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- 15451: How Can We Tell What Is Good Or Bad?
- ... health of their fellow man! Apparently this society has a double-standard. On one hand advertising and sending messages telling kids to "Don't Do Drugs", but on the other hand televising, for all the world to hear, a president admitting to smoking marijuana and hearing him laugh about it. This society expects the best out of kids, but rewards people who take shortcuts. Showing kids it is easier to live ...
- 15452: Teens and Sex
- ... but will it really work? If schools distribute condoms, shouldn't they also teach the students how to use them and teach them a little about sex (sex education in schools, another controversial topic)? The world certainly needs to try to decrease teenage pregnancies, STD's, and H.I.V. infection. In an article from the New York Times, the United Nations reports that women, especially sexually active teenage girls, have ...
- 15453: Demien Realism
- ... example Emil says, I only feel that it (the sparrow hawk) signifies some shattering event that it concerns all of us. (pg.159). And when the final chapter begins the reader does find out that war is probable between Germany and Russia. Also Demian is a lieutenant in the reserve unit of the German army so he will be on the front lines within a week and that Emil is very ...
- 15454: Depiction Of The American Drea
- ... would eventually lead her to money, but instead, she met death. Another example of the American Dream is the dream of Daisy Buchanan. Daisy fell in love with Jay Gatsby before he went away to war, but her desire for money led her to Tom Buchanan instead. Because Gatsby grew up in a poor family, Daisy was appalled; she favored money, over true love. Daisy s decision to marry Tom was ...
- 15455: Legislating Sexuality
- ... and acceptance in a society that has long closed its collective mind to homosexuality. Since the dawn of American history, equal rights among U.S. citizens has been a hotly debated issue. With the Civil War and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery was prohibited. Women gained the right to vote with the ratification of the Constitution's nineteenth amendment on August 26, 1920(Cooke, 157). Although African Americans gained suffrage through ...
- 15456: Same Sex Parents
- ... means, is to say that this reason alone is sufficient for legalization of homosexual adoption, but it does, however, point out a very desirable side-effect that is becoming increasingly helpful in today's changing world —a side effect that encourages and assists our human race in its effort towards total equality. Many people tend to think that children raised by same sex couples might be influenced towards a homosexual lifestyle ...
- 15457: Female Dominance or Male Failure?
- ... one another like a clone. I believe Thurber views all female species as being similar to one another with respect to their character. The author also associates courtship as a business, a show business. A world which is chaotic, disorderly and full of confusion much like nature. It is an aggressive competition between genders in which mother nature dominates. He also attributes the similarity of constructed rules and regulations in need ...
- 15458: Coersion/Rape
- ... though I continue to be troubled by the use of the word "rape" to cover the whole range of events. For no matter how true the new feminist analysis might be, there still remains a world of difference between a smooth talker on one hand and a man holding a knife to your throat on the other. Calling them both rapists may be a fine way of highlighting the malignity of ...
- 15459: Pornography Censorship
- ... Pornography is another hotly debated issue. Parents have long wanted stricter laws to help prohibit young children getting a hold of magazines, videos and other pornographic materials. With the development of the Internet and the World Wide Web it has become even more of a challenge to prevent children from being exposed to such material. These are some questions that people need to ask them selves and legislators. Should magazine companies ...
- 15460: Dickens As A Motivator Of Soci
- ... seasons as subtle cues in certain scenes. Oliver Twist shows himself to be completely incorruptible. Despite the brutality he endures, he remains an innocent little boy. This ability to remain completely innocent in a cruel world is symbolic of what people of any station are capable of. If this one boy can go through such a cruel life and come out as noble as he did, then there is hope for ...
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