Death penalty: does the U.S. really need capital punishment?
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Capital punishment, which is the act of killing a criminal for a terrible crime, is a controversial subject in the United States. Over the course of history, public opinion has wavered on whether or not the death penalty should be administered. Decades ago in the 1970's, for example, public...
Afghan women under the Taliban
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Living in the United States it is often easy to take for granted many of the liberties that we hold so dear and which were gotten so long ago. However, when thinking about equality, we must remember that great strides have been made to accommodate different people, but at often times people...
Essay on human rights
Thesis - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
"Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end [...], but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature [...], would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?". There, Fyodor Dostoevsky asked...
The Baptist Church
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
I have chosen to research the Baptist Christian denomination. I chose this faith because my boyfriend is Baptist and I have always been fascinated by his church and beliefs. The Baptist church was founded in the year 1611 by John Smyth and Thomas Helwys of Amesterdam. It was founded in the...
The Implications of Expectation
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The essence of comedy is widely debated but, as Umberto Eco emphasizes, with little success: “the uneasiness manifested by those who have theorized on the comic inclines us to think that the Comic must be somehow connected with uneasiness.” It may be more meaningful and productive to...
Role of human service agencies on combating sex-trafficking
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Human trafficking is not a new problem. The problem of sex-trafficking began as early as 3000 BC-300 AD, starting during ancient times and existed within Roman, Egyptian, Persian and Greek cultures (Shared Hope International, 2009). Human trafficking is also considered to be one of the most...
Being a Man in Ancient Rome
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
“The Etruscans, early Rome's powerful neighbors to the north, were known to have an interest in Greek pederasty and were one of the chief export markets for Athenian vases displaying pederastic themes.” (Hubbard 2003, 308.) It is difficult to tell whether Romans adopted this same...
The speech impediment stuttering
Thesis - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In our language and culture class, we had several detailed discussions regarding speech disabilities and how they affect one's performance of language and others' views on that person's comprehension of, or competence in, language. We also learned that speech impediments afflicted a larger number...
Mass media: The effects on youth
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Each time a child turns on the TV, they will see or hear something that will effect their lives them in some way. It would be wise for parents to limit childrens' exposure to influential media such as the news, violent video games, and the like. Over 60% of television shows during prime time...
The Momentum of media towards enlightenment
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In his essay entitled ‘Was ist Aufklarung?,' Immanuel Kant explores the concept of enlightenment as it exists as an attainable state for mankind in society. In response to his title, ‘What is Enlightenment?,' Kant defines the framework of comprehension within which his insight expands;...
Exploring the Genesis of the Department of Homeland Security: What Exactly Lies Within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence?
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This report will investigate the root causes for the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). To help explain the genesis of its inception, history of the Bush administration's preoccupation with securing the nation from terrorist threats or attacks will be discussed. According...
The birth date effect in children entering education systems: Is a child's self esteem compromised by being admitted overly young into the formal education system?
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The purpose of this study is to explore the possibility that admitting too young a child into formal education systems (e.g., kindergarten, elementary school) can negatively affect that child's self-esteem in later years. Although educational psychologists agree that a young child's self-esteem...
The Attraction of Race, Class, and Poverty for Pro-Business' Choice in Undesirable Land Usage
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The primary focus of the term paper is to explore why communities of color and other related politico-social neighborhoods are seemingly fair game for pro-business usage of these lands as toxic dump sites or for other environmentally harmful industries. While it seems logical that political,...
The Role of Black Artists in African American Culture
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Throughout the Harlem Renaissance, blacks were creating new ways to identify themselves both individually and as a part of a new, developing culture within America. While some black writers used their work to identify their race as a separate entity, others used their writing to expose the social...
'Nightingale' & Loss of True Meaning
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Cultural constructions are constantly creating realities as representations go from fiction to fact in the minds of society. In terms of Coleridge's “Nightingale,” the same is true as one interpretation of the bird's song creates a personification that becomes not only true for that...
McLuhan's Global village in today's society
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
"We now live in a Global Village... a simultaneous happening" McLuhan and Fiore (1967) declared. Indeed, with the rise of electric media such as TV, radio, the telephone, and especially the Internet, it seems that people are ever more connected with each other. Herbert Marshall McLuhan...
Impact of fallacies on rational thinking
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A fallacy is a defect weakening a particular argument or a form of reasoning error (Garssen & Meuffels, 2009). It pertains to arguments specifically or reasoning used in an effort to lay rational basis or ground for an opinion or view. Correct arguments follow the sound reason principles through...
To what extent can white people be blamed for the African slave trade?
Thesis - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Before the Atlantic trade and probably before the trans-Saharan trade, slavery existed in Africa as in every other ancient society. However, if we consider the intensity and the conditions of life associated with the trades, the Atlantic trade is a fundamentally new system that did not exist in...
Organized Sports for Children and Pre-Adolescents: Genuine Fun or do the 'Cons' Outweigh the 'Pros'?
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The advantages and disadvantages of sports for children has been a topic of debate among parents, sports lovers, health professionals and sociologists. The main question being asked, is do the “pros really outweigh the cons”? Could the benefits of exercise, opportunity for...
Right of Rebellion: Thomas Hobbes vs. John Locke
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were two prominent political thinkers. Although both advocated theories of social contracts and natural law, they have distinct views on human nature, laws of nature, and why a civil society should be formed. In particular, both Hobbes and Locke differ in how they...
What can Web 2.0 do for deliberative democracy?
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Democracy and political practices have already gone a long way since the birth of Internet: online campaigns, online votes, speeches on videos that can be watched over and over on video-sharing websites. Internet has transformed the reality of the political bubble in many ways and nowadays, and...
The anti-gang campaign in Serbia
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The topic of ‘youth gangs' has become an important issue which concerns a lot of communities, especially the police. The available empirical evidence suggests that gangs are present in almost every continent, especially in urban areas but also increasingly in other regions. The...
Discussing the idea of America as E Pluribus Unum or E Pluribus Pluribus using Mexican-American immigrants as an example.
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
History has shown that America is made up of many people. The original people of this continent are the Native Americans. Then we have the English immigrants and Irish, Chinese, Japanese, German, Polish, Russian and immigrants of other countries. One by one they have integrated themselves into...
Cultural question of wage discrepancies between professional women and men
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Women earn, on average, 20% less than what men earn in North America. It was not until 1920, across North America, that women were given the right to vote. Today, more women than men are enrolled in professional post degree programs in Canada and the United States. Today, women comprise 46% of...
Inter-cultural training in London: An internship report
Thesis - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The U.K. is one of the most important European countries located on an island west of the continent. Its particular location and history often encourages the concept that the U.K. can often be regarded as the American son of Europe. It is a unitary state composed of England, Wales, Scotland and...
What are the psycho-sociological reasons for the popularity of TV serials?
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Why are television serials popular? How did they become so famous? Are we attracted to them or addicted to them? There are different ways one can observe how television serials and programs became popular in the twentieth century. Television serials have suddenly changed “all the factors -...
Establishing contacts, gift giving, entertaining, dress codes and negotiations styles in Egypt, Greece and Brazil
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In every day life and more especially in business and negotiations, it is important to understand the different cultures and their particular characteristics to be a good manager or negotiator. By having competent knowledge in cross-cultural communication,international businessmen will have an...
Ethical theory and business Practice: Are the French strikes ethical as they defend the working conditions while they block the economy?
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This report is going to highlight an ethical case. I decided to choose the French strikes that happen every year as an example of business ethic dilemmas. Before explaining the case, I would like to summarize what is ethics and how it applies to business. Let's see an “academic”...
The paradox of poverty in Nigeria: Junior engineers, technicians and scientists (jets) as panacea
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Among the countries in the world, Nigeria is one with a high level of poverty. The case of Nigeria however presents a glaring paradox. The country is rich but the citizens are poor. Despite the abundant human and natural resources in Nigeria, majority of the citizens are living in poverty. It...
Is Minorities' bond to the past a burden or a blessing?
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
African diaspora narratives have one thing in common: their richness. They cover the plural aspects of a culture and underline the complexity of an uprooted people identity. Mirta Yanez's “Of Natural Causes” is representing of this controversy. The story focuses on a group of Haitian...
