La presse fashion et le problème de l'anorexie
Text commentary - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Every young girl has one day wanted to see her frame on the first page of a fashion magazine. Actually these teenagers don't know yet that the business of fashion is not what it seems to be and that the life of models is not as bright as they think. Drugs and diseases are also a part of it. These...
Will combining a private health care system with a public one guarantee equality among US citizens?
Essay - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
We know that the US got many problems with their health care system. We suppose that a movie like “Psycho” from Michael Moore show how hard this system can be. We won't explain that movie because of its political orientation but we can take only one example: One man who cut off two...
D'Emilio, John. 1993. "Capitalism and Gay Identity" Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. New York: Routledge
Essay - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In his article “Capitalism and Gay Identity”, John D'Emilio shows how the changing economy has directly affected sexuality and sexual identity. He begins by discussing the colonial era in America, when families were “self-sufficient, independent, and patriarchal.” Sex was for...
Assigning sex: The ethics of performing surgery on inter-sex infants
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Hermaphrodites have throughout history been in the center of mythology, scandal, and the perverse fascination of the public eye. They have been misunderstood and persecuted for centuries by those who are confused by their ambiguous genitalia. Today, such people possessing to some degree both male...
Philological sciences
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Philological sciences are amongst the oldest academic disciplines. Teaching philological sciences to students aged between 15 and 17 is a real challenge. It's hard for the teacher to motivate children during their middle adolescency. The difficulties come from the fact that the teachers often...
Change is inevitable
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
I think that throughout this era there was a definite tendency for the government to enforce change to somehow make the nation better. This, however, wasn't always the case as it sometimes led to a great downfall, but with the great risk of changing something that isn't necessarily...
The gilded age: Glitz and glamour or an era of order?
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
While many people contend that the “Gilded Age” was simply the golden age of “robber barons”, such as steel magnate Andrew Carnegie or railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, I posit that a more lasting impact of “The Gilded Age” is that of industrial consolidation and...
Social stratification
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
After reviewing the chapter on social stratification as well as the data sheet, I've come to the conclusion that poverty in the U.S. is vastly overlooked. For example, I had no idea that the percentage of people living below the official poverty line was 12.7% which translates to over 38 million!...
Continual change
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Throughout our history, we have been a nation of change. This change intensely manifests itself during 1865-1935. During this period, the United States experienced Reconstruction, the rise of industrialization, a massive influx of immigrants, territorial expansion, and technological and...
Young people and alcohol
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The consumption of alcoholic beverages has been steadily decreasing in France for several years, but an alarming new form of alcohol abuse has occurred among young people. The 'binge drinking' consists of heavy consumption of alcohol with the primary intention of becoming intoxicated in a...
Urbanization of the world
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In 2008, the global urban population outnumbered the rural population. Urbanization is characterized by the growth and development of cities in comparison to rural areas. The term urban previously referred to as savoir vivre, that is the organization of a specific lifestyle in accordance to the...
Social problems: The issues faced by young girls
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The District of Pau is composed of the Region Unit and two branches. Each branch consists of a multidisciplinary team consisting of social service assistants, secretaries, doctors, nurses, nursery nurses, midwives, specialist teachers, social counselors, family economists and psychologists,...
Cultural theory in the liberal world: A review
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Critics of cultural theory espoused that it has become irrelevant in the modern age where terrorism (Eagleton, 2004 cited in Smith 2004), among others abounds. Further, they argued that it was not effective in dealing with the issues of “morality, metaphysics, love, religion, revolution,...
Culture and nonverbal communication
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The word culture is difficult to define, due to the subjectivity that lies in it. This means that the perception of the concept differs from person to person. The various disciplines that helped to interpret the concept are etymology, philosophy and sociology. Culture can be defined as socially...
Young people and alcohol in Ireland
Essay - 13 pages - Social, moral & civic education
When we speak about Ireland, we often think of its magnificent landscapes, its friendly people, its music and even its eventful history. There are a lot of stereotypes concerning Ireland, but many of them are about alcohol. Indeed, Ireland is symbolized by a lot of elements referring to alcohol...
Native Americans and culture
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Native Americans have a past that is deeply rooted in the history of their culture. For Pauline Puyat to be raised in the world as an orphan is a slap in the face to her heritage; she does not feel connected to her heritage as thoroughly as if her parents raised her to believe in the Chippewa...
Avortement - entre religion et éthique
Essay - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A few years ago, a desperate mother ended the life of her son, the victim of a terrible car accident that made him completely paralyzed. He wanted to die, not being able to fully live his life. He was reduced to being constantly bedridden, not able to move or even talk. After several court...
Virtue ethics & abortion
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Virtue ethics is a complex theory. It focuses on analyzing the values that are instilled in any given human being at birth, the values they learn through contact with the outside world, family, friends, co-workers, school teachers and other relationships, principles and scenarios they encounter...
Crime and the media
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The American criminal justice system uses deterrence to curb criminal behavior. Our current criminal system enforces crime control by emphasizing the imprisonment of dangerous offenders in hopes that it will deter future criminals. This plan is dated and flawed, because in this millennium,...
The internet and its effects on the income earned by music artists'
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The U.S. record industry has taken a major drop in overall value over the last 15 years. The industry as a whole, worth $14.6 billion in 1999, is now only worth $8.5 billion (“RIAA - Key”). CD sales are also at record lows, while digital downloads, song and album downloads from the...
Homosexuality in History
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In pre-Christian societies (from 600 before J-C to 300 after J-c) and more particularly in ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire, relationships between people of the same sex were accepted or even valorized, but within certain rules. The fact that homosexuality was accepted so well comes from a...
Racism in Anglo-Saxon countries
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Everybody has ever heard about racism, but do we really know what racism really is? We will see that in Anglo-Saxon countries, racism isn't a new phenomenon. We will point out which sorts of racism these countries have to face and will eventually see if a way has been paved to eliminate...
To what extent does the emergence and recognition of a gay consumer culture leads to an increased social acceptance of homosexuality?
Essay - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Five gay men. Out to take over the world. One straight guy at a time''. This is what people hear and read when watching the show commonly called Queer Eye. What do gay people do to ''take over the world''? The emergence of this kind of...
Abortion: Women's Rights
Course material - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Picture this situation in a grandmother's old tale. Her story reflects perfectly one of the main problems of illegal abortion. Way back in 1920, when she was 16, her friend was pregnant as a result of incest. Incest refers to having sexual relations between persons who are so closely related that...
Education and the American dream: Breakdown in Mann's report
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
After gaining independence, USA began to face new challenges in its new found land. With the increase in population, more problems were faced in securing the prosperity and well being for the citizens. How and in what manner should the government enact upon to secure these unalienable rights that...
Reinventing the Color Line Immigration and America's New Racial/Ethnic Divide - publié le 07/05/2010
Book review - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
"The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the Color Line". Writer and social reformer, W.E.B. Du Bois said at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, the color line corresponded to a Black-White divide. However, from the end of the twentieth-century to the beginning of the...
The commodification of babies: An attempt to control through technological advancements in human reproduction
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
We live in a capitalist society. From our moment of birth, we are being socialized to believe that life is a competition and we must continuously fight to win. Jobs have long ago become specialized and almost everything is a commodity. This shapes every aspect of our lives from the most private...
A system dynamics approach for village development planning with reference to India
Case study - 12 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This paper presents the results of a detailed 10-week long fieldwork done at the Tuljapur village in Thane district of Maharashtra a state in India obtained from modeling the observed data using the System Dynamics methodology. Various resource-technology-need linkages (forward and backward) were...
A branching process in an alternating random environment
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A continuous-time branching process model of a stochastic population is considered in which the life-time and the reproductive capacity of the individuals are dependent on a fluctuating environment. Using an imbedding technique, an integral equation is formulated for the probability generating...
An unintended identity: A sub-cultural study of New York garage bands in the 1960's
Tutorials/exercises - 30 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The year is 1964, the exact day, February 9th. Many people mark the day as the historic beginning of the so called “British Invasion.” Some may even go as far to say the day changed the face of American popular music. It's significance is simple. The Fab Four, the Beatles, played on...
