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Term Papers on Social Issues
Why People Dye Their Hair
Number of words: 921 - Number of pages: 4.... it is,
depending on how it turned out. You could look like a way cool punk rocker,
really trendy, or like your hair grew some major mold. It can depend on the
dye or the way you dye it, or sometimes on pure luck.
Sometimes people dye their hair because they need a change. They're
sick of the brown-haired, boring old person they see in the mirror every
day, and want to add a little spice to their look. It's really hard to be
boring looking when your hair can be seen from a block away. It's a valid
reason to make a change, and seems like a good idea to me.
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Domestic Violence
Number of words: 547 - Number of pages: 2.... ignoring the problem will definitely not help it go away. Husbands
and boyfriends send more women to the hospital each year than strangers do
(Campbell 95). The US Surgeon General reports that, “domestic violence is the
leading cause of injury to American women between the ages of fifteen and forty-
four” (Briggs and Davis 94) . Abusers need to be stopped before its too late
for their victims.
Women are not the only victims of abuse. Children who live in a
situation where domestic violence is prevalent suffer in many ways. The
psychological impact of w .....
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Affirmative Action
Number of words: 1476 - Number of pages: 6.... of years of discrimination that benefited whites and men. No issue is more controversial or affects more citizens and no program has more potential to divide this nation or the very opposite.
My goal for this term paper is to assemble some of the viewpoints both for and against as well as other alternatives. To look at the history and the present to form an opinion whether Affirmative action is really working and is compliant with this modern society.
HISTORY OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
The government called for affirmative action the first time .....
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Special Education Students
Number of words: 786 - Number of pages: 3.... full time.( Education Resources...)
The general difference between main streaming and inclusion is that people in favor of main streaming believe that a child with disabilities first belongs in the special education environment and that the child must earn his or her way into the "regular" education environment. Those who support inclusion believe that the child always should begin in the "regular" environment and be removed only when appropriate services cannot be provided in the "regular" classroom.( Education Resources....)Then there are some people that belie .....
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Youth Violence
Number of words: 1313 - Number of pages: 5.... recommendations to solve it.
One of the best predictors of aggression and violence in young people is family abuse. Being abused or neglected as a child increases the likelihood of arrest as a juvenile by 53% (league of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund. 1994, p.3). In Houston Texas, Judge Eric Andell stated that “95% of all youth seen in court share one very predictable problem: alcoholism in the family” (league of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund. 1994, p.5). Each day, nearly 3,000 children see their parents divorce, and 59% of all childre .....
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Women In The Police Force
Number of words: 3444 - Number of pages: 13.... women continued their fight and today they fulfill such roles as doctors, fireman and police officers. In this essay, we will focus on the entry of women into the police force. We will not only look at what it took for women to get into the police force but also what types of roles they play in the police force today. In addition, we will look at what roles women hope to play in the police force in the future. By doing this we hope to show you how far women have come in the area of police work in the past one hundred years and how far they will still .....
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An Equal Opportunity
Number of words: 503 - Number of pages: 2.... essential to making them more pleasing to others
instead of the skills necessary to contend with the other sex. In An
Academy for Women by Daniel Defoe, he suggests the draft of a school which
would give ladies every opportunity to achieve a higher standard of life.
He concludes that by studying history, learning how to read and write, and
having knowledge of other cultures is vital to molding a well rounded woman.
Wollstonecraft views are also similar to Defoe’s. She believes that because
women lack much of the education men receive, they have a tendency to .....
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Animal Testing
Number of words: 617 - Number of pages: 3.... disease, and polar bears to study Alzheimer’s disease because they have the same aging patterns as humans with the disease. Also, the physicians and physicians-in-training who perform today's delicate cardiac, ear, eye, pulmonary and brain surgeries must develop the necessary skills before patients' lives are entrusted to their care. Neither computer models, cell cultures nor artificial substances can pose as flesh, muscle, blood, bone and organs working together in the living system. Only a living being can do this, which is an animal.
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