Essays on Sociology

Published in 1991, ‘The Giver’ is a novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a relatively distant community, and told through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy; Jonas. To Jonas his community seems to be a utopia, complete and flawless, but, in truth, it...

In Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad, the main character Walter White was placed on an impeccable journey through the last several years of his life. Walter’s character had developed remarkably, going from a very average high school chemistry teacher to New Mexico’s top methamphetamine cook. Throughout...

What a fascinating topic to explore. What exactly are twins and how do they develop? That is an excellent question, and this paper will cover the two most common types of twins that God has put on this earth! In fact, there are several other...

Frequent moving can affect children negatively because each additional move is associated with small declines in social skills as well as emotional and behavioral problems. Although the effects are small, these deficits can expand. In the short story, The House on Mango Street by Sandra...

One of the most important things to understand identical twins are also known as monozygotic twins. They result from the fertilization of a single egg that splits in two. Identical twins share all of their genes and are always of the same sex. In contrast,...

Liv and Maddie, Property Brothers, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Twitches, Mary-Kate and Ashley, Double Trouble, Twins, The Parent Trap. Have you watched of any of these media productions? The answer I’m assuming is probably yes! As a child, I remember religiously watching...

From 2005 to 2009, the number of motor vehicle, crash-related injuries due to cellphone distractions in the United States went from 10,000 to 24,000 respectively. These cellphone distractions are described as cellphone activities one performs that can distract them from driving, with the most common...

To understand why texting and driving are so prevalent and only increasing in ubiquity, it is imperative to understand the underlying psychology that brings people to text and drive in the first place. The general population knows it is a bad idea, however, there is...

The popularity of mobile devices has had some unintended consequences in the lives of many people. Notably, automobile crashes arising from texting while driving has become an epidemic that has taken the world by storm in recent years. As the correlation between texting and auto...

One text is all it takes to create preventable lifelong consequences. Many of us were instilled with this message as teenagers, yet we continue to text and drive. Despite extensive efforts by public health officials and transportation researchers to prevent distracted driving through fear appeals...