Racism And The Ku Klux Klan
.... era( Oneline pg. 1).
On an evening in May 1866, a few young men met with one of the most prominent member’s office at a Pulaski bar. In the course of the evening’s conversation, one of the members said, “Boys, let us get up a club or a society of some description” (Lester and Wilson pg. 53). The group of men were called the “Pulaski Circle” which included six members. One founding member was Captain John C. Lester, a soldier in the third Confederate Infantry, and later a lawyer, member of Tennessee legislature, and an official in a Methodist Church (Lester and Wilson pg. 16). A second member, Major James Richard Crowe was a .....
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Hate Crimes
.... of hate crimes that surround us in the world. Many hate crimes are performed by actual hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), skinheads, and many other groups. Hate crimes and bias crimes are now recognized as a new category of violent personal crimes. Research by sociologist Jack McDevitt finds that "hate crimes are generally spontaneous incidents motivated by the victims' walking, driving, shopping, or socializing in an area in which their attacker believes they do not belong."
Hate crimes can be categorized into three types, reflecting different motives. These types include thrill-seeking hate crimes, reacti .....
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Teen Pregnancy
.... been given much thought. Though it could also rip a family apart. People react to unexpected situations in life very differently. Some teens think that if they were forced to get their parents consent to have an abortion they would go crazy and never forgive them. The question is not however what the parent reaction would be but whether or not they have a right to know or give permission for their doughter to have an abortion. Some say they do because they are responsible for their childs well being and abortions can sometimes be very dangerous. Others say the parents don't have a right to know because carrying a baby to f .....
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Interracial Adoption
.... their heritage by cooking certain types of food, with recipes handed down from generation to generation. Others celebrate holidays differently or not at all.
America is known as the “melting pot,” where people of different backgrounds live together. People with different background marry and start their own traditions. These differences are not visible, but skin color and hair texture are visible. In Ivor Gaber’s article, He writes how a Christian single mum adopted an olive skinned Muslim, because both are black. Their heritage is different but the skin color is the same. Does this make a child learn his/her heritage from it .....
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Employee Drug Testing
.... is done.
For preemployment screening, the ADA requires that medical exams not be done before the applicant has received a conditional offer of employment, but it specifically excludes drug tests. However, many companies hoping to avoid defamation suits retain a medical review officer to examine test results and possibly talk with the person concerned, to see if there's an innocent explanation for a positive test result. In some interpretations, that turns a drug test into a medical exam. "Prudence dictates extending a conditional offer," Segal says. "So does common sense. There is no reason to incur the cost and concomitant ri .....
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Prison Overcrowding
.... Although not everybody agrees on what the solution they do agree that something has to be changed.
Although many agree that mandatory minimum sentences are out dated and should not be imposed any longer, there are those who approve and support them. Those in favor of them have two strong reasons for there beliefs. First, they believe that the sentences act as a deterrent to possible criminals. The sentences are especially aimed at drug related crimes. The idea was to deter people, especially teens, from looking to make some money in the drug business by weighing it against the jail time they would receive if the were .....
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Pre-Employment Testing
.... of companies feel that it is one of the three vital components in the hiring process. The other components are comprised of Screening and Interviewing. It is the employers responsibility to make the hiring decision as well as undertake the above components. It is the task of the person giving the pre-employment test to focus on evaluation, examination, validity, and reliability of information provided by the job candidate (Xukor, 1998).
Pre-employment testing has evolved to include many forms including drug and alcohol testing, disease testing, basic skills testing, physical ability testing, Psychological testing and l .....
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Television Violence And Children
.... children. The effects have been seen in a number of cases. In New York, a 16-year-old boy broke into a cellar. When the police caught him and asked him why he was wearing gloves he replied that he had learned to do so to not leave fingerprints and that he discovered this on television. In Alabama, a nine-year-old boy received a bad report card from his teacher. He suggested sending the teacher poisoned candy as revenge as he had seen on television the night before. In California, a seven-year-old boy sprinkled ground-up glass into the lamb stew the family was to eat for dinner. When asked why he did it he replied that he wante .....
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Providing Jobs For The Disabled
.... satisfaction of having that job may be a motivating factor, and having motivated employees are what its all about. Another factor is they will be less likely to leave for another job (since it would be very difficult for them to find another one).
Woolworth's hiring of these individuals not only help the workplace but also provides a paycheck for an overlooked part of the population and this means less tax dollars for government aide of the unemployed. Woolworth is surely a business that deserves its recognition for employing these people, which is another strong point. The public will think highly of the people that work a .....
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Privacy
.... that they focus not on what the government may do but rather on the individual's freedom to be autonomous.
The rights of privacy were initially interpreted to include only protection against tangible intrusions resulting in measurable injury. After publication of an influential article by Justice Brandeis and Samuel Warren, "The Right to Privacy," in the Harvard Law Review in 1890, however, the federal courts began to explore various constitutional principles that today are regarded as constituent elements of a constitutional right to privacy. For example, in 1923 the Supreme Court struck down a Nebraska law prohibiting school .....
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Male And Female Roles In Society
.... has served as a hindrance to being accepted by my society. Fortunately, my parents never stuck to the traditional rules for girls. We were taught how to do everything that a boy does, probably because we don't have a brother.
Although I strongly disagree with the role girls and boys are expected to play in society I do embrace one particular aspect of it. The fact the in the Indian culture a woman is supposed to completely dedicate her life to her family is questionable. Nonetheless, the fact that many women, including myself, are able to believe that their professional life is secondary to their families is admirable .....
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Feminists
.... that women should obtain jobs like secretaries and nurses instead of being the bosses or the doctors. It is hard on any man's ego to have a woman in a superior position to them or to have a wife bring home a higher income than he, but they seem to be more understanding to the situation. However, women have not taken this into consideration. They feel that they have been below the average man, that it is time to show the world what women are made of. Women are not cruel by doing this, because they know they have the correct qualifications to be in the superior position to the man.
The second characterization of a femin .....
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