Therefore, the article shows the effects that lack of parental guidance, sex education, and mass media has on teenage pregnancy, and how it relates teenage pregnancy to foster homes.  ... Consequently, most foster homes do have strong parental guidance, control over sex education, and negative mass media because there are so many restrictions as to what foster homes can and cannot perform by law.  ... Even the federal government has found teenage pregnancy to be a social issue in which lack of parental guidance, sex education, and positive media has been recognized. ... Richard Smith, a Wa...

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Some observers lament that Americans have largely abandoned conventional sexual values that discourage casual sex, premarital sex, promiscuity, and adultery. ... Victorian-era doctors and much of the public understood sex by analogy to the second law of thermodynamics, believing that excessive sex led to mental and physical degeneration, thus undermined his ability to rule his family and compete successfully in the business world. ... Although so-called sexual impropriety including non-procreative sex and non-marital sex was publicly condemned, it was quietly tolerated among men, who were as...

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There is a clear double standard between young men and young women especially when it refers to sex. For young men having sex even with multiple women is not seen as a serious act that defines that young mans character. ... What is ironic is that everyone (almost everyone) has sex its apart of nature. ... Kim Kardashian is a very prominent female in the media whose claim to fame by many is due to her infamous sex tape.  ... But Janice Dickinson and these other women who choose to slut shame Kim most likely have the same type of sex Kim had in her sex tape or they are just envious because thei...

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Gossip Girl surely pushes boundaries when it comes to television and explores many social issues of the times, such as teenage alcohol abuse and promiscuous sex among minors. ... In her book "Sex, Love, & Romance in the Mass Media" she discusses how media creates myths and stereotypes of sex, love, and romance and shows her readers how to recognize unhealthy media fantasies that can be hurtful to real world relationships (Galician). ... Sex is rampant on the show, and unfortunately is glamorized just like similar teen dramas. ... Our American culture tends to frame sex outside of ma...

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Sex differences in education are a type of sex discrimination in the education system affecting both men and women during and after their educational experiences. ... The fact of being equal to the opposite sex is a big part of this. ... In lower class families, neither child was educated based on their sex. ...

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I pondered about things, like gun laws, same sex marriage, abortions, taxes, and realized what I was for and what I was really against.These issues really are like a red flag to me because beside me being a democrat, I'm faith based. ... So when things like same sex marriage and abortion come up, because of my conviction, I am against both. I don't agree with the thought of same sex marriage because it's against the bible. ... If the sex wasn't voluntary or consensual, then by all means I would completely understand. ... The issues she usually rants about and are the most i...

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Sex, Love & Hippies "The concept of Free Love as expressed by hippies meant you were free to love whomever you pleased, whenever you pleased, however you pleased. ... Group sex, public sex, sex with minors, homosexuality, all the taboos went out the window. This doesn't mean that straight sex, between two adults, or monogamy was unknown, quite the contrary. ... It erases our sexual hang-ups and fears, by dissolving the psychological link between nakedness and sex, thus letting us relax and enjoy the beauty of the human body." ...

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Is it a same sexed couple with children, or it a single parent raising the children alone. ... They have inspired family values crusaders to condemn careerist mothers, absent fathers, single parents, same sex marriages and unwed parents as the root cause of many of societies ills: drug abuse, poverty, juvenile crime, failure in school, out of control children. ...

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The Millennium Declaration commits the international community and member states of the U.N. to the achievement of eight major goals. Two of these goals are the eradication of hunger and poverty and the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women. The third problem I will be discussing is ...

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1. Today, opinion polls consistently reveal that a majority of people in Western countries respect and endorse homosexual marriage. For instance, in US, among those aged 18 - 32, support is as high as 70 percent (West, 2013, para.5). Along with the support of homosexual marriage is the request of ch...

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Designers knew that although the "responsible" adult customer" when asked would say that "economy, durability and reliability "9 dictated their auto purchases, in reality what mattered was "adult toys, with pizzazz and sex appeal." ... American designers portrayed the "car of the future,"" with many of their design inspirations centered around sex, the military or the combination thereof. ... "Assembly lines rolled off car after car with "frenched"" headlights and "toothy" chrome grilles "-- these "monsters with bedroom eyes "clearly exhibit the blending of the two design staples of sex and th...

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In the 1960's, films such as The Seven Year Itch and Some Like it Hot By Billie Wilder was the beginning of a cycle of cynical, sex comedies concerned with the strategies of seduction which reflected the inevitable forthcoming of the sexual revolution in the later 1960's. ... Red may evoke a positive symbol involving passion, love, and sex, while the negative reaction could be violent, bloody, and corrupt. ...

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Affirmative action "refers to various efforts to deliberately take race, sex, and national origins into account to remedy past and current effects of discrimination. ... The principle is that ability, qualifications, and merit, independent of race, national origin, or sex should prevail when one applies for a job or promotion, or for selective institutions for higher education, or when one bids for contracts. ...

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Affirmative action refers to various efforts to deliberately take race, sex, and national origins into account to remedy past and current effects of discrimination. ... The principle is that ability, qualifications, and merit, independent of race, national origin, or sex should prevail when one applies for a job or promotion, or for selective institutions for higher education, or when one bids for contracts. ...

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To posit "the phallic body" as the "true, enduring sex object of Western culture" in place of "any female version of beauty" is to radically alter the paradigms inherited from the eighteenth century. ...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on the Black community. The most common theories are that which circle HIV/AIDS. These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. ...

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Political opposition to the practice of racial profiling is mounting, President Clinton has it "morally indefensible" and has ordered federal law enforcement officials to collect 8 information on the race and sex of people they stop. ...

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In the late 1850's women were still held to be the inferior sex, dependant on their fathers and then their husbands in both Britain and America. ... The marital and property laws supported the idea that women were the inferior sex. ...

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Angela's Ashes for Ab! Just fort this may help ya with ya essay m8 hpe it works! ;0) Key Concepts Love, Prejudice, Despair, Hope, Poverty, Sacrifice, Selfishness, Church Summary The film is a true story portraying the McCourt family battling unemployment, their father's alcoholism, poverty,...

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Rites of Passage A rite of passage, whether defined as a "ritualistic procedure" (Webster's) or as a "ceremony" (Random House), represents a change of status of an individual in his/her society. Rites of passage are generally thought to ensure smooth and successful life transitions and/or changes...

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The cultural and developmental aspects of American history in the 17th and 18th centuries are certainly among the most important and influential factors in the shaping of this country's long and storied history. The society that existed at that time had very different views on life and how it should...

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Federalism is a concept that started many years ago during the times of the ratification of the document we live by called the Constitution. This concept basically states that there will be two levels of government, the national and the state. Federalism states that the national and state governments are separate entities and have formal authority over the same area and people. With its largest effect was during the Civil rights movement. Civil rights are freedoms and rights ...

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She went on board and was appalled at the steerage conditions where young people of both sexes were housed indiscriminately for the rough trip across the Atlantic- (http://ourladyoftherosary.catholic.org/historic.htm). ...

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Through the years, gambling has become America's pastime. Over 60 million Americans make some sort of wager every day.1 When compared to other recreations (in billions of dollars) in 1990, gambling institutions made 2.2 more than magazine sales, 8.3 more than book sales, 20.9 more than theaters, and a whopping 21.8 more than movies.2 This number has increased to this high level because of the growth in the amount of legalized gambling establishments and the accessibility to these establishments, both of which increases the number of gamblers. The compulsive or pathological gambler affects...

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The term capital punishment is derived from the Latin caput, meaning "head". It originally referred to death by decapitation, but now applies generally to state authorized executions. Crimes occur in every society around the world. Historically, criminals convicted of these crimes were dealt with in different ways, some of which are sentenced to death. Capital punishment has been banned in most western countries, although, countries like the United States, despite earlier attempts to eliminate capital punishment have now had an increased amount of support from several states, in the use...

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