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Darby Leaf Intro to Soc 1/31/17 The word culture is a term that many people use to rationalize behaviors and represent all sorts of people and their different patterns. It is the sum of social concepts that humans recognize including our behaviors, beliefs, and practices. Culture depends on the many different influences that it may encounter. One reason that culture may differ from place to place could be related to environmental changes that are associated with a specific area. Sometimes it…

Two health promotion initiatives’ for Injury Road Safety & Transport (RTA) have advertised a numerous amount of health promotion initiatives. These campaigns’ help engage the community to change and become aware of unsafe behavior on the roads. The two health promotions this essay will focus on are Don’t rush (How sorry will you be) which aims to inform people about speeding and the consequences it could bring & Double demerits (Think twice before breaking the rules) encourages drives to…

Taxi company Uber has not been on the good side of news lately. It is facing some controversy over its standards. Anybody, regardless of taxi license or not, can be a driver, which begs the question; Is Uber safe? "Well, [Uber] certainly is a lot safer than most cab companies," Rachel Formanek, senior said. The controversial cab company has stated that they, "try to make the best experience for the passenger and the driver in the safest way possible," but many would disagree. "Somebody…

During the course of my high school career, I have come to the realization that going through high school is like winning a golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Everyone has a different experience with their golden ticket. Some are repeat winners and some leave the experience too soon. I believed that when I started high school, all of my childhood fun would end. When I walked through the doors of Council Rock South High School South in the summer of 2013, I was unable to anticipate…

College students are involved in many risky behaviors throughout their college experience. Texting and driving is one of the most critical actions that college students partake in that affects everyone. It is a nationwide problem and is the cause of many vehicle casualties. There have been quite a few laws and regulations, as well as awareness, put into place to try and keep the number of casualties down. Although these are in place, students seem to ignore them and continue these behaviors.…

The right of confiscating a phone during a fight becomes permitted. The usage of electronics during school have increased because of the advancement of the cell phone. With society changing the way you use phones, it has also changed the ethics in school with using phones. Educators have the right to take a student’s phone away, if it interrupts the classroom. Overtime, cell phones became a big part in school, to cheating through a phone, to recording fights. The right of confiscating the phone…

pulls them apart. When your family are sitting down for dinner and they don't put their phones in the middle of the table that may cause them not be opened for a conversation. That is an example of social media and phones being more a bad service then a good service for all…

Speed is an important part of an MC's arsenal; though you don't need to rap as fast as Twista- who currently holds the world record for fastest rap- you do need to learn how to rap fast to improve your versatility. Here are several exercises you can do to improve your rappping speed: Follow LL Cool J's Advice. One of the greatest rappers of all time, LL once recorded a track where he rapped the alphabet while saying "the" in between each letter. So it came out like "The A-The B-The C- The D,…

“The Machine Stops” by E.M Forester depicts a very sad, yet all too possible future in which the human race is forced underground by some cataclysmic event. This might seem unrealistic now, but we rely on technology almost as much as the people in the story. There are many parallels between the dystopian future Forester portrays, and the present we live in now. For example, the main characters in this story are a mother and son, Vashti and Kuno. The only way that they communicate is through a…

An interesting sociological insight that I picked up from this article, is a relation between the Roughnecks and marginalized communities. While marginalized communities are clearly at a much larger scale, I noticed that the concept that defines a marginalized community, that they are a material legacy of injustice, can apply to the Roughnecks too. There were several reasons throughout the article as to why the Roughnecks were termed as more delinquent than the Saints, even though their…