...The debate on gay rights has been a huge political topic among those who are faced with the hard truth of no longer being protected fully as citizens. Transgendered, gays, bisexuals, and lesbian people are discriminated against in almost every aspect of their lives because they are not happy with whom they are as a man or a woman or by which partner they choose to be with. Groups representing the lesbians, gays, bi-sexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities have sprung into the public attention due to the fight for equal rights. Their claims amount to a call for freedom to live in the style they choose within the limits that they do not cause harm or interfere with the rights of others. The three sources were reviewed to determine what it is that the LGBT populations encounter in their lives. A huge problem LGBT persons face is the laws that stand them out among citizens. Author of From Identity to Politics, Craig A. Rimmerman, believes in the movements in the United States history for the gay and lesbian community. “The homophile movement arose within the context of a prevailing ideology that regarded lesbians and gays as perverts, psychopaths, deviates, and the like” (20). Ultimately, these labels were internalized, and society then formed negative stereotypes based on the belief of most citizens who did not understand the LGBT people. Most believe that the movement for LGBT rights began with the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969, but history has shown that was not the case (Rimmerman...
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...Who should teach children about sex and sexuality? Children of these generations are having more access to all kinds of information including sex and sexuality than past generations. They can get sexual information from school, parents, friends, and even from Internet. Talking about sexuality is always been a hard topic that concerns mostly schools and parents. But who are the right teachers that should tell everything about sex and sexuality to the children? After asking me this question many times, I believe that parents should teach their own children because they are the role models to the children, give them the right information, and protect them. Schools still need to have sex education programs, but parents are the ones who are primarily responsible. I know in all schools, people are teaching about sex and sexuality to the children, and there is nothing wrong with that; they actually teach sexuality in schools because for many parents is just impossible to explain their own kids or sometimes they don’t seem to care. I believe parents should teach their children because they are the role models to those children. To me the house is the first school, and is the place where you grow and learn many things from your parents. In my opinion, it will be better for the kids to learn about this topic from their parents than strangers in the school. My parents never told me anything about sex; I learned from school, but I would it like them to teach me because they were...
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...Haoyang Ding Soc 324 As my background, I come from China, the traditional Chinese mode of thinking that boys are important than girls. In the feudal China society this situation is more significant. Most Chinese families has a very clear distinction between different gender. For instance, my father responsible to earn money and my mom responsible to take care All family member's life. Like, cooking, take care my grandmother and grandfather. On the one hand, I grow up in the traditional Chinese family and as the only male in the second generation in my family. So mostly my opinion about sexuality are influenced by my parents. On the other hand, as a foreigner, I studied in the US four years, so I think race, religion, nationality also influences my ideas about sexuality. For my personal experience, there are several factors influenced my sexuality. Firstly, my parents influenced my sexuality. When I was children, my parents told me you can’t dress, skirt, you should dress like a man. When I was in elementary school, my parents start asking me, “do you have a girlfriend?” all those things remind me, I should dress like a man not lady and I should find a girlfriend not boyfriend. So I think my parents influenced my sexuality. Secondly, in adolescence period, all my friends are straight guy, we always talked about pretty girls. I think at this progress, I know I should date with girls, not boys and in that period I never thought about the sexuality. I never meet gay or lesbian before...
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...Part 1 Sex, a word has long been a taboo in the society I come from. It is part of everyone’s daily life but I have never heard anyone talks about it in public in my adolescent years. Therefore, I was totally amazed when I first saw this course and I am very interested in exploring the world of sexual communication. As an international student from China, I have to say I had very limited source of information about sex at a young age. When I asked my parents where I came from, they usually replied with “you will know when you grow up.” I still remember when I was in 6th grade, there was a chapter about human’s reproductive system in the biology textbook. For the first time, I learned from the illustrations that males and females have different organs in their bodies, which would somehow magically make a baby. Why illustrations? Because my biology teacher was so embarrassed to talk about it in front of us that she skipped the entire chapter. As economy prospers in China, people started to have personal computers at their homes. It is until then I gradually obtained most of my knowledge about sex from the internet. I think this is a source for me because I can easily get the answer as long as I type my question about sex in the search engine. Thus, it is an efficient way to learn without feeling embarrassed. However, a major drawback of this is that the articles online are not very factual and reliable sometimes. As a result, I have to be able to discern between truth and myths...
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...DISSIMILARITY The word diversity has been used to refer to so many types of differences or dissimilarities among people. It can be any attribute that a person can use to detect individual differences. Categorization based on factors such as race or gender or based on proportions such as the size of the minority have been used to define the diversity in teams. But diversity or dissimilarity has a mixed effect. It can lead to greater creativity and quality of team performance or it can negatively impact the performance of the team as well. Self-categorization, and social identity approaches tend to be a pessimistic view of diversity because similarity on attributes such as attitudes, value and beliefs facilitate interpersonal attraction and liking, since similarity in nature, tends to predict affiliation and attraction, and thus causes individual to experience more cohesion and social integration in homogeneous groups. And if this kind of cohesion or social integration are formed within the group, it brings division among the group and leads to weak and poor performance of the group. No room for creativity or innovation. Information processing approach in contrast offers a more optimistic view of diversity because it allows individuals in diverse groups have access to other individuals with different backgrounds, networks, information and skills. This added information should improve the group outcome even though it might create coordination problems. But never the less...
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...crucial it is to have a comprehensive sex education that teaches adolescents the dangers of sexual intercourse, how to prevent pregnancy, and promotes sexual health and well-being. Due to the high volumes of sexual content teenagers watch each day, a comprehensive sex education seems vital in providing accurate information regarding anything related to sexual intercourse. Also, this type of education would have the means to correct the half-truths and false information mass media presents to the public through a variety...
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...occurs, it comes to all. Death is the great equalizer for it comes to the rich and poor, the loved and unloved, the happy and the sad, to the male and female, the good and the bad. In some cases death can be postponed or delayed, but eventually it comes to all. None of us are exempt as we realize that one day, we too must die. Dying, death and bereavement are fundamental and pervasive aspects of the human experience. We can only achieve fullness of living by understanding and appreciating these realities. The absence of such understanding and appreciation may result in unnecessary suffering, loss of dignity, alienation and diminished quality of living. Though education about dying, death and bereavement should be an essential component of the education process, it has been greatly neglected in both formal and informal education. During this seminar, I hope that you will be involved as a total person with feelings, emotions and intellect. Through lecture, exercises and discussion our time together can help us better understand dying and death so that we can better face death and therefore make it a little...
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...AIDS: The Modern Black Plague The AIDS epidemic has reached a crisis level in Africa and needs to be addressed by the United States. Efforts to teach the population AIDS prevention, reduce the price of certain medications, and influence the local leaders to teach their citizens about AIDS should be considered by the United States. Along with those efforts, the United States needs to help with the aftermath of the epidemic. In order to fully understand what the United States needs to do to help, we must first realize why the AIDS epidemic has risen to a crisis level in Africa. When the HIV virus matures it turns into what is known as AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). It is a life threatening disease that when contracted is eventually fatal. There are treatments and medications that can help slow the painful symptoms of the disease, but so far research has not found a cure. Since the early 80’s AIDS has become quite a scary issue because of its life-threatening nature. Unlike the common cold or other viruses transmitted through the air, AIDS is only transmitted by sexual contact or by the sharing of needles. AIDS, though a worldwide problem has now climbed to an epidemic level in Africa. CW Henderson, writing for AIDS Weekly, reports that, “70% of the world’s AIDS cases are located in sub-Saharan Africa”(20). Anderson goes on to report that, “The disease kills 6,000 people a day in Africa, has orphaned about 15% of children in the worst-hit cities, and by some...
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...the validity of the Oedipus complex and the reasonableness of believing that it is a viable hypothetical construct in the analysis of human psychopathology and, thus, that it should be placed at the core of clinical procedures. What Is the Oedipus Complex? The Oedipus complex has two forms, one for the male and one for the female. Freud's writings on both forms spans several decades. There is no single publication in which he fully described all aspects of the Oedipus complex for both males and females. A researcher must piece together the nature of both forms from his many writings on the topic. The essence of the Oedipus complex is a desire on the part of the child to have a sexual relationship with the opposite sex parent and feelings of hostility toward the same sex parent. These desire/feelings are considered universal (Brenner, 1957; English & English, 1958; Kline, 1981). This is the concept that is referred to in this article when the term "Oedipus complex" or "oedipal theory" is used. Freud contends that it is normal for children to masturbate. When a child between the ages of 4 and 6 years old masturbates, he/she has a genetic, predetermined type of fantasy. This fantasy...
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...their early stages in their young lives. Adolescence is the intermediary stage of growth between childhood and adulthood. It represents the period of time during which a person is subjected to an array of natural transformations and runs into a number of emotional tribulations. The ages, which are termed to be part of adolescence, vary by ethnicity and extend from the preteens to nineteen years. “Many of these changes are the normal, scheduled, and inevitable life-transition of adolescence, whereas others are unplanned and experienced by a minority of individuals” (Gunner 123). Adolescence is often divided by psychologist into three distinct phases: early, mid, and late adolescence. In the article Inside Your Teen’s Head, Parade.Com state; “Truth is, the teenage brain is like a Ferrari: it is sleek, shiny, sexy, fast, and it corners really well. But it also has really crappy breaks.” The most difficult phase of life is early adolescence. It is a phase when a child is not yet mature but he is no longer a kid. “Early adolescence is a time of many physical, mental, emotional, and social changes.” (401)Although teens insist that they have grown enough to be self independent, parents still do not provide plenty of freedom. This is the time when even studies are getting more complex and physical changes are a constant source of frustration. There is a lot of confusion, hesitation and a search of the real identity. Life seems vague and Omni-directed. Adolescence is the time when all of...
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...opinions towards various styles of literature. An author whose work has been of much negative criticism could be due to a reader of some ignorance towards the understanding of the context. Deficient to connect with a piece of literature, judgments of society, lack of critical thinking and understanding makes for a category of controversial authors. Among controversial authors’ such as, J.D. Salinger’s The Cather in the Rye, Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code, J.K. Rowling’s The Harry Potter Series, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Hasan, 2008), George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, so is Anthony Burgess’s most controversial novel A Clockwork Orange. Over the past fifty years, readers have deemed Burgess’s novel taboo disgusted with the unbolted image of sex, drugs, violence, and politics. In result, his work had been banned from several locations internationally. Meanwhile, open-minded readers will consider Anthony’s work as a piece of art, creative, raw and extraordinary, over more they can come to some understanding of the underlining thoughts Burgess had towards politics, discipline,...
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...Understanding Filipino Adolescents: Research Gaps and Challenges JOSEFINA V. CABIGON, PH.D.* ABSTRACT Maiksi subalit masalimuot ang panahon ng kabataan sa buhay ng tao. Ang suliranin ng pagsasaayos sa mga problemang kaakibat nito ay nangangailangan ng ganap na pag-unawa sa kabataang Pilipino ng kasalukuyang panahon. Nais ibahagi ng papel na ito ang pagtutukoy sa mga mahahalagang isyu na karaniwang di natugunan sa mga nauna nang pag-aaral. Ilan sa mga suliraning pampananalikssik ay binigyang pansin at inaasahang mapupunan ang mga puwang na patuloy pa ring naiiwan sa larangan. Ang mga kakulangang nais tugunan ay ang mga sumusunod na usapin: pagkakaisa sa pagpapakahulugan sa konsepto ng “kabataan” at sekswalidad; di-kumpletong datos ukol sa ugnayan ng bilang ng kabataan at bilang ng kabuuang populasyon; antas ng kamalayan ng mga stakeholders at kabataan mismo tungkol sa paglaki ng bilang ng huli; ang pangangailangan ng mga stakeholders ng napapanahon at bagong pagkaunawa tungkol sa antas, mga tagapagtakda, at kahihinatnan ng sekswalidad ng kabataan, pati ng kanilang fertility at reproductive health; at, ang kanilang kamalayan at pakikilahok sa mga gawaing panlipunan. Ilan sa mga rekomendasyon ay ang pagkakaroon ng pambansang sarbey sa mga bagong erya ng pag-aaaral kaakibat ang kwalitatibong pananaliksik, pananaliksik pampatakaran (policy research) at operations research. Ang artikulo ay isang pagtatangka sa paghahanap ng mga pamamaraan upang maimulat sa mga kabataan at sa...
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...In Philosophy in the Bedroom, Sade seems to go into the extremes to preach his view on libertinism. It’s almost disgusting in how Dolmance and Madame De Saint-Ange educate Eugenie in their views, yet Eugenie takes their teachings as enlightenment. Why? As much as I hate to admit it, it is refreshing to see the other side of things. Coming from the extreme opposite of this ideal, Sade’s characters speak an almost ugly truth. Sade often shuns from religion and authority in favor of a more rational way of thinking. In many instances he replaces God with Nature as a form of measuring ideals. In many ways he focuses a person on self rather than society. I think trying to understand his repressed view can draw us closer to an even richer median of self. One of the first teaches that Dolmance preaches to Eugenie in her education is the existence of God. He opens by stating that man owes his existence only to Nature’s schemes. He states that we are bound only to reproduce, since reproduction is necessitated by the globe’s existence. Sade criticizes God as a phantom. He even questions then necessity of God. If Nature can create, produce, preserve, maintain, and hold equilibrium, what is the need to seek out a foreign agent? To Sade, God is an illusion and piety to this illusion is foolish. I find that Sade proposing that God is an illusion is a bold step, yet offers a viable alternative in the purpose of man. Many people today are influenced by their belief in God. They credit their...
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...and how they feel on specific matters that concerns them. In addition, laws are also made to protect one’s right to express oneself freely, but to extend this lawful right to pornography is the worse decision that can ever be made by any constitution or law. The Williams Committee defined pornography as sexually explicit representation which has the function or intention of sexually arousing its audience, and according to the Merriam Webster dictionary pornography can be in the form of movies, pictures, magazines, etc., that show or describe naked people or sex in a very open and direct way in order to cause sexual excitement. Pornography appears to have few friends in high places. Governments generally censor and restrict it. Most religions abominate it and others seem at least to frown upon it. Academics for the most part find it distasteful, if not offensive or even heinous. Pornography over the years has been viewed taboo, both in subject and in content. Almost all cultures across the world have sects within them that are offended by pornographic content. This content is expressed in movies,...
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...Running Head: DISHARMONY AND MISMATCH Disharmony and Mismatch: The Truth about Online Dating Isioma K. Ehiobu CAS 4703-993 April 27, 2011 Disharmony and Mismatch: The Truth about Online Dating Five years ago American journalist, Thomas Friedman, wrote a book entitled The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. His main reason for writing this book was to point out that the world in which we live in was being flattened by technology. What he meant by the term “flatten” was that the things that couldn’t be done decades ago due to the lack of technology are now being conducted today at a fast rate because of how advanced the technology is today. Take for instance, the Internet, decades ago not that much could be done on it but now it allows people to communicate with one another across the globe. He goes into detail as he talks about the workflow software, which was one of the ten forces that flatten the world as it contributed to the improvement of the Internet (Friedman, 2006, p. 78). Now it allows people to interact with one another through various means like social network, emails, and now with the upcoming of Internet dating. Internet dating, once considered taboo, is now an effective way to meet others like ourselves that we may have otherwise not met in a public setting. Today, this type of dating appears to be replacing our traditional ways when looking for a soulmate, especially for those who have had an unsuccessful face-to-face...
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