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  • How Has Society's Attitude Towards Transsexuals Changed Since 1950?

    How Has Society's Attitude Towards Transsexuals Changed Since 1950?

    Amanda Greenall Independent Studies Part One: Gender Sexuality and Society How has society’s attitude towards transsexuals changed since 1950? A transsexual is defined as “1) a person who feels that they should have been the opposite sex, and therefore behaves and dresses like a member of that sex 2) a person who has had medical operation to change their natal sex” (Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 2004). In the context of this assignment I investigated the

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    Essay Length: 2,571 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Artur
  • Illegal Immigrants of American Society

    Illegal Immigrants of American Society

    Illegal Immigrants of American Society A Realistic Approach At present, the U.S. immigration system is burdened both by policy and implementation challenges. It is barely able to meet the commitments required by law and policy and is ill-prepared to address new challenges and mandates. Agreement that the system is broken may be the only point of consensus among many diverse stakeholders. The Task Force believes that immigration laws and policies are broken in four ways:

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    Essay Length: 344 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Society’s Impact on Darwin

    Society’s Impact on Darwin

    Society’s Impact on Darwin There aren’t many who would doubt that Charles Darwin was a genius, a pioneering ground-breaker in the world of science. Many of his ideas and thoughts have been validated by science since their initial proposals and continue to be taught in classrooms today. However, despite Darwin’s enormous contributions to the body of scientific knowledge it cannot be overlooked that he was still a man vulnerable to biased notions and ideas

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    Essay Length: 451 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Mythology Compartive Essay: Norse Vs. Greek

    Mythology Compartive Essay: Norse Vs. Greek

    Norse and Greek myths have similarities and many differences between them. The Norse myths have powerful, but human-like Gods who fight many battles and die, but there's always new life and lessons being learned throughout their stories. Greek myths have Gods who seem more interested in power and self-pleasure, there seems to be no new life or lessons learned in these stories. In the creation myths both cultures have the similarities of the beginning of

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    Essay Length: 751 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Sex in Society

    Sex in Society

    However you may see it, repulsive, vulgar, natural, blameless, imperative, no one can deny that sex is part of life. And like all things concerning life it has evolved with time. Sex, once being a simple act of reproduction to our ancestors, slowly picked up extra associations such as pleasure, emotion and expression to become a complicated performance with much conflicting interpretation. In the 1950's sex was a secret well swept under the rug, separate

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    Essay Length: 1,121 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Top
  • Effects of Mp3s on Society

    Effects of Mp3s on Society

    This evening I am here to convince you how ipods can effect to the society negatively. Firstly, I want to explain you why I chose this subject to my persuasive speech. It is kind of a rare and a sad story. Three years ago, I had friend who was studying architecture in Belgium. One day he was walking to the subway to get his school as usual. As I have been told, he was listening

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    Essay Length: 352 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Drugs in Society

    Drugs in Society

    1. Cocaine- central nervous system- uncontrolled body seizures following use or from paralysis of breathing muscles can be purchased after being formed from a coca leave. Heroin- central nervous system making the brain thinks that it needs more and more by giving the person a RUSH Marijuana- central nervous system makes the body have a slower reaction time and have an effect on memory loss. Alcohol- central nervous system cells of the brain are killed

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    Essay Length: 626 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Top
  • Steroids: A Growing Role in Society

    Steroids: A Growing Role in Society

    Steroids: A Growing Role in Society Brett Huelsman Perry Benson English 125 May 9, 2005 418 Ѕ Gateway Drive Grand Forks, ND 58203 May 9, 2005 Perry Benson English 125 Instructor University of North Dakota Grand Forks, ND 58202 Dear Mr. Benson: Here is my research project on steroids and its effect on society. While conducting my research I have learned that steroids are becoming a serious and dangerous problem in society. I believe

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    Essay Length: 2,897 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Victor
  • Critical Thinking and a Democracy Society

    Critical Thinking and a Democracy Society

    Critical Thinking and a Democracy Society E-business solutions Introduction The convergence of the Internet and emerging technologies has drastically changed the way companies do business. Most companies are looking for a way to understand the mission-critical challenges they are facing as a result of the e-business revolution. In its simplest terms, e-business (electronic business) takes key business processes and transforms the way a company does business by making efficient and cost-effective use of the Internet.

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    Essay Length: 994 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Tommy
  • What Changed in French Society as a Result of the Early Events of the Revolution?

    What Changed in French Society as a Result of the Early Events of the Revolution?

    The revolution had been a result of the inability of the monarchy to address the fiscal problems as well as the grievances of the people as a result of a combination of bad harvests and rising costs of living. From the early events of the revolution, the third estate had been able to improve their social status, the National Assembly had been able to obtain rights and equality for those who were not protected by

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    Essay Length: 1,386 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: regina
  • Crime and Punishment: How Does Hammurabi’s Code Translate into Modern Society?

    Crime and Punishment: How Does Hammurabi’s Code Translate into Modern Society?

    Crime and Punishment: How does Hammurabi’s Code translate into modern society? In order to understand crime, it’s factors, and it’s transcendence through time, we must first realize the source of aggression. At some point during human history, man turned on himself and began attacking others within his species, whether it was a result of a territorial, sexual, or other type of conflict. However, these acts of wrongdoing did not become crimes until they were violating

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    Essay Length: 1,850 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Vika
  • Cause and Effect of Marijuana on Society

    Cause and Effect of Marijuana on Society

    Marijuana is one of the most researched drugs on the planet, but there is also been huge amounts of misinformation. The drug first came to America with Mexican immigrants around the turn of the 20th century. At first, white Americans were afraid of the immigrants with there weed. It was said that marijuana turned them into blood thirsty killers. One of the first anti-marijuana propaganda films was “high on the range”(1929) in which it

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    Essay Length: 281 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Cain and Abel: A Society of Choices

    Cain and Abel: A Society of Choices

    Society of Choices What makes a person walk a path in life they have chosen compared to a friend or a family member? Is it the society that they are a part of? Is it a person's own individuality? In the Bible [Genesis 4:1-8] we learn the story of two brothers, one called Cain, and the other Abel. Cain and Abel were the sons of Adam and Eve who were the first humans created by

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    Essay Length: 402 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Raps Effect on Society

    Raps Effect on Society

    I believe today’s society can be easily manipulated by what they hear or see growing up. It doesn’t matter where they live; it could be Beverly Hills kids doing what they see in rap videos because they don’t understand what it really means to grow up in a violent drug infested area. But it’s not their fault since the only relation to a poor neighborhood is the same guy who is rapping about shooting up

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    Essay Length: 313 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Explain the Harmful Effects of Drugs Such as Ecstasy on the Individual and Society.

    Explain the Harmful Effects of Drugs Such as Ecstasy on the Individual and Society.

    In recent years, the rising use of addictive drugs has become one of the biggest social problems menacing certain countries. The illicit use of a variety of drugs appears to be increasing. Generally, a drug can be a substance, other than those required for the maintenance of normal health, which by its chemical nature alters the structure or function of a living organism. In this essay, drugs are more appropriate defined as psychoactive drugs such

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    Essay Length: 1,314 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Language and Culture in an Immigrant Society

    Language and Culture in an Immigrant Society

    The professor of my linguistics anthropology course this year, stepped up to the podium on the first day of class, and surprised us all with his feelings regarding language. He began by telling us that he specializes in human misery, perhaps insinuating language is a source of misery. Dr. Song is a Korean immigrant and the sounds of his own language repulses him. Growing up in modern society America has made him cringe at the

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    Essay Length: 2,499 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • Free Health Care: Best for Society as a Whole?

    Free Health Care: Best for Society as a Whole?

    "Free Health Care: Best for society as a whole?" Watching these videos reminded of watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" documentary, but on the other side of the spectrum. Before I address anything else, free health care sounds appealing, doesn't it? But what about its underlying and obvious repercussions? For society as a whole, why would you want the almighty, sinister government intervening with the coverage and dealings of your health? They would have even more control

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    Essay Length: 708 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Wendy
  • What Society Expects of Its Criminal Justice System

    What Society Expects of Its Criminal Justice System

    This paper speaks to what society expects of the police, courts, corrections, and how they are realized and unfulfilled, as well as the employees of the system in terms of their goals and expectations, the temptations and the differences in their goals from society’s goals. Finally, the paper will speak to the individuals that are charged by the system regarding their legitimate and non-legitimate needs. Society expects its police to look into reported crimes, collecting

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    Essay Length: 1,674 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • Women’s Role in Society in the 1800s

    Women’s Role in Society in the 1800s

    AP American History 12/13/2004 Women’s Role in Society During the early 1800's women were stuck in the Cult of Domesticity. Women had been issued roles as the moral keepers for societies as well as the nonworking house-wives for families. Also, women were considered unequal to their male companions legally and socially. However, women’s efforts during the 1800’s were effective in challenging traditional intellectual, social, economical, and political attitudes about a women’s place in society. The

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    Essay Length: 725 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Jack
  • Gambling: Dangerous to Society?

    Gambling: Dangerous to Society?

    In a study performed by Kerby Anderson of Probe Ministries, a Christian organization that investigates hot topics in America today, he states that there are twelve million compulsive gamblers in the United States. Out of this twelve million, 96% began gambling before the age of 14. He also reported that the average compulsive gambler has debts exceeding $80,000. This means that for this class, if we all grow up to be compulsive gamblers, all but

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Bred
  • Differences Between Indian and European Society

    Differences Between Indian and European Society

    The technological skills and advances of a civilization are based upon their fundamental beliefs, faith, and desires. These three concepts are the foundations of societies that shape their growth and prosperity. These factors also were the underlying reason to the differences between the American Indian’s and European’s society. The principles the different groups held were long seeded before having produced contact with one another ultimately affecting each ones way of life. The diversity between these

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    Essay Length: 677 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Jack
  • Greeks

    Greeks

    The Greeks believed that the earth was formed before any of the gods appeared. The gods, as the Greeks knew them, all originated with Father Heaven, and Mother Earth. Father Heaven was known as Uranus, and Mother Earth, as Gaea. Uranus and Gaea raised many children. Among them were the Cyclopes, the Titans, and the Hecatoncheires, or the Hundred- Handed Ones. Uranus let the Titans roam free, but he imprisoned the Cyclopes and the Hundred-

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    Essay Length: 1,328 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Vika
  • Dead Poets Society

    Dead Poets Society

    Movie Review: Dead Poets Society Any movie title with the words, ‘Dead’ and ‘Poet,’ might strike someone as being a little strange or even a little boring. However, do not judge a book by its cover with this mind busting, deep thinker of a drama. This film, directed by Peter Weir adds a little poetry to this truly inspirational, heart-felt movie that makes anyone who has ever known what it feels like to want

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    Essay Length: 400 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Top
  • Movies and Society

    Movies and Society

    “I think movies are a reflection of how many in the world think. Humor is used to make us more accepting of things we normally would disapprove of such as illicit sex, homosexual relations, drug use, etc. Tyler Perry's movies all have a moral to them and portray life as it is. His movies also make you think.” (Unasked, 2008) “From what I've been seeing for several years there is far too much gore, violence

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    Essay Length: 479 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Jack
  • Cashless Society

    Cashless Society

    Writing Assignment: “Cashless Society” By: Zeresh King & Latonya Mason GE 274 – Macroeconomics Mrs. Cescolini 5/10/08 Reference: Printed Sources Book Miller, Roger LeRoy. 2008. Economics Today The Macro View, 14th Edition: Pearson Education, Inc. Electronic Sources Journal Article from a Database Real Clear Politics, Articles: The Cashless Society Has Arrived, By: Robert Samuelson, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/06/the_cashless_society_has_arriv.html. Cashless Society �Inevitable;’ a Boost to Globalist Taxers?, By: Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com, Saturday, June 29, 2002. http://www.archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/6/28/181711.shtml “Fuelling the growth

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    Essay Length: 495 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Wendy

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