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Essays 541 - 570
helm of this controversial topic is the mandate of minimum drug sentencing for what some consider to be insignificant usage. As s...
and production techniques has lead to more production capacity that can be used to supply demand (Nellis and Parker, 1996). Ther...
terms of cost: "liberal, moderate, low-cost, and economy" (Fisher, 1997). The economy food plan was devised in 1961 and was based ...
understanding simple directions or being self-motivated, which ultimately leads to a significant sense of failure. Combine that w...
The rate of poverty in the world and even in this country is growing instead of decreasing. Urban churches are right in the midst ...
Bureau, 2005). The 2000 census reflects an unemployed rate of 6.1% out of the overall civilian workforce of 656,539 people. Occu...
importance in the fight against AIDS/HIV by utilizing the force inherent to their extended reach into the population. "Journalist...
prejudice. At any rate, MacKenzie argues that raising the minimum wage will hurt the very people its supposed to help, because emp...
as the "irregular household structures-of the working poor" (Nelson, 2006). For example, one young working mother relies on her mo...
This difference resulted in friction between the peoples of this new nation (and in particular its government) and the Native Amer...
When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...
defend" (Anonymous, 1998, p. 26A) brings to light yet another detrimental impact of teenage drug use. The 1990s heralded in...
"blacks are significantly more structuralist that whites in their thinking about poverty" (they see the system rather than the ind...
hes already delivered powerful works on the Middle East (Arab and Jew) and race (A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in Amer...
into a selfish, egotistical and myopic entity; no longer are people more concerned with others than they are with themselves. The...
reality, and in other ways a very powerful reality. For example, we could ourselves commit such a sin, even those of us who are so...
are based more on the liberal position that America should be welcome all comers. The growing disparity of language in border sta...
doesnt take a great deal of historical awareness to recognize that politicians have engaged in all sorts of acrobatics to negate o...
be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnancies by Eth...
even more disastrous in contemporary culture. There appears to be no end to what people will do to acquire a lot of money, often ...
the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at t...
of cold weather also demonstrates a dip compared to the temperate climate (Landes, 1999). Using this as a basis it is...
possible to make an international phone call or surf the Internet from a caf? in Shanghai, while sipping a cappuccino (Micklethwai...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
habit, it becomes cyclical (Payne, 2001). 2. Situational where poverty is sudden and brought on by an event, such as a divorce, lo...
within flourishing communities. As Toynbee (2004) notes, without including all the indicators of social inclusion in the broader p...
a higher level of education is regularly under 20% of the population (The Business Journal-Milwaukee, 1999). With an understandi...
The Charity Organization Society quickly became a model by which many other charitable organizations were modeled and developed (T...
In ten pages the theories of Emile Durkheim inclusive of anomie are applied to such social problems as poverty, homelessness, and ...
In seven pages the Miami and Dade area of Florida is the focus of this economic consideration of poverty and its causes in the reg...