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Research Paper: Models
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... to look like. The collection of their ideal women is in the first half of the album. Notice that the pictures are mostly of models that are half dressed, thin and in provactedly positioned posies. The makeup on these women are all perfect and their hair is obviously not out of place. The selection of pictures not surprisingly were of women who not only were half dressed but also in their undergarments. The second half of the experiment was basically done in the same way; but this time I asked for them to tear out pictures that they would want their wives to look like. With four different magazines they tore out pictures of more conservetly dressed women. Their ...



What Are Morals?
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... simply how one interprets the differences between right and wrong. When you decide to help a struggling person in the hall, that is based on your morals. When you decide to turn down a brewsky because you believe that drinking is wrong, that is morals. When you vote to keep abortion legal, that is morals. Whether thought of or done subconsciously, morals are the basis on how you make many decisions. From where does this sense of right or wrong originate from? Freud says that moral development comes from observation of parents during the developmental stage of childhood. From childhood, then, comes the foundation for adulthood morality. A more detailed, yet s ...



Ethics/Child Labor
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... can do various types of jobs, because it can be good for them in terms of building character, responsibility, and a good work ethic. But child work must be done in the context of education, and not interfere with the childs development in the terms of activities, sports, and music. Now child labor can be defined as where children are put to work in jobs that have been done by, or could be done by, adults. Child labor is where the children are exploited and also is when they are worked in conditions that are hazardous. 1 Child labor is a problem throughout the world, and especially in developing countries. Child labor is most common in rural areas where the capa ...



Should You Be Able To Speak Basic English To Reside In The US?
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... should and 10% saying you should not have to. Results Americans that felt yes they should speak the language 59 out of 71 Other nationalities that felt that they should speak the language 27 out of 29 Americans that felt they should not have to speak the language 12 out of 71 other nationalities that felt they should not have to speak the language 2 out of 29 By doing this survey I have learned that most people feel that foreigners should learn to speak the English language in order to reside here. There were also a lot of people that feel if you live in the U.S. you should be required to speak the language in public. A lot of people seem to take off ...



Employee Drug Testing
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... employment lawyer Jonathan Segal of Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen. A rash of lawsuits in the 1980s challenged the right of employers to conduct drug tests, but by now that issue has been resolved: Private employers may screen employees with preemployment testing, investigate accidents by testing those involved and conduct random drug tests. Recent litigation has focused not on whether an employer may test but on how the test is done. For preemployment screening, the ADA requires that medical exams not be done before the applicant has received a conditional offer of employment, but it specifically excludes drug tests. However, many companies hoping to av ...



Is Animal Testing Right?
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... have any options. You do not hear of any human testing because that is morally wrong. So why are we doing it to animals? Animal testing is probably the most unjust form of treatment for any animal. Humans have rights, which are protected by the bill of rights. Animals also have rights, but only animal activists protect them. Anyone knows that if groups of humans were being tortured or even killed then it would make many headlines on the evening news, and of course, it would be stopped. On a daily basis animal testing in the Proctor and Gamble laboratories does go on, and yet none of this is even mentioned on the evening news. It just continues. Although many a ...



Evolution Of Profanity
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... satire, and controversy of all kinds" (Macrone 6). In his time, religious and moral curses were more offensive than biological curses. Most all original (before being censored) Shakespearean works contain very offensive profanity, mostly religious, which is probably one of many reasons that his works were and are so popular. "Shakespeare pushed a lot of buttons in his day- which is one reason he was so phenomenally popular. Despite what they tell you, people like having their buttons pushed" (Macrone 6). Because his works contained so many of these profane words or phrases, they were censored to protect the innocent minds of the teenagers who ...



Anomalies Are Not Always Wrong
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... using these accounts, it can be understood that these are not "new" fads, but true dilemmas that have their own history. Transsexualism and transvestism are variations from society's views of "normal" sexual behavior. These variations of the norm are explained as being disorders and are almost exclusively found in men. Transvestism is the activity of cross-dressing for sexual arousal from that specific object, whether it be clothing, shoes, or what. This can simply be called a fetish. The reasoning behind the few cases reported of female transvestism is explained in the following statement. "The culture apparently permits a greater range of fashion to women. The mal ...



Traffic Control: The Need For Change
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... accidents, traffic jams, and the environmental hazards created by the large number of vehicles on the road. Traffic accidents account for one of the major reasons that the current techniques of traffic control need revision. Traffic jams, along with broken cars and the lack of alternate routes, account for one half of the traffic congestion in the United States (Clark 387-404). Although the number of traffic accidents in the United States has slowly decreased over the past several years, it is still alarmingly high. In 1990, approximately 7 deaths occurred for every 10,000 people in the United States due to traffic accidents (Wallich 14). In addition, tr ...



Affirmative Action: Will It Every Work Right?
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... Act of 1964 (1) and stems from the United States Supreme Court Case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (2). In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order #11246 at Howard University that required federal contractors to undertake affirmative action to increase the number of minorities that they employ. He wanted to ensure that minorities are recruited to have real opportunities to be hared and then eventually get a promotion. In 1969, the Department of Labor exposed widespread racial discrimination of the Construction Department so President Richard M. Nixon decided to incorporate a system of "goals and timetables" to evaluate fed ...




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