" 'I can swim, and do sports and go to restaurants and wear what I want, but not in front of men. Why should I show my legs and breasts to men? ... A woman can sexually objectify herself, admit to being perceived that way, and freely live her life wearing whatever suits her. For example, if I was walking around my town in a bikini, I would appear to others as though I was ready to go to the beach or enjoy some sun outside. ...

• Word Count: 1001
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Changing fashions throughout history was just whatever was different. ... Wide leg pants were shown by a number of designers for next spring, and vintage clothiers report 60s styles selling along with those of the 50s. ... The skirts are so long that I go into brief mourning for the calf-length black leather skirt that I cut to thigh-length when short was in style. ... She admits that the old stuff she has in her closet may never go out of fashion. ... This goes against the thought that a shocking new trend will just die out and never withstand. ...

• Word Count: 2024
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

No, playing with a Barbie doll isn't going to destroy brain cells, or cause things such as cancer, but the mental impact this small $15 doll could cause your child to have in the long run, could be devastating. ... Are we grasping that women who are 5'11" and 250 lbs. are not meant to have stick legs and a "thigh gap" or are we just so stuck in the era that a "beautiful woman" has to contain these things? ... Maybe we are introducing these things to children at such a young age because we know that they helped benefit our lives, but we aren't looking en...

• Word Count: 3236
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The men at the microphone did not participate in the war, and had no right to be standing up and preaching to the American people about what was going on in Vietnam. ... This is exactly what Kovic did - the Vietnam War made him paralyzed, so because he feels rejected by women he is going to do everything in his power to retaliate. ...

• Word Count: 2165
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Wherever gangs go, they will need to recruit additional members. ... Self Recruitment For whatever reasons, many teens go looking for a gang and ask to join. ... This can go on from 45 seconds to five minutes.The meaning of a gang initiation is a rite, ceremony, or instructions with which one is made a member of the gang. ... Some other gang attire are; Use of one or two colors, and/or refusing to wear certain colors, wearing the same style, much like a "uniform", bandannas, on head, an arm or leg, or both, hats & baggy clothing with gang street names, nicknames, etc. ...

• Word Count: 2668
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Instead of doing a routine frisk the officer put his hand in between her legs and then on her breasts. ... But, to go as far as sexual harassment and beating these suspects is wrong. ... The officer behind the desk told him to get out of the station or he was "really going to get it". ... Just because a cop has had a bad day at work or for whatever else that is bothering him doesn't give him the right to take advantage of his position. ...

• Word Count: 2383
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In recent years, availability of attainable air travel has enabled African Americans to go back to the essence from which this great culture derived (Africa) and gather the information needed to teach and assist others. ...

• Word Count: 7692
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School