...of people desire to achieve. Change, whether good or bad, is a force that is dreaded by groups of people because it destroys order and brings about new ideas and practices that a society will have to learn and adapt to. And in order for society to change, it would have to go through such a strenuous transition of altering the attitudes of the majority of its inhabitants. Because of such an opposition from society or a group of people itself, bringing about a certain change is a very difficult task. With change in its initial phase, people will fear from amending their mindsets because they will not want to believe in something different from what most people believe in. However,...
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...Chapter 6 - Inequality Based on Sexual Orientation Essay Question - How do the various theoretical perspectives explain inequality based on sexual orientation? Summarize each perspective and then explain which one you find most compelling and why. Gay, Lesbian, Transsexual, Queer, homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual they are all just different words for defining individuals. Sexual behaviour whether heterosexual or homosexual is a learnt therefore the focus is on the development of the identity of which they identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or straight is the Interactionist perspective. It is assumed that most individuals define themselves as heterosexual because it is the established norm; therefore do not have to struggle over their identity. This thought of having a choice over identity should be disregarded. The individual is caught trying to define whom they are when subconsciously they already know. This theory is based on the journey that individuals take to define themselves. (Kendall, Nygaard, & Thompson, 2004) The feminist perspective theory that has changed drastically over the last 4 decades. in the late 1960s and through the 1970s sexual orientation was debated by radical feminist and the oppression of women in society. Today feminist argue that “Feminism asserts the right of all women to make their erotic choices, and this includes choosing men exclusively. Feminism also rejects the hierarchy of sexual practices, and do does not seek to substitute...
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...prevalent, the shared cultural experiences, gang violence, drug use, money, and womanization makes up most of the current hip-hop lifestyle....
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...The Importance of Moral Values in Our Life Essay Positive moral values are important because they allow you to have an overall feeling of peace and joy. Moral values can give meaning and purpose to your life. You are able to direct your behavior towards beneficial and fulfilling activities. When you live your life according to moral values that are based on honesty, compassion, courage, modesty, and forgiveness, then you can also form positive bonds with other people. Incorporating the moral value of honesty in your life make you trustworthy. You will have a clear conscience because you can respect yourself. The people that you come into contact with will be able to count on you to be fair and sincere. Your integrity will allow you to advance in both your personal and professional life. There are more opportunities for you to fully experience life when you are an honest person. In addition to honesty, you also need to incorporate the moral value of compassion into your life. Compassion allows you to have sympathy for the misfortunes of other people. It also motivates you to want to give them any type of assistance that you can. Compassion results in your having feelings of mercy towards other people. When you have compassion as a moral value people are more likely to put their trust in you because you will be non-judgmental of their circumstances. Thirdly, the moral value of courage gives you the determination to face anything that impedes your progress through life. You...
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...Essay #1 Cause and Effect Sarah C. Powers Stautzenberger GEN 090 English Skills and Development Ms. Constance Plungus October 31, 2011 The loss of my mother was devastating and tragic. In 1998, my mother suffered from a brain aneurism that burst. I was 17 yrs old, and lost my best friend. Mom was strong willed and humorous. She finished college on the deans list, and raised four children by her self. She was the matriarch of my family, She was a great woman who cared for humanity. Sadly she also suffered the disease of addiction. Unfortunately that series of events left my poor mother in a nursing home not able to care for her self. Physically she is here, mentally she is not. The loss of my mom brought broken hearts, lost souls and God willing the dawn of a new day. My experience with addiction is that is can be life threatening. In my family alone, I have lost two aunt’s and a mother due to addiction. Before it took their lives, it changed their whole perspective on life. For example, my mother was always loving and compassionate. As an addict she was mean and hateful. The disease of addiction can and will take everything from you and your family. I lost the person who taught me how to be strong and proud no matter what the situation. My mother was an honorable woman and I suffered a dear loss. Addiction is fatal. There are many effects to the person who is an addict. Relationships with family and friends will...
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...on the perspective of the members of the Nation of Islam saying that they believe that if “the white God as not delivered them: perhaps the Black God one will.” They believe that they have been cast to the outskirts of the Christian religion because it is lead by the “White God.” The idea that God, an all powerful entity, could have a (white) race and be meant specifically for that race, stems directly from the idea that god cursed black people to eternal suffering. Again, white people use the idea of a white god to make the black man appear ungodly. The bible says that god created man in his image, and when that image is white, black men must be a different (other) category of man. It is significant, however, to see that here black people have responded by creating the very opposite of White Christianity. Even black people sought to create others out of white people in response to the oppression they...
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...Timed Essay In all countries all over the world, we have different cultures, different religions, and different people. Kids always are affected by their countries' and parents' environments. There are a lot of good standards for daughters and sons to be good, and those standards are very important for both of them. Some of those standards are similar, but some of them are different from one culture to another. For example, good sons in some countries are the one who work and support their parents with money, while in other countries this is not the case. Most of the important and good standards are common in all cultures. To respect parents and be polite with them is an important thing that will improve the relationship between kids and parents; they will all be respectful and treat each other in a kind way. An important thing is education, if the person is well educated, then he well be an effective person in his community, he will get a good job and work hard for his country, thus he has a good life level. Also respecting law and not breaking it will keep families coherent and avoid troubles and hazards. Unfortunately, many of these standards have changed in my culture by time, some families changed but not all of them. For example, many kids do not respect their parents like the old generations did, they do not take care of them, talk with them in a loud voice, and ask them for money to make bad things. In the past the relations were more respectful, that the kids...
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...The essay “I Killed Britney Spears” was written by the London based journalist Jean Hanna Edelstein, in 2008. Edelstein was born in New York, 1981 to an American father, and Scottish mother. She later moved (1999) to London, where she studied economics and political science. She has also lived in Montreal, Berlin. She has an online-based blog, where she uploads a few essays and inputs – inputs that are all backed up by her academic background. Despite the online essays, her first official published book was in 2009. “I Killed Britney Spears” is a (non-fiction) personal essay, with a first person narrator which makes the essay identifiable. Edelstein clearly wrote this essay to highlight a few consequences and flaws in the relationship between fan and idol. Most of these flaws are shown in the age 13-18. These years are filled with the confusion that follows the transition from child to adult. Edelstein might have thought about this particular transition and thereby, intending the text to be read by these confused adolescents. The text “I Killed Britney Spears” was written in 2008, a year of great turmoil for the star Britney Spears. She was fighting over the custody of her children, she had been in rehab and just cut off her hair. All these events generated a lot of public attention. Mostly negative attention. Many of the “Spears” fans (including Edelstein herself) who identified themselves with her, were emotionally hit by Britney’s instability. The intention of Edelstein...
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...released on Tuesday showed that Americans for the first time in history, are more in favor of legalizing marijuana than criminalizing it with 58 percent in favor of allowing the plant to be legal. 2013 has been a changing mark in the success of legalizing marijuana. Two States passed a law decriminalizing the drug. Both Colorado and Washington passed laws to decriminalize the drug. Which is my first reason in many why marijuana should be legal? * Marijuana should be legal for so many reasons more than it should stay illegal. I will start with the fact that no one has ever died from an overdose of marijuana. We have millions of people dying of cancer and other various diseases due to legal prescription drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. In 2010, 38,329 people died from drug overdoses. Prescription drugs make up sixty percent of that. In that same year, 25,692 people died from causes related to alcohol. People cause way more harm to themselves and to others on these items than on marijuana Alleviation of a lot of medical ailments is the greatest reason for usage and legalization of marijuana. Medical marijuana is a pain saving miracle to a lot of people today in the world. A Discovery Health Article, reports marijuana has been extremely successful in relieving nausea and vomiting as a side effect of chemotherapy for patients suffering from cancer as a side effect of chemotherapy. The drug also helps with people who have loss of appetite due to diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Furthermore...
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...“Flavio’s Home” written by Gordon Parks, showed the daily life of the poverty stricken people of Rio. My goal for this essay is to explain the responsibilities of Flavio, the way of life in the Favela in the 1960s, and how things have changed since then. Flavio had the responsibilities of an adult at the age...
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...As I sat watching “Finding Forrester,” I found myself vacillating between contradictory thoughts and feelings. I felt that I was not supposed to enjoy or appreciate the movie because I have trained myself to question sincerity of a movie about Black life, directed and produced by a very famous White male actor, and in this case one who also plays the leading role in the movie. I am automatically suspicious and, perhaps, offended by a movie in which a White person mentors a Black person. Because of the historical relationship between Blacks and Whites, I programmatically expect to see a movie in which James Earl Jones or Whoopi Goldberg mentor a young White child or adolescent. Despite these thoughts, I found myself totally engaged in the...
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...Negative Effects of Steroids The intent of this essay is to show that steroids have many negative effects and that steroids, and other natural supplements, should be closely studied by the FDA. This essay will also support the claim that the professional sports industry needs to eliminate steroid use and set a good example for younger athletes. Over one million American seek short cuts to larger muscles and greater endurance with anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. Steroids are drugs that act like chemical in the body. Most steroids are transformed into testosterone when they enter the body. Testosterone is a male growth hormone. While user may gain short-term results, they are seriously shortchanging their health (Kalawalski 13-15). Some of the ill effects of the drugs are damage to the kidneys and liver. A person can also alter the balance of the natural hormones. This can cause detrimental affects to the body. The effects of you natural hormones being out of balance can last several years after being off the drugs. Some male user form breasts due to the use of steroids. Because of the increase in testosterone, steroids can cause serious acne problems. When used by teens is can cause stunted growth. Other side effects include genital changes, water retention, yellow eyes, coronary artery disease, ligament injuries, high blood pressure, changes in cholesterol levels, sterility and liver disease. The list goes on and on...
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...thought of that, what ever happened to reading a book in bed on a Saturday? Edmundson argues, “They live to multiple possibilities” (Edmundson) with an intense negative tone though. ‘Multiplying possibilities’ sounds remarkable, as if students are working to the best of their ability with the resources they can utilize, but Edmundson believes students are increasing their opportunities so much that they do not even have any opportunity to become successful. If scholars constantly look for greater options, they will not succeed in any of them. Referring back to his article written a few years prior to “On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students” , Mark Edmundson used to believe students were too entranced with television and focusing in on one thing, the times have changed quickly though. Edmundson currently thinks the opposite, with use of the internet students can literally do up to 20 things at once and visit multiple places while never leaving their desks! Simultaneously adolescences will text, skype, type an essay, have one head phone in with music playing, with Twitter, Facebook, and their emails all up on separate tabs, while the game is playing on the television in the background and Edmundson sees all these activities going as a monstrosity. Nothing productive can actually occur if ten or more events are surrounding the student, Edmundson believes. Laptops seem like one of the greatest inventions when it comes to taking notes...
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...Introduction This essay will reflect on counselling, and include what I think that is, and how it differs from other forms of helping. I will analyse and compare the different types of counselling, giving specific examples of how they vary from each other. This essay will also evaluate some of my personal experiences of having professional counselling which will enable the reader to gain an authentic perspective from the clients viewpoint. This essay will also state some of my own perspectives on what counselling is and what counselling has done for me personally. I will also demonstrate my understanding of the laws and legal implications of counselling Counselling can be a complex and abstract subject. Everyone has their own opinions on what counselling is. I am currently a student at Ty Elis training to be an integrative counsellor. This means that the therapist uses an approach which uses element from different forms of counselling and psychotherapy. After being a client and receiving personal therapy for a period of 18 months and now having started training to be a therapist myself, my own views on counselling have changed considerably. The BACP defines counselling as “Counselling and psychotherapy are umbrella terms that cover a range of talking therapies. They are delivered by trained practitioners who work with people over a short or long term to help them bring about effective or enhance their wellbeing”. Before I explain the different types of counselling...
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...Essay – Advocating for Adults incarcerated Human rights are for every human; Prisoners are human too. A prisoner is deprived of the human right of liberty though? Essay – Advocating for Adults incarcerated Human rights are for every human; Prisoners are human too. A prisoner is deprived of the human right of liberty though? CHCAD603A – Undertake Systems Advocacy CHCAD603A – Undertake Systems Advocacy Human rights are for every human; Prisoners are human too. A prisoner is deprived of the human right of liberty though? Where is the line when they are deprived of one are they deprived on any other human rights directly or indirectly? This essay explores the issues and basic human rights of an adult who is incarcerated and an analysis of structural, political and social factors which play their part in maintaining discrimination against this group and how they are discriminated against. Issues which affect adults in prison and how these affect the individual, community, society and government policy with examples of issues that have changed and how advocacy has been used to create change. The introduction of policies that have arisen as a result of identified issues and how they relate to Human rights will be another focus in this essay. There is a “Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners” guidelines which are an adaption to the Universal Human Rights charter specifically for those who are incarcerated. An example of this is rule 57 “Imprisonment and other...
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