Introduction Violence among young people in society is increasing dramatically. Perhaps what is most alarming is that these violent acts are not only occurring on the streets, but in the school systems as well. School violence is defined as any physical or verbal attack on a person while on scho...

The American educational system has been hindered by video games. If you look around you, you will realize that video games are everywhere. From iPod's, to smart phones, televisions, to even some of our printers now have games. Our generation is called the "Joystick Generation", and for g...

Ronyoung Kim deplores that "A whole generation of Korean immigrants and their American-born children could have lived and died in the United States without [others'] knowing they had been here," and says that "I could not let that happen" (Solberg 23). To that end, in 1987 she wrote Clay Walls in wh...

Why are young adults in cities involved with gangs? Countless innocent people in the U.S. die from youth violence unintentionally; either being an innocent bystander caught in the recklessness of activities done from gang violence or dying a tragic death of being wrongfully victimized. Children con...

Affirmative Action: Moral Compensation or Reverse Discrimination Affirmative action has been with us for over forty years, and continues to be the focus of debate and controversy. President Kennedy introduced the idea of preferential treatment in 1961 when the nation was in the middl...

Homosexuals and their Struggles Who are we to judge? Well people sometimes judge other people just because... a person is different. What I mean by different is not just the way they look but the way they identify themselves as; and judgments such as "that is nasty, you are gay" or &qu...

In an era of sound bytes, television attack ads, political blogs, and twenty-four hour national news cycles, it can be difficult to imagine that politics once was different. For one, it was more local. In the Nineteenth Century, and through a good part of the Twentieth Century, Democrats and Repub...