The concept of modernity has been subject to investigation by many scholars and largely concerns components of industrialization, urbanization, education, secularization, and the creation of mass media. Socio-technological developments such as the modern city, railway travel, and mass media promoted criticism of tradition, and, when combined with changes in lifestyle due to ongoing war and the introduction of urban consumerism, modernity can be further embodied by the antinomy of change and continuity. The such reinvention of society inevitably resulted in...
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Imagine a picturesque American couple who just arrived home from their trip across the world. Unlike their departure from their home a month earlier, they are carrying a baby, and they both have smiles stretched across their faces. They just adopted a child from a poverty and crime-riddled country. Little did they know across the world there is a similar couple who mourns the loss of the child they just gained. A couple who would have loved and raised this...
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The early 20th century was a time of significant change in domestic Interior spaces. In this period, Britain saw a vast improvement in the standard of living, despite having two great world wars occur and severe recessions. The transition from the Victorian to Edwardian times allowed many changes due to the development of gas and electrics, leading to new appliances becoming accessible for all classes gradually over the period in the 1900s. A space I believe in the 20th century...
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Growing advancements in the field of science and medicine brought about through evidence-based research, are a turning point to identifying, diagnosing, and treating various infections thereby; reducing mortality and morbidity. One of the greatest inventions in bio-medical science was the discovery of vaccines, which have contributed to the prevention of deadly infectious diseases such as smallpox, polio, and measles (Grant, 2012). Despite the success of vaccination programs for global health, there has been a controversial debate regarding its safety and...
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The disease is a simple handshake. Contagious viruses spread throughout the nations like wildfire. When a new sickness turns into an epidemic, panic spreads rampant and many may wonder if there exists a cure for protection. The answer to that question lies in vaccines. Vaccines are a collection of the inactive form of a disease that, once injected into the bloodstream, stimulates antibodies to protect the host from a virus. The injection of a vaccine is essential for keeping any...
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Throughout history, women have been constrained by their corresponding society’s beliefs, and nurture that instruct or compel them to be who they are not necessarily meant to be. This issue has been limiting feminine freedom and failed to admire the humanistic approach to consider all individuals to be equally free, fenced with no boundaries. This essay is subjected to outline and compares three short stories that all together enforced the argument of feminine oppression that its causation is not only...
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Abstract In this paper, the “Rule of Law” forms one of the supreme manifestations in human civilization with eternal values of constitutionalism, attributed to democracy and good governance. Constitutional Law mandates through its provisions and fundamental obligations with the conception of equality before the law, social justice and liberty involve a sense of supremacy and predominance aspiring for the spirit of legality with provisions of fairness and reasonableness, respecting basic human rights irrespective of their status in society to access...
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Introduction Increasingly in the past ten years, policy, public health, and criminal justice attention has been focused on sexual harassment in schools including physical abuse, psychological and emotional abuse, and sexual abuse involving controlling behavior and causing harm. Many adolescents experience sexual harassment behavior and the prevention of this behavior is important because adolescent victims have higher risks to get involved in suicidal thoughts and negative outcomes. This research paper reviews the different information found in several academic journals about...
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Introduction This report is going to analyze if the attack on Pearl Harbor was more gruesome than the Battle of Britain with the research question being: Was the attack on Pearl Harbor more gruesome than the Battle of Britain? Under gruesome, we understand how many deaths there were, how these deaths happened, and what the effects, like other deaths or impacts on the families of the dead, the battles had after the war. You can find these three elements back...
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How has Social Policy Shaped Foster Care Practice in the Australian Welfare Context? Reviewing the history of Foster Care, it must be recognized that Foster Care practice has not been able to make substantial and measured improved outcomes for children. Rather, despite decades of policy change, strategy and foster care change, the system has only been able to improve within the lower levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (safety, physiological) (Hopper, 2020) Baber (et al, 2003) asserted that Foster Care...
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Program Purpose The purpose of this primary program is to prevent the aging out of youth and young adults in Baltimore Public Schools within the foster care system through the increased awareness and ultimately the adoption of these youths. The Arc Baltimore (https://www.thearcbaltimore.org/programs/family-services/foster-care/) will attend the educational programs and awareness campaigns over the course of a year to teach about the foster care system and the type of situations that teens face as they age out of the foster care...
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Fake news; to what degree did it help Trump during the presidential elections? “So much Fake News. Never been more voluminous or more inaccurate. But through it all, our country is doing great!” (Vox, 2018). Donald Trump, often characterized as a populist (Rice-Oxley & Kalia, 2018), is speaking here concerning fake news[footnoteRef:1] in a tweet that he posted on the 26th of March 2018. To illustrate why Trump has been characterized as a populist, Professor Susan Hunston (2017) stated the...
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Abstract The essay discusses the pervasiveness of fake news on Facebook as well as the role of the Mocha Uson Blog. The author discussed how Facebook fake news is viewed in both the international and Philippine setting and the perceptions of netizens therewith. The essay also showed the biography and career of Mocha Uson, and how Mocha Uson Blog affected the social platform. The author analyzed the Mocha Uson Blog and the mainstream media news outlet using the Gratification Theory...
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There is no doubt that elections and democracy play a major role in the lives of Canadians. However, it is apparent that the issue of fake news is a rising epidemic that has threatened to harm and disrupt democracy by spreading disinformation, with the goal to alter the democratic process and affect election outcomes. Fake news is false information that is created and spread with the objective to mislead people and develop confusion and mistrust amongst people, in a political...
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The commercial production of palm oil in Malaysia has increased by over 5 million hectares of crop since 1960. This rapid expansion of the crop has lead to the destruction of the tropical rainforest in both peninsular Malaysia (West Malaysia) and Borneo Malaysia. Due to this excessive deforestation, the European Commission concluded that palm oil would stop being imported for use as a biofuel and that it should be phased out by 2030. However, it has been suggested that European...
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“Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system – the lungs of the planet – and we are on the verge of switching it off». -- PRINCE CHARLES. Speaking at the Presidential Palace, Jakarta, Indonesia (3 Nov 2008) Nobody can deny the fact that continual deforestation is a driving force behind such environmental issues as global warming, desertification and enhanced greenhouse effect. A vast majority of trees are burned by wildfires which mostly occur in some southern countries, namely Indonesia, USA and...
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A child under the age of 18 who is intentionally harmed or mistreated is considered abused. Child abuse accounts for the majority of childhood morbidity and mortality causing the community and the victims’ families to lose a fortune. There are many different types of child abuse, which often occur all at once. A child may be abused through physical, sexual, emotional, and medical abuse, along with neglect. Children are often abused by someone they know and trust, usually a parent,...
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In this essay, I will argue that, though I agree with Harris and Scully (2015), and Ferguson (2015) that the project toward new forms of social welfare systems should emerge, I still insist that this project can only be attained when the South African state introduces new and upcoming graduates to the historically established affirmative action policy. In the first section, I will present this by providing a summary of Silver's (2003) and Arrighi, Aschoff, and Scully’s (2010) understanding of...
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Introduction China’s economy has undergone rapid growth over the past few decades, with its GDP almost tripling from 2000 to 2007 (World Bank Staff, GDP of China 2018). Urbanization — the migration of people from rural to urban areas — is “[central] to driving economic growth” (Montgomery 2008). In 2005, urbanization was responsible for 10.98% of the economic growth in China (Song et al. 2018). Because urban residents contribute 6.59 times more to the economy than rural residents (Song et...
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“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me” -Martin Niemöller (. It affected mainly the Jews whose population dropped 67% by...
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Child Maltreatment Child maltreatment is all the forms of neglect, ill-treatment, and commercial exploitation that may result in subsequent potential harm to minors. It exists in four types of abuse; sexual, emotional, physical, and neglect (Merrick & Latzman, 2015). As a significant societal problem, child abuse could lead to lifelong repercussions, social misplacements, or in worse cases, death. In most cases, there is a thin line between child abuse and traditional health practices. In this sense, various cultural traditions that...
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For many right-wing terrorists, the key driver that motivates their cause is the fear of extinction of the so-called white race. Whether this be through the prospect of equality for black people within the United States that motivated the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), or the increasing presence of Muslims within Norweigan society that enraged Anders Breivik, it is evident that a great deal of right-wing terrorists are driven by the fear of extinction of the white race. However, in order...
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is often read as a cautionary tale about the dangers of hubris and scientific advancement however I will also be discussing an interpretation of the text as a commentary upon the debates surrounding slavery at the start of the 19th century. The essay begins with a close analysis of Frankenstein in regard to the debates surrounding slavery, particularly a view that Mary Shelley may have held; the sudden emancipation of slaves would be dangerous as they could...
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Terror was the most elementary way to draw the obedience of German citizens. Since Hitler already had previously gained the majority of the nation, he maintained the community that he had gained and started his “final solution” through terror leaving a ‘one way’ road for the population to respond. If the Semitic folk rebelled they would be executed. Terror is a tool that Hitler implemented to create the holocaust, having control over all the German citizens and getting rid of...
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Homelessness as a social matter is complicated and complex. This essay will analyze the different approaches and attitudes towards the issue and will attempt to understand and acknowledge ways in which the problem can be settled; whether the issue is temporary enough to solve or whether the permanence and complexity of homelessness are too overwhelming to be completely resolved by society and urban design. Additionally, there are a variety of pathways that people follow into homelessness, some of these common...
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According to the WomensStats Program, created in 2001, the movie 'Taken' was a catalyst for bringing global awareness to the brutal reality of human trafficking. In 2009, a blog writer, ASF, notes that 'the content of the movie confirmed much of what I had researched with realistic accuracy, opening the eyes of the public to a variety of horrific brutalities associated with the sex slave trade.' Unfortunately, trafficking was part of the fabric of Texas before 2009 (CCPS, Jan 2013)....
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Human trafficking is a growing problem not only nationwide, but worldwide. Human trafficking is the action of force to illegally transport people from place to place usually for labor or sexual exploitation. The three most common types of human trafficking are sex trafficking, forced labor, and debt bondage. Sex trafficking is a crime when men, women, and/or children are forced into sexual acts without consent. Debt bondage is a type of labor used to pay back for some obligation or...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a great piece of fiction that shows gender inequality and the unfair social norms of the 19th century. Author Gilman used this story to speak for all the women in the 19th century who felt suppressed within their own homes because of the social imposition of femininity that they had to follow. She used her own personal experience with her physician Dr. Mitchell and his ‘rest cure’ treatment to write the story to...
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There is a significant statistical difference between the numbers of black and ethnic individuals in comparison to white individuals. The 2011 census report showed that 86% of the population in and Wales identified as white and only 3.4% identified as being black and 6.8% as Asian i.e., Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, other (White, 2012). This shows how white is the dominant ethnic group which can lead to some individuals believing that they are the superior group. Throughout history, it has been...
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As long as there are crimes, and people willing to or compelled to commit them, there will always be a need for specialized forces to serve, protect and keep us. Every day, in every city and town across the world, police officers sport their uniforms and serve the vital role of helping to make and keep our lives and the lives of countless others safer. Recently, however, police officers, our very same unmasked superheroes of the modern era, have been...
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