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    Social Issue, Burglary

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    ABSTRACT My name is john smith‚ I have been asked to write a report on a social issue for my access diploma in Social Science/Humanities‚ I have chosen to write this report on burglary. Within my report I am going to cover the facts and figures about burglaries‚ the top 5 items stolen‚ the physical and mental effects of having your home burgled‚ what you as homeowner/tenant and a community can do to prevent them. Although legislation is due to change in regards to your rights to protect your

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    the issue of whether technology is playing a good role in the lives of humans or not. It is often believed that technology has saturated our job market and has restricted people’s ability to think deeply in a specific area of study. Many people are starting to question the need for human input in any aspect of life when technology is far more advanced in problem solving and productivity. However‚ others would disagree with these statements; in Clive Thompson’s article‚ “Smarter than You Think: How

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    Sociological

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    Faculty of Health‚ Arts & Design Unit Outline SOC10004 Sociological Foundations Study Period 1 2015 Please read this Unit Outline carefully. It includes: PART A Unit summary PART B Your Unit in more detail PART C Further information PART A: Unit Summary Unit Code(s) SOC10004 Unit Title Sociological Foundations Duration 13 weeks Total Contact Hours You should expect to spend c. 12 hours a week (including formal contact) in a 12.5 credit point unit Requisites: Pre-requisites Nil

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    Claims Ground Warrant

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    Claim‚ Warrant‚ and Grounds Introduction Cruelty‚ Civility‚ and Other Weighty Matters by Ann Marie Paulin examines how the world views overweight people with negative stereotypes. Paulin takes a stance to create an argument on the wrong take of overweight people in America. Claims Paulin uses several passages to make claims about how society looks wrongly and unjustly on people who are overweight. “I swear‚ if I have to sit through one more ad proclaiming that life is not worth living if you

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    Art and Social issues

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    with the constant worry that her beloved Larinov would lose his life while in service. Majority of her paintings art form are both impressionism and expressionism‚ but once the war hit she began drawing in the form of futurism. PART 2: The social questions that the art addresses during the World War I are whether or not this is what an individual perceives the war as when they have a loved one serving the front line. Most of Goncharova’s paintings deal with her worrying about her husband serving

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    an integral part one “self”. Social problems are the root cause for many other problems. Being obese is not anymore a personal problem. It is ripened into a huge social problem. Let’s brush up the problems caused due to Obesity in today’s modern world. This is an age of modern living‚ superior technology‚ luxurious day-to-day‚ exaggerated money and last but not the least trending obesity. Growing number of cases of obesity has made it into a fully grown social problem. Child obesity is a much talked

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    Contemporary Social Issues

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    discuss the history of asylum seekers coming to Australia’s shores and explore most recent guidelines in relation to the issues surrounding new arrivals of asylum seekers. It will also provide an overview on the attitudes towards asylum seekers within Australia as part of encouraging integration of people from different cultures. This paper also will intend to address the issues asylum seekers and refugees are facing in Australia. The policy on Asylum Seekers and Refugees remains one of the most

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    Namibia society seems to be in a social crisis as stated in (The Namibian‚ 2013)‚ this is due to all the rapes and gender based violence and loss of jobs that is seen happening. The people in our society that are mostly affected by these acts are the female members of society who are always unaware until the last moment‚ which is usually the case when it comes to gender based violence and other sort of abuse. These acts of violence and abuse have become a popular problem in many communities as it is

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    Gangs As A Social Problem

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    “A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in society.” This quote by Pauline Hanson signifies the fact that every social problem is associated to one another. They all work hand in hand‚ which affects society as a whole either in a positive or negative manner. Social problems such as those categorized as economic problems can provoke other dilemmas such as alcoholism‚ drug abuse‚ unemployment‚ or even crimes. Poverty‚ an example of an economic problem‚ is portrayed

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    Social Wicked Problem

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    Discuss how the issues associated with broken food systems might be understood as a wicked problem. The notions of social wicked problems were first introduced in 1973 by Rittel and Webber; two Berkeley professors who published an article in Policy Sciences‚ that identified the characteristics that differentiated wicked problems from ordinary problems (Camillus 2008). Rittel and Webber’s article provided 10 properties that can be used as a guide to recognising whether an issue is considered ‘wicked’

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