.... beginning. Gender neutral language demands a reconditioning of society to see words such as "chairman, alderman etc..." not as a malicious attack upon woman, but as non-sexist, non-biased terms. "English language is alive and constantly changing"(Gelder). One only has to read out loud sentences from the 19th century to sense the shifts that have occurred in the last 150 years. When readers pick up something to read, they expect different formalities depending on the time in which the material was written. We are even beginning to see people who are scrutinizing the Bible. While many U .....

.... own lives seem unreal. Americans began to yearn for lives of intrigue and notoriety. With a touch of a button, the television takes viewers "out of the 'real' world in which [they] reside and can place [them] at a basketball game, the back alleys of Maine, the streets of Bucharest, or the cartooning living rooms of Sitcom land (Hamill, 375). In these places, life is idealized. Rarely do you see television shows characters doing remedial jobs. Scotty, from Star Trek, never left engineering to fix a toilet (Have you ever seen a toilet on Star Trek?). The characters also never have mundane .....

.... nations. Illiteracy rates are high, and more and more students are graduating from school even if they have been absent more days than allowed. To improve this, committees have been organized will develop voluntary national and state standards for education and authorize grants to develop model programs to improve learning. Employment is an issue that every American must deal with. In society today, women are forcing their way into the business world. Although females' incomes are generally less than males, both incomes are needed for general household expenses. One problem wh .....

.... up who you are and that is you, so you should never disrespect yourself by disrespecting your heritage. I believe thee way he sold-out was by disrespecting his heritage. the Mexican- American is still trying to decide weather he is going to live Mexican or American. When the Mexican-American says, "The only thing I don't like is how come I always got to play the goddamn Mexican-American"(Page-384). You are unsure by this statement weather he is selling-out his Mexican or his American lifestyle. You know he wants to perfect because of his attitude toward playing the part of the Mexican-Americ .....

.... for the social and economic betterment of the poor. She wrote many books about worthy causes such as peace, and endured harsh criticism of her work. Perhaps the most radical of the three, Emma Goldman, took her work for women's rights one step further. Although she was skeptical about suffrage, Goldman worked for contraceptive information to be given to the "New Woman". She fought prejudiced Victorian attitudes, as all of these women did, with true progressive spirit for their causes that previously had been widely ignored. These articles seem to be justifying corrupt political practices .....

.... immigration may seem to have been eradicated from current history but that is an oversight. Even in the "politically correct" society we live in today allows for these discrepancies, for in the Immigration Act of 1990 which brought up controls for immigration. Behind all these legal documents there are reasons that spurred these causes. Certain prejudices against certain races or religion. The prejudices were not always a color issue as the current immigration problems are. In the beginning it was primarily Europeans. In particular the Irish and German were thought of negatively. The p .....

.... we know as Racism. Racism has become one of the many burdens amongst multi-cultural worlds like Canada and the States. Racism is a part of each and every one of us. No doubt, we are all racist, but this the term racism has been used too loosely. Racism has been mutated to such an extent that it could be a reason for war, a symbol of terrorism, and even an excuse for neglecting. Is that all there is to it? No, actually it is just the beginning. Racism is just like warfare in which there is no shelter and nobody is neutral. Nobody is exempt from this demon. He has haunted us with a bitter .....

.... My personal opinion lays between that of the Roman Catholic Church and the Supreme Court. I believe that a woman should have the right to an abortion only if she was raped and can not afford to have the child, or if she does not know who the father is. If the woman just want's to have an abortion for no reason, believes that the baby will be born with a handicap, or will be born with a disease, life threatening or not the abortion should not be permitted to take place. Within the past year President Clinton has vetoed a bill that will outlaw "partial birth abortions," I strongly op .....

.... spends 23 hours per week watching TV. Prime time TV contains roughly three sexual acts PER hour! Studies have proven that this viewing is associated with sexually permissive attitudes and behaviors. Until we, as a society, decide to take charge and develop responsible media messages that encourage positive behaviors and attitudes, this will continue. I disagree very strongly with the author’s choice of harsh words geared toward teen parents. The author is telling them to act like adults and take responsibility like one, but at the same time they are turning right around and using vulgar l .....

.... to be taught skills in memorization, writing, and better studying. Secondary schools are there only to reinforce what has already been learned and take on a path to higher education. Effective Learning 1501 reinforces our basics and teaches us better study habits that will be helpful in the future. Studies conducted by the University of Alabama show that teachers are not teaching students ways to better study habits. They are not taught study habits because it is no longer in the public school curriculum. Instead it has been replaced with skills of freethinking and philosophy. These skills .....