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- 511: The Effects of Lead Poison on Children
- ... International, 1996). In Chicago Illinois the Films Incorporated Video is a programs that obtain video tape and study guides tilted for the awareness of kids in lead hazard areas. These developed films by Consumers Reports Television and Connecticut Public Television can be purchased for a small price(Kiwanis International, 1996). The broadcast media doesn't play a big role on lead poisoning unless an incident comes along which turns out to affect a large number ...
- 512: Censorship In Fahrenheit 451
- ... and taken to prison. Although book burning was the most abrupt and outlandish form of censorship, people experienced mind censorship in their homes every day. Parlor walls were walls in a room used for watching television and specially designed “interactive” programs, designed to provide people with pleasure. Shows written for the soul purpose to please people in their parlors were watched on the walls. A script would be written with the ... part included, but would be left out during the actual recording of the program while the actors paused to give the viewer time to recite the part at home. Before the show would air on television, copies of the script would be sent to the people who requested them. Mildred, Montag’s wife, along with many other people, began to depend on these programs, as if they were addicted to them ...
- 513: Evaluation of Baja Seasons Resort
- ... the recreational center, or playing tennis in one of two tennis courts. The recreational center not only offers video games but pool tables, ping pong, air hockey, and a lounging area with a big screen television playing movies all day long. Outside of the recreational center is a miniature golf area that can be use for just two American dollars. Moms, don't even worry about lunch, the poolside taco stand ... and give you the best trip they can. All of the lots for the campers and trailers have water, waste, and cable access for all of your needs. The beachside condos all come with cable television. Not Spanish cable as you might be thinking, but the local San Diego cable. The service at the restaurant is great. All of the waiters seem to want to help you the best that they ...
- 514: Professional Wrestling
- ... wrapped with barbedwire. Sting is just one of the many unique people that are involved in the “spectacle” of wrestling. Professional wrestling is considered by many to be dumb or stupid because it is fake. Television is by definition a release from reality. The crazy stuff that you see going on in a wrestling match is always staged. People need to realize that this is fake and that is why it ... is just for an hour or 2. Professional wrestling is nothing more than an entertainment venue. While it may not appeal to everybody, it has influenced this country in a way that few movies or television shows have. Just look around you as you wonder the halls and count the shirts depicting Goldberg or Stone Cold Steve Austin.
- 515: Gender
- ... Even though most of these times I did not notice anything wrong or different about the other girls they were talking about. Girls, I think, are faced with enormous pressures to look good. In addition, television almost never features old, heavy, or unattractive women. Even if a character is a doctor or a scholar on television, she looks like a Playboy bunny. A part of male sexism is the pressure that men feel to be successful. Many men have come to view their obligation as having a good education, getting a ...
- 516: Richard Nixon
- ... Nixon to resign his candidacy shortly after his vice-presidential nomination because of accusations that he misused his senator expenses fund. No evidence was found to prove this, and, in response, Nixon replied on national television with the “Checkers” speech, which contained sentimental reference to Nixon’s dog, Checkers. The speech was his attempt to prove his innocence. In the following campaign, Nixon once again attacked the Democratic presidential candidate as ... D.C., attempting to steal documents and place wiretaps on the telephones. Secret peace meetings continued between the Untied States and Vietnam. Once an agreement was met, Nixon announced an official cease-fire over national television. At this time Nixon’s popularity was at it’s peak, but not for long. Severe inflation once again affected the economy, so Nixon devalued the dollar a second time. In addition to this he ...
- 517: History Of Rap
- ... in sound-system battles with Herc. The sound system competitions were held in city parks, where hot-wired street lamps supplied electricity, or at local clubs. Bambaataa would sometimes mix sounds from rock-music and television shows into the standard funk and disco advance that Herc and most of his followers relied on. By the 1990s any sound source was considered useable and rap artists borrowed sounds from such disparate sources as Israeli folk music, bebop jazz records, and television news broadcasts. In 1976 Grandmaster Flash introduced the technique of quick mixing, in which sound bites as short as one or two seconds are combined for a unique effect. Shortly after Flash introduced quick mixing ...
- 518: South Korea
- ... automobiles and ships, chemical products, textiles, iron and steel, and food products. The annual output of industrial products included passenger cars (1.5 million), trucks (300,500), merchant ships (5.4 million gross deadweight tons), television sets ( 16 million), fertilizer (831,100 metric tons), woven cotton fabrics (479.5 million sq m/5.2 billion sq ft), and pig iron (21.9 million metric tons). Energy About 54 percent of South ... vessels. Korean Air Lines and Asiana Airlines provide both domestic and foreign service. Communications Mass media have assumed large importance since the 1950s. In the early 1990s about 44 million radios and 9.1 million television sets were operating in South Korea. National daily newspapers number 23. Currency and Banking The unit of currency in South Korea is the won (806.8 won equal U.S.$1; 1994). The Bank of ...
- 519: Peru
- ... Aeroperú, the national airline, offers domestic and international service. Peru's telephone system, which was nationalized in 1970, has some 600,000 instruments. The country is served by more than 300 radio stations and 8 television stations. In the late 1980s about 4 million radios and 1.6 million television receivers were in use. In the same period the country had more than 70 daily newspapers. Dailies with large circulations included El Comercio, Expreso, Ojo, and La Republica, all published in Lima.
- 520: Rap Music; It’s Impact On Society Since It’s Birth.
- ... Kurtis Blow rapped in a video for the March of Dimes' fundraising drive to battle birth defects and he has campaigned against teenage drinking as a spokesperson for the National Council on Alcoholism. On the television show "Reading Rainbow," Run-D.M.C. told viewers how books enabled them to become "kings of rock." On another occasion, group member Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels said, "Little kids like to follow me ... relatively modest peak on the pop charts. No longer could rap be ignored; here was straight up social commentary, reporting from the front lines of the ghetto with more immediacy than almost any newspaper or television broadcast. From it's inception, rap indured a lot of hostility from listeners--many, but not all, White--who found the music too harsh, monotonous, and lacking in traditional melodic values. However, millions of others ...
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