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- 5551: Subliminial Messages
- ... sex is the most frequently embedded word in American industry. "Sex is alive and embedded in practically everything" (www.subl.survives). Other words such as f*!k, c#?t, a!s, wh*?e, pr*!k, death are also used frequently as subliminal triggers to motivate purchasing behaviors. There are many areas where this method is used, such as in animated films by Walt Disney Company. In The Little Mermaid the castle ... such as, those who are trying to lose weight or quit smoking. Messages like, "smoking's disgusting" or "I'm thin". The negative effect of backmasking are putting in messages that are unnecessary, such as, "death" or "kill". I would just encaurage you to keep a watch fully on this. I think with technology, the ability to modify tape in ways that we never dreamed before, both video tape as well ...
- 5552: ALCOHOLISM A PSYCHOLOGICAL QUA
- ... The lifetime prevalence for alcoholism in the United States is as high as fourteen percent. Taking these statements into consideration it is not difficult to believe that alcohol is ranked the third major cause of death in the United States. Not so suprising is the fact that approximately thirty seven percent of alcohol abusers suffer from at least one co-existing mental disorder. Two psychopathological conditions that have been linked to ... the individual abstains the more severe the symptoms may become. Disorientation, hallucinations, and acute fear may incur. Withdrawal symptoms can be deadly, and medical assistance should be utilized. With current drugs such as chlordiazepoxide, the death rate has been drastically reduced. Ironically, many alcoholics can lead somewhat normal lives. However, in later years of excess drinking the brain is affected. There is no way around it. It is up to our ...
- 5553: Oedipus The King 3
- ... of inevitable self-destruction. We cannot have life entirely on our own terms for very long. What makes Oedipus so compelling is not that he suffers horribly and endures at the end an almost living death. The force of the play comes from the connection between Oedipus's sufferings and his own actions, that is, from the awareness of how he himself is bringing upon his own head the dreadful outcome ... hero, learns about himself and about life, but unlike the comic hero, is not willing, even then, to compromise, to abandon the course of action he has initiated and for which he takes full responsibility. Death he prefers to any compromise with his ownsense of himself. To admire the tragic character requires, not that we like him particularly, but rather that we see in his response to experience something magnificently heroic ...
- 5554: Old Man And The Sea
- ... Grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of death, Amen. Then he added. Blessed Virgin, pray for the death of this fish, wonderful as he is. [ Hemingway 64-65] This quote shows that the old man is forced to break the rules of sanity and talks to himself as well as the fish which ...
- 5555: Of Mice And Men -
- ... As a result of his actions Lennie ended up dead. Lennie had an extremely great ability to use his strength and become a great worker. However his difficulty to understand his strength lead to his death. Unlike Lennie, Crooks potential is his knowledge, and Crooks has the ability to use his knowledge to try to escape the problems he has on the ranch. However Crooks falls back into a 1930s attitude ... is gone. Without Lennie, George feels there is no hope. As a result the potential to be his own boss is lost. George has a great potential to be his own boss, but with the death of Lennie, George loses hope. George has chosen his fate to be a worker and not to be his own boss. Throughout the novel you can get an insight into what it is like to ...
- 5556: Coco Chanel
- ... her humble beginnings to becoming the most influential designer of her time, she incorporated good looks and comfort for women of the 1920's and formed a strong capital investment for herself even after her death. Born into a destitute Auvergnate family August 19, 1883, Gabrielle Chanel was destined to be a notable face in the French and global fashion scene. She was given the very fitting middle name of Bonheur ... Chanel died (15). But her life and memory was to be carried on as the memory of a woman who rejected her past to have the life she deserved and desired. After Gabrielle ChanelΉs death, her fashion house, salons, and studio were left idle for a decade. By 1983, Karl Lagerfeld had taken control of the House of Chanel as the design consultant (75). He opened a second Parisian boutique ...
- 5557: Night Essay 2
- ... fact I was thinking of how to get farther away so that I would not be hit myself. (page 52) This is his father he is talking about. His father is getting beaten nearly to death, and all he can think about is getting farther away so as to not get hurt too. This really shows how survival can change your judgment. It s either his father gets hurt, or you ... high at this point, since the prisoners could hear the Americans quite near, it wasn t. The prisoners had already been through so much that all of their hope of ever getting out of those death camps was drained from them. Now they were just along for the ride. At one point the prisoners are shoved into big caravans. Although they should be fearing for their lives and grieving for the ...
- 5558: New Hreligion And Medieval Lit
- ... understand. One more medieval belief that was present in Everyman is the sense of ownership in the play, or more specifically the sense of self, as well as property, as being loaned rather than owned. Death, in line 161 said, "What, weenest thou thy life is given thee, and thy worldly goods also?...Nay, nay, it was but lent thee." This concept was also present in Everyman's address to Goods in lines 437-440. Goods said, "What, weenest thou that I am thine?" To which Everyman replied, "I had weened so." Goods responded much like Death with, "Nay, Everyman, I say no. As for a while I was lent thee; A season thou hast had me in prosperity." The concept of who owned what was repeated in the play to emphasize ...
- 5559: Cicero
- ... beneath his toga). Catiline lost and planned to carry out armed uprisings in Italy and arson in Rome. Evidence incriminating the conspirators was secured and they were executed on Cicero's responsibility. Cicero, announcing their death to the crowd with the single word vixerunt ("they are dead"), received a tremendous ovation from all classes. He was hailed by Catulus as pater patriae, "father of his country". This was the climax of ... or other of some 94 different friends, acquaintances, and relatives. The number constitutes only a small portion of the letters that Cicero wrote and received. Many letters were suppressed for political reasons after Cicero's death. Cicero made his reputation as an orator in politics and in the law courts, where he preferred appearing for the defense and generally spoke last because of his emotive powers. Trained by Molon of Rhodes ...
- 5560: Medea By Euripides
- ... and heart broken. She wants Jason to feel the hurt and pain that she does. In revenge for what Jason has cause Medea to feel she kills his new bride and her father, an agonizing death of deadly poison. She then kills her own two sons. Medea is ashamed of what she has done to her sons, but does it to make Jason hurt the way she has. She says: Never again alive shall he see the sons he had by me, nor any child by this new bride of his- poor girl, who has to die a wretched death, poisoned by me. (1.3.803-807) Medea thinks that doing to Jason what he has done to her will make her feel better. She leaves Jason with no one. By killing her sons, there ...
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