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- 13901: Conformity in Society
- Conformity in Society Last night as you sat warped in front of 'Jenny Jones' a classic case of conformity played right before your eyes and chances are you didn't even realize it. A young teenager struts across the floor, wearing a basic Tommy Hilfiger T-shirt, and boot cut Tommy jeans. She spends a few moments whining over the way her friend dresses, baggy jeans and t-shirts with way too much makeup. Next, her friend, who has an artistically unique look, enters through the backdoors. She desperately defends herself saying that she is a distinct individual making a statement about ...
- 13902: Violence Due To The Media
- ... controversial subjects such as the murder that occurs every day, which is abortion and the faults in our government? The message needs to be heard about these and other wrongs of society, but they aren’t. No one can make their message heard to wide masses of people unless it is a politically correct and non-controversial message, and that’s not the way that it should be. That further demonstrates the injustice of censorship. And it doesn’t end there. There are people who want to lay the blame for violence and killing on video gaming, an entertainment medium. How can you blame a child’s insanity on a video game? I ...
- 13903: Curfews
- Curfews What do you think of when you hear the word curfew? Is it a time that your parents have set for you so you don’t stay out late? Why should teenagers have curfews? Why does the law get involved with you curfew? When I think about the word curfew these are the questions that come to my mind. As a ... on probation go home. Why should many of us innocent teenagers suffer for having a curfew? Police officers go around trying to make a point, but what they do not realize is that teenagers don’t listen. They tell many teenagers to go home, but what ends up happening is they just go somewhere else to hang out. Teenagers these days will just rebel. We teenagers have a point, why should ... and homework by nine o’ clock. What if we want to go on a nice walk at night to look at the stars with our relatives, friends, or even our boy/girl friends? We can’t because the curfew law applies to us. What happens if your parents approve of you going out after ten o’ clock p.m.? You can’t because the curfew law does not allow you ...
- 13904: Capital Punishment History
- ... it was his or her right to take vengeance on the person that had wronged them. This mentality still exists, even today, but in a lesser form because the law has now outlined a person's rights and developed punishments that conform to those rights, yet allow for the retribution for their crime. However, some feel that those laws and punishments are too lax and criminals of today take advantage of ... Although in the past, the number of crimes that were subjected to capital punishment, defined simply as the death penalty for a crime, were outrageous. Amendments were made to reflect the changes in the society's views on the morality of capital punishment. That resulted in the narrowing down of the list of one hundred crimes to twelve, punishable by the death penalty in 1833, and in 1869 it was cut ... death penalty, the federal cabinet continued to commute those criminals from death to life sentences, hence the law was not being followed and justice was not being served. This soon was followed with capital punishment's abolishment in 1976, as a formal declaration of what was already happening or rather what was not happening. It is felt that because of this and the fact that there has not been an ...
- 13905: Social Effects of the Vietnam War on the United States
- ... defeat. The determination of the Vietnamese amazed the American leaders. Without military supplies such as helicopter gun ships and jet bombers the Vietnamese were successful in fighting the most powerful world nation. By the 1940's the Vietnamese were ready to make a full scale revolution against their French oppressors. The leader of the Vietnamese independence movement was Ho Chi Minh. (1) Ho Chi Minh became a communist in 1920, and ... American military in South Vietnam from 1,500 to 16,000. By 1963 over 100 had died. After seeing pictures of Buddhist monks committing suicide publicly because of the harsh treatment by Ngo Dinh Diem's government, President Kennedy assigned an ambassador to South Vietnam to try to make progress with Ngo Dinh Diem. However, the ambassador joined a group of generals who were planning to overthrow the South Vietnamese government ... the Ho Chi Minh Trail (4) to South Vietnam in late 1964. Over the next few years the North Vietnamese Army or the NVA walked through the trail to fight in South Vietnam. President Johnson's foreign policy advisors called for an increase of American military in South Vietnam due to the unsteady government. President Johnson ordered bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos that started in December ...
- 13906: Censorship In Schools
- ... what he does to you when you are alone. He walks over to the couch and sits down next to you. His hand slithers it way onto your knee and you cringe in revulsion. “Don’t be afraid, I won’t hurt you,” he chides. Your mind feels panicky as you feel his touch in more intimate places and you scream involuntarily. His grip tightens as he places his hand over your mouth. “We’ll have to do this the hard way!” comes his intense whisper. You flail your arms at him, but it doesn’t help. His writhing massive body is on top of yours, and you feel so powerless. Eventually, you sink into a sobbing heap and simply wait for his passions to stop. You wait for the ...
- 13907: Theme Developed Through Motif
- ... find that a reacurrance of theme in a play or nevel can be developed through motif. In the play Death of a Salesman, the main theme of the American Dream is developed through a character's motif, they are the constand stealing of Biff, the image of the new stockings and the pattern of the Loman's car. One of the most prevealent problems in the play is Biff's constant stealing. These events occured many times through the play and they eventually led heart ache and pain. As a child, Biff stole a football from school. Willy, his father never thought anything of ...
- 13908: Tintern Abbey Seeing Into The
- ... take on new meaning and greater substance than they had at the time? Pleasant experiences are often over quickly or happen in a rush. We are so caught up in the experience that we can t attend to all that is happening to us. Or, in some instances, when we are in the middle of some experience, we cannot grasp just what makes it special or wonderful. For what some experience ... grasp the meaning of it for our lives. Then Wordsworth points to the way in which our past experiences affect the way we live with others. Why are the best portion of a good man s life His little, nameless, unremembered, acts of kindness and of love? Because they are uncalculated and unmotivated by self-concern. They come so freely from us that it is only in retrospect that we recognize ... him to fruitless endeavors, and when he has suffered from the evil tongues, rash judgments, and the sneers of selfish men he points to later in the poem. Memories of the Wye raise the author s spirits, and distance him from the concerns of his daily life. The author is able to step back and look at himself from above. The vision he presents of the soul leaving the body ...
- 13909: Culture Shock
- ... from other cultures and undergoes changes with time, sometimes beneficial, sometimes regressive. (Barlas, 15). Culture shock is a severe psychological reaction that results from adjusting to the realities of a society radically different from oneˇ¦s own. The actual degree of culture shock may vary depending on the differences and similarities between the society studied and the personsˇ¦ own society. The symptoms may range from mild irritation to surprise or disgust ... but can border on hating everything foreign. The main reason for these symptoms is an uncertainty about our surroundings our future and ourselves. The usual signs if orientation and belonging do not exist, we donˇ¦t quite know who we are without the familiar social context, and the way our foreign colleagues behave seems all wrong. How individual managers deal with this particular phase and its emotions, thinking and expectations are ... managers are able to work effectively, know the limitations ways of doing things and most importantly, are able to be more flexible. (Marx, 8). There are ten basic steps for minimizing culture shock; „h Donˇ¦t let culture shock take you by surprise. Allow time to find our about it before you leave for your assignment. Learn to recognize the symptoms and their potential impact. „h Expect culture shock to ...
- 13910: Computers: Productive Tools In Our Lives
- ... some sort of software. Software is a set of instructions to the C.P.U. from a source such as a floppy disk, a hard drive or a CD - ROM drive, in zillions of 1's and 0's. Each of these tiny little instructions makes up a bit. Then they assemble to form a byte. Bytes make up a program, which you run to use the computer's various applications. Now that you know more about computers than Einstein did, let me tell you something more about them, so that you will beat the President in the field of computing. In your ...
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