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- 181: Women And Body Image
- ... The clientele are about 85 percent women, most of who regain the weight lost within two years (Lennon, Lillethun, & Buckland, 1999). A persons perception of body image may also be influenced by locus of control. Females with an external locus of control tend to overestimate their body sizes to a greater degree than those who have an internal locus of control (Dejong & Kleck, 1986). A relationship also exists between the attitudinal component of body image and locus of control. For instance, women exhibiting external locus of control experience greater dissatisfaction with the appearance of their ...
- 182: The Eleventh Commandment
- The Eleventh Commandment portrayed the state church as being the supreme dictator. It is through the eleventh commandment that the church held it's power and control over the masses. Without the church and it's leaders to guide the masses, their society would have collapsed. However, compared to Brave New World, the whole society is conditioned to "work for everyone else ... resistance, to obey and follow their leaders through various methods of enforcement. The Brave New World is controlled by a select few who call themselves Resident Controllers and Directors. These elite few are able to control the production and selection process of societies masses. Mustapha Mond, Resident Controller for Western Europe, and the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, oversee the conditioning of embryos. Their powers and control over these particular jurisdictions gave them great power, and with that the ability to manipulate others. "'You ass'... said the Director,... 'Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an ...
- 183: Ethan Frome: Ethan Lost Control of His Life
- Ethan Frome: Ethan Lost Control of His Life I believe Ethan Frome lost control of his life when his mother died. After his mother's funeral, Ethan did not want to be left alone on the farm, so he asked Zeena to stay with him. At first, Ethan enjoys ... all. He thinks the only pleasure she has left is to inflict pain on him. Since Zeena is a burden on Ethan, he naturally wants to improve his life. The reason he does not have control of his life is because he is married to Zeena, and he is not brave enough to go away with Mattie. The reason he is married to Zeena is because his mother died. Since ...
- 184: Diamonds Are My Best Friend
- ... creak. "Shit," he whispered to himself. "What was that? Who is down there? This none of your business. WHO IS THERE?!?" the father screamed. Scared and angry he reached in his dresser and grabbed his gun. "You have one last chance to let yourself be known. Otherwise you shall receive dire consequences." Silent, Ryan stood there. He waited for the man to show his face around the corner. It was his ... him was death. So he stood there and waited as the man slowly walked out of the room, his children sat silently. "All right. That was your chance. I am coming and I have a gun..." the man was sweating. He had no clue what was going on. He knew he heard something and he knew it wasnt just the wind. It waited for him and he didnt know ... bed. Their father lay almost silent on the floor bleeding from his gut. Gripping at it vigorously, he attempted to stop the bleeding with his hands. The man then looked at him and lifted his gun firing two shots. "Sir, do you honestly think that is going to work?" Ryan fired two more shots into the mans legs. "ARGH! Who the hell are you and what do you want?" ...
- 185: Birth Control
- By: Concerned E-mail: hotbot@usa.net Birth Control is defined as various ways used to prevent pregnancy from occurring. Birth Control has been a concern for humans for thousands of years. The first contraception devices were mechanical barriers in the vagina that prevented the male sperm from fertilizing the female egg. Other methods of birth control that were used in the vagina were sea sponges, mixtures of crocodile dung and honey, quinine, rock salt and alum. We have come a long way from past time times of contraceptives, although some ...
- 186: Teenage Violence: A National Plague
- ... at every aspect. Secondly teenagers are exposed to guns more easily without being taught to respect them and handle them properly and safely. Another thing to ask yourself is how can a teenager acquire a gun so easily despite our gun control laws? An angry fight that would be a fist fight for an earlier generation can become deadly if one of the participants has a gun. Teenagers will still get angry and may fight if ...
- 187: Francis Macomber In The Short
- ... s retaliatory love affair, and his ultimate recovery of integrity as he bravely faces a charging buffalo" (Ed. Harris 205). Francis Macomber is a prominent American businessman with a beautiful, dominating wife who holds the control and power in their marriage. At the start of their safari trip to Africa, Francis Macomber is regarded as a coward only the endure the embarrassment from his own cowardliness during the hunt, the disrespect ... only "half an hour before, been carried to his tent from the edge of the camp in triumph on the arms and shoulders of the cook, the personal boys, the skinner and the porters. The gun-bearers had taken no part in the demonstration" (Stallman 89) (Hemingway 1395). This is evident that Macomber has withdrawn from his prior hunt for a lion and has already been recognized as a coward in the eyes of the gun-bearers. They do not wish to pretend along with everyone else that Francis deserves praise for a lion that he supposedly shot. Macomber, however, does finally shoot a lion during his second outing with ...
- 188: Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry -
- ... hope, and a goal to work towards despite the hard times and their general lack of opportunity. The ways Uncle Hammer and Papa deal with situations are very different because of the amount of self-control that they have. Whenever a white person does something that degrades the black people, Uncle Hammer spontaneously seeks revenge without thinking about the consequences of his actions. For example, when he hears that Cassie had been pushed into the road by Mr Simms while visiting Strawberry, he immediately reaches for his gun and heads for the door to the Simmses . Then he stood slowly, his eyes icing into the distant way they could, and he started toward the door, limping slightly on his left leg. Don t worry. I ain t gonna use David s gun . . . I ve got my own. Hammer is impetuous with a quick temper that means he often acts without thinking things through. Papa does not like Uncle Hammer s hot temper. He tells Cassie, you ...
- 189: Legalization of Drugs
- ... by people under the influence of illicit drugs. "This connection seems to have the greatest impact upon the popular imagination" (Lindsmith Center). Clearly, some drugs do "cause" some people to commit crimes by reducing normal control, unleashing aggressive and other antisocial tendencies, and lessening the sense of responsibility. "Cocaine, particularly in the form of crack, has gained such a reputation in recent years, just as heroin did in the 1960s and ... s equivalents are the booby traps that surround some marijuana fields, the pirates of the Caribbean looking to rip off drug-laden vessels en route to the shores of the United States, and the machine gun battles and executions carried out by drug lords -- all of which occasionally kill innocent people. Most law-enforcement officials agree that the dramatic increases in urban murder rates during the past few years can be ... deterring large numbers of ghetto dwellers from becoming drug abusers, but they do account for much of what ghetto residents identify as the drug problem. In many neighborhoods, it often seems to be the aggressive gun- toting drug dealers who upset law abiding residents far more than the addicts nodding out in doorways. Other residents, however, perceive the drug dealers as heroes and successful role models. In impoverished neighborhoods, they ...
- 190: Teenage Violence
- ... at every aspect. Secondly teenagers are exposed to guns more easily without being taught to respect them and handle them properly and safely. Another thing to ask yourself is how can a teenager acquire a gun so easily despite our gun control laws? An angry fight that would be a fist fight for an earlier generation can become deadly if one of the participants has a gun. Teenagers will still get angry and may fight if ...
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