The working poor: Invisible in America
Book review - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The book, The Working Poor: Invisible in America, by David K. Shipler, seeks to unveil the lives of countless people in America living at or below the poverty line. His intent is to describe their situations and map out the reasons for their poverty and how the cyclical nature of poverty is...
The underground railroad: Midwestern routes
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Underground Railroad was not named as such at its inception. The routes were not marked nor were they traveled the same way each time. Many factors played a part in this; the most important being that it was a secret and undercover operation. The routes were not set in place, mostly...
Native Americans in modern America
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
According to The Dictionary of Anthropology, the definition of genocide is acknowledged as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group as such” (Barfield, 221). History throughout the world has involved much genocide....
Africa's situation
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Africa is one of the biggest continents in the world, approximately three Americas equaling the square mileage of Africa. There are parts of Africa that are largely isolated and uninhabited by people due to lack of resources or areas such as the African deserts Kalahari, Sahara and the Nabib. On...
Visual analysis of an Assyrian winged deity
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Walking slowly through the cool, dark room of Ancient Near Eastern art at the Museum of Fine Arts, visitors come across the superhuman-size, alabaster relief of an Assyrian winged deity. It is this striking deity that catches viewers' eyes easily with its intricacy and precision of pattern as...
Contract and physics of race: A personal encounter
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Children learn so much more in school beyond the printed curriculum. Lessons about race, gender, age, appearance, nationality, et cetera, are being effortlessly related. In fact, scholars have been studying this ‘hidden curriculum' for years (Anyon, 1980). While the scope of this curriculum...
La present day Belle Epoque
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In Bel Ami, Guy De Maupassant tells the story of Georges Duroy, a handsome ex-soldier who exploits his prowess, cunning, and manipulation to ascend the proverbial social ladder for a life of wealth and power. From experiencing countless love affairs with influential women to artfully convincing...
Organizational change in an HIV prevention program
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The persons interviewed were selected to represent Management, fiscal/support staff, and historical line staff knowledge of this program. The author considered interviewing the Region 3 AIDSnet Coordinator, but was asked not to by the Program Manager due to the precarious political environment...
Being educated
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The great French writer Victor Hugo once said, “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” His statement reflects the power of the abstract to influence the physical world. Whilst the rest of the animal kingdom has to adhere to the rule of “survival of the...
Considerations of Coca Cola
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Between the Civil Rights movements, war on poverty, peace protests, assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the rise of counterculture, exploration of space, and Nixon's resignation due to involvement with Watergate, the 1960's were packed full of significant events. The...
Historical significance of 1950 soda ads
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
With a passing glance and little consideration, advertisements may be considered simplistic and irrelevant. However, an astonishing amount of thought and effort is put into ads, producing finished products which significant implicit messages. These messages go beyond the product that is trying to...
Advertising influence: Let's drink to sophistication
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
W.C. Fields, American vaudeville and motion picture comedian, one time joked, “Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water” (W.C. Fields Quotes). To the dismay of many, the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution banned the sale,...
How the busy bee bustles: Learning flights in honeybees
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
While it may take you days to learn your way around a new town, it only takes a few seconds for a honeybee to learn the details of a new landscape. In “Investing in learning: why do honeybees, Apis mellifera, vary the durations of learning flights?” by Cynthia A. Wei and Fred C. Dyer,...
Persuaded by living pictures
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Marchand starts off by discussing women in advertising tableaux. It was undeniable that women made the most consumer purchases, so advertisers gave them a lot of attention. This resulted in new stereotypes of women, as well as a frequently shifting concept of the ideal woman. It also caused a new...
Ease up professor! I'm paying your salary
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In today's society, the consumer mindset has been embraced by a majority of the population and is reshaping society's norms and values. This mindset can be thought of as how individuals put material possessions above love and happiness, as well as an expectation of power and control. What's more,...
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...
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...
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...
