Video game violence and its effects
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The object of my research proposal is to discover whether violent, realistic video games truly do influence those who play them to also participate in violent behavior. In the past, people have blamed violent video games such as the Grand Theft Auto series as a source of violent behavior. Grand...
Research essay on bioterrorism
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Many different types of warfare have been used over the past century. There is conventional warfare, which is conducted by using conventional military weapons and battlefield tactics between two or more states, and unconventional warfare which refers to raiding, guerilla, and insurgency....
Social responsibility
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
It has become a social norm in our society today, to be more concerned with personal wellbeing, then with that of someone else. This can be seen as a very selfish way to look at life, and it tends to be characteristic of many upper and middle class citizens in this country, and throughout the...
Sex and the media
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The average American child views about 4 hours of T.V. a day, and the average adolescent views about the same (Boyd & Bee, 284). It has been proven that the average American adolescent will view nearly 14,000 sexual references a year, and 66% of adolescents say they are influenced by television...
Elizabeth Bishop: Vision and voice
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In an interview with Elizabeth Bishop given by the Assistant Home Forum Editor of the Christian Science Monitor, Bishop explained that poems come “in many guises.” This remains true for most of Bishop's poetry, as well as for the voice that is created by her words. For example, in...
Harry Potter with mass media
Thesis - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Since June of 1997 the words “Harry Potter” have become part of household vocabulary all over the world, and the bases for a seven book series. The story is of a wizard, Harry Potter, as he tries to pass and survive his seven years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Potter,...
Living on mars: The real and unaltered facts of a medicated teen
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Before I begin there are a few things that need to be sorted out. For one this book began when discussions arose regarding children and teenagers being medicated without any real bases, possibly at too young of an age, and therefore that psychiatrists were not doing a proper diagnosis. Second, is...
Weak versus woman
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
First appearances prove to be more often false or incorrect. It is the effort of going beyond the exterior appearance and discovering the real person underneath. Geoffrey Chaucer, author of the Canterbury Tales, demonstrated the relationship between natural appearance and the actual reality in...
Surpassing the untrained eye
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The nineteenth century was a time for growth across the world, with advancements in every aspect of life. The art of photography not only grew up during the century, but it also aided in the advancements in many aspects of society. With the constant improvements in technology, the abilities of...
Jazz's backseat
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Jazz seems to have taken a backseat in the industry that it once ruled. It is no longer the most popular genre of music in America. Music has been the source of entertainment since the 1300's; it was known for being the art of the muse. For the next 600 years the music scene changed and developed...
The search leading to cool
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The word cool was developed into English slang following World War II to mean more than relating to temperature. By the 1950's and 60's cool represented a way of life, a relaxed indifference. This way of life was demonstrated and later followed by characters known as Beats. These Beats took...
Baruch college voting behavior
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
So, what was the purpose of the survey? Well it is easy to understand based on the questions of the survey that it was a questionnaire specifically designed to understand, see and analyze political behavior of students in Baruch College. Now I do have a comparative advantage in doing the analysis...
Assigning sex: The ethics of performing surgery on inter-sex infants
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Hermaphrodites have throughout history been in the center of mythology, scandal, and the perverse fascination of the public eye. They have been misunderstood and persecuted for centuries by those who are confused by their ambiguous genitalia. Today, such people possessing to some degree both male...
Change is inevitable
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
I think that throughout this era there was a definite tendency for the government to enforce change to somehow make the nation better. This, however, wasn't always the case as it sometimes led to a great downfall, but with the great risk of changing something that isn't necessarily...
The gilded age: Glitz and glamour or an era of order?
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
While many people contend that the “Gilded Age” was simply the golden age of “robber barons”, such as steel magnate Andrew Carnegie or railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, I posit that a more lasting impact of “The Gilded Age” is that of industrial consolidation and...
Social stratification
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
After reviewing the chapter on social stratification as well as the data sheet, I've come to the conclusion that poverty in the U.S. is vastly overlooked. For example, I had no idea that the percentage of people living below the official poverty line was 12.7% which translates to over 38 million!...
Continual change
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Throughout our history, we have been a nation of change. This change intensely manifests itself during 1865-1935. During this period, the United States experienced Reconstruction, the rise of industrialization, a massive influx of immigrants, territorial expansion, and technological and...
Urbanization of the world
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In 2008, the global urban population outnumbered the rural population. Urbanization is characterized by the growth and development of cities in comparison to rural areas. The term urban previously referred to as savoir vivre, that is the organization of a specific lifestyle in accordance to the...
Social problems: The issues faced by young girls
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The District of Pau is composed of the Region Unit and two branches. Each branch consists of a multidisciplinary team consisting of social service assistants, secretaries, doctors, nurses, nursery nurses, midwives, specialist teachers, social counselors, family economists and psychologists,...
Cultural theory in the liberal world: A review
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Critics of cultural theory espoused that it has become irrelevant in the modern age where terrorism (Eagleton, 2004 cited in Smith 2004), among others abounds. Further, they argued that it was not effective in dealing with the issues of “morality, metaphysics, love, religion, revolution,...
Culture and nonverbal communication
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The word culture is difficult to define, due to the subjectivity that lies in it. This means that the perception of the concept differs from person to person. The various disciplines that helped to interpret the concept are etymology, philosophy and sociology. Culture can be defined as socially...
Native Americans and culture
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Native Americans have a past that is deeply rooted in the history of their culture. For Pauline Puyat to be raised in the world as an orphan is a slap in the face to her heritage; she does not feel connected to her heritage as thoroughly as if her parents raised her to believe in the Chippewa...
Virtue ethics & abortion
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Virtue ethics is a complex theory. It focuses on analyzing the values that are instilled in any given human being at birth, the values they learn through contact with the outside world, family, friends, co-workers, school teachers and other relationships, principles and scenarios they encounter...
Crime and the media
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The American criminal justice system uses deterrence to curb criminal behavior. Our current criminal system enforces crime control by emphasizing the imprisonment of dangerous offenders in hopes that it will deter future criminals. This plan is dated and flawed, because in this millennium,...
The internet and its effects on the income earned by music artists'
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The U.S. record industry has taken a major drop in overall value over the last 15 years. The industry as a whole, worth $14.6 billion in 1999, is now only worth $8.5 billion (“RIAA - Key”). CD sales are also at record lows, while digital downloads, song and album downloads from the...
Education and the American dream: Breakdown in Mann's report
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
After gaining independence, USA began to face new challenges in its new found land. With the increase in population, more problems were faced in securing the prosperity and well being for the citizens. How and in what manner should the government enact upon to secure these unalienable rights that...
The commodification of babies: An attempt to control through technological advancements in human reproduction
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
We live in a capitalist society. From our moment of birth, we are being socialized to believe that life is a competition and we must continuously fight to win. Jobs have long ago become specialized and almost everything is a commodity. This shapes every aspect of our lives from the most private...
A branching process in an alternating random environment
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A continuous-time branching process model of a stochastic population is considered in which the life-time and the reproductive capacity of the individuals are dependent on a fluctuating environment. Using an imbedding technique, an integral equation is formulated for the probability generating...
Intimacy in marriage: Identifying and eliminating barriers
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Intimacy is a major component of marriage that can accurately predict marital satisfaction. Many areas of intimacy are identified, but emotional and sexual intimacies are thought to be the most important within a marriage (Worthington, 1999). Intimacy is defined and discussed in relation to...
Adolescent divorce group
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the United States, over one million children go through their parents' divorce each year (Rich, et. al., 2007). Divorce is very hard on children, and is a process that can go on for years, causing children to be more likely to engage in delinquent behaviors, and are more likely to display...
