Sexual Deviance
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
These days it almost seems as though the internet is synonymous with pornography. When the internet is mentioned on television, there is usually pornography displayed or mentioned. One reason why internet pornography is so popular is because the internet provides anonymity to it's patrons,...
The Bat Stops Here - Or does it ? The Continuing Obligation of Agencies under NEPA and ESA
Essay - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA) are two important environmental statutes passed by Congress to help preserve the earth and its resources for future generations. Under these statutes, governmental agencies are required to determine how their...
Freedom and Women in American Realism
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Freedom is a prevalent theme in a lot of the American realism stories. However, in most of these stories, the focus is on a man's literal quest for freedom. Less common, but not infrequent, is the portrayal a woman struggling for that ideal. The woman's pursuit is more abstract than a man's. They...
On My Honor
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Boy Scouts of America in all forms, across the United States, involve young boys and young adults in a number of healthy and education experiences in their programs. Since the Scouts' founding 1910, the organization has sought to help shape boys into lively and well-rounded adults. The...
Typical Assimilation?
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The stereotypes presented in the novel, Typical American by Gish Jen, clearly show a mutual misunderstanding between races. It also illustrates the use of racism as a defense mechanism when new to integration and assimilation. Stereotypes in this story are a sort of segue from an old way of...
Induced Misunderstanding
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In recent news, Polner writes “Linden Corrica lost his freedom and his life in New York over $10 worth of marijuana.” Corrica is an immigrant who lived in New York with his wife and kids. He was one day caught with a small ten dollar bag of marijuana, and pleaded guilty. He spent 20...
Student Culture and Michael Moffatt
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Michael Moffatt, author of Coming of Age in New Jersey, performs a study at Rutgers University during the mid 1980's. In hopes of gaining a better understanding of the student culture, Moffatt conceals his anthropologist identity by resembling - in appearance and in manner - a freshman student at...
Communication Theory within Interpersonal Communication
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Hikrokawa and Gouran were two experts on group communication. They figured out the most effective ways that groups communicate and the most practical solutions to everyday group communication, whether in a business environment or a personal relationship. At its core, Functional Perspective on...
Group Theory and Uncertainty
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Relationships are still a mystery to many people in many walks of life. Man to woman, woman to woman and man to man. Dating is not just the only form of relationship in question by theorists of communication but all types of friendship are thrown into the controversy as well. In 1973, Altman and...
The European Union
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - European union
The European Union, which formed under this name in 1992, currently consists of 25 nations and covers much of Western Europe. The European Union is an enormous organization that was initially created to maintain peace and security between European states through various political and economic...
Domestic Violence
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Domestic and intimate violence is a subject with deep historical roots. It is only recently, however, that an understanding of how much abuse actually takes place has been uncovered. According a report by Huang and Gunn, “The National Violence against Women Prevention Center (NVAA) has...
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The concept of Artificial Intelligence has fascinated humans for as long as computers have been around. It should come as no surprise that countless engineers, programmers, and researchers are intensely studying AI in an attempt to create intelligent machines that can mimic human thought and...
Intelligent Design and Religion
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
According to the First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” and according to the Fourteenth Amendment, “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” Thus,...
Feminism and Eve
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Since the dawn of time, women have been fighting for equality. Although it has been a difficult battle, women have come a long way. They are able to vote and make their voices heard. They have careers. Women are becoming more independent and liberated each and every day. Feminism is not just a...
The Art of Loving War
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The image of a soldier is that of a stereotype. He barely passed high school or did not pass at all. He laughed at the idea of college, he laughed at the price. He works every weekday and drinks every weekend. Bosses and police officers have no reasons to give him a second chance. “One...
Plain Sex
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
We are all born to love; whether this is a gift or a curse has yet to be decided. In the world of George Orwell's 1984, to love is to commit a crime of treason. On a shallow level, this portion of totalitarianism appears completely unjust. But if one is to look a little deeper, and understand...
Ronald McDonald is More President than Bush
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Throughout history, the global aristocracy has faced only one task more daunting than that of achieving prosperity: the eternal struggle to stand undoubtedly separate from the impoverished, and consequently, to subordinate them. And they have made this separation very clear with the use and abuse...
Paulie's Sacrifice
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Homosexuals are not a recent plague, their fight for marriage not a new phenomenon. Gay couples have been seeking this right since the day straight couples were guaranteed it. But the times have changed, and the debate over the issue is no longer unequal; in its continuous strive to assert...
Let's Talk About Girls: The Negative Impact of Feminism on Modern Society
Essay - 12 pages - Social, moral & civic education
On June 28, 1998, Ally McBeal graced the cover of Time magazine; not in the name of television or Hollywood or fashion, but in the name of feminism. According to The American Century Dictionary, feminism is the advocacy of women's rights and sexual equality. So how does an upper-class woman who...
Fear of Sin
Thesis - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
(King James Bible, Psalms 34:1) With patriarchal systems prevalent in most societies, masculinity is often exalted as a source of universal power. Critics, often focused on the issues of political correctness and moral integrity in such sexist assumptions, never object to the actual existence of...
Exploring Developmental Forces
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Almost the exact opposite of what The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo represented, this show represented how children should act. They should be open, accepting of their peers, seeking what is on the inside versus what is on the outside. Unlike Saving Faces, it downplayed the role of physical...
Expectation and the Age of MTV: A New Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
First impressions are unavoidable. From high school to the work place to any social situation, the fantasies of love at first sight and sudden distaste are brought to life through the senses. The key word is unavoidable: as Ann Gazin states in Instructor, “as fallible humans, [it is only]...
Between Affliction and Alcatraz
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
History is littered by the decaying carcasses of punishment, institutions that will forever be remembered for their severity, even amidst the global hunger for something worse. The tortured ghosts of this nation's blackest memories still walk the halls of Alcatraz. The billowing sails of the...
Touching and Lying: A Christian Dilemma
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Personal space is a very ‘touchy' area for most people and Christians are all the more affected by its presence because God first stated it. In the book of Genesis, God says clearly, “‘you must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch...
Anthropological Analysis of an Egalitarian Society (The Lahu people)
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Until recently, according to an innumerable amount of anthropologists and feminists, a gender egalitarian society was simply a utopian ideal (Du, 1-6). It was a concept unattainable to any individual society unless certain concessions were made, such as the view that women and men have...
The Foreign Policy Transition: Isolationist to Internationalist
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Many people describe the period between World War I and World War II as a time of United States isolationism, but that is a common misconception. While it is true that during the interwar period America was very politically isolationist, the country was very imperialistic economically. Following...
Mixed Messages
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
During the 1960's, the civil rights movement swept the nation as African Americans rallied to overcome segregation and bigotry. Although in the long run these activists furthered the constitution's promise of equality, they met strong resistance from the predominantly white majority....
The Illusion of Civilization and Illusions Within
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
An illusion has the ability to distort the perception about reality. It can be used as a way to disguise something from its true nature. In his work The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud offers an analysis on illusions. He suggests that an illusion is different than an error, because an...
Love: The key to the Human Soul
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Love has played a significant role in people's lives since they have been able to acknowledge it. Romance appears in almost all aspects of human life from entertainment to politics to business to children's movies. As soon as children can read, write, speak, and understand the world around them,...
The Physiology of Love and Homosexuality
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Usually love finds its place in literature, an ideal romantics hold closely to their hearts. Studies, however, show that love belongs more in the logical world of science rather than the idealistic realm of romance. Darwinian evolution, neurotransmitters and autonomic functioning appear to...
