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Pidgin: Dialect Of English Spoken On The Hawaiian Islands
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 457.... behavior. The pidgin
dialect is a major part of life in the lower class Hawaiian neighborhoods. For
most children in these neighborhoods it is the language spoken at home. The
other people of the islands look at this dialect as a sign of a poor education
and up-bringing. My mother did not want her son associated with such a group of
individuals.
When I started school at Maunawili School and began to pick up Pidgin
and start to speak it at home she took it upon herself to change me. At this
time she was teaching sixth grade at Keolu Elementary. She saw how her kids
c .....
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The Statutory Definition Of Pornography
Number of pages: 20 | Number of words: 5243.... conception of a rights holder's cause of action. This
subsection reads:
Any woman has a claim hereunder as a woman acting
against the subordination of women. Any man, child or
transsexual who alleges injury by pornography in the
way women are injured by it also has a claim.
[emphasis added]
My goal in this paper is to suggest that a slight modification to this
subsection of the ordinance would make it very difficult for liberals and
legal conservatives to object to it. This modification would restrict the
caus .....
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Homelessness
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1267.... is a devastating experience.
It disturbs nearly all aspects of family life, damaging the physical and
emotional health of family members. In addition, it interferes with
children's education and development and often results in the separation of
family members. It is hard to say exactly who the homeless are because it
is usually a temporary circumstance and not a permanent condition.
Therefore more appropriate manner of estimating homelessness is to
look at the number of people who are currently experiencing homelessness
rather than the number of "homeless peop .....
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Affirmative Action Policies
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 327.... living in the south. Employers have also moved millions more abroad to areas with even cheaper wages.. millions of these workers now have a job and all the joys of unfair use-long ,a hard, arduous work under very low wages, under very dangerous conditions.--While millions of i=once better paid american workers have either unemployment and poverty, or jobs with much lower wages.
Affirmative action, if successfully implemented would tend to raise the level of wages and employment among minorites and women. That means, it would aslo benefit white male workers. Naturally, there .....
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Women In The Labour Force
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1044.... which also provides the females with legislation that provides them with excellent benefits. In Japan there is a drop in female economic activity, the reason why is it affects their marriage and the care of their only child. An observation of labour force participation rates in Canada show that female rates rose a lot between 1971 and 1981, while the male rate rose unnoticeably. The increase in the female participation rate was found in all age groups except in older women. For women aged 15 to 19 the rate was as almost as high as the men. But the largest increase was in the a .....
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Family Unity And Moral Values
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1222.... with quality of living and how you define quality of living. It
basically gets down to what you think is the most important, in other words what
you value.
"Family values is nice when you've got Ward and June and Wally and
Beaver. Unfortunately, the world has changed quite a bit from the 1950s to 1996.
Things have just changed so rapidly and so quick…" (Anderson) The honesty,
setting examples with your morals and actions, and bringing up the people to be
responsible. Responsible for themselves, responsible for ecology, responsible
for humanity qualities have been .....
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The Pressure To Be Perfect
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 718.... drive-in windows, and the remote control. It use to be that you would
at least burn some calories by having to get up and turn the channel on the
television, but thanks to technology it is now a push of a button. Just think,
things have the possibility to grow increasingly worse because of the
'information super highway'. There is no need to get out and walk the malls in
search of a particular item or gift. With the use of the 'super highway' you
just need a credit card and the item is delivered to your doorstep. Can
technology be causing more harm than good .....
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The Problems Of Conflict
Number of pages: 21 | Number of words: 5596.... they can cause groups and organizations to re-evaluate and clarify goals and missions; and they can also stimulate social change to eliminate inequities and injustices. These advantages are raised to justify a normal healthy occurrence and to stress the importance of understanding and handling it properly. Everyone has conflicts and almost everyone readily acknowledges at least some benefits. Negative views of conflict tend to persist in the twists and turns of a specific case.
Several features in common with destructive conflict that might easily turn in a destructive dire .....
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