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  • In What Ways Are the Ideas of Socio-Biology Linked with Eugenics: What's Wrong with Trying to Engineer a Better Society Anyway?

    In What Ways Are the Ideas of Socio-Biology Linked with Eugenics: What's Wrong with Trying to Engineer a Better Society Anyway?

    Eugenics is concerned with the current direction of human evolution. Troy Duster (1990) in his book “Backdoor to Eugenics” defines eugenics as "the organic betterment of the race through wise application of the laws of heredity." The word Eugenics was first put to use in 1883 by Francis Galton in his “Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development”. The word originates from the Greek word eugenes meaning "...good in stock, hereditarily endowed with noble qualities".

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Resposibilities of a Christian/catholic in a Free Society

    Resposibilities of a Christian/catholic in a Free Society

    RESPONSIBILITIES OF A CHRISTIAN/CATHOLIC IN A FREE SOCIETY Living as a Catholic in a free society is a great responsibility, one that is shared by all Catholics. Our actions need to match our principles, our values, and our ethics to be true to our Catholic ideals. It is our duty and responsibility to do all that we can to follow the Catholic teachings in order for us to be a positive Catholic influence on ourselves

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Victor
  • Human Regressions Impact on Society

    Human Regressions Impact on Society

    Human Regressions Impact on Society Many people believe that the defects in society lead to the defects in human nature, but in reality this may not be the case. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies a group of young boys are stranded on an island on which they make an attempt to create a government. The society created at the beginning of the book quickly fails and the boys turn to savagery. William Golding

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Mike
  • Societies of the Far West

    Societies of the Far West

    The Societies of the Far West 1.Southwestern Pueblos lived as farmers (corn being a major crop), with elaborate forms of irrigation to water these crops. They made adobe houses as forms of shelter, established alliances with the Spanish against the Apaches, Navajos, and Comanches. The Pueblos also developed an elaborate caste system with the Spanish. The Plains Indians contained several groups of diverse tribes with different languages. Professions ranged between farming and nomadic hunting, with

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Rhilippine Society and Revolution

    Rhilippine Society and Revolution

    PHILIPPINE SOCIETY AND REVOLUTION "Integrating Marxist-Leninist theory with Philippine practice is a two-way process. We do not merely take advantage of the victories achieved abroad so that we may succeed in our own revolution. But we also hope to add our own victory to those of others and make some worthwhile contribution to the advancement of Marxism-Leninism and the world proletarian revolution so that in the end mankind will be freed from the scourge of

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Anna
  • Ancient Greek Democracy

    Ancient Greek Democracy

    Many democracy-governed countries, like Australia are based on the laws and policies of the Ancient Greek democracy. The word democracy originated from the Greek words; demos meaning people and crata meaning rule, together meaning people rule. Ancient Greece and Australia, compared are very similar, but also have their own policies and way of doing things. The two countries are governed by democracy, however are governed by two different systems. The Australian system is the representative

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Illegal Immigrants of American Society

    Illegal Immigrants of American Society

    Illegal Immigrants of American Society A Realistic Approach At present, the U.S. immigration system is burdened both by policy and implementation challenges. It is barely able to meet the commitments required by law and policy and is ill-prepared to address new challenges and mandates. Agreement that the system is broken may be the only point of consensus among many diverse stakeholders. The Task Force believes that immigration laws and policies are broken in four

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries Ad

    The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries Ad

    For over five hundred years the Romans Empire flourished, conquered and then controlled much of (what was to them) the known world. There are two main reasons they were able to do this. One reason was the policy of “Romanization" that encouraged those that were conquered to become part of the empire, even providing various ways for them to become Roman citizens. The second reason was military force that did the actual conquering that

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    Essay Length: 1,732 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Public Breast Feeding and Society

    Public Breast Feeding and Society

    On July 27, 2006, Newsweek came out with an article directed at the topic of breast feeding. More specifically the August 2006 cover of babytalk Magazine. The cover showed a woman's exposed breast with a newborn baby feeding off it. Breast feeding in public has become a major issue in today's western society and this addressed it head on. The magazine baby talk has a reputation as a wholesome and clean parenting magazine, not known

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Monika
  • Family and Society

    Family and Society

    FAMILY AND SOCIETY Assignment # 1 1. Select three major societal and/or economic changes that have had a significant impact on the family. Describe the changes and how families been affected? Family and society have come across many changes during our history. Every change that occurred has affected what many people would call the "Benchmark Family" (Scanzoni #7). This is considered the perfect family or the norm. The Family would consist of the husband that

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Artur
  • Arranged Marriages Have No Place in Our Society.

    Arranged Marriages Have No Place in Our Society.

    Although many people agree that a woman or a man is free to decide upon his/her life, in many Eastern countries this is not the case. In India, for instance, parents still have the obligation to choose a suitable partner for their offsprings and their children are obliged to comply with this order. Hindu culture takes this phenomenon as something pre-established, as something normal. Nevertheless, those Indians who have the opportunity to travel abroad, and

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    Essay Length: 494 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Bred
  • Roman Britan Assignment

    Roman Britan Assignment

    This report is about Britain before the Roman conquest conquered it and when it was still occupied by the Romans. The first part is Britain before the conquest; the second part is a history of important events from the first Roman invasion till the withdrawal of the Roman legions; the third part is about an archeological site about Roman Britain; and the last part is about what life would have been like for the Britains

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Vika
  • Ancient China

    Ancient China

    Ancient China Travis Herbst February 20, 2006 Day 2 Block The Chinese have a rich culture of dynasties. In early years, the Chinese people were ruled by one dynasty until that dynasty was overthrown by another dynasty. The most known dynasties are: Shang, Ch'in, and Mongols. The Shang Dynasty was the first dynasty of China. Around 2000 BC, the Chinese were starting to make bronze and developing a writing system. The Shang lasted about 700

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: David
  • Effects of Media on Society

    Effects of Media on Society

    “Media Violence - American children and adolescents are exposed to increasing amounts of media violence, especially in television, movies, video games, and youth-oriented music. By 18, the average young person will have viewed 200,000 acts of violence on television” (http: //www.karisable.com/crssmv.htm) For the past thirty years, there has been a debate over violence is the media and whether or not that media violence leads to real-life violence. There are those who would say that

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: July
  • Emergence of Musical Film and Its Influence on Society

    Emergence of Musical Film and Its Influence on Society

    Essay Question: Critically discuss and describe the emergence of musical film and its influence on society. “The musical is one of the most popular film genres among both audiences and film scholars, probably for many of the same reasons - the spectacle, the music and the enjoyable predictability of the outcome weighed against the pleasure of the varied details.” Bill Marshall and Robynn Stilwell A proverb once claimed that “in life, you are either being

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Monika
  • Can Art Still Play a Subversive Role in Society?

    Can Art Still Play a Subversive Role in Society?

    Can art still play a subversive role in society? Steven Winn Wednesday, March 29, 2006 St Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/29/DDGRJHUSMV1.DTL When the hero of "V for Vendetta" blows up a London landmark -- the Old Bailey at the beginning of the movie and the Houses of Parliament at the end -- Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" surges from the speakers. Back home in his subterranean hideaway, this self-consciously cultured revolutionary delights in precious artifacts that the government in

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    Essay Length: 1,221 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Media in Society

    Media in Society

    People are quick to blame violence in our society on television, movies or video games because they are simple believable targets. We have to look beyond this disinformation and attack the real causes for the violence in our society. Violence in television programs, movies, or video games will not make a person kill someone else. People watch violent images all the time, and only a very small percent of them actually commit violent crimes. Research

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • Bless Me, Ultima: The Cultural Distress of a Young Society

    Bless Me, Ultima: The Cultural Distress of a Young Society

    Lytvyn Roman Eng. 320 Pr. Tolchin Bless Me, Ultima: The Cultural Distress of a Young Society An answer to the discussion question of whether or not there is a defined border culture would need a great number of years in field research, but we can also observe a few of the characteristics of such border culture just by looking at scholastic essays and books related to the topic. Within the research that I did,

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    Essay Length: 3,352 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Picturing Society

    Picturing Society

    In the article, Family Photograph Appreciation, Richard Chalfen discusses a teenage view of the relation between family snapshots and home videos. He first explains the value of personal photos using an example of natural or humanly coerced disasters and the mourning of visual traces of the past, or in other words, photographs. Family photographs are a very important aspect of peoples lives and without them we may never remember our past. By looking at snapshots,

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    Essay Length: 721 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Oppression of Women in Society

    The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Oppression of Women in Society

    The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Oppression of Women in Society Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is a commentary on the male oppression of women in a patriarchal society. However, the story itself presents an interesting look at one woman's struggle to deal with both physical and mental confinement. This theme is particularly thought provoking when read in today's context where individual freedom is one of our most cherished rights. This analysis will focus on two

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Jon
  • Alfred Huxley’s Ability to Predict Society Through a Brave New World

    Alfred Huxley’s Ability to Predict Society Through a Brave New World

    When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World he envisioned many aspects of society that would change in the next six hundred years. Although in his time some of the new trends that he mentioned might have seemed absurd and morally wrong, I do not believe he was far from the truth. In my opinion, certain aspects in society such as human sexuality and entertainment have changed towards Huxley’s perspective. First, I think that Huxley

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • Rebellion in Society

    Rebellion in Society

    Final Exam 500 Word Essay Problems, they are something that we as a society are faced with everyday. Someone once said that “Everybody has problems, and money is the answer.” For some problems, yes money can be the answer, but for more personal issues, where do you turn, that is, when even money cannot buy your happiness. Major problems include drug use, domestic violence, and sexual abuse, but being a teenager, it is known

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Edward
  • Integration of Renewable Energy into the Daily Lives of Society

    Integration of Renewable Energy into the Daily Lives of Society

    Many things these days are taken for granted and used with great liberty, but none more prevalent than the consumption of petroleum based fossil fuels worldwide. As stated in The International Energy Outlook 2006 (Energy Information Administration, 2006a), “World oil consumption rose by about 1.2 million barrels per day in 2005, after an increase of 2.6 million barrels per day in 2004”. Current projections indicate increasing demand for oil by the transportation sector, where there

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • Ancient Maya

    Ancient Maya

    The ancient Maya occupied a broad territory roughly the size of the state of New Mexico. This area is located in the southeastern parts of Mexico including the Yucatan Peninsula and most of the modern states of Chiapas and Tabasco, much of northwestern Central America, and including the nations of Guatemala and Belize and the western parts of Honduras and El Salvador. The earliest known villages appeared along the seacoasts (6000-2000 B.C) where there was

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Yan
  • Important Aspects of Early Modern English Society

    Important Aspects of Early Modern English Society

    Early modern England is a lot different to New Zealand in the early twenty first century. Almost every aspect of early modern English society contrasts greatly with New Zealand today. Three aspects where this contrast is especially pronounced are in the society was structured, the political make up of the country and the economy. Society in Early Modern England was rigidly structured in a hierarchical system, in which God was at the top, and peasants

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Jon

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