Are There Any Universal Values? When a person encounters a crisis, a problem, or a questionable situation, they look at experience and decide what action to take. In order to determine whether an action is right or wrong, a person must enter into an ethical experience and consider the motivati...

Managing Diversity When writing about a certain topic, the first thing to do is research how you will gather all of the information needed. In this fast growing technological age, we have plenty of options to choose from. Since continuing our Graduate Degree at the University of Phoenix, we thou...

In every aspect of society, there are social norms. Without norms, there would become chaos because we need norms that define behaviors as proper and others as improper. Whether it be dressing a certain way at your job or treating a fellow employee a special way. College allows you to actually t...

Alcohol use on college campuses has been a hot issue for students and faculty for many years. Yet, there is still no concrete evidence as to the effects of alcohol use on college students. The perceived situation is college students binge drink and their grades are adversely affected. Is this a soci...

Tailgates as a Cultural Contact Zone "Arts of the Contact Zone" by Mary Louise Pratt is an article that talks about how critical and history-making it is when different cultures meet for the first time. She describes this moment with her coined phrase, the "contact zone". She gives the perfect exa...

Friends There are days when you cannot help but feel sad and blue. I know very well, because I have them too. Now what can cure or change this atmosphere? A friend will do the trick. But what is a friend? The definition of a friend cannot be limited. It can be a person whom you know, like,...

Dream Works Pictures. (Todd Phillips). (2000). Road Trip [Videotape]. Universal City, California. This film is very good example of how teenagers today view long distance relationships. There are many scenes throughout the movie where the characters make smart remarks when it comes to relatio...

The UA&P Hallmark Programs"Last September 22, 2000 was the People Development Day of the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P). It was highlighted with a program that became a gathering of the high ranking personalities the university has like the UA&P president, Dr. Mario D. Camacho; the Dean ...

As my mind matures, I have gained the ability to empirically analyze the drastic levels of social change within inner city neighborhoods. I have developed a concerned with the impacts of housing renewal policies, specifically, those policies which focus on resources on inner urban residential areas...

Anthropocentrism and its Impact on Society Richard Tobin, an avid environmentalist so elequantly put, "The largest problem facing human society is not economic collapse, depletion of energy supplies, or even a nuclear war. What we should be worried about is habitat destruction and loss of biod...

Throughout the novel The Chocolate War, written by Robert Cormier, there are many themes and situations whether they are major or very subtle. One theme that is really important to the novel is what Jerry considers Disturbing the Universe. Within the book Jerry "disturbs the universe" in...

In the middle of this century, bot biological and cultural anthropology experiences a major change in theory. In biological anthropology, biological anthropologists adopted an approach which focused on the gene. They saw the human evolution as the process of genetic adaptation to the environ...

FILIPINO PSYCHOLOGY WRITTEN EXAMI.D. NO 9210356We have discussed about making a research on the psychology of the Filipinos, and the field I chose is on Personality. Much has been written and many research studies conducted on Filipino personality. But previous literatures have discussed related the...

Human activity in society is continually bombarded by anomic phenomena such as suffering, death, and evil actions. These events must be accounted for and explained within the context of the nomos of the given society. The explanation of these phenomena in terms of religious ideals is a theodicy...

The idea of developing a proclamation of a school's key values is realistic and innovative for any university. It is the responsibility of any higher-level educational institute to promote values, to teach students to reason ethically and to cultivate the character of students, because the universi...

Deviance is said to be in the eye of the beholder so what I may see as deviant you may see as normal. So how does one particular behavior get labeled deviant by one society and not another? My topic is mental illness and how it was given the deviant label. Mental illness has...

On Wednesday, March 30, 2005, I attended a town hall meeting called "State of Black America: where do we go from here?" It was in presentation for Student Leadership Forum 2005. It was held at the Return to Royalty Banquet in Atlanta, Georgia and the seminar began at 7pm. Professor Angela ...

Analysis of The Loves of Franklin Ambrose By Joyce Carol Oates This short story was about a college professor and different women in his life and how he felt and acted towards them. The story incorporates many of the concepts from the Exploring Social Psychology textbook. One concept disc...

Colleges are a Great Medium for Social AwarenessI believe universities and community colleges are the most advantageous sites for advancing social awareness and to foster change. Prior to reading the Gitlin book The Sixties and The Port Huron Statement (PHS), from the Students for a Democratic Soci...

On Representations of Race and RacismGeorge P. Nicholas, from the University of Chicago Department of Sociology and Anthropology, wrote this article after attending a conference in Alberta, Edmonton, Canada called "Anthropology in the 21st Century: Beyond the Ivory Tower". Professor Nicholas was at...

Essay 1 - GSC2411 (Theories of Mass Communication unit, Monash University, Australia) This is NOT an essay - it is a collection of notes which are the foundation of an 800 word comparison of two articles regarding the place of humanities in university studies, and the roles of mass communication....

Note on The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas One man's joy is another man's sorrow. From this essay, we can clearly establish a parallel with our Western privileged life (Omelas) at the expense the developing countries (The child). But if we consider Omelas and the child as absolute opposit...

Core Studies 3 Casilda Adames Take-Home Exam November 16, 1999 The ruling ideology dealing with welfare is a negative view among the majority of Americans. It states that welfare recipients are lazy people who have lots of children and collect checks for a long period of time. ...

In his essay, Loeb has interviewed a group of financially well off students at Fairfield University, USA. Most of these students see college education as a tool that would enable them to make a lot of money in their professional lives. None of them believe in helping those less fortunate than the...

A culture is a way of life of a group of people through their symbols, norms and beliefs that they accept, generally without thinking. They are passed by communication and imitation from one generation to the next. Humans are also diverse and change when concerns of life spring up that change huma...