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Against Censoring Harmless Obscene Language
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 879.... washed your ears out with soap. If not, too $%@# bad!
My belief is that nothing should be censored. Nothing. It is every
person's right and responsibility to shield him or herself from any language and
other audio and visual provided I do not say anything false which could hurt
another person's reputation messages that is found demeaning to the individual.
One person may find my !@#$%& language offensive, yet another may find my
language rather humorous and meaningful. I feel that when I use offensive
language, I am more thoroughly stressing my point. Allow me to demon .....
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The Society Is Flawed
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2960.... to realize that in everything, humans view things from their own cultural perspective, thereby possibly distorting or misinterpreting a work or idea. Marx speaks of this saying, "Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of the conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class made into a law for all, a will, whose essential character and direction are determined by the economical conditions of existence of your class"(27). With this in mind, some perspective on the society of Marx’s time is vital.
Karl Hein .....
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Blacks: Indirectly Enslaved
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1042.... because they were not able to do anything and had to depend on the whites. They were now dependent on the white southerners because they had no land and couldn’t vote to do anything about the land they lost. They had to depend on the whites for survival. Later, the Radical Republicans became a major part of the Congress and passed the Freedman’s Bureau, and the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. The Freedman’s Bureau and the amendments gave the blacks help politically, socially, and economically. Giving the blacks numerous rights, including the right to own land, made the .....
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Norms
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 630.... like the teachers or like our parents. We took on our own norm, which then became the norm of our age and location. We were trying not to be normal, but ended up right in the middle of it.
As a freshman at Western Illinois University, I learned a whole new realm in the world of . We were taught about formal and informal , mores and folkways, and sanctions. Formal are what is written down and often take the form of laws. Formal were not what we were out to change in Junior High, but in High School we tried to do a lot of that. There were informal which told us it is not .....
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Cults
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 476.... who come from intact families and turn to
cults at a moment of difficulty in there life. These people haven't had any
other problems previously. The second group of people are people who had
problems in there past in development and emotion. The third and smallest group
of cult members are psychotic individuals. The fourth group of people feel as
if they don't fit into society.
Different cults
Charles Manson was never close to his parents, for he never met his
father and his mother was an alcoholic. This lead Manson through a confusing
age. He was always gettin .....
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The Media And Its Effect On Women And Their Views Of Their Bodies
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 632.... which
equals beauty, success and all the "good" things in life. Yet, recent
interviews have revealed that even glamorous and successful supermodels are
afraid of getting fat and what it might do to their careers. In many cases
the media has constructed faulty images that suggest that the influence of
gender in terms of "human nature" compel people in the eyes of the media to
behave and act in certain stereotypical ways, in turn causing young
impressionable women to be wrongfully misled.
"Babies aren't born hating their bodies but instead grow up to
learn that fat is .....
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Feminist Backlash: The Unconscious Undermining Of Genuine Equality
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2588.... A century ago
women were concerned with issues, such as the right to own property and
vote. Somewhere between then and now, feminist groups turned their agenda
to issues that offended many Americans. They crossed the line of personal
and moral decisions and made ridiculous accusations toward men. The first
feminists were necessary. Modern feminists have lost touch with American
women and “unconsciously undermined genuine equality”. It is no wonder
why men and women try to distance themselves from feminism.
Long before Europeans came to the “new land” with the .....
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Sexual Harassment
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2816.... of women in the workplace is by using the court system as an out, rather than handling a bad situation for herself. In 1991 The New York Times magazine and CBS news conducted a poll in which forty percent of 55 million of the nation’s working women had dealt with some form of (Wekesser 13). That would be a lot of lawsuits if each of those women had decided to sue. Whether a man is using foul language or discussing sexual encounters, it is very likely that he is making someone uncomfortable. Some women would even categorize over- complimenting as a form of . A wom .....
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