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The Bieber effect: The connection between stardom and social mobility

...dream: that downward mobility - even during economic hard times - is about individual character traits rather than the social system or catastrophic societal and industrial changes. During the Depression, silent-film director D.W. Griffith's...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-06-01/bieber-effect-connection-between-star
Opinion
Make Admiralty Island a no-hunting zone

...2) displacing bears from areas of human use; 3) altering habitat where bears live; 4) disrupting the bears' social system; 5) increasing "industrial scale" personnel killings resulting in more hunters, poachers, other resource users...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101906/let_20061019017.shtml
Opinion
Killing male bears reduces cub viability

...opening even more of Admiralty Island to bear hunting (about 95 percent of it is already open) would disrupt the social system of brown bears in the Pack Creek area in ways that have a negative effect on reproduction of female bears and, consequently...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/102506/let_20061025005.shtml
Opinion
You're for, or against

...able to eat but once a day - nor do they have enough clean water to drink or to bathe in. The planet's natural and social systems resources are stretched. In fact, they are soiled and breaking and greed and archaic beliefs aren't helping one...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/031511/let_799763646.shtml
Opinion
Empire editorial: One-year window an opening for justice

...disbelieved or retaliated against, particularly if the perpetrator was an authority figure. For too long, our social system has protected offenders instead of victims. Opening this one-year window sends a message to those who have suffered...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/040807/opi_20070408010.shtml
Opinion
My Turn: Road extension is bad for business

...Future generations will be saddled with the economic burden of its completion and maintenance. For decades, the social systems, lifestyles and economies of Juneau, Haines and Skagway have been built around the ferries and marine transportation...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/032006/opi_20060320002.shtml
Opinion
Minorities increasing

...demographic data into account, prejudiced behavior and philosophies should no longer have a place in our educational and social system even if they represent conservative religious values. Those individuals who still exercise discrimination, as a result...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/091800/Ope_Let3.html
Opinion
Religious core values resonate

...appear to be: Treat others with justice and fairness, help the poor and indigent, live a life acceptable to our social system, abide by the local legal system and, ultimately, try to learn to love others - even if you don't know them well...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072705/nei_20050727001.shtml
Neighbors
The difference between 'privilege' and 'prejudice'

...exist. These entitlements are imbedded into their everyday life experiences, which are taken for granted because the social systems work in their favor. For the gentleman who thinks Sealaska is racist, what has been the norm for him, as a Caucasian...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101305/let_20051013022.shtml
Opinion
Homeless Youth deals with hunger, cold and independence

...family issues such as domestic violence and not following rules of the household, addiction, mental illness and a social system that doesn't support them. Decker said homeless children pose a threat to themselves on the streets by eating from...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/120201/Ins_homeless2.shtml
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