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- 2281: Video Games: The High Tech Threat to Our Younger Generation
- ... or alcohol or pornographic magazines." Evans continues, "But kids can walk into any movie rental store and pick up one of these violent video games, nobody will say no. The parents feel like they lost control with thesegames" (Browning 691). Alain Jehlen says, "Our children are spending countless hours with these machines, their eyes glued to the screen, their fingers madly pressing buttons to meet contrived on-screen challenges” (74). Nowadays ... you buy. This is a war toy. Playing with it increases anger and violence in children. Is this what you really want for your child? (WAR TOYS). Which may not be very effective altogether to control the vidiegames with violent contend. But still the warning gives a chance and may be the parents pause a moment before they decide to buy any thing for their offspring. Voluntary rating system or any ...
- 2282: Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
- ... two go together. In this view, his high-flown speech (especially in the first section) expresses the extremeness of his commitment to her. From this perspective, the speaker's final proposal about the lovers' taking control of their own fate (taking that control away from time) could be meant sincerely. Throughout the class discussions, it became clear that this poem offers a particular view of gender relations: Women are silent objects of men's desires, and men use ...
- 2283: Prohibition in the 1920's
- ... of alcohol” have spread from the saloon to stores, pool halls, private parlors and other various types of speak-easies. The Council also states that,” The evidence of history that other methods of attempting to control the traffic have failed and that prohibition, despite inadequacies of enforcement, is succeeding better than any other program.” According to the Council, prohibition is succeeding, “despite inadequacies.” Have prohibitionists taken a close look at these ... do that society can not stop a man from having a drink no more than society can stop a man from sneezing. In order to protect the minority of people who have trouble with self-control and alcohol, prohibition places guilty and innocent alike, under arrest. This failing practice, along with the feeble enforcement of the ban of alcohol, proves that the eighteenth amendment is nugatory and powerless and should be ...
- 2284: 1984 9
- ... are very much alive. Even though we live in modern times how do we know who is insane? The world is flat and the planets revolve around Earth were once sane statements. Finally do we control ourselves in this Democratic country or are we just puppets dancing to the high and powerful affluent members of our society. Or maybe G-d himself is the one who makes us do the things ... and most calls you make to stores or businesses are recorded. They even tell you that your conversation is being monitored for your protection. The V-chip that would allow the government to monitor and control what you watched on TV exists. And even without it the government controls most things from the media. We do not know exactly what goes on in other countries. We see wars on TV and ...
- 2285: Overpopulation
- ... same or even decline. The result, the experts argued, was famine by the early 1980s at the latest. The only way to decrease the severity of the impending disaster was to adopt strict policies to control population.There will soon be 6 billion human beings on Earth: according to the latest population estimates released by the United Nations. At this rate, the world population is doubling every 40 years. On October ... nations are still careful. They will need to remain so while improving their standard of living. It will be necessary that others in wealthy nations curb their consumption and wastes. Our survival depends on population control as well as a better management of natural resources. Being limited in quantity, natural resources need to be managed accordingly. A new management of the planet's resources has to be planned. In spite of ...
- 2286: Report On Book Titled Black Li
- ... that I would have been murdered due to a lack of respect for anyone who had a lack of respect to me. I would have psychologically snapped on someone somewhere along the line and lost control. I like to debate over things with others and argue my point until it is at least seen why I feel the way that I do, even if the person(s) so not feel the ... put under such harsh ridicule simply for being born with his parent s heritage. Under no circumstances is it morally right to purposely, repeatedly, bash someone for something, anything, never mind something that they cannot control or change. This world evolved form one-celled organisms to forests with dinosaurs. Nature has changed to accommodate our arrival, is there any reason why we cannot accommodate to live and be happy with what ...
- 2287: A Dolls House 3
- ... Torvald. She relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts, much like a puppet who is dependent on its puppet master for all of its actions. The most obvious example of Torvald's physical control over Nora is his reteaching her the tarantella. Nora pretends that she needs Torvald to teach her every move in order to relearn the dance. The reader knows this is an act, and it shows ... best to suppress the feminist revolution. These things are expressed in A Doll's House. Torvald is an example of today's stereotypical man, who is only interested in his appearance and the amount of control he has over a person, and does not care about the feelings of others. Nora, on the other hand, is a typical example of the woman who plays to a man's desires. She makes ...
- 2288: Marbury v. Madison
- ... anti-federalist Republican party defeated the incumbent John Adams and the Federalist party. The Republicans also won a majority in Congress. In an effort to keep at least one branch of the government under Federalist control before the Republicans took office, Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1801 in a lame-duck session. The bill reformed a 1789 statute and created many new judgeships. Adams nominated judges and the Senate confirmed ... forever changed the task of the Supreme Court. The job would not any longer be the survival of the Court but to use its powers while restraining its excesses, "to have it guide but not control democratic life; to have it apply but not revise the Constitution; and to have it work with, not over, the coordinate branches of national political power" (Bernstein 20).
- 2289: Thomas P. O'Neill
- ... big hearted liberalism was on the way out. In 1980, O'Neill was a target of a clever Republican ad campaign that pictured him in a limo as a symbol of a bloated out of control congress. The advertisement backfired and it sent O'Neill into folk hero status. Tip even "made an appearance on "Cheers" as an effect of the advertisement." (Time 18) Tip said that he "only made one vote that he regretted." (O'Neill 218) It was a yes vote on the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that gave Lyndon Johnson full control over all military intervention in Vietnam. He did this because it was a time when Congress did what leadership asked, in fact there was not one descending vote in the house on this issue (414 ...
- 2290: Charles M. Manson
- Charles M. Manson In this world there are cults everywhere. Whether they're in the US, China, or maybe next-door there is always one common factor, control. Charles Manson was a cult leader in southern California during the sixties. Like all cult leaders Manson had his own small band of followers. His influence was so great that his followers were willing to ... insecure people in need of a father figure, people who didn't have much ego to begin with. What he did, in effect, was to tear down that ego and substitute himself, thus gaining enormous control over his followers.”(Roberts pg.31) Susan Atkins remembers bleakly, “I never questioned what Charlie said. I just did it.” To his girls Charles Manson was a “beautiful man” who “loved us all totally.” Many ...
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