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Adult Learning Theories, An Article Summary/Chen

This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

Racism Perspectives

the authors speak of the present era what is most striking is the marked division between white and black perspectives. To the w...

Downtown U.S. and City Saving

less attention and other social problems such as crime and drugs are also more likely to emerge and proliferate due to the level o...

Argument: Poor Urban Life Contains Certain Fixed Elements

the people merely accept poverty, gangs and an extensive drug subculture as part of modern urban life. Yet, does the popular media...

Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky

was very young, so young in fact that he had only a couple of fleeting memories of him. His mothers life was hard yet she managed...

'The Appeal' by David Walker

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

Should the Rich Be Responsible for the Impoverished?

at an outdoor caf? for lunch. As you begin talking, a very articulate homeless person comes up to your table and asks for money. T...

U.S. Society and Race Relations

In five pages this paper examines 2 racism models and considers how race relations are featured in James W. Loewen's Lies My Teach...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

U.S. Society and 'the Creative Outsider'

In five pages this paper examines the influence of the creative outsider in America in a consideration of the texts My Antonia by ...

Antitrust Issues and Internet Explorer of Microsoft

In five pages this paper examines the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft and issues regarding the Internet E...

U.S. Government, the Economy, Poverty and Welfare

This research paper offers an overview of the federal government's activities in the realm of economics. The writer argues that th...

David Montgomery's Workers' Control in America

David Montgomery's Workers' Control in America is considered in a text overview consisting of five pages. Three sources are cited...

Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

The Lazy Poor

write off or simply looking good in front of others. Rather, the helper feels better about themselves. Helping feeds the ego. Howe...

India's Workplace and Women

This paper on India's workplace considers the discrimination and poor working conditions women face with the Self Employed Women's...

Regulatory and Scientific Work Environments and Communication

In five pages a problem history regarding the poor communication skills that plagued a regulatory work group is discussed along wi...

When Work Disappears by William J. Wilson

This paper presents an analysis of William J. Williams' When Work Disappears The World of the New Urban Poor in five pages. Ther...

Differing Workplace Experiences in America

from fourth-quarter 1999 projections" (pp. 8085). Clearly, this represents the level of dependency in all work realms related to t...

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

No Shame in My Game by Katherine S. Newman

are also seeing to gain protection from the pressures of the street and, often, to escape trouble at home and in their neighborhoo...

Welfare Reform Issues and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

In five pages this essay discusses U.S. welfare reform in a consideration of the working poor observations made by Barbara Ehrenre...

American Social Security in the Future

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the current and future state of Social Security in America. This paper includes a discussio...

The Middle Class and Homelessness

number of employed adults, with children, requesting emergency aid is due to the fact that 127.5 million Americans, roughly 43 per...

Minimum Wage vs. Living Wage

2006, Miami city government began requiring that service contractors that hold contracts of over $100,000 per year must pay their ...

Social Work Then and Now

According to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the first social work class was offered at Columbia University...

A Solution for the Diversity of Problems Caused by Sweatshops

of many versions, the real problem with sweatshops arises when the workers that are producing it are not being fairly compensated ...

Working Multiple Jobs

(Youssef). She gets home from her regular day job at about 6 p.m. and then works on her own business until 1 a.m. or later (Yousse...

Impoverished Neighborhoods in New York City

the phenomenon by noting that the poor are disconnected from middle class social networks that could help them land jobs or propel...

A Financial Perspective of Globalization

to $336 billion (Capital goes global, 1997). That trend slowed some after the advent of the Asian currency crisis in 1997, but it...