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A Jew In Germany Or Occupied Europe:
Number of words: 1729 - Number of pages: 7.... to her newspapers
it is led by a hero, who has come to save Germany; Adolf Hitler. These Nazis
oppose our jewish religion greatly; nearly everybody does, but this is a new
strain of hatred that I have no seen before. In letter she states that some new
anti-semitic rules called "The Nuremburg Laws" came into effect just this month
which will practically sign her business' death warrant. Over the pass year her
shop has been fire bombed several times and even her distressed children are
receiving threats from kids their own age. Her husband has even been assaulted
by brown shirted thugs bel .....
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Fitting In
Number of words: 546 - Number of pages: 2.... in". When I say social pressure I mean
how to act, look, sound, walk, and so on. Clothes play a very important role in
fitting in with the crowd. People say that a first impression is the most
important one so people try to make the best first impression by dressing up or
showing someone there not. Some people try to stay in fashion, they do this to
stand out or be noticed. A huge role in fitting in is changing or, in other
words, being someone you are not. To describe this I think of putting on a mask
over your whole body. Some people just spend all day "lying there and thinking
about all t .....
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Cross-Cultural Ethics
Number of words: 2250 - Number of pages: 9.... context within which individual action and response take place. Even rational action is subject to the cultural definition of what is a meaningful goal and what are available means(16). Culturally determined responses are built into the very physiology of the organism.
Second, culture pervades social activities and institutions. There is a strain toward consistency in culture—consistency of perception and style, as well as of values and ethics. This is the thesis of McGann’s discussion of integrating themes in three preliterate, relatively simple societies. McGann based her ana .....
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Single Sex Schools
Number of words: 324 - Number of pages: 2.... be able to let them concentrate well enough on their studies.
Besides the above advantages, studying in a single sex school would
also keep attendance problems to a minimum. Boys and girls, being in the
same classroom every day would naturally talk about activities aft er
school such as going for movies, having a drink in the evening. In a sch
ool of single sex, the students will not be given any extra temptations t o
skip or be late because of their social life.
Opinions from the public seem to indicate that schools of sin gle sex
are more popular than co-ed schools . If th .....
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Shopping In America
Number of words: 869 - Number of pages: 4.... and,
except during the crush of major holidays, malls offer plenty of convenient
parking. A happy, enormous island of commerce in a sea of asphalt, the mall
offers plenty of docking points — usually next to major commercial outlets —
for cars that circle in search of the closest slot and an easy entrance.
Third, the mall offers an extraordinary variety of products under
its one gigantic roof. Specialty stores and boutiques offer items that
people don't realize they need until they're put under the spell of
brightly lighted, beautifully furnished window after window of beguiling
wares. .....
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The Need For An Official Language
Number of words: 614 - Number of pages: 3.... of people, those who speak Chinese. There is no
communiaction between them and the outside. Later on, different kinds of
small groups will be formed. Different gruops will have conflict since they
don't share the same culture, habit and language. The harmony of the whole
society is going to break. Development and growth of our society will slow
down, and everyone have to suffer from it. To avoid this, communication is
needed to eliminate the conflict and misunderstanding. This means we need
to have a proper language that everyone can learn and use. English is the
best choice since most people .....
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The Homeless Population
Number of words: 470 - Number of pages: 2.... freeze to death.
Every year increases. There are two major trends responsible for the rapid growth of homelessness over the past 15-20 years.
These two trends include the growing shortage of affordable rental housing and a simultaneous increase in poverty. How many people are homeless throughout the world? The number of homeless is made up of 58% African American, 29% Caucasian, 10% Hispanic, 2% Native American, 1% Asian. Who is to blame for homelessness? As much as I would like to blame someone else other than the homeless people, they have a lot to do with it. Most of the homeless a .....
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Welfare: Not A Way Of Life
Number of words: 745 - Number of pages: 3.... the poor picking and choosing from approaches they hope will get results. Many of the new approaches require subjective judgments. A human being has to decide when individual recipients are ready for work and should be cut off from assistance. Those responsibilities are falling to welfare caseworkers, who in the past did little more than hand over checks.
The old system was often criticized for granting benefits to people who didn’t deserve them and should be working. The new system creates the distinct possibility that people who do deserve assistance will be denied. Since most pub .....
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Diversity On Campus
Number of words: 957 - Number of pages: 4.... values acquired by college students is imperative to the world's survival.
The attitudes and values are well defined concepts that are appropriate for college students to acquire have been described as: "1. Appreciation of similarities and differences. 2.Utilization of techniques that exemplify the best traditions of true democracy. 3.Respect for equal worth of one's self and every other person. 4. Respect for law and order; honesty and integrity of thought and action; responsibility; and education.5. Respect for the rights of all equal protection under the law,as well as equal opportunity .....
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Racism
Number of words: 1501 - Number of pages: 6.... and more experience, but the white person is offered the job because he is white.
Sexism: is a way of thinking and behaving as though one sex is better than the other; especially, unfair treatment of women by men, caused by thinking this way. You should not treat someone different because of their sex. Woman and men are equal in most ways and can usually complete the same tasks equally well.
Narrow-mindedness: is another form of racism. Narrow-mindedness is like when somebody predetermines by the way you dress, your race, your religion, social class, etc. that you are going to act o .....
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