Sociology

Josh Duggar is one of the nineteen children of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar. The Duggar family chose to homeschool all the children because they are conservative Christians with old fashion values. They wanted to limit the outside world for their children. Michelle and Jim Bob had been sheltering their children from so much, that they couldn’t really date, they had to go through a courtship. While having someone in their family chaperoning them, their parents have to make sure they like the guy…

10,000 B.C. What is thought to be your stereotypical cavemen and the discovery of fire period was well underestimated. Especially after the discovery of the world’s oldest temple, Göbekli Tepe, by German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt. Göbekli Tepe was an astonishing discovery to archaeologists regarding intellect about the Neolithic Revolution; due to the remarkable advancement and ability of foragers to build such a large monument in a period yet to develop metal tools. This Revolution took place…

How do our surrounding shape who we become In the book The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and Middle School the Worst Years of my Life by james patterson. The authors bring up the question How do surrounding shape who we are? Yes they do, here's why. In The Tipping Point one of the characters Mark Granovetter dose a study on getting a job. He when around asking people what there job was and how they got it. Here's what he found. “56 percent found their job threw a personal connection.” For…

The spectacle of human trafficking is one of the most serious challenges facing the international community today mainly because it represents a host of problems in areas including organized crime, migration, security, prostitution, health, and labor. Nonetheless, with the increasing processes of international migration, globalization, and development of new communication/information technologies, human trafficking has continued to increase significantly across the globe. Practices that existed…

Broken windows in other terms are known to be neglected communities which involves crimes. In 1969, Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist from Stanford University, ran a field study. Zimbardo abandoned two cars in two very different places: one in a mostly poor, crime-ridden section of New York City, and the other in a fairly affluent neighborhood of Palo Alto, California. Both cars were left without license plates and parked with their hoods up. After just 10 minutes, passersby in New York City began…

For this assignment, I watched the film “Pretty in Pink” (1989). Molly Ringwald acted as Andie Walsh, a poor teenager, who lived with her single father as a working class family. Throughout the movie, she struggles with the richer students at her snobbish high school treating her more like a misfit and less of an equal because she has less money. Andie holds her head high and brushes them off. Despite her opinion on people with money, she falls for Blaine, a “richie”. Her best friend, Duckie…

After the Paris bombings, Facebook users from the around the world overlaid their profile pictures with the colors of the French flag. This symbolic gesture that was created with the intent of expressing Facebook user’s sympathy to the victims and their families was quickly criticized by many people from across the world. Although the general population believes the Paris bombings are a tragedy, many believe that the recognition of the Paris bombings and not other tragedies displays Facebook’s…

The only heritage I could potentially even associate myself with, would be that of my father’s side of the family. My mother has never been a part of my life and I don’t know any information regarding her family or heritage. On my dad’s side there is still little information regarding when anyone from the family originally immigrated here. My grandmother was English having the maiden name of Winshester, and my grandfather was German and Native American carrying on my German last name Ensminger.…

Weston is an ecology and evolutionary biology major from Mansfield, Connecticut. As a former student at EO Smith High School, he came to UConn with a familiarity of campus and the surrounding area, which made the transition process less daunting for him. While he somewhat feared going to school so close to home, he is really making the most of what UConn has to offer and does not feel the need to head home frequently. He is studying ecology and evolutionary biology in the hopes of being able to…

1. “It is difficult to establish the true extent of child abandonment across the EU, as only some countries maintain national statistics regarding this phenomenon” (The University of Nottingham, UK, 2012). This is not just applicable to the EU, but also in most of the world these days. There are also some countries that not only know the true abandonment numbers, but also try to hide their abandoned children from the rest of the world. 2. A) “MOLISA’S 2012 report on abandonment found that care…