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    A youth subculture is a youth-based subculture with distinct styles‚ behaviors‚ and interests. Youth subcultures offer participants an identity outside of that ascribed by social institutions such as family‚ work‚ home and school. Youth subcultures that show a systematic hostility to the dominant culture are sometimes described as countercultures The punk subculture‚ which centres on punk rock music‚ includes a diverse array of ideologies‚ fashions and forms of expression‚ including visual art‚

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    Macbeth’s Misunderstood Character In the passage from page 244‚ A.C. Bradley argues that to the contrary belief that Macbeth means nothing but evil‚ the often misunderstood character is actually mainly composed of moral and honorable virtues. Although his actions throughout the play suggests that corruption composes most of his character‚ his wicked wrong-doings are mainly caused by other components that Macbeth lacks control over. This position regarding the play has validity because the only

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    Misunderstood African American Folks of the USA Can you imagine having to going to a different school then other people because you have blue eyes? Well that’s how white people treated African Americans through the 1800-1900’s and even still to this day in certain parts of our world. African Americans didn’t gain “freedom” until 1865 when the thirteenth amendment abolished slavery everywhere in the US. Although slavery had come to an end many new issues between white people and African

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    Rehabilitative services for youth offenders‚ since the 1960s‚ have been the principal solution of the Philippine government‚ past and present‚ to the persistent social problem of juvenile delinquency.The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) maintains 10 regional rehabilitation centers throughout the country; biggest among these are the National Training School for Boys (NTSB) in Rizal province and the Marillac Hills for girls in Alabang‚ Metro Manila. There are also other youth centers run by various

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    Music is a concept that everyone in the western world comes across with. Whether this is on the radio‚ in the background of a television show‚ at a party‚ or during personal time‚ music is inescapable. Despite its omnipresence in our lives‚ there is debate as to what music is. This is fine and completely normal‚ for music is completely reliant on human perception. Ergo‚ the answer this the titled question is that music is whatever one perceives it to be. This may be a difficult concept to grasp

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    While experimenting with the speed of light‚ I noticed that the light being refracted was slower when it shined through a denser medium. For example when the higher medium was water and we were comparing it to air‚ the speed of the light being refracted was 0.75 c. If we were to switch the medium to glass‚ which is more dense than water‚ the speed of the light decreased to 0.67 c. For two of the mediums they were both placed at the same angle when we started shining the light and as the outcome

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    The LGBT: Misunderstood Freedom Fighters The lesbians‚ gays‚ bisexuals and transgendered are some of the most misunderstood persons in our world today. People have grown close-minded and judgmental towards them‚ unfortunately unaware of the effects of those actions. Imagine being seen as an outcast everywhere you go‚ in which you do not have a sense of belongingness and security. People cast you disgusted looks‚ as if your presence alone makes them uncomfortable. These are what the lesbians‚ gays

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    “To be great is to be misunderstood‚” a famous quote written by the transcendentalist‚ Emerson‚ in Self-Reliance. Going by the nickname “Mahatma” which truly means “great soul”‚ Ghandi was one of the most misunderstood people in history. Ghandi is characterized as a scrawny simplistic dressed man born in 1869 in India‚ however he is one of the most complex and contradictory characters in all of history (McGeary). Ghandi was raised under two religious parents who practiced Hinduism‚ and pushed for

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    Have you ever been or known someone who has been misjudged or misunderstood? The novel discusses characters who have been in a situation like that. In the book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses Mr. Raymond‚ Boo Radley‚ and Tom Robinson to show that people believe they are evil‚ but rather they are just people who are victims of liars who accuse them of doing the unthinkable by misjudging them. First of all‚ in the novel‚ we are led to believe that Mr. Raymond is a man who got married to a

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    myself as a " KNOW IT ALL." I misunderstood learning. Theres a saying by Donald Rumsfeld from the book Make it Stick "There are known knowns‚ there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns;that is to say there are things that we now knew we don’t know. But there are also unknown- there are things we do not know we don’t know." In other words there are things that we think we might know but we really don’t their just your beliefs. Number one way to misunderstood learning is assuming you

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