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- 4651: Tlevision: Behavior, Moral Values and Social Standards
- ... extremely well built beautiful models doing flips in tight revealing tube tops and mini skirts. The main thing that Samsung is promoting is higher standards in beauty. A direct result of high beauty standards in American television is higher suicide, depression, and anorexia rates. A test in the early seventies conducted by anthropologist Margaret Mead on a tribe called the Samoans shows us how television is part of the coming of age. The Samoan tribe was a loving peaceful tribe where heavenly bliss filled the warm air as you walked close to naked with confidence through the pastures. Five years later, after being introduced to American television, Margaret Mead concluded that suicide, and anorexia rates had increased quite drastically amongst the Samoans. Not only did the Samoans strive to meet America standards of beauty, they also found that their loving half ...
- 4652: Cultural Write-Up on “Gone With the Wind”
- ... my opinion, but in millions of others who have seen it. Everybody, young and old, should watch it at least once in his or her lifetime. There is just so much to it. It displays American culture at its finest. It glorifies a culture with gallantry, patriotism, honor, righteousness, grace, and loyalty. It is unfortunate that this elegant “civilization (has) gone with the wind”, and that is why meaningful films like this is so valuable to the American culture of today. We need to look into the past to try to improve our lives, our culture.
- 4653: Massurrealism
- ... from the disinterested play of thought which is dedicated to the absence of control exerted by reason, and emancipated from all aesthetic or moral preoccupations. (Pritchard: Massurealism- Modern Media) The title Massurrealism was derived by American artist James Seehafer who wrote a brief essay on the topic published in 1992. Seehafer, like many contemporary artists, is strongly influenced by pop art, mass media, as well as technology and surrealism. The subject ... official massurrrealistic group exhibit took place in 1995, in the small town of South Norwalk, Connecticut, and U.S. A. The exhibit featured various mixed media including Video art. In turn, the following year the American based exhibit inspired a group of art students in Hamburg, Germany to hold their own massurrealist art-party. A second manifesto published in 1996, titled "Massurrealism: A Collection of Views" consists of additional thoughts from ...
- 4654: Racism In Apocalypse Now
- ... natives in both the novella and movie. In the movie it is not quite as apparent as the book but there are still some racist portrayals of the natives. As Captain Willard reaches the White American photographer, the American makes a remark about the natives, “Watch out those goddam monkeys bite.” (Apocalypse Now) One could be lead to believe that he is suggesting that the natives are monkeys because they brownish, in colour, and ...
- 4655: Julius Caesar: Conspiracy Theory
- ... do and there is no other choice. But, except for maybe in cases of self-defense, is murder ever justified? This case of murder for the greater good is anything but honorable or noble. The American Heritage Dictionary defines honor as "personal integrity maintained without legal or other obligation" (A. H. Dictionary p. 620). There is nothing honorable about stabbing an unarmed and unsuspecting man. Caesar could not defend himself from ... he lay dying, Caesar realizes that he was betrayed by one of his closest friends. How is betraying your friend honorable? As for how noble Brutus thinks he is, he is the exact opposite. The American Heritage Dictionary states the word noble to mean "having or showing qualities of high moral character, as courage, generosity, or honor" (A. H. Dictionary p. 844). This "noble" character was anything but courageous. After whining ...
- 4656: "Goin’ to Chicago."
- ... over priced. African Americans were refused to buy houses. But later in time, white home owners were warned about African Americans being moved into white neighborhoods, and this started a big controversy. The growing African American communities put pressure on officials to help the demands of African Americans. Whites now had competition for jobs and housing. This new housing for African Americans lead to riots and even lynchings. African Americans were ... had to move out of the projects. The projects then turned into housing for the people who did not have jobs or even education. I personally did not have much information and knowledge on African American history. This movie gave me the opportunity to be informed of their migration to the North and West, and how cities became overpowered by African Americans. This movie gave me hope for the African Americans ...
- 4657: Advertiser Influence on the Media: Censorship and the Media
- ... fewer firms . In this environment the usual democratic expectation for the media -- diversity of ownership and ideas -- has disappeared as the goal of official policy and, worse, as a daily experience of a generation of American readers and viewers. Narrowing the diversity of news coverage even further is the ever-looming presence of the advertiser or corporate supporter. Advertisers have pressured more than 90 percent of U.S. newspapers to change ... grocery stores who were the subject of the article was placed on school officials to do something about [Halas] ." Part III Advertiser Pressure on the Media A survey of 55 members of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers at the society's 1992 conference revealed that advertiser pressure was common. Eighty percent reported that the pressure was a growing problem, and 45 percent knew of instances where advertisers compromised ...
- 4658: The Debut of Television in America
- ... theme of the fair was, “Building The World of Tomorrow.” “The World of Tomorrow was a search for a usable Future (with a capital “F”), and while it added fuel to the fire of the American cultures of consumption and exclusion, it also provided a tangible vision of hope and prosperity in the face of uncertainty and confusion.” It was there that television debuted in America. The debut of television in ... the parents to block channels that they do not want their children to view. TV has had such a great impact on both society and industry. Television has changed the way of life for many American families since its debut at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. For me, as well as many others, television has been primarily for entertainment purposes above all else. I guess it could be ...
- 4659: Women in Weight Training
- ... in your arms and upper spine, while cardio-training like walking, jogging, running, stair climbing, skipping rope, skiing and impact-producing sports mainly affects the bones in your legs, hips and lower spine. In The American Heart Association, NIH explains how explains how regular physical activity can also help you reduce your risk of coronary heart disease. Being active helps women take off extra pounds, helps to control blood pressure, lessens ... Training, (1982) Sandal, Mary. Little Big Men Page, 59-63 . New York: Weight Training, (1992) “Osteoporosis Disease.” The World Book Medical Encyclopedia: Osteoporosis. (1995) ed. “Exercise and Your Heart, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute” American Heart Association, NIH Publication No. 93-1677. April 07, 1997 http://www.intehealth.com Casper B. Gravensen The weight lifters ABC’ http://users.cybercity.dk/~ ccc7796/newabc/ Workout & Fitness David Lawrence Dec. 96/Jan. 97 ...
- 4660: Nurture Plus Nature
- ... our parents, is the sole determining factor in our behavioral characteristics. These two opposing viewpoints have produced a multitude of ideas, theories, and arguments in the history of psychology. John Broadus Watson, the father of American behaviorism, greatly reinforced the source of nurture by studying learned and adaptive behavior patterns in our environmental surroundings (Rathus p.13). During this same time of revolutionary ideas in psychology, American psychologist, Arnold Gesell supported the opposite views of Watson. Gesell theorized that "physical and motor growth and development is monitored and regulated by an automatic natural process"(Rathus p.13). Each of these ideas has ...
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