"Is Moral Egoism Correct?"
.... is in our own best interest, sometimes it is not. For example, say I am poor and I am living in an alleyway in New York City. I have no money, no job, and nothing to eat. One day, a nicely dressed businessman comes up to me and offers to give me food, shelter and everything I ever wanted, but there was something I would have to do in turn. I would have to go to the local middle school and to the local high school and push cocaine to the students. Although it is in my best interest to have food, shelter and whatever else I ever wanted, it is not morally correct to push drugs to children. Therefore, Moral Egoism is false becau .....
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The State Of The US Family
.... children are emerging unbalanced and unprepared to deal with the pressures and demands a two-sex society has. The text states that these children tend to live in homes with less income. In divorce situations, the income is being split between two households, and sometimes two separate families. This is an added strain not only on the parents, but the children who have to struggle with the emptiness of that complete family unit. In cases of unwed mothers, they often do not even have the luxury of child support. In some cases, the identity of father of the child cannot easily be concluded. In the US, promiscuity has increas .....
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Affirmative Action
.... caused by poverty and discrimination, we are merely covering them up and pretending they do not exist, and allowing ourselves to avoid what it takes to make a dent in them--augmenting Head Start, improving high schools and spending more equally among schools" (Jacoby 36). The implication of racial preference has given high schools permission to replace the tradition of achievement with a culture of entitlement. The feeling of the absence of enthusiasm for achievement is illustrated by John O'Sulllivan editor of the National Review hen he said, "Restoring high standards in high school will take time; but it will not even be .....
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Discrimination Against Women
.... to women. Women always don't have the same human right as men. In this society, a number of countries throughout the world, women are denied their basis legal rights, including the right to vote and the right to own property. Many countries discriminate against female nationals who marry foreigners. Foreign wives of male nationals may be permitted to acquire their husband's nationality, but foreign husbands of female nationals are not granted the same right.
There are very few places in the world where women are denied a formal right to education. In many countries, parents do not expect their daughters to have careers o .....
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World Population: The Present And Future The Growth
.... all the capital is controlled by a small percentage of the population and the proletariat is forced into poverty. To someone with little or no sociological background, the above paragraph has nothing to do with population as a social problem. But if you fit population into Marx's description of the capitalist system, it is more relevant than at first glance. The best way to make this point clear is to provide two hypothetical situations. Family X is a middle class family that is doing well financially and they tend to have more children than if they are not making so much money. But as the bourgeoisie gains more and more c .....
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Capital Punishment
.... that are more rural, such as those who lack capital punishment. They say states that have the death penalty have it because of their high crime rate, not because they have the death penalty. During the temporary suspension on capital punishment from 1972-1776, researchers gathered murder statistics across the country. Researcher Karl Spence of Texas A&M University came up with these statistics: In 1960, there were 56 executions in the USA and 9,140 murders. By 1964, when there were only 15 executions, the number of murders had risen to 9,250. In 1969, there were no executions and 14,590 murders. In 1975, the number of .....
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Utopian Societies-The Impossible Dream
.... wouldn't be the best because that society would be more perfect for one person than another. Communism wouldn't be the right choice because the government would have too much control over everyone's lives and being controlled isn't ideal for many people. A democratic society wouldn't work either because you would always have people like Hitler and Stalin walking around that wouldn't agree with it therefore the utopian side of it would be lost. You couldn't even have anarchy as the problem fixer because it would end up causing more problems and chaos due to no set rules or laws. So no one type of government would be able to preva .....
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Effects Of Advertisements
.... in society, by giving positive information.
There are a lot of good, meaningful commercials. The government tries to prevent certain groups of people, mostly teenagers, from doing wrong and that is why it sponsors a lot of commercials that are against drugs. Also they sponsor ads that encourage people to go in to the army and earn money for college. Also, advertisements advising people not to drink and drive are positive advice. Many young people learn about violence and use of drugs from TV and movies. I think to put an opposing view of violence and drugs on TV, using commercials is a very good idea. It makes a very big .....
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How Can We Control The Drink Till You Drop Mentality At Colleges?
.... their drinking habit almost religiously.
The people that go to college and drink heavily for the first time or mix drugs with large amounts of alcohol are the ones that are effected the most by binge drinking. There have been more and more deaths related to binge drinking every year and the numbers are still climbing. When I said that binge drinking effected the student who had too much, or mixed drugs and alcohol I was wrong because when the student dies it’s their families that have to deal with the pain and the questions of why it had to happen to their son or daughter.
Well the Universities across the country are t .....
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Teen Drinking
.... get pretty tense around the home front. If a kid does not have any way of blowing off steam in a creative way, he or she will likely turn to alcohol to let loose and relieve some tension.
Many of today’s role models drink. I will use the example of the most popular movie of the summer, “I Know What You Did Last Summer." Kids see the high school kids in this movie drinking and having fun. How can you blame them for wanting to drink? Everybody looks up to somebody, and if you are a teen and that somebody drinks chances are you will drink also. Many of our favorite movie stars drink in their films. Jon McClain (Bruce Willi .....
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Youth Violence
.... (league of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund. 1994, p.3). In Houston Texas, Judge Eric Andell stated that “95% of all youth seen in court share one very predictable problem: alcoholism in the family” (league of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund. 1994, p.5). Each day, nearly 3,000 children see their parents divorce, and 59% of all children will live in a single-parent household before reaching age 18 (Edelman, 1995 p.46). Divorce often results in economic hardship, psychological problems , reconstituted families, and overwhelmed parents (Edelman, 1995, p.54). Youth who lack a closeness with their parents or who feel a .....
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Advertisements And The Consumer
.... soap no man will ever find you attractive enough to marry, even if you are intelligent and have a great sense of humor. The ad for Lux Toilet Soap shows several shots of a beautiful Hollywood star. She is giving her testimonial of the product. Through manipulating the star's testimonial, the advertiser feeds us several lies. The first is, if you use this soap then you will be more attractive, receive admiration, and you will also find love. The second claim is that it will turn "average skin into a tea - rose complection."
The fourth ad is by General Electric. This ad was printed during WWII (1942) and told a very familiar st .....
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