American Idle (Idol)
Essay - 15 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Love it or hate it, American Idol has become a seemingly immortal fixture in American culture. Pouring into our homes through high definition television on at least two nights a week, the show is more present in family life than your average workaholic, deadbeat dad. Of course the success of the...
Women's identity: How do you find it when the world claims you were born with it?
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Women in theatre are always up or down, the virgin or the whore, over-run with emotions or a stone cold bitch. There is rarely a happy medium for women on the stage. But there is an in-between. There is a middle ground between being an extreme, and being a bore. Despite the fact that every woman...
Etica Moderno ed Il Principe - Modern ethics and the prince
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Practices that are deceitful and cunning, in the interests of retaining power, have been dubbed “Machiavellian”, no doubt for Machiavelli's political treatise The Prince. To many, this short book is a canon of all things unethical; to be called “Machiavellian” is generally...
Human water consumption and utilization
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The history of the relationship between people and water is a long and complex one. The necessity for water to sustain life has driven people to do many things: relocate to where the water is, come up with technological innovations to relocate the water to where they are, use it as a source of...
Gender imbalance and rural families: China's growing problem
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Post-World War II China produced a large number of babies as a part of the baby boomer generation. As a result, the most heavily populated country in the world experienced an exponential growth in their population unlike any other in the world. Because of the fear of depleting their already...
Merits of attention in social situations: An interdisciplinary study in dominance and power
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
As an essential part of everyday life, conversations may often seem simple and one dimensional: one person speaks, all others listen. Upon further dissection, conversations involve many processes: information exchange, information processing, language and more. While attentiveness is just one...
The attachment between college students and their pets at home
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Many first year college students under go the shock that it is to leave a pet at home. Pets are considered attachment figures. The purpose of this study is to find the relationship between college students away from home and their pets and how the relationship strain affects the college students'...
Greenpeace: Anti-corporate watchdogs
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novella Fight Club narrates the experience of adult men disaffected by modern consumer culture who form underground boxing clubs before developing them into clandestine social terrorist groups aimed at destroying hyper-capitalist culture. Read as a critique on the...
Quantifying happiness: Reviewing the Harvard study of adult development
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The ancient Greeks were the first to philosophically study the good life, for example, the writings of Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus, but the topic was also treated in other historical and cultural sources as well. In the Levant, the ancient Hebrews received the Torah (or the Book) from a...
Race and ethnicity
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
When one thinks about the word race, the first thing that comes to mind is skin color. Somewhat recently, it has been discovered that the term “race” may not be as relevant as we thought it was. In Actuality skin color has literally nothing to do with who we are as people or our genetic...
Gender race and ethnicity in relation to youth rights
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
One of the last groups that it is still legal to discriminate against in America is the youth. Most feel as if the youth are an acceptable group to discriminate against being that they are seen as less mature and less ready to take on the responsibilities of the adult world. While it is certainly...
Before teen pregnancy: Contrasting the social capital and empowerment theories
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This paper will analyze two human behavior theories. Within this analysis, the discussion will review the history of these theories, their supporters, the stages of acceptance of the theories, and the strengths verses the weaknesses of each theory. Next, the paper will review the social problem...
Immediate needs: A collective analysis of the Violence Against Women Act of 1995
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The broad policy issue that our committee addressed was violence against women. This issue is often assumed to occur in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV ). However, violence against women is best defined as any act of physical force with the intent to harm, subjugate or abuse a woman...
Cultural competency of adolescent ethnic minority females: Theory, research and practice
Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
As the land of immigrants, the United States is arguably in the most need of a culturally competent society. Yet, internationally Americans are increasingly regarded as US-centric (Berzonsky et al., 2003; Fullerton, 2005; Pew Research Center, 2005). Given such issues as teen pregnancy,...
The woman suffrage movement in Canada and liberation deferred? The ideas of the English-Canadian Suffragists, 1877-1918: A comparative book review
Book review - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In her work entitled The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada, Catherine Lyle Cleverdon artfully constructs narrative analysis of a social movement that gained little notoriety outside of Canada. This particular study is extremely helpful because of its ability to use existing information about the...
DPRK and Juche Ideology
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) came to being as a result of a storied history. It was initially ruled by the Korean Empire until it came under Japanese control as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. Following this, the nation was split up into zones that were occupied by...
The special investigations unit: Policing the police?
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Special Investigations Unit in Ontario was instituted in June of 1990 to protect the rights of the accused in any ongoing police investigation. As a unit that is completely independent of any police service, this program is designed to ensure that the civil and human rights of any individual...
Same-sex marriage: A case commentary
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The case to be reviewed concerns the legality of Same-Sex Marriage, which was designed to instill and protect certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes. Introduced in July, 2003, the constitutional law was intended to encourage the distribution of legislative power,...
The Annex: A history of how it came to be
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Toronto is a vibrant city, one that is comprised of very diverse neighborhoods and localized histories. Each specific neighborhood in the city is a product of a unique history and unique circumstances that helped shape the form it takes today. One such neighborhood is the Annex. The Annex is a...
Ontario budget 2009 & addressing the challenges of the future and crime prevention
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
On March 25, 2009 the Ontario Government tabled its budget for 2009-10. There was much speculation regarding its contents in light of the current recession and prior announcements by the Federal Government with respect to cost-shared infrastructure spending. When it finally did come out it became...
Democracy, globalization and emerging/declining media
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
An important question, right now, according to a recent Globe and Mail article, as well as chatter heard recently while riding the grid-lock streets listening to a taxi driver's radio, is if daily newspapers collapse, is this a sign that democracy is in trouble? Is the increasingly globalized...
Lobbying - Affordable housing in Toronto
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
When attempting to implement a successful lobby, a Member of Parliament can be a good place to start as they are the obvious first link between the electorate and the government. Direct and personal contact is the best way of approaching this MP as they receive many letters and petitions from...
Gender identity and the theory of performativity
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In her book Gender, Identity and Place, Linda McDowell addresses the question of how gender, identity and geography are intertwined in a shared struggle for power, and how they are reciprocal and interdependent? Her main argument throughout the book is that the notion of gender and identity, that...
Gender socialization
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
From the moment a baby is born, he or she is forced into a world of gender socialization that is often rigid and limiting. Growing up in such a world has consequences for everyone, including how much money will be earned, how power will be divided in relationships, even how long and how well...
Interracial dating
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Those born in the United States are more open to interracial dating due to acculturation to America's melting pot of standards. This goes hand in hand with the fact that humans prefer what is familiar. According to the Journal of Sex Research, several explanations have been proposed for this...
Suffrage organizations in Canada and the United States
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The women's suffrage movement was one that held significance all over the world, as many different nations embarked on their own paths toward getting the vote for women. Compared to other English-speaking and industrialized nations like the United States, Canada began its suffrage movement...
The problem of poverty - What is it and how to solve it
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The study of poverty is an interesting one as it is a broad term and there are many different types of poverty. Within the study of this subject, there are some key points to remember. To begin with, poverty is relative, as it is a concept that very much depends on whom one is surrounded by. If...
Structural social work and social problems like drug use
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Structural social work has been an emerging practical theory in the field of social work since the 1970s. It grew in response to the supremacy of class analysis as opposed to other structural factors within the field. The theory of structural social work grew as human relations became...
Using structural social work as a means for understanding drug use among Aboriginals in Canada
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Oppression is something that affects all people within the framework of Western society who are not members of the dominant group. This can include people of color or those with disabilities; those of “other” sexual preferences; and especially the poor. In fact, there are many types of...
Immigrants and consumerism in the city
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
An examination of North American history will reveal that a consumer revolution occurred during the middle of the eighteenth century, and it played a significant role in the growth of society, especially in the United States. This raises the question of how consumerism affected specific social...
