The child provides positive regard (love), affection, and fulfills the social loss. ... Dworsky examined the relationship between care status and the risk of teenage pregnancy. ... They have found that the increase in teenage pregnancy has arisen out of social issues as well. ... The media portrays single parent homes, teen pregnancy, and the social issue that America faces in a positive light. ... Now people get pregnant because they have an excuse: I have social problem and now I can get pregnant. ...

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Thus, students are channeled into "appropriate- roles according to the status placed on them by the dominant culture. ... Native Americans are described as "filthy,"" "murderers,"" and "savages;- Chicanos are presented as lawbreakers and bandits; African-Americans are usually shown in low status roles, neglecting their many contributions (Farley, 2000, p.389). ... The placement into lower tracks has been shown to have a negative affect on students' social-psychological well-being, and their attitudes toward education in general (Catsambis, 1994). ... The social label of being a slow ...

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These life changes include birth, puberty, initiation into social and familial groups, marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, and death. In most pre-industrial societies these rituals are the keys to determining the social hierarchy of the community. ... Because of these and other circumstances unique to our social world, complete cultural isolation is nearly impossible. ... In some cases these physical changes are thought to actually create such spiritual and social alterations. ... She grew her hair out in order to demonstrate her new status as involved with this new love interest. ...

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Liberalism believes that each person should be free to act as they wish, it also believes that each individual deserves respect no matter of race, religion, sexual preference, or social status. ... Feminism is a movement for social, political and educational equality and change. ... However before the late 19th century, social attitudes were not challenged in mass. ... When a woman married she lost all legal status. ... In America women were given legal status when married in 1848 under the Women's Property Act. ...

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The subjects scribe themselves as being members of a variety of social statuses, which include in their own words; a hippie, athlete, artist, comic book nerd, grandma and blue collar father. ... In some cultures one tattoo represents their social status, rank or title. ...

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Because masculinity was tied to the ability to be a good provider, a man's status in the community was also tied to this assumption causing him to spend more time at work than he might possibly have done had his job not been expected to be the most important thing in his life (Bernard 11). ... Women also lost much of the status that they had previously held in the agrarian society. ... Beth Rubin, in Shifts in the Social Contract, speaking of the post war period, says, "The labor-capital accord emerged in the unionized core of the economy, particularly in manufacturing industries, in t...

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In this essay I will attempt to show that elitist power in America is controlled by a few at the top of the political, corporate, social and religious pyramid. ... Out of this marriage came the founding of British-style boarding schools like Groton and Hotchkiss, new social institutions such as private country clubs, debutante societies, and restricted suburbs. ... The enormous inheritability of status, the devolution of the ideals of gentlemanliness into a glorification of undergraduate carousing, the lack of academic standards, the casual and unearned assumption of superiority, the inability...

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For some AIDS and HIV patients they also develop complications such as Dementia that causes predicaments that are even more socially estranging. ... Our research revealed findings that seven out of those ten individuals interviewed seemed to be mentally disturbed and anti-social. ... Their stories made us the theory that most are anti-social and do not like rules and some do not want to deal with job stress. ... Kate has been working for the county for the past sixteen years as a social worker. ... The social programs out there to help them are overcrowded. ...

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Modernization has served many essential functions, but it also helped to bring a greater degree of social complexity. ... Education is a central social institution and the word school is treated with awe and respect. ... This means that one must act with moral excellence in all areas of social life, and not just some. ... There are six types of power according to social thinkers John French and Bertram Raven. ... Finally, the informational power discusses the amount and kind of information the recipient has about the leader and can serve to aid or alter the latter's status position. ...

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In America, the status affixed to race as a defining feature suggests a degree of inter-correctness among black people who have inhabited varying subordinate subcultures with respect to the pervasive white mainstream. ... Black prisons were at the forefront of social criticism in issues of race and class. ... Prisoners such as Eldridge, Cleaver and George Jackson fostered the liberation ideology and the development of a black consciousness and revealed radical critiques of the American social order. ... Black political and social activists within prisons were important because they provided...

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For the most part, they are the same theories that address violence in our society: social learning theory, exchange theory, and violence in the media. The primary theme of the social and learning theory is that delinquency is learned through peer group interactions. ... When applied to youths, this theory assumes that juvenile delinquency is learned from others during the course of their social interaction. ... Regardless of family and community dependence on schools to educate, shelter, and discipline their children, most schools have difficulty playing multiple roles as educators, surrogat...

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His reign deeply wounded the Irish by lowering their status to one that was less than human. ... These letters were publicized and read at social events reassuring the young to accompany them in this glorious new country. ...

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Finally, candidates, parties, campaigns, interest groups, and social movements mobilize some citizens and neglect others, step up for their efforts at some times and scale them back at others. Their labors, when they occur, promote political participation, offsetting the costs and augmenting the social benefits of citizens" political activism." ... A mechanism that increases inequalities is socio-economic-status (SES). ... Cole stated, "The higher the level of education then the social environment where that person resides exuberates pressure to be active. ...

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Expressing great dissatisfaction with the fuzzy and blurring lines separating different groups of homeless people, Loveland proposes that: We look at three dimensions of homelessness: paths (and social roots), demographics and lifestyles, and barriers to escape. ... Judging from the review of reports received, it appears that those in vulnerable economic situations, upon receiving an economic jolt, in the absence of "social margins" (savings, relatives, extended family, friends.) become homeless. ... Funding for social welfare assistance programs in the United States, such as Aid to Families ...

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There is a heavy emphasis on family, religion and social issues. ... Some of the social issues that concern Indians are the promotion of democracy, freedom from discrimination, independence of thought, and rights of women and children. ... Our group-wide Equal Employment Opportunities & Diversity Policy emphasizes that we recruit and promote employees on the basis of their suitability for the job without discriminating on grounds of race, color, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, marital status, or disability. ...

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The American Revolution was mainly a political movement; however there were some social and economic factors. ... Secondly, it was also a social dispute. One of the definitions of the adjective social is of, or pertaining to or based on rank of status in a particular society. ... The Englishmen decided that the Americans had no right to protest high taxes because of their low social position. ... There were demands for political equality and economic and social advances. ...

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"The fact is that the automobile has become hypnotic...the opium of the American people." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Family Redefining the American Teenager The Rise of the Hot Rod Culture The Rise of the Excess Culture Baby Boomers and Redesign Converting from Chrome to Muscle The Automobile as Identity Downfall and Decline Conclusion Bibliography Introduction With the end of World War II, the United State...

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A Research of the Media Coverage of the War on Drugs: Marijuana: The Facts and the Media Coverage The "war on drugs" was announced by President Nixon in 1971. The media has been there since the very beginning: covering this so called war with every means at their disposal. Some feel tha...

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I start to take a short look at the political and social situation of the blacks in the twenties and of course I look at the most influential writers at this time. ... The steady loss of orientation of the social and political position of African Americans in America and the growing exodus of blacks from their homes in the south to the northern cities are issues that the Harlem writers tried to work through in their stories and poems. ...

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In the North-Central Mexican city of Juarez, times are often pretty rough. Crime is decreasing as of 2016, but the percentage of violent crimes in Mexico is still higher than almost all major cities in the country to the north, the United States. In fact, poverty is extremely prevalent with "494,000 Juarez residents living in poverty or extreme poverty" (Isaad). As Virginia Isaad points out "a new study from the UNICEF says that 5 out of 10 children in Mexico live in poverty" (Isaad). Juarez is indicative and symbolic of most cities in Mexico where many fear for their lives due to drug cartel ...

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The latest directive instructs Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials not to enforce immigration laws in cases where an illegal alien is the primary provider for any minor child-regardless of the child's immigration status-or the parent or guardian of a child who is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident.2 Efforts to preserve and protect families are important considerations when it comes to immigration reform according to the Unites States government. ... She focuses on immigration as a threat to American children and denigrates the values of immigrant families, branding...

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U.S. Healthcare Reform I.) Stakes and Positions Healthcare reform continues to be one of the most contentious subjects of debate in American politics. Healthcare accounts for over 16% of federal expenditures, forecasted to increase in the years ahead1. The two main political parties represent the interests of an array of interest groups and providers at state and national levels. ...

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Throughout the course of human history, there have always been the oppressed, deprived, and subjugated minorities that suffer under the constraints of the majority. The ideologies based upon the Eurocentric and Protestant groups proceed to be key figures of oppression and racism. The mannerisms i...

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Independence Day is the national holiday of the United States of America commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the time of the signing the US consisted of 13 colonies under the rule of England's King George III. There was growing unrest in the colonies concerning the taxes that had to be paid to England. This was commonly referred to as "Taxation without Representation" as the colonists did not have any representation in the English Parliament and had no say in what went on. As the unr...

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Introduction Athletes have been taking performance-enhancing drugs in different forms for centuries; the furthest dated supplement used to increase performance was used in Ancient Greece, when they would ingest doop with the hopes of increasing their performance and becoming some of the first Olym...

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