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- 3171: Smokey The Bear Sutra
- ... magazines, radio, billboards, and in-store displays. The incredible amount of money, artistic ability, and intellectual energy spent on advertisements helps us understand the great power of the media and the advertiser s ability to control their viewers. Advertising in today s society is largely based on brand name recognition. It doesn t matter how good the product being sold is, but rather how good the product s advertisements are. A ... at the end by God. A decade ago it would have been inconceivable to sell the idea of God and even more ludicrous if people would have bought it. But advertisers have mastered how to control the consumers and now it is possible for anything to be sold. Smokey the Bear is aimed at preventing forest fires, but Gray Snyder uses him to sell religion. He uses Smokey to get his ...
- 3172: Hazelwood History Of Censorshi
- ... 140). The case outlined two important aspects: Students in public school do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech at the school house gate” but school officials have “comprehensive authority . . . to prescribe and control conduct in the schools;” and school authorities have the power to ban/punish speech that “materially and substantially interferes with requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school” or speech which officials forecast ... the principal revealed that “he had not actually censored the newspaper—it had been his wife,” and the censored quote was upheld, (Student 47).The Supreme Court in the Hazelwood case let educators have greater control and let schools in its capacity as publisher of a school newspaper “disassociate itself” not only from speech that would ‘substantially interfere with [its] work . . . or impinge upon the rights of other students’, but also ...
- 3173: A Review of "The Outsiders Club" Screened on BBC 2 in October 96
- ... It was considered reasonable by the surrogate that a fee (£60) was charged, partly because it is after all a 'business' transaction, and "otherwise they would become too attached if we did not charge". POWER, CONTROL, and FETISHISM The film showed several disabled women who discussed their experiences of the club. One woman, who uses a wheelchair, claimed that she had only been asked out by able-bodied men. Tuppy's ... this was that some able bodied men feel inadequate within their own experience, but are enabled to feel empowered if they have sex with disabled women. She said that such men feel they are in control, and by this process are able to exercise power over a woman, albeit that the woman is disabled. Shakespeare makes the point that there is an assumption here that any sexual contact is better than ...
- 3174: Environmental And Genetic Affects And Schizophrenia
- ... of the omega-3 and omega-6 series are depleted in cell membranes of neuroleptic treated schizophrenics (Peet et al., 1995). Peet compared the PUFA composition of red blood cell (RBC) membranes from schizophrenics and control subjects. The results are shown in Glen et al. (cited in Peet et al., 1995) found that the lowest RBC membrane levels of PUFA were in the 'worst-state' schizophrenics. Furthermore, Peet and colleagues found ... study cited, this index of increased phospholipid breakdown correlates with the severity of schizophrenic symptoms expressed. Furthermore, they also found there to be increased pentane levels in air expired from schizophrenics compared to that of control subjects. This is consistent with increased oxidative breakdown of PUFA. Peet et al. (1995) suggest a mechanism that would promote the increased breakdown of membrane PUFA is that of increased phospholipase activity (this is the ...
- 3175: How Much Land Does A Man Need
- ... well, for awhile. Pahom was happy h aving ten times as much land. He had land for everything he needed. But after awhile, it came to be to little. His greed was growing out of control. He was ready to buy more land but a passing stranger told him about a place he had just come from, more news from the west. Pahom was told about the best land ever and ... native Americans knew how to speak English because they were constantly exposed to English speaking men. They made a deal that whatever deal Pahom could walk around would be his. His greed was out of control at this point. He was so sure about how much land he could cover that he thought he was stealing for them. The night before he had a dream that the devil was sitting over ...
- 3176: Human Nutrition
- ... done to determine the symptoms the person is claiming to be having. Necessary treatment will depend on the outcome of the evaluation. Depression can be treated with antidepressant drugs. The human brain has neurotransmitters, which control our emotion and mood state. Antidepressants act on these neurotransmitters by altering the level of the depressed state. A depressed person will take these drugs for at two-three weeks before they are to notice ... pressure. People who take MAO drugs are to follow a strict diet and avoid alcoholic beverages and certain cheeses. Most patients obtain a list of foods from their physicians. Coping with the situation itself can control maintaining mental health. The ability to cope with stress can be crucial for the mental health of a person. Many people have different ways of dealing with life's scary moments. Coping means dealing with ...
- 3177: The Influence of Ecstasy on the Youth
- ... is self-stupefying and refuses to question the taking of the drugs affecting its continual and successful existence. “Recreational drug users often see only benefits only from drug use and at this stage will have control over the drug taking, despite using drug on regular basis. However recreational drug use does not mean problem free drug use.”(Latimer 1997). For this reason it is vital to raise awareness about some of ... and the general public, after all the young Ravers of today a whole generation, who will ultimately effect the future of the country. Many young people feel unlike alcohol Ecstasy allows them to stay in control. In an article by Sheila Henderson she particularly emphasis’s the attraction of Ecstasy and the E-culture for young women. She suggests that women felt that being in an environment where every one was ...
- 3178: Shockwave Rider
- ... Who knows, but we may be able to access the Internet by telephone in just a few years. There seems to be no stopping this type of technology that is bent on bringing communication, and control along with it, to a level where anyone and everyone can become actively involved. These interrogations approach many difficult and intriguing questions. For example, if all the choices of a race are known, where does ... out of some very serious problems, but he also illustrates that the chances we do this are very slim, indeed. It is much more likely that we will allow our government to take over and control every aspect of our lives and our thoughts. Brunner clearly does not stand for the world he has created, but he does stand for the world that could be.
- 3179: Scarface
- ... men to Tony s home to kill him. Tony didn t go down easy, but in the end he still went down. Drugs in this movie portrayed money and power. Whoever distributed the drugs had control of the others around him who didn t. The main goal of many characters in this movie was to get people under you so they can do your dirty work. All major characters in this ... and then you get the women. The unhealthy messages about drugs conveyed in this movie suggest that they are a quick way to make cash but can ultimately be someone s downfall. Tony s drug control led to other problems. He couldn t get his money laundered from his normal banker because the more money Tony gave the banker, the higher the interest charge he would receive in return. Tony s ...
- 3180: The Queer Use Of Women In Borg
- ... the time-honored view that in this tale, as in similar stories such as "La muerte y la brújula," Borges is showing the reader the inherent foolishness of the human presumption that we are in control of our own destinies. Jaime Alazraki, for example, states that "El muerto" demonstrates a "tragic contrast between a man who believes himself to be the master and the maker of his fate and a text ... know it yet, he must now die. Otálora's death is required, not simply because he was too ambitious and too greedy and tried to take command of things that he had no right to control, but because he has dared to place himself in the position of power in the "unimaginable contact"[13] that would turn Bandeira into the so-called "passive" partner in male-male sexual intercourse. As Borges ...
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