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Animosity In Children's Sports
1208 Words - 5 Pages.... the other team. Insufficient enforcement of
the rules against unsportsmanlike conduct by the parents often causes this
improper behavior to continue. In professional sports, fans who get out of
control often buy themselves an escorted walk out of the stadium.
Likewise, coaches and players also have consequences for acting
inappropriately. Coaches are subjected to game ejections or ineligibility
to return as a coach the following year. Players hold the responsibility
to behave appropriately also, and may face a game suspension and other
penalties. Parents often claim immunity to these consequences, and with
that privileged state of mind proceed to shred the rules of sp ....
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Kinship As A Mechanism For Social Integrating
1038 Words - 4 Pages.... Death in the
Trobrianders is a momentous event full of mourning and economical organization.
The death of someone is a detailed example of how kinship can lead to social
integrating. Wiener explains, " The message of death spreads rapidly to other
villages where the dead person has relatives or friends," showing that death is
not only uses kinship to integrate individuals, but entire villages too. The
Trobrianders are a matrilineal society, meaning that all descent groups and
kinship recognition are passed through the mother. They are organize into dalas,
matrilineal descent groups and kumilas, one of four named matrilineal clans.
During Wiener's fieldwork in the Trobriand ....
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Sexual Discrimination
1134 Words - 5 Pages.... against men." (249) Women and men should be treated as equals, however, more attention is directed towards discrimination towards women. In the 1990s, the men's movement arose in society to try and deal with the problem of sexism against men. This movement came about due to a medley of factors: women's criticisms of men's shortcomings as husbands, fathers, and lovers; the debilitating pressures of the economy and men's unequal responsibility to succeed in the workplace, to prove their worth by making money; and men's confusion over what it means to be a man today.
There are many stereotypes about men and women that are heard every day. The most common, however, is how men ....
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Sex In Anthropology
968 Words - 4 Pages.... know as "arm chair" anthropologist. These were
"anthropologists" who relied on merchants, missionaries, explorers, ect. as
informants for their ethnographic presents. All of the latter professions were
practiced by men only, as were the roles of anthropologists when fieldwork was
introduced. This was in turn reflected through the way that societies were
depicted and influenced.
The Trobriand Islanders are a society in Papaua New Giuenia. They are composed
of about, twelve thousand people in sixty villages. The Trobrianders have been
penetrated by outside influences for centuries and have remained considerably
unaffected, two primary displays of this is the economical struct ....
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What Is Sexual Harassment?
475 Words - 2 Pages.... touch or fell or grab against one other coworkers will or even looks or acts like they will grab you is sexual harassment. (Pretrocelli & Repa ½)
But there are misconceptions some belive that the law restricts the normal social activities between men and women at work but hat is not the law. It only includes the unwanted sexual conduct that in no way is social at the work place. (Pertocelli & Repa ½)
Some fear of people is that they can’t compliment of ask someone out on a date. The law says nothing about dating in the workplace if it is done in a reasonable and respectful manner with employee’s wishes. Dating in the workplace is not against the law if both ....
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Teenagers
1158 Words - 5 Pages.... weight off. They are not aware that once the physical changes during this time cease, their weight will usually stable off and go to their bodies natural set point, without the need for dieting. Once they start losing weight, people might compliment them, which would make them feel good. They may start to believe that losing weight will make them happier, but no matter how much weight is lost, it is never enough, and they are never happy. Going through puberty early can be very upsetting, especially if the teenager is being subjected to sexual advances. These advances can be so upsetting it may cause them to feel ashamed of their bodies, fear becoming a woman, and they may t ....
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What Is Morality?
1135 Words - 5 Pages.... morality is the conformity to the conduct of the rules. It answers for what is right or wrong. Besides, it also tells the individual for how to behave in order to be a good person. Morality is the guide-line for how we ought to live, and it is also the standard for people to evaluate for happiness.
Most of the source for morality is evaluate by many moral theories. Those theories show the conduct of right and wrong, and command people for a proper behavior. Toward most of the moral theories, the best known theory to define morality is utilitarianism.
The approach of utilitarianism is that for what is useful is consider to be good, and the ethical value of con ....
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The Incident At Columbine And The Media's Effect On Children
773 Words - 3 Pages.... endlessly repeated images of past tragedies that remain extraordinarily rare in our schools?
The 24-hour news channels, the emergence of online media and increased competition among various media outlets can feed this frenzy to replay searing images at the expense of the victims and communities still struggling to rebuild their lives. As a parent and grandparent, I am as troubled as anyone over the senseless tragedies that have occurred in schools over the past two years, and I fully understand the gravity and attention these scenes deserve. However, it does little but instill unwarranted fear in parents and students when such graphic stories are repeated over and over despi ....
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