Messages Addressed to Parents and Friends

It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. (Orwell 1). The contemporary way of communication presupposes a huge variety of different means for making the idea clear for those to whom the message...

How Important for People Is the Water Right?

It is my opinion that access to clean water and sanitation is a basic universal need and a basic human right. This will help to provide even the poor people, who cannot afford to buy water, with clean water and proper sanitation. If this human right is recognized than, everyone...

Why Can’t People Feed Themselves: Review

The article “Why Can’t People Feed Themselves?” written by Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins (1977) presents the historical reason for the advent of the food crisis in underdeveloped countries and puts forth the real reason behind the under-developedness of countries in the African continent or Asia. The articles clearly...

Communicative Ways and Language Use

Introduction A lot of people are concerned as to improper usage of English language in modern society; nevertheless, modern civilization faces the problem of language abuse being perceived as the instrument serving the purpose of the national interests. It is necessary to underline the fact that we stick to various...

Social Institutions and Other Phenomena of Society

Introduction Sociology as a science concentrates on studying social structure and activity to pursue a possible improvement in social welfare. The important aspects it deals with are, inter alia, social institutions and the ways society develops and changes throughout time. This set of video recordings focuses on such social institutions...

“Gendering the Commodity Audience” by Meehan

Introduction In “Gendering the Commodity Audience: Critical Media Research, Feminism, and Political Economy” by Eileen R. Meehan, the article’s main thesis concentrate on the sexism in the media. The author argues that the media focus on mostly the male audience, and ignoring the female audience as a profitable target market...

Support for Same-Sex Marriage vs. Civil Unions

Introduction The purpose of this research proposal is to explore support for same-sex marriage, in comparison with that given to civil unions, within the wider context of the marriage institution. This is an issue that has generated a heated controversy amongst the proponents and opponents alike. This controversy has seen...

Economic and Social Rights in Nowadays International Regime

From an international politics perspective, Economic and Social Rights (ESR) are provided for by virtue of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as various UN legally binding documents, notably the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESR). The existence of such international legal covenant makes the...

Race and Gender in Hooks’ and Butler’s Articles

Introduction The issues of race and sex have always troubled the minds of human beings. If in the past, these issues led to various conflicts within the society and resulted in the appearance of numerous movements for granting civil rights to women, racial and sexual minorities, etc., the present stage...

Gay Couple Adopting Children: Pros and Cons

Gays and lesbians are considered as a sexual orientation that is accepted in certain societies and certain societies are totally against them. However, it is quite clear that people that have the same sexual orientation or in other words it can be said that people with same-sex cannot have children....

Communication Skills and Resolving Conflict

‘Communication skills’ (n.d) defines communication skills, “as the capability to make use of a language and articulate information” (2). The writer views communication skills to be the art of passing a message so that the recipient can understand it better. Communication is very crucial to everyone and without proper skills,...

Case Study of Students’ Complaints in the University

Introduction Conducting marketing research to investigate a social phenomenon is an accepted method, in terms of gathering the information in order to make a decision, and accordingly to discover the root cause of a particular problem, and make corresponding recommendations. In the light of the aforementioned this paper investigates the...

Ethics in Research: The Stanford Prison Experiment

The issue of ethics in research seems to have expanded importance in literature. In that regard, it can be questioned what are the ethical; considerations that could be applied for cases implying researches based on anonymous surveys. Nevertheless, when reading about the “The Stanford Prison Experiment”, such ethical concern can...

Values, Attitude, Knowledge and Skills of a Human Service Worker

Summary All human service workers must posses certain values which are applicable to their profession despite the several branches. One of the greatest of the values is the respect of human life and worth. All the workers in this field have the mandate to respect and uphold this value. They...

Lesbian & Gay Cultures and Public Misunderstanding

Introduction The social conditions for a man cannot always satisfy his desires or way of living. The standards of morality and consciousness within the society condemn the facts of non-traditional viewpoints on manners, love, style, behavior on the whole. The paper is dedicated to two articles of different authors, so...

A Modern Hero. Hero in the Public Eye

Depending on who you talk to, the word “hero” can be defined in some different ways. The mythological hero is usually defined as a man descended from some kind of divine ancestry. He is characterized as someone who possesses great physical and moral strength as well as great courage. He...

Racism: American Progress in the 21st Century

Outline of the paper This paper analyzes the existing disparity among blacks and whites in receiving justice, education and healthcare which are explained through charts and diagrams. An attempt is also made to understand the problems of poverty rate among blacks and the extent of police brutality they suffer. Gay...