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India's Hunger Problem
911 Words - 4 Pages.... than one cause led to India's famine problem, natural causes such as droughts, floods, earthquakes and monsoons ruined crops and farmlands. Insect plagues and plant diseases destroyed crops. Another 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. Roughl ....
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Teen Pregnancy
1333 Words - 5 Pages.... arguments. The teens sometimes have no parental supervision and have the home all to themselves for hours at a time. Teens are able to take boyfriends or girlfriends home after school and do as they please. They even let their friends bring their girlfriend or boyfriend over. Parents can prevent their teens from having sex for a little while(teen sexuality 20). Birth rates are continuously rising. Many things like not using protection or just not being conscious play a role in preventing .
Teens get pregnant because of many reasons: Sexual experimentation, lack of understanding, not thinking clearly, or sometimes teens want to get pregnant. One reason people don't ....
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Censorship On Televison
682 Words - 3 Pages.... citizens many rights, which are documented in the US Constitution, our formal laws of existence. The United States is the only country in the world where all men are created equal, endowed with certain unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Most importantly, freedom of speech, press, and religion are our constitutional right.
Somewhere along the line, someone had the notion that Americans are not smart enough to view “questionable” and “objectionable” material. Censors were instituted to tell the general population what should and should not be viewed and thus began this
travesty. Government organizations, such as t ....
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Child Abuse
1710 Words - 7 Pages.... a child. The definition
contains two key aspects, the act is intentional or willful, and/or the act
resulted in physical injury. Accidental does not qualify as child abuse.
(Wallace,29)
Physical abused children do not fit any type of stereotype. Abuse
occurs in all neighborhoods. Also, abusers come in all shapes, sizes, colors,
and sexes. There are many signs of physical abuse.
First the location and types of injuries, many time the parent or care
takers will deny any wrong doing or the child has suffered any physical injury.
There are always those injuries that consist of a normal childhood upbringing,
such as falling of their bike or bumping their head. Th ....
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Cultural Diversity & Intergroup Relations: A Glimpse Into The World Of The Disabled
616 Words - 3 Pages.... is not a bad way to pick up chicks”. I did not realize how fortunate I am to have healthy legs. As I was walking with the walker toward the cafeteria, things started brutal. My hands and legs started hurting and getting sore. It usually would only take me about 2-3 minutes to get to the cafeteria from the Academic Building, but instead, it took me about 15 minutes with the walker. People were kind enough, however, to open the doors for my partner and I.
As we entered the cafeteria, I noticed people looking at us sympathetically and some very arrogantly. One person in particular couldn’t stop starring at me. The way he was looking at me upset me and made me a b ....
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Public School Issues
548 Words - 2 Pages.... differences in ideologies, this subject has been up for debate in recent years. “Proponents decry the Anglo-centric bias of traditional learning materials and argue for the integration of more diverse, positive images, historical role models, and in general, a more balanced view of history that represents the experiences and perspectives of marginalized groups.”
Critics of this multiculturalism movement have opposing views. Many see the program as divisive and even ”anti-American” because it encourages students to find their ethnic identity instead of trying to identify with a united American culture. It is also a common belief that a “alternative” cultural e ....
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Creativity
1016 Words - 4 Pages.... . creativity must go
beyond the bounds of what already is known or deductible by reason . . .
"(American Journal of Psychotherapy). It is creativity that is the soul of the
inventor, painter or poet. Creativity is not equal among most people and in fact
is hindered by " . . . self censorship, that inner voice of judgment that
confines our creative spirit within the boundaries of what we deem
acceptable."(Psych Today).
Dr. Torrence, in his studies, concluded that intelligence does
not have any effect on creativity and it is the thinking style that actually
stimulates creativity (Journal of Personality). His tests focused on the
hemispheres of the brain in which he stated tha ....
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Gender Inequality
1646 Words - 6 Pages.... tackle the issue one must recognize that this inequality in
the workforce is rooted in what shapes future employees and employers--
education. This paper will examine the inequalities in policy, actual teaching
situations, admission to post-secondary institutions, hiring, and job benefits
and wages. It will also tackle what is being done to solve this problem and what
can be done to remedy the situation.
The late 1960s brought on the first real indication that feminist groups
were concerned with the education system in North America. The focus of these
feminist groups captured the attention of teachers, parents, and students. At
first the evidence for inequality in schoolin ....
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