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- 10421: Child Abuse
- ... maltreatment 12%. In 1986 when approximately 26% of the children were reported for physical abuse, 16% for sexual abuse, neglect was 55%, and 8% for emotional maltreatment. Child Fatalities: Today many young children remain at high risk of loss of life. Between 1995 and 1997, 78% of children under the age of five, at the time of there death, while 38% were less than one year of age. Cause of death ...
- 10422: The Chinese New Year
- ... Lunar New Year. The cake also sweetens the mouth, metaphorically. Every traditional Chinese household should also have live blooming plants to symbolize rebirth and new growth. Flowers are believe to be symbolic of wealth and high positions in one's career. Lucky is the home with a plant that blooms on New Year's Day, for that foretells a year of prosperity. The Chinese firmly believe that without flowers, there would ...
- 10423: Knights and Chivalry
- ... Furthermore, fitting the Knights character, there are no stories bordering on the vulgar and no coarseness. The love is an ideal love in which there is no hint of sensuality. The love exists on a high, ideal, platonic plane. The emphasis in the Knight's tale is upon the rules of honor and proper conduct. These qualities fit the Knight good because he would bring his opponent armor before they began ...
- 10424: Blacks Treated as Lower Class Citizens
- ... considered a lower- class citizen in most people's eyes. At the same campus a black government candidate's posters were defaced (Cain). This shows that the white community does not want blacks in a high government position. A government position is a symbol of a higher- class citizen and since whites defaced the posters it is clear that the whites treat blacks as lower- class citizens. The next example that ...
- 10425: Animal Rights
- ... death to animals just for our benefit. Many scientists also agree that this experimental procedure was wrong but only because primates have higher intelligence. I don't think it is right for any animal of high or low intelligence, to suffer that way. In other laboratories animals are confined to small cages or locked up so that thay can't move. They are then used to test cosmetics and household chemicals ...
- 10426: What Are Values?
- ... an increase in crime and violence, sexual activity, and drug abuse. Today youths are committing more crime and acts of violence more than ever. News stories of kids killing kids and students carrying guns to school are common throughout America. Since 1985, more than 28,500 of America's youth have died from gunshot wounds and today, every 90 minutes a child is killed from a firearm( ). Before people used to ...
- 10427: Teaching Respect To Children
- ... peers, and they definitely do not have any respect for themselves. What parents need to do is from an early age teach their kids to respect everyone, from the person sitting next to them in school to their coworkers in the future. People do not understand how much better the nation would be if the respect was there. Even if some parents do not teach their kids this valuable trait, if ...
- 10428: Generations
- ... occur from generation to generation, and most of them are not an issue between my parents and I. My parents more often then not take the view that as long as I do good in school and don't get in much trouble, I can grow up without their close and constant supervision. Of course there are a few things that we conflict upon, but nothing that disturbs or seriously affects ...
- 10429: Republicans! Unfavorable Acts Caused The Rise of The KKK
- ... They were composed of the Grand Cyclop, The President, the Grand Magi, the vice-president, and the Grand Exchequer, the treasurer. The Klansmen adopt a uniform. The uniforms were white, long robes, White masks, And high pointed hats. ( Ingalls, Hoods 3 ) Adopted during 1866-67, the Republican party's Reconstruction program threatened to turn southern society upside down. The promise of equal rights for blacks flew in the face of the ...
- 10430: Racism Today
- ... of race has become more complex^Χmore complex because there are now multiple agendas including affirmative action, quotas, and set-asides" (Piazza 34). The main agenda revolves around affirmative action, steps taken by an employer, school, or other institution to expand oppurtunities for blacks, hispanic people, women or other minority groups. "The clear implications of the most recent Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action programs is that such programs will be ...
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