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Sexual Harassment
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2046.... because, her
employers said, she had no college degree and was too much under the control of
her husband. Kraszewski sued the company and won her case, after a nine year
battle, in late January 1988. She was given what may be the largest sex-bias
award in history: up to two hundreds of millions for 1,113 other female State
Farm employees with similar complaints, and $433,000 for Kraszewski her-self.
Ann Hopkings was one of Price Waterhouse's top young executives. She
had the best record for getting and maintaining big accounts, but when she came
up for a partnership .....
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Skateboarders Nationwide Restless; A Problem That Needs Attention?
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1731.... practice. This determination in only clouded by the effects of
drugs. Anyway when one performs an intricate maneuver flawlessly, the rush is
greater than any pot or coke. Unfortunately, this cannot happen when a skater
is denied access to their sanctuaries, there favorite spot. A good example is
given by Johnston foster- "Last summer, me and some friends were skating at Phi
Beta Kappa Hall, the theater at the College of William and Mary. I pulled a
phat 360 kickflip down the three steps out front. The session was hot, we were
all on (landing most attempted tricks) an .....
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Conformity And Obedience
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 547.... a study ending in 1976 which involved 1 person operating switches where it administered a shock to a imaginary learner that the subject could not see but could hear and the learner was pairing cards but each time he got one wrong he was administered an electric shock each shock higher than the last reaching a shock high enough to kill the learner. and because milgram was hte one giving the orders to shock the learner he was an authoritive figure and genarally even though the learner knew that the shock would kill the learner because they were being told to do it by an authorit .....
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Immigration: Pro
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1097.... against
any one particular race. Restrictions on immigration may seem to have been
eradicated from current history but that is an oversight. Even in the
"politically correct" society we live in today allows for these discrepancies,
for in the Immigration Act of 1990 which brought up controls for immigration.
Behind all these legal documents there are reasons that spurred these
causes. Certain prejudices against certain races or religion. The prejudices
were not always a color issue as the current immigration problems are. In the
beginning it was primarily Europeans. In .....
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Animal Rights
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 575.... Experiments which have already been proven are still being
experimented with.
However, animal research is an integral part of today's society when
thinking of how much progress we have gained in human health with the use
of animal experimentation. To date some forty-one Nobel prizes have been
awarded to scientists whose achievements depended on laboratory animals.
Vaccines against polio, diphtheria, mumps, measles, rubella, and smallpox
would not have been possible without such experiments. There also would
not be such important techniques such as open heart surgery, br .....
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Genocide
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1127.... in Paris by a young
Jew, all synagogues in Germany were set on fire, windows of Jewish shops were
smashed, and thousands of Jews were arrested. This "Night of Broken Glass"
(Kristallnacht) was a signal to Jews in Germany and Austria to leave as soon as
possible. Several hundred thousand people were able to find refuge in other
countries, but a nearly equal number, including many who were old or poor,
stayed to face an uncertain destiny.
When war began in September 1939, the German army occupied the western
half of Poland and added almost 2 million Jews to the German p .....
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Role Of Women In The Developing Countries
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 600.... case, "on average, women in poor countries tend to have twice as many babies as women in the rich countriesˇ± ("Womenˇ± 10). As we know, China is taking on "One Child Policyˇ±. Actually, it's very hard to be implemented, especially in poorly educated areas. In America, although women also have "double burdenˇ±, which means that women now work "in factory, shop or office as well as in the home as cook, cleaner, child rearer, shopper and homemakerˇ± (Hall 21), they don't think the family is the most important thing. To realize their dreams is the answer. Today, there are various .....
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Female Infanticide In India
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1107.... a
farm laborer with a weather beaten face, said through a interpreter. “
There was a lot of bitterness in my heart toward the baby because the gods
should have given me a son.”(John Anderson, 1993, p. 6)
Each year thousands of newborn girls are murdered by their mothers
simply because they are female. Some women believe that sacrificing a
daughter guarantees a son in the next pregnancy. Because of the tremendous
preference for sons over daughters many females are abandoned or allowed
to die of starvation. Others cannot afford the dowry that would be demanded
for the girl .....
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