Harvesting Hope: Strategies For the Revitalization of Rural Churches Amidst the Ongoing Impact of Covid-19
Case study - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This research paper contributes to churches' immediate and ever-changing situations post-COVID-19. A tremendous experience of over thirty years working as a preacher and a pastor is significant to me. I am motivated by this journey because of the rural church community of which I am a part....
Growing Body Dysmorphia Issues Among Females and accepting body image in children
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
There is no corner that social media has not pervaded in our lives, making it an inexorable place of scrutiny for beauty and lifestyle choices. I am a young woman and, thus, am already considerably aware of the pressure to look and live in a specific way, a lot of which many claim the carefully...
CSWE Core Competencies
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The CSWE Core Competencies outlined in CSWE EPAS 2015 guidelines offer a detailed framework for social education. These competencies are vital in preparing students for professional practice. One of the core competencies is to identify as a professional social worker. This competency requires...
The Impact of Mobile Phones on Social Relationships
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The impact of mobile phones on social relationships, especially among adolescents, has been a topic of much discussion and debate. While some argue that mobile phones facilitate wider social connections and access to information, others contend that excessive mobile phone use negatively affects...
Asian Americans
Case study - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
To start the study of Asians in the United States who are not as feared as immigrants from other origins, we could use the traditional approaches of Functionalism, Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interactionism to the statistical and descriptive information from López et al. (2017).
Reasons and Consequences of Child Abuse
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Child abuse is a deeply troubling issue that affects millions of children worldwide, leaving long-lasting emotional, psychological, and physical scars. It refers to any act or series of acts that harm or potentially harm a child's well-being. While the causes of child abuse are complex, they...
Virtual/visual ethnography: methodological crossroads at the intersection of visual and internet research - E. Ardévol (2012)
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The text by E. Ardévol (2012) sets out to show the interest of a so-called modern method for conducting ethnographic fieldwork, namely the use of the internet and new digital technologies. From an epistemological perspective, the author's aim is to question the innovative field of visual...
The Guardian, Six myths about sleep: if you got up early to read this, you're in trouble - Paul Kelley (2015) - How does the lack of sleep affect our society?
Text commentary - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
It's generally acknowledged that sleep represents a major part of our lives, however, we tend to underestimate the importance of quality sleep. The article "Six myths about sleep" was adapted from the Guardian in October 2015 and tackles the issue of sleep. This issue is linked with social...
Comparative Research Project - Ethics of Vaccination
Summary - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Vaccination gives humans and living beings immunity against some viruses, allowing humans and animals to live longer, as they can now be protected. Vaccination is a very important procedure in several countries, as it can provide people with general immunity. However, some vaccination campaigns...
Cyberbullying
Presentation - 14 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As the name suggests, cyberbullying is bullying in a digital place such as phones, computers, tablets and many more, in différents areas like messaging, social media, online gaming or forums. The cyber bully sends negative message increasingly.
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (1850); The Rev. and Mrs. Palmer-Lovell with their two daughters - Augustus Leopold Egg (19th century); Billy Elliot - Stephen Daldry (2000) - To what extent does gender have an impact on education?
Text commentary - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This document tackles 3 documents : - Document 1 is an extract from the novel entitled David Copperfield written by Charles Dickens and published in 1850. It is a coming-of-age novel. - Document 2 is a painting by Augustus Leopold Egg realized in the 19th century. It pictures The Rev. and Mrs....
Land grabbing in post-Soviet Eurasia: the world's largest agricultural land reserves at stake - Oane Visser & Max Spoor (2011)
Book review - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The redaction takes place during the beginning of a project led by Visser about land investment strategies and their effects, concerning food security and sovereignty, labour issues and rural development. Visser and Spoor being specialists of post-Soviet countries in their own discipline, they...
Guns in America Cover - Time Magazine (November 5, 2018) - What 245 Americans Think About the Issue
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Facing the debate on individual weapons ownership and gun violence in the United States, artists try to alert and provoke public opinion through their works, being biased or not at all. The work I will show you dates back to 5 years; this is TIME's November 5 cover, made in collaboration with...
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig (1995) - AI fundamentals and intelligent agents
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad and interdisciplinary field that aims to create machines or systems that can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. A machine's intelligence can be tested by comparing it to a human's intelligence. The Turing test is one way to do...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills in the US
Presentation - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Today, I am going to talk about the surge of anti-LGBTQ laws in the US. To do so I will start by taking the example of the expansion of the Don't Say Gay bill in Florida, on April 19, 2023. The original Don't Say Gay law, adopted in 2022, banned lessons relating to sexual orientation and...
The emergence of gated communities in the United States
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The gated communities are special areas, or closeted residency where a certain group (part of the same club, people from the same social class, same beliefs, etc.) of people who choose to live together, sharing some private area (like parks, swimming pools, etc.). It's been a few years since...
To Court Workers, Japanese Firms Try Being More Gay-Friendly - Jonathan Soble (2017) - Cultural Differences
Book review - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This document provides a reading guide for the article "To Court Workers, Japanese Firms Try Being More Gay-Friendly" published by The New York Times in 2017 about cultural differences.
Maleficent - Robert Stromberg (2014); Evil Thing - Serena Valentino (2020); Moon Palace - Paul Auster (1989); Women's Voice and Images in Folk Tales and Fairy Tales - Luma Al-Barazenji (2015) - Women Empowerment
Presentation - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The document is an oral presentation which studies the case of women empowerment. In order to approach the subject, four documents are taken into account: - a poster of the movie "Maleficent," released on May 18, 2014, by the director Robert Stromberg; - an excerpt from "Evil Thing" written by...
Role of Education in Gender Equality: Stereotyping - published: 04/11/2023
Presentation - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This document is a guide summarizing the main concepts to be covered in a 15-minute presentation on the role of education in gender equality.
Intergenerational Digital Forum
Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The intergenerational digital forum is conceived as a round table meeting between pupils and newly arrived young people through migration. The main idea of this forum is to address the problem that elderly people are facing when it comes to navigating and do simple tasks on digital tools.
Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987) - Black people's conditions in the seventies
Book review - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Beloved is an American fiction novel by Toni Morrison, published in 1987. Its story's plot is based on the notorious real adventure of Margaret Garner, an African American slave who succeeded into escaping to Ohio, murdering her last child rather than offering a new slave to the world. The...
Because of Stereotypes About Native American Women, Can It Be Said That They Were Totally Enslaved by Their Husbands and Male Relatives or Whether, They Had Any Kind of Autonomy, Importance and Influence Within Their Tribe?
Dissertation - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The study of women in the chronicles of India has focused mainly on the odyssey of Spanish women who migrated to the New World, relegating the experience of Amerindian women to a second level. In the event that the latter appear, we encounter a fundamental problem: although the range of women...
Exploring Gen Z's perception of social media: the line between intrusiveness and engagement
Thesis - 24 pages - Sociology & social sciences
We live in an era that is marked by the omnipresence of social media and it is irrefutable that over the past few decades, social media advertising has undergone a profound transformative evolution. Generation Z (Gen Z), often considered to be the first generation that has been brought up in an...
How did fashion contribute to women's emancipation?
Presentation - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Innovative, shocking, empowering, fashion has always reflected the society in which it evolved. It had a huge role in the progress of women's place in society. The definition of progress is a forward or onward movement towards a destination. How did fashion contribute to women's...
Digital society
Course material - 33 pages - Sociology & social sciences
ICT is a major technological change whose effects have only begun to be measured for about ten years. Beyond the appearance of new activities related to ICT, such as start-ups, online shops for example, digital technologies have considerably facilitated the production and exchange of information....
Understanding the World Through the Study of Foreign Languages
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Nowadays, communicating can be done in various ways. The voice, hands, body language or even texts can be effective ways of spreading a message. However, the main barrier stopping us from easily communicating with every single population is the variety of languages. It is to say that translating...
Geography, Demography, Social Issues, Education and Culture in the United States of America
Course material - 20 pages - Sociology & social sciences
(...) One of the characteristics of US climatic conditions is the constant fear of violent climatic happening such as hurricanes (in the Southeast, particularly during the fall), violent wind storms known as "tornadoes" (the Midwest), or flooding due to heavy rainfall and storms in the eastern...
Technology, a Benefit to Superheroes - Introduction
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
During the digital revolution, technology scares. It is thought to be harmful and will destroy our way of life and our humanity. This fear is reflected in the feature films of these years: "Terminator" (James Cameron, 1984), "Matrix" (The Wachowskis, 1999), "War Games" (John Badham, 1983) to name...
Cancel Culture
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Nowadays, there is a phenomenon that is gaining momentum, and that is to cancel culture. If I had to define cancel culture, I would say that it is a movement aiming to exclude, erase and boycott everything that does not fit in with the moral sense in order to fight against the stigmatization that...
The Relationship of Immigration to Deviant Behaviour
Dissertation - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This is a huge phenomenon today, and according to the official UN website, it affects 272 million people in 2019. Often, a link is made in public opinion between the deviance and the migratory origin of an individual. According to Bereska T.M., this deviance can be defined as "often referring to...
