Dueling
.... until seventeen ninety-one. It was an understanding to the Irish people that a young man was not an adult or educated until he had had a duel with one of his colleagues (Cochran 14-15).
Dueling in the South and Ireland had a lot of commonalties along with a few differences in law. One would first want to look at the law of the Irish duello and compare it to that of the Southern version. One of the causes of the duel in Ireland was that a punch or a "blow with the fist" was considered to be not worthy of the actions of a gentleman. In other words if you threw a punch and hit someone and they did not return the blow then the .....
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Sex In Advertising
.... 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 soaps and shampoos, therefore advertisements for these products target women. Although sexually oriented advertisements aimed to women do not occur as often as they do for men, they are increasing in numbers and popularity. For example, there is a commercial for Diet Coke that shows two businesswomen scurrying to a window. The women have it perfectly tim .....
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Appearance Is Everything
.... someday be the leaders of our country.
The latest teen film to hit theaters is called Jawbreaker. It’s about three popular high school girls that accidentally kill a fellow popular girl. When the school “loser” finds out. the popular girls give her “the chance of a lifetime”. They give her a makeover in return for her silence regarding the murder. The next day in school she receives instant popularity solely based on her new look. Appearance is everything.
Another film entitles She’s All That hit theaters around the same time. In this movies, a “loser” girl is given a makeover because of a bet made by two popular guys, and she .....
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Childcare
.... taught in a caring environment. Parents also want to know that their child will not be physically or mentally abused which is why disciplinary procedure is a key factor. An on site childcare center would allow parents the opportunity to drop in unannounced more frequently to observe the staff interacting with their children.
Another factor to consider is the staff selection process. An on site facility could allow parents the opportunity to share in the responsibility of childcare. Employees could be involved in the process through an advisory committee that screens all applicants. The on site childcare facility may open j .....
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Child Abuse: Who's At Risk And The Outcomes?
.... defined at various times and in various laws as "child abuse"(p. 82). The definition of child abuse varies over time, across cultures, and between different social and cultural groups. Many of the books and articles that were researched for this paper had difficulty defining child abuse. Professional groups were given a list of items and were told to choose which ones they considered to be child abuse. The results were at varying degrees which shows that there is not a precise definition that society adheres to when classifying such abuse. As Starr has noted, "Two major characteristics seem to be common to conditions defined a .....
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Organization Leaders In The Workplace
.... control a leader's attention for disruptive reasoning, the power being used is inappropriate and dysfunctional.
So how might they stop this inappropriate action. The answer is all too very simple but also too scary for most leaders to accept. The question to be asked is, "what they are doing". This is a straight power question that most leaders do not ask. Most leaders are afraid to ask this question because of the answer they're likely to get, and do not know how to respond to it. So instead, most leaders try to fix the power problem by searching for structure that will contain the misdirected energy being expen .....
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Men And Women: Why Are We So Different?
.... are two distinct sets of genes: male (XX) and female (XY). Though these are distinctly different, there can already be seen some similarity in the two. Both carry the X chromosome. These different sets of chromosomes cause us to form distinct male and female physical characteristics. These differences enable males to be more suited to certain tasks. Males usually develop stronger muscles than do females, making us more suited to certain tasks such as heavy lifting. This in turn leads to genderization of careers. Jobs that utilize this extra strength, such as construction or auto-mechanics are therefore classified as basica .....
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The Detrimental Effect Of An Education In A Foreign Language
.... In general, most taxpayers were English speaking, and consequently wanted English to be the language that was used in their schools. Most of the immigrant parents were in California legally but not paying taxes. Even though they were not paying for services such as a police force or fire protection, they still felt entitled to send their children to public school. Since their children did not speak English, they wanted school to be taught only in their native language. However, it remains unjust that people who do not pay taxes have any say in how the educational system is conducted. Fortunately, the ESL plan eliminated a .....
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Affirmative Action: Will It Every Work Right?
.... to have real opportunities to be hared and then eventually get a promotion.
In 1969, the Department of Labor exposed widespread racial discrimination of the Construction Department so President Richard M. Nixon decided to incorporate a system of "goals and timetables" to evaluate federal construction companies according to affirmative action. This idea of "goals and timetables" provided guidelines for companies to follow and comply with affirmative action regulations.
During the presidency of Gerald R. Ford, he extended affirmative action to people with disabilities (3) and Vietnam veteran’s (4) but there are no goals .....
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Norms
.... it.
As a freshman at Western Illinois University, I learned a whole new realm in the world of norms. We were taught about formal and informal norms, mores and folkways, and sanctions. Formal norms are what is written down and often take the form of laws. Formal norms were not what we were out to change in Junior High, but in High School we tried to do a lot of that. There were informal norms which told us it is not right to call names, but you won't get thrown into jail simply for violating an informal norm.
Mores often will take on the form of laws, but if not they will win out over the laws or the formal norms. Someti .....
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Child Exploitation
.... up the slack for the rest of society. Then we are shown these films and pictures and we wonder, “Where are these saviors of the children? Where are these protectors of the future?” Where indeed. We cannot leave the problems facing our world in the hands of someone else. We can no longer just feed money to these people assuming that they are doing what they say they are doing. The world is no one’s responsibility. It is everyone’s responsibility.
For some reason the popular opinion has become that if we ignore a problem long enough that it will go away. I, personally, have tried this technique, and it doesn’t work. The pr .....
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Exaggerations And Reinforcement: A Male Version Of Women's Lib
.... the fact that there is just so much variety is unreal. I believe that anyone who says that the first impression they get of a person isn't collected from a visual standpoint has to be lying.
No matter how wrong it may seem to be to some, women have been dressing in short skirts, low cut blouses, and tight jeans for some time. What's was the reason behind it all? To impress us men, to make us take notice. Now that we're really paying attention, we're being censured for it. Assuming that most women dress themselves, the blame shouldn't rest on men's shoulders.
When man was introduced into this world, God placed another t .....
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