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- 311: How has AIDS affected our Society?
- ... million of those people had developed AIDS. The disease is obviously an important social issue. AIDS has caused many to rethink their own social behavior. People are forced to use caution when involving themselves in sexual activity. They must use contraception to avoid the dangers of infection. Many people consider HIV infection and AIDS to be completely preventable because the routes of HIV transmission are so well known. To completely prevent transmission, however, dramatic changes in sexual behavior and drug dependence would have to occur throughout the world. Prevention efforts that promote sexual awareness through open discussion and condom distribution in public schools have been opposed due to fear that these efforts encourage sexual promiscuity among young adults. Similarly, needle-exchange programs have been criticized as promoting ...
- 312: Sex In Society
- ... broadcast media. The increasing diversity of women's lives is also omitted in most broadcasting. For example, commercials and programming most often portray women as mothers performing domestic tasks, as economically dependent homemakers, or as sexual lures for products or decorative objects. "Such images constitute a limiting or narrowing of women's, men's, and children's perceptions of themselves and their roles in society." (pp.4-5) Sheila Copps made ... trivial things such as outrageous clothing and hairstyles. Although Canadians have improved their broadcasting standards, not everyone is completely following their trend. In an intensive study done on American programming, it was found that a sexual act or reference occurred every four minutes on average during prime time. (p.59) "Sex Sells," the old adage goes. (Menzies, 1996, p. 9) Sexiness, as a component of the good life, is a staple ... revealing bikini can send out the wrong message," Glaser says. He adds "I don't blame the advertising industry, but feels it fuels the fire when it comes to pedophilia." (Johnson) Also, the attractiveness of sexual aggression as crime news, and therefore as prime news, has been recognized by many newspapers lately. "While comfortably hidden under the cloak of objective crime reporting, sexual violence can be endlessly exploited for its ...
- 313: Historical Psychoanalysis And Dream Interpretation: The Freudian Methodology
- ... individual to experience the instinctual urges that society deems unacceptable. Being that Freud was a product of the Victorian age, much of his dreamwork focused on the symbolism of dreams as projections of feelings of sexual frustration and guilt (15, 16 Storr). he leading dream theory since the early twentieth century has been that of psychoanalysis according to Sigmund Freud. Freud's theory encompassed the idea that dream formation is the ... had asked Fliess to perform on Irma in real life. Freud also recalled a recent conversation with Fliess in which they had speculated about the role of trimethylamin in the chemistry of the body's sexual processes. These recollections in turn led to a whole jumble of conflict-laden thoughts and wishes regarding both Fliess and Irma. These encompassed feelings of resentment and anger towards his friend Fliess and of a certain sexual attraction between himself and his patient (Irma). Many of these thoughts were anxiety arousing and difficult to accept, but Freud felt forced to acknowledge that they were true, that they made sense, and that ...
- 314: Music Censorship
- ... be, his choice. Some children are too young for the exposure to certain types of music. Albums containing sexually explicit lyrics depicting sexualacts in great detail are not good for young children to hear. Also, sexual content within the albums, as in their artwork, is unacceptable. For example, the Frankenchrist album by the Dead Kennedys, which portrays an extremely sexual painting by H.G. Giger, entitled Landscape #20: Where Are We Coming From (Wishna 444). Not to mention all the shows and concerts in which some kind of pornography is used or displayed that is ... like a hot knife through butter," (Zucchino 9). When the majority of people (children) listen to these types of music, they do not sit and analyze the lyrics and say, "Gee, this sure is quite sexual music." No, people listen to the music because they enjoy the style, and most realize the sexual content of this music is not to be taken so seriously. Lastly, an piece from Mentors' "Golden ...
- 315: The Glass Meangere
- ... one major theme for my work which is the destructive impact of society on the sensitive non-conformist individual" (Letter, 1939, to Audrey Wood)1. I will further distinguish between three types of outcasts--religious, sexual, and fugitive and will devote a chapter to examples from Williams's plays that illustrate the juxtaposition of values within each of these three types. In my final chapter I will argue against the notion ... about other important American writers. For example, the MLA database lists 4,019 entries using the descriptor "William Faulkner," and more than 1,089 entries using "Eugene O'Neill."2 Chapter Two: "Promiscuity and Penance: Sexual Outcasts as Martyrs in Suddenly Last Summer, Orpheus Descending, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Catherine: They had devoured parts of him....Torn or cut parts of him away with ... was left of him, that looked like a big white-paper-wrapped bunch of red roses had been torn, thrown, crushed!--against that blazing white wall....(Williams, Suddenly Last Summer 92) Many of Williams's sexual outcasts are devoured, literally or figuratively, and in this chapter I will show how these characters suffer because of the two drives I mentioned earlier. Sebastian Venable and Catherine Holly in Suddenly Last Summer ...
- 316: The Police and Corruption
- ... they should not be? This will be observed from four different aspects in which police are capable of exceeding the parameters of their power and authority: police and use of discretionary enforcement, Police justice, police harassment, and the unwarranted use of police authority. Police are allowed to and must use personal discretion in their determination of law enforcement. Unlike a judge or lawyer a police officer can not gather information and ... is difficult for the officer to keep his commitment to the system. Where moral commitment is lost, subcultural practices take over. One such practice that exacerbates the relationship of the police with the public is harassment (Reiss, p.138) Therefore police create their own subcultural practices which include harassment. citizens feel they have been harassed. He states that citizens do not call upon the police for things that they feel the police will not believe or will not consider legitimate concerns. Therefore citizens ...
- 317: Freudian Dream Analysis
- ... individual to act out events in the imagination, which can satiate the urges that are repressed. Freud theorized that dreams were a subconscious manifestation of these repressed urges, and that they served mainly to satisfy sexual and aggressive tendencies. The interpretation of dreams has come to be one of the aspects of Freud's studies which are most popularized, as he took the importance of dreams far more seriously than many ... incorporated these symbols and their meanings into dreams. For a complete listing of these symbols, on may look to Chapter 10 of his primer on psychoanalytic study, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. However, the emphasis on sexual imagery is a majority of this text. This is perhaps one of his most assaulted theories. It states that there is a constant among all individuals that "object a = meaning a," but also that there is such an absurd amount of these sexual symbols that almost every dream could be boiled down to nothing more than an expression of sexuality. Freud also noticed the many conflicts within thought and mental processes, and the seeming battle between levels ...
- 318: Binge Drinking
- ... in learning impairment, hyperactivity, and personality and behavior problems, because today's society has accepted the casual use of alcohol (Effects, 1996, 1). Among men, research suggests that greater alcohol use is related to greater sexual aggression (Shalala, 1995, 2). Students living on campuses with higher proportions of binge drinkers experience more incidents of assault and unwanted sexual advances because of their peers drinking than do students residing on campuses with lower proportions of binge drinkers (Shalala, 1995, 2). Some campuses sponsor alcohol awareness events and classroom lectures and distribute information about alcohol ... rates of alcohol problems. According to Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services at The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, it seems that binge drinkers appear to engage in more unplanned sexual activity and to abandon safe sex techniques more often than students who do not binge drink (Shalala, 1995, 2). The purpose of this paper will prove whether or not Ms. Shalala is right or ...
- 319: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... later Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), the producing arm of Loew's, under the direction of Louis B. MAYER and Irving THALBERG.^Attacks against immorality in films intensified during this decade, spurred by the sensual implications and sexual practices of the movie stars both on and off the screen. In 1921, after several nationally publicized sex and drug scandals, the industry headed off the threat of federal CENSORSHIP by creating the office of ... Iron Horse, 1924), and its first great biblical epics (The Ten Commandments, 1923, and King of Kings, 1927, both made by Cecil B. DE MILLE). Other films of this era included Erich Von STROHEIM's sexual studies, Lon CHANEY's grotesque costume melodramas, and the first great documentary feature, Robert J. FLAHERTY's Nanook of the North (1922). European Film in the 1920s In the same decade, the European film industries ... GRANT, Gary COOPER, Clark GABLE, James STEWART--and some of America's greatest directors thrived on the pressures and excitement of studio production. Josef von STERNBERG became legendary for his use of exotic decor and sexual symbolism; Howard HAWKS made driving adventures and fast-paced comedies; Frank CAPRA blended politics and morality in a series of comedy-dramas; and John FORD mythified the American West.^American studio pictures seemed to ...
- 320: Critical Analysis of "The Indifferent" by John Donne
- ... the concept of true versus false to stand for constancy and promiscuity. This is first introduced in the last line of the first stanza, and continues throughout the entire poem. The speaker desires a solely sexual relationship with his women, and he believes that such a relationship cannot exist if they are truthful to one another. According to Eleanor McNees, "Donne realizes that erotic license is irreconcilable with norms of truth ... and you and you,' and finally the very heavy accents on 'any' and 'true' in line 9" (Hunt 5). In the second stanza, the speaker continues upon the theme of faithfulness being a "vice," and sexual promiscuity being a virtue. "The sexual tone which was suggested in the first stanza in the anti-romantic details of 'spongy eyes' and 'dry cork' is intensified by the connotations of the words 'know' and 'rob me'; and the sexual ...
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