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...
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...
The towel-head earns respect
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Imagine walking into a school with a totally new look, where people are judged for what they wear and are not based on who they are. By changing style into cultural style, one is judged with a different perspective. People open their eyes to see the cultural shift that has been taken place in...
Immigration of Chinese to the United States
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
As the Qing Dynasty started to decline in the late 19th century, many Chinese people sought a new life in a new land, a place known as “Beautiful Country.” The homeland was ravaged by political unrest, most significantly by the Taiping Rebellion which claimed almost 20 million lives...
Graphic design during hard times
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Design following the ascension of socialist regimes adopts a no frills schema. Art must propagate a political leader or laborer. In order to maintain exacting standards, symbolism is thrown out the door, save depictions of swastikas and the like. Progressive movements like Dadaism and Cubism are...
The Fourteen Points
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Fourteen Points, the proposals of President Woodrow Wilson, were designed to establish the basis for a just and lasting peace following the victory of the Allies in World War I. The proposals were contained in Wilson's address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in January of 1918,...
The concepts of ridicule and the ridiculous, oblivion, bereft, exemplar, Rasputin's revenge, dildo beach
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A professor was recently ridiculed for the creativity with which he draws up assignments. These assignments allegedly have no resemblance to the essays that are “normally” published in most of today's literary magazines. I turned this idea of mirroring published material over in my...
Bad human acts: Serial killers
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In America and many other countries there are thousands of criminals and brutal attackers. Serial killers are one of the many crimes that decrease the population. Some manslaughter includes thieves and murders. Other people have mental illness that triggers criminal acts, and then some just kills...
An essay discussing and analyzing issues that influence the nurse's role as a teacher in clinical practice
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This assignment will discuss the nurse's role as an educator in clinical practice and the factors that influence it. It will focus on two scenarios faced by the student nurse and will reflect on the issues raised. This topic has been chosen as the nurse has an interest in mentorship and education...
Erasing the black lines: An examination of a personal behavior change through the perspective of health behavior theories
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Gripping my Chanel “Espresso,” I outlined my lower eyelid. The process took only three minutes at most and was part of my routine every morning. This behavior began when I was fourteen, just after a couple weeks in high school. I only began to reconsider using eyeliner six years later...
Dewey is still in the room: A closer look at Lawrence Cremin's "Public education and the education of the public"
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In his speech “Public Education and the Education of the Public” first published in 1975, Lawrence Cremin questions the polarity between education and society in the John Dewey's progressive theory, saying that it “does not sufficiently particularize the educational situation as it...
The woman division
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
As scholarship on the role of women in the processes of development evolved, so did the assumptions and perspectives about factors at the very core of this field of study. Naturally, the most important and most difficult to fully grasp is “women.” When it began, the field was called...
The construction of the financial world
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Markieke de Goede's Virtue, Fortune and Faith, exposes the ambiguous scientific authority that the financial world has accrued over the years of evolvement. As de Goede presents the various nations that criticized and speculated the essential elements that make up the financial world today, she...
Disability and inequality: Doctor-assisted suicide
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The turn of the 21st century has brought about a relatively new legal issue: Do individuals have a legal right to determine how and when they die? Questions regarding the ethics, legality issues and the morality of physician-assisted-death (PAD) and euthanasia brought these questions into the...
The evil project: The inhumanity of slaughterhouses
Thesis - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Animal - what comes to your mind when you hear that word? Possibly something furry, feathery and friendly, right? The main point is that you think of something happy and living. You don't think of what goes on between when the cow is happy prancing on the field (if he ever has the joy of being on...
AIDS in Philadelphia
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The economy sucks; that's old news. But President Obama continues to inspire and remind us of our duties as Americans to help each other through rough times. The time harkens back to WWII when people grew personal vegetable gardens and donated their pantyhose. Volunteerism is the spirit that...
Walter Rodney and the dependency theory of inequality
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Africa is a continent rich in natural resources. Copper, gold, diamonds, platinum, rubber, and aluminum are just some examples of what the land has to offer. In the nineteenth century, powerful and industrial Europe desired these raw materials in large quantities. The means of acquiring these...
Struggle still exists for new European immigrants
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Piotr Kowalski came to America in 1986 when he was four-years-old. He's from Poland and part of strikingly unheard from groups of immigrants. He's from the new-millennia generation of naturalized citizens, and he's here after fleeing one of the largest radioactive disasters in history. Times are...
Allegations against Black Africans
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In understanding the false allegations that follow the Black Africans, we must first go all the way back and understand their role in history. Black people have been characterized my many a scholar and intellectual, and perhaps analyzing their critiques could lead us to conclude that they had...
Little Rock Nine
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
According to the Princeton Dictionary, progress is defined as an “advancement: gradual improvement or growth or development”. When the idea of progress or growth is brought to mind, most American's believe that extensive progress has been made in the area of racial segregation, more...
Model of human impact: Automobile boom in Beijing, China
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Beijing, the capital of China, has been experiencing a massive increase in vehicle ownership over the past decade. It has become the world's second biggest car market, with 1,000 new vehicles on the street everyday. This trend is not only a problem in Beijing, but throughout China, where the...
