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Arguing about the Minimum Wage

prejudice. At any rate, MacKenzie argues that raising the minimum wage will hurt the very people its supposed to help, because emp...

Poor Decisions by African Americans

remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...

A US Prison Reform History

"prisons" from where people never emerged; the most famous being the Bastille of Paris, France, scene of the French Revolution. Th...

Digital Divide Issues and Impacts

manner to ensure it is as up to date as possible. With all of these limitation in mind the paper aims to give a balanced and unbia...

H.R. 863 Congressional Bill of 2001

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

Principles of Jury Nullification

positive development, scholarly opinion uniformly refutes this position, seeing instead of "power to the people," that rule of to...

U.S., Saudi Arabia, Thievery and Its Social Consequences

of morality crimes in Saudi Arabia relates to the concept of Shariah (a term which translates to mean "path") (Dowling, 2001). Th...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie and Marriage is a Private Affair by Chinua Achebe Compared

her. The son would have no say in the match, for this is how the marriage ritual had been performed for generations. The only qu...

Statutory Employment Policies versus Job Security

for mediating conflict and compensating for job loss (Mosley, 2001). The vast majority of employment protection policies were firs...

1985 Minnesota Hormel Plant Strike

And what was Hormels perspective toward negotiations and why was the company so insistent on mistreating its workers? Ther...

Evil and Pride in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'

of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...

Economic Development of the Antebellum Period

allotted the same rights and responsibilities as whites. Assigning economic reasoning to the phenomenon seems logical, however,...

Eighteenth Century Social Reformer John Howard

In nine pages this research paper discusses John Howard's 18th century prison reform efforts. Five sources are cited in the bibli...

Preferring Individuality, Not Conformity, and its Consequences in 'A and P' by John Updike

of such an objective that one becomes labeled as selfish and intolerant of commonly accepted methods. This negative connotation o...

Evaluating the Fairness of Megan's Law

headline: "High-Risk Sex Offenders Identified: Post Reporter, 2 Ridge Residents on List" (Sheppard, 1997, p. 37). On July 7, Mei...

Shanghai and Los Angeles Gangs

This 6 page paper discusses the development of the gang culture in Shanghai and Los Angeles, the causes of such behavior and the c...

West Africa, West Central Africa, and Slavery's Consequences

names which come up when talking about slavery. These coastal areas certainly seemed to suffer. A larger chunk of Africa suffered ...

Households with Dual Incomes and Effects on Children

In five pages this paper presents the argument that while the impact on children of two working parents remains largely unknown th...

Prison System of the State of Texas

prison although no threats have been made on her life. In other celebrity cases, Texas saw singer David Crosby of Crosby, Stills,...

John Coggeshall's 'Ladies Behind Bars'

of homosexual behaviour in male prisons is not something which necessarily reflects the sexual orientation of the participants in ...

Protecting Prisons from HIV and AIDS

becomes the victim. By restricting the options and freedoms of the individual, control is thought to be maintained. The student ...

American Economy and the Impact of Semiconductors

conduction band and the valence (1997). Semiconductors have become important largely due to the advent of the computer. O...

Stress Management and Prison Jobs

What could possibly be good about stress? It is a natural motivator as well as a barometer of life. If an individual lives each ...

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Her Political Baggage

the media could be used to their advantage in these areas, so it is difficult to summarily dismiss the female campaigns to necessa...

Economic Impact of Prisons

"California Governor Pete Wilson proposed adding 2,900 correctional employees to the California Department of Corrections -- more ...

Prison System and Privatization

(ABC News, 2002). The national average daily cost of care, per prisoner, is $58.00 (Prewitt, 2002). The basic assumption behind ...

Pirating Computer Software

result from governments failing to ensure that their own agencies use only legal software...Solving this problem would do more tha...

Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith

however, as much as the people of Maxwell like to think they are socially and culturally progressive, they are actually just the o...

Consequences of 1905's Russian Revolution

the power of the peasants and their growing discontent. As time passed and conditions worsened, the people continued to get les...