Society & Culture Essays and Term Papers

Racial profiling occurs when the police target someone for investigation on the basis of that person's race, national origin, or ethnicity (www.washington.com). Examples are the use of race to determine which drivers to stop for minor traffic violations…

you feel not something based on sex, but based on emotions and feelings towards someone who feels the same. I have become aware that I was absolutely sure I was gay a long time before I knew what the word meant. My earliest memory on this was from…

That is the statement of 65% of gay and lesbian adolescents today. Attending high school as a gay or lesbian is like going to war. There is always the possibility of physical and mental abuse. Not only do these teens have to endure abuse at school,…

produced as many trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials as "The Scottsboro Boys" trial. The irony of it is... the crime never occurred. The case was about an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on a Railroad freight…

and first realized I was gay. Being attracted to the same sax was not something I was proud of; so I didn't tell a soul. I did not understand why being gay was such a big deal to everyone. I can recall going to school and hearing trash talk about…

discriminated against, treated unfairly, and to be denied the right to engage in the social institution of marriage which is unreasonable due to the fact that homosexuality is something that you are born with, it is not a choice that a person decides…

the group they hang around, and just for the color of their skin. Sometimes a person might not see anything wrong with his appearance or the people he hangs around. But no matter what he sees himself as, looking through another's eyes is totally…

any "two persons", not a man and a woman, not two men or two women, just two persons. Everyone has the Right to equality and not to be descriminated upon, therefore people should not be judged upon because of their sexual orientation. Should…

sex marriages should be legal! Topic: Same sex marriages should be legal General Purpose: Too persuasive Specific Purpose: Too persuasive people that same sex marriages should be legal. I mean love is love (love is blind!) Thesis statements: To…

openly widespread than ever, yet many still view it as something new and strange. Shakespeare wrote of cross-dressing in the Twelfth Night and the famous poet Walt Whitman was a homosexual. So, why does society put an emphasis on homosexuality as being…