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Illinois Wechsler Intelligence Scale Outcomes and the Impact of Ethnic or Racial Bias

between the ages of 6 and 16 (WIS, 2003). Finally, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-R) is used for intelligence testin...

Questions on Social Economic Inequality Answered

logical because it, ultimately, benefits all citizens. Presented as straight type, with no accompanying art work or graphics -- a...

Higher Learning Degrees' Reputation and Prestige

is just as variable as are the people providing it. To some students prestige is everything. This contention can be no bet...

Constitutionality of Capital Punishment

Black crime rates have been consistently higher than the white crime rate, consistent with blacks lower socioeconomic status and r...

Offering a New University Course Risk and Benefit Assessment

and OPerability study and HAZard and IMplementation study. These can be used to identify and work around different factors, but ma...

Berkman and Zinberg on Social Work Homophobia

counselors who maintain homophobic attitudes are less effective, if not actually harmful, in delivering social services" to these ...

Anti Semitism Throughout U.S. History

likely that the Holocaust would have been even more horrendous than it was. Many, however, have the tendency to point to America ...

U.S. Civil War Memorial

the reality of the civil rights movement. In this way, it becomes an everlasting record however of the event, thus immortalizing ...

An Organizational Website Evaluation

in regard to the web site at hand, this organizations principle mission is to create balance, but a question lingers as to whether...

Dennis Werner's Amazon Journey and Jody Glittenberg's To The Mountain and Back and Anthropological Bias

Mekranoti Indians rather than the Cakchiquel Mayan as did Glittenbergs work. While each of these researchers immerse themse...

Mythological Archetype and Adam and Eve

originate in the collective unconscious of the race as a whole, saying that they were "primordial images which have always been th...

Race Matters from a Critical Perspective

important issues about racism and oppression for black Americans. It is difficult to argue with many of his premises because hist...

A Place at the Table by Bruce Bowers

the authors personal bias. There was much about this book that challenged my personal beliefs and outlooks. For instance...

Urban Legend or Zeitgeist Myths

still believe that they will get cancer by overuse of their cell phones. By and large, this is not a bad urban legend in that it m...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

Prejudice Against Catholics in Television and Film

of priests are true servants of God and their parishioners but, as is always typical with the media, sensationalism sells. Therefo...

Systematic Taxonomy and Biodiversity

classify and categorize things, a need first addressed by Linneus when he first devised the binomial system of nomenclature for li...

Gender Effects of Memory for Objects That Are Gender Biased

commonly associated with one gender or the other. It can be hypothesized, in fact that:...

Latinos and Workplace Racial Biases

that are available to them in minorities and females" (Poor 11B). For those Latinos who have found their way to higher man...

Composition of a Higher Renaissance Religious Mass

the opening, your next task is to turn to a declamatory delivery of the words "ut animalia viderent Dominium natum" (that the anim...

Using Different Paragraph Styles

Mazda 626 was a good choice. Discussion of Cause and Effect On my first day of job hunting, I decided to take a cab to an inter...

Questions on Social Psychology Answered

(Conrad, 2003). From the actors point of view, we addressed this somewhat in the above - namely, do Kevin and Anna react in the sa...

Educational Instruction and Reading Accountability

that are more than apparent in his surrounding community, successfully overlooking a persons skin color or lack of education as a ...

Theories on Eugenics and Black Children

and "scientific evidence" was tailored to support racial biases. George Albee, professor of psychology at the University of Verm...

GPAs, Greek Fraternities and Sororities

to have higher GPAs than their non-Greek counterparts. Most of the national Pan-Hellenic organizations, in fact, place a high stan...

Joyce Appleby's Inheriting the Revolution

climate of economic freedom that invention was allowed free reign. Joyce Appleby covers this wide arena of growth in other...

California's Young White Males

one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...

Caste and Class Differences in Social Mobility

in the most significant activities possible (student-provided source 2, 254). Societal classification, however,...

Sex Crimes and the Media

justification than because of their color. However, law enforcement officials are not the only ones who misconstrue reality and p...

Adolescent Girls and Depression

to one survey conducted in both 1999 and 2001, 28 percent of American high school students report that they felt hopeless or sad a...