CHURCH, STATE AND SEPARATION
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This 6-page paper focuses on questions regarding religious tolerance and church-state issues. Specifically, the paper questions if some religions are more tolerant of democracy than others, and if there is such thing as church in a liberal democratic government. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: MTchusta.rtf

Civil Rights Movement: Howard Zinn
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A 5 page paper which discusses the book "A People's History of the United States, 1492 to Present," as it addresses the Civil Rights Movement. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAzinn.wps

Class and American Society
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A 3 page overview of the manner in which class affects various aspects such as housing of our lives as Americans. The author contends that that those that find themselves in the lower echelons of society are not always the derelicts of society. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: PPsocCls.rtf

Class and Ethnic Differences in Health in the UK
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This 5 page paper considers the causes of the differences in heath between different social classes and ethnic groups. The paper considers the causes such as lack of social and cultural capital, less income, environmental and structural disadvantages and barriers to accessing healthcare. The statistics quoted are from the UK, however, the theories are universal. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
Filename: TEhealuk.rtf

Class Mobility in Britain
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This 5 page paper looks at the definition of class and then uses it to explain intra and intergenerational class mobility in the United Kingdom. After the consideration of the causes the paper moves on to suggest some possible solutions to movement in order to either reduce the movement, better the movement or eliminate it all together so everyone is equal. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
Filename: TEclassmo.wps

CODE OF THE STREET:ELIJAH ANDERSON
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This 6 page paper gives an overview and critique of Elijah Anderson's book, Code of the Street. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: MBeanson.rtf

Cognitive Dissonance and Racism
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A 9 page research paper that investigates the relationship between cognitive dissonance and racism. The writer argues that if people's true feelings do not match their outward show of non-racist attitudes, it sets up a situation in which cognitive dissonance would propel individuals into, at least privately, rationalizing their any racist attitudes, which would ultimately serve to keep racism alive and well in a covert manner, and that the two research studies profiled support this contention. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khcogdis.rtf

Color, Societal Privilege, and Discrimination
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A 7 page discussion of the continuing discrimination which occurs in the United States in regard to race and color. Presents a brief historical basis for the problem and contends that discrimination is both an intercultural and intracultural phenomenon. Suggests that these factors result in an unfortunate mindset that has forced the non-white ethnicities and races further and further away from the white mainstream and are factors which gave us our popular concept of the term minority. It is also this mindset that has resulted in severe societal separation between black and white in particular. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PPracePr.wps

COMMUNICATION THEORY AND BOYZ N THE HOOD
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This 5-page paper attempts to match communications theories with the 1991 movie Boyz n the Hood, which deals with a group of African-American boys and their slow and painful march toward adulthood in the violence of Los Angeles' South-Central area. Theories touched upon here include interactional, uncertainty avoidance and symbolic interactional. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MTboyzco.rtf