materials and elements‚ which can cause different kind of cancers and health problems. Furthermore‚ it can be said that radon threatens people’s everyday life. Studies show that most of the human exposure to radon is from houses and also radon penetrates from foundations and enters into the building. Many developed countries made their own atlas of radon. By using this atlas it can be understood where to build houses or how to build houses in geographical polluted areas. The most important source of
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The Sociological Imagination Focussing on Goodwin’s quote‚ I intend to discuss through this essay‚ the fact that for social workers‚ the most important thing that sociology can teach is not how ‘personal issues’ may be public issues‚ but in fact how people’s experiences of personal issues effect public concerns and policy and shape everybody’s lives‚ thus how their service users’ issues are in fact public issues. To answer the question in brief‚ poverty is an aspect of contemporary society that
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to a specific individual‚ region or nation. (Oxford University Press‚ 2005) Lippi‚ the author of English With an Accent: Language‚ Ideology‚ and Discrimination in the United States‚ believes that accents identify nationalities‚ socio-economic status‚ social class and more characteristics of speakers. (Lippi-Green‚ 1997) This study aims to investigate the most recognizable and attractive accent to English learners (Non-native speakers) among 10 different accents (American‚ British‚ Chinese‚ French‚
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Social Organized Crime Prespective Nelson Mieles University of Phoenix Criminal Organizations CJA 393 James K. Roberts‚ M.A. January 11‚ 2011 Social Institution A social institution is a group that someone lives and grows up in. These institutions or groups have a goal or task to complete. For example‚ a school is an educational social institution in which either children or adults go to learn a way of life. Social institutions are based on structures of relationships‚ functions‚ roles
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Describe how education as a social institution impacts on Caribbean Society and Culture Several social institutions exist in today’s society and they are family‚ education‚ religion and the justice system. The Caribbean is defined as that area on the earth located between five and twenty five degrees north of the equator and fifty five and ninety degrees west of the Greenwich meridian. In the Caribbean‚ education is one of the institutions that is viewed as having the most promise for betterment of
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Discuss the view that criminals in the Caribbean are products of the police and courts and not products of their social backgrounds. Support your position with reference to one the sociological perspectives. 25marks Criminals in the Caribbean are products of the police and courts and not products of their social backgrounds. The writer agrees with this statement and the sociological perspective to which reference would be made is the Conflict. This emerged on the heels of the labelling theory
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English Language Teaching Vol. 2‚ No. 3 An Experimental Study of the Effects of Listening on Speaking for College Students Yan Zhang Foreign Languages‚ College Qingdao University of Science and Technology E-mail: zhangyangrace@yahoo.com.cn Abstract As China enters WTO‚ more college graduates with higher oral English proficiency are required. However‚ we learned that even students in some distinguished universities are lack of this ability. Based on her teaching experiences and the theory
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Gender stratification is a phenomenon in which the unequal aspects of social‚ and economic life are highlighted and explored between genders. When looking at gender stratification we are aiming to get an understanding as to how and why society has placed us in these roles‚ and how over time we are going beyond‚ and breaking the seams of these societal expectations‚ redefining the gender roles. Gender stratification is important to understand because when we are self-aware of this issue‚ change can
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While I was reading “QUEERS READ THIS”‚ I noticed a lot of the things mentioned in the reading can also be applied to other oppressed groups and it’s interesting how many of the concepts that was mention in the reading is still so relevant in today’s society. The readings defining straightness as normality‚ was interesting because before this my understanding of the word straight was that it meant heterosexual. However‚ after giving the word and meaning more thought‚ the definition of normality seems
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persuade them about some particular matter‚ but it is hard to hold them to that persuasion. Hence it is necessary to provide that when they no longer believe‚ they can be forced to believe. This passage from Chapter VI is an example of Machiavelli’s use of assumptions about human nature to justify political action. This quotation follows a formula used throughout The Prince: because people are X‚ a prince must always do Y. Whereas Machiavelli laces his historical points with a wealth of evidence and
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