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Essay Instructions: Please keep sections separate and questions separate. This is research and not an essay. Some may require longer answers than others.

PART 1
1. Why is the incest taboo found in every society?

2. Explain how the gay rights movement is a civil rights movement.

3. What is the difference between sex and gender?

4. Why do you think the abortion controversy is often so bitter? Will we ever find a middle ground as a nation?


Part 2
1. What is social control? Give at least 4 examples of how social control has affected you today. (18 year old)



2. Talk about Stanley Milgram’s shock experiment; what were the overall conclusions in relation to obedience and social control?




3. Describe informal and formal social control.




4. What is deviance and who decides what is deviant and what is not? Have you taken part in an act of deviance? How did you know it was deviant?





5. Talk about the war on drugs; what is deviant, what is not, who decides, and how can the “war” itself be seen as deviant?




6. Does the death penalty serve as a deterrent to crime? If so, why are crime rates till so high in the US?


Part 3

1. What is slavery and in what ways and where does it still exist today?



2. Talk about the class system in the United States, what class do you perceive you belong to, why, what kind of chances of mobility do you have in this system?



3. Discuss Karl Marx and his views of class differentiation.


4. Is stratification universal; use examples from the functionalist and conflict views.


5. Talk about poverty and it’s impact in our culture; also discuss how our current economic situation benefits some while depriving others.

Part 4
Is the War on Drugs "working" for our society? How is it? How is it not? What are key issues that surround this issue? Please watch the following videos and make comments that address it as well (There is adult language in this video, be advised) http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/american-drug-war/

Essay Instructions: The prompt that was given to us is as follows:

12) How Close is Too Close: What is Wrong With Incest?
There are many definitions of incest and they vary from one culture to the next. In fact, some cultures condone brother-sister marriage amongst certain members of their society. Select at least three different cultures with varying degrees of incest taboos. Identify the definition and objective of the incest taboo, and how rigidly it is enforced. What are the potential advantages and disadvantages of incest taboos (be sure to explain and identify how genes and traits are passed on or inherited)? Is incest necessarily dangerous? How do American ideals of incest compare to the other cultures you examine.

*Only scholarly resources, journal articles, books, etc. (ex American anthropoligist). No web resources unless it fall under the above categories. No extensive quotes. Bibliography required. THANK YOU!!!

Essay Instructions: Using MLA styling guide . Write a research paper of no less than 5 pages . Using general topic to create your own topic .Demonstrate how Rita Dove expoits Sophicles "Oedipus the king to create The Darker face of the Earth" .The topic I choose incest in comparaison "Oedipus the king" and The Darker face of the Earth"
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Essay Instructions: You will need to select 5 of the following questions and write your essay answers based on the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Each should be about 2 pages double-spaced or 1 page sigle spaced. However, quality is my primary concern. Spelling, grammar, etc. count.

1. What kinds of solitude occur in the novel (for example, solitude of pride, grief, power, love, or death), and with whom are they associated? What circumstances produce them? What similarities and differences are there among the various kinds of solitude?

2. What are the purposes and effects of the story's fantastic and magical elements? How does the fantastic operate in the character's everyday lives and personalities? How is the magical interwoven with elements drawn from history, myth, and politics?

3. Why does Garcia Marquez make repeated use of the "Many years later" formula? In what ways does this establish a continuity among past, present, and future? What expectations does it provoke? How do linear time and cyclical time function in the novel?

4. To what extent is Macondo's founding, long isolation, and increasing links with the outside world an exodus from guilt and corruption to new life and innocence and, then, a reverse journey from innocence to decadence?

5. What varieties of love occur in the novel? Does any kind of love transcend or transform the ravages of everyday life, politics and warfare, history, and time itself?

6. What is the progression of visitors and newcomers to Macondo, beginning with the gypsies? How does each new individual and group affect the Buendias, the town, and the story?

7. What is the importance of the various inventions, gadgets, and technological wonders introduced into Macondo over the years? Is the sequence in which they are introduced significant?

8. What is Melquiades's role and that of his innovations, explorations, and parchments? What is the significance of the "fact" that Melquiades "really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude"? Who else returns, and why?

9. When and how do politics enter the life of Macondo? With what short-term and long-term consequences? Do the social-political aspects of life in Macondo over the years parallel actual events and trends?

10. What types of women (from Ursula and Pilar to Meme and Amaranta Ursula) and what types of men (from Jose Arcadio to Aureliano Babilonia) are distinguishable? What characteristics do the men share? What characteristics do the women share?

11. What dreams, prophecies, and premonitions occur in the novel? With which specific characters and events are they associated, and what is their purpose?

12. When, how, and in what guises does death enter Macondo? With what consequences?

13. On the first page we are told that "The world was so recent that many things lacked names." What is the importance of names and of naming (of people, things, and events) in the novel?

14. How do geography and topography -- mountains, swamps, river, sea, etc. -- affect Macondo's history, its citizens' lives, and the novel's progression?

15. What aspects of the Buendia family dynamics are specific to Macondo? Which are reflective of family life everywhere and at any time? How do they relate to your experience and understanding of family life?

16. How does Garcia Marquez handle the issue and incidence of incest and its association with violence beginning with Jose Arcadio and Ursula's marriage and the shooting of Prudencio Aguilar? Is the sixth-generation incest of Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta Ursula inevitable?