Individual responsibility - vs- dysfunctional society (term paper)?
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it's definitely a matter of individual responsibility.  what kind of world would this be if all the crimes were blamed on america's dysfunction?  it would be chaos 24/7 in america if people could blame their crimes on society.  but when it comes down to it, everything is a matter of individual responsibility.  ultimately, you make the choice to do what you do.  whether it's getting drunk, smoking a joint, beating up a gay person based on personal issues or killing someone because of God-only-knows what.  you make a decision to do what you do, society doesn't make you do anything.
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Communism:\nPROs:  Proclaims equal distribution of goods amongst all men\nCONs:  Humanity---men will become lazy if they do not have to work for things and the redistribution of goods is pu in the hand of a governemnt that will inevitably become corrupt.\n\nFascism:\nPros:  An absolute authority with far-sweeping powers and control of most major arenas of commerce can bring a nation back to its feet and keep an economy rolling along smoothly.\nCons:  Humanity--as George Orwell said:  Absolute power corrupts absolutely.\nCapitalism:\nPros:  Minimal governemnt intrusion into the public arena.  Businesses can operate freely and, theoretically, people are more mobile in the social hierarchy.\nCons:  Humanity---in the above two instances it was the corruption of the governemnt, but now it is the corruption and possible cold-heartedness of the capitalists.  It basically becomes a second feudalism where fieifs are granted based on money and the serfs can do little to escape their status.
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I concur.  I feel like adherence to a prescribed moral principle removes personal responsibility.  I've felt that way (only perhaps less eloquent!) since I was eight.  If you are a good person because you adhere to the Bible / church values unquestioningly, you aren't actually a good person.  You are only truly good if you are the person choosing your own behavior.  I think fundamentally it boils down to manners - in greater or lesser dimensions.
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Yes "The French Revolution brought many changes among all four social classes" is an excellent thesis. It clearly states what your paper will be about. The only thing i would change is the fact that you need to be more specific, for example state what the four social classes are.
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People get the government they deserve.  Hobbes suggested that the totalitarian Leviathan is the natural tendency for poltical organization IF the population is afraid to sacrifice themselves for something better.  A benevolent dictator can make rapid improvements to quality of life in a society, but the citizens become lazy and the next generation is inevitably a tyrant.
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I am having a hard time telling the difference is political correctness, welfare, social security, education, and peace the agenda of liberals or conservatives.... I think this country spends way to much time taking care of those who don't take care of themselves.  I am a christian, but if I am going to have to conform to the new world order and become modern and culturally sensitive and think that I evolved from a monkey and that only the strong survive and the week perrish and sometimes its not natural for mothers to give birth because they have other plans then, why not just convert to that dogma and do what I want where I want any way I want as long as I can get away with it because the only person I have to answer to are the authorities and there not that good at their jobs. Why should anyone do anything if there is no design or purpose. If it is all just a big accident of a natural process beyond my control and there is no hope... Why not just live it up and get it over with and take drugs and life support til we can't be kept alive any longer. That is much more natural of a state for mankind in his polluted environment of advancement and civilization.\n\nthe only true christian civilization I have seen in a community in my life time is perhaps Amish people....  try to understand that
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I did a paper for a Marriage and Family class, "Divorce and the Effect it has on American Society." I did a questionnaire and gave it to divorced people, did some research on the Internet, and then used my personal experience. It was a 400 Level Soc class...my professor liked it very much...just come up with some good multiple questions and give it to an even number of people and use percentages...try this it worked for me
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Dear Jessie,\n\nAre you looking for thesis title suggestions?\n\nHow about:\n(a) The conquest and occupation of Iraq by America is neccessary/unneccesary for the stability of the Middle East.\n\n(b) The crisis at North Korea is a threat to the stability of the Asia Pacific region.\n\n(c) The bird flu is a health risk to the human race due to the advancement of global transportation capability.\n\n(d) Global climate changes are due to man-made influences on the environment.\n\n(e) China is now called the world's factory, can this stay true for the long term?
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Going against socially acceptable norms- such as:\n\n1. Why do we all face toward the door when we get into an elevator?\n2. Why do we NOT stare at weird people?\n3. What would happen if someone laughed in a serious movie, such as Schindler's List? \n4. Why do some people find other things acceptable, and others don't? \n\nSociology is all about people interacting as a society. What makes these "unwritten rules" so unacceptable? Nature vs. Nurture could play a big part in this. \nHow you could organize your paper would be the following:\nIntroduction paragraph, Experiments/scenarios (such as the ones listed above) or "social norms", and then you could analyze possible solutions to the scenarios. Then your concluding paragraph, wrapping up whatever your main points are.\n\nI hope that helps- I know it's not always an easy thing when you have NOTHING to go on.
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OK, here it is in a brief synopsis:\n\n1984 warns of the terrifying dangers that man may create for himself in his quest for a utopian society.  It warns that people might believe that everyone must become slaves to the government in order to have an orderly society, but at the expense of the freedom of the people.
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A THOMAS JEFFERSON EDUCATION TEACHING A GENERATION OF LEADERS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY by Oliver Van DeMille.  It is mainly on the differences in choices of education that is available to parents for their children--mainly homeschooling.  It does have a lot on how public and private schools came about and why.  I think it may have some references for your paper.  I hope so anyways.
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1.     The first task of public education in a capitalistic society is to teach students to “respect authority.” This is done by placing a teacher or school bureaucrat in the role of the students’ parent or guardian, the authoritarian figure they are familiar with at home. Authority is imposed through a system of punishment for those who do not do what they are told and rewards for conformity. Strict adherence to stupid and trivial rules like always walking on the right side of the hallway teaches us to obey no matter how stupid the order is. We are taught that people should be able to tell us what to do. We are thereby prepared for the world of bosses, cops, politicians, and military officers ordering us around and treating us like we are stupid and inferior.   \n\n2.     The second task of public education in a capitalist society is to rob us of our individuality so that we will submit to what we are told to do and not pursue our own ideas, desires or talents. It does this by placing us in an environment with thousands of people our own age and using authority figures to label anyone who does not go along as worthy of scorn. This is the basis of what we know of as “peer pressure” which is essentially a system for teaching innocent children to value mediocrity and obedience and encourage them to harass anyone who doesn’t obey. Any deviation from society’s norm is immediately condemned, individuality becomes deviance. This makes us used to doing what everyone else does and blindly “going with the flow” for fear of stepping out of line and being persecuted. This forms the basis for the system of social control in the workplace where people submit to exploitation rather than being labeled a ‘troublemaker” and are encouraged to betray their fellow workers to the boss even if they work at a minimum wage job and can’t possibly benefit.  \n\n3.     The third task of public education in a capitalist society is regimentation. The Capitalist System looks at people as nothing more than a piece of meat: A resource whose whole purpose is to make money for them, buy their products and die in their wars. Modern industrial society is organized into work shifts which can run 24-hours per day making money for the rich. Industrial society is based on three ideas created by Fredrick Taylor, Henry Ford and Max Weber. Taylor had the idea of reducing the workers motions to that of a machine so that capitalists could maximize their profit in any given time period. Ford is credited with the assembly line so that all the workers would limit their robotic motion into a single meaningless task. Weber helped construct the modern bureaucracy in Nazi Germany to control large numbers of people with a militaristic organization. His ideas were adopted by capitalists around the world after World War II. For thousands of people to be able to work in this kind of work environment, they must be conditioned from a young age to live “by the clock.” Even in the service industry or other areas of work outside the factory these same principals of organization apply to varying degrees. The public school system conditions students to conform their desires to a strict schedule by imposing punishments for those who don’t show up at school on time, go to class on time or complete assigned tasks on time. This prepares us for a life in the factory or office where “time is money.” To maximize the degree to which students can be exploited when they enter the work force, they must be conditioned to be nervous or guilty about not showing up on time and subject to the time schedule created by those in authority.  \n\n4.     The fourth task of public education under capitalism is to discourage dissent. This begins with the system by which our performance in school is evaluated. We are repeatedly graded based on our ability to repeat facts, figures and phrases regardless of where we understand their meaning. Rote memorization robs us of our ability
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how about concentrating on stories of the 'little people'.  ordinary, everyday folk who aren't famous or infamous, just folk doing what they know to do.  like a teacher, a baker, a grandmother, a street sweeper?   try to find beauty in the ordinaryness of life and tie it in with a faint reference to new york.  write your paper so that it is up to the reader to decide the 'value' of the life or dynamics of the person / place interface.  i think too many people are obsessed with ideas about ' dark', 'funniest', 'best', 'worst', . . . it is boring and meaningless.
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Funny, was this torn directly from your assignment or what?\nTry using wikipedia.com or google.\nI could write your paper, but not for free !\n:-)
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Well the main obsticles would be language,religion,culture acceptance and skills.Write a brief exposition of each of these obsticles.As a complete paper.
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It would help to know a little bit more about the assignment.  Any particular subject of civic mindedness?  Local, state, federal, or duty to fellow man, etc?
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well, i could write a book on the topic, but i think it can best be summed up in one word: power.\n\nsecond word: insecurity.\n\nsomeone who's insecure about their own personal power is a dangerous person.