Social Consequences
Essays

¶ … Souls Belated, by Edith Wharton [...] Wharton's use of infidelity/divorce and its social consequences in the work.

Michael Moore was born in 1954 in Flint, Michigan -- "the home of the wealthiest corporation in the world: General Motors." (Roger and Me, 1989). The tragic plight of this once economically booming, blue-collar city is…

Bear, Greg. Darwin's Children. New York: Del Rey, 2003.

¶ … behaving badly: Leader accountability and ethics failure by J.G. Bruhn. Specifically it will critique the article and its view on leadership and ethics. The author's main point is that when ethics fail at a company,…

The science associated with global climate change points the finger at the burning of fossil fuel as a major cause for warming of the planet. Hence, an alternative must be found in time to replace coal, and the question in this paper was, is nuclear power the appropriate replacement for coal-fired plants? The answer has to be "no" because first of all the economics of building new plants makes them too expensive in a time of budget cuts and tight budgets; secondly the record of plant safety in the U.S. does not lend itself to public confidence in the technology.

This paper examines whether laws prohibiting sexual harassment violate the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech, since they frequently target both speech and symbolic speech. It begins with the premise that not all speech receives equal protection under the First Amendment. Then it acknowledges that some discriminatory speech might fall under the rubric of political or religious speech, but that the government has a compelling interest in restricting it.

Determining the level of obedience to authority is an important practice because different jurisdictions have diverse considerations in the way they exercise their laws and other reinforcements. Individuals will naturally obey the law based on two primary factors, intrinsic or extrinsic rewards. Essentially, obeying the authority is based on the intrinsic and extrinsic factors on naturalism. Individuals, obeying the law, will inherently obey the law based on their ability to meet feel secure.

Lee de Forest was one of the most important people in the 19 Century for about 20 years. His fame ranged from two-way wireless telegraphy as a commercial business to the technical perfection as well as use of the…

¶ … students opportunity discuss a key political science concept, show a basic understanding academic research reporting skills.

Gender is often considered an immutable trait, linked inextricably to the biological sex one was born with. However, research over the past several decades in a multitude of fields including anthropology, psychology,…