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    Gerald Sandusky

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    In 1977, Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky established The Second Mile in State College, Pennsylvania. Sandusky was a former assistant football coach for the Penn State Nittany Lions. He was a prominent community leader who founded the charity to help disadvantaged and troubled children. With this role, Sandusky was constantly in contact with young boys and young college men. This program progressed to a statewide charity whose honorary board members included Paterno and other sports figures. Sandusky was…

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    Migration Miracle

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    Wright Mills’ “sociological imagination (Mills 1959).” Through his theory, Mills emphasized that allows an individual to take a step back and examine the external, societal factors that influence his or her life. In this sense, the field work that Holmes…

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    The concept and idea of the family are constantly changing. Different researchers have attempted to develop an ideal definition of the family. Social life changing makes family complicated to be analyzed. Numerous researchers such as Murdock have defined family, but have not been successful. Success lacks when groups and people in society are excluded from the definition. Murdock defines family as “It includes adults of both sexes, at least two of whom maintain a socially approved sexual…

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    Every day there is something unique and novel that human beings can learn from unfamiliar and even familiar things that take part in their daily life. Most people approach the world with a beginner’s mind, approaching the world with preconceptions, assumptions, and opinions, because of personal experiences acquired during their lifetime. It has become human nature to think in a habitual way, in which events, thoughts, and feelings are preoccupying the individual’s mind, which in turn is…

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    Gender Roles In Trifles

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    Susan Glaspell Wrote Trifles to open a controversial subject that was over looked by society during the 1900s; the repression of women, which is depicted throughout the play. Glaspell use of stereotypes, and symbols to distinguish the roles of genders during the period the play was written in. The female characters in the Trifles are the main victims to stereotypical implication of how society viewed women. The drama shows that women were seen as inferior and even a 2nd class citizens compared…

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    In Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury Of Her Peers,” Mr. Wright is found dead in his home, strangled by rope, and his murder framed as if his wife, Mrs. Wright is not involved in any way. His neighbor, Mrs. Hale, and the sheriff’s wife, Mrs. Peters, go over to help search for cues to help solve the case. The main goal of the men is to convict Mrs. Wright, commonly referred to as Minnie Foster in the past, of murdering her husband Mr. Wright. The lawyer assisting in the search says if they can find any…

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    convict Minnie Wright. She argues that the story’s justice system is unjust because of the lack of representation of women in the system, the lack of consideration for Mrs. Wright’s side of the story, and the overall absence of empathy that she believes is crucial to sentence someone. While it can be agreed that men held little regard for the opinion of women in the setting of this story and that Mrs. Wright was justified in killing Mr. Wright, would the story be different had it been…

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    In 1953 Dieter Rams Successfully took a position of an Architect in Otto Appel company who became the main representative of the ‘’international style’’ in Frankfurt. His first job was to practice architecture for 2 years. One day, Rams' friend told him about in-house architect position in Braun company. Dieter Rams didn't know a thing about this company, but he decided to apply for a job anyway. The young architect had no clue that his work would be crucial for design history and that it…

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    C Wright Mills begins his essay “The Sociology Imagination” by looking at the contrast that exists between the “everyday worlds’” that common people are aware of, and where there are visions and their powers limited by the close-up scenes of job, neighborhood, family, and structure of continent-wide societies’. Mills defines the rare abilities that some have to see themselves in relation to the larger social processes and devices. People seem to be in a series of traps, and they cannot overcome…

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    A common rural village in 1954... Once a chain of horrible assault and murder cases targeting womenfolk occur in this secluded and peaceful countryside, the village gets terrified at strange panic called 'serial murdering incidents’ detective Paul has neighboring hoodlums assembled and urges them to confess to recent crimes, but fails to get any remarkable outcome. By means of neighbor circumstances and personal connections, detective Paul, often believe in his own sense to identify who is bad…

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