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    Prison By Poverty: A Look at a Human Rights Issue in El Salvador Prison By Poverty “While she was waiting for help‚ Teodora felt a need to go to the toilet. As she made her way to the bathroom the pain got worse and she fell. She subsequently had an obstetric emergency in the bathroom…Teodora was handcuffed‚ accused of aggravated homicide on suspicion of having induced an “abortion” and detained.” Teodora is one of many women whom have fell victim to illogical and condemning reproductive health

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    Frankly‚ I do myself agree with that‚ poverty can cause many serious consequences‚ especially for young people during their school time. On the other hand‚ policymakers disagree and argue in the article "The Paradox of Poverty Narratives" said by Gerstl-Pepin (Leon-Guerrero 2008:151). They say that poverty has no effect on the outcomes that students will get in the future (Leon-Guerrero 2008:161) which I do extremely disagree with. Poverty can lead to low grades in most cases‚ and would

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    Sport Movie Review 42‚ The True Story of an American Legend I recently saw the film‚ 42‚ and I found many connections with our Sociology of Sport class. First and foremost‚ the movie was about the baseball legend‚ Jackie Robinson. Jack broke the baseball color barrier and was the first African American player allowed in Major League Baseball. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers beginning in 1947. Jack was a strong‚ talented player‚ but he also had a mind of his own. He played with an attitude

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    involved in dispersing of funds in poverty alleviating programs‚ the Government‚ the World Bank and the U.S. are helping India eradicate poverty through dispersing funds to build the economy‚ battle disease and also improve infrastructure. Corruption can occur through bribes and red tape from low level government levels to high levels. Even though there is corruption detected by politicians and bureaucrats. The Government of India has presented strategies to alleviate poverty through subsidies and other

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    Kaitlin Yates 14 August 2010 Contemporary Social Problems A sociological evaluation of Nickel and Dimed. “To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor‚ a nameless benefactor‚ to everyone else”.(221) Barbara Ehrenreich in her book Nickel and Dimed explored life as a low wage earner by working several “unskilled” jobs in different areas of the country and attempted to live off the wages she earned. I will evaluate some assertions she made and make some assertions of my own based

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    Sociological Event Analysis of the Holocaust Introduction For this final project we have been asked to select a significant sociological event for which I have chosen the Holocaust of World War II‚ and then analyze the effects on society by answering the several questions. First how and why this event was sociologically interesting? Next we will discuss what social context that the event occurred in. Then we will look at how many people were affected by this event and the presence of possible trends

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    Homelessness and poverty is a big problem for children who attend school. In recent years it has become more of a problem and 1.5 million students are homeless according to Introduction to Teaching. The article I chose concerns the situation of students being homeless and what educators can do to help them. It is related to chapter two because chapter two discusses the issues homeless children deal with while going to school‚ and the article is a guide to assist those children. The article goes over

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    offers detailed observations of status‚ deviance‚ social sanctions and control theory‚ and the sociological perspectives. Status‚ a position a person holds in society‚ is one of the concepts that is present in the film. In sociology‚ the idea of status guides our actions and consists of specific

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    Christmas is an annual festival celebrated in remembrance of the birth of Jesus Christ. In this essay I will be attempting my own Sociological analysis of Christmas Day‚ through the gender perspective. First part of the essay will be looking at the ‘traditional’ Christmas through gender roles. By that I can then move on to my own experience on the festive season. Through out the essay I will be trying to link the work up with bodies of theory and how Christmas has changed through out the years.

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    through social and physical contact. Frank began to rely on the help of a robot because his robot accommodated all of his needs. In addition‚ Frank lived a much simpler and easier life due to the many capabilities of the robot. However‚ one main sociological issue that the film raises is how human interactions may be easily replaced by technologies‚ which can negatively affect the social structure of our society. Frank slowly attached himself to the robot because the robot helped

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