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Drug Addiction
Drugs
Intersectionality
According to an interactive article by the New York Times, the number of Americans who have died from overdoses has increased by 650% since 1990. In October, President Trump announced declared the opioid epidemic a national health emergency and he talked about the $80 million initiative that will go towards pain management research and an…
Cyber Crime and Cyber Bullying
Cyberbullying
Cybercrime
Cybercrime means the use of computer and internet for doing criminal activities. Some of the examples of cybercrime are identity theft, transaction fraud, hacking, piracy, cyber harassment, human trafficking, spoofing, etc. Most of the cybercrimes are an attack on information about individuals, corporations or governments. This attack are mainly done by hacker by injecting viruses,…
What Justoce Means To Me
Crime
Justice
Morality
To me, justice means defining what is right and what is wrong. In our everyday life, rules and laws govern our world. The purpose of these laws, are to enforce mandatory rules for acceptable behaviour where justice prevails and conflicts are avoided. If justice doesn t succeed, it hurts society because the right decision hasn…
How Society Expects Us to Act: The Case of Gendered Stereotypes
Gender Roles
There is an exaggerated amount of stereotypes about various groups of people brought up and supported by our society. The most common and most unnoticed stereotypes are gendered stereotypes. Day to day we subconsciously expect males and females to act, speak, dress, groom, and conduct themselves based upon their assigned sex. An example of this…
Semi-automatic Weapon Debate
Debate
Gun Control
Law
Social Issues
United States
David Hogg tweeted out about gun control and said, “Imagine saying the only way to stop shark attacks is with more sharks.” Conservative Ben Shapiro then hit David Hogg with a blow tweeting back, “A good way to stop a shark attack is with a gun.” The controversy over gun control in the United States…
Abortion Debate Among Philosophers
Abortion
Abortion debate
During Judith Jarvis Thomson’s argument about the ethics of abortions and “A Defense of Abortion”, Thomas states that UDH’s are recognized as a full person and a full persons should enjoy a “right to life.” Her standards in cases come out to remain within the range of moral permissibility. “Every person has a right to…
Responsibility of an Urban and Regional Planner
Urbanization
NTRODUCTION Planning involves the decision making process, which aims to control development, design the environment, and develop communication networks and other facilities to create a community that is both livable and workable. Planning as a profession has the primary goal of enhancing the communities we reside in. While planners address the current state of the…
Same Sex Families – Gay and Lesbian
Sex
In this essay, I am going to discuss the rise of gay and lesbian families. I will examine the two stances on the debate on homosexual families. One being that that gay parenting is unnatural in which breaks the social norm and the other being that gay parenting is normal and should be credited the…
US Immigration Laws and Migrant Stories
Human migration
Illegal Immigration
Immigration is defined as the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country, which happens worldwide. Many people love the idea, but many disagree with it, leaving it a problem in the United States. The current U.S. immigration law is very complex, and hard for many to understand. Many immigrants are privileged to…
Incarceration and Queer Injustice
LGBT
Transgender
Relatively little research exists on the experiences of LGBT individuals who are incarcerated. In fact, Mogul, Ritchie, & Whitlock (2011) note even the lack of emphasis by the larger, mainstream LGBT movement, as well as larger national discussions regarding policing, on LGBT individuals’ experiences of policing and incarceration. The authors say, “Yet beyond the efforts…
| description | A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. ... These patterns of behavior within a given society are known as societal norms. |
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| quotations | “The society must be better than the individual.” “Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.” “Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.” “Society is our extended mind and body.” |