... the end of that week , Jim has $80 that he can call his own. Jim could go to the movies, buy a new pair of shoes, or do whatever he wants to do with it. Jim worked hard for his money and after all, it is his money. Another alternative to spending this hard earned money is to save it in a bank and use it for college. This is all fine and dandy but what about school and the homework teachers send home. If a student does have a part time job when will he get this work done. Part time jobs can take away the precious time that students need to study and do homework. Let's just say for instance that our friend Jim has a final exam tomorrow. Wait a minute though, it ...
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... population vs. total white population . In New York in 1990 there were 10,653,051 whites and 2,805,115 blacks .From this information we can assume a few things . This shows that in even such a state with one of the most cosmopolitan cities(NYC) that most likely there will be more whites seen throughout. With a higher white population there will probably be more white community leaders, government officials .There will be more whites in the workforce . The total black persons was 2,805,115 vs.blacks in rural 53,940 . I would deduce that more jobs for blacks in less rural areas . I think that this shows that if you are living in a rural area and black that ...
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... live easier lives. Men run the government. Men go to war. Men encounter more obligation inside and out of the family. When looking at specific instances, life may equally challenge the two. Both must acquire food. It is noteworthy that men generally eat more than women. United States law mandates that both complete a certain amount of schooling. Both must toil through the identity crisis of adolescence, followed by the mid- life crisis of aging, and lastly, the mortality crisis in their elder years. There is a great possibility that both must appropriate wealth, provided they are not substinence farmers living in some foreign country that does not tax (In which ...
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... in case they, or someone they know is ever involved in an abusive situation. The small scale association is limited to children so they can feel free to express their experiences and ask questions openly to others without having to worry about adult supervision. This may interest children to comment on situations and on general conversation that they normally would be scared to ask their parents. I feel that this is relevant to children in today's society because these situations of abuse and neglect occur in many households, and children either do not know their rights or fail to take action to them. The kinds of topics and issues discussed in the ass ...
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... are taught to respect others it will catch on. In most cases, if someone shows respect to someone else, that person is more likely to respect them back; causing a chain reaction. Right now, not enough parents are teaching their kids respect and this causes violence, crimes, and can even lead to drug use. It is easy to see how these problems can be easily solved or would be nonexistent if their was respect. Violence would not be a problem, because no one would fight if they had respect for the other person. The next problem is crime. Nobody is going to steal or vandalize someone's property if they respect them. One other problem is drug use, this would ...
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... Crusades, among them the Templars and the Hospitalers, the Teutonic Knights, and the Spanish orders of Alcantara, Calatrava, and Santiago. In the late Middle Ages, rulers formed secular orders of chivalry such as the English Order of the Garter and the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece. By this time, however, chivalry had become largely a system of etiquette. Tournaments, in which knights had originally risked their lives in jousting combat before the ladies, became simply elaborate, stylized, and harmless entertainments. Moreover, the expense of this and other trappings of knighthood led many nobles who were eligible for knighthood, having served the customa ...
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... the facts are undeniable. The studies have been carried out and all the results point to one conclusion: Television violence causes children to be violent and the effects can be life-long. The information can't be ignored. Violent television viewing does affect 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 ca ...
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... surrounding the protest which took place on August 11, 1988, in opposition to the release of the motion picture The Last Temptation of Christ. MCA/Universal, which funded the Martin Scorsese film, called the protesters a "know-nothing wacky pack" (38). However, as Medved points out, the protest was "the largest protest ever mounted against the release of a motion picture" (37) and included such groups as the National Council of Catholic Bishops, the Southern Baptist Convention, twenty members of the U.S. House of Representatives and prominent figures such as Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Ken Wales, former vice president at Disney studios. Even with such strong ...
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... cause is humans, the people of India began wars, civil disturbances, and sieges. A farmer may have more crops than the another farmer this caused conflicts and therefore resulting in fighting between countrymen. Others deliberately destroyed crops, there are many ethnic groups in India, and these acts may have been committed out of revenge or hatred. But they contributed to India's problem today. Majorly the widespread cause of poverty in India led to its famine problem. Roughly 200 million people, half the population lived below the poverty line at independence. After twenty-five years of independence the number below poverty increased to 300 million and over. T ...
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... the environment in which they live is unstable. Push Factors like, Poverty, war, religions restriction, unemployment, poor education, illnesses, diseases, a poor health system, lack of liberty and even the climate, can change a humans mind and make them want to leave a particular country or place. One the other hand there are other factors called Pull factors. These factors are different and are the opposite of the Push Factors, making them want to leave the country they are living in. People may be in love and find better living standards in the other country. There may also find it to be safer and have laws that are more liberal. They might be more freedom and a ...
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