Professions

Does planning need the plan?  Michael Neuma (American Planning Association)  Journal of the American Planning Association; Spring 1998; 64, 2; ABI/INFORM Global pg. 208   This article is kind of general discussion about planning and how planning need plans and it changed during times. From modern city planning’s started in Read more…

The Women’s Army Corps or the WAC was a section of the military specifically, as the name suggests, for women.  This branch of the army was formed in 1943 after much protestation by women that as Beatrice Hood Stroup, an avid Quaker and women’s rights activist said, “It wasn’t just Read more…

THE RIGHT TO LIFE The concepts of human rights and liberties came up particularly because of the experience of the Second World War. This can be seen from the preamble of the UN Charter;  “War, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold hardship to mankind”. And because of the Read more…

Lesbian and Gay ParentingI. SUMMARY OF RESEARCH FINDINGS Charlotte J. Patterson University of Virginia Like families headed by heterosexual parents, lesbian and gay parents and their children are a diverse group (Martin, 1993). Unlike heterosexual parents and their children, however, lesbian and gay parents and their children are often subject Read more…

In The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli presents a view of governing a state that isdrastically different from that of humanists of his time. Machiavelli believesthe ruling Prince should be the sole authority determining every aspect of thestate and put in effect a policy which would serve his best interests. Theseinterests were Read more…

Practically nothing is known of Nicolo Machiavelli before he became a minorofficial in the Florentine Government. His youth, however, was passedduring some of the most tumultuous years in the history of Florence. He wasborn the year that Lorenzo the Magnificent came to power, subverting thetraditional civil liberties of Florence while Read more…

Women have been an inspiration for many writers for centuries. They have been celebrated as symbols of beauty, affection and strength, and we usually connect them with motherhood and raising children. The works about women very often reveal not only lives of women, but they also describe the times and Read more…

Excellence is Your Best Weapon for Fighting RacismThe Bible says that “the poor will always be with us.” An similar statement isthat racism will always be with us. So, the question is, “What should we doabout it?” There are many ways to fight racism: you might march, protest,complain, or beg Read more…

PART B. I previously outlined that every teacher is a theory builder, and all teachers desire to make changes to, or fine-tune their teaching methods. There are some areas of strength, limitations, and areas of concern, involved in this theory. Areas of strength As Schon observed, “teachers do know more Read more…

In the present, sometime in the second half of the twentieth century—we might call this “real time,” for short—Connie Ramos is an unlikely heroine: an unfit mother, previously committed to a mental hospital for abusing her four-year-old daughter, Angelina, who was subsequently taken from her for adoption. The so-called caring Read more…

American women have passed a long way to the social, economic, and political status they have these days. Throughout the previous centuries American women repeatedly reminded the government that changing life conditions transformed women’s role in the society, and new laws were required to reflect the new situation. Protection of Read more…