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Television Violence

... college in Washington D.C., when asked if what was seen on T.V. effected the way they acted ,2% thought it did , 7% didn't know and ,91% didn't think it effected them at all(2). In 1993 a similar survey was given in London by the Broadcasting Standard Council( BSC ). When people were asked if they thought T.V. effected the way people behaved 41% said yes, 4% left without finishing the survey, and 55% said that they didn't think it effected the way people acted(14). As seen in the survey the problem of television violence is being made mo ...

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Many Advertisements Use Codes To Convey A Fairy Tale To Consumers

... fairy tale, to the consumer, while sacrificing price and means. The code of spatial order is used to show the reader advancements in periods of time. These advancements can be seen as one looks at the ad from the lower-left corner in a clockwise circle. The first object one would see is a skull from a Woolly Mammoth, which is symbolic of prehistoric times. The next object, a computer, stands out because it does not fit the pattern of chronological order. Wizards of the Coast and Microprose, the advertisers, use this purposely by drawing a ...

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A Comparison Of The Status Of Women In Classical Athens And Early Christianity

... of women's nature, and women's public legal rights. Albeit in Lysistrata the women were shown as revolutionaries rising up against the men, women in classical Greece were never like that. Aristophanes created the play as a comedy, showing how the world might be in the times of the Peloponesian war if women tried to do something. It was the women's job to stay home and tend to the house, and never leave, unlike they did in the play, the women were shown as revolutionaries rising up against the men, women in classical Greece were never li ...

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War On Poverty: Project South

... membership institute that develops popular political and economic education and action research for organizing and liberation. They contribute to the development of a strategic vision for the movement emerging in the ese new times-bringing together grassroots, scholar and cultural activists and youth on the basis of equality to join in the process of understanding and transforming our society. The work of Project South is funded by dues and contributions, in-kind work, and grants from the Atlanta Black United Fund, the Center ...

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Teen Pregnancy

... of high school and then had to resort to welfare because they did not have the qualifications to get a job. As I was reading an article, I read that 40,000 teenage women drop out of school each year. Many of them endure in dramatic social and economical hardships and become dependent on welfare. Continuing this article, I also found out that 43% of all adolescents become pregnant before the age of 20. I feel as though many women do not know how to resist peer pressure or temptation, I feel, as though they should resort to abstinence. Abstinen ...

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Improving Education

... population of 569 students, 36.6% are considered "at-risk" therefore, a large percentage of the extended day participants are determined to be at-risk. Each extended day session encompasses a time frame of three to four weeks prior to the administration of TAAS. Instruction is delivered 2.5 hours each day for three days a week. Language Arts and Math teachers are the primary personnel used to facilitate the instruction and initiate the curriculum. "Further, at-risk students are best served when the teacher provides direct instruction in rea ...

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Sociology: The Comparative Method

... that make up society) and seeing if the result of the comparison shows a difference between the two. The comparative method attempts to dereify (the process of exposing misinterpreted norms. Norms that society consider natural and inevitable characteristics of human existence) reified (the human created norms or 'truths') beliefs. Obviously there are various ways in which a nomi (a labeled, sometime constructed, norm or truth) can be exposed. Which form of the comparative method should one use however? The answer, whichever one appli ...

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Fitting In

... just to try to "fit in" that way. Most will just forget about that group or single person. I have often observed that people often times try to find out why that person or group rejected them and try to make it better. Being rejected is like someone saying "You do not fit in with us so leave us alone" its a nasty feeling. Some people let others down easy and that is nice of them. Why is it so hard to fit in? There is so much social pressure now that it is getting harder and harder to "fit in". When I say social pressure I mean how to ac ...

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The Social Status Of The London Surgeon, 1350-1450

... ideological differences between the two different roles doctor and surgeon.3 This conflict of ideologies informs the tensions behind Chaucer's portrait of the Physician. During the late Middle Ages, doctors were believed to be a repository of medical knowledge, thus their profession was seen as learned. The surgeon, on the other hand, was considered to be an artisan, thus his profession was seen as a craft.4 This craft ideology allowed access for untrained artisans to enter the field of surgery. In this paper, I will statistically demonstrate ...

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Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990's

... follow their expected roles may never recognize sexism as an oppressive force in their life. I find many parallels between women's experiences in the nineties with Betty Friedan's, in her essay: The Way We Were - 1949. She dealt with a society that expected women to fulfill certain roles. Those roles completely disregarded the needs of educated and motivated business women and scientific women. Actually, the subtle message that society gave was that the educated woman was actually selfish and evil. I remember in particular the searin ...

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Nontraditional Tradtions

... to some friends to consider them family. Whatever the circumstances, many of us honestly don't know how to celebrate together. We may even see the word "tradition" as something stultifying and old, having no meaning for or application to us personally; something usually being forced upon us by someone who smells funny and is only seen on holidays. What all of this means is that we can no longer simply follow the examples of old. It is up to us to create new family traditions. Celebrating is not hard. We all know about celebrating and have ...

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Violence In Televeision

... in fact affect by violence that they had watched on the television. i. For example: There was a study done in 1996 on a group of second graders. The control group was sat in front of a television where they watched Sesame street and Mr. Rogers ; the second group of second graders were sat in front of a television where they watched the Power Rangers and G.I. Joe. ii. After each program was over they sent the children out to play. The control group did not to seem to act out as much as the children who had watched the Power Rangers and ...

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