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Extreme Nationalism
Words: 1544 / Pages: 6 .... located within one nation-state. Yugoslavia is one such nation-state.
During the first half of the 1990’s, Yugoslavia was torn apart by a brutal civil war. This brings up the national question of relationships between multiple ethnic groups within one state’s territory. The violent breakup in Yugoslavia demonstrates that the multinational entities, located within the state, lack the ability to execute legal principles or guidelines to avoid the destruction caused by war.
The former Yugoslavia was built to address three fundamental aspects of the national question. The first is a nation’s right to build up its own state through demands for .....
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The Effect Of Adoption
Words: 513 / Pages: 2 .... even at young ages grasp the concept that to be 'chosen' means first that one was 'un-chosen,' reinforcing adoptees' lowered self-concept."(2) The internalization of these feelings of rejection, can be very difficult for anyone to overcome, especially an adopted child.
Individual identity is usually derived from our natural parents. They give us a sense of who we are to be. For adoptees, this source of information is unavailable for them to draw information from. Instead, the role of their parents is now played by
Yet another problem facing adoptees is the issue of intimacy. It has been thought that perhaps this is one way for the adoptee to avoid .....
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Living Together Before Marriage
Words: 958 / Pages: 4 .... up" or "living in sin" are just some of the crude names being tagged
to people living together. Living together can be valuable a substitute for
marriage, a cur e-all for marital problems, and a solution to the problem of
frequent divorce.
A popular rationale for living together is that it is an ideal way to
have a "try out." This trial marriage is a result of the ever increasing divorce
rate. Many couples are afraid of marriage and decide to live together with the
intention to persue marriage if the temporary arrangement is successful. The
couples hope to "minimize their chances of a potential disastrous marriage; any
conflicting attitudes tow .....
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Gender Stereotypes
Words: 1402 / Pages: 6 .... role of the
parents to teach them that not everythink that glitters is gold and to give them
a better perception of the world. That of course does not mean that parents are
affected less by the TV. On the contrary, they are often more affected than
their kids, of course not by cartoons, but by shows that contain information
about serious subjects such as parenthood. Concerned with being good parents,
people are accumulating a lot of information on the subject. As the information
can be very helpful, sometimes it can be destructive. That is the case when it
comes to the problem of "tomboys" and "sissies." What are these two terms used
for? The term .....
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Impact Of Television On Society
Words: 1791 / Pages: 7 .... as currently exists their are only a few program produces who determine what most of us watch and at what time of the day or night. This schedualing is important for the commercial television stations which rely on advertising revenues to exist. Television ads can be highly sophisticated and highly creative. Tremendous amounts of time and talent and resources are devoted to producing such images which are typically more expensive than programs. One of the gigantic swindles carried out on the public today is that commercial television is free. In fact consumers pay for the programming through higher prices for the goods they purchase. Many television .....
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Blacks Treated As Lower Class Citizens
Words: 1071 / Pages: 4 .... been treated as a lower-
class citizen was when they couldn't get a good education. "Besides, those doors
are always open to them…But most are deprived of education…This gets easier and
easier until she comes up with still another child to abort or support, But none
of this is 'Negro-ness'" (Griffin 92). This quote shows that the blacks were
deprived of an education, and a good education is usually a symbol of middle- or
higher- class citizen. "They are so close to their ancestors learned to read and
write at the risk of severe punishment, that learning is almost a sacred
privilege (Griffin 125)." This quote shows how the whites had deprived th .....
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Human Migration Factors
Words: 462 / Pages: 2 .... are reasons why people want to leave. Many people feel they have to
leave a certain place because the environment in which they live is unstable.
Push Factors like, Poverty, war, religions restriction, unemployment, poor
education, illnesses, diseases, a poor health system, lack of liberty and even
the climate, can change a humans mind and make them want to leave a particular
country or place.
One the other hand there are other factors called Pull factors. These
factors are different and are the opposite of the Push Factors, making them want
to leave the country they are living in. People may be in love and find better
living standards in the other .....
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Female Infanticide In India
Words: 1107 / Pages: 5 .... infant’s throat (John Anderson, 1993, p. 6). After the
infants death, under the cover of nightfall, Rani buried the infant in a
nearby field in an unmarked grave. “I never felt any sorrow,” Rani , a
farm laborer with a weather beaten face, said through a interpreter. “
There was a lot of bitterness in my heart toward the baby because the gods
should have given me a son.”(John Anderson, 1993, p. 6)
Each year thousands of newborn girls are murdered by their mothers
simply because they are female. Some women believe that sacrificing a
daughter guarantees a son in the next pregnancy. Because of the tremendous
preference for sons over d .....
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Terrorism
Words: 2969 / Pages: 11 .... choice. That
country is usually ready to welcome the criminal, for a small cut of the ransom.
Algeria used terrorism as a business to raise capital. By providing immunity,
they became a haven for terrorists. Many Middle Eastern countries resort to
terrorism when dealing with other nations. Saudi Arabia sponsors Islamic
terrorists to lay siege to Egypt. Terrorism is a means of influencing
international relations.
How can you prevent acts of terrorism when those paid to protect the
people are among the guilty? The Ku Klux Klan is a prime example of police
corruption and a government that turned its' back on its' people. Dirty cops and
prejudicial .....
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The Problem With Affirmative Action
Words: 1337 / Pages: 5 .... students that meet minimum qualifications but may not posses the some of same high grades or test scores as whites. ("Regents argue over challenge to UC minority police"- Los Angeles Times)
On July 27, 1995, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole introduced broad legislation that would end all race and gender based federal affirmative action programs to the extent they require quotas, goals, or timetables, allowing only recruitment outreach efforts into applicant pools provided no numerical objective is associated with such efforts. (Source - "Some thoughts regarding the present affirmative action debate." by Leonard J. Biermann )
If the justificati .....
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