Essays on The Baltimore Sun

Paul Marx and Warren Hartenstine present two contrasting arguments on whether college athletes should be paid or not. Marx highlights various disparities in earning between college players and their coaches and point at the need to pay college players. He argues that most of the players are blacks who come from poor socio-economic backgrounds and have not been involved actively in academic work (Marx 1). On his account, Hartenstine argues that college athletes should not be paid because eighty-five percent of student athletes graduate with various academic qualifications (Hartenstine 1). About sixty-seven percent of these graduates are professional and ...

PART 1

Hypothesis Baltimore is creating good lives because - Improving economic conditions allow a higher quality of life, - Strong social diversity creates a more inclusive environment that stimulates youth, and - Effective government services lead to better citizen engagement.

- Strong social diversity creates a more inclusive environment that stimulates youth - Demographic numbers - Immigrant/Hispanic population - Children and the youth - Maslow: Hierarchy of needs - Effective government services lead to better citizen engagement - Crime drops - Intergovernmental support - Social services - Savitch and Kantor: ...

Abstract

This paper considers the various likely causes of violence and violent behavior within prisons. The causes discussed include overcrowding, boredom, drugs, the gang culture within the prison population, and sexually-originated violence. In addition, the paper discusses two theories that suggest: 1. that the violence can stem simply from the inmate’s psychological reaction to being transported into the restrictive prison environment (the deprivation theory); and: 2. that individual prisoners bring their existing violent nature and characters in with them from their former existence in the community (the importation theory). In addition to discussing the causes of the violence, the ...