Essays Tagged: "college campuses"

Date Rape

by someone you know, it is known as "date rape." It occurs daily and is prevalent on virtually all college campuses across the nation and in cities all over the world. Date rape generally occu ... e occurrence of date rape. An example of date rape that occurs commonly, especially within a college campus, is when both the man and women are drunk. In an environment such as a college or uni ...

(4 pages) 214 0 3.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Hate Speech on College Campuses

Racism, sexism and homophobia is growing on college campuses around thecountry. In response, many universities have adopted policies that addres ... otects speech no matter how offensive its content. Speechcodes adopted by government financed state colleges and universities amount togovernment censorship, in violation of the Constitution. And the ... s illegal. Talkingabout it isn't. Freedom of thought and expression is particularly important on thecollege campuses. The educational forum is where individuals come together toparticipate in a proces ...

(2 pages) 137 0 4.1 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Opportunities of Character, Not Color. Arguments for and against Affarmative action

ersities throughout the country. Due to these current circumstances, affirmative action policies in college admissions must be eliminated because of the negative effects they have on campuses across t ... n.There are numerous arguments that defend the use of affirmative action and advocate its effect on college campuses. Supporters of affirmative action believe that minorities are still disadvantaged a ...

(3 pages) 152 0 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Little Lushes

se among 12 to 17 year olds has risen .9% over the past three years (137). Lack of entertainment on college campuses and easy availability of alcohol can lead to underage drinking as well. Here at UWE ... . At first glance, this seems like a good idea because a large portion of underage drinkers, mainly college students, would now no longer be underage and would be able to drink legally. Problem solved ...

(4 pages) 98 0 4.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

Binge Drinking and Its Effects On College Campuses

There is a common misconception among college campuses, and that is that "kids will be kids". This implies that college student drink a lo ... this idea is that kids won't just be kids and that it is not acceptable to drink all the time. Many college kids then engage in what is known as binge drinking. "Binge drinking is defined for men as d ... as defined as binge drinking three or more times in the past two weeks (Results?1)." To the average college student this definition is absurd. Most of these students can drink five or six drinks and n ...

(5 pages) 159 1 3.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Why the Drinking Age Should Not be Lowered.

st problems with alcohol today is the drinking problem with underage teens, young adults and on the college campuses. We've all heard the stories of college students becoming sick or even dying from d ... ng to life on her 21st birthday, her blood-alcohol level nearly seven times the intoxication limit (College Binge Drinking). Many people feel that the drinking age should be lowered to accommodate the ...

(7 pages) 251 1 4.2 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

"Slaughterhouse five" by Kurt Vonnegut.

then in favor of the war, but a wave of antiwar protest had welled up across the country, mainly on college campuses. Peaceful demonstrations gave way to riots as hostility deepened between prowar and ... was published early in 1969.Before Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut's books had been popular mainly on college campuses and among the liberal communities of New York and San Francisco. This allowed most ...

(97 pages) 639 1 3.3 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Binge drinking in college.

Binge drinking has become a huge problem on college campuses in recent years. Many times it has led to the untimely deaths of young students jus ... rinking accounts for far too many deaths around the nation because of the irresponsible behavior of college students who believe that drinking is something you MUST do once you get into college. I fee ... es would result from this irresponsible behavior.There are over 1,400 deaths a year from alcohol on college campuses around the United States. There are also over 500,000 injuries caused every single ...

(2 pages) 94 3 4.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Why the Drinking Age Should Not Be Lowered.

st problems with alcohol today is the drinking problem with underage teens, young adults and on the college campuses. We've all heard the stories of college students becoming sick or even dying from d ... tion limit. Many people feel that the drinking age should be lowered to accommodate the young adult college students who drink so heavily. The argument is always, "If I'm old enough to enlist in the m ...

(7 pages) 160 1 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Dying To Be Greek, a 4 page argumentative essay discussing why fraternities and Greek life should be banned from college campuses.

y houses where you're not likely to come out of without a few bumps and bruises. I don't think that college campuses should recognize these fraternities as part of the campus, and they should ban them ... ernity, and so it continues. Some of the smartest people in the world were Greek while they were in college, so it's not seen as a bad thing. Look how they turned out after all. Martin Luther King, Jr ...

(4 pages) 72 0 4.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

MLA format reasearch paper

e Crime of Affirmative ActionIs it just that qualified student with the credentials to get into the college of his choice is not admitted because of the color of his skin? Is affirmative action really ... itted because of the color of his skin? Is affirmative action really the answer to diversifying our college campuses? According to columnist Maryanne George, "The key issue...is weather or not the use ...

(6 pages) 187 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Slaughterhouse Five: An Analysis of the Literature

e test of time is Slaughterhouse Five. He became the spokesperson for a generation; invited to many college campuses to speak in 60's. Appeared in height of Vietnam War, and caught many peoples' atten ... of war.People in the book have savage brutality and vengeance. Vonnegut had studies anthropology in college and in effect, didn't have enemies in his books. He wrote that his father often complained t ...

(4 pages) 59 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Free Speech Article Analysis - "Speech Codes Threaten Free Speech on College Campuses"

n article (by Alan Charles Kors) on free speech,discussing the first amendment, for speech codes on college campuses. Irecently worked for a college for three years as a Financial AidAssistant, aiding ... hed because atAmerica's inauguration, citizens demanded a promise of their basicfreedoms.Almost all colleges and universities, for example,? have "harassment"policies that prohibit selective "verbal b ...

(3 pages) 137 0 3.8 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

College students who binge drink.

Binge drinking is a problem that affects a majority of the people around my age. In college it is a problem that is widely accepted as a rite of passage and in most areas looked upon w ... er so that you may have a better understanding of the problem.As heavy drinking within the ranks of college students continues to be very prevalent, there have been many studies aimed at measuring the ... evalent, there have been many studies aimed at measuring the amount of drinking that goes on amidst college campuses. One such study analyzed the data from the 1993, 1997, 1999 and 2001 College Alcoho ...

(8 pages) 245 9 4.8 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Does Prejudice and Discrimination Towards Ethnic Groups Exist on Our College Campus?

us Racism: What's Going On?" he states that there is a lot more racism than there ever was on these college campuses. The percentage has increased since the 1980s. He states that one of the reasons wh ... gated neighborhoods and poverty among the minorities. Kent says that the young teenagers, who enter college already, have an opinion as to what they think of others. The rich whites from the suburbs h ...

(1 pages) 37 1 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Affirmative action.Talks about how affirmative action is the reason for more diverse student bodies, while at the same time, it might be the cause for more black failure rates in colleges.

respectable professions. Unless one was racist, most agreed with the need of affirmative action in college admissions and in the workplace. Society needed an active law that enforced equality during ... om integrated schools now, some may question whether racism really is the problem anymore, and many college students might answer yes. They see it on college campuses today, and they are not sure why. ...

(7 pages) 61 0 5.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Alcohol Abuse in the American Youth

ng and binge drinking is the most serious problem affecting social life, school work, and health on college campuses today. I got an article using Proquest, "How Harvard's College Alcohol Study Can He ... his article is to share with the public the results of a survey representing 50,000 students in 140 colleges, in 39 states. This is the first nationally representative survey of its kind and the analy ...

(6 pages) 72 0 4.3 Jul/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

It's Only Sharing: File-Sharing and its Benefits.

ng. He cited Rolling Stone magazine as saying there was a 13% drop in independent music stores near college campuses, and that CD-burning and Internet music sharing are chiefly to blame. He went on to ...

(3 pages) 71 1 4.6 Dec/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics

Computer Addiction

pical life for someone with an Internet addiction. Internet addictions have been storming America's colleges faster than yoyos did in the 1970's. To go to college in America, it almost seems impossibl ... n if you cannot afford a computer, you can easily use one of the many computer rooms found all over college campuses. Students seem to be getting more addicted by the second, and it has to stop. I bel ...

(2 pages) 91 4 4.1 Feb/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

Date Rape

in that rape was not a setback in the United States. However, I have found that rape, especially on college campuses, has become a major problem. At colleges and universities around the country alcoho ... not expect to get robbed. Sometimes you just have to accept life and adjust.Eighty four percent of college men who have been reported raping girls said that they did not know that what they were doin ...

(3 pages) 46 0 4.6 Apr/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community