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- 791: Socialist Utopia In Nineteen E
- ... by the government that is supposed to be protecting them and their rights. Orwell foresaw the approach of a totalist society from which faith, custom, common sense, justice, order, freedom, brotherhood, art, literature, and even sexual love would be eradicated, declares literary critic Russell Kirk. The new socialist oligarchy would live for the intoxication of brutal power (311). Every action and policy of the Party demonstrates its oppressiveness. The Party destroys ... truth and only tells lies to its people through the controlled media. The Party destroys a language as it evolves English into Newspeak, a language limited in abstract ideas. The Party outlaws the act of sexual intercourse and procreation. The most horrific violation of natural rights is the Party s prohibition of individuality. Although there are no written laws in Oceania, there is only one true offense: opposing the Party. Socialism ...
- 792: Hamlet: Emotional States
- ... his mother, when she can not afford him the love he expects. Besides Hamlet's desire to find comfort in his mother, it is evident that he is sexually attracted to his mother in a sexual fashion. Because of some of Hamlet's actions in the "closet scene" it is first apparent that he is making some sort of sexual advance towards his mother the Queen. This is where Hamlet's Oedipus complex really bears itself completely, we know exactly what Hamlet wants, but like in the rest of the play his words seem haphazard ...
- 793: School Violence
- ... children and criminals. (Quindlen 98) A source of conflict in many schools is the perceived or real problem of bias and unfair treatment of students because of ethnicity, gender, race, social class, religion, disability, nationality, sexual orientation or physical appearance is what a report noted. An update on hate crime legislation and related statistics is included, but the report also notes that hate crimes are often underreported and data collection is ... definitions of hate crime vary. Recent data shows that about fifteen percent of eleven, thirteen, and fifteen-year-olds have been bullied because of their religion or race, and more than thirty percent have had sexual jokes, comments or gestures directed at them. (Schroeder 75) Gun laws are an interesting issue in the never-ending civic debates that is this nation. There is hardly any true debate about them at all ...
- 794: Harry Potter And Censorship
- ... them and would simply not buy into a plot that had everybody happily holding hands across the world. Its unnatural, every one in the world has seen conflict, on the national scale and at home. Sexual content also tends to get books pulled off the shelves. Books dealing with homosexuality, and even sexual development are targeted. Daddy's Roommate by Michael Wilhoite is about a boy living with his gay father. While this would be an uncomfortable situation to live in, it does help children be more accepting ...
- 795: Aggression
- ... Trouble with Testosterone, in The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament (New York, N.Y.: Scribner, 1997), 158. 2Sapolsky, 152-153. 3Robert Prentky, The Neurochemistry and Neuroendocrinology of Sexual Aggression, Aggression and Dangerousness (New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1985), 18 4Sapolsky, 155 Works Cited Prentky, Robert. The Neurochemistry and Neuroendocrinology of Sexual Aggression, Aggression and Dangerousness, 9-19. New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1985. Sapolsky, Robert. The Trouble with Testosterone, In The Trouble with Testosterone and other Essays on the Biology of the Human ...
- 796: Sex in Advertising
- ... in terms of fulfilling erotic fantasies and appetites (D'Emilio and Freeman, 1989). Consumers want to see more, however the use of such appeals is constantly contested in terms of ethics and morality, much as sexual norms and morals in general have been contested throughout both American and world history (The Journal of Advertising, pg 73). Commercials have become a risque as standards loosen. Networks, in an effort to compete with ... and big bolts" (NEXT Generation, pg 91) appeal to their adolescent fantasies. There are people who consider this form of advertisment to be in poor taste because of the advertising techniques. They oppose advertisements with sexual overtones and advertisements with adult content that appear in media available to and directed toward children (Advertising, pg 67). Even the foreign market of developing countries such as war torn Cambodia are being flooded with ...
- 797: Impact of Abuse
- Impact of Abuse The impact of sexual abuse reaches all levels of a childs emotions. These emotions and the effects are listed below: Confusion: This is usually the initial reaction of the child. They will usually question, "What is going on?" and ... as the confusion which goes through a childs mind. Since I was a little ten-year-old child, I had to deceive and hide from the world and my mother that my father took a sexual interest in me. Remember how you taught me that art of deceit? First you put me in a situation that had to be kept a secret then you pledged me to secrecy...As a ten ...
- 798: The History of Greek Theater
- ... was that from the Sicilian mimes, who put on very rude performances where they would make satirical allusions to audience members as they ad-libbed their performances. In the beginning, comedy was frank, indecent and sexual. The plots were loosely and carelessly structured and included broad farce and buffoonery. The performers were coarse and obscene while using satire to depict important contemporary moral, social and political issues of Athenian life. The ... intellect of the audience. Middle comedy, which dominated from 400 to 336 BCE, was very transitional, having aspects of both old comedy and new comedy. It was more timid than old comedy, having many less sexual gestures and innuendoes. It was concerned less with people and politics, and more with myths and tragedies. The chorus began its fade into the background, becoming more of an interlude than the important component it ...
- 799: Endocrine Disruptors
- ... of just left functional structures. In the area where the eggs were collected, there was multiple female-female pairing and low hatchability of eggs. Males exposed as embryos to estrogenic pesticides showed decreased to no sexual behaviour. (Fry and Toone, 1981) Louis Guillette noticed that male alligators from Lake Apopka in Florida have vestigial penis, follicle-like testis and elevated estrogens/testosterone ratios and the female hatchings ovaries were producing ... primed and had decreased sperm counts. The mothers of the exposed rats were given a single dose of dioxin in the fifteen-day of gestation. This study shows that there is a small window for sexual development because if the rats are exposes after the fifteenth day, they do not elicit the same abnormalities. Female foetuses were born with urogenital defects: absence of vaginal openings and cleft clitoris. (Mably et al ...
- 800: A Streetcar Named Desire - Com
- ... see what a tolerant and adaptable person Stella is. Stan and Stella's relationship is far from ideal. Stan is a violent man. On occasions he hits Stella, but comes after her to satisfy his sexual needs. This is not to say that Stella is unhappy in her marriage to Stan. She has adapted to the way of life in "Elysian Fields" where it's accepted that women have arguments with ... Blanche and Stan, negotiating middle ground. However, this couldn't last for long because they were forever competing with each other, the ultimate prize being Stella. Stella chooses to ignore the truth about Stan's sexual assault on Blanche. This could either be a result of his incredible power over her, or the fact that she sees the future would be a lot easier for her, her child and Blanche should ...
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