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David Stoll's Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans

In five pages this paper analyzes Stoll's text in terms of the author's point of view and the debates that continue to linger rega...

Heathcliff Character Formation in Bronte's Wuthering Heights

In five pages the ways in which Heathcliff's character was shaped in terms of the nurture and nature debate are analyzed. There a...

Is It Possible to Be Born a Criminal?

strange and terrible" (Lanier and Henry, p. 94). Interestingly, this theory was supported by sociologist Richard Dugdale, who art...

Sexuality According to Constructionist and Essentialist Perspectives

In particular, Wikholm (2002) cites the work of Karl Ulrichs and his descriptions of "men with an inborn attraction to other men."...

Is social science a science?

no way identical to themselves. In other words there is a degree of separation, whereas those in the social sciences study human ...

An Analysis of the Text The Sexual Politics of Sickness

growing fears about it; and potential illness as a result. The standard birth takes place in a clinical hospital where the patient...

China's Sterilization Enforcement Debate

birth control policies are directly related to her dire need for population control, most contend that China unequally enforces he...

Medical Marijuana Debate

This paper presents an argument in favor of medical marijuana. The writer discusses the positions in this debate, both pro and con...

Language and Thinking

A major debate for decades has focused on whether or not language shapes thoughts. Can language influence thoughts so much as to s...

Impact on Those Who Play Computer Games

There has been a debate about the impact of action and violent video and computer games on those who play them. This especially pe...

Competing Professionals and Primary Healthcare

This paper considers the raging conflict between advanced practice nurses and physicians. Is there an identity crisis? There are...

Right To Die Overview

This research paper offers an overview of literature on the right-to-die debate. Five pages in length, six sources are cited. ...

Pro-Choice and Abortions

This 3 page paper gives an example of a persuasive essay about abortion. This paper includes examples of why pro-choice is the cor...

Nature vs. Nurture

There are many theories about intelligence and there are some debates about it. Gardner proposed multiple intelligences while Ster...

The Concept of Emotional Intelligence

For the last two decades, there has been a controversy regarding the efficacy of the concept of emotional intelligence. This paper...

Social Welfare Policy Arguments Both For and Against

injustice. Mead is compassionate but tough. He does not buy into notions that suggest society must do something about the poor. Af...

Alowing Cloning Would Be a Mistake

more to this argument to quote Scripture that indicates Gods commandments that human beings venerate life. Furthermore, by request...

Salt on Food and the Nature v. Nurture Argument

their salt intake so as not to further complicate the situation, which is clearly indicative of a nurturing response to the natura...

Debate on the Bell Curve

upon such a broad and inaccurate scale. One of the reasons why critics argue that the bell curve is inadequate at determini...

Overview of the Argument on Minimum Wage

from $4.75 per hour to $5.15 per hour during particular dates in 1996 and 1997 (U.S. DOL,1998). However, it was actually the Empl...

Pennsylvania's Cigarette Taxes

They want this because of traffic congestion in cities in addition to the problem of pollution. Raising taxes on gas promotes car ...

Competing American Ideologies in the North and South Before, During, and After the Civil War

In five pages discord between citizens of the American north and south are considered and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville is used...

Homosexuality in the Male From a Clinical Perspective

characteristic. Subsequent psychological researchers and theorists were then able to elaborate on such factors in order to determi...

Nietzsche's Philosophy

(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...

An Argumentative Essay on Abortion

27). However, even in late pregnancy, she argues that the emotional well-being of the pregnant women outweighs the value of the fe...

Stem Cell Research Controversy

citing that the industry does not have enough controls to make certain that abuses do not occur. Scientists are stating th...

Young Child and Environment

other connotations as the factors of gender and race were thrown into the mix. In most models a person is constantly at war with h...

Personality, Behavior, and the Significance of Nature v. Nurture

that people behave themselves and conform to laws. Thus, the revolution in thinking about genes has monumental consequences for ho...

Debate on Caps Being Placed on Medical Malpractice

While some might consider this a step in the right direction, trial lawyers and victims of medical abuses do not agree. The Associ...

Debate on Gun Control

statistics which show how many people have avoided or saved their own lives aided by the owning of a gun (Polsby 1994). In other w...