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In the article, The Role of Reflection in the Effects of Community Service on Adolescent Development: A Meta-Analysis, researchers van Goethem, et al. explored the benefit reflection has on adolescents participating in community service. The act of reflection is when a person takes mindful approach to thinking the relationship between community service and possible psychological benefits (Ogden & Claus, 2006 as cited in van Goethem, et al., 2014). Reflection is important part in the process of…

Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers-The Story of Success, gives a unique view on the subject of success. Gladwell disparages the standard “rags to riches” stories, where an individual can rise to success solely because of individual merit and talent. He argues that one’s circumstances and external forces hold a significant amount of importance in regards to achieving success. Through Gladwell’s analysis on success stories such as Bill Gates and the Beatles, he deems a mixture of one’s upbringing,…

Disney exposed many boys and girls of many social classes to what they had to do to live out their wealthy “happily ever afters”. The poor damsels in distress were all gorgeous, and regardless of their social classes or ignorance,their handsome, wealthy men stepped in to marry them. Cue the end of the happy couple skipping to their white carriage, birds chirping, and the cursive, sparkling script “And they all lived Happily Ever After”. It is then that the guardians of the child will add…

Introduction The social changes that have taken place over the decades have led to a rising social phenomenon across all societies in the 21st century – the increasing trend of solo living. In his book Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone, Eric Klinenberg highlights that people today are choosing to live alone simply “because [they] can”. Rebelling against the traditional beliefs that social distance brings about concerns for the fabric of society, Klinenberg…

“A swing and a drive. It’s back, way back there, going, going, I don’t believe it! That ball is outta here!” Mickey Mantle is known as the father of baseball’s “Tape measure Home Run,” meaning the ball was hit so far, they needed a tape measure to figure out how far the ball actually went. Ending his career with 536 homers, many of them flew out of the ballparks helped him earn his many respects as one of the best players baseball has ever seen. Growing up, Mantle was born in an extremely poor…

Additionally to women, the Native Americans had contributed greatly to the culture and identity of the United States as a cohesive whole by serving as a collective force against their gradual defeat and eventual evacuation, by which they had served as a sort of guideline of morality for the American settlers. By leading battles and other such conflicts out of pure strength and will, by standing up for what had remained of their culture and identity at that point in time, the Native Americans…

Sociological Imagination enhances life’s quality I developed sociological imagination in my childhood from my experience of growing up in a multiracial family and in different European countries, often travelling to different Nations for vacation time or, in adulthood, for job reasons. It helped me to cope with racism, and gender discrimination. It provided me with conceptual tools to understand that, although different, we are all inter-connected and social structures influence our lives…

Celvin Pelaez-Gonzalez Salyer English 105 9 October 2017 The Struggle of Moving Class Systems America is not the greatest country in the world anymore. Poverty levels have risen. There have been a lot of mass shootings in the past year. School systems are corrupt and children are dropping out of school. America is number one in incarcerated people. All of this is due to families not being able to move up in the social class. Social mobility describes the movement or opportunities for…

The creation of the Internet and social media has permanently changed how people interact with one another. Millions of people log on to the internet daily for the purpose of interaction. Furthermore, according to Nils Smith, social media is now the most popular activity on the Internet. This twenty-first century phenomenon provides a great opportunity for churches to capitalize on this innovative technology, using it as a ministry tool for evangelism. While thousands of people use social…

Michael downloaded the Facebook application on his smart phone hoping to connect with some of his old friends. He successfully connected with many old friends from high school and the Army most of which he had not spoken with in years. Instantly, he became a huge fan of social media because of the connection. In fact, he used Facebook daily to track what his friends were doing and even share some old pictures and memories. Facebook tracks everything that users do their website. They track what…