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This paper discusses the concept of adult development explaining the role of work in adult development. It will focus on why people work and ones views on work or leisure.

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Before the start of the industrial revolution in the late nineteenth century, people of all ages inhabited the same social world. Children of all ages were educated together. Children and teenagers worked alongside adults on farms and in factories. Several generations often started one household. Neither children nor old people were set apart from the rest of society on the grounds that they were too young or too old to participate. By the middle of the twentieth century, age consciousness had emerged and people in developed cultures had become accustomed to thinking of life as a progression of distinct ages. Medical students had established pediatrics, the treatment of children and geriatrics, and the treatment of old people. Birthday celebrations had become a commercial enterprise.

Tags:adulthood, society, stereotype, work

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This paper studies muscle cars and their accompanying culture. It details the emergence of muscle cars in the 1960's and how the industry met the public needs, and their fall in the 1970's. It concludes that the enforcement of government emissions standards, combined with the switch to lower octane gasoline eventually lead to the death of the muscle car.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Industry
Individuality
Muscle Cars Emerge
The End of an Era
Conclusion
Interview

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"Car culture has been around as long as the automobile. For over 100 years the automobile has been an icon in American history and in people's lives. People have a long history of defining themselves by the car they drive, and judging others in this same way. What you drive can mean different things to different people, but it always means something. It reflects financial and social status, as well as personal expression. For people who wanted to be thought of as sexy, bold, and fast the muscle car was the answer. After the end of World War II, Americans became obsessed with the automobile. Suddenly, cars become more than just tools, more for just transportation they became identity to some people. People were what they drove. "It was only natural that such a state of devotion to an inanimate/animate object should lead to a prominent sub-culture of super-fanatics." (Anselmi, 1984) That love of the automobile became the catalyst for securing its place into pop culture and ultimately what has been the driving force behind the auto industry ever since. The muscle car was conceived by this driving force."

Tags:car, culture, muscle, hot, rodders, 1960's, 1970's, government, automobile

Abstract
This paper uses three articles, "Parental Divorce and the Well Being of Children: A Meta Analysis" (Amato & Keith, 1991), "Children's Adjustment to Divorce" (Amato, 1993), and" Effects of family Structure, Family SES, and Adulthood Experiences on Life Satisfaction" (Louis & Zhao, 2002) to demonstrate the effect of divorce on children, from their adjustment to the divorce, to their well-being after the divorce, to the effects that divorce have on the children of divorce when they are grown.

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"The first article, "Parental Divorce and the Well Being of Children: A Meta Analysis(Amato and Keith, 1991). s the name of the study indicates, the Meta analysis involved 92 studies. These studies, according to the article, "compared children living in divorced single-parent families with children living in continuously intact families on measures of well being." In this study, the Independent variable was whether or not the child's parents were divorced or not, and the child's well being was the dependent variable. The study wanted to look at whether or not the well-being of children suffers as a result of divorce. Therefore, the null hypothesis of this study was, "If children do not suffer, in terms of well being, from the divorce of their parents, then there will be no difference between the well being scores of children with married parents and the scores of children with divorced parents" (Amato & Keith, 1991)."

Tags:Amato, Keith, Louis, Zhao, well-being, Adjustment

Abstract
Promoters of globalization by large consider the knowledge and practices of local indigenous people of no use and impractical in the construction of a truly global contemporary world, hence they are marginalized. This is a comprehensive paper on how far the role of the indigenous peoples in sustainable development has been recognized. It starts by observing the threats that they face in the 20th century. By using their identity and their historical role on the management of the nature as the basis, it then analyze the development of legalized rights as the form of worldwide recognition for their importance. For this purpose, the highlights of ILO Convention No. 169, the Rio Declaration, Agenda 21 and the Convention on Biological Diversity are introduced and studied.

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"Such problems for the indigenous peoples actually have always been there, but the 19th and 20th century international law "almost consigned them to oblivion". This is rather ironic as according to the United Nations there are more than 300 million indigenous people in over 70 countries, in almost every climatic zone from the remote Arctic region and the deserts Africa to the Pacific Islands and the rainforests of Asia and South America. Meanwhile, most of them live in the "Biological 17", the seventeen nations that are home to more than two-thirds of the Earth's biological resources. Of the nine countries in which 60 percent of human languages are spoken, six are also hosts to a wealth of plant and animal species that are not available elsewhere. The extinction of some of the world's languages also means the loss of ecological knowledge."

Tags:UN, General, Assembly, Will, Kymlicka, Aboriginal

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"More cultures accept monogamy than that accepts polygamy. Great majorities of people are monogamous, and the other forms of marriage are usually modified in a monogamous direction; that is, the people are more likely to be in a monogamous relationship in cultures where polygamy is practiced. Many times when in a polygamous relationship, there is an almost monogamous relationship between the spouse and the first or most favored mate."

Tags:marriage, mormons, multiple, polyandry, polygyny

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Somewhere in the world, each day, a new McDonald?s fast-food restaurant opens up. The total number of McDonald?s today far surpasses the total number of all fast-food restaurants in the U.S. in 1945. McDonald?s has gone from a single hamburger stand in San Bernadino, California to an international web of thousands of outlets. Factors less obvious to Americans than relatively low cost, fast service, and good taste have no doubt contributed to its success. Americans devotion to this fast-food chain rests in part to uniformities associated with its outlets: food, architecture, environment, and utterances. Their method of advertising even plays up its ritual-like features. To a certain extent, in consuming the products and propaganda of McDonald?s, Americans are not just eating but experiencing something comparable to participation in a religious ritual.

Tags:religious, ritual, meal, sandwich, American, culture, restaurants

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This paper describes how and why the global human population has become unevenly distributed essentially due to the constraints of the physical geography of the world. It includes reasons such as climatic conditions, local relief, availability of resources and fertility of the land. The paper includes many statistical examples and referenced diagrams.

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"With the population of the world now standing at 6,214,891,000 people, the distribution of them around the globe is increasingly becoming an issue. In some countries population densities are becoming almost unsustainable. For example, Bangladesh now has 2,043 people per square mile, and with the global population growing 79 million people per year, it is likely that this overcrowding is likely to continue, with severe strain resulting on the natural environment. However, the total land area of the world is 148,940,000 square kilometers, which means that if the population of the world were to be entirely evenly distributed then the population density on average would stand at 42 people per square kilometer. Therefore, even from these simple calculations, when compared to the population density of Bangladesh, it is clear that it is the uneven population distribution that has caused this large range in the population densities around the world."

Tags:Amazon, basin, urbanization, demographics

Abstract
This paper first studies the history of gender roles with regard to communication and how in the past decades with the openness of society and globalization, it has become more "acceptable" for women to take leading roles in public speaking. The writer also looks at studies which examined the different way school children communicated in co-ed and non co-ed schools. Finally gender differences in the workplace are analyzed.

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"In the past, men and women's roles were strictly enforced by society. Men were expected to behave in a certain way and women were expected to in another way. No one would dare to violate these unwritten rules, or face extreme humiliation. In the case of women acting in a way that was traditionally a man's behavior, in some cultures, she could face physical punishment for her transgressions. When men violated social graces, often these transgressions were ignored. As women gained more status, these roles began to change, but the differences still existed. They were only expressed in a more subtle way. "

Tags:communication, verbal, language, skills, response, speech, male, female

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A thorough discussion of the history and pros and cons of cloning in general. This paper supports cloning humans to help humanity so long as the ability is not abused. Topics presented include natural clones and philosophical, physical, medical and various other issues.

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"The word "cloning" once brought to mind a vast array of ideas and thoughts often possible only within the context of science fiction, and yet our technology has now reached a stage in which possibility has become reality. In 1996, the first successful mammalian clone was created and named Dolly - a sheep born asexually who had the exact same genetic sequence as her mother (Hawker). Recently, in 2001 a human embryo was cloned and grew to the 6 cell stage before it died (Hill). These two events have raised an enormous amount of questions surrounding the ethics and benefits of cloning. Even though cloning exists in nature (Identical Twins, bacteria, most unicellular organisms, plants not from seeds, some algae and fungi, many Invertebrates are all natural clones), there is a sense of taking evolution and nature into our own hands by cloning most especially in context to cloning human beings (Hawker). There are strong arguments both for and against cloning, but I believe cloning is only feasible to help humanity so long as it is not abused."

Tags:anthropology, clone, clones, cloning, dolly, humanity, humans, infertility, medical, nature, nurture, science, sheep, technology, vitro, vs

Abstract
By exploring the idea of a nation state as an 'imagined community' this study tackles the difficult issue of national identity. It explores the cultural characteristics that contribute to the boundary construction of collective ideologies - territory, race, language and others. Drawing from a wide range of sources, the paper considers how crucial the feelings and perceptions of nationalism are to the objective existence of the state.

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"Anyone can declare a nation into existence." (Beissinger 1988: 173). There are many different definitions of a "nation". This essay aims to weigh up Benedict Anderson's definition of a nation as an "imagined community" and explore its claims. Criticisms of subjective definitions are investigated, in a brave attempt to consider other perspectives. A "nation-state" is separate from the "nation" under discussion; it refers to a political set-up with appropriate institutions involved in governance over a spatially bounded territory and the policing of it.

Tags:anderson, benedict, gellner, nationalism, state