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List of Essays: Sociology

Protesting Discrimination in Paper Matches
641 Words / ~ pages Saint Mac´s Saint John Protesti­ng discrimi­nation against women in “P­aper Matches” Paulette Jiles wrote the poem “P­aper Matches” during a time of social strife, to show how women were regularl­y treated. The poem reads as a protest message to those who take women for granted. Specific­ally, Jiles is expressi­ng her disgust in the everyday occurren­ce of women being careless­ly used; the idea that women should be confined to the kitchen is focused upon. In the poem, structur­e, language and literary devices accent the theme of the unfairne­ss of the inequali­ty of women. Several aspects of structur­e are used to evoke the feeling of oppressi­on in every-da­y life, includin­g meter and rhyme. While the first stanza is composed of a stereoty­pical women­217;s situatio­n— “w­ash[ing] dishes” (1)— the second concentr­ates on the reaction of…[show more]
Main types of Social Problems: Norm Violations and Social Conditions
669 Words / ~ pages University of Wisconsin Eau Claire Main ty­pes of So­cial Pro­blems Norm Vio­la­ti­ons and So­cial Con­di­ti­ons The­re are 2 main ty­pes of So­cial Pro­blems ac­cor­ding to the cour­se text­book; Norm Vio­la­ti­ons and So­cial Con­di­ti­ons. Norm Vio­la­ti­ons can be iden­ti­fied by how powerful peo­p­le, groups, big busi­ness and po­li­ti­ci­ans de­ci­de and that can be every chan­ging de­pen­ding on who is in power, who has the most mo­ney and how they spend it. Home­l­ess­ness for bo­th “nor­mal peo­p­le” and “men­tal­ly ill” should be bla­med on po­li­tics, the­r­e­fo­re, big busi­ness. If mo­ney was di­rec­ted mo­re to help peo­p­le off of the streets eit­her wi­th housing and help wi­th a job for tho­se that lost their ho­mes due to the eco­no­my or a tra­ge­dy in their li­ves, they would and could be­co­me “the norm” again. Tre­at­ment for drug ab­u­s­ers, (alt­hough a lot of sub­s­tance ab­u­s­ers on the streets tur­ned to drugs and al­co­hol out of…[show more]
Estudios y enfoques sobre el fenómeno de las Maras en El Salvador
1.868 Words / ~7 pages Instituto Andre Estu­di­os y en­fo­ques sob­re el fenó­me­no de las Ma­ras en El Sal­va­dor In­tro­duc­ción Es­te tra­ba­jo de in­ves­ti­ga­ción es un re­por­te sob­re los di­fe­ren­tes estu­di­os y en­fo­ques que se han rea­liz­ados sob­re las ma­ras. El tra­ba­jo con­sis­te en la in­ves­ti­ga­ción de di­fe­ren­tes re­por­tes que se han hecho sob­re las ma­ras en El Sal­va­dor. Va­mos a ver el fenó­me­no des­de el pun­to de vis­ta ato­mis­ta, es­truc­tu­ra­lis­ta e his­tóri­co. Tam­bién ve­remos di­fe­ren­tes estu­di­os que se han rea­liz­ado años atrás sob­re las ma­ras. A tra­vés del re­por­te ve­remos que las ma­ras son un fenó­me­no so­cial. Ve­remos có­mo se ini­cia­ron y al mis­mo tiem­po a tra­vés de la his­to­ria que es lo que han hecho, por­que lo hi­cie­ron, etc. Las ma­ras es un pro­ble­ma que pro­ba­blem­en­te no ten­ga un fin, de­bi­do a los di­stin­tos ob­stá­cu­los que les po­ne la so­cie­dad a es­tas per­so­nas pa­ra po­der sa­lir a del­an­te. En es­te re­por­te…[show more]
Hong Kong should put Putonghua as the first language. Language Policies in Hong Kong
1.012 Words / ~6 pages Hong Kong Polytechnic University - PolyU HK Class: ELC1012 S14 Sem003 As­sess­ment num­ber:2 Word Count: 825 To­pic area: Lan­guage Po­li­ci­es in Hong Kong Nar­ro­wed to­pic: “Hong Kong should put Pu­tong­hua as the first lan­guage.” Wi­th re­fe­rence to Hong Kong, to what ext­ent do you agree wi­th this view? Af­ter the han­do­ver of Hong Kong in 1997, whe­ther the first lan­guage should be ged from Can­to­ne­se to Man­da­rin has be­en tho­rough­ly de­ba­ted. Sin­ce Man­da­rin (al­so known as Pu­tong­hua), is “the na­tio­nal spo­ken stan­dard va­rie­ty on the Chi­ne­se main­land” (Gao, Leung, & Trent, 2010), so­me ci­ti­zens sup­port Pu­tong­hua re­place Can­to­ne­se as the mo­ther ton­gue in Hong Kong, while so­me do not. This pa­per will dis­cuss bo­th si­des of the ar­gu­ment. The re­ason for ging mo­ther ton­gue from Can­to­ne­se to Pu­tong­hua is that the lat­ter is the of­fi­ci­al lan­guage of Chi­na. Af­ter 1997, the fre­quen­cy of using Pu­tong­hua…[show more]
Effective Strategies to Combat Drug Abuse in Hong Kong
2.281 Words / ~10 pages Hong Kong Polytechnic University - PolyU HK The Hong Kong Po­ly­tech­nic Uni­ver­si­ty School of Pro­fes­sio­nal Edu­ca­ti­on and Exe­cu­ti­ve De­ve­lo­p­ment Ge­ne­ral Uni­ver­si­ty Re­qui­re­ments (GUR) SPD2310 Per­so­nal Ma­nage­ment (Se­mes­ter 1, 2015/16) Group Pro­ject Sub­ject Lec­tu­rer: Mr. Tu­to­ri­al Group: F11B Team # : _ Word Count: _ words In­dex Sec­tions Pa­ge In­tro­duc­tion P. Back­ground P. Pre­vent the ab­u­se of drugs P. Re­du­ce the ab­u­se of drugs P. Other count­ries’s ex­am­p­le P. Re­com­men­da­ti­ons…[show more]

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