Sociology

) I live in Rochester, MI. My local community is a quiet, humble neighborhood. My street is paved – although, many streets around me are still gravel. The homes in my subdivision are fairly small, they’re probably between 1,200 to 2,800 square feet. I have a wide variety of people in my neighborhood. The neighbors across the street are a middle aged couple, I think the guy owns a plumbing company. My next door neighbor is a 30-40 year old single guy, who travels the globe. I’m not sure what his…

Education Staying home, reading textbooks, and lounging in pajamas, all of these things sound like a great idea. Homeschooling is becoming more and more popular with an estimated 2,000,000 children being homeschooled during the 2010 conventional school year. Many parents are taking on the role of the teacher in a home schooled environment. There are several reasons for the growing popularity of homeschooling such as, religion, test scores, performance, and overall learning achievements. Though…

Family Guy is the show I have picked for my final. This show is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth Macfarlane and is based off stereotypes and negative depictions of almost every aspect of life. It is centered on the griffin family that consists of the parents, Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their talking dog, Brain. The Griffin’s are a model family but each member is complex, different, and yet noticeable individual. The whole show resides in Quahog,…

Imagine a world with an absence of individuality, war, and awareness of history managed by a committee called the Elders.This is an accurate depiction of the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry. Which when compared to our society the novel’s society appears very different, however there are many similarities as well. For instance both societies use history as a way to learn and as an example. In our society, history has taught us many things, including to give all individuals equal rights than…

Principally, over 47000 people have been killed with an approximately 70000 displaced as a result of the criminal violence in Mexico which began in 2007. Analysts claim that as of 2012 more people have been left homeless due to the hard stand taken by the government on the war on drugs campaign. Drug lords who have felt threatened by the Mexican government’s clean-up process have opted to retaliate in the only way known to them which is violence (Watt & Zepeda 2012). Arguably, critics explain…

Rosemary’s Baby: The Demonization of Motherhood and Patriarchal Dominated Pregnancy By Chelsea Domaleski Introduction to Cinema Studies Paper 01 “Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers.” Observes Iranian lawyer, former judge and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi. “Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother’s home.” Attitudes surrounding pregnancy and childbirth have changed throughout history, while still…

The Blind Side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvqj_Tk_kuM The example I used portrays social influence. Social influence is when an individual or a group of people change your attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors about one or more people. My example connects to social influence because Michael changes the lives of Tuohy family. The movie shows the cultural and racial differences between Michael and Tuohy family where there are misunderstandings and how Michael and Tuohy’s overcome those…

The Great Depression was a tragic term of the 20's-30's, however, with the depression came the Dust Bowl otherwise known as the dirty thirties due to its dirty and dusty storms. The Dust bowl was hard on most farmers as many of them depended on their crops as their main source of food and money. With the Dust Bowl came droughts which killed crops, forcing the farmers into poverty. The dust washed out all life that had once flourished in the fields of the farms. Without the proper crops the…

The SS Exodus 1947 was a ship that carried Jewish emigrants from France to British Mandatory Palestine on July 11, 1947. Most of the emigrants were Holocaust survivors who had no legal immigration certificates for Palestine. Following wide media coverage, the British Royal Navy seized the ship and deported all its passengers back to Europe. In the same period, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine visited Palestine to assess the conflict between the Jews and Arabs, trying to find a…

This article details the history of imprisoning women from the late-1800’s through 1989. Prior to twentieth century, women who committed crime were seen as needing moral correction and protection and were placed in reformatories specifically for women and run by women. Their offending was generally viewed as particularly heinous since women’s offending violated social norms of femininity in a patriarchal society. A shift in the thinking about women’s offending occurred in the latter part of the…