America: Living And Breathing In Fear “If more guns make people safer then America would be one of the safest places in the world, but it is the opposite.” The quote was from Michael Moore’s film Bowling for Columbine; in Moore’s film he tries to discover why and what makes Americans so violent. He takes many different approaches in trying to find out the truth; Moore interviews people

Life Sucks Why is it that nothing can ever go right' Is it some unwritten law that whatever needs to happen for you to actually enjoy your life or your weekend or even your night that something will automatically happen to fuck it up. You think that you finally have something figured out then all of a sudden...BAM!! It blows up in your face. The entire female race is ridiculous. You can

Persuasion Paper The City of Durham and The Russell Community are currently under fire, due to the discrimination that occurs in the rental housing market with particular focus on low-income minority households. Several low-income housing developments in the Durham area are being revitalized to luxury apartments and town homes. While the transition will occur the tenants are being

Domestic Violence Domestic violence is an abuse of power usually perpetrated by men to exercise control over women and children (BWRI 2003). It usually occurs between a man and woman who share or shared an intimate relationship. Domestic violence is never an isolated incident (Walker 2002). It is a systematic pattern of abusive behavior that build up and escalates in frequency and severi

How Did September 11th Affect Foreign Policy On September 11th 2001, the function of foreign policy in America changed forever. Our foreign policy went from being a matter of world peace and trade policy to primarily a matter of the safety of the American people. The first action after this change, Operation Enduring Freedom, meant the beginning of a long process to disarm the worldwide

Social Impact of the Internet Research Paper Theme: Social Impact of the Internet 8 October 1997 ABSTRACT The Internet is the largest source of information in the world today. With its web sites and chat rooms, it is a means of communicating with people in places all over the face of the earth. Since its conception in 1973, the Internet has grown at a whirlwind rate. 51 million adults, w

Phillipe Bourgois Philippe Bourgois's In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio has shown a great deal of commitment to the work that was involved in completing his research on poverty and marginalization. The field of study on poverty and marginalization by Philippe Bourgois was only twenty blocks from the area in Manhattan's Upper East Side known as East Harlem. However, those

Excuse Me Flo, Where’d This Big Mac Come From “Excuse Me Flo, Where’d This Big Mac Come From'” “Family farmers care about the land they farm. We need to keep as many farmers on their land as possible-for their sake and ours.” This quote comes from John Melloncamp who is the director of the Farm Aid organization. After growing up in a small country town I came to realize the hard

Are Humans Rational' Are humans rational' The human species has well developed cognitive abilities compared to animals. These can be remarkable like language and many other communication systems. Our visual system provides us with excellent vital information for the environment. Besides, through thinking and problem solving, we have adapted the environment to suit us and developed scienc

Child Punishment No Punishment for Children Sins Parents can only beheld for certain limitations of their children’s behavior, “Punishment for the sins of the Children, John Leo stated that both stigmatize parents with their assumption that a child’s misbehavior results from failure of parental super visions”(440). I feel that parents should not be responsi

Exchange Theory The exchange perspective emerged, in part, out of behaviorism by emphasizing observed behavior through a system of punishment and rewards. Other contributing factors include the rational choice theory, and micro-level studies on group process, power, and dependence. Essentially, the exchange theory curtails the social world as an endless series of exchanges. These exchang

Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5th 1818 in Tier. He was one of four siblings and as the only son; he was his father’s favorite. His father, Heinrich, was married to a Dutch Jewess named Henrietta Pressburg. Heinrich was a Jewish Lawyer that had a firm belief in Judaism (http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html). It wasn’t until 1838 he converted his whole family to C

Nuture Vs. Nature A debate that all sociologists find themselves trying to fight is the Nurture vs. Nature. It is also sometimes known as the genetic/environmental controversy. The debate concerning the influence of nature and nurture in development is one of the most controversial and long-running in Psychology. When trying to answer the question \'What makes us the way we are'\', we ne

Pericles Funeral Speech Pericles’s Deathless Funeral Speech Even though it has been thousands of years since the speech of Pericles’s many of the issues he touched on still apply today. One issue I am going to touch on that Pericles used in his speech is the military, and how the tactics of war of today’s society are closely related to those back in 430 b.c. Another aspect that I wil

Homelessness The need for emergency shelters has shown a dramatic incline in the past years. The demand for emergency shelters has rose 500% since 1988 (“Not Gone, but Forgotten'” 1). Many of people every night are stranded outside with not even a blanket for the night because all the shelters are full and sometimes the shelters will not except certain people. In some places, the waiting

Color Blindness In The U.S Race relations are an ever prominent issue in American society. Controversies focusing around race are a commonly seen smeared across the front page of the newspaper or headlining on the evening news. The opposition is usually between a minority group and "The Man," a colloquialism used by many Blacks to refer to the overwhelming power stemming from white racis

Education And Wages Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality' Quantile Regression Evidence From Sixteen Countries* (7 October 2002) Pedro Silva Martins1 University of Warwick Pedro Telhado Pereira 2 Universidade da Madeira, CEPR and IZA Abstract: Quantile regression estimates of returns to education are used to address the relation between schooling and wage inequality. Empirical e

Getting Unplugged In Order To Unwind My first day of being unplugged was very hard to swallow. I am so use to just going from class to class on my cell phone or getting in my car and listening to music. I found it very hard to shy away from using any media, everywhere I went there was a television or radio on. My first day was a Monday, and I had to drive to my house, which is 45 minu

Media And Child Pornography Laws The Internet and Child Pornography Everyday millions of people get on their computers and surf the net. We can access things that are thousands of miles away in less than a minute. The Internet has made everything convenient to the world. Convenience is nice but is it safe. People can get away with breaking some forms of the law by using the Internet. Ch

Police Brutality Police work is dangerous. Sometimes police put in situations that excessive force is needed. But, because some officers use these extreme measures in situations when it is not, police brutality should be addressed. The use of excessive force may or may not be large problem, but it should be looked into by both the police and the public. For those people who feel rac

Police Conflict Conflict: An Officer’s Excessive Force Torsten Ove, a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff writer, reported on April 24, 2001 that a confrontation between police and community transpired into a conflict. The altercation began when Officer Anthony Cortopassi noticed a couple passing a cigarette back and forth on the West End Overlook, a notorious “hot stop” for marijuana smo

Population The need for action is pressing in order to feed the expanding human population, expected to increase by almost one billion people per decade for the next three decades at least. Much of this increase will occur in developing countries in the low-latitude regions of the world. To meet the associated food demand, crop yields will need to increase, consistently, by over 2% every

Population Growth “Carrying capacity- The maximum number of individuals that a given environment can support without detrimental effects.” With a current population of about 6.2 billion people, the Earth is rapidly approaching its carrying capacity. Developing countries are already experiencing the consequences from a saturated planet. It is only a matter of time before we, the

Marx Marx interpreted the Protestant Reformation as an aspect of the struggle of the rising bourgeoisie against the feudal ruling class. He saw the Protestant ethic as an ideological weapon used by capitalists to convince workers that hard work and obedience to their bosses was demanded by god. The Protestant ethic was meant to control the behavior of the working class, not the

Pornography Sex sells, this is the method in which many advertisers sell products. Not only does sex sell merchandise but also it sells it self as pornography. You can buy images of sex at any corner store drugstore or supermarket. It has grown to the point were stores specialize in the sell of sexual oriented material. These store make thousands of dollars off of sexual explicit items t

Pornography And Women The debate of women in pornography has been a well developed over the decades. With the emergence of women’s liberation there have been several organizations against the pornography industry such as Women against Pornography (WAP), Women against Violence Against Women (WAVAW), and Women against Violence in Pornography and the Media (WAVPM) (Cowan 347). These groups

Divorce The immediate effects of divorce, such as hurt, anger and confusion, are evident in both children and adults. The longer-term effects are not so easy to pin point. Adults are usually able to articulate their emotions and verbalize their distress, anger, pain and confusion to help themselves through this period of transition in their lives. As well, adults have the means and abi

Prejudice Giving Up Prejudice Prejudice is a negative attitude towards a group of people who have some characteristic in common that is not shared by all people. An attitude is a person’s tendency to respond favorably or unfavorably to the objects and situations he or she encouterns. Attitudes towards a group or person are made up of three components: affective, cognitive, and behav

Prejudice INTRODUCTION People tend to judge other people most of the time unconsciously. Although this judgment is unfair, it is a reality which is constantly present in our society. We tend to have certain impressions about people we see for the first time and predict the way they are and their background. Also, past events and previous experiences tend to condition the way we

Poverty In The United States Poverty in the United States Imagine that one day you woke up and lost everything you ever had. Maybe you got really sick or you lost your job. Then think about having a family to support and not being able too. Children are society’s most important value. Families should be the supporters of children but are not always . I want America to understand what ou