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Ethnocentrism
Number of words: 1041 - Number of pages: 4.... would mean that I would accept all the knowledge and views
that the crew took with them on their voyage [ which were few].
A big part of appreciating anything is knowing what it is you are
trying to appreciate. John Blackthorne went into this expedition searching
to find land that he new was there. A place he studied and learned about.
John new what he was looking for which made the land easier for him to
appreciate once it was found. For the crew, on the other hand, their
purpose for finding the new land was not for educational reasons or for
appreciating anything but for starting tr .....
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Social Class Action Research
Number of words: 1241 - Number of pages: 5.... workers and professional managers. The upper middle class includes professionals, managers, and administrators. They are known as the elite for the middle class. Out of all the classes studied, the upper middle class holds the greatest power. Finally, the upper class in which is made up of two groups. The first group involves families who have inherited great wealth; the second group involves top level administrators and professionals.” (Gollnick and Chinn, 1998, p.45-53)
In our society, we are labeled as a specific class according to one’s education, speech, manners, dress, taste .....
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Parent - Teenager Relationships
Number of words: 431 - Number of pages: 2.... other
traits like beauty and genetic perfection.
I know I certainly hate being nagged. If my mum gets on my nerves I'd say just
about anything to shut her up sometimes.
Have a look at Josephine in the novel "Looking for Alibrandi" and compare her to
her mother. Jose may absolutely hate her mother sometimes but at others be
unable to live without her presence. I don't think that Jose could ever imagine
her mother being in the same position as her. What I don't understand is if our
parents have been through this themselves, then why do they have such a hard
time understanding why their ch .....
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The Adults Are Always Right?
Number of words: 1482 - Number of pages: 6.... adult is heard as ‘
nag.' For example:
Adults say: "clean your room! ."
Kids hear: "nag nag nag!"
Adults say: "Stop watching television."
Kids hear: "nag nag nag nag nag nag nag."
They think of us as being lazy, and irresponsible, selfish and useless.
Some adults quiver when they hear how we will one day run this world. What makes
us lazy, the fact that we watch an hour of television after a hard day at school,
before eating dinner and doing our homework? Why are we irresponsible, because
we don't have time to walk the dog d .....
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Sexual Addiction
Number of words: 585 - Number of pages: 3.... the list of ways addicts distort reality.
They deny to themselves and others that they have a problem. Arguments, excuses,
justifications, and circular reasoning abound in the addict's warped mental
processes. Some of the excuses are: "What she doesn't know won't hurt her,"
"It's my way of relaxing," If my wife would be more responsive,” and “If I don't
get it every few days, the pressure builds up.” Whatever the rationalization,
it further cuts the addicts off from the reality of the behavior.
The next stage is sex addicts go through is sincere delusion in which
they will be .....
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Communism East Europe
Number of words: 6030 - Number of pages: 22.... equally among the
people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all
enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. The
Soviet model of communism was based on these ideals. All opposition
parties were banned although parties who were sympathetic to communism
and who shared the communist ideals were allowed. All power was
concentrated into the hands of the Communist party. Free press and civil
liberties were suppressed. Censorship and propaganda were widely used.
There was state ownership of the economy. No private enterprise was
allowed. There was a col .....
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Different Images Of The Wife Between Sixteenth Centuries And Today
Number of words: 588 - Number of pages: 3.... come so far, and be
it moon, or sun, or what you please." 1 In fact, she needed her husband to
support her life. If Petruchio didn't support her life, then she couldn't live
only herself. Oppositely, many wives have their new style of life today. They
don't need their husband to support their life. They can take care themselves.
In article "Men, women more confused about roles" , Lillian is an example, "
When her marriage ended, she returned to work but would prefer to return full
time to mothering." 2 , who doesn't need her husband to support her life.
The second different image .....
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Segregaton In The United States
Number of words: 394 - Number of pages: 2.... and whites to
ride in separate cars on trains was unconstitutional was wrong. The court
believed that the law was not in conflict with the thirteenth amendment
because forcing blacks to ride on separate trains was not slavery, what
the thirteenth banned. Slavery was involuntary servitude, and the
Louisiana law was forcing no involuntary servitude. The fourteenth
amendment says all people naturalized to the :United States, or people born
here are all considered citizens. Plessy claimed that he was being deprived
of citizenship, because property was considered part of citizenship. Later
in .....
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Chivalry
Number of words: 988 - Number of pages: 4.... if you unhorse your opponent and your opponent is still able to fight,
get off your horse to fight, etc. - fair play with honor and respect. At the end,
there still was a winner, and the winner ended up with more respect and
admiration from those concerned that had he fought without chivalry. What am I
getting at? Capitalism can be much the same way. American businesses have taken
advantage of this system though, a system that one can cheat in and get away
with, instead of being honorable and respectable institutions that children
could look up to. So many things are like this that I just .....
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Gangs
Number of words: 1526 - Number of pages: 6.... s/he could make $200 to $400 for small part time
gang jobs. Although these are important factors they are not strong enough to
make kids do things that are strongly against their morals.
One of the ways that kids morals are bent so that gang violence becomes
more acceptable is the influence of television and movies. The average child
spends more time at a TV than she/he spends in a classroom. Since nobody can
completely turn off their minds, kids must be learning something while watching
the TV. Very few hours of television watched by children are educational, so
other ideas ar .....
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