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- 1571: Mardigras
- ... to have been erratic. By the mid-1820s masks and costumes were again legal. The first documented Mardi Gras parade took place in 1837, and the parade soon became an annual tradition. However, outbursts of violence at the parades gave the festivities a bad name.(Mardi Gras Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 99) Shrove Tuesday immediately precedes Ash Wednesday and is the last day before Lent. Mardi Gras has been noted for the ...
- 1572: Boxing - Should This Unjustified Sport Be Banned
- ... reason to support why boxing should be outlawed is the negative influence it has over the younger generation. According to an article from 'American Sociological Review', in a study attempting to discover whether mass media violence triggers additional aggressive behavior, it is proven that laboratory subjects exposed to violent material on film tend to behave more aggressively than those who are not exposed to such material. As children are very impressionable ...
- 1573: A Critical Look At The Foster Care System
- ... a place to live, food on the table, medical care, and thing like that," he explained, adding that "about half of the families are not physical abusers, not sexual abusers, not people with propensities to violence but simply people who are struggling to keep ends pulled together and are eminently salvagable." All of this was too much for a frustrated Congressman Herger, who replied: "Evidently, it is your department's practice ...
- 1574: Advertising Of 1890 Compared To 1990
- ... of consumption evolved from phony promises of a better life for white, nuclear families to the hip-based brand of product cool that still exists today. (Frank, 1997). Everything from youth rebellion to counter-hegemonic violence to law breaking has been commodified. Advertising today seemingly encourages people to break the rules, to tell the world to Akiss off@ and to be an individual. Beneath this surface rebellion though, people are trained ...
- 1575: Biblical Analysis On Genesis And Exodus
- ... from conventional history but go under the verisimilitude of truth. The explanation of morality and the changes God had to undergo displays itself in the story of Noah's Ark. " the earth is full of violence as a result of them; and here I am bringing them to ruin together with the earth," God, the principal character, shows his disapproving side of an immoral society. Through Noah, the "righteous man," God ...
- 1576: Are We Civilized As Civlized As We Think
- ... just creating new inventions than there were in the past, making most think that they have become more civilized. But our nature has not become more civilized. There are still wars, hatred, and acts of violence. Maybe it is more important to grow in this area than the other. So in reality, we are not as civilized as we think.
- 1577: Ymca
- ... happy, successful and productive lives. Every parent faces a decision in which all must turn attention to our children urgently, lest they continue to be afflicted by the combined and interrelated "deficits" of poverty, domestic violence, and -lack of adequate education.
- 1578: Writing An Image Analysis(engl
- ... the wrong elements in their advertising. This, of course, is due to the rise of more socially and politically aware of females. These wrong elements include the sexual objectification of women and its relationship to violence, the negative attitude toward mature physical features in women, and an unrealistic skinny ideal beauty's standard. Recently Calvin Klein had to withdraw its 1996 jeans campaign. The commercials and advertisements were accused of reenacting ...
- 1579: World Order
- ... different expressions of the human predicament coexist in uneasy tension today: globalisation envelops the world even as fragmentation and the assertion of differences are on the rise; zones of peace expand while outbursts of horrific violence intensify; unprecedented wealth is being created but large pockets of poverty remains endemic; the will of the people and their integral rights are both celebrated and violated; science and technology enhance human life at the ...
- 1580: Women In Western Religion
- ... for her own personal use, and she keeps her own family name rather than taking her husband's. Both men and women are expected to dress in a way that is modest and dignified. {4} Violence of any kind towards women and forcing them against their will for anything is not allowed. A Muslim marriage is a simple, legal agreement in which either partner is free to include conditions. Marriage customs ...
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