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181) American Women In Prison
Author:
Diana Heinz
Category:
News and Society
Women's issues abound in today's society. Working and raising children alone, dating in a cyber world, the glass ceiling, equal pay for equal work, women's rights, and humanitarian issues, are only a few of the leading topics, in the discussions about things that are important to women today (DuBois & Dumenil, 2005). What seems to be forgotten, or is at least, rarely spoken of, is the issue of women in prison, and why the numbers are rising, at such an alarming rate (Sabol, Couture, & Harris...
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182) Gas Prices Causing Public Transportation Concerns
Author:
Brenda Williams
Category:
News and Society
Gas prices are being constantly driven up in price in both Canada and the United States and it doesn't appear as though anything is going to be able to stop this crisis from happening. Gas prices are leaving millions of people in a dilemma of whether to drive or not to work, or if public transportation might be a better option. Now though both the public buses and taxis want to instate new fares to coincide with the current gas prices. The taxi drivers have been complaining that they aren't...
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183) What's in a Name - The Decreasing Value Of The Person
Author:
Steve Wickham
Category:
News and Society
Is there any value in a name these days -- to be known by your name? When you're born your mother and/or father gives you a name and from that time on you're known by that name. Only rarely does someone reject the name and change it by deed poll to something different -- it's special.My daughter told me recently that her friend Elysia works at a local movie theatre and it's common practice for management to require her and other employees to wear incorrect name badges. They just need...
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184) Homeless Veterans - A Short Message
Author:
Laverne John Riley Jr.
Category:
News and Society
Our Nations veterans are a national treasure. That's right... a treasure. Unfortunately in today's culture, veterans are rarely acknowledged. I mean sure, you can ask someone if they know a vet or if they respect a vet and most will readily say yes, but where is their action? I can tell you... I am a combat veteran, and much of the social perceptions and cultural understandings of sacrifice and commitment of veterans is completely misunderstood, ignored and even looked down upon by many youn...
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185) National Missing Children's Day 2008
Author:
John L Terry
Category:
News and Society
May 23, 2008 has been designated "National Missing Children's Day", and is set aside as a day to remember the 800,000 children who are reported missing each year, and the ongoing hardships their families endure every day they remain missing.The numbers are staggering, and the demographics spread across the racial spectrum. Young and old, infant and teen, boy and girl, rich and poor, no one is immune. Some of these children are runaways, others are the victim of predators, and still ot...
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186) Julian Deathblow - Or - Changes In The Dutch Culture
Author:
Hans Bool
Category:
News and Society
You can judge the developments in a country by remarkable events. In Italy the return of Berlusconi is a sign that the country is in deep trouble, people hope that an previous hero / leader will be able to change the situation. In the Netherlands a recent incident sheds some light on the progress of cultural integration of various ethnic groups.Julian Deathblow is a pseudonym (of a pseudonym) of a cartoon-artist that has been jailed for 30 hours on publishing discriminating cartoon on...
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187) Hillary Must Take the Heat or Get Out of the Kitchen
Author:
John Press
Category:
News and Society
The Educating Women Conference's keynote speaker, Jane Roland Martin, chose Hillary Clinton and misogyny as her main topic. When a man is aggressive, she told us, people admire the trait. When a woman is aggressive she gets called the "b word." This puts Clinton in a lose - lose situation. If she comes off as feminine, people will say she is not tough enough to be President. If she tells people she is tough, they consider her outside the pale of normal female behavior, an aberration, or even...
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188) In Quest of Desert Rose
Author:
Antonu Bezboruah
Category:
News and Society
Life is not a "bundle of roses" for expatriate workers in the Middle East as most of us think. Once the ultimate job destination for numerous Indians, Chinese, and Pakistanis, today, Gulf countries face a severe crunch of skilled workers these days. Thanks to the economic progress of most of the Asian countries.Still the number of expats in the Middle East is quite large and the challenge of protecting their rights in this region has been highlighted in the media as well as many gover...
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189) Detroit Soup Kitchen Feeds The Body And Soul
Author:
Waylan Smart
Category:
News and Society
Like every other community in the United States, Detroit experienced devastating poverty during the Great Depression of 1929. It was during this time that the city's poor came knocking at the St. Bonaventure Monastery on Mt. Elliot Street, home of the Capuchin Order. Friar Solanus Casey urged the order to feed the hungry with soup and sandwiches. Eventually, the lines grew to more than 2,000 people waiting for their single meal of the day. The friars knew they had to do more.The friar...
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190) Quake Disaster Tests Corporate Social Responsibility
Author:
Lee Joan
Category:
News and Society
With the confirmed death toll from the severe earthquake that jolted Sichuan Province climbing over 12,000, more and more enterprises and individuals are taking action to help the disaster-hit areas.Rough calculations suggest that as of 10 a.m. today, more than a thousand companies had joined a charity campaign, including 18 with donations of over 10 million yuan ($1.43 million) each and about 170 companies donating over 500,000 yuan each.The confirmed national death toll reach...
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191) Boris Could Be Good For Builders In The Capital
Author:
India Cooper
Category:
News and Society
Boris is back...and this time as the Mayor of London. What does his election mean for builders and tradesmen in the Capital?The Mayor has a number of responsibilities which are critical to builders and developers. He makes London-wide policy on planning and gives the go-ahead (or refuses) large building projects. He manages Trafalgar Square and Westminster Square Garden and has powers regarding housing in the metropolis.Since October 2007 he has had increased powers in the area...
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192) Painful Culturist Realities in China's Terrible Earthquake
Author:
John Press
Category:
News and Society
My friend Laura sent around a call for donations to aid those killed, injured and / or left homeless by the recent earthquakes in China. This mass mailing went out to a lot of people, but as I have known Laura for quite some time I imagined what I might say to her if we had a conversation concerning her relief efforts. Of course, sentimentally, my heart goes out to all the victims. But, my imagined conversation led to callous realities. For the sake of our nation and my friendship with Laur...
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193) Are You Prepared For Times Of Uncertainty?
Author:
Janet Majoulet Foust
Category:
News and Society
My friend had a big wake up call last week when the company he works for said they were moving a large division of the company to Hong Kong. Now the uncertainty of his JOB is a reality. I have had this same thing happen to me several times while working in the corporate world. I used to work for a major computer software company back in the day when they were flourishing. I will always have a fondness in my heart for the work I did. BUT, what happened to me when everything was falling ap...
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194) Anna Politkovskaya's life Sacrificed for Social and Political Justice: Slain Russian Writer and Journalist,.
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
News and Society
On 7th October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building. The 48-year-old mother of two was fiercely critical of the Kremlin's actions in Chechnya. A pistol and four bullets were found near her body. Ms Politkovskaya's murder had all the hallmarks of a contract killing for which Moscow had become notorious. She had been known for her pioneering reporting on the Chechnyen war and in particular for her commitment to the people of Chechnya for which she won...
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195) Atlantic City's Reaction To The Smoking Ban
Author:
Srini Venkataramani
Category:
News and Society
Ending a battle that lasted more than a year, the City Council voted to end the last major loophole to a tough statewide ban on smoking in public buildings that had conspicuously exempted gambling halls.But patrons still will be able to light up in unstaffed smoking lounges away from the table games and slot machines if the 11 individual casinos choose to build them. The ban takes effect Oct. 15. Smoking would still be permitted in enclosed smoking lounges where there would be no gambling.</...
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196) The Uber Important Wedding Invitations
Author:
Brea Moray
Category:
News and Society
During the Middle Ages, and even before that period, weddings were announced through the town crier. Everybody who heard the news could go to the wedding pronto. It was only when the printing press was invented that wedding invitations appeared on the scene.The Evolution of Wedding InvitationsEver since then, weddings were always anticipated celebrations. For the ordinary men and women, it was a love match. For the nobility, marriages were means to expand territories and...
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197) Is Charles, the Prince of Wales, fit to be king?
Author:
Reed S. Oxman MD
Category:
News and Society
Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor was named at his birth on the 14th of November 1948. Charles, the eldest child and son of Queen Elizabeth II of England, Great Britain, Wales, and all Territories, is the current heir to the British throne. Born to Elizabeth and Prince Philip (Philip Mountbatten of the royal family of Greece) in 1948, a year after the young royals wedding, and four years before Elizabeth became Queen with the unfortunate death of her father, the reigning King of England.<p...
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198) Unscripted Burglariter
Author:
Bathsheba Davis
Category:
News and Society
The provocative adventures experienced in these scenarios are to provide an understanding for those who feel a sense of insulation by remaining motionless, guiltless, and even voiceless when the horrors addressed are dealt with as little more than administrative leave/vacation-with pay; portraying nothing more than a time out for child-like behavior. A shadow system of accountability exists and prevails however, more and more these performances that were once eclipsed as a prescribed method...
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199) The Three Little Pigs and Political Correctness
Author:
Kristien Wilkinson
Category:
News and Society
The Three Little Pigs is a seemingly harmless story about, well, three little pigs who build their own houses and a big bad wolf who has a propensity for huffing and puffing inferior structures and swallowing meaty porcine creatures. Generations of children have enjoyed this fairy tale that gives a lesson on hard work and the importance of producing quality results.The story is fairly simple. Three little pigs move out of their mother's pen and build homes of their own. As they left,...
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200) Our Gifts Can Be Our Curse
Author:
John Gilmore
Category:
News and Society
In the early nineteen hundreds there was a world wide outbreak of influenza. People in cities and countries all over the world were dying in record numbers. Doctors discovered that the influenza somehow affected the immune system by making the immune system attack its own body. That was why there were so many deaths. They also discovered something else: The people with the strongest immune systems who were dying because their immune systems were so strong that the influenza became a more...
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