Reducing Gun Violence
.... (Violence Policy Center).
Their are many different methods in reducing gun violence, such as federal gun control laws, increasing penalties for gun-related crimes, banning handguns, reducing gun violence on the television, and different types of gun safety practices.
Today there are 20,000 different types of gun control laws in existence, (Bender 197) ranging from those enacted by municipalities and states, to those enacted by the federal government. Some individuals opposed to gun control point to this fact, and assert that gun control is a failure. Yes, the truth is that, for the most part, these laws are ineffective. .....
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Affirmative Action: Why It Should Go
.... time than the present to bring about change. This action, that started with good intentions, would later lead to a different and more complex form of discrimination.
When the Civil Rights Law passed, minorities, especially African Americans, believed that they should receive retribution for the earlier years of discrimination they endured. The government responded by passing laws to aid them in attaining better employment as reprieve for the previous two hundred years of suffering their race endured at the hands of the white race.
To many people the passing of these laws was an effort in the right direction. Supporters of .....
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Hate And Prejudice
.... organized to reassert white supremacy with terroristic methods. These people would show their prejudice by marching down city streets and by having loud outdoor campaigns and cross burnings.
As time passes on so does hate and prejudice from one generation to another, and if people do not grasp what they are doing we will continue to become more separated from each other. Everyone must learn to except one another for who they are, and not disassociate one another because someone is not what someone else expects. Right now there is only a minority of people, mostly young people, today who are trying to live this .....
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The Hippie Culture
.... Depending on who was doing the talking, [LSD] is an intellectual tool to explore psychic ‘inner space,’ a new source of kicks for thrill seekers, the sacramental substance of a far-out mystical movement- or the latest and most frightening addiction to the list of mind drugs now available in the pill society being fashioned by pharmacology (Clark 59). With politicians and law enforcement officers looking on the drug as a danger to society, many expert chemists “set up underground laboratories and fabricated potent and pure LSD…kept their prices down, gave out plenty of free samples, and fancied themselves dispensers of miracle .....
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Natural Raised Killers
.... a good home, had a good upbringing, and cannot seem to pinpoint anything in particular that would lead to his murderous spree.
The Picasso of the serial killing community, Ted was good-looking, charming, intelligent, self-assured, with a brilliant future, and deadlier than a rattlesnake. Using his good looks, he was able to invisibly abduct and kill his victims and continue with his seemingly charmed life. From early 1974 to early 1978, the stranger called "Ted" stalked young women on college campuses, at shopping malls, in apartment buildings, and grade schools in Washington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and finally Flori .....
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Stereotype: Speaking Mandarin
.... the conversation and said, "You can't speak Mandarin? Oh, that will be a problem here," with a slight tone of disappointment, I felt offended and was determined to keep the job to prove to them that even though I could not speak my mother tongue I would learn the ways around the kitchen. That task was a little more difficult than I had thought. Everything inside the kitchen were labelled in Chinese and the person trying to show me around knew very little about English and had a very strong Chinese accent, I felt a little out of place and disoriented but was eager to learn. I finally quit the job two weeks later and found .....
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Prejudice
.... be an adequate explanation. Prejudice is a complex phenomenon, and it is most likely to be the product of more than one casual agent"(573). To try and get rid of prejudice, we would need to find the source of where it comes from. Parrillo gives some of the sources, which are socialization, self-justification, personality, frustration, competition, and social norms. Parrillo says that not one of these is a strong source of prejudice or racism, but when they are combined, that is what powers up prejudice. When it comes to abolishing prejudice, it is Conrad Aiken who says it best, "If we were to wake some morning and find that e .....
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Female Discrimination At The Citadel
.... victorious screams of the other cadets was shown on national television.
Why is it that these male cadets and their leaders are so against the integration of females in the school. According to Bem Sex Role Inventory, people perceive some characteristics as more masculine than feminine and some as more feminine than masculine. Individuals who respond to the scale indicate which items are and are not characteristic of them. People tend to adopt sex roles that are traditionally masculine, traditionally feminine, both, or neither. The male characteristics were amongst others: leader abilities, dominant, forceful, aggressive, .....
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Evolution Of Profanity
.... popular. Despite what they tell you, people like having their buttons pushed" (Macrone 6). Because his works contained so many of these profane words or phrases, they were censored to protect the innocent minds of the teenagers who are required to read them, and also because they were blasphemous and offensive. Almost all of the profanity was removed, and that that was not had just reason for being there. Some of the Bard's censored oaths are;
"God's blessing on your beard"
Love's Labors Lost, II.i.203
This was a very rude curse because a man's facial hair
was a point of pr .....
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Stereotypes: Goths
.... Rachel also likes dressing this way because it "gives [her] a certain thrill and satisfaction with [herself]."
Today, Rachel's reasons for dressing the way she does are still the same. It's strange, but she says that she's tried to dress "normal" once or twice, but she feels very awkward, as if everyone is looking at her when she does.
Although Rachel enjoys expressing who she is through her clothes and lifestyle, whereas other Goths are into vampirism, and others, though few, are into Satanism. Some like dark romance, poetry, music, and art. Most Goths like going out at night to clubs or just somewhere to hang out. .....
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Animal Experimentation
.... body if he would not have been tested on.
Death is another extreme case in animal experimentation. This may determine a flaw in the experimentation which is good for humans, but it ends the life of a innocent animal. Over 3 million animals started out like Mike did, as a healthy mouse. The treatments and test that were performed on their bodies was too much for them to handle causing death, the only non-painful way out. From the time of being healthy, to the experimentation, to death, suffering happens a great deal to these lab animals. How would you feel being poked at, injected with, or under close observation by a scie .....
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Violence On Television
.... Most violent portrayals do not show the victim experiencing any serious physical harm or pain at the time violence occurs. For example, 47% of all violent interactions show no harm to victims, and 58% show no pain. Even less frequent is the depiction of any long-term consequences of violence. In fact, only 16% of all the programs studied portray the long-term negative consequences of violence, such as psychological, financial, or emotional harm.
One out of four violent interactions on television (25%) involve use of a handgun. Only 4% of violent programs emphasize an anti-violence theme. Very few violent programs place a .....
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