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Welfare Reform
Number of words: 738 - Number of pages: 3.... rules require most recipients to work within two years of receiving assistance, limit most assistance to five years total, and let states establish family duration by denying additional benefits to mothers for children born while the mothers are already on public assistance.
Traditionally the federal government set eligibility guidelines on a national basis, then handed out money to the states to fund specific programs. But now, the federal money for public assistance is sent to the states in block grants. This causes the federal role to be limited to setting goals , financial .....
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Underage Drinking: A Problem For Society
Number of words: 1125 - Number of pages: 5.... problems that all of society will have to deal with.
There are a number of reasons why teenagers feel the urge to drink. Social environment, peer influence, stress, and even factors such as media influence contribute to underage drinking. “Researchers have found that peer influence, a more subtle form of peer pressure, can be a powerful predictor of alcohol use among teens.” (Mitchell, 27) Americans have a burning desire to be accepted and liked by their peers. Everyone wants to feel a sense of belonging. Many adolescents feel that they need to drink alcohol to gain this acceptanc .....
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Why Are Individuals Aggressive?
Number of words: 2181 - Number of pages: 8.... of some form of harm
on others" (Gross page 444)
Freud proposed that aggression is an instinctive biological urge. According to
Freud this instinct, is made up of the libido (pleasure) and "Thanatos" (the
death wish) (pain). This basic instinct is present in the Id from birth, at
first the aggression is relatively uncontrolled, but with the development of the
Ego and superego it becomes channelled into socially acceptable behaviour If
these impulses are not released periodically in safe ways, they soon reach
dangerous levels capable of producing acts of violence. Sometimes it i .....
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What Is The Future Of The Family In Canada?
Number of words: 508 - Number of pages: 2.... decades, data still shows that families
are still the most important in people's lives. Following recent studies Robert
Glossop said that "Canadians continue to report that the most important things
in their lives are their families...more important than their political
convictions, their religious beliefs, their jobs, their wages." A Statscan
study reported that only forty-five per cent of families are the ‘traditional'
type, however, Robert Glossop says the data "tell me that people are still
living in families, but they don't look like the kind of families I grew up in
the 1950s; it .....
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Other Minds
Number of words: 2498 - Number of pages: 10.... it aims to refute them. And sceptics tend
towards extremity in their doubts. It must be stated here and now that
there are not, and never can be, any theories that prove demonstratively
that other minds exist, or that I know others’ mental states. This is not
what should be aimed at in attempting to solve the problem. As Austin puts
it "To suppose that the question ‘How do I know that Tom is angry?’ is
meant to mean ‘How do I introspect Tom’s feelings?’ is simply barking up
the wrong gum-tree."
Most philosophers agree that their theories only bestow a greater or
lesser amount of .....
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Bad Choosers
Number of words: 1783 - Number of pages: 7.... life may equally challenge the two.
Both must acquire food. It is noteworthy that men generally eat more than women.
United States law mandates that both complete a certain amount of schooling.
Both must toil through the identity crisis of adolescence, followed by the mid-
life crisis of aging, and lastly, the mortality crisis in their elder years.
There is a great possibility that both must appropriate wealth, provided they
are not substinence farmers living in some foreign country that does not tax (In
which case, the man would slave away in the fields from dusk until dawn while
t .....
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Violence: Children Who Own The Streets
Number of words: 2418 - Number of pages: 9.... we do to influence these kids to stay off trouble? First of
all, we have to realize this is a very serious problems. And it has to be
stopped. The second step is to figure out what causes children to be violent
and become juvenile delinquents. This negative attitude causes them to lead a
life of delinquency and a life isolated from society's idealistic world. When
we ask these question, many others come in mind. Does these problems begin in
the family? Are parents good role models or are they condoning the violence? How
can we prevent parents from destroying the minds and future of th .....
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Racism And Segregation In School
Number of words: 421 - Number of pages: 2.... any white people on the bus. Rosa Parks was
even arrested because she wouldn't give up her seat to a white person. She
was in jail, but a year later a judge ruled against segregation.
One other proof of racism is segregation in school. Almost every
white school had new books and lots of luxuries the black students could
only dream of. It wasn't until 1954 that segregation of schools was
illegal, meaning that for all those years there was a segregation. That
means they went to different schools and had different curriculum and
learned from out of different books. The African-American .....
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Blacks: Indirectly Enslaved
Number of words: 1042 - Number of pages: 4.... and had to depend on the whites. They were now dependent on the white southerners because they had no land and couldn’t vote to do anything about the land they lost. They had to depend on the whites for survival. Later, the Radical Republicans became a major part of the Congress and passed the Freedman’s Bureau, and the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. The Freedman’s Bureau and the amendments gave the blacks help politically, socially, and economically. Giving the blacks numerous rights, including the right to own land, made the white southerners angry. The blacks were dependent on .....
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Road Rage
Number of words: 723 - Number of pages: 3.... We wouldn't just give the person the middle finger or curse at them if we
were face to face with them, so why would we do so if we are in a car?
Second of all you want to use your change lanes signal whenever you
are about to do so. That could trigger most people if they get cut off,
you want to give the person or persons in the other lanes as much time as
possible to anticipate you moving in front of them.
Next, if you see someone that is tailgating you in your mirror
move the right lane, if you are in the fast lane, so that they can pass you
and you are not going to get hit by the pe .....
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