Throughout this Summer I have watched myself blossom into a more confident public speaker. Prior to this class, public speaking had never been a natural ability, and I was always afraid and full of anxiety before a speech. Speaking for more than a few minutes seemed to be an impossible task. Skills of knowing how to evaluate myself as a public speaker were absent, and […]

Throughout Oedipus Rex you are taken through Oedipus’ downfall. Oedipus’ biological parents were told by a prophet that their son would kill his father and marry his mother. With this in mind they sent their son with his feet tied together to die on a mountain side. The man taking the poor boy could not leave him so he gave him to a messenger from […]

A girl gazing in the mirror of her high school’s bathroom, feeling discouraged, unwanted, and self-conscious in her own skin. She looks at her self remembering earlier that day walking through the dull and lifeless hallways of her high school being called fat and ugly. A beautiful blonde, popular, and skinny senior walks by her, she whispers to her posse “Do you see how fat […]

In sociology, we make a general distinction between sexuality and gender. Sex is the biological trait that we use to determine whether or not a person is a male or a female, whether it be through chromosomes, genitalia, or some other kind of visual physical description. When society talks about the obvious differences between men and women, they are often drawing on sex rather than […]

Introduce the topic of sexuality (para)-   Horrocks (1997) points out in his book that sexuality encircles multiple aspects of human existence. Sexuality is then, not a uniform or simple phenomenon and is influenced by the interaction of psychological, biological, social, cultural factors and many more. Horrocks (1997), suggests that to try and understand or explain a definitive conclusion about sexuality seems impossible as sexuality […]

Sex education is more than just teaching about sexual behaviours, and can be a very beneficial class when taught correctly. Sexual education should begin at home, and parents should be the primary instructors of sex education for their children. However, teachers play a crucial role in a child’s understanding of health and sexuality. Through increased knowledge or resources available, different topics, increased comfort in teaching, […]

This paper will focus on many great programs focus on preventing teen pregnancy. This paper will attempt to describe the research surrounding sex education, mostly abstinence education and the importance of contraceptive. The discussion surrounding sex education will focus not only on current research findings, but also on the truth of the research that has produced different and often conflicting results. Finally, this essay will […]

Different theorists have attempted to explain why individuals submit themselves to an external power to form a society. Some philosophers argue that individuals submit themselves to an external power on a contractual basis through the mutual transfer of right since, primarily, everyone has a right to everything. On party, therefore, foregoes certain natural rights and so does the other so that both converge to limited […]

In understanding the similarities and difference in Philosophers John Locke and David Hume, the relevant terms of their arguments on how ‘ideas work,’ needs to first be taken into account. Both Philosophers being empiricists, believed that knowledge comes from our primary senses. John Lock believed that all ideas originated through experience; with his theory structured on how exactly ideas work, begins with ‘idea and object’. […]