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- 22411: Shock Treatment - Nike Adverti
- ... You Are So Beautiful To Me, and featuring close-ups of injuries suffered by both elite and so-called everyday athletes. It closes with the Just Do It message followed by the Nike Swoosh. Nike s point of the commercial is that athletes at all levels of competition at one time or another feel the pain of injury. For some, damage can be severe to the point of disfigurement. Many give ... a shark bite, a missing fingertip, missing teeth, scars from a surgically repaired knee and a shattered eye socket. The main question is what does this have to do with Nike products and services. Nike s ads, like many other businesses, require interpretation. Some of their commercials go on at the conscious level, some unconsciously. I have a constructive point of view in that I view meaning as interplay between text and the reader. Texts are full of indeterminacy, which require the reader s active interpretation. Thus, readers of advertisements bring with them a surface knowledge of the language as well as a set of preconceived ideas about how to relate the ads to themselves. Ads work on ...
- 22412: In Practise The American Colonies Were Self Governing In 1776
- ... to which the colonies were independent, the different degrees of freedom granted to the different colonies by the Crown in the view that the Declaration itself was signed by all 13 colonies. By 1776, Britain’s control was as Perry suggests a « light touch and with little or no control ». The colonies all had a different degree of independence so that some were more or less inclined to declare independence in ... Delaware were proprietary colonies (the proprietor of the colony was granted a charter), the British still held a lot of rights but they were allowed an Assembly. Pennsylvania had a governor who was the proprietor’s deputy and an annually elected Assembly. The Assembly could lay down the legislation which would then be sent to Britain where it could be vetoed. Massachusetts was granted a charter in 1761 but all the ... by 1776. Assemblies had the right to agree to legislation, to initiate legislation and the Governor was under law forced to hold regular sessions with them. In some colonies such as New York the Governor’s salary was voted annually by the Assembly which gave the Assemblies considerable power over the governors. Some Assemblies had executive powers so that in Pennsylvania and New York the Assembly had taken over the ...
- 22413: Merchant of Venice Essay
- ... villain or antagonist in the play The Merchant of Venice. Shylock mistreats Antonio the Christian, his daughter, Jessica and Launcelot. The first person Shylock mistreats, is Launcelot. He mistreats this servant by complaining behind Launcelot's back of his laziness. Shylock says, "The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day More than the wildcat. Drones hive not with me.. ..His borrowed ... her own house, not letting her out, and not letting her hear the Christian music around her. He orders her to: "Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum... ..But stop my house's ears-I mean casements. Let not the sound of shallow fopp'ry enter My sober house." 3 Jessica considers her home to be hell, and she calls Launcelot, a "merry little devil". She even states that her father is Satan. Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, by not loving her enough, even to the point where he complains about all of the money he's spending in a search to find her. "Why, there, there, there, there! A diamond gone cost me two thousand ducats in Frankford! The curse.. ..ill luck stirring but what lights o' my shoulders; no ...
- 22414: The Female Body
- ... has no glands; it is lubricated by the cervical mucous glands. Its epithelial cells release large amounts of glycogen, which is anaerobically metabolized to lactic acid by resident bacteria. Consequently, the pH of a woman’s vagina is normally quite acidic. This acidity helps keep the vagina healthy & free of infection, but it is also hostile to sperm. Although vaginal fluid of adult woman is acidic, it tends to be alkaline ... clitoris, formed by the junction of the labia minora folds. The clitoris is richly innervated with sensory nerve endings sensitive to touch, & it becomes swollen with blood & erect during tactile stimulation, contributing to a female’s sexual arousal. The clitoris has dorsal erectile columns; but it lacks a corpus spongiosum. The female urinary & reproductive tracts are completely separate, & neither runs through the clitoris. The female perineum is a diamond-shaped region ... risk factors for the disease. Breast cancer is often signaled by a change texture, puckering, or leakage from the nipple. Early detection by breast self-examination & mammography is unquestionably the best way to increase one’s chances of surviving breast cancer. Simple self-examinations should be health maintenance priority in every women’s life. The American Cancer Society recommends scheduling mammography, X-ray examinations that detects breast cancers too small ...
- 22415: The Role Revenge Played In The
- ... Revenge Played in The Crucible Revenge plays a major role in the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. Due to the social structure of the 17th century society it was very easy for the town s people to believe that witchcraft was the cause of all the town s problems. The arising suspicion of witchcraft allowed the town s people to express their hatred toward others and led many to seek revenge against society, enemies and also neighbors. In a town where government was strict and sometimes unfair to its citizens, revenge was ...
- 22416: Aristotle Defination Of Friendship
- Friendship is undoubtedly one of the most important elements in the books of Aristotle s ethical principles. Aristotle takes the idea of friendship to a serious degree. He categorizes them into three groups or types of friendships. This report will attempt to define each type of friendship as well as ... do not spend much time together, possibly because they do not like each other, and therefore feel no need to associate with one another unless they are mutually useful. They take pleasure from each other s company just for their own sake. Aristotle uses the elderly and foreigners as examples of friendships based on utility. The second type of friendship is a friendship based on pleasure. This friendship is made between ... what is considered the by Aristotle as the perfect friendship. This is called the friendship based on goodness. This kind of friendship is between those that desire the good of their friends for their friend s sake not their own. Each friend loves the other for what he is, not for a particular quality. This type of friendship can last as long as the friends remain good. The friendship just ...
- 22417: Albert Einstein
- ... was not smart in school. He suffered under the learning methods that they used in the schools of Germany at that time so he was never able to finish his studies. In 1894 his father's business had failed and the family moved to Milan, Italy. Einstein who had grown interested in science, went to Zurich, Switzerland, to enter a famous technical school. There his ability in mathematics and physics began ... research institution opened in Berlin, the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute. In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a paper that extended his theories. He put forth new views on the nature of gravitation. Newton's theories he said were not accurate enough. Einstein's theories seemed to explain the slow rotation of the entire orbit of the planet Mercury, which Newton's theories did not explain. Einstein's theories also predicted that light rays passing near the sun ...
- 22418: Advice I Often Receive From Pa
- ... me that they trust my judgment and will respect my decisions, even if they are the wrong ones. This helps to take pressure off of me when I am going to school because I don't have to live up to certain standards and try to accomplish goals that are unattainable. Instead, I can just worry about doing the best I can. It is possible that I may have a career ... happy, and I do the job to the best of my ability, I will feel like I have accomplished something. This is good because many kids have to live up to expectations that they can't attain, or do something that they don't really enjoy in order to make their parents proud. The problem with saying "as long as you do you best" is that when I know I could have done a better job, I have ...
- 22419: Rosa Lee Parks
- ... mother enrolled her in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private institution. She went to Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes for eleven and twelth grade. She was unable to graduate because of her grandmother’s illness, Rosa Edwards. After her grandmother’s death she decided to return to school, but her mother got sick so she had to stay at home with her mother. Rosa then married Raymond Parks on December 18, 1932. He supported Rosa’s desire to complete her formal educaton ,and in 1934 she recieved her high school diploma. The whole boycott started when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus when the bus- ...
- 22420: Anabolic Steroids
- Anabolic Steroids Description: Anabolic steroids are performance enhancing drugs. They are a synthetic form of the chemical testosterone that is normally found in the body. By taking anabolic steroids, a person's testosterone level can be raised up to a hundred times more than the usual amount of 2.5 to 10 mg. Per day. The increase in testosterone increases anabolic activity, which results in greater muscle ... steroids also increase nitrogen retention in the body. They move the nitrogen equilibrium to the positive side. This allows the body to utilize ingested protein better, but the balance does not last forever. The body's homeostatic mechanisms regulate the balance and change it back to normal. This is one set back to anabolic steroid use. In order to gain lean body mass a person may have to eat up to ... the liver, the cardiovascular, central nervous and reproductive/endocrine systems. One major side effect that can be found in the liver is hepatotoxicity. This is the poisoning of the liver. It shuts down the liver's ability to process blood, which in turn shuts down the whole body. Prolonged use of anabolic steroids can cause cholestosis and jaundice (yellowish coloring of the eyes, skin and body fluids). Even though most ...
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