado about incest taboo
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
As González establishes with extensive detail, there are multiple parallels between two stories, Infante's “The Voice of the Turtle” and the Arawak folktale of Deminán Caracaracol and his brothers, and both imply the incest taboo under the guise of a bestiality taboo story. In...
African American family
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This essay aims to reinforce both afrocentric and revisionist models of the African-American family. An integral part of this argument will be to deny cultural deficit theory, and instead to focus on how African cultures blended together with each other and simultaneously adapted to New World...
Circumcision and the Sub-Saharan AIDS epidemic
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
On April 7, 2006, I attended the Hopkins All University Seminar on Africa (HAUSA), and was especially interested by the forum and presentations about the African AIDS epidemic. The speakers came from a variety of academic disciplines, including epidemiology, nursing, anthropology, and biology....
Impact of the Tsunami on Sri Lankan women
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The devastation caused by the tsunami that struck the Southern, Eastern and Northern borders of Sri Lanka on the chilly morning of 26th December 2005 sails through our hearts even today. Thousands breathed their last breath in the turbulent waters of the tsunami, regardless of age gender or...
Life as a 20-something in New Zealand
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The New Zealand economy has recently been and continues to be re-structured. The government's goals appear to be to move the country towards industrialization and a place in the global economy. Agriculture continues to be the basis of New Zealand's economy, though this is changing as the...
Resistance in Southern Europe
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Understanding resistance also means asking what constitutes an act of resistance in such regimes. Roseman in particular examines this issue. In "How We Built the Road...", she considers the ways in which Spanish Galicians reconstruct history on a local level (through folklore, etc.) in response...
Russian culture in the new era
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Around the time of the burgeoning revolutionary government and consciousness in Russia, four thinkers contributed to a debate on culture, religion, art, and the state. In their works, Blok, Lunacharsky, Gershenzon, and Ivanov, all put forth their views on the role of the state and the...
From modernism to post-modernism
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Weber wrote during the period of Germany's unification and rapid industrial development. He was concerned with the role of the individual within this emerging, increasingly urban society and sought to preserve stability in what was an increasingly socially-stratified state -- between the old...
Academic knowledge and power and the social sciences
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Social science knowledge informs the way in which people interpret their experiences, and can be empowering, as in the case of political and feminist discourses. However, knowledge, employed as discourse, can also be employed in ways that disempower, and this is the focus of much of...
"Love" in Baldwin's 'Another Country'
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Another Country is concerned with the intersection of race, sexuality, and society. Throughout, its characters struggle and suffer… struggle with “making it” (whether artistically or in the sense of pure survival), struggle in their personal relationships, and suffer the...
News and media in 1776
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Robert Darnton, in the introduction to his presidential address to the American Historical Association of 1999, speaks of the role of the media and communication systems in the « Old Regime » of France, circa 1750. He argues that the way in which people tend to view the modern era - as a unique...
McCalls Pumpkin Patch provides family fun and scary spooks
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
About ten years ago Kevin McCall invited his first group of school kids out to the McCall farm for field trips. Today the farm is visited by over 60,000 people to pick pumpkins, go on hay rides, walk through the corn maze and enjoy other activities. The McCall Land & Cattle Co. in Moriarty is...
In defense of food
Presentation - 22 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Half of us believe high - calorie foods eaten in small amounts contain more calories than low - calorie foods eaten in much larger amounts. A third of us believe that an absolutely fat free diet is better for us than a diet containing the smallest amount of fat. If you're alone on an island for a...
All my sons and the generation gap
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The modernism model challenged pre-existing socio-cultural norms and was exemplified by the discussion of social relationships in early twentieth century literature. The concept of modernism developed from refutation of creationism and reinforced self identity and self consciousness as a form of...
Childhood blood lead level trends
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This report discusses the childhood blood lead level trends from the year 2000 to 2008 of children under 6 years of age living in North Dorchester tested will be compared to the data from the children of the same age group with the National data and City of Boston Massachusetts. This is a...
Poverty
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Defining and measuring poverty is a troublesome task due to the fact that there are many variables to be taken into account. Some degree of ambiguity and statistical data are necessary in order to provide a definition and a measure that can be applied effectively by policy makers (Think Quest,...
Are rights to religious expression given sufficient protection in schools and workplaces?
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into UK law and the preamble to the HRA states that its purpose is to “give further effect to rights and freedoms guaranteed under the European Convention on Human Rights”. Furthermore,...
A new era for women
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the 1900's things were changing drastically in the United States. Business was booming, cities and industry were expanding and the American people were evolving. During the period of all this change, no social, economic, gender or racial group was quiet. Worker's fought for better wages and...
Human sexuality: Ed Wood's Personhood
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Tim Burton's 1994 film Ed Wood is a meaningful parody that brings to life the biography of Edward D. Wood Jr. (a struggling filmmaker, actor and writer who reveals his identity as a heterosexual transvestite) as he would have filmed it. Wood comes to terms with his fetishes and the comfort he...
Racism, harm and hate crimes
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The term disproportionate harm refers to the idea that the impact of hate crime is different and more pronounced than other crimes. Unlike other crimes, hate crimes are personal. They are not a random act of violence, but a targeted act rooted in hatred towards a particular group's identity...
Gaul and the diffusion of the Mediterranean culture
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Julius Caesar's The Conquest of Gaul offers to the reader a rare glimpse into the complex world of Gaul. When Caesar invaded Gaul, he found a strange world, quite different from the Mediterranean world with which he was familiar. At the same time, the Mediterranean and Gallic worlds have been...
Nuclear taboo
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Sixty four years after the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the legacy of nuclear weapons remains one of non-use. Despite perennial involvement in large-scale violent conflict, the institutionalization of nuclear weapons in military planning, and the growing ease of use of its...
The elements of culture and the impact on interpersonal relationships
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The article Communication and Shared Reality: Implications for the Psychological Foundations of Culture asserts that language in a culture comes from similar experiences that are individually experienced and then used to form beliefs as a group and those beliefs become the basis for communication...
Beyond patriarchy
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
For many people who live in the modern world, the oppression of women is something that they would like to think of as something that is a thing of the past. Most members of the public would prefer to believe that being female doesn't necessarily mean that someone can expect to receive fewer...
