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Term Papers on Social Issues
Human Aggression
Number of words: 759 - Number of pages: 3.... it is an involuntary reflex. On the other hand, a father may tell his young son to beat up the school bully who is picking on him. As a result, the boy is taught to deal with the situation by using violence.
In order for an individual to display aggression, it must be driven by an instinct interacting with that person's surroundings. McDougall defines the word instinct as “an inherited or innate psycho-physical disposition which determines its possessor to perceive, and to pay attention to, objects of a certain class, to experience an emotional excitement of .....
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Psychological Perspectives
Number of words: 1805 - Number of pages: 7.... psychologists to see the brain activity of a person with mental disorders differs from that of normal brain activity. The biological perspective also deals with the different types of chemicals and hormones that are released by the brain and how they influence behavior. For instance, psychologists have learned that when the hormone prolactin is produced it stimulates milk production in women, but in laboratory rats, this hormone stimulated maternal behavior. So not only does the hormone affect physical changes or characteristics but it can also affect or c .....
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Employee Drug Testing
Number of words: 1197 - Number of pages: 5.... Private employers may screen employees with preemployment testing, investigate accidents by testing those involved and conduct random drug tests. Recent litigation has focused not on whether an employer may test but on how the test is done.
For preemployment screening, the ADA requires that medical exams not be done before the applicant has received a conditional offer of employment, but it specifically excludes drug tests. However, many companies hoping to avoid defamation suits retain a medical review officer to examine test results and possibly talk .....
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Study Of Family Interaction Lead To New Understanding Of Abusive Parents
Number of words: 499 - Number of pages: 2.... strategies because abuse most commonly occurs
when the parent wants the child to comply. "It's a question of trying to
determine which type of parent produces which type of child or which
type of child elicits which type of parental behaviour," explains
Oldershaw.
As a result of their work, Walters and Oldershaw have identified
distinct categories of abusive parents and their children.
'Harsh/intrusive' mothers are excessively harsh and constantly badger
their child to behave. Despite the fact that these mothers humiliate
and di .....
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Senior Citizens And Driving Tests
Number of words: 623 - Number of pages: 3.... to drive on. We are putting too much emphasis on teenage drivers when in fact we are letting the elderly who have long passed they’re driving keep on the roads.
Along the lines of qualifications I am an experienced driver with three near accidents due to an elderly driver. One of these times almost resulted in me hitting a pedestrian with my car. Also I’ve lived in a town my entire life where every summer a Senior Citizen careens around the area the area in his Buick inadvertently running bicyclists off the road and disregarding pedestrian ad motorist safety .....
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Is There A Population Problem?
Number of words: 1160 - Number of pages: 5.... On Earth we have
available approximately 130 million km^2 [50.2 million mile^s2] of ice-free,
fertile and barren land surface. This amount of land left i s continually
being decreased because of an increase of the amount settlement. A food
problem in the world can also be traced to overpopulation. The food
problem is not characterized by a lack of food but a lack in quality of
food. So what is the problem? What are the facts? The United Nations
estimates that the population of the Earth in 2050 could be between 7.7 to
11.2 billion people. If there is a .....
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Gender In Sports
Number of words: 1277 - Number of pages: 5.... do not have a
football team dedicated solely to the women football athletes. This lack of
recognition for female athletes only becomes more frequent as one progresses
through the levels of competition in virtually any sport. The games of women's
teams, where they do exist, tend to draw only limited crowds at most levels of
competition, scholastic or otherwise. In the realm of athletic activities, the
American society has chosen not to offer the same opportunities to its women as
it traditionally has to its men. For centuries, it seems, it has generally bee .....
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Prison Overcrowding
Number of words: 986 - Number of pages: 4.... before the ones that were already inhabiting the jail. There have been many new experimental programs in which the government is trying to keep the prison population down. Some of these have proved to be very successful while others have failed. Although not everybody agrees on what the solution they do agree that something has to be changed.
Although many agree that mandatory minimum sentences are out dated and should not be imposed any longer, there are those who approve and support them. Those in favor of them have two strong reasons for there beliefs .....
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