Prejudice and discrimination came into play based on separation of these groups. ... However, discrimination is the unfair treatment of a person or group based on prejudice. ... The absence of prejudice and discrimination in this world would provoke worldwide peace, the end of ruthless wars, and many crimes. ... As an example, the Israelis and Arabs are still in conflict due to prejudice towards one other based on the lack of knowledge, from both sides, of the other culture. ... Finally, Society would benefit from the absence of Prejudice and discrimination because much of the human race&#...

• Word Count: 665
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Especially for wives whose husbands have perpetrate such crimes or for parents whose daughters have resorted to such jobs as a mean of earning extra cash, wiping out prostitution will definitely do just to them. ... Moreover, morality is generally based on the one's beliefs, hence there is no definite right or wrong to prostitution, just that generally it is not accepted. ...

• Word Count: 395
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Since the number of people who accept abortion as a normal procedure is about equal to the number those who think of abortion as a crime, there have been a lot of steps taken against abortion, and many in its defense as well. ... The best way for someone to refer to abortion on an ethical basis would probably be through the description and evaluation of the subject based on two of the most known theoretical approaches: those of Kant's and of Utilitarianism (Act and Rule). ... As is the case with many issues in a utilitarian system, the rightness or wrongness of an act in question is b...

• Word Count: 1548
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The hierarchy of importance of these agencies for an individual is based on the personality of that individual and how they define themselves in society. ... Sacred texts such as the Quran, or the Bible are based on personal interpretations of the texts. ... While culture seems to present a ground-base for religion to build on, personality is the individual tools used in the approach to the particular religion. ... She said in an interview, "I also recognize his courage by acknowledging that for one to renounce their once confirmed faith in Islam is a crime under Sharia punishable by dea...

• Word Count: 1433
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although fundamentalism may be based on religious motives, it has often been politicized and turned to violent means. ... The worst excesses of materialistic greed, crime, and ethnic hatreds have erupted wherever repressive governments have fallen. ...

• Word Count: 654
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Marx insisted that stratification would occur soon thereafter when "by talent, crime, or good fortune, some acquire more and better private property while others are left with virtually nothing" (130)*. ... Marx was a reductionism who thought that religion (and nearly all other phenomena) could only be properly understood as "a symptom of something more real and substantial that lies underneath it," which he called the "base" (145)*. He insisted that "economic facts have formed the foundation of social life; they are the base that generates the division of labour, the struggle of classes, an...

• Word Count: 2462
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Culturally, all religions have different effects on people, based on how much you practice your religion or how much you don't. ... The counseling resources offered by churches and the intervention in the lives of troubled youths obviously help the economy by the abatement of vandalism and crime. ...

• Word Count: 989
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ritual can undermine social structure in that humankind can find instructions in it as to fundamental organising principles and values upon which their own society is based. ... Compared to Western cities of a comparable size, it has the lowest crime rate; drug abuse, violence, prostitution and delinquency are almost nonexistent. ...

• Word Count: 1448
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He must realize that, like a gypsy, he lives on the boundary of an alien world; a world that is deaf to his music, and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his sufferings or his crimes (1974:160). ... When scientists forget or fail to learn that science itself is a symbol system, based upon a reimagination of the cosmos in the form of theories, models and paradigms, there is the psychological danger of becoming scientific literalists who take the symbol or metaphor to be reality in itself. ...

• Word Count: 2403
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Douglass felt that the "non-religious slave-holders" were less brutal because they did not lecture their slaves based on a heavenly command. ... I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, -a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, -a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, -and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection." ...

• Word Count: 1984
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Basing arguments on the foundations of the classical writers such as Aristotle no longer produced valid views, as such work supported the belief of witchcraft because these writers had not the knowledge now known in modern times. ... During times of disasters there would be an increasing demand to make the ones blamed, pay for crimes, and to avoid revolt, mass prosecutions would be the only method to appease the people. ...

• Word Count: 1972
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate