There are those people who argue that high school has and always will remain the same: a social hierarchy where the strong thrive and the weak suffer and parish. However, this is not exactly "Darwinism" we are discussing, because in high school, the term strong is often severely misused. ... There are those that may argue that cliques are a normal part of adolescents and that being in a clique provides people with social skills. ... Because they have limited social skills, they now forced to learn how to make a variety of new acquaintances, as well as stand up and take responsibility for thems...

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The problems however, continued to live on: How could America deal with poverty, corruption, industrialization, and other social and political changes of the late nineteenth century? ... Different interest groups were starting to speak up and express their discontent with political and social issues. ... One was the belief that changes could not be made to existing structures without hurting humanity, referred to as Social Darwinism. "Social Darwinism provided a seemingly scientific rationale with which to oppose governmental interference in social and economic affairs." ... These social...

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Eugenics is concerned with the social direction of human evolution. ... For example, Charles Darwin's son presided, while Winston Churchill led the British delegation. ... They included trust that selective breeding and choice of genetic traits is an effective means of improving the overall quality of the human species, the conviction that heredity directly determines physical, physiological, personality, and mental traits in adults, and a belief in the inherent inferiority of some races and social classes and superiority of others (Allen). ... Individual abuses of cloning, however, also ...

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The new diplomacy mirrored the far-reaching changes that were reshaping industry, agriculture, and the social structure. ... At the same time, aggressive Americans like Theodore Roosevelt and congressman Henry Cabot Lodge were interpreting Darwinism to mean that the earth belonged to the strong and the fit, and that is, to Uncle Sam. ...

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