Social science Essays

It has been acknowledged that education in LA’s inner-city schools is in a deplorable state. The subjects of the interviews were two teachers, one retired teacher, one parent and one student. Each of the teachers has a different focus in terms of what they believe to be most important in arriving at a solution to the educational problems in LA.

With Thoreau, we are to believe that a free and enlightened State needs to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power. Only such a State has the power of becoming g a glorious state (Thoreau, 1848). The government of UAE though cannot influence the past can take decisions to improve a lot of Indian immigrant workers in the future.

The T-test was performed to the results obtained from the trials. Unlike the pre-test preference, all the subjects selected one beverage as there most preferred one at each replication (i.e. there were no answers such as don’t like both tastes or both have similar taste). Therefore all test trial results were analyzed without exclusion.

The North had its own contrast in the hundreds of women who went to work in the factories of the cities for a fraction of what men earned. Like the yeoman farmer’s wives, the salaries of these women, even given how small they were, often made the difference in the Northern family’s ability to avoid debt and still provide what was necessary for survival.

Although there is treatment available it seems that it would be difficult for a person to stop gambling since there is so much opportunity. I think it says something about our society when these types of things occur and we do not seem to care about really putting in some help for these unfortunate people. 

The debate over the highly unsafe and potentially disastrous cultural practice of virginity testing in the country has drawn public ire from across the globe and is reminiscent of the wide gap between the theoretical and practical conflicts of ideologies between the human rights and cultural relativism.

NHS is the public health care system of the United Kingdom and was established in the year 1948. Before its inception, the then government published a white paper in the year 1944 describing and outlining the structure and functions of the NHS. The paper also clearly stated the plan and the underlying principles of the organization.

Consider an incomplete contract situation in a very competitive market; the reciprocal type dominates while in no incentives for co-operation situation, the self –interest type would be dominating. But change the latter condition by putting punishment to non-contributors again the reciprocals would be dominating.

The question of how serious is the problem of homelessness may be easy to answer for those who advocate homeless individuals and families--so long as any one person is homeless, the problem is great and deserves attention.

Parents with lower income have to spend long hours at work to earn enough to support their family (Alderson, 2008, p.35). This makes it impossible for them to spend time with their children, which in turn affects the development of the positive relationships between them and hampers the social and mental development of children.

The consequences of such marriages affect not just the individuals but the society and the nations as a whole. It impacts the economy, the future generation that has no sense of belonging to any society, the foreign women as the divorce rates are high, and the local women as it has given rise to the number of spinsters in the society.

Poverty has always been considered a social dilemma afflicting people from diverse backgrounds. It has always been an intriguing and challenging concern due to the multitude of factors that interplay and contribute to its existence. People could be misguided that poverty does not exist in a progressively developed country such as the United States.

He remarked that “to be pulled over for no good reason is very offensive. But then to be asked for consent to search your vehicle just ratchets things up another notch. And in those situations where you‘ve been forced at gunpoint or you‘ve been asked to spread out on the street, to layout on the pavement, makes you boiling with anger.”

Firstly, the public at large must be allowed to decide what induces mild surprise and what excites their base passions such as disgust. Secondly, even apart from the morality of the act concerned, some acts are so offensive to the public weal that public reaction to them is the best way to prevent further recurrences. 

After going through a variety of diverse definitions of bullying, one can conclude, “Bullying refers to deliberate or hostile and repeated actions of an individual or a group of people on other mentally or physically weak individual or group of people, that are meant to create unconstructive or harmful effects on the subject” (Garrett, pp. 24-78, 2003).

Globalization has been happening throughout the human history but it reached its all-possible peak during the past few decades. Without any doubts, human growth has shown an exponential trend, the rate of growth compounds over the period. It took almost thousands of years for the first man on earth to learn how to cook and build a home but today every new discovery leads to a new chapter in the human history.

The first change that would need to be made with “A Doll’s House” would be with the setting that is in the play. In Ibsen’s play, the setting remains in Nora’s apartment and continues to remain the same throughout the duration of the play.  For a newer setting, this apartment would have to change so that it looked contemporary.

All types of massages, especially the deep tissue massage helps in releasing toxins from the body internally. A massage therapist manipulates the muscles in such a way that any toxin accumulations including lactic acid, which may lead to joints pain is released internally from the body (Alternative Medicine, 2010).

The teenagers easily break away from one relation to the other and this increases the chances of multi-partnering and having more children. Therefore a web of “complex young families” (Reeves, Gale, Webb, Delaney and Cocklin, 2009, p 18) is created. Surveys and studies also have been conducted to find out a young father’s efficiency in carrying out his duties and responsibilities.

Child poverty continues to increase – in a country that is one of the wealthiest in the world community; the Czech Republic ranks ahead of the UK in child health and safety (UNICEF, 2007); teenage suicide is endemic, and one suicide in an area, or social group, sparks a wave of similar acts; sports violence has become what British youth is known for across Europe.

Attacking poverty requires a practical definition and a benchmark for measuring poverty. International organizations like the United Nations (UN) have always been a key player in policy formation of poverty eradication. UN defines poverty as “a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. 

The Sicilian Mafia group from Italy was one of the largest contributors to organized crime in the USA. The other organized groups from France, Russia, and other nations also expanded its base in the USA. The favorability of the market condition in the USA encouraged organized criminal groups from various parts of the world to carry on their operation from the USA.

Generalists are obligated to performing many roles as they practice. These include but not limited to, contributing to research work of the profession and fostering social policies as they try to promote human dignity and make certain societal justice. Attainment expertise as a social worker calls for a consistent practice framework, resourceful perception of human and communal system performance.

The other issues that have proved important when it comes to the citizen oversight process are the issues that have to be directly investigated by the auditors. This follows the importance of such issues and their consequences to the police officers now that the auditor’s recommendations bound them in relations to deaths and complains.

The need to overcome the resistance towards change is more pressing in companies than on a personal or societal level.  The failure to adapt to change at an individual level may just result in personal stagnation or in society’s case, its inability to cope with change may result in its backwardness.

The object of study is Wang who is a middle-class Chinese who traces his root from a poor background. He once suffered from health-related complications due to a lack of a balanced diet. In order to counter these complications, he sought advice from the paramedics where they advised him to gradually change his feeding practice to a healthy diet that was fit to his body system.

Since the present era is the era of scientific advancements, which can rightly be declared as positivism, no group or community push the world towards the cave-age at any cost. Al Qaeda, like other communities, is determined to have its own influence on the world at large within the perspective of modernism without making any plan of destroying the very foundations of the world. 

I have gained the confidence to stay with the client and ensure continuity to the counselling process by creating openness and honesty while listening to the client. This requires bravery and goodwill from my side and the client’s side. I have also experienced that transparency is most important that the brilliance recall and the capacity to record facts correctly.

American society has a shameful legacy of slavery and is a country stratified by race, gender and class. For some, like renowned African American author, scholar and social activist, bell hooks, the United States is a country with a strong tradition of institutionalized racism which permeates all aspects of modern America society (see hooks’ Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, 1981). 

It is South Africa’s leading edutainment project which was established in 1992, when the entire structure of South Africa was changing. Soul City IHDC has utilized some approaches to deal with social change among the individuals of a specified society.

The belief’s, values and assumptions considered at the macro level with respect to the appropriate role of business in the society offers a salient feature for ethical deliberations at the micro level. Profit or money is a factor that enthuses both business people and individuals and therefore various work cultures and business strategies are laid out to motivate employees to deliver a better performance.

The class conflict and socioeconomic rivalries cause the wastage of energies, resources, and productivity in a country, and they remain limited to petty matters of conflict forgetting all about the high aims and wonderful achievements they should have to make to obtain a respectable place in the international parity.

Women only appear as cheaply made up prostitutes with unsavory habits of their own who are willing to spend the evening with any unwashed sailor with enough money or other points of interest to win them. With the Pirates of the Caribbean series, however, all of these rules have also been thrown overboard.

Another worrisome side to this argument is that the experts cannot be trusted because there are so many unknown variables. While “a doctor's expert diagnosis is based on experience and training,” (Goldblatt, 2000, P. 9) an expert on this situation has nothing to go on but vague trends that the world may or may not be following. 

Suicide is increasingly seen in all societies, though there may be regional and demographically disparities. Identifying the cause of why individuals should choose to end their lives may provide the means to try and prevent suicides. Finding a single cause for suicide is not an easy task, as suicide is complex and the risk factors for suicide are several.

Prevention should directly be offered toward families. It is best to do is to improve the quality and harmony of the family system. Parent Education allows the parents to do their roles more effectively and can lessen the stress parents feel. Programs should help family assist its members and units and to improve the community circumstances to a healthy family living.

Policymakers become worried about this resistance and its political relevance using different means. Policymakers in Britain, as anywhere else in the world, concentrated most attention on small components, specifically, those that might be unfavorable to the opposition if their suggestions were taken for granted.

Earlier, it used to be a different story. Killer policemen in the garb of mafia used to terrorize as they killed one American Photojournalist Brad Will and three others while in a peaceful procession by striking teachers and their allies in Oaxaca, Mexico. The shooters in the picture were actually Oxaaca policemen. 

The social contract theories emerged as a critical element in ensuring peace and order to society.  According to Souryal (2007), the social view of the historical origins of ethics recognized that “in virtually all societies—ancient, medieval, or contemporary— people followed certain rules of conduct” (73).

In 2002 the Cabinet Office contracted with the Daycare Trust to investigate claims of disparity of treatment within the various branches and locations of civil servants. This move to investigate perceived disparity was a positive move by the government to address a potential inequality within its own ranks.

In Virginia, even after a mother has surrendered the child, she can change her mind in the next fifteen days. That basically gives her 10 days to form a bond with the child, and two more weeks in which she can discover that she misses the child and then choose not to surrender him/her (Smith, 2006).

As of May 2005, Asian Americans make up about 5 percent of the US population (Asian-Nation). The term ‘Asians’ refers to the people having their origin in the Far East, South East Asia, or the Indian sub-continent. Asian Americans are one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in terms of percentage increase in the US.

Visual aids have been somewhat of a help for me but by using more professional looking AV aids and the use of larger fonts I will improve that area of my presentations.  Without question, I have learned through experience and research that effective public speaking does not simply refer to the use of vocal speech alone.

The concept of time is unique to every culture. Discipline and schedules are maintained with the help of time. Time influences the individuals in Western society to understand themselves but for the pre-modern East Asia cultures time is a function of the position in the cosmic system of Plant Earth, which is a part of the solar system.

The scale of social changes is rather astonishing. The face of the family changes and it endangers the moral basis of society. Legalizing same-sex families and granting them the right to adopt or bear children or giving ministries to gay priests is likely to distort the looks of the society which to all this suffers other social diseases.        

Even as debate about positivism has occurred within the field of organization studies, and even as critical perspectives have evolved, the field has come to be increasingly dominated by models and methods that would seem to epitomize what critical theory eschews. This is not to suggest that there aren't subcultures of organization theory that embrace the humanities, postmodernism, and critical theory.

The various definitions of incest depend on the harshness of the law. Some definitions of incest only include those related by birth; other definitions include even those related by the adoption of marriage. Some of these definitions even go as far as to consider it inappropriate for people who grew up in the same household.

Similarly, the official information (a government organization such as the city of New Orleans, the army engineer corps, FEMA, etc.) regarding Katrina was reported higher in graffiti reports (31.8%) than that of media reports (26%). However one has to thoroughly verify the extent of positive attitude of government sources reported by the media.

Thus, by all accounts, the Internet has changed the manner in which public life is usually viewed in current times. There is so much more to the Internet than the naked eye can see and predict for the coming eras. The Internet has revolutionized the whole society and its bearings can be seen left, right, and center. 

As long as the desire for power is clubbed with narcissistic awareness, the problems, inequalities and dangers to one sex are uncontrollable. Power to rule, if accompanies a corporate psyche in which both labor and fruits are shared among the constituent members irrespective of gender differences, then an equilibrium between the sexes can be attained and sex-bias would be slowly evaporating.