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- 8431: Violence on Television
- ... Chaffee, Steven H., George Gerbner, Beatrix A. Hamburgh, Chester M. Pierce, Eli A. Rebinstein, Alberta E. Siegel, and Jerome L. Singer. "Defending the Undefendable." Society Sept.-Oct. 1984: 30-36. Cullingford, Cedric. Children and Television. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Himmelweit, Hilde T., A.N. Oppenheim, and Pamela Vince. Television and the Child. London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Howe, Michael J.A. Television and Children. London: New University Education, 1977. Lowe, Carl, ed. Television and American Culture. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1981. Methvin, Eugene H. "T.V. violence: the shocking new evidence." Reader's Digest Jan. 1983: 49-54. Milavsky, Ronald J., Ronald C. Kessler, Horst. H. Stipp, and ...
- 8432: Becoming A Soldier
- ... eat home made food, go out with friends, sleep in my bed. Instead I would sleep in a tent or lie on the ground on a stake out, eat bad food, and get to know new people. All that was hard for me to accept at the age of 18. To my parents I was the third child to go into the army. My older brother, who was also a fighter ... That was my sign to go. It was a very exciting moment and my mom could not help it and cried. I said goodbye to my family and friends and started my journey to a new passage in my life. At first they took us to a very long trailer. It was brown and looked like it was going to collapse. The paint was coming off from the walls and the ... ironed and shining and he had a hat that covered his eyes, so we could not see them. He declared that he would be our commander for the day. A few people laughed and our new commander made us all run from one tree to another. In the army, the commander is considered "god" and everything he says you have to follow. At the age of eighteen no one is ...
- 8433: The Game of Soccer
- The Game of Soccer The game of soccer, or association football as it is properly called, is the world's most popular team sport. Virtually every country on Earth plays the game in some form or another. It is both physically and intellectually demanding, requiring athletic skill and quick thinking. Brazil's Pele, perhaps ... first international game was played between England and Scotland. And it was in England that soccer professionalism was legalized in 1885. From there the game spread throughout the Empire and to the rest of the world. By 1904 an international governing body was established to control the sport the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Today, FIFA, which is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, has more than 140 member nations and oversees ... game, which is divided into two 45-minute halves. The team scoring the most goals wins. Soccer has been played in every Summer Olympics since 1900, except the 1932 games in Los Angeles. The true world championship, however, is known as the World Cup. It is played every four years and is the most-watched sporting event in the world, attracting an estimated television audience of more than 1 billion ...
- 8434: The Arts And Crafts Debate
- ... of the ability to perform in a useful way. He goes on to outline the tangible aspects of usefulness, depending upon the context they are used in, being the external or internal factors of the world referred to. In addition to function, ‘skill’ is determined to be a measure of the craft or craftsmanship. Becker continues to say that in certain circumstances beauty can also be part of the criteria, which ... craft. He labels them under two distinct titles; “Craft becomes Art” and “Art becomes Craft”. Initially a transformation from art to craft or vice-versa occurs by the invasion of the artist into the craft world for the use of mediums or processes, which become juxtaposed within their own world, ignoring utility. As Becker wrote, “Artists invading a craft want to make sure that the works they produce cannot be used as people have become accustomed to using them.” As a result of utility ...
- 8435: Great Gatsby 10
- In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald tells of the death of the "American Dream." Nick Carraway, a young, seemingly pure man from the west, decides to journey to New York to make his money on the stocks and bonds market. In New York, he is met with a story of love, lust, adultery and murder. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel telling of the death American Dream, and the downfall of those who ... Irish immigrant who made his fortune as a wholesale grocer in St. Paul. Edward Fitzgerald failed as a manufacturer of wicker furniture in St. Paul, and he became a salesman for Procter & Gamble in upstate New York. After he was dismissed in 1908, when his son was twelve, the family returned to St. Paul and lived comfortably on Mollie Fitzgerald's inheritance. Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy; his first ...
- 8436: Great Expectations. The Charac
- ... how Estella asks Pip his opinion about her, he answers she is pretty, she hits him and asks the same question and Pip says nothing. From this moment we don't like her. After a new card game we have the scene of the fight between Pip and the other boy. Pip wins and Estella allows him to kiss her as a kind of prize. This is important because, if the ... reason why she marries Drummle. The failure of this marriage will make to reconsider her thoughts, this marriage will humanize her, as we will see later. In the following chapter (chapter 12) we have a new visit of Pip. In a moment in which Estella is not present Pip agrees with Miss Havisham that Estella is prettier and prettier. After this we have a new card game, this time more related to the battle of sexes again since during the game Miss Havisham advises Estella to break men's heart and because it takes place before Estella's departure. ...
- 8437: Blind Obedience
- ... doesn’t always remember the students names, has never had children of her own, and her memories of all her classes led to a “legion” of faces of which none stood out. In contrast, the “new” teacher memorizes in advance all the students names and birthdays. That is enough to impress any child. Although the children in the story resist at first, it doesn’t take this “new” teacher long to convince them to do away with the Pledge of Allegiance and to rip up the flag. Not a single child could explain why they say the pledge or what they were pledging ... how many children would know why they were saying the Pledge of Allegiance? I didn’t know as a child why we said this every morning, it was just something I had to do. The new teacher is very subversive, and after dispatching the Pledge of Allegiance, she attacks religion and the flag as other symbols that may not be worthy of reverence. All the good things in life come ...
- 8438: The Existence of God
- ... God The existence of a God has for generations been the topic of fierce debate. This most usually occurring between members of the religious society and, everybody else. As a matter of fact the religious world itself has not always been able to agree on God. This has resulted in many a holy man to take up the fight for his deity through the realm of words. Many theories have been ... must be a first cause, i.e. God. He argues that there are five ways to argue for the existence of God, the first is the argument from motion. This states that everything in this world has certain potentials for motion. It also states that for these potentials to be met another object n motion must set off said potential. That object in turn would have to have been put in ... and so on. All of this ultimately culminating to one object which started all this motion, that one being God. The second argument he makes says that there are many things that happen in this world, and they are effects derived from a cause. The effects in turn can be the cause of something else and so on and so on. Yet nothing can be the cause of itself, so ...
- 8439: Auguste Rodin
- Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was born on November 12th 1840 in Paris, France. Very few would dispute the statement that Rodin was the greatest genius in the world of sculpture in the late 19th century. There were very few artists who faced the criticism; slander and personal insults during their lifetimes as was given to Rodin likewise there are few artists who have known such personal glory during their carriers. Rodin's sculpture was so powerful and original that those in control of the art world did not understand him in his day. He was refused admittance into the Ecole des Beaux-Arts three times and was the brunt of many articles criticizing his works. His talent and art was so powerful that despite all of the official disdain he received he was able to overcome these obstacles placed in his path and emerged on the international scene attracting collectors from around the world to his studio seeking his works. Rodin's youth was spent drawing and sculpting at an early age. He spent much of his time at the Louver where he met Antoine Louis Barye. After ...
- 8440: The Vampire Genre (v.s)
- ... can never clearly be defined as there is never a set definition to one genre. There is what the audience expects which is quite often for filled but in addition to that there is sometimes new innovations introduced in a genre which the audience are willing to accept. Although Bram Stoker did not invent the notion of the vampire, his book Dracula is probably the model on which the vampire genre ... just buy waving his hand. These powers come with age and the oldest vampires, who have been roaming the earth for thousands of years, have almost god like powers. In The Lost Boys enters the new generic convention that once you have actually invited a vampire into your house it is impossible to harm him. Also in this film the vampires do not sleep in coffins but hang upside down by ... Dracula but can not actually enter the sunlight as it can burn them to the point of death. In Blade we are introduced to a vampire that is 'a day walker'. This is a totally new convention and even the film acknowledges that a day walking vampire is something special. The main character of the film Blade, played by Wesley Snipes, was born just after his mother was bitten by ...
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