Pageant Moms Pageant Moms: Ridiculously Overbearing or Wrongly Ridiculed Beauty Pageants have been around longer than the students and faculty at West Virginia University. Along with beauty pageants, there is always what people call the “pageant moms”. Everyone has seen or heard of them, for example, the mothers that are waiting right off stage to inform their painted face daughters of

Social Deviation- Medea In the Greek tragedy Medea, Euripides shows standards set by society on how Medea should act as a mother and a wife. We also see how Jason should act as a husband and a father. At this point in time, a difference exists between the roles of men and the women. Women are expected to stay in the house and care for the children, while the male provides for the family

Teens And Drugs Is Legalization A Realistic Alternative To The War On Drugs' For years, the issue of legalization has been an increasingly controversial subject. Millions of dollars are spent annually in the War on Drugs causing many to wonder if this fight is cost-effective or if an alternative such as legalization would be more realistic than current efforts in drug prevention. Oppo

Militarized Prostitution In Asia When a soldier in the United States Military is stationed in an Asian country what he imagines is the tropical beaches, palm trees and those beautiful exotic desirable women. The US Military along with the militaries from these Asian countries take this into consideration when it comes to the environment around US military bases. Rest and Recreation (R&

Multi Cultural Feminist Theory Reading the critiques of feminism from African-American women’s views added made me think about feminism and race in a different way. I had read some of bell hooks before and other articles regarding women and race, but in this unit I particularly enjoyed reading the selection from the Combahee River Collective, and Aida Hurtado. The Combahee River Colle

Generation Why' Generation Why' I am fairly sure that we have all at one time or another heard a person say, “It must be a Generation X thing.” It is true that there are gaps between every generation. There are several popular stereotypes about Gen X, as for all generations. Those are generations of the past, now there is a new generation that shares many similarities with Generation

Recruitment, Screening And Training Of Potential Foster Carers: Recruitment, Screening and Training of Potential Foster Carers: • Initial assessment to make sure the person is suitable: of appropriate age (25), have a stable home environment, have not had a major illness or trauma in past 12 months, be physically, emotionally and financially stable, be able to provide young person wit

The Role Of Communication In Cultural Environments The Role of Communication in Cultural Environments The Role of Communication in Cultural Environments Communication plays an integral role in every aspect of a cultural environment. Culture has a tremendous influence on communication and communication has

The Breakfast Club social psychology "The lives of adolescents hold a fascination for all of us. We have an enduring faith that the future of our world rests with the young, and so we look to this period of life more than any other for an evaluation of current society and the probable social future" (Ianni 1). Adolescence is the time of transition between childhood and adu

The Ethical Dilemma Of Euthanasia “In all our activities there is an end we seek for its own sake and everything else is a means to this end…Happiness is this ultimate end. It is the end we seek in all that we do.”(Aristotle, De Anima, bk.2, Ch.1.) This belief of Aristotle has validity for the pursuit of happiness. Most people live their life with this conviction; however, when happine

Tortilla T.C. Boyle, a proponent of immigration and advocate of both legal and illegal immigrants. In the novel The Tortilla Curtain Boyle uses the extended-analogy of the coyote to draw parallel lines between the actual coyote and the symbolic coyote. Boyle uses the actual coyote to show how they live in reality and He uses the symbolic coyote to mirror the lives of the illegal immigr

Legalizing Marijuana Marijuana is first and foremost a hazardous and illegal drug. It is not a drug that should be legalized. Although marijuana can be used to aid the pain of glaucoma, cancer, AIDS and many other terminal illnesses, it is not a proven fact that it is beneficial and good for a person’s health (Hart 101).  Marijuana has proven to affect a person’s memory, judgment, percep

Final Mission Of Enola Gay Battle Royal: The Final Mission of the Enola Gay Dubin, Steven C. The article on Battle Royal: Final Mission of the Enola Gay reads like a fast-paced journalistic account of a heated political debate/rally with all the muckraking, name calling, conflict that would be expected in politics, let alone a museum exhibit. Accompanying the article about the E

African Americans And Nursing As a child, one may recall an adult asking them the famous question, “What do you want to be when you grow up'” Even today, children continue to respond with traditional professions such as a police officer, doctor, firefighter, teacher and so on. A similarity between these occupations is that they all provide some type of service. Our society greatly depend

Black Power Angela Davis In the United States, women have been fighting for equal rights ever since the inception of the constitution and its democratic policies. Although, the constitution is supposed to grant all Americans equal rights, it only served as a facade of false ideals of freedom and equality. Due to the biased policies of the United States government, the movement of woma

Affirmative Action Si Tanka University of Huron Affirmative Action in Schools By B. Paige Caudell Abstract This is my persuasive paper for my English 112 class; the subject that my group and I chose to do is affirmative action. The decision to do this topic was an arbitrary choice and frankly I was not happy with it. As I had no choice to argue the matt

Gay Marriages Should Homosexual couples be given the same marriage rights as Heterosexual couples ' Tami Frost Kaplan College The institution of marriage has had an elongated and blemished past. Not always called marriage this sacred state had slipped through history under many impersonations and categories. • Monogamy - summarizes an union of male and female or todays same

Child Development Case Study Of 3 Year Old Cassidy is a very outgoing three-year-old little girl. She is very thoughtful and loving. Cassidy attends head start where she has numerous friends. I chose Cassidy to observe for my case study because she is my friend’s niece and she is a lot of fun to watch. Physical Development Characteristics: Cassidy is 3’1’’ and weighs 33 pounds. She

Overcrowding In Prisons Overcrowding In Prisons Today in America there are over one million people imprisoned. The number of inmates is steadily increasing, and shockingly we are running out of room for all these criminals. This is a result of many different social, political, and economic issues that we have today. These include problems such as new taxes for money in order to bui

Role Models In Society Typically we associate roll models as perfect members of society. A role model is the type of person that you would take home to meet the parents. A role model can be someone who fights corruption, helps society, or follows in the footsteps of religious figures. And most colleges hear of role models that tell them to achieve theirs goals they way they did by stu

Tattoos And Identity Expressing yourself in a unique way is something that everyone strives for in life. The most common ways of self expression is body modification. Body Modification can be classified as anything from plastic surgery to clipping your finger nails and everything in between. Modifing or bodies is something we all do to a certain extent be it dying or hair, going sun ta

The Internet As A Global Village Strictly speaking, the term “Global Village” is an oxymoron. What are some ways today’s international communication system is different from that in a traditional village' Is there another metaphor that is more appropriate' Theoretically, the world’s mass communication system is far from being a village. It has the capacity to reach every corner of th

Antigone Antigone Essay There seems to be some confusion in determining who the protagonist is in the Greek drama, Antigone. It may seem that just because the play is named Antigone, she should be considered the protagonist, however, Antigone’s character lacks some of the crucial attributes necessary to comprise the protagonist of a Greek Tragedy. The fact that the pla

Trafficking Trafficking in persons is a modern-day form of slavery, involving victims who are typically forced, defrauded or coerced into sexual or labor exploitation. It is among the fastest growing criminal activities, occurring both worldwide and in individual countries. Annually, at least 700,000 people, mostly women and children, are trafficked worldwide, including 50,000 persons in

TV Violence In today’s society, television seems to be having a negative effect on our children. Today, parents, day care centers, baby sitters etc…are using television to occupy children’s time. Most adults find television a convenient way to keep children busy and out of their way when they are really corrupting the child’s perspective of the world by cramming large amounts of inform

Irving Berlin Irving Berlin With a life that spanned more than 100 years and a catalogue that boasted over 1000 songs, Irving Berlin epitomized Jerome Kern's famous maxim, that "Irving Berlin has no place in American music - he is American music". (2) Irving Berlin was born Israel Baline in Eastern Russia on May 11, 1888.. He was one of eight children born to Leah and Moses Baline. Wh

True Believer As we try to make sense of our world, it helps to explore the wisdom and insight of people like Eric Hoffer. After the initial horrified reaction I experienced on September 11th of last year, my first question was: How could these terrorists sacrificed their own lives this way, and taken the lives of thousands of others, as well as causing such colossal destruction' What c

Underage Drinking Alcohol is a drug most frequently used by American teenagers. It is consumed more than all other illegal drugs combined and is also the drug that is most associated with injury or death. Underage drinking is a serious problem for teenagers in the United States. People do not realize the effects that alcohol have on young growing adults. Alcohol is a drug that can affect

Tulsa Race Riot Tulsa Race Riot The Tulsa race riot changed the course of American history by actively expressing African American views on white supremacy. Before the events of the Tulsa race riot African Americans saw the white community taking justice into their own hands. Black citizens of Tulsa stood up against this sort of white mob. This escaladed into the Tulsa race riot. Th

Cultural Superiority Cultural Superiority In W.E.B. DuBois’ essay, “The White World”, he believes that cultural superiority consists of four major things. These things are: (1) Beauty and health of body, (2) Mental clearness and creative genius, (3) Spiritual goodness and receptivity, and (4) Social adaptability and constructiveness (40). In this essay I plan to show how the white