...Media Influence on Teen Pregnancy Jessica Vickroy Devry University Media Influence on Teen Pregnancy “I wasn’t aware of the consequences of having sex and I didn’t know the symptoms of pregnancy. I had no idea I was pregnant for quite a while” (Currie, 2011). Stacey Currie was only fifteen years old when she got pregnant. Over recent years, the rate of teen pregnancies has declined in the United States but there are still around 850,000 teenagers who get pregnant each year. This yearly rate is still double the amount of Canada, and triples the amount of Spain (The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 2012). In efforts to educate teenage girls, the US cable television network, MTV, created two television series: 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom. During 16 and Pregnant each episode followed a different teen throughout her pregnancy up to a few weeks after giving birth. Teen Mom followed some of the original mothers from 16 and Pregnant during the first few years of their child’s life. The intentions of these shows were sincere when first created but have developed into a mockery of their original message. Throughout the seasons of Teen Mom, the focus has become less about education, and more about ratings. MTV began to advertise each episode for the wild activities of the mothers rather than the struggles of being a teenage mother in today’s society. By advertising the mistakes each mother makes in gossip magazines, the wrong message is being...
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...work hard, day in and day out trying to f ind ways to expresstheir ideas but they cannot seem to get any more support and i f nothing is done to change this,we may lose them f orever. To try to f ind a way to save them, I have decided I will try to seethings f rom their point o f view and try to show just how logical their opinions can be. For myresearch paper, I challenged mysel f to write it about why same-sex marriage should not belegalized. A f ter three days o f research, I regret to in f orm you that, with the in f ormation I f ound,there is no logical reason whatsoever that same-sex couples should not be able to get married. Ihave tried so very hard to f ind a logical argument against it but I was not able to get any reasonsagainst it. I f I may use an analogy, their argument is like a large bucket with a hole in the bottom,except the hole is as large as the top. Also, the bucket does not actually exist but they re f use toaccept that and pour into it anyway. Be f ore I started my research, I thought o f a f ew reasons Ithought I could go f urther with but when I tried to make them work, I could only f ind argumentsagainst them. The reasons I thought same-sex marriage should not be legalized are because amajority o f people voted against it, there would be less procreation, and it would complicate...
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...to do. However, many of these young kids are not educated on what the consequences of having sex can come with. The media plays a huge roll in this because they believe that sex sells. In some peoples eyes this statement is true, however, I think that this is causing many kids to get themselves in trouble. Many children see things on the television and in the magazines that are inappropriate, but they do not see it that way. If a child see’s a famous celebrity or famous athlete that they look up to doing something, chances are they are going to do it as well. Adolescent pregnancy is such a huge issue right now because the younger generations are not getting the proper education on what can come from having un-protected sex. There are far too many young girls becoming pregnant before they even get their GED because they are having un-protected sex. If these young girls and boys were getting the proper education on sexual education, the rate of teenage pregnancy would go down. Today’s society needs to wake up and realize that far too many young girls are getting pregnant due to our lack of teaching them right from wrong. There is nothing wrong with becoming pregnant if you are in a relationship, and you both are on board with bringing a baby into this world. However, 82% of teen pregnancies are not planned (Guttmacher, 2015). There are so many young kids who are having un-protected sex whenever they want without even thinking twice about it. Many of those girls are ending up pregnant...
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...music's advantages has always been it's catchy hooks, rhythmic hits, and exciting, memorable lyrics. Often times people are so caught up in what's popular they don’t realize the meaning behind the music they are listening to. Most of the music that society listens to, especially rap and pop music, have lyrics that repeatedly reference sex, violence and drugs. In the music industry sex is known to sell records. For artists to ensure success, they talk about sex in their lyrics to become popular and marketable. After analyzing three...
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...Sasha Klaeb WMST 101 7 May 2013 Assignment 4: Women and Work Question 1, The Glass Escalator: In “The Glass Escalator,” Christine Williams studies the way men are treated and their experiences when working in female dominated occupations, and finds that there exists a glass escalator for men working in these jobs. First, although Williams acknowledges that the proportion of men and women in the labor force is approaching parity, there still exists significant job segregation relating to gender. Both men and women are relegated to single sex occupations, meaning that they work in jobs that society deems more appropriate for men and women. What Williams does in this paper is different from other studies because rather than focusing on women in male dominated occupations and the barriers they face, she studies the underrepresentation of males in predominantly “female” occupations. She examines four typically female dominated occupations: nursing, librarianship, elementary school teaching and social work, and studies the implications of men working in female occupations. From these studies, she finds that unlike females in male dominated jobs, men do not face any discrimination and are in fact promoted and move up the ladder at a much faster pace than women. As one employee put it, there is a preference for men in these female occupations. Williams found that the more female dominated the job or specialty was, the greater the preference for men. The glass escalator...
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...1. Homosexuals are not depraved individuals; being gay is not a mental disorder. As such, they are considered fully functioning members of society. They go to school, go to work, pay taxes, etc. There are no distinct qualifications for becoming a parent; however, most would suggest that a good parent possess the following characteristics: Responsible; Capable; Loving; Trustworthy; etc -- none of which are exclusive to heterosexuals. So, if we can accept that homosexuals are for all intensive purposes equal to heterosexuals in their personalities and behavior (outside of sexual endeavors), then there is no good reason to deny them the right to have or adopt children. It would seem that whom one sleeps with is a personal choice that should have no bearing on their qualification for parenting. As such, it would be wrong to deny gay couples the same parenting rights as other people in society. To do so would be to exhibit blatant homophobia, or the idea that gay people would somehow make inferior parents. The only way to eradicate this absurd ideal would be exposure; people need to see that gay people are just as competent as straight people in being good parents. Moreover, exposure to the homosexual lifestyle would decrease homophobia and other bigotry in general. 2. Parenting is in no way limited to be between a child's biological mother and father. In fact, 1/3 of children in America are not raised in two-parent households [1]. Plus, the 2000 U. S. Census reports that 33% of...
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...Joshua Zemsky Inside Job Extra Credit First of all, I think it is extremely comical that man with a net worth of $65 million (Matt Damon) is going to narrate a film that claims that the smartest men in the world are too greedy and are over-compensated. I do not believe I have ever seen such a closed minded, uneducated propagandas film before. This film was really just a way to bash Wall Street. It was not very viable and many “facts” were skewed. It was made in a very intelligent way though, to make what they were saying seem like they were good facts and statistics. One thing that really stood out when I was watching was when they were talking about the Bush tax cuts and how rich people saved more money from those cuts then poor people. They do not explain percentages though. For example, say person A makes $10 and person B makes $100. If person A saves 10% of that, he is saving $1. If person B saves 5%, less than 10%, he saves $5. So he is saving more total money, but not as much of a percentage of his income. That is a HUGE failure of the movie to identify and state that. Those are not facts that the filmmaker wants to show though, because it will help to disprove his argument. The movie talks about how poor de-regulation is for Wall Street. Why though? Because there have been a few setbacks? Overall, has Wall Street and the financial industry not been extremely prosperous? And has the United States economy as a whole not been extremely prosperous...
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...establish the relationships in the first extracts? In ‘Much ado about nothing’ Shakespeare establishes the relationship between Benedick and Beatrice as one of which is filled with hatred. In act 1 scene 1 Benedick and Beatrice meet for the first time on stage and they immediately are in an argument. The first thing that Beatrice says to Benedick is, “I wonder that you will still be talking, signor Benedick; nobody marks you.” By addressing Benedick first it shows that she want to talk to him. Beatrice seems to be paying Benedick quite a lot of attention. Even by the first line that they meet it is clearly established that Beatrice and Benedick have a very confrontational relationship. This scene is written in prose, which shows that they could be hiding their true feelings, as prose is the language people use when they are tricking someone or being deceitful. In this scene Benedick refers to Beatrice as “lady disdain,” disdain means looking down on something so this could imply that Benedick looks down on Beatrice. This could be for a number of different reasons, including the fact that she is a woman and in Elizabethan time it was a patriarchal society and he is to be called ‘signor’. Beatrice is portrayed as an unusual woman as she is arguing back to Benedick and in Elizabethan times that wouldn’t have been acceptable. The audience would find this very shocking but also quite funny. ‘Much ado about nothing’ is a play and in Elizabethan times a play would mainly be seen by men...
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...fund research for the disease and parents not wanting their child to suffer anymore. I believe their objection were somewhat reasonable because finding money for treatments can be difficult, but by stopping to try to find a cure is not. Parents and doctors should not lose hope no matter how challenging it is. Despite the lack of support, the Odones decided to test their hypotheses on themselves. Now, I wouldn’t say this was a complete good idea because of all the dangers that could’ve happen. On the other hand, I am okay with the fact researchers test other patients with their new-found treatments. Physicians are required to make sure anything in the...
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...Scholar by Day, Porn Star by Night. It is funny to see how much double standards can affect the life of people. Not just double standards between male and female. But elite college institutes set double standards all the time. For instance, person A is a student from lower-middle class America, has straight A’s and graduated valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA. Person B is from an upper class family with over five generations of alumni at the ivy league of choice and has around a 3.8 GPA. Person B will most definitely get into the Ivy over person A because of double standards. It doesn’t stop there, take for instance a female freshman at duke, by the name of Miriam Weeks, who is facing loads of double standards on her choice of paying her tuition at Duke University by participating in the all too known world of porn. Yes, you read that correctly, porn. While some people at Duke, especially students, find it a disgrace to the image of the school, other may find it a bit empowering. Here is a freshman student who wanted to further her education. Yes, it seems a bit of a push saying she had no other choice, since of course, she did. She could have waited tables, or gogo danced (jokes of course), but yes there were other options. However, none of those options paid as well as Porn. Miriam, or should we call her by her pseudonym Belle Knox, had already paid her first year at Duke in full just by doing porn alone. What many people do not know is the backstory behind why Porn has helped...
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...roadblocks as condoms in High Schools. The first issue is that prevention in prison starts far before a condom enters the equation. The very concept of “safe sex” is dependent upon the partners being consensual and the most readily available allusion to Prison Sex is, of course, rape a kind of “sex” that won’t ever be safe. In reality, much of the high-risk homosexual contact in prison involves men who do not consider themselves gay outside prison, former prisoners and researchers said. About 1 percent of prisoners report being raped. From a health standpoint, it is not much different from inoculation against disease. If we are already using medical means to protect inmates from contagious illness, how are government-sponsored condoms a stretch? However, of course, there are those annoying moral issues. As if gay inmate sex was not enough to make the conservatives grumble in the first place, the idea of combining it with prophylactics. Is this the worst idea ever thought of? Violence is also against the rules in jail and we all see how effective it is as a deterrent. They put offenders into solitary confinement, so why not isolate those with STDs or HIV in their own separate wing. This seems unlikely as our prisons are swelling past capacity by the hour. The only choice the penal establishment has with sex is the length of the consequences. There are many aspects of prison a man will live with for the rest of his...
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...hot subjects on the minds of Americans such as abortion, drone wars, same sex marriage but then one of the most discussed topic is the whether illegal immigrants should be deported back to their legitimate countries. Actually this topic has been politicized for more than a decade now without a sustainable resolution. And so what are the consequences of tolerating illegal immigrants in our country? For this reason in this paper we are going to present the limitations of illegal immigrants in the United States in an organized argumentation justifying why illegal immigrants should be deported back to their countries. Did you know that illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers more than three hundred billion dollars annually. It has been reported that an illegal pregnant woman in the United States receives free medical service that cost at around six thousand dollars. According to a CRS report illegal immigrants were responsible for more than 16, 000 which is twice the crimes commuted by legal immigrants. Additionally the United States Consensus Bureau estimated that there are more than twelve million illegal immigrants in the United States, this is actually equivalent to the combined populations of Arizona, Iowa and New Mexico. Even worse the infiltration of illegal aliens this has resulted in a weighty increase in the rate of unemployment. To tell the truth these illegal immigrants are certainly bad news to the citizens to the United States and the economy. According to DHS latest...
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...people believe that they deserve the rights that they are granted by the government. An upstanding citizen who pays their taxes, serves their community and abides by the law should be afforded the rights of an American. However, not all citizens are afforded equal rights. Gay and lesbians are consistently denied rights that are typically taken for granted by the average American. Specifically, gay and lesbian couples are denied the right to marry even if they are upstanding citizens and are held at an unfair disadvantage solely because of their sexual orientation. This discrimination must stop because gay and lesbian couples are law-abiding citizens as well, who should be afforded the same rights as heterosexual couples. If same-sex couples are paying taxes to build roads and help public schools like the heterosexual couples, they should be afforded the same rights. One common problem that plagues gay and lesbian couples that are denied the right to marry is their inability to claim their partner’s social security after he or she has died. Currently, there are no programs that give homosexuals survivor benefits like the ones that are provided for heterosexuals who are married or divorced. Gay and lesbian partners are not able to claim benefits of their deceased, regardless of the fact that all working citizens, heterosexual or homosexual, pay into the Social Security system for survivor benefits. Sadly, this leaves many gay and lesbian couples with an unstable retirement. The...
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...Ethical Issues in Employment Law Ethical Issues in Employment Law Employment discrimination is illegal. Or is it? The answer is, yes and no. Employers may not discriminate against employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin due to a civil rights bill passed by John F. Kennedy in 1963, otherwise known as Title VII. Employers may, however, discriminate if there is a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ). For example, a clothier who only sells women’s clothing may only want to hire female models to show their clothes to potential buyers; a company like GNC (General Nutrition Center) may only want to hire employees who are fit and know about fitness products to become salespeople in their stores. An Act of Law that followed in 1978 is the Pregnancy Discrimination Act which states employers or potential employers cannot discriminate against women who are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. Although this Act exists, this type of discrimination happens often. In July of 1999, I changed jobs and accepted a position at Merrill Lynch here in Denver. In September of that year, I found out, and announced to my employer, that I was expecting and due the next May. The following month, my boss called me into the office and a Human Resources representative was also present. After exchanging a few pleasantries, I found out that I was being let go because I had a forgery charge on my criminal history that I did not disclose on my application. I told them...
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...The response of The Motherhood Penalty vs. the Fatherhood Bonus Claire Cain Miller wrote an article in the New York Times called “The Motherhood Penalty vs. the Fatherhood Bonus”. She talks about the pay gap between working mothers and working fathers. Men who have children income are more likely to be higher than men without children. Women with children are often looked over when it comes to hiring in the same occupation as a childless man. Most employers believe that women with children are not trustworthy. I beg to differ on that because I think a person will give their all when it comes to providing for your family. Family life is much different than it use to be in the older days. I know most people in the society believe that men are suppose to be the workers while women are suppose to be the caregivers at home. What if a household does not have a man to take that role? Who do you think is left to fill it? I agree with Ms. Miller when she states “employers have not...
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