Social Issues Essays

Dependency ratios are useful for governments as it helps them plan for future demands in services. Dependency ratios have numerous implications in both LEDCs and MEDCs; throughout this essay I will discuss each of these implications. My chosen MEDC case study is the UK, and the UK is currently experiencing …

Imagine that you are a member of a leading policy think tank who has been asked by the Government to propose policy solutions to a specific social problem facing the UK. Your ‘solution’ will be presented in a report which you are trying to convince the government that they should …

Human populations all over the world are in danger from environmental events. These events have the potential to harm humans, possessions and income. Environmental events or hazards are extreme conditions that can cause injury, loss of life, loss of agriculture and the environment, damage to property and housing. There are …

As the number of asylum seekers and refugees entering the United Kingdom continues to rise, one of the pressing concerns of the European Union and the UK government is ensuring their integration within society. However, at present asylum seekers and refugees are not integrating well within society, reports have suggested …

Before WW1, the USA was famous for its open door approach to immigration. The country was a melting pot of nationalities where immigrants and citizens alike shared a common goal: the attainment of the American Dream, which argued any person, from any background, could succeed in achieving their goals if …

Women in the hundreds of years preceeding the crucial date of 1870 had always faced a life that they would be better of in as men. They had few, if any, rights to the things they owned, even there own children and they could effectively be bought or sold by …

Previously a concept only taught to business students, the use of the word globalization has grown in line with the extraordinary boom in the use of the internet. Communities throughout the globe are now linked to an interconnecting web via computer. Academia is hot on the trial of globalisation, debates …

In relation to health and social care we now live in a modern society, where the term multicultural is more appropriate. Multicultural means many different people of various origins, races, cultures and religions are living together in one society. This is known as multiculturalism. For example: Races -Race is classification …

I am going to analyse and compare two different charity advertisements. One is a RSPCA (Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals) advertisement and the other is a CCF (Christian Children’s Fund) advertisement. The purpose of the RSPCA advertisement is to gain support to stop the needless transportation …