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Date Rape
1181 Words - 5 Pages.... outside a house, or downstairs in a house. The mix of drugs and alcohol are significant factors of . They compromise your ability to make responsible decisions. Drinking has become a popular social activity amongst college students and has been seen throughout society as setting the mood for romance. After a few drinks a woman’s judgment is altered, and it is often difficult to push away sexual advances. Women can say that they drank too much or did too many drugs to know what exactly was happening. Many people will say that when alcohol is in their system, it disables your vision, allowing other people to become more appealing to the eye. This could be one of the reasons w ....
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Child Labor
487 Words - 2 Pages.... situation, UNICEF,
an organization working under the UN, realizes that it will take time for
the problem to be solved. However, with approximately 250 million children
working world wide, something must be done. A first step for worldwide
awareness is for people to realize that most child labor doesn’t take
place in old, run-down factories, but in unregulated parts of the economy
such as agriculture and domestic services. Surprising to most, even
countries such as the United States still have their share of problems. In
a recent awareness swap between American and Bangladesh children, both
groups experienced the sight of little kids laboring in sweatshops.
Although th ....
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What Happened To Our Rights?
701 Words - 3 Pages.... the right to make their own choices.
The word censorship probably would not exist today if all people agreed upon all things. This however is not possible for we are all unique individuals and have our own likes and dislikes. For instance, a person who enjoys pornographic material has the right to read or view this material if he or she enjoys this type of material. On the other hand people who feel pornographic material is obscene or offensive and do not care to partake in it do not have to view or read this type of material. This material is not being forced upon anyone. Why take away something a person enjoys if it is not hurting anyone else? What people do in th ....
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Nonviolent Resistance
842 Words - 4 Pages.... of the whites when they are being cowards? They
must stand up for their rights and must not accept that they don't have
freedom to become citizens of the United States of America. The Negroes are
Americans and the Constitution's Bill of Rights applies to every single
American.
The Negroes did know that the system was corrupted, but why did
they accept to adjust themselves to their oppression? I don't know. By
accepting to conform their oppression they are giving up their basic
rights that our four fathers gave them. They need to stand up for their
rights until they reach their goal.
As an example, women weren't allowed to vote prior to 1920. The
women cit ....
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Gay Marriage
848 Words - 4 Pages.... brought up against same-sex marriage is that it is “strictly an institution between a man and a woman” (Hogan, 380). Webster’s Dictionary defines marriage as “the institution whereby men and women are joined in a special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose of founding and maintaining a family.” This definition clearly states that marriage is intended for a man and woman, not a man and a man or a woman and a woman. However, this argument is not a very strong one. As a United States citizen, everyone is guaranteed certain rights in the Constitution, marriage being one of them. Marriage is “a fundamental constitutional right, or a broader rig ....
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The Need For An Official Language
614 Words - 3 Pages.... inefficient. Everyone have to suffer from it because all this
money come from the tax.
Using different languages also breaks the unity of our society. People
are separated by what kind of language they speak; for example, people who
speak only Chinese will live in China Town. Those people also tend to hang
around with the same kind of people, those who speak Chinese. There is no
communiaction between them and the outside. Later on, different kinds of
small groups will be formed. Different gruops will have conflict since they
don't share the same culture, habit and language. The harmony of the whole
society is going to break. Development and growth of our socie ....
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Male/Female Differences In Perceptions Of Sexual Harassment
566 Words - 3 Pages.... as to
what men and women constitute as being sexual harassment. "Psychological texts
on sexual harassment outline various forms of behavior ranging from quid pro quo
demands for sexual services to hostile jokes and sexual innuendo" (American
Psychological Association, 1981, 1991).
"Sexual joking, touching, and patting may be considered unwelcome sexual
attention to some, but not others" (Gutek, Morasch, and Cohen, 1983). Women
more often than men conclude that these forms of sexual harassment are serious
and offending.
Is there a difference between what men perceive as sexual harassment and
what women consider sexual harassment? The purpose of this study is to
dete ....
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The Role Of Women In India And South America
1369 Words - 5 Pages.... in the world! However there are no end of reports of wife
burning, female infanticide, battery, rape that take place in a democratic
India. However it is hardly mentioned that women and men in India are
doing something about this situation. The average record of the last
decade though is still very disturbing. According to a newspaper in New
Delhi, every 6 minutes, a crime is committed against women. Every 7
minutes a woman is raped, every 45 minutes a woman is kidnapped or abducted.
335 of women are subjected to cruelty. 17 dowry deaths are reported every
day. In the reading done this semester it is shown that the treatment of
women in India is not often understo ....
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