Scholarships come in many forms and types. There are those that are offer to some sectors of society, specific intellectual capacity, athletic excellence, and more. Meanwhile, there are also scholarships that are specifically designed to minorities. Scholarships for minorities are made to keep those little portions of the population educated even if the students cannot afford to pay for their…
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Book Review For Collapse How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed
Coming on strong after the success of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond’s new book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is a tome of intriguing insight to the other side of the coin. While Guns, Germs and Steel examined how some societies thrived, due to their respective geographic and environmental endowments, this book examines…
World Parrot Refuge In Danger Of Being Shutdown
An immediate call for help is being issued to all local citizens of Vancouver Island. The World Parrot Refuge near Parksville is on the verge of being shutdown by Revenue Canada if the non-profit organization fails to pay $13,000 in owing employee deductions by July17th, 2006. Home to 500 orphaned parrots the World Parrot Refuge has taken on the challenge…
Steroid Abuse Is Earning Infamy For Steroids
Steroid abuse is the problem that is deep-entrenched in the society. There are volumes of people using steroid wrongly for wrong purposes, which is steroid abuse. Steroid abuse has contributed a great deal making steroids one of the most controversial drugs of recent times. There is a wide rage of anabolic steroids available in the forms of pills, injection, creams,…
Rethinking Criminology Jock Young
Jock Young is a very important theorist when it comes to criminology. He has been able to contribute in a variety of different ways when it comes to how we are able to define crime as a society and what the sociological elements may be when it comes to the criminal element in a region. Many of his papers have…
New Age Spirituality Inspirational Stories Part 34
From the subjective standpoint we may see that certain acts have a tendency to exalt and ennoble us, while certain other acts have a tendency to degrade and to brutalise us. But it is not possible to make out with certainty which acts have which kind of tendency in relation to all persons, of all sorts and conditions. There is,…
Gambling Addiction How To Get Rid Of It
There are many vices lurking in the society today. One of which is gambling. What’s even worse is the fact that people who are so hooked up with gambling have the tendency to get addicted to it. Addiction is a serious social issue that society is still trying to muster. With gambling addiction, gamblers just don’t lose money but life…
Self Improvement
No matter what part of society you operate in, mental health care is one of the most ignored issues that there is. I know this might seem like an excessive generalization, but think about it. If people are sick – even if they just have a minor cold – they often go to the doctor. At the very least, they…
Exploring The Basics Of Postmodern Criminology
One of the most current theories to be designed within the science of criminology would be those that adhere to the postmodern perspective. When it comes to postmodern criminology, one of the most basic beliefs and supposititious is that not only is crime the result of the social interactions in an area, which is the foundation of most conflict theories…
Coping With Autism Support For Families
Based on the U.S. Department of Education’s 2002 report to Congress on IDEA the number of students with autism in U.S. schools has increased by 1354% in an eight-year period from 1991-1992 to 2000-2001 (as cited by the Autism Society of America, 2003). This increase is almost fifty times higher than all disabilities (excluding autism), which has increased in the…