The Community Role in the Education of Poor Black Children

This paper discusses the role of the community in regards to black children education. The paper looks at the role the community has played to promote and manage the problem. It details the potential of the community in promoting black children education. The paper utilizes secondary sources by carrying an extensive research on a number of research articles on the problem to present a coherent discussion. The paper indicates that some factors in the society passively promote poor performance in...

Sociological analysis of the news paper article

Sociology is the science that deals with the interacting individuals. Out of this interaction, evolves the feeling of co-operation and conflict, eventually giving birth to the institutions of the society. The institution is basic component, integrated with other institutions constitutes the social structure and fabric of any society. Newspaper is one of the major institutions that hold importance out of its influence on the every genre of the society. Newspaper is the representation of the cultural,...

The Modern Middle East

Sharia law is an Islamic law that legalizes women inheritance, divorce and marriage procedures.  In some European countries, the law is termed as controversial law due to human rights law of the supreme courts. The main criticism is that since the sharia law courts operate under closed doors, the laws are likely to intimidate women.   Some of the rulings include clauses like Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men not unless that man decides to convert to Islam and if any...

Childhood Obesity and Poverty

Obesity in children and adults has become a major healthy concern among the Americans today. The problem is as a result of the high cases of obesity in the society and the healthy complications associated with it. Obesity especially in children has reached epidemic levels. How to deal with the epidemic is a big story in the American society today. There are various causes of obesity and risk factors that make some American children more vulnerable to the problem than others. Moreover, the politicians...

The Homeless Society of Downtown L.A.

It is truly a sad reality that despite of being one of the richest cities of the most powerful nation in the world, Los Angeles is still beset with the most disturbing problem of homelessness.  Here, the irony is emphatically evident, as the well-to-do sector that lives in posh high rise citadels co-exist side-by-side with those who find themselves in the inescapable grip of poverty deprived of the necessities that ought to be available for living a decent life, such as the security of a stable...

Food and Cultural Studies

Behind the possession and consumption of food lies the morals, attitudes, pleasures, and anxieties which have been shaped and developed by different cultural settings. John Coveney  says that the  science of food and eating serves as the basis for many of the judgments we make about ourselves and others as eaters (p.1). It is implied that the moral decisions we make for ourselves, whether they are good or bad, are directly related to the technical and rational wisdom  of science that...

Internet technology

Internet regulation The internet has existed as an open network in the US working under the net neutrality principle for quite some time. Whether or not the internet needs regulation as it is the case with the other types of media is an issue that is subject to debate since there are both merits and demerits involved. Currently, there are several laws operating in the country for curbing issues related to child pornography over the internet as well as several other activities that are illegal....

How is Rupert Murdoch an Influential Person

Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born media mogul who has continuously topped the 100 most influential people list for over three years beating an assortment of politicians, entrepreneurs, sports stars and media personalities from all over Australia (Butler). Murdoch made a fortune developing media ventures into leaders in the sector. He is a leading shareholder and the Managing Director of News Corporation which is one of the most influential and largest media corporations in the entire world (Butler)....

Smoking

Introduction Smoking is injurious to health  even though this prohibition or warning flares from sleek cigarette packs all over the world, the tobacco abuse rates are consistent, if not on the rise. Today, smoking implies burning and inhalation of more substances than just tobacco. The recreational drug abuse or the intake of drugs, such as cocaine and opium, is included in the meaning of the term smoking. It started to be associated with adolescence and stress. However, the world society is...

QUESTIONS ON HUMAN SEXUALITY

I think that some gender roles are inborn and some are learned.  Women tend to be soft, emotional and weak compared to their male counterparts. They also seem to be attracted to men with lower voices. Men  on the other hand are strongly built, less emotional and seem to be attracted to women with higher voices. When a child is still young,  it could be both inborn and learned because a female child seems to or she tends to believe that a girl should play with a doll and a boy should...

Social Issues Exploring the 60s and the Impact of Brown vs. Board of Education

Abstract In this paper I am going to discuss the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education and its impact during the 1960s from two different social science perspectives.  First I will look at this social event through the eyes of a political scientist.  Secondly, I will put myself in the shoes of an anthropologist and try to explain the events that occurred as a result of this judgment.  I will then discuss the implications that this case has for life in the 21st century. The 1960s...

White Privilege

Introduction White privilege is a complex social phenomenon in which racial inequalities are conceptualized. These inequalities are however focused on the advantages associated with the whites as opposed to the other races including the blacks and the coloreds. The theories associated with white privilege assert that the whites usually do not see anything sinister and sees everything as normal as opposed to being advantaged. Such assumptions have elicited discussions focusing on the disadvantages...