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- 1761: Monks and Today's Society
- ... though most of the three vows are broken, would probably struggle with the abstinence from marriage and sexual pleasures. Sex, in the United States, is everywhere. Sex can be seen on most types of commercials, television shows, and advertisement. It has been drilled in the heads of most Americans that sex is all right, as long as protection is involved. As for myself, chastity would not be quite as difficult to ...
- 1762: Homeless: What Has Been Done to Decrease the Problem?
- ... being self-centered and start thinking about the other person who has less than us, I am sure that we would benefit from it. It isn't all that hard. A few advertisements on the television and radio, a little push from our society's leaders and we would be off on the right track. That worked for the recycling program. Now we should try employing this idea for even better ...
- 1763: The First Impression
- ... their views of others. Many have set impressions on a person without even meeting and getting to know the person. One source of many views and opinion is the media. It seems that whatever the television reports or the editorial says the public seems to follow. On the night that the OJ Simpson Bronco chase was aired the media started to speculate that he was guilty of the Ron Goldman/Nicole ...
- 1764: Segregation and The Civil Rights Movement
- ... to attack demonstrators with dogs and firefighters to turn high-pressure water hoses on them. The ensuing scenes of violence were shown throughout the nation and the world in newspapers, magazines, and most importantly, on television. Much of the world was shocked by the events in Birmingham, and the reaction to the violence increased support for black civil rights. In Birmingham white leaders promised to negotiate an end to some segregation ...
- 1765: Blind Conformity: Malcolm X
- ... own morals and values, our engines, to dictate our lives, we are simply empty vehicles being pushed down life's roads. Especially in today's society, there is a dire over emphasis of the media. Television and other types of media display certain lifestyles and ideas and then the public automatically conforms. Having the media, which is something so optional, control us is a reprehensible sacrilege. It is imperative that we ...
- 1766: Personal Values In Today's Society
- ... course came as a shock. I had thought that I was an informed citizen but I now know otherwise. this enlightenment came at great cost in time, and effort. The time was spent in watching television for an hour. The effort was to not lose my sanity for unlike any other hour of TV, this time I was forced to actually watch the commercials. The values that TV presents seem to ...
- 1767: Pollution and the Environment
- Pollution and the Environment Have you ever turned on the television and saw an oil spill or gotten really excited to go to the beach only to see contamination signs everywhere? Pollution may be destroying the ocean before the ocean's resources will fully be used ...
- 1768: The Superstring Theory
- ... theory cause the universe to actually be two. Meaning, occupying the same space as our universe is a parallel shadow universe. However, this theory does better than just sound like science fiction (there is a television show loosely based on this called "Slid! ers"); it accounts for mass that scientists have not been able to account for ("missing mass" problem). This is possible and somewhat logical because the shadow universe would ...
- 1769: Satellites
- ... as the USSR's Molnia satellites, Western Union's Westar, and Canada's Anik-- serve individual countries. Using receivers, amplifiers, and transmitters and the electronic technique of these communications satellites can relay many telephone and television signals at once. Navigation satellites can pinpoint any location on Earth with high accuracy by use of the Doppler effect. The U.S. Transit system has been in worldwide operation continuously since 1964 and is ...
- 1770: The Race to the Moon
- ... 15 lander had not crashed, it would have returned to Earth with lunar soil just hours ahead of the Apollo 11 crew. (Gold 148). On July 21, 1969, as millions around the world watched on television, the Apollo Lunar Module "Eagle" touched down and two Americans stepped onto another world for the first time. Neil Armstrong climbed down the module's ladder first and proclaimed "That's one small step for ...
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