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Muslims have been living in Europe for decades. According to recent estimates, there are living more than 13 million Muslims in Europe. Since the 9/11 attack, the debate about Islam in the West intensified substantially and was worsened by the lack of knowledge of many European citizens and the significant increase of religious hostility of "Islamaphobia."
Law in several States prohibits same-sex couples not only from adopting non-biological children but also from adopting the biological children of their same-sex partner. Many States have overcome such legislation however the issue still remains since only an estimated 50% of US adoption agencies allow same-sex couples to adopt.
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We find role models in people and identify ourselves as that. We place ourselves in the character of a movie or a play and find meaning in our own life. These words of the great Mohandas Gandhi or more commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, the promoter of human rights and the most influential man in this era has changed my life, has helped me inculcate values, and has made me what I am today.
In the last few decades, there has been an increasing liking for evidence-based practice in the UK especially in areas related to health service and social work. Evidenced-based practices could be defined as a practice that produces information that underpins practice-based research on the best possible research evidence at one’s disposal.
Regarding this issue it is noticed by Chossudovsky (1998, 253) that ‘the World Bank framework departs sharply from established concepts and procedures for measuring poverty setting a "poverty threshold" at one dollar a day, labeling population groups with a per capita income above one dollar a day as "nonpoor". Poverty should be characterized as a major problem for Nigeria.
As cars became more affordable, those with more money could afford cars that were painted in a custom color or had larger seating capacity. This is what led to the development of new shapes and engines, the emergence of specific brands, and the differentiation that happened among them.
Douglas and Wildavsky have highlighted the everyday experience takes place in the spheres of common life. Information is dispersed through small talk about health, personal circumstances, and local matters, through comments on events near and far not infrequently related in the media, and gossip regarding mutually known ‘others’.
African Americans make up only 12% of the total U.S. population but they represent 45% of the total people who are incarcerated in U.S. prisons. Additionally, one in three African American men will serve time in prison during their lifetime. These statistics have devastating effects on the health of African Americans, their families, and communities.
Mediation is a process by which parties to resolve the issues between them by reference to a neutral third party. The approach taken is non-adversarial and the third party’s primary role is to encourage communication between the parties to the dispute, identifying the issues and to explore options that address the interests of both sides.
Steven Johnson’s article on Games is a unique attempt at analyzing the effects of video games in the contemporary world. Johnson’s arguments tend to veer from the conventional attitudes to video games that either berate them in or over glorify them with reference to the practical benefits of developing skills that suit the need of the hour.
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Many theories were used to explain the occurrence of elderly abuse in many parts of the world. A recent research suggests that physical abuse is highly dependent on the characteristics of the abuser rather than the abused. In line with this, the dependence on alcohol of the abuser is another factor to be considered in explaining elderly abuse.
Reparative Probation provides courts with a mechanism for holding offenders accountable to the community and their victims without sending first-time and nonviolent offenders to prison. The restructured sentencing options provide judges with more choices and have led to a reduction in the number of jail and prison sentences by 60 percent.
The crisis that America encountered on September 11, 2001, with the terrorist attack on World Trade Center has been outstandingly described by one of the country’s great author, John Updike. With the macabre and grotesque attack, he seemed to be “Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous…”, as he says in the opening line of the article.
I am a free un-oppressed woman by my religion. I am an advocate for peace and human rights and contest against any form of terrorism. I am a strong Arab woman who will not rest until justice prevails against the fallacious propaganda placed upon Muslims by the West. That is my true self, gratefully ladies and gentlemen.
For many college students, two trends stand out over the past quarter-century. One, the academic demands have increased. Two, the numbers of students with families who also work full-time jobs in addition to taking classes full-time have increased as well. Any one of these responsibilities is demanding and stressful.
Overweight and obesity are both addressed to individuals with ranges of weight that are greater than what is generally considered healthy for a given height. Childhood obesity is a major problem and most of the children who are obese tend to grow up to be obese adults with physiological, biological and social repercussions.
According to DeLeon (1988), 'policy analysis and advice were very personalized, idiosyncratic activities, passing from sage to ruler, from counselor to monarch, with only scarce and episodic regard for recording and routinizing the activity'. This was the case at the early stages of history down till the nineteenth and the early twentieth century.
These cannot be reconciled as one aims for equity and efficiency and the other is based on valuation. The point is that we are overlooking one major aspect regarding the policy settings and a fact is that the regulating system tries to ascertain the provision of inflation that hurts the economic stability to a devastating level.
Divorce causes mental anguish which contributes to psychological issues for both parties and their children. Depression is a common result of divorce, a condition that initiates a variety of other health concerns. The more contentious the relationship and consequential separation, the worse for all concerned but the children may be most negatively affected.
This paper has highlighted the significance of the policy Every Child Matters, of the United Kingdom government. The implementation of the provisions “Stay Safe” and “Make a Positive Contribution” through the integrated efforts of social workers, family, the government, other agencies, and the child victims themselves, have been discussed.
The author states that the election of a Labour Government in the United Kingdom in 1997 ushered in an era of sweeping reform related to the culture and context of government in the United Kingdom and a reform of the local government was also undertaken. It was sought to have a culture that promoted planning as a positive tool.
The 21st century has brought with itself a lot of controversial issues. The increased media awareness has not failed to attract a great deal of attention to these significant matters of concern, so that the people residing in other countries, belonging to other cultures and facing other issues, know the pros and cons of the issues faced by the other side of the world.
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The office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has been working in accordance with the principles outlined in the Refugee Convention of 1950, which defines the nature and duration of the protection that is to be extended to them. This research effort aims to examine the achievements of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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.
Midlife couples were somewhere between the passivity of the majority of retired couples and the intensity of the young. Even though they exhibit certain intensity more akin to aggressiveness in dealing with issues in their married lives, it is a tendency for them to veer away from actively engaging and acknowledging conflicts within the marriage.
Overall the proposal gives a clear and defined methodology in data gathering. What the proposal lacks is the consistency of the topic and a description of the related literature. The writer should clearly define what the study is about and formulate a strong research hypothesis. The review of related literature should have a brief explanation.
The authors state that culture has usually been equated with ethnicity, but they propose extending its meaning to include other forms of culture, e.g. organizational culture and theoretical culture. To them, “culture is understood to relate to some shared elements which connect people in a common way of experiencing and seeing the world”.
Liberal feminism is the type most identified with the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The focal point of their viewpoint is that all people, including men, are entitled to equal rights and considerations. Liberal feminists believe the oppression of women begins the way both genders are socialized.
The most important conclusion that the author William Yates has written in his article is that the implementation of affirmative action is essential and for this, a feeling of equality should be promoted in high schools so that prejudice does not exist in the hearts and minds of students when they start working.
Loyalty to the home agent may also serve as a barrier to the attainment of harmony in working in a new team. “Professional conflict and boundary issues can arise if people work to the agenda of their home agency rather than that of the multi-agency setting” (Every Child Matters: Changes for Children).
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The Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Turks is one of the bleakest chapters of the twentieth-century history of mankind. It not only pushed the innocent Armenians into destruction, devastation, damages, despair, and disappointment but also gave a go to making further atrocities in almost the same patterns.
The association between illicit narcotics trafficking and a third world country seems prevalent. Whenever there are issues regarding narcotics, a third world country is inevitably involved. Discussions about narcotics and their reliable sources reveal a chain or connectivity of one country to another - most commonly third world countries.
To be useful, such primary data needs to be analyzed. Sphinx software which is a personal computer-based analysis software will be useful to establish a relationship between variables. Data thus collected from different forms of interviews and questionnaires would be analyzed by the use of scales like Likert scales and Semantic Differential scales.
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When President Bush announced the attack on Iraq, there was initially a high level of support from the public. However, with the apparent failure of American military strategy in Iraq, there has been a decline in the levels of confidence that the public felt in regard to the war effort. There has been a steady decline in public support for the war.
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Urban development cannot be separated from its social, economic and political context. Globalization has resulted in a restructuring of most urban areas, with growing income disparities, which has been accepted as an inevitable consequence of economic development. This has resulted in a spatial concentration of urban poverty within inner-city areas, with the wealthy moving into suburban areas.
Unfortunately, the government's policies implemented to help did not come as quickly and as a result, thousands of fatalities that could have been avoided were not. As the recovery of New Orleans moves forward, it is certain that questions about what went wrong, and how to improve, will continue to emerge.
A review of the statistics involving alcohol and other types of drugs in their respective effect on traffic accidents have produced two differing opinions regarding what degree each category participate. One side looks at the fact that when drugs are present in the system following an accident, alcohol most likely is too.
Anti-oppressive practices aid in reducing discrimination in the name of racism. They will not encourage the practice of racism which is very dangerous for the welfare of society. Lorde (1984) defines racism as the belief in the inherent superiority of one race over other races and in this process the right to dominance, manifest and implied’.
Gang-related criminal behavior in particular especially shows the characteristics that Sutherland has highlighted. Learning of criminal behavior takes place within these small peer groups, where the individual is indoctrinated to believe that breaking the law is more favorable behavior as opposed to keeping it.
There is a significant relationship between youth violence and the carrying of guns and drugs. During the late 1980s and early 1990s when the number of death reports and other serious physical injuries was significantly high is the same period wherein the population of teens started to carry guns and other deadly weapons. It was in 1994 when the rate of youth violence was at its peak.2
The current paper discovers the progression of feminism through cinema by first examining how it was thwarted in its early years through an examination of the available literature as well as by looking at some of the films that have been produced in Hollywood for past decades, from a feminist perspective.
When a potential abuser is removed and imprisoned pending investigation, they may still be able to exert subtle pressure on the child through other family members. The revelation of abuse within a family and bringing it to the stage of investigation and police action often means notoriety for the family and shame in their community.
Four-year-old Traci’s mom went to work following a divorce; now she attends the local daycare from early morning until evening. Traci’s three-year-old neighbor Johnny remains at home all day with his stay-at-home mom. Some believe Traci is at the disadvantage because her early childhood is unstable, her formative years spent being one of the herd.
It is a must that the world of today must respect the youth and tries to encourage them so that they don’t act in a manner that is not close to that of an uncivilized society. As good citizens, it is the duty of the fellow countrymen to try their levels best to eradicate the menace of mafias, gangs, and others.
Consumers seem to derive a sense of identity from what they consume. Their consumption trends help in both reinforcing the popular stereotype and demystifying some other beliefs and traditions. ‘I Shop Therefore I Am’, is considering the way the modern-day consumer identifies and expresses himself.
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Today, people the world over are clamoring for freedom – freedom from bondage, from parents, from spouses, freedom from the mundane life of caring for children and family. These inner frustrations have brought about important changes in the structure and definition of family. Over the last few decades, trends and values have changed due to a wide range of family issues.
The proponents of Liberalization and globalization claim that globalization has opened up newer vistas of trade and business all around the globe. It is said that the opening up of economies has now tilted the balance in favor of market forces, which is helping the consumer by way of providing quality at reasonable prices.
Punishment for crimes that are deemed cruel and unusual is forbidden by the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment is often invoked when discussing the legal merits of the death penalty. The use of the death penalty is considered by some to be the most obvious and heinous example of cruel and unusual punishment.
The locality chosen for this research work is the London Borough Tower Hamlets. The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough to the east of the City of London, England and north of the River Thames in East London. It includes much of the redeveloped Docklands region of London, including West India Docks and Canary Wharf.
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By crafting women like Hermoine and Viola Shakespeare crosses gender barriers. He does so via cross-dressing and gender reversal in a profound way, by challenging accepted norms. Women and men are equal in every way. Women can be strong and men can be weak and this theme is the underlying challenge to gender stability.