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- 861: Gangs
- ... being commended. A young child sees this a perfectly acceptable because he knows that the "bad guy" was wrong but has no idea of what acceptable apprehension techniques are. Gore in television also takes a big part in influencing young minds. Children see gory scenes and are fascinated by these things that they have not seen before. Older viewers see gore and are not concerned with the blood but rather with ... importantly, race. This often results in an attitude that motivates the person to base his/her life on doing what the system that oppresses them doesn't want. Although this accomplishes little it is a big factor in gang enrollment. So, as you have seen gangs are a product of the environment we have created for ourselves. Some of these factors include: oppression, the media, greed, violence and other gangs. There ...
- 862: Lane Frost A Fallen Champinion
- ... Lane was learning his riding techniques from his dad and Freckles Brown a bull riding legend. In 1981, he won the bull-riding event at the National High School Rodeo Finals, which was his first big title. At the age of nineteen he attained a full membership to the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (P.R.C.A.). In 1983, he also received the "Rookie of The Year" runner-up. January 5 ... are on the road. When a rider gets injured, the healers are there to get them up and back on the circuit as soon as possible (Pro Rodeo 1-7). Lanes' life was like a big bull ride: if you are thrown you get back up and ride again. He had to overcome hardships in his life and he kept pushing and made it all the way to the top. Lane ...
- 863: The Use And Nonuse Of The Theory Of Repressive Hypothesis In Indian Camp
- ... the theory of repressive hypothesis. One of the most intriguing parts of the novel is that it is never proved that the pregnant Indian woman is actually pregnant. " She lay in the lower bunk, very big under a quilt" (Hemingway 16). The Indian woman is pregnant, and has gained mass. She is pregnant but is never referred as pregnant. "Repression an admission that there was nothing to say about such things ... nothing to see, and nothing to know" (Foucault 142). The term pregnant is repressed in the novel. Pregnancy is sex related and is repressed. Not only is the reference of the pregnant woman as "very big" demeaning morally and physically, but also is refusal of admittance that she is even pregnant and about to give birth to a beautiful baby. Uncle George calls the Indian woman "Damn squaw Bitch" (Hemingway17) debasing ...
- 864: John Wayne
- ... front of the cameras in the late 1920’s in a series of small roles. Director John Ford, who befriended " the Duke", recommended him for the lead role in Raoul Walsh’s western epic, The Big Trail. Wayne did not let the stardom go to his head. He spent the rest of the decade making his way through a series of low budget films whose failing budgets and quick shooting schedules ... film industry’s hard-core soilder, but had that compassionate side. Movies released during the war, such as Flying Tigers (1942), The Fighting Seabees (1944) and Back to Bataan (1945) left Wayne with some pretty big shoes to fill. The movies that he made at the end of the decade were the ones that established him as an actor of merit. Howard Hawks emphasized the willful side of Wayne’s screen ...
- 865: Nazism
- ... to be in for gentler treatment. They had, in theory, been part of the National Socialist program form the beginning. Reassuringly, Hitler declared May 1, 1933, a Day of National Labor. Labor was flattered. A big rally was held that night at the Tempelhof airport. There, Hitler warmed a crowd of several hundred thousand with his praise of labor's dignity and the need for unification behind the nation. His listeners ... was concerned, no longer existed. Could Nazism happen again? German universities remained centers of unrest, but the last likelihood seemed to be another Hitler. For the most part, Germany was a burned-out crater of big- power politics. She had no stab-in-the-back legend, no "Jewish conspiracy" myth to spur her on. In fact, if democracy should falter, the greatest probability was that it would be supplanted by communism ...
- 866: Gangs in Today's Cities
- ... being commended. A young child sees this a perfectly acceptable because he knows that the "bad guy" was wrong but has no idea of what acceptable apprehension techniques are. Gore in television also takes a big part in influencing young minds. Children see gory scenes and are fascinated by these things that they have not seen before. Older viewers see gore and are not concerned with the blood but rather with ... importantly, race. This often results in an attitude that motivates the person to base his/her life on doing what the system that oppresses them doesn't want. Although this accomplishes little it is a big factor in gang enrollment. So, as you have seen gangs are a product of the environment we have created for ourselves. Some of these factors include: oppression, the media, greed, violence and other gangs. There ...
- 867: Fingerprinting Kids
- ... Thousands of children are runaways, and in many cases it is all but impossible to determine clearly who they really are. People change, but fingerprints don't. Well-intentioned but misguided civil libertarians worry about Big Brother. But they tend to overlook the obvious benefits of the program and concentrate on wildly imaginative fantasies about Big Brother. If they would come down to earth once in a while, and visit with and share the anguish of a family of an abducted child, they would quickly change their attitudes. Besides, in most ...
- 868: The Color People
- ... push his thing inside my pussy. When that hurt, I cry. He start to choke me, saying you better shut up and git used to it." (Walker, pg. 1,2) However, Mr.____ comes upon a big change in his life when Celie finally leaves him. Mr.____ is left all by himself and forced to survive and maintain himself on his own. Here is where he runs into some problems. Here is where the big change takes place. Mr.____ changes his evil ways and begins to show some compassion and love. The end of the novel depicts a markedly different Mr.____ then the beginning of the novel portrays. In the ...
- 869: Korea 2
- ... loans, relying on them to develop heavy and chemical industries capable of competing internationally. Indeed four decades of industrial development in South Korea have been marked by what have been marked as ‘incestuous ties’ between big business and government. In recent times government has been hostile to the conglomerates but the appointment of Mr Kim Suk Won to the ruling party has reopened an old wound over the role of big business and politics in South Korea. The role of the Chaebols in the Korean economy was a substantial reason for Korea’s success over the last 40 years. The Chaebols are the large multi-company ...
- 870: Two Parents Or One?
- ... present (Allen et al. 390). According to the survey done by Katherine Allen and Peggy Quinn, seventy percent of the single mothers reported that they always worried about money (390). Not only was money a big issue, but also time and energy (392). These single mothers are put under pressure from about every aspect of their lives, and without a husband there to help raise a family, pay the bills, and to show them love, the single mother must nearly feel hopeless. Another big stress for single mothers is the fact that now they have the responsibility of two parents (Allen et al. 392). One woman describes how she felt: "And on the weekends then, mow the yard, and ...
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