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Reverb - An Analysis

by the listener in as direct and uncorrupted a manner as possible. This requires an in-depth understanding of all the different wa...

The Development of Social Networking Through the Internet

as it created an integrated approach as well as lead to the use of uniform protocols. It is not until 1997, after the web has be...

Overcoming Our Passivity and Addressing Bullying

Bullying is one of the more deplorable facets of modern educational environment. Unfortunately, practically all of our schools ar...

The Long Term Potential of Groupon and other Group Buying Web Sites for Businesses

The writer looks at the rise of the online group buying discount site in order to assess whether the concerns expressed regarding ...

Poverty in the United States as a Social Problem: Causes, Theories, and Proposed Remedies

percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...

Black Holes

to be a composite of black holes from smaller galaxies There is, in fact, a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. When small...

Organized Crime in America

of organized crime is contained within legitimate businesses including small-scale trucking, automobile sales, and bakeries, and l...

Burns - Transformational Leadership

few of the many theories will be discussed here. The theories describe how an individual can use the inherent strategies to become...

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

Racism and Discrimination in Asia

has been made of black slavery, but the same sort of attention is not given to the Asians who suffer in silence. The Chinese who l...

Literature Review on Absenteeism

do not exceed 3 percent of the school years (Romero and Lee, 2007). Risk Factors for absenteeism Researchers have noted that the...

Society's Obsession With Celebrity

reported elsewhere, or the writer personally knows the content is true based on news broadcasts or other knowledge the writer has....

GUCCI: The Naked Truth Or Just In Fashion?

argued as viable and attractive to marketers for a number of reasons, it may attract voyeurs, there could be a shock value, the fo...

A Historical Analysis of Terrorism

the PLO or an Israeli group bombs the other, they are continuing to wage war. Of course, the tactics are equated with terrorism ra...

Addiction Transfer Disorder & Gastric Bypass Surgery

addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...

Media Images and Anorexia

food. It seems unconscionable that in a land of plenty, there is starvation. Yet, this is a psychological problem. The sufferer is...

Nursing Vocabulary

is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

Plastic Surgery

plastic surgery as a cultural phenomenon, that is, why people choose to have elective surgery. Types of plastic surgery It is a ...

Kelly's Expanding the American Dream

able to construct homes inexpensively (Kelly, 2004). Additionally, he would bypass union workers for those who came at a lower pri...

Kidnapping: A Terrorist Weapon of Mass Effect

terrorism and distinguishing between it and other acts of non-terrorist violence and control. Hoffman (2006) emphasizes the error...

Woman and Global Work

countries like this, sends a large portion of her salary home to support her children, as well as to pay the nanny who looks after...

How Specific Macro Systems Affect The Course Of One's Life

still harbor similar traits that reflect the inescapable impact of genetic tendency. As Harris (2002) points out, genes are respo...

Using Sociological Theory to Explain Urban Problems

environmental settings, produce specific social behaviors in people, and can either sustain behavioral problems, or mitigate them....