Pubs in Leamington have largely welcomed government plans to scrap Britain's outdated licensing laws and allow round-the-clock drinking. New laws being considered by ministers could see 24 - hour opening in England and Wales as early as next summer. ...

Abortion, is an act of violence that a mother inflicts on her own child. Through abortion, the mother becomes the aggressor, and this knowledge may haunt her long after she has dealt with the rape (135). I don't think that just because the mother ...

For ninth-century Baghdad, Ali b. Abi Talib in the literature was not only of historiographical concern, it was debated in other scholarly circles because it had profound implications for the meaning and nature of Islam. In his inimitable way, Jahiz ...

One sees the life of a Chinese woman after moving to the United States and the effects this change had on her and the people around her. Most Chinese males that immigrated to America were assumed to have the lust for gold, while many of the females ...

With the rapid growth of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and Internet over the past fifteen years, the ways in which interpersonal communication behaviors are being modified or changed by computer-mediated channels, such as chat rooms, bulletin ...

Women's work requires different kinds of skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions within different kinds of organizational structures. Unlike most male jobs, much of women's work involves switching from one level of task to another level ...

Voluntary groups have been traditionally viewed as supplemental to the kin-based family group which provided the most reliable basis for continued social support. With higher mobility rates and less permanent marriage patterns than in previous ...

All episodes of clinical practice, regardless of the social worker's agency setting, include the stages of assessment, planning, intervention, and ending (also known as termination). endings may be planned or unplanned, and forced or voluntary. The ...

Confusion about the nature of grief, the impact of different ways of coping with it, and its resolution, has continued to this day. Attig sought to chart a way out of the confusion by setting out 'the laws of sorrow', a series of empirically ...

By all accounts, social stratification has clearly become one of the chief substantive "specialties" of the sociological enterprise. Even a cursory review of the discipline's major journals, for example, will reveal a startling growth in ...

At the beginning of the 18th century, the American colonies were little more than tiny pockets of population huddled between the cold Atlantic and the imposing spine of the Appalachian Mountains. New England had grown too respectable size through ...

In recent years, grassroots multiracial organizations have sprung up to file lawsuits and fight the polluters. Should anyone care about environmental racism? The environmental movement has traditionally been racist or at least, because of the ...

International migration and a thriving market in migrant trafficking pose threats to security in the Asia Pacific region. Fifteen years ago, when the world was still cemented into Western and Socialist blocs, international migration hardly occurred ...

It has been argued that the confusion of African American child rearing techniques with abuse is at least partially responsible for the fact that African American children are grossly over represented in the foster care system across the United ...

Contract Labor Economics Relations encompasses all dealings, transactions, and activities affecting the determination and enforcement of the terms and conditions of employment. The relations between employers and employees developed differently in ...

Migration has always been a part of human life. Whether we consider ourselves the descendants of different cultures that developed parallel to one another or, as the most recent research indicates, we come from a small group of Africans who first ...

There are two basic questions about equality: Why equality? and, ?quality in what?. Analogously, the questions about freedom are: Why freedom? and, Freedom from what or for what? The "why" questions in both cases are questions about our ...