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… way for many other nations to establish colonies there and by 1700 England held 13 colonies on the east coast. These included Pennsylvania,founded by William Penn, Massachusettes,favoured by the pilgrim fathers and Maryland, favoured by Catholics. …

… to church on Sunday. All around us there are athletes taking legal and illegal supplements. The abuse of these supplements has caused a problem that the sports world cannot ignore. Take the Olympics for example; it seems that every summer there is a…

… No matter where you are in the world bullying goes on. Everyone at one point in their life has or will be bullied in one form or another. Bullying comes in many different forms. There is verbal bullying, physical bullying, mental bullying and emotional…

… to the fact that males and females generally occupy unequal positions in the social hierarchy» (319). To define gender stratification even better, one could imply from the above that, it is a set of rights, obligations, expectations, and privileges…

… in the city, drug dealers scurry upon street corners, empty warehouses, and serve their product to cars with rolled down windows as if it were a drive through McDonalds. Bullets buzz like angry bees through the open streets and find homes in innocent…

… disorder, and before we attempt to look at the types of treatments used, and their effectiveness, it is important that we have an understanding of the basic theories behind the disorder. As its name suggests, in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD),…

… Emile Durkheim was born in France, and is widely regarded as the 'founding father' who put sociology on a professional footing in France in particular, and paved the way for this professionalisation to occur across the rest of Europe. He is now…

… 20th century; armed conflicts have increasingly targeted civilians and led to enforced migration. No area of the world has been spared - from Indonesia to Sierra Leone, Bosnia to Nicaragua - forming groups of people that we now called Refugees. …

… "personality" to identify the most obvious characteristic of a person, or to refer to a person's social skills. Personality theories try to explain why we think and what we think. Albert Bandura's Social-Learning Theory, Walter Mischel's Cognitive-Affe…

… and attitudes associated with expected of, men and woman (Farley 189). These so called learned traits are more often known as gender roles, which can be defined as roles that society expects people tp play, according to their sex ( Farley 189). Each…