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Understanding The Nature Of Homlessness
Words: 2026 / Pages: 8 .... process, which took place on
Telegraph Avenue watching the homeless at "work", was difficult because of the
wealth of information one could find in simply watching as one person asked
another for money. We looked for a number of signals in the interactions,
considering people's ages, how they reacted physically, whether or not they
communicated verbally, their demeanor throughout the interaction, and the
importance of eye-contact. We must also wrestle with the ambiguity of the power
structure within the situation, because it is not nearly as clear as it seems.
In the end, we will try to decipher the true nature of these confrontations,
concl .....
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Leaders Of The Progressive Movement
Words: 436 / Pages: 2 .... During her time there, she worked tirelessly for all kinds of legislation to help women, while never compromising her pacifist stance. Jane Addams also worked for social reforms, using her position in society to form Hull House, a settlement house 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 .....
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Persuasive Essay: Overpopulation
Words: 258 / Pages: 1 .... religions, and nationalities.
Our planet now provides for approximately 5.8 billion people, with
projections of around 10 billion by the year 2050. Two billion of these are
extremely poor, the poorest of which live in absolute poverty and misery.
One very serious effect of the population explosion is its detrimental
effects on the global environment. Increasing amounts of food, energy, water,
and shelter are required to fulfill the needs of human society. Much of our
energy is derived from the burning of fossil fuels-releasing millions of metric
tons of toxins into the atmosphere annually. The amount of land required for
food production will grow in .....
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Commercial Vices
Words: 507 / Pages: 2 .... and thiries were in the alcohol business just as the drug peddlers of
today are in the drug business. Both settled trade disputes with gun fire. When
alcohol prohibition was repealed and sale by licensed dealers was instituted,
the Mafia went out of the liquor business and the revenue agents assigned to
stop the illegal business went out of business too. The quality of regulated
liquor became assured and taxed, not high enough to motivate bootlegging,
became a source of public revenue. Consumption of legal alcohol became only
slightly greater than the consumption of illegal alcohol had been.
If we follow the alcohol example with all other d .....
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Should Animals Be Used For Research Testing?
Words: 436 / Pages: 2 .... humans are the dominant species, therefore; allowing us to perform experiments on other species. The only cruel sides I see to these experiments are when something has already been proven and scientists keep experimenting with the animals.
Animal research is a major part of today’s society when thinking of how much progress we have gained in human health with the use of animal experimentation. Vaccines against polio, mumps, measles, rubella, and smallpox would not have been possible without such experiments. Brain surgery, open heart surgery, organ transplants and correction of heart defects would not be as easy as they are now without animal res .....
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Jesus And Youths In America
Words: 832 / Pages: 4 .... at it, why not make a
contribution to the two billion dollar tax-free Christian Broadcasting Network?)
The manifest function here of religion is to provide people with a
unifying belief that will scare kids into behaving so they do not go to Hell.
The latent function is that it is a slap in the face to every Easterner who has
conducted themselves in a productive and positive manner. Many of the Christian
right I am sure do not realize how offensive the notion is that Christianity is
the only faith to recognize that killing and stealing are bad.
What exactly are the "norms" that are so exclusive to Christianity? The
Christian world is more aff .....
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My Great-Grandmother Was Not A Person
Words: 634 / Pages: 3 .... cooked, cleaned, as well as the many manual labour jobs
that men held. For example, women worked in coal mines, armories, and aided the
war effort via the manufacturing industry, such as factorys. If this is what is
determeined as equality then women were getting the short end of the stick and
men were receiving all of the benifit. This perception still holds strong today,
although not as strongly.
Men said that women were to fragile to vote. Yet no man has ever experienced
labor pains. Furthermore no man has fought any battle that was as hard as the
one the famous five women have fought. The Election Act of the Dominion of
Canada states tha .....
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The Beat Poets And Movement
Words: 1395 / Pages: 6 .... and literature. Literature has been liberated considerably. The poetic form has been changed to inaugurate a new poetic form, an American form. "There was less emphasis on tradition and more emphasis on the individual talent. (www.rohan.sdsu.edu)" One of the most important contributions to contemporary verse was to take poetry out of the classrooms and into non-academic setting-coffee houses, jazz clubs, large public auditoriums and even athletic stadiums. Poetry is more popular and more read than anytime in history, not only spoken poetry but also sung poetry of a high order. "The literature, coordinated by pop music, with a way of dressing, with .....
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Sex In Advertising
Words: 624 / Pages: 3 .... Attributes that appeal to male stereotypes include power, prestige, good health and longevity, sex, and new experiences. Attributes that appeal to female stereotypes include comfort, family affection, tenderness, fear, romance, generosity, and sensory pleasure. Advertisers, therefore, use actors or actresses who can trigger an emotional response from one of the above-mentioned attributes, encouraging the consumer to buy the product.
Since effectiveness is gender linked, demographics play an essential role in determining which sex will buy the product. In the average home, women are the purchasers of household products, such as food and drinks, or s .....
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Gender Differences
Words: 1326 / Pages: 5 .... a person looks. I think females feel more
of the pressures of looking "good". In the past, I've talked to some of
my girlfriends and they told me that the pressure and competition they
are faced with is stressful and painful. I told them that I am not too
critical when checking out girls and when it comes to seeing other males
bigger or stronger than myself, that I don't feel too much pressure of
trying to look better than them. I am rather more concerned of my own
health and ways to improve it. I was really surprised when they told me
that other girls are the ones who usually criticize or pressure them.
When I was aware of this, I did notice, a .....
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