Should same sex marriage be legal? ... There are several states in the United States that do not allow same sex marriage it is unclear as to why they do not allow same sex marriages in their states. ... Whereas numerous people grew up believing that same sex families is not the normal and ideal life. ... The thought of Ruth and Idgie being lesbians is wild all through the story. ... Like women state to men, "just because you are a couple does not mean you must have sex....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the society we live in today, sex is the number one favored topic. ... All sex education in schools has led to is simply showing teenagers how to have sex safely. ... On prime time TV, the occurrence of premarital and extramarital sex far outnumbers sex between spouses, with the rate soaring to 24:1 in soap operas [ ]. ... Whether it is guys and girls, guys and guys, girls and girls, or multiple persons of each sex, the sex act itself is a major conflict. Movies specifically aimed at the teenage audience, specifically known as "teen movies", base most of their story lines on relationships...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Same-sex marriage has been one of the most controversial and divisive topics in the United States since the 1970s. ... Obergefell vs Hodges required states to recognize same-sex marriages that were formed in other states (Oyez). ... The ruling stated that Ohio must recognize same-sex couples married in other state jurisdictions. ... The plaintiffs consisted of four legally married same-sex couples and their children in Kentucky (Perry). ... This is the first of two significant rulings passed down by Judge Heyburn in regards to same-sex marriage. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Myth of the Latin Woman The principal notion about life revealed in this essay is that in Western societies the Latin Women are viewed stereotypically as a sex object or selfless housewives and obsequious workers. ... The author recalls stories that she heard in her house during her childhood about sexual harassment that Puerto Rican women endured in factories where they were seen as if sexual innuendo was all they understood. ... I would like to tell about Rita Morena, the actress who played in the mentioned above movie "West Side Story" and who received Oscar for Best Supporting Actr...

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A second phenomenon is same-sex marriage. ... In Illinois, same-sex marriage is also legal. I am in opposition to same-sex marriage and the thought that an open mind must accept this. ... Restricting same-sex marriage is the same as infringing the freedom everyone is entitled to. ... According to an article, the opposite-sex parental model is viewed as the ideal model and thus is wary of recognizing same-sex parenting because it also entails recognition of same-sex relationships. ...

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Human trafficking, is usually a forced act of a person, performing sex 3acts or hard labor in a sweat shop. ... Human trafficking, is usually a forced act of a person, performing sex acts or hard labor in a sweat shop. ... " The other form of human trafficking is sex trafficking. ... Victims of sex trafficking can be women or men, girls or boys, but the majority are women and girls. ... Victims are forced into various forms of profitable sexual exploitation including prostitution, pornography, stripping, live-sex shows, mail-order brides, military prostitution and sex tourism. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Through this story the hero (Roy) is representative of the collective American hero as he fulfills all these requirements. ... Not only does he treat women as sex objects placed on earth for his pleasure, but he ended up being wounded by Harriet because of his strong desire to be the best. Also, in the beginning of the story, Roy's ignorance is obvious. ... Malamud demonstrates through his story that the hero in America comes from a high place, encultured with morality and integrity, and is not perfect. ... Overall the story is saying that we can extract the essence of both failure an...

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Therefore, the article shows the effects that lack of parental guidance, sex education, and mass media has on teenage pregnancy, and how it relates teenage pregnancy to foster homes.  ... Even the federal government has found teenage pregnancy to be a social issue in which lack of parental guidance, sex education, and positive media has been recognized. ... Richard Smith, a Washtenaw Community College student, states, "The American popular culture glorifies sex and ignores responsibility. ... " The urge to have sex and get pregnancy is now stronger because of the fact that one has ...

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Among many imperfections, the death penalty system in the United States continues to carry an apparent preconception upon the sex of the offender. ... It is difficult to understand why women have received such favored treatment, since the purposes allegedly served by capital punishment are applicable to both sexes. ... Every year scores of men are executed, but we rarely hear much of their stories. ...

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If a person wants to marry someone of the same sex, that person should have the right to do so. ... Another justification one might use to ban same sex marriage is that it is biblically wrong. ... Premarital sex and divorce rates have both sky rocketed in the past fifty years, and no one is making a law against either one of those issues. ... A gay couple's romance can be compared to Shakespeare's famous love story. ...

• Word Count: 750
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• Grade Level: High School

Color is not only the reason of being discriminated: other reason such as language, and sex. ... According to a news story, a class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco against Wal-Mart stores. ... Gender discrimination must be stop, so that sex differences will be equal Other than discrimination of nationality and gender, discrimination of religion is also a part of racism. ...

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The only way I can envision the way in which people lived is by the stories told to me by my father or listening to the music from that point in time. ... The way I see it, society was not concerned with the sex, drugs, and rock and roll as they are today. ... The car seems to be more of a sex symbol than it was 30 years ago. ... The car in this song, a mustang, is not used for anything but to get the attention of the opposite sex. ... "All of you bitches wanna fuck me cause my ride's so fly- Lil" Troy also talks of sex through the use of an automobile. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

On example of this is in Andrea Weiss' story Female Pleasures and perversions in the Silent and Early Sound Cinema. ... Weiss discusses how women were used as "objects of desire."" (304) This story was showing how easy it is to view something so natural as--sexuality and turn it into this erotic nightmare. ... People have always said,""sex sales."" But, sex and violence in conjunction with women can't be a good recipe. ... When we see people namely women: as objects, figurines, wives, mothers, sex, objects, and not human. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The stories of the internment camps are withheld from the normal history class because the history that we are taught was written by an educated, upper-middle class white man. ... The prostitutes in New York had evolved into an elite group of women selling sex. ... Some of these women would tell slaves that if he didn't have sex with her, she would tell her father that he tried to rape her. ... The woman of the South demanding sex from a black man and a woman in New York selling sex to "gentlemen- have huge differences. ... However, the women of the Victorian era in America were all exp...

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The book also covers authentic stories that happened within the last decades, which is relevant enough to be included in the provision and formation of sexual diversity politics. ... The first part of the book starts with a story of a retired U.S. ... The author progressively argues about the significance of policy language clarity and usage in qualifying transgender workers in nondiscrimination policies – firmly illustrating why transgenders are different from the LGB, and why exclusion prevails because of the notions on gender orientation and biological sex. ... Objectionable options, s...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

As I read this story I remembered my teenage days and how girls would get certain repetitions simply off of sexual behavior. There is a clear double standard between young men and young women especially when it refers to sex. ... What is ironic is that everyone (almost everyone) has sex its apart of nature. ... Kim Kardashian is a very prominent female in the media whose claim to fame by many is due to her infamous sex tape.  ... But Janice Dickinson and these other women who choose to slut shame Kim most likely have the same type of sex Kim had in her sex tape or they are just envious becaus...

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He took four videotapes of children's stories valued at $68.84 from another Kmart. ... They consist of a new long-term offender designation that targets sex offenders, and adds a period of supervision of up to ten years, following release from prison; strengthening the Dangerous Offender provisions in the Criminal Code; and a new judicial restraint provision to permit controls, including electronic monitoring, to be applied to individuals who are at high risk of committing a serious personal injury offense. ... They are also coming up with more strict laws for sex offenders . They consist...

• Word Count: 2028
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The main character is a crazed sex addict and does many strange things throughout the movie and ends up getting arrested. ... He is a crazed sex addict and his life quickly heads downhill after killing a woman with a giant penis. ... Essay A: Four Mythoi In the previous diagram I have placed "The Man from Snowy River" as a rite of passage story, "A River Runs Through It" as a romance story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" as an ironic story, and "Educating Rita" as an ironic comedy. ... It is a movie based on the life story of George Jung, who became one of the largest drug dealers in Am...

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• Grade Level: High School

Additionally, a stereotype, in one of the major themes of Crash, dominates all the sub-stories that are somehow connected to each other. Moreover, as the stories go on and events develop, it becomes possible to see how characters start to have changes in their perspective and attitude towards each other; either in a positive or negative manner. ... Until the scene with the hitchhiker, he portrayed of a wise, young man who defended justice and wanted to treat people as equals, regardless of their sex or race. ... He demonstrates in all of the sub-stories how the world can be judgmental by the e...

• Word Count: 868
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Child Sexual Abuse It is frightening to realize how widespread sexual abuse is in our society and yet how strong the denial of it is.1 "Don't waste your time talking about what an aberration it is and how unlikely it is " just get to the place where you understand that one of the things humans do is have sexual contact with children,"" says [Gavin] de Becker, author of Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane).2 Sex with children is a crime. It has long been illegal for adults to have sex with children in the U.S. But [thanks to a 1994 federal law,...

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• Grade Level: High School

The story of female slavery is the story of survival of Black women and their construction of a definition of womanhood that made sense to them. In some ways it is the story of the phoenix. ... On large southern plantations Black women usually worked together in single-sex work gangs. ...

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The overwhelming view of sex in this era, at least publicly, was that of a tool used for procreation not recreation. ... In light of this decision, the Supreme Court found it then necessary to define "obscenity" and to distinguish it from the portrayal of sex. ... Brennan writes: "sex and obscenity are not synonymous Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. ... "# Although, here, the court does give some leeway in the interpretation of obscenity and sex, the decision nevertheless, reveals the sexually repressed views of the era. Perhap...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Illinois state law "requires all convicted sex offenders to submit a blood sample if they are sentenced to incarceration or other institutionalized care and to provide such sample as a condition of parole or release" and the samples are kept in a database that "may not be subject to expungement" (Michelle Hibbert). ... In conclusion there are always two sides to every story and neither side is wrong or right when it comes to DNA databases. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Rap consists of telling a rhythmic and swift story while being accompanied by some sort of instrumental track. ... Some people may say that Rap is obscene because of the word choice and allusions to sex, drugs, and other topics not acceptable at the dinner table. ...

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For years, opponents of gay and lesbian relationships have made comments such as "If they wanted to they could fall in love with someone of the opposite sex, and just stop being gay". ... Some people like tall men or slender women, some like girls with big breasts or big bottoms, some look for a persons financial assets or what color some ones hair or eyes are and with gay and lesbian couple, all of those things still apply but they just happen to be of the same sex. ... That's what the Bible is, an interpretation of what someone else has saw full of stories thru someone else's ey...

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