...their founding sociologists. Symbolic Interactionism is when a society attaches meaning. The theory looks at how an individual defines themselves and others. This theory had two founders: Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead. Symbols are thought to be the key to our sophistication that separates us from the animal kingdom. A symbol may be a relative or a mentor. Symbols give us direction and defines us and our relationship. Symbols are the essence of being Human. Without this Symbolic culture, we would not have laws, government, and our parents. We would not have boundaries and moral obligations. The idea of Functional Analysis is that society consists of groups that work together to fulfill a given function. The founder is Robert Merton. He did not agree with the organic analogy. He did look at society as a whole that had smaller parts that work together. His references for Functions were beneficial consequences of an individuals actions. In doing so this keeps society in balance. His definition of Dysfunctions are consequences that harm society. He thought functions were either Manifest or Latent. A manifest function is supposed to help a part of the societal system. Latent functions are accidental consequence that actually helps a societal system adjust. Latent dysfunctions are when the accidental consequences cause harm to the system. The Conflict Theory analyzes societal patterns on a large scale. This Theory suggests that the groups that make up our society...
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...anything. Like, John F. Kennedy, our thirty fifth president said, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Patriotism is to serve and protect my country from both foreign and domestic enemies. Patriotism is to love one’s neighbor, parents, friend, and God. Patriotism is dying for my country just like all those soldiers who died in war for our country. They didn’t die for nothing, but they died to protect our freedom. The army, navy, air force and marines risked their lives for us; that is real patriotism. People give their lives so that their families can have freedom. It is that our founding fathers fought for our country’s freedom so we can inherit it. They sacrificed their lives for generations to come. That is the reason why our country fights wars. They did all they could to make our country how it is today. Now it is our turn to never give up our liberty and keep fighting to preserve it. Ben Franklin, Isaac Newton, and Abraham Lincoln loved their country; they are patriots. Patriotism should be strongest during the country's time of need in order to provide comfort and insurance to the people that live there. Trusting in one's country helps people to believe that they are protected and safe in their homes which are a very desirable feeling to have during a country's time of need. People of the country feel happy when they see death of their love one in battlefields wasn’t for nothing. Now it is our next mission to be loving, generous...
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...Federalism and How it has Shaped American Behavior as well as how State and Federal Relationships Influence our Policies Steven M Professor Tracy POL110040VA016-1154-01 (US Government) May 9th, 2015 FEDERALISM, THE FIRST 215 YEARS 2 Abstract This paper will examine the evolution of Federalism from its’ beginnings to what we see in place today. Before we get to far though, let’s define Federalism. Longley (n.d.) stipulates that “Federalism is the process by which two or more governments share powers over the same geographic area.” For us in the states, this would be representative of the powers held by the Federal and State governments. We will also examine factors of Federalism that have shaped American behavior as well as covering how the relationships between the Federal Government and the states influences the foundation of American policies. FEDERALISM, THE FIRST 215 YEARS 3 The Evolution of Federalism and how it has Shaped American Behavior as well as how State and Federal Relationships Influence our Policies Have you ever wondered what would have become of this country had our founding fathers not convened in Philadelphia? What form of government would be living under today? Would we still...
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...1. Analyze and describe the founding leader, leadership style, and major business principles of a profit-oriented entrepreneurial approach in which the primary goal is to provide a product or service to consumers and to make a profit. “Entrepreneurship is the willingness to take risks to create and operate a business. An entrepreneur is someone who sees a potentially profitable opportunity and then devises a plan to achieve success in the marketplace and earn those profits.” (Boone & Kurtz, 2011) Being an entrepreneur involves taking risk, stepping out on a limb to take a chance on an idea. That is what Steve Jobs; CEO of Apple, did, he took a chance on an idea. Steven Paul Jobs was born in 1955 on February 24, and given up for adoption by his parents. (Isaacson, 2011) Job’s biological parents were two graduate students from the University of Wisconsin, who felt it necessary that their unnamed son be adopted by great parents that had went to college themselves. Jobs biological parents wanted the best for him and that included a great education. (Isaacson, 2011) Although Paul and Clara Jobs were not college or even high school graduates, they promised the biological parents that they would send Steve Jobs to college and started a savings account to fund his education. Steve Jobs interest in technology was shaped by his father and the neighborhood he grew up in. The neighborhood was filled with engineers working on electronics and other gadgets in their garages on weekends...
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...with a right or claim to something." The legal definition of entitlement as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2007), is “an individual’s right to benefits by law or contract.” “Entitlement Mentality” as defined by our textbook is the general belief that someone is owed something (for example, a job, an education, a living wage, or health care) just because she or he is a member of society (Carroll & Buchholtz, 2008). In this paper we will discuss the entitlement mentality of various demographic groups along with the other generations we have labeled, and how the idea of Pluralism plays a part in the Entitlement way of thinking as well. Along with how this mentality is perceived, why and how it’s been acquired by our new generation and how other generations played a part in this new mind set and the potential effect and how or what we can do to remedy the situation. Introduction I would like to explain my background as I feel this will lay the groundwork for this paper and portray my personal beliefs as to why the various generations have played a part in my life and others lives as well. I myself was born in 1964 in Chicago the last year of the “Baby Boomer Generation” (1946-1965) one year before “Generation X’ (1965-1981) and from parents of the “Silent Generation” (1928-1945) and I now have children from the “Millennial” (1982-2009) or “Generation Y” (Pew, 2010). I am the oldest of 6 children my father is the son of Sicilian immigrants, and my mother is one...
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...all underscored his incredible ability to communicate the successes and lessen the defeats that faced his administration. Through his use of consistent and unique rhetoric from his first major speech in 1964 continued to his farewell speech in 1989, Ronald Reagan established motifs of freedom, limited government, moral renewal, and hope for the future that ultimately rescue American pride in the executive branch and in the country as a whole. In Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural address, which spans just over three pages, he used the word freedom 17 times. He took one of the most complex and hard to achieve concepts in the world and used America’s mastery of it to his advantage. The majority of American citizens loved the freedoms given to us by this bill of rights making it easy for Reagan to embrace. Furthermore, living in a democratic society with the opportunity and freedom to achieve whatever someone desires in life is truly the American dream. Reagan harnessed this in every single one of...
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...Introduction This paper will be discussing the several advantages and disadvantages to sociological change. It will cover how sociology helps people grow, if culture helps or hurts a society, and how Karl Marx influenced our understanding of sociology. Specifically, the social conflict theory will be referenced. Finally, we will talk about whether or not mass media helps the influence of culture and sociological thinking, and how one begins to understand their own social construction. How does sociology help individuals grow as people? It teaches us that we are all individuals and we are all different, and that we need to be respectful of everybody regardless of color, gender, religion, and culture. If you know more about human behavior, you can become good at recognizing lies, hand gestures, and body language that gives away emotions or feelings (Tennessee State University, 2015). Learning about Durkheim, Marx, Weber, and even Charles Darwin teaches a lot about humans and how we have come to understand one another. People hang around in groups, which can evolve into assimilation, believing the group to be one entity. If you happen to not be a part of that group, you are an outcast. Internalization is taking social norms, roles, standards, and values and injecting them into your own mind (Persell, 1990). Society is deemed...
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...Native American children were educated by elders for tribal life (Spring, 2016, pg. 7) before contact with the Europeans. This included passing on their culture through storytelling, tribal ceremonies and puberty life rituals as well as learning how to live off the land by fishing, hunting, etc. (Spring, 2016, pg. 7). The Native Americans’ way of life did not fit into the American society that was being built. According to the Founding Fathers, there was no room in America for a multicultural society (Spring, 2016, pg. 15). Therefore, the children at young ages were taken from their families and sent to boarding schools to “civilize and Americanized” them into what the colonists thought they should be. “Early U.S. government education for Native Americans was a method for cultural and linguistic genocide” (Spring, 2016, p. 39). The children were taught in English only, this stripped them of their native language. Through education they were assimilated into the American...
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...Introduction The final project for this course calls for us to consider and share how one event from the 1960s has influenced our personal life, our career choice, and the global community. It also asks us to discuss how our own life would be different if one specific event of the 1960s had never occurred and how different the world would be if that same event had never occurred. As the mother of bi-racial twin girls and as relates to the Civil Rights Movement, I thought this a very easy assignment, I was wrong. After writing several pages of text – the brutal honesty of my life - it occurred to me that I need to separate the project due to my own personal biases. Please let it be known that I am grateful for the Civil Rights movement and equal opportunity for all – race, creed, color and sex. I have a very good understanding of the Civil Rights Movement and will attempt to depict that in part two of my paper, however I have my own story as well and is that that I am going to include in part 1. Understand this is not a story I frequently share and it is a part of my life that I try to forget. It is a long story and I will attempt to give a very simple version, though I will also admit my first thoughts were to alter it – to make this project easier. My thoughts are that perhaps some of you can learn something from tale, perhaps I will make a change in the need to continue with our drastic need to forget and forgive – the need to make a future...
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...At one point of my life as a parent of young children and unhappy with my child’s school I thought of keeping them home. Homeschooling seemed a great idea since I was reviewing daily lessons at home and teaching subjects that were not learned well at school. I did not know much about homeschooling but it has always been a topic that sparked interest. As I study to become a preschool teacher one day, I still wonder what makes parents decide to pull their children out of school to homeschool them? My personal experience was my frustration with my child’s school but there must be other reasons. I want to create a safe, nurturing, and positive learning experience for students one day in my classroom because homeschooling...
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...biggest ongoing debates of our time that does not seem to have a solution to its end is gun control. While most topics have three sides of supporters: those who are for it, those who are against it, and those who are in the middle. Gun control seems to only have two sides. The National Rifle Association who is against gun control has a slogan that states “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. This makes a very bold statement that when left alone guns in and of themselves don’t and will not cause any harm. Which if anyone who is not truthfully reading this statement correctly will fail to see what this statement means. Anti gun control supporters believe with proper training and understanding and gun owner responsibility will ease the minds of the American public and will keep the public silent. But when school shootings such as Columbine, public shootings as with the movie theater shooting, and homeland terrorist attacks such as gangs are on the front page of every news paper and all over the media, it makes it hard for a person who doesn’t know much about guns to support the no gun control agenda. The other side of the argument that is for gun control has very good persuasive points on why we need gun control here in America. The claims of no more automatic weapons are sold, no more loss of life, and no more suffering are held with the highest of regards. Books with titles like, “Guns Don’t Die, People Do”, give strong reasons why here in the US we should ban not just...
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...America’s Decline: Banning Prayer in Public Schools Raymond Ballou PHI 200 Instructor: Michelle Loudermilk 3/31/12 America’s Decline: Banning Prayer in Public Schools A very controversial widespread issue today is the right to have volunteer prayer in public schools. This issue has been constantly debated for years whether prayer in public schools should be permitted. For more than 200 years, public schools were allowed voluntary prayer. Our forefathers built our nation on Christian values. The first English settlers came to America for the right to freedom and to worship God in their own way. In Colonial America, most schools were run by the churches. The first settlers in America felt that it was important that children learned to read so that they could read their Bibles. Prayer has been a part of our culture as long as there have been public schools; this helped the students develop morals and learn right from wrong. School prayer was a natural part of the settler’s school life. There is a casual relationship between taking prayer out of our schools and the downfall of our society today. The basic dispute over this issue is that it violates The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and the separation of church and state. The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States gives every individual the same rights. One right is the constitutional protection for the free exercise of religion. The second right is prohibition of the establishment...
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...Psychoanalytic Personality Assessment Arnette M. Brown Psychology of Personality PSY/250 August 2, 2010 Mark Shen Introduction The psychoanalytic view holds that there are inner forces outside of your awareness that are directing your behavior. Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Alfred Adler influenced psychology and psychiatry with their psychoanalytic theories leaving a big impact on modern psychology. As the writer I will compare and contrast the theories of these three gentlemen and decide which of these theories in which I agree and which of these theories I do not agree with. I will also describe the stages of Freud’s theory and explain characteristics of personality using these components. I will explore the uses of Freudian defense mechanisms using real-life examples. Many pioneering concepts were proposed by these men and attempts are still being made to prove their theories. These men changed the world with their theories of the human mind. Freud, Jung, and Adler believed that parenting and childhood development played a large role in the shaping of a personality and all three men believed that dreams and daydreams played an important role as well. Another similarity in each of their beliefs was the impact that the unconscious mind played in psychoanalytic analysis. Freud’s work is now the most recognized and most heavily cited in all of psychology and referenced in humanities as well. Freud put a lot of emphasis on sexuality...
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...Thinkers: Steven Spielberg & Grace Hopper Famous thinkers can come from all walks of life and can be from our generation and others. Reaching goals can be done in many ways. The similarity famous thinkers is that they are all share creative minds and are all creative thinkers. Creative ideas are the foundation of creative process (Goodman & Fritchie, 2011). Famous thinkers base their ideas on searching for solutions to problem, need, or the way others think or view specific issues. When I think of famous thinkers a vast number of people come to mind. Two thinkers that genuinely stand out to me are Steven Spielberg & Grace Hopper. My article will provide more details on the influence and accomplishments of these great thinkers. Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg had an early start on his career, even as a child he was an amateur filmmaker. Spielberg became an Academy Award-winning director and one of the youngest television directors. His opportunities became endless after the television film, Duel in 1972, which landed him a chance to direct for the cinema. Steven Spielberg has brought unique contributions to society. Ten ways he has done this is 1. Helping to create the idea of the movie “blockbuster.” 2. Bringing back our sense of wonder 3. Helping to make robot uprising the new zombie apocalypse 4. Bringing back the Saturday morning serial 5. Co-founding a successful new studio, and helping bring back animated films 6. Preserving and shaping the memory of...
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...hear about them as they happened. These were mass shootings in very public places, schools. Between the years of 1996-2013 a total of 84 attackers committed 77 attacks on schools in 15 countries killing 502 students and teachers and wounding 496 others worldwide. (See Table 1) It is my belief that these attacks were orchestrated upon the most helpless in our society in order to incite mass fear and chaos! Each crime was perpetrated with both handguns and rifles, or what these days are referred to as “assault rifles.” The term “assault rifle” is yet another mainstream media scare tactic designed solely for fear because many believe that for a civilian to possess what looks like a military weapon they must intend to murder. Hatred of other people because of race or status and the belief that “Someone” is holding them back is truly what is at the heart of killing and that guns are just the tool of choice. I began with the school shootings because they are fresh, raw and are being used at the core of most gun arguments. “Save the Children” is about as popular as “Remember the Alamo” was more than 175 years ago. Children today need to be taught about the history of America the way that we were so they can be more respectful...
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