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Power, Gender And Advertising
Number of Words: 739 / Number of Pages: 3
... behavior, specially as they grow older and allegiance to their own gender becomes socially more important.
For example, video game advertising starts influencing young boys with bloody and violent games like "Duke Nukem: Zero hour". This game shows a strong men dressed like a cowboy with a gun on each hand saying: "I'm the good and the bad. You just the ugly", inducing boys to "play his game" and demonstrate that they can be better than "Duke."
In the same advertisement, it is shown how Duke is blowing out the brains of a man, "burn'em, blast'em, or blow'em away -Duke's packing se ...
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Greek Myth - How The Turtle Was Created
Number of Words: 733 / Number of Pages: 3
... felt throughout the earth. This was because the clay
that Prometheus had fashioned had continuously been changed and changed
again into many shapes during the course of their argument. In the
beginning, it was just a lump of clay. Then Epimetheus fashioned it into a
shape of a man, in the image of the Prometheus twisted it into a beast of
burden, like an animal. Then Epimetheus twisted it back, and Prometheus
back, and so on, until the lump of clay that was formless and shapeless had
taken the look of a twisted, warped, God-shaped animal. It still had its
familiar lumpy look, but the limbs of co ...
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Animal Rights
Number of Words: 573 / Number of Pages: 3
... part of today's society when thinking of how much progress we have gained in human health with the use of animal experimentation. To date some forty-one Nobel prizes have been awarded to scientists whose achievements depended on laboratory animals. Vaccines against polio, diphtheria, mumps, measles, rubella, and smallpox would not have been possible without such experiments. There also would not be such important techniques such as open heart surgery, brain surgery, coronary bypass, microsurgery to re-attached limbs, organ transplants, and correction of congenital heart defects. The list goes on ab ...
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Adult Students And The Right To Learn
Number of Words: 354 / Number of Pages: 2
... In October of 1997, T.A.S.A. decided to hold an adult student rally at Queen’s Park. We needed to give a good impression at the rally, so that the government would see that we were really serious about defending our rights for an education. For these reasons, C.A.F.E. had to work harder than ever. Several banners, posters, flyers, and other similar artefacts where made at school. Moreover, we worked hard on trying to get adult students to assist at the rally. Our hard work paid off, when we showed up at the rally with 200 people strong. The rally was a success, however, the media coverage of ...
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Basketball
Number of Words: 501 / Number of Pages: 2
... are the New York Knicks with Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, John Starks,
Charlie Ward, Chris Childs, Charles Oakly, and Allen Houston. Then I like the
Charlotte Hornets with Anthony Mason, Tyrone Bouges, Glenn Rice, Gladie Divac,
and Curry. My third favorite team is the Seattle Super Sonics with Shawn Kemp,
Gary Payton, Schremph, and Perdue. My fourth and final favorite team is the
Orlando Magic with my favorite player Anfernee Hardaway, Horris Grant, and Nick
Anderson. My three favorite players in the NBA are:
1)Anfernee Hardaway/ nickname: "Penny"
2)Larry Johnson/nickname: ...
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Death
Number of Words: 1231 / Number of Pages: 5
... They also argue that the penalty costs too much to carry out (Academic American Encyclopedia "Capital Punishment"). Yet, in 1976, the Supreme Court in Gregg V. Georgia declared the penalty for murder is constitutional (AAE "Capital Punishment"). The penalty is also fair and serves it justice -- surveyed police chiefs and sheriffs choose the penalty as a primary method to combat violent crime (Montgomery 2-25-95). It cost less in the long run as well. How does the economy benefit from the penalty? First of all, the American economy has enough problems as it is. The government is try ...
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POW #12: The Big Knight Switch
Number of Words: 616 / Number of Pages: 3
... board, and included the chess pieces
(two black and two white). I placed each in their appropriate sections and
proceeded to attempt to solve the problem. I calculated it to take each piece a
minimal of four moves to reach the other side of the board so I instantly knew I
would require 16 boxes for my diagram. But rather then going through that
process, I decided to take a much easier one, that being by simply drawing a 3x3
chess board with the chess pieces. After completing it, I began by simply
plotting the points and attempting to figure out the process through which I
would go through to so ...
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Cinderella: A Comparison Of Multiple Cinderella Tales
Number of Words: 928 / Number of Pages: 4
... (Perrault 600). The African Cinderella\'s father had two wives. One, Cinderella\'s mother, he could not abide, while the other he adored. When Cinderella\'s mother died he put Cinderella in the hands of his remaining wife, who made Cinderella a slave. In the Chinese version Cinderella\'s father loved her very much but he died, thus, familiarly, leaving Cinderella in the hands of her cruel stepmother.
The role of Cinderella\'s stepmother and stepsister is mainly to belittle, control, and mistreat Cinderella, which they accomplish by giving her the roughest work, worst food, and no respe ...
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Off Campus Essay
Number of Words: 659 / Number of Pages: 3
... of leaving their school after lunch for the remainder of the day will not have this opportunity if an open campus is kept closed.
Local businesses and neighborhoods can be disturbed if open campuses are permitted during the lunch hour. When groups of students are on their break, they can cause a commotion and be quite noisy among one another. Residents dwelling in their homes become upset by these major and minor disturbances, especially the elderly. Quietness is important to many people doing work in their homes and offices, and this can be disrupted by groups of students walking around creating a ...
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Pro Wrestling
Number of Words: 1662 / Number of Pages: 7
... ever and the World Wrestling Federation’s Raw has become the highest rated television show ever on Monday night. It was hard to believe that that many people were watching a fake sport, but than again, its hard to argue with 35 million viewers tuning in each week to watch. These fans come from all different walks of life.
No longer are the fans coming just form trailer parks or are little kids. They now come form all social classes, ethnic backgrounds and age groups. In the last year the percentage of people who tune in that have gone to college for four years or more has risen by 154 percent an ...
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