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This paper looks at teenage pregnancy in New Jersey. It looks at a study conducted about the Children's Aid Society's (CAS) Adolescent Sexuality and Pregnancy Prevention Program as well as the research hypothesis that pregnant teens are more likely to drop out of school than non-pregnant teens. Pages: 6 Sources: 8 Format: APA | more info
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This paper looks at how society views children as submissive, sexless and irresponsible. It uses Ruth Benedicts book Patterns of Culture as a means to describe why this is. Pages: 2 Sources: None Format: None | more info
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This paper is about social work. It talks about social work values, the practice, Person-In-Environment Situation, Generalist Intervention Model, Diversity, Population at Risk, Promotion of Social and Economic Justice and the Different Phases of Social Work Practice. Pages: 5 Sources: 5 Format: MLA | more info
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This research report looks at verbal interaction with toddlers. It gives extensive background information on how infants' or toddlers' brains process information, how children learn language and how children learn in schools. The hypotheses for this report are: The verbal and vocabulary abilities of children are directly related to the amount of verbal interaction with others and children have a higher vocabulary when they are exposed to verbal interaction with individuals having a higher vocabulary. Pages: 16 Sources: 20 Format: APA | more info
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This paper looks at Women's Infants and Children Program. It looks at WIC's history, impact, employees, and participants. Pages: 8 Sources: 8 Format: None | more info
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This paper looks at how women have been viewed due to their biological elements, noting the general negative stigma. Pages: 3 Sources: None Format: None | more info
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This paper discusses the societal changes in the 1930's in America. Gender roles in the home are analyzed as well as immigration. Pages: 1 Sources: none Format: none | more info
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This paper analyzes and evaluates 6 articles related to the redefinition of the American family. The author looks at various literary aspects including structure, word choice, and organization and then gives a critical look at each of the articles' success. Pages: 6 Sources: 6 Format: MLA | more info
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This paper discusses the definition of beauty. The fact that beauty cannot be assigned only one definition is argued throughout the essay by examining how beauty has changed by society's standards as well as in the art world. The paper concludes by stating the writer's definition of beauty. Pages: 2 Sources: none Format: none | more info
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This essay analyzes two points of a new view of child development in Laura E. Berk's book. The first point explained is the fact that society, and consequently, the family have changed. The second point discussed is the lack of good research and information available to parents. Berk's beliefs on these points are explained as the author defends many of her beliefs. Pages: 15 Sources: 1 Format: APA | more info
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This essay analyzes the changes that have occurred in the American family. Role changes, interaction, and psychological aspects of the issue are discussed as well as the common occurrence of divorce and its effects. Pages: 4 Sources: 3 Format: MLA | more info
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This paper discusses the article How many classes are there? by Dennis Gilbert and Joseph A Kahl. The six classes in which society is currently grouped is explained as well as how these classes are divided according to wealth, power, and status, and encompass everyone in society. Pages: 2 Sources: none Format: none | more info
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This paper looks at Auguste Comte, Emil Durkheim and Herbert Spencer's theories. It looks at the premises of, the similarities between and the highlights of their sociological theories and lives. Pages: 4 Sources: 4 Format: APA | more info
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This paper discusses elements of American culture and how to define it when America is made up of so many different races. The importance of culture is explained and how it is created. How American culture is kept alive is also analyzed. Pages: 4 Sources: none Format: none | more info
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This paper briefly explains how child disciplining is different today than it used to be because the old fashioned ways are considered abusive and inefficient. Page: 1 Sources: 8 Format: MLA | more info
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This paper analyzes the elements of domestic violence. What constitutes domestic violence is explained as well as how domestic violence is born. The legal changes that have taken place in the past thirteen years to combat this abuse is discussed including legislation and treatment facilities. Pages: 5 Sources: 2 Format: APA | more info
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This paper analyzes the beliefs of Celia Kitzinger pertaining to whether or not people are intrinsically good or bad. The argument that all people's actions are based on empathy and/or reward is discussed throughout the paper. Further, the essay explains the fact that many people wouldn't readily give their lives or an amount of pain for others. Pages: 4 Sources: none Format: none | more info
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This essay explains the affects of divorce and homosexual parents on children. The author argues that these factors don't have negative affects on children and backs up their opinion with current research findings and statistics. Pages: 3 Sources: 4 Format: MLA with footnotes | more info
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This paper discusses the different types of American families and the affects of a nontraditional family. The many psychological problems that arise as a result of some family types are explained as well as the family type favored by the author: the egalitarian family. Pages: 6 Sources: none Format: none | more info
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This paper compares and contrasts the potential of society in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Thomas More's Utopia. In Frankenstein, the author states that the dark, intolerable side of society is illustrated while in Utopia, an unrealistic, perfect society is explained. Other themes in the two stories are compared and contrasted. Pages: 3 Sources: none Format: none | more info
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This paper looks at the sociological impacts of gaming operations. The paper is divided in parts. The first part looks at how gambling is viewed as a deviant activity by religious groups, but the legalization of gambling has helped with acceptance. Part two deals with the sociological impacts of gambling. The author talks about the shift in sociological ideals, and statistical impacts on communities. The third part of the paper is an annotated bibliography that contains sources for further research. Pages: 6.5 Sources: 11 Format: MLA | more info
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This essay explains the effect of greed on people and society in general. Specific cases of harm caused by greed and the destruction of greed is also explained using specific, true examples. Pages: 3 Sources: 2 Format: MLA | more info
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This paper explains how people in ancient Greece were able to be such free thinkers which ultimately lead to an intellectual enhancement of the world. Pages: 2 Sources: 2 Format: MLA | more info
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This paper is a literature review of articles pertaining to believing that in today's social context the handshake crosses individualist vs collectivist groups, social cognition and social perceptions can be changed by handshakes, universal-proximics are not a problem and self-esteem within collective cultures allows for that culture to change as a group. Pages: 8 Sources: 9 Format: APA | more info
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This essay will discuss the profound impact that political, societal, and historical events have on the personal beliefs, values, and actions of individuals. The premise of this is essay is this: there is no avenue to escape the value system imposed by one's contemporary culture; even a deliberate rejection of society's values is generated by the existence of the events and beliefs of that culture. Using The Voyage of the Narwhal, which followed the publication of her acclaimed Ship Fever by a few short years, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein's 1997 play, The American Daughter, Arundhati Roy's powerful 1996 novel, The God of Small Things, the writer gives a brief synopsis of each of the novels. He then explores the effects of political and historical elements on the behavior of and choices made by selected characters from the book. Additionally, he discusses the way these factors affect the value systems of the characters. Pages: 4.25 Sources: 3 Format: Turabian | more info
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This paper uses a hypothetical character Sammie to describe the sociological process of initiation. Pages: 2 Sources: None Format: None | more info
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This essay discusses the impact of Korean immigration on community development in New York City. Many of the causes that led up to the increasing numbers of Korean immigrants are explained as well as the resulting heightened racial tension. The reasons for Koreans experiencing more prejudice than other minority groups is analyzed as is the positive effects of the racial uprising. The paper concludes by explaining the importance of racial tolerance. Pages: 13 Sources: 16 Format: MLA | more info
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This essay discusses the beliefs of Bronislaw Malinowski and his introduction of Functionalism. It explains Malinowski's views on culture, institutions, and human needs. Pages: 4.5 Sources: 3 Format: MLA | more info
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This essay discusses how different cultures view marriage. Arranged marriages are specifically analyzed and the beliefs of cultures that practice them are explained. The elements of arranged marriages are outlined and how they work. Throughout the paper the argument supporting arranged marriages is made. Pages: 10 Sources: 9 Format: MLA | more info
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This paper briefly explains how teachers and parents must work together in raising children. The areas that should be handled by parents and matters that should be left to the teacher to handle are specified. Generally, teachers should focus on objective information while parents should focus on subjective areas of beliefs and ethics. Pages: 2 Sources: none Format: none | more info
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This paper compares and contrasts child play and adult recreation. Reasons for both are given and well as their importance. Pages: 1.5 Sources: 3 Format: MLA | more info
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