Decriminalization

In the years following the dramatic events of the Second World War, America went through several social upheavals. The first change came when GI’s returned from the battlefield, wanting to go back to the normal life they had previously upheld. This need for a return to traditional gender and societal roles led to an appraisal of mass conformism and to make matters worse, a new suburban class was on the rise. Around the same time, literary and cultural activists broke the mold of rampant…

I found the topic of “medical tourism” odd and compelling. It made me wonder why Americans would travel all the way to Mexico for supposedly cheaper healthcare. Either Mexico’s healthcare is extremely cheap or the United States’ healthcare is extremely expensive to justify travelling that far for a dentist appointment and for that to be economically viable. I suspect it’s a mixture of the former and the latter, although honestly the violence between drug cartels in Mexico would make me too…

In order for the government to truly consider it a tool to be used by the citizens of a given country, the laws must reflect the decision-making possibilities that any Canadian adult is entitled to make. With tobacco and alcohol, the government has provided regulation in a previously unruly set of industries in order for adults to make informed decisions. Sadly this has not been the case for recreational drugs. The laws currently in place restrict the use of recreational drugs. In this paper,…

Communist imagery and text appear in two contexts in Cuba, one, satirical and the other, its intended “proper” use in political propaganda. This essay will juxtapose the use of word and image in propaganda art of the Cuban revolution and the post-socialist conceptual art of the 90s that emerged in indirect and sometimes overtly direct response to it. Due to the regime’s strict control over the media, art has become one of the only spaces where critique of the government can sneak through, mostly…

(Carp, 1998) Rather than split up families, child welfare reformers worked to prevent the factors which caused a family to break up. Reforms resulting from these movements included establishment of the U.S. Children's Bureau in 1912, creation of juvenile courts, and enactment of Mother's pensions. It was around this time that social work become professionalized, as case workers were utilized in family preservation and prevention. Social workers denounced unregulated adoption, and lobbied for…

Canada, like many other countries, embraces a liberal democracy social system, putting an importance on the promotion of civil liberty, equality, and community. Our country is widely viewed as an exemplar of liberalism, which strongly emphasizes choice and autonomy as fundamental principles for each individual. The state promotes the ideology that an individual’s life belongs only to them, that each individual has the right to their own means and ends, along with the right to make decisions,…

Robert Milton’s Anomie Strain Theory is centered in the belief that society has a dominant and accepted set of norms/values and goals and those values direct us in the acceptable avenue of achieving said goals. Milton adapted his theory from Durkheim, who theorized that strain was due to a breakdown of society’s inability to control the goals and aspirations. Milton’s tweak on Durkheim states that social strain is created when the gap between socially approved goals and one’s ability and/or…