Welfare Reform: A Permanent Solution or a Temporary Band-Aid? Welfare: handouts to the lazy, or a helping hand to those facing hard times? The debate continues, even in the face of sweeping welfare reform, which, for all of its sound and fury, has not helped or changed much. What\'s wrong with we...

Food, we all need it and yet so many of us go without it. The reasons we all know; drought, famine, flooding and just not having enough economic resources either as a state or individual to buy food. Populations have risen at a greater rate then which the farmers of that country can provide for them...

Sex Sells Essay written by: As Americans we tend to have a conditioned view toward sexuality as a normal, healthy part of life. However, it seems that one may underestimate the power that sex has on culture, which is evident in the many areas. Most recently d...

What is Sex Education? Sexuality education is a lifelong process of acquiring information and forming attitudes, beliefs, and values about identity, relationships, and intimacy. Sex education is composed of information; feelings, values, and attitudes; and communication and decision-making skills....

Ways in Which to Balance the Federal BudgetIn order to start balancing the U.S. federal budget we have to limit the amount of foreign aid we are giving out. Currently we have aid going out to countries helping birth control, world hunger and military protection. We need to cut these links off and ...

The joke goes "you can hardly find a strait play on Broadway anymore," however, that wasn't always the case. A lot of devoted theatre artists spent much time in jail and being ridiculed in order to get us our say on the legitimate stage. From obscure hints at homosexuality in such ea...

Good Cop, Bad Cop Since the beginning of its history, the United States of America has been heavily involved in many foreign affairs both diplomatically and by violent aggression. When ever other nations seem to have domestic problems or foreign tribulations America always seems to step into their ...

The History of Leisure Services Early 1900's- In the book they talk about the significant development of settlement house movement. During this period of time two of the most remarkable women started the most famous American Settlement House which was called the Chicago's Hull House. I...

Jennifer MerrymanEnglish 218Debate PaperMr. DentonTeenagers have sex on the brain; it's an inevitable fact. However, what teenagers generally have a problem grasping is that along with sex comes a certain amount of responsibility. With the amount of information there is, there is no excuse for the l...

The period after the Civil War family owned farms dwindled. Southners began to move North and America started an urbanization process. People who once struggled on farms were now attempting to be entrepreneurs or worked as laborers.As big business grew so did the need for accurate reco...

This is a timeline of the more severe terrorist attacks on the United States and the American people from 1920 through 2001. More than 25 years ago, despite several terroristic attacks on the United States over the past century, terrorists and terroristic threats simply were not a publicized issu...

The Key to a Better World An age old problem that has plagued many people's minds is how to make the world a better place to live. There have been a variety of strategies used by those in power to try to improve the world through out the years such as wars, treaties, and educational program...

To the winner go the spoils, to the loser goes humiliation, but if it's not your fight, avoid either of those situations and stay out of it. That seemed to be Wilson's opinion in 1914. As World War I began and expanded to much of Europe, the US [mainly Wilson] decided to remain neutral. Ho...

"The option of self-deliverance for the terminally ill person is the ultimate civil liberty." -Derek Humphry Over the past twenty years major controversy has spawned over the issue of euthanasia: a person's right to die....

Pre-Marital Sex Pre-marital sex or fornication is somewhat of a common theme amongst teenagers in today's society. Despite the Catholic Church continuing to teach that sexual love between a man and a woman should be reserved for marriage, young people are still engaging in the act of pre-marital sex...

One day as I was driving to my sister's house in Ravenswood, I saw an elderly man standing at the end of the off-ramp. The gentleman was holding a sign that read: "Homeless will work for food. God Bless." As I rolled to a stop, I rolled down my window and offered him my last five dol...

American As the American man walked down the street of Beijing, he noticed many American restaurants and stores, such as McDonald's and JC Penny's. He knew that China was becoming very modern, but the rate of Americanization startled him. Many of his Chinese friends were proud that t...

Critique of The War Against the Poor The sociological book, The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy, written by Herbert J. Gans attempts to take a look at and make a case for America waging a "war" against the poor in the non-traditional sense since the 1980s. Thi...

Starting from the early 1800's to the mid 1900's, the immigrants came to America for variety of reasons; they faced many hardship and hostility against them from the nativist. When the immigration began (from the early 1800's), come's the majority of immigrants: the Northern and western Europeans, ...

Our youth has grown up with MTV, BET and because of the entertainment value of these entities our youth have been led astray. Some of our youth can't distinguish between reality and the entertainment that the aforementioned media giants are feeding us. The trend toward baggy pants and hair that...

Tocqueville does not believe it is a forgone conclusion the world will become democratic. It is only through special circumstances that America was able to become and maintain its democratic society. From its inception, America was founded by people who brought a special sense of individualism t...

Chivalry is a difficult thing to define. One cannot see it except in another's actions and one cannot touch it. It is an intangible but essential part of everyday life. Chivalry is a measure of our worth in society. For men in the Medieval Ages, there was no such thing as a knight without chival...

How should Americans show more love to its country? Since September 11th, most Americans have shown patriotism to the country and to each other. September 11th caused many tragedies, many terrible deaths, terrible injury and sorrow. These tragedies inflict a deep compassion and a shared grief. Wh...

When talking about the word "epidemic" you always think of weird diseases, like the flu, SARS, and AIDS. Right now in America, there is an ongoing epidemic. It is caused not by viruses or bacteria, but by human nature. It's called obesity. There is no one way to solve this serious problem. We as a n...

Throughout history humans began to expand their territory and with the aid of technology they assimilated the land to do what they want. Humans being more of an intelligent species looked back at what they were doing and saw that they were endangering or killing other species, and their surrounding...