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Concept of Deviance

In ten pages the concept of deviance is examined from various theoretical vantage points and includes labeling and anomie theory a...

Peter Singer's 'A Bioethical View When It's Right to Kill an Infant'

This article featured in The New York Times on April 10, 1999 is discussed in five pages. Two other sources are cited in the bibl...

Symbolic Speech and I Am an Impure Thinker by Eugen Rosenstock Huessy

In six pages various chapters of Rosenstock Huessy's text are examined in an examination of how symbolic speech is represented. T...

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Great Race, and Cinematic Slapstick

" or literally "slapping the stick"(Von Busack ppg). It is a physical humor, reminding us that we are physical beings in a real w...

A Review of I Am Rene Espronceda de la Barca

A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...

Life in the Medieval Era

1431) and Jean Foissart ( c 1330 - c1404). Yet we will see different pictures of the same society from their point of view as we ...

'Working' Memory Model of Alan Baddeley

In twelve pages this report discusses the working model memory of Alan Baddeley and it's trio of components and what he demonstrat...

Reality According to the Philosophy of Rene 'I Think, Therefore I Am' Descartes

In five pages this paper discusses how Descartes' philosophy of reality is presented in the 1641 publication of The Meditations. ...

Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals, and 'It's a good day to be indigenous'

determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...

Attitude and 3 National Football League Teams Classification

In five pages examples of NFL team classification are considered in this essay with 'good' being represented by the Tennessee Tita...

Am I Thin Enough Yet?

become everything. Delia not only wants to look good for the attention that it gets her, but she is also determined that her sel...

Justice Rules and David Hume

In five pages this report assesses David Hume's attitudes regarding jusice and examines why he labels it as an artificial virtue b...

Deviance and Beyond the Conventional Norm

In ten pages commitment and labeling theories are applied to a discussion of deviance and its various concepts and what constitute...

'Am I Blue?' by Alice Walker

used to scrawl after our stories, marked, "the end." This is true in the "thinking piece," Am I Blue. It is important for the st...

Society, Deviance, and Differences

In five pages deviance in society is examined in a discussion of the labeling theory along with the philosophies of Emile Durkheim...

Changing Behavior and Sociological Comprehension

that refers to the contrasts of the static, or in place aspect, which is a feature of situations and structures, and the dynamic a...

Western Films and the Themes of Loss and Regret

on him by his situation, but belonging to him intimately and testifying to his completeness" (655). Also on the subject of Wester...

Rap and the Rap Culture

The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...

Is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Creature a Hero or Monster?

In eight pages this paper examines the Frankenstein people in terms of his heroic acts that are contrary to the label of monster s...

Microsoft's Monopoly Label

In five pages this paper discusses the monopoly labeling Microsoft has received as a result of the antitrust case and the company'...

Direct Marketing and IT's Influence

In thirty two pages this paper discusses relevant topics and cases in this examination of how direct marketing has been affected b...

The Deviant Behavior of Academic Dishonesty

time or another - displays deviant behavior. Human nature is defined by myriad elements, not the least of which is the social nee...

Life Effects of Labeling

move on toward a more realistic performance result (Jencks et al PG). "Conditions designed to make black subjects stereotype vuln...

Mt. Nyiragongo Eruption of 2002 and It's Short and Long Term Costs

(News Services, 2002). Various charitable organizations have pitched in as well. The World Food Program, for example, has distri...

Christ A Crisis in the Life of God by Jack Miles

by the Nazis to advance their agenda (and died insane) and Paveses died by his own hand. Miles posits that Gods intention in i...

Case Study Involving Social Theory, Delinquency, and Intervention

the most telling incidents was when he told his fathers fiancee, Cathy, that she was insane to consider marrying somebody as self-...

Overview of European Trademark Law

commodities and differentiated goods (Sterns & Reardon, 2002). Standards provide a method of transferring information as well as t...

Elementary School Tutoring

that may be present. Major Issues Efforts to classify children so that they can be...

A Criminology Overview

also known as drift theory ("Control," 2001). This theory, as the name suggests, speculates that delinquents drift in and out of c...

Issues of Stereotypes and Prejudice

of a belief concerning that type of individual, something discussed often in Jones book "Social Psychology of Prejudice." A black ...