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Prime-time Animation
Number of Words: 1329 / Number of Pages: 5
... great influx of prime-time animated satires of today, including Futurama (another Groening creation), King of the Hill, and Family Guy because of the unique personality of the show and its characters.
Family Guy is a that derived its satirical outlook on pop culture from its spiritual grandfather, The Simpsons. "Family guy, about the middle-class Griffins, takes on everything from Star Trek to Scooby Doo, Tiananmen Square to the Third Reich (Zerbisias, F8)." These are examples of important media events that have become part of our society. Thus, these references provide the audience with situation ...
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Econimics-Merger Between AOL A
Number of Words: 1746 / Number of Pages: 7
... client software suite
· Netscape SuiteSpot and FastTrack servers
· Netscape Development Tools
· Netscape Commerce Applications
At the present, Netscape Communications is a supplier of AOL Inc. Netscape is upstream from AOL; Netscape supplies its Internet browser (Netscape Navigator or
Netscape Communicator) to AOL. AOL is being charged a fee for the use of Netscape's product. This fee is based both on a fixed and a variable component.
Netscape is currently undervalued as a company, but has valuable technology and resources that AOL can incorporate into its offering to its consumers. Am ...
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Cultural Diversity In Schools
Number of Words: 1918 / Number of Pages: 7
... among minority students,
like the progressive movement in the 1930's. Another example would be in the
white communitites, that multicultural programs are designed to cultivate an
appreciation of various cultural, racial, and ethnic traditions. Cortes defines
multicultural education by the process by which schools help prepare young
people to live with greater understanding, cooperation, effectiveness, and
dedication to equality in a multicultural nation and inerdependent world (Cortes,
16).
When I observed at Madison Elementary in December, I expected the school
would be multicultural in th ...
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Wrestling 2
Number of Words: 996 / Number of Pages: 4
... racism. Aside from the heavy metal music, there is an area of wrestling that is very politically incorrect. If you were to turn to ABC at one o'clock in the afternoon, you would see the same acts that are displayed on wrestling. "All My Children", a daytime soap opera, contains some of the most graphic sexual scenes be aired on television. Young teenage girls watching "Young & the Restless" are influenced by the notion that promiscuous sex is acceptable in society. In "Days of Our Lives" a male actor will rape, kill, and bury a woman and still end up a hero; These shows are still considered acceptab ...
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The Quarrel About Historical Explanation
Number of Words: 619 / Number of Pages: 3
... laws that can be
followed, but a historian's explanation is adequate if all he can provide is a
sketch. The second group states that the general laws are not necessary and as
long as the explanation provides an understandable narrative, it is complete.
The final group believes that only one condition is necessary, and if more
information is needed, one only needs to elaborate on that one condition.
The Hempelians and the anti-Hempelians both have common ground. They
are both engaged in the philosophy of history, but this is where the agreement
stops for even the groups starting points are differ ...
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Some Tips On Car Restoration
Number of Words: 1635 / Number of Pages: 6
... diagrams of the complicated systems of the car like the distributor, under-dash wiring, and engine internals. This can be very helpful in those frustrating times when there are parts strewn from wall to wall in no particular order. Mine was an integral part of the process on my 1969 Chevy project.
Most people who are new to the project car scene tend to begin the project with cosmetics such as paint, interior vinyl and carpeting, and chromed accessories. This will not pay off in the end. The place to start is with the engine and suspension. In doing this at the beginning, you will minimize the c ...
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Methods
Number of Words: 1901 / Number of Pages: 7
... first hypothesis indicates that the higher the importance of religion is to a
person the less supportive they would be of abortion, with regards to that persons political
party affiliation. The party in which a person identifies with will have a direct effect on the
link between support for abortion and the importance of religion. Political parties, as well
as a persons religious background, play a major role in attitudes towards different issues.
By nature, democrats are more likely to approve abortion than republicans. A person’s
religious background usually has an effect on which party ...
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The Use Of Oils In Sacraments
Number of Words: 1527 / Number of Pages: 6
... the Rite of Baptism until after the general intercessions, “…to introduce either the anointing with the oil of catechumens, or the laying on of hands.” The oil is one of the most significant items used in the celebration of the Rite. Jesus, himself, particularly encouraged children to be baptized, “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”
During the time of Jesus, oil was used primarily used to show royalty; at this point in time, kings were the only ‘anointed ones’. “The completion of the ...
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Cause Of Crime
Number of Words: 550 / Number of Pages: 2
... a threat to society as a criminal.
The psychological complex of the person is the main cause of the persons inability to perceive what is right and wrong. This enables them to perform immoral duties without any guilt in their mind. These instabilities could be due to the fact that the environment in which a person had lived was unnatural and also an abusive situation. These situations may cause one to leave a permanent memory of a disrupted family and a disadvantaged home which
may lead a person to a complete mental breakdown. This may lead to a violent
display. Also the complex is a biologi ...
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Order In The Classroom
Number of Words: 1960 / Number of Pages: 8
... church choirboys compared to most to most of the kids that I saw. There defiantly needs to be some .
This brings me to the 1979 essay written by Neil Postman entitled "". In this essay he addresses the decaying lack of control that teachers have over their students.
No longer are the days of the rule do not speak until you are spoken to. The rule it seems now is that the student now has more of a right to speak than the teacher does. But perhaps the biggest difference that I have noticed between High School and College is the way students behave.
In College students no longer run their mouth off i ...
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