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- 331: Gender Roles
- ... is a totally different theme being carried out. Most boys magazines are comic, sport, and action orientated. The message is totally different. They model they way they dress according to their favorite musicians, actors or sports figure. Perhaps if womens magazines were more aimed at how to protect yourself from violence, STDs, unplanned pregnancies or how to be confident, and promote education, sports, extra-cirricular activities instead of how to know if your popular, or the must have lipstick of the fall, or how to know if he likes you, or what your favorite BACKSTREET BOY likes and ...
- 332: The Psychological Effects Of G
- ... is a totally different theme being carried out. Most boys magazines are comic, sport, and action orientated. The message is totally different. They model they way they dress according to their favorite musicians, actors or sports figure. Perhaps if womens magazines were more aimed at how to protect yourself from violence, STDs, unplanned pregnancies or how to be confident, and promote education, sports, extra-cirricular activities instead of how to know if your popular, or the must have lipstick of the fall, or how to know if he likes you, or what your favorite BACKSTREET BOY likes and ...
- 333: Chanel, Gabrielle
- ... during two distinct periods decades apart: the 1920s and the '50s. She not only appropriated styles, fabrics and articles of clothing that were worn by men but also, beginning with how she dressed herself, appropriated sports clothes as part of the language of fashion. One can see how her style evolved out of necessity and defiance. She couldn't afford the fashionable clothes of the period--so she rejected them and made her own, using, say, the sports jackets and ties that were everyday male attire around the racetrack, where she was climbing her first social ladders. It's not by accident that she became associated with the modern movement that included Diaghilev ...
- 334: Counseling A Compulsive Gamble
- ... red light. In this sense, people gamble every day of their lives. The most commonly noticed, and most dangerous forms of gambling usually deal with playing cards, and/or casinos. Betting on horse races or sports games are also among the common forms of gambling that are considered illegal in many of the U.S. states. These forms of gambling can cause the most problems in peoples lives. Gambling is all ... the clients attention away from gambling. The counselor could get them started on a new hobby that could fill the void in their life that the lack of gambling will cause. Such things as movies, sports cards, video games, and models could be used. Also, things like yard work, and other work around the house could be positive activities. There are many things that one could try to focus the gambler ...
- 335: Are You Ready For Some Football
- Are You Ready For Some Football? From the early ages in history to the present day, sports have always been an important part of society. It teaches discipline, how to be a team player, how to interact with others and is a good source of physical activity. In specific, football utilizes all of these aspects of sports and it s a great source of teaching self-restraint and perseverance. Some may say that football is a violent sport or it s not beneficial in any way, but in reality it gives a ...
- 336: Analyzation Essay On A Newspaper
- The front page of a newspaper provides a great deal of information on various subjects. Most newspapers include a weather forecast, an index or brief description of articles inside the paper, and a small sports scorecard to accompany the local and national news. Newspapers also concentrate on how to grab the attention of readers. They most commonly use a larger, darker type of print, mixture of color, and/or pictures ... of paper contains. Accompanying this index, usually a forecast of the weather to come in the next few days manages to make it on the front page also. Some papers actually save the die-hard sports fans some time by having a miniature scoreboard recapping the scores of the day before. Remember that this doesn t apply to all papers only to some. Newspapers constantly look for more readers and to ...
- 337: Heros Essay
- ... theory if my mother had not herself played the piano or if she and my father hadn't had music playing for me when I was a baby? Would I be such a fan of sports or play basketball if my father hadn't been a state champion in track and field in high school and a Division I soccer player in college? If he hadn't introduced athletics to me, helped me with them, let me develop in them at my own pace, and shown me that one must work in order to achieve and perform better, would I follow sports, or have the desire to put in the time running, practicing, and lifting weights that is needed to perfect the imperfections and become successful? Thousands of variables went into me becoming the kind of person ...
- 338: Harrison Bergeron
- ... continually increase while the quality of the products continues to diminish without competition. This is not the only area where competition will disappear. With the limitations imposed on the gifted athletes by the physical handicaps, sports too would disappear. The superb athletes would not be able to display their abilities because they were weighed down by sash-weights and bags of birdshot. Try to picture Barry Sanders attempting to run through ... around his neck. It would be impossible. If the naturally athletic citizens were brought down to the level of the average person there would not be any point of even playing a sport. Thus eliminating sports altogether. Kurt Vonnegut's views might be a little exaggerated, but that is what he intended. He used satire in attempt to reform the belief that the perfect society can be obtained.
- 339: Venezuela
- ... most of the population are baptized Catholics. The "National Dish" is spiced shredded beef over rice, served with black beans and fried slices of plantain. In Venezuela soccer and baseball are the most popular spectator sports. Several of the cities have bullfights, but the fights don't attract as much people as competitive sports. Venezuelans like dancing and music. The more popular dances are the exciting , rythmic salsa and such fast, lively Caribbean dances as the merengue and guaracha. Joropo is the national folk dance of Venezuela. Like Americans ...
- 340: Aggressive Behavior Equals Many Rewards
- ... times a week. The ratings for the stations that show wrestling have skyrocketed, and some have even had better ratings than 20/20, or Monday Night Football. Intimidating behavior is not only rewarded in the sports world, but also in the military, in politics, and in the work force. Military leaders must use aggressive techniques to keep order in the world. Political leaders must be aggressive in their campaigning, so that ... noticed and respected by the public. Aggressiveness is also necessary in the work force to receive promotions, meet deadlines, and run a business. Aggressive or intimidating behavior is seen in many different parts of life: sports, the military, business, and even politics. Some of the rewards that are given for this behavior may be questionable, such as; placing professional athletes up on a higher ground making them seem superhuman, or electing ...
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