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Honors Theses

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Western Michigan University

1974

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Couple Awareness And Communication, Gary Johnson Dec 1974

Couple Awareness And Communication, Gary Johnson

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Along with many other psychologists and sociologists, I am alarmed by the rapid increase in divorce rates. Toffler, in Future Shock, suggests one result of increasing technology might be the break up of the basic family unit. Gone are the days of the average couple meeting and settling down in the same town they have always lived in, surrounded by a secure and stable milieu. No longer are most women satisfied to take on the role of housewife, accepting their main responsibility as cleaning, cooking, and clothing their families. A marriage in our increasingly changing society is made up of …


A Study Of The Relevance Of Debate Through A Comparison Of Propositions With Congrssional Deliberation, Janine Holloman Apr 1974

A Study Of The Relevance Of Debate Through A Comparison Of Propositions With Congrssional Deliberation, Janine Holloman

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This paper actually began with a Spring semester, 1973 independent study project. The project was to compile a record of intercollegiate debate at Western for each academic year from 1921 to 1974.


Hirabayashi And Korematsu: The Stone Court's Double-Edged Sword, Thomas Seilheimer Jan 1974

Hirabayashi And Korematsu: The Stone Court's Double-Edged Sword, Thomas Seilheimer

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Law, as a fixed or immutable device for civilized social intercourse, is a myth. All too often the law has been construed in capital letters, and little has it been realized or remembered that the law has been written by people and interpreted by people. Rather than the rigidity and permanence of steel and stone, the law expounded by the Supreme Court has been more like clay. Case upon case, decision after decision, the law of the Court has been constantly re-molded and re-defined to meet the ever-changing needs of society, and to protect the personal freedoms of American citizens.