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- 21281: A Stereotypical Media
- By: Clint Phillips E-mail: a65phalcon@hotmail.com A Stereotypical Media The media of today’s society plays the peddler to the stereotypes that plague our country. However, the media is not solely to blame. Susan Sontag states in her essay “The Image World”: “Through being photographed, something becomes part of ... and elegant, a mirror image of a statue. The backdrop of the image is calm, organized and serene. The ad reads “ivy plant $6.99, rayon crochet bag $14.99”(Newsweek 7). However, the ad’s imagery at first glance does not fully portray the stereotypes within it. The appearances of stereotypes in this serene ad are hard to find, but are found deep in the text of the image. The apparent purpose of the ad is to sell items such as a handbag, and ivy plants. However, the apparent does not relay the reality. The use of a woman’s stereotypical sexuality covers up the real with the fantasy. A stereotype as defined by the Module, “Images of Women and Men”, “is viewed today as a process that distorts reality”(Unger & Crawford 219). So ...
- 21282: Alcohol
- ... binge drinker. This is a person who drinks heavily on occasion. Probably the most dangerous type of alcoholism, because they are most likely to die of alcohol poisoning. How do people become alcoholics? Alcoholics don’t know how they became alcoholics. Some say it is genetic on the stress gene, triggered by psychological or social stress. While others say it is a learned maladaptive coping behavior. Studies have shown that alcoholism ... effects of alcoholism can be viewed as another medical problem. The alcoholic is in denial and is not going to tell the doctor how much they drink, unless the doctor asks, but most doctors don’t. You can diagnose yourself by answering some of the following questions: 1. Have you gotten into financial difficulties as a result of drinking? 2. Is alcohol making your life unhappy? 3. Has drinking alcohol ever ... to stop drinking. There are detoxification centers, the purpose of detoxification centers is to aid alcoholics through the withdrawal stages. Withdrawal symptoms include sleeplessness, sweating, depression, headache, weakness, vomiting, alcoholic seizures and delirium tremens (D.T.’s). There are support groups like Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) to help people stop drinking and start dealing with their problems. There are also recovery homes and halfway houses that help aid alcoholics to ...
- 21283: The Yellow Wall-Paper: Effect of Oppression of Women in Society
- ... house, the window, and the wall-paper which facilitate her oppression as well as her self expression. It is ordinary to find the symbol of the house as representing a safe place for a woman's transformation and her release of self expression. However, in this story, the house is not her own and she does not want to be in it. She declares it is "haunted," and that "there is ... want to see. Through it she sees all that she could be and everything that she could have at any time with just a bit of effort. But she says near the end, "I don’t like to look out of the windows, even there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast." She knows that she has to hide and lie low. She has to creep ... wall-paper is not another woman, it is herself as well as all women in general and therefore all the women trapped by society. These complex symbols used in "The Yellow Wall-Paper" create Gilman's portrayal of the oppression of women in the nineteenth century. Her twist on traditional symbols that usually provide a sense of security and safety adds to this woman's own oppression,contribute to the ...
- 21284: Alcoholism
- ... process that creates the alcohlolicbeverage. When sugars from the fruits or grains are combined with yeast and water, alcohol results. Alcohol is a drug and, like all drugs, it has an effect on a person’s body and mind. Because drinking alcoholic beverages makes some people feel more alive and more outgoing, alcohol is sometimes seen as a stimulant. But in fact it is a depressant, and slows down the central nervous system, of which the brain is a part. Small amounts of alcohol can affect a person’s coordination and judgment. Drinking a large amount of alcohol at one time can even cause death. Alcohol is estimated to be contributing factor in 20-30% of all accidents. In fatal car accidents involving young ... inextricably related to alcohol and other drugs. (AOD) Annually 480,000 arrests for liquor law violations and 704,000 arrests for drunkenness for alcohol. Alcohol is a key factor in up to 68% of manslaughter’s, 62% of assaults, 54% of murders or attempted murders, 48% of robberies, 44% of burglaries. In 1992 there were 6,839 deaths due to alcohol. A couple years back 64% of all reported child ...
- 21285: Frankenstein: Effects of Alienation and Isolation
- ... become reality. He writes to his sister that his “affection for my guest increases every day” and his guest “excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing degree”(Shelley 11). With Walton’s change in attitude, it is clear that he has a need to be close to others and that his isolation causes him great emotional pain and loneliness. Frankenstein, like Walton, isolated himself from family and ... so engaged and involved in his work that he caused himself “to forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time”(Shelley 33). Frankenstein’s work had become his whole life. He “wished as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed”(Shelley 33). Victor does not comprehend the effects of his separation until he is reunited with Henry Clerval, a childhood friend. When Clerval arrives, his presence brings memories of Elizabeth, Frankenstein’s future wife, Frankenstein’s father, and the scenes that are dear to his memory (Shelley 37). The happiness Frankenstein feels upon the arrival of his friend demonstrates the loneliness and sadness Frankenstein has felt ...
- 21286: Billy Budd: A Story of True Goodness
- Billy Budd: A Story of True Goodness Herman Melville’s Billy Budd is a story about true goodness. It entails the conflict of good and evil, but more than that it portrays innocence in its’ most purest form. Innocence is an exploitable commodity. While this ... man aboard Bellipotent, lashes out at Billy who is for the most part defenseless. This is an injustice of biblical proportions. What could have prevented this from happening? Perhaps, if Billy picked up on John’s malicious intent the entire tragedy could have been avoided. But, on the other hand Billy was good and sought goodness. That is why he failed to see the evilness in Claggart. To discourage Billy’s goodness is to compromise the very thing that makes us human in the first place Humans seek goodness instinctively. Thus, it is society’s innate responsibility to protect the good (naïve) from those who ...
- 21287: Pudd’nhead Wilson
- ... if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say she did it with her teeth.- Pudd’nead Wilson’s Calendar. Mark Twain wrote Pudd’nhead Wilson with the thought of it being a detective/ mystery novel. Twain spent a lot of time studying law, so he could write this book. In A Whisper to ... to look like a fool when he wrote these chapters. He wanted to make sure he, and the readers, were talking about. Pudd’nhead Wilson takes place during 1830, in a little town called Dawson’s Landing. Dave Wilson was a new citizen. He had a law degree, but when he moved in he ruined his reputation by saying, “I wish I owned half of that dog, because I would kill ... over the years. Eberhard Alsen said, “Wilson soon finds out that his fight for success is goi8n to be a protracted one, but he uses his time well.” He liked keeping track of the townsfolk’s fingerprints. Eberhard Alsen wrote, “While his interest in palmistry and finger printing further convinces that he is indeed a fool, Wilson establishes is ‘records’, a collection of fingerprints of every person and child in ...
- 21288: Culture
- ... they are determined at birth. Acquired group memberships are not determined at birth and include religion, political affiliation and professional and other associations. These affiliations often reflect the status the individual has in the country's class system. Therefore manager's must make themselves aware of the implications certain positions will have and target those job vacancies to the appropriate groups or they must be aware that their products will appeal to only a certain segment ... the company. They also plan to work for companies for a long time. Other cultures do not have as much loyalty to the company or their rules. Some cultures trust easily while others spend lot's of money on monitoring other's actions and making contracts to ensure compliance. Cultures that believe in self determination, rather than fatalism will work hard to achieve their goals. In several countries they have ...
- 21289: Gambling Addiction
- ... habit eventually becomes the focal point of his life. Now I'm not saying gambling is wrong, I enjoy it as a small-time hobby, but I think of it as entertainment only. You can't expect to win every time you gamble. I've even felt trapped in a rut similar to the man in the story above, where I thought I could win all my money back, and it ... at an estimated 100 billion dollars. One year later in 1992 the figures jumped to an estimated 300 billion dollars. This shows that gambling has recently grown in popularity and is an issue in today's society. Problem gambling behavior results in negative consequences including family problems, peer relationship troubles, legal and money troubles, anxiety, and moodiness. Family problems come from the fact that dangerous gamblers are always asking for money ... bet more and more money in an attempt to score big or win back lost bets. In most cases, this never happens, and in some cases gambling addicts fall into legal troubles when they can't pay back the loans taken out to support their habit. All of these problems lead to extreme anxiety and severe moodiness. Former addicts say that they had no control over their impulses and there ...
- 21290: Gun Control
- ... new and harsher laws. Though these new laws have helped fight crime and punish the people who commit these crimes. They have also punished the majority of the people in the United States who don’t commit these crimes. They limit our freedom to do many of the things that have been looked on as just natural in the past. They have made it harder and more costly to own and ... guns, otherwise known as the Right to Bear Arms. This being one of the first principles that this government was established on. Other countries have already gone to worse laws than this; for example Australia’s new law prohibits pump shotguns and semi-automatics from being owned. The new law compensated the people for the price of the gun, then has the gun taken away, melted down and destroyed. For the ... money should not be spent on how we can further limit the sales and possession of gun, it should be spent on the enforcing of the laws we have now. Most every person that use’s the gun or weapon for a bad or illegal purpose’s will not obey the law on how to purchase the weapon. They would rather find a way to get the weapon fast, cheap, ...
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