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What do you think of the lack of young participants voting in America elections for senators, presidents, and other people of position? I'm talking about age 18-23 Do you think there are good reasons as to why they don't vote? What do you think is the most common reason for why they don't vote? Do you think there is some type of social conflict within that prevents them from voting or makes them choose not to? Have you read any interesting books on teenager voting? Any interesting articles?

I like the voting idea. It's something I can work off. I've decided I wanted to narrow it down since the paper has to be at least 6 pages. So I decided to do 18-23 year olds and voting. Or perhaps younger, I dunno. I figure that if bush wasn't in office and kerry was, people would have moved real quick to get stuff done if they wanted to be re-elected for a second term. Hmm.. So i'm going to shoot for the idea that I can use sociological theories in this. I want to use at least three. Conflict theory, functionalist, and interactionist. Conflict would probably be... By people being told not to vote, they are being oppressed by "mystery person" and that may help the person vote. By not teaching kids more about politics and voting in school, the chances for certain people to be voted into office could be more possible because of the lack of knowledge of politics and government within the voters. So they are being oppressed by the people who fund education and teaching in governement. Since this is happening, the mystery person has a better chance to get voted in. How's that sound to you? Interactionist... uhhh... hmm.. don't know.. i'll work on it.. any ideas thrown out by y'all would be appreciated. Functionalist... By not voting for a specific person you aren't given a tax cut. "i think that's part of taxes..." By not voting, you allow the person who may get into power to obtain more money.. which somehow relates to social-conflict theory.. arg... maybe someone can help me on that... well i think that's an interesting topic that I will choose. thanks j_p

It has to do with quantitive data. I'm suppose to build up a paper with data and numbers and then propose a way to research it more. Like for instance I would make a report on income of single mothers and give details and ideas to why researches think they are broke. I also throw in some sociological theories and attach those to numbers such as 5% people in america control "this much wealth", this effects them by _____. Then write a proposal on how I could go further to analyze it or even create a new research proposal as to how I could collect numbers on it. Something like that. I somewhat don't understand it myself. I'm grabbing a tutor tomorrow.

Lance, I'm sure you can do addition. Since the medical had a psychological reaction on me, I couldn't sum up the want to fight back. Thus they took advantage of my state. There are side effects to medicine. Most of them bad. However, the attention needed to do assignments came from the zombie-like state. Zombie like as in, I need to do a task. I am going to do that task until it is done. Not very much is going inside of my head until the task is done. Perhaps tunnelvision would have been a better term. Change doctors you say? Doesn't work that way too often. Insurance companies don't want to change doctors for me. I don't really have that option. Right now I'm struggling to still get medicine. My parents were stupid about medicine which was why I was switched around so often. Now that I'm older I'm in charge. I choose to be on welbutron. My parents were the type of idiots that thought sugar made children hyper and was bad for kids with add, and all that other nonsense Who said beating was the direct answer? Aggressive children may need a beating or just an antipsychotic if calm parenting doesn't sooth their rage. However psychological problems such as disorderly conduct are based on a nature-nuture perspective which is way too long of a thing to get into. Video game player's don't need a beating if they are just sidetracked. I thought your view on this was people putting kids on drugs for disorder conduct and attention disorder. If it wasn't an aggressive view then I take it back. I just remember that many people thought add medicine could solve such problems back then.

heh. very funny. el oh el. Anyways, as a person who has been on medicine since he was about five-years-old I have many views on prescribed medicine. One of my many views is that while growing up, I feel as though I was a guinea pig for the insurance companies. Also, to tell you the truth, I hate all these others bi**hes who are writing books saying they were on medicine, ooh look at me, buy my book, yada yada. In my view of the world. I was a guinea pig for the medical industry. Sure, I may have a type of AD/HD or ADD i don't remember. However, I did take Ritalin, prozac, most mainstream stuff except paxil.. i think i took aderall once, the past thing i did was straterra which made me sleepy. I stick to welbutron but I up'd my own dosage to 600 mg for a day. It's the welbutron xl which ... has time release I think. My view of all view of all of this is that it's a big scam. What people once labeled hyper was just a behavior disorder where kids weren't disciplined enough and their parents didn't whip their ass. I've met kids who had more problems than me at a young age who were hyper, angry, and many other things. These idiots weren't on medicine. So those kids who are very raughty either need discipline or are hyper. But the thing about hyperness is that you can't pay attention. You may not be angry, you would probably be too distracted by the laws of physics behind those balls that hit each other and swing for weeks on end with enough force. tick tick click clack tick tick click clack *oooh pwetty balls on string* i wonder where I can get one of those. I wonder how those do that anyways. What makes those things do that? *keeps pondering* notice how i went off track a bit there. That's where ritalin comes in. It makes you an efficient zombie. That's why i upped my dosage. I wanted to be a damn zombie. The side effects of being a learning zombie is perhaps low selfesteem and confidence where you want to speak up. Perhaps some type of altistic attribute where things come in but they don't come out. I remember my classmates taking advantage of my state by beating me up most of the time. I hate my past and wish I could kill everyone. That's a different story. On the other side though. I believe it was my doctor who wanted me to try something different. It's because doctors are controlled and funded by insurance companies as some of us know. This is where ethics become torn and piss me off. In my opinion ritalin did me good at the time. I haven't been on it since. I've thought about going back on it because I've never experienced such a zombie state unless i take more than 600 of welbutron. Back to the ethics though.. i didn't take my meds today... doctors will keep prescribing drugs to test out how the patient will be. It's a type of guniea pig system which I find very evil. If what has already been working, already works, let it be. However, doctors don't do that because they are corrupt and want to keep in good terms with the insurance company by using people like guinea pigs and having them come back reporting results. I wanted welbutron when my doctor told me to do straterra. I don't know wtf made her think I wanted that. Stupid *****. So in my view. Perhaps some kids are add. However the ones with behavior problems are most likely kids who are assholes. I had a bad childhood. I didn't act with behavior problems. I only let my rage grow until I was intelligent enough to kill people and be labeled a "kewl". So if at anything. I think most of these kids need to be given a low dosage of antipsychotics if they are jerks. If the kids can't concentrate because of the lack of will for homework it's due to a few things. For instance, i want to do my work right now, which i should be doing, but i'm not doing it. I'm typing away right here. I didn't take my medicine. I blew off most of the day imagining stuff and past events and other random events that could happen in my dillusion state without meds. That's where medicine becomes a necessity. When a kid just plays video games without care for homework without distraction of things, that's a discipline problem. Sadly, most teachers somehow have a bachelor's degree from a college and are idiots because they don't know a thing about medicine. I don't think stupid people should be teaching people of less intelligence. It's just a sad sight. I can look back into my past and notice all of this. I think society is screwed up in whole. Not everyone needs medicine. They just need guidance and discipline. If they have discipline and don't understand, they need guidance. If you don't have discipline, but plenty of guidance with the want to do what is needed but get sidetracked, you need meds.] i could probably rant on and give more info, but eh.

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Got any pictures of this recently discovered T-Rex? Also, I think that perhaps we could bring back mammoths, which would be totally awesome. Then we could have them fight against huge elephants and rhinos and start the bets.

I haven't taken biology in a long time and am trying to remember chemistry and stuff.. Is this right? plant 1 radioactive gas plant 2 radioactive sugar

If life and college goes my way, I plan on becoming a neurosurgeon or something close to that, because it's a growing field and we need them in Illinois. However, I would like to say that only a fool would not recognize the necessity for learning chemistry and its application to the human body. Previously states it is needed for the comprehension of the drugs your are going to prescribe to your patients or else drugs you may take into consideration. However, a doctor does have many other uses besides the current field of study they are going in. Understanding how compounds can effect the human body is why chemistry becomes one of the most important things. You don't want to be a doctor and give someone pure calcium like a fool. That would only blow up their body. It's calcium carbonate.. not Calcium..... There is another importance. In case you get rejected as a doctor or somehow screw up somewhere and lose your license, you could always become a biochemist.

Embryonic as in the idea that we are naked as an embryonic chimp is? Which seems like an interesting transitional effect if we in are earlier stages are compiled with a thin layer of hair. It's as if we are opposite with vocal cords, a more advanced cerebro, and... very little hair. However on the down side, we don't have the strength as Grape Ape. grape ape grape ape

Well in my view. We either came from hairy apes, or we weren't hairy. But since of things like armpit hair, i consider the idea of once being hairy. If back in the day we were seriously hairy, and e/devolved into less hairy beings through natural selection and some understanding of physical attributes in our environment, then people would do their best to mate with others with very little hair. In that sense, eventually those with less hair could sense things around them and perhaps someone blocking air path so they were aware of enemies around them. Also, about the armpit thing. Perhaps we haven't completely rid ourselves of all hair and that is why we still have hair in some places.

God made us that way. However, the natural selection theory while sexual attraction could have influenced next generation humans into which they had less and less hair. Which is a possibility. What you have to question though is if humans originally had a lot of hair. Maybe we didn't. There are some animals without a lot of hair. Naked mole rat. You could look at the wolf boys which in my idea somewhat shows a very primitive and ancestral trait which many scientists may disagree with me about.

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Lol. that's funny. You're funny. I'm looking for a more elaborate and serious response though. I'll take yours into consideration, but it's biased....kinda... envinger... i can't remember his name... i read that artcile about him using the analogy of society roles relating to drama.

I remember many of my nightmares. Killing people. Watching people die. People being put into caskets. I find that lucid dreaming is somewhat more fun than a pitch black screen. It wakes me up with the feeling that I'm still alive one more day to kill everyone on planet Earth. MuAhHAahAHhahhHAHha I think the best dream is a wet dream. When you're in control of those, it's better than pron.

According to my teacher, I have about 21 days to type up a 6+ page paper on a social problem. To tell you the truth, I don't give a **** about society a good amount of the time. However, in this case I have to type up a paper with sources on a social problem. I don't want to spend forever on the paper because I have about 20 days and about 4 hours a day to spend on it, giving me 80 hours. So what do you think would be a good social problem to write about? I could simply go for the obvious which is marriage, divorce, suicide, pregnancy, government.. But some of those are too broad. Even more education since I'm not in public schools anymore. I figure doing a paper or marriage kind of contradicts who I am because I think marriage is just a legal term and is some B.S. made up for cultural reasons. However, I do want to hook up with this one girl I know. However the case, being a social scientist, one isn't suppose to have biases and just show the numbers and reasons why you think something is happening and not what your opinion is on it to support it or discriminate it, however you recognize it as a problem. Thus recognizing it as a problem you take a side on it saying that you think it's a negative thing. What I can't do is recognize things as a problem unless they effect me. To tell you the truth, I'm somewhat of a sociopath without care for society and if hell were to break lose I think I'd do just fine and be a bit happier. I know that some things like Americans being idiots effect me or people being wasteful effects my way of life. Gas prices don't effect me. The bus prices have been a dollar for about 10 years now for a ride. Besides being that way, I'm trying to figure out what a good social problem to write about it. I'm in America so I figure doing a social paper on something out of the U.S. wouldn't be too wise unless I knew a lot about it. I only have about 20 days to do all of this so I don't want to screw around for five days figuring out all the mysteries of Japanese Marriage versus American marriage and the divorce rates and what makes people divorce or stay together. However an interesting topic that would be. I think it may take a bit more than 20 days of research. I really don't want to do research on something where material is not readily available or takes a long time to track down. Something as interesting as older men dating younger women depletes the age of women younger men can date leading to higher suicidal rates among teenage men, would be a nice topic to write about, but yet impossible and would take tooo long. What bothers me more is when people are defining something as a problem. What may be a problem to one person, may be something someone else supports. By me saying it is a problem is being biased which makes all of it very confusing. One could simply say that suicide is a problem, which it is and is a very interesting one since all human life could be put to use to be drone to enhance scientific development for the scientific community. However that's biased because when people are living, you usually get something out of it: money, help, etc.. But when they die, it's one less mouth to feed. As evil as that sounds, it's somewhat true. To even say that marriage is a social problem would be that I have become biased into thinking that when people aren't getting married, that's a problem. In my vision of the world, I'd like to think that nothing is a problem. Education is always a problem, but despite that, I don't think I have enough time to bust out a super paper on such things and tally up the money spent on people and the dropouts and the effect it has had on people. I'm sure highschool students dropping out has had an effect where their children probably won't have as much guidance, but that's just guesswork. Where could I find such a source as to tell me such a thing exists? What book would agree with this point of view which could most interestingly be true? Common sense is not so common which is why I hate writing up reports. So, what should I write about? I guess who I am is conflicting with everything in my sociology class and I figured that being the philosopher I am, I have just become the social scientists arch nemesis. Philosophers and sociologists don't mix very well. I guess I could do something simple on marriage. Perhaps something like suicide which has been done tons of times already. I'm figuring having something hooked up like a coorelation between pregnant mothers and divorces... or that a coorelation of suicidals will be highschool dropouts and the reason for it... what do you think I should do?

I begged for people in the household to move up to DSL. I'm glad I have DSL now. I don't see cable as completey necessary unless I'm downloading ISOs. I would never use dialup ever again. I would rather take a city bus to a location that offers me to hookup the computer to a network. Kinkos or a College or something.

Wasn't ubuntu based off debian? I was using kubuntu because I didn't want to use the gnome interface. I don't really use linux that much because of the hassle of setting up ndiswrapper for my broadcom and via-rhine ethernet card.

Interesting question, thread creator. Why don't you have Mozilla Firefox and the Ad-block extension?

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People keep growing until about 25. Eating conditions effect growth. Lack of protein, calcium, and vitamin D WILL stunt growth. Many asians have a lack of protein in their diet which stunts their growth. Also, testosterone will help boost gains so working out at a gym using High Intensity Traning (HIT) will help a lot.

Yes, I thought the same thing pogo. You ever see that little skit Whoopie Goldberg does on nickelodeon with the penguins? !! i like that one.

File for social security and financial aid. Put it all in the bank and live off the interest. Seemingly people on Social Security can't even understand this concept when they get free health and food from a shelter. Some people are just stupid. I mean seriously stupid. It's very sad.