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Sex In Advertising
Number of Words: 624 / Number of Pages: 3
... or actresses who can trigger an emotional response from one of the above-mentioned attributes, encouraging the consumer to buy the product.
Since effectiveness is gender linked, demographics play an essential role in determining which sex will buy the product. In the average home, women are the purchasers of household products, such as food and drinks, or soaps and shampoos, therefore advertisements for these products target women. Although sexually oriented advertisements aimed to women do not occur as often as they do for men, they are increasing in numbers and popularity. For example, there is a c ...
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Censorship In Society
Number of Words: 452 / Number of Pages: 2
... with that small portion of the song. It ruins the song. One band, the Insane Clown Posse was banned because of their lyrics, and their name. I may not list to the band, but I feel that others should be able to listen to them if they want to.
Books are normally banned instead of censored. Sometimes, the inappropriate spot in the book might be changed, but most of the time the book is banned. Many times the book is banned because of the message that it sends to the younger kids, but not for any foul or obscene language. The Catcher in the Rye was banned because of the loner kid that it described ...
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Hate Crimes
Number of Words: 3046 / Number of Pages: 12
... or Gay Pride.
There are many different types of hate crimes that surround us in the world. Many hate crimes are performed by actual hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), skinheads, and many other groups. Hate crimes and bias crimes are now recognized as a new category of violent personal crimes. Research by sociologist Jack McDevitt finds that "hate crimes are generally spontaneous incidents motivated by the victims' walking, driving, shopping, or socializing in an area in which their attacker believes they do not belong."
Hate crimes can be categorized into three types, reflecting d ...
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Child Abuse
Number of Words: 1710 / Number of Pages: 7
... the location and types of injuries, many time the parent or care
takers will deny any wrong doing or the child has suffered any physical injury.
There are always those injuries that consist of a normal childhood upbringing,
such as falling of their bike or bumping their head. Then, there are those
which they cannot be explained. When caretakers deny any injuries or have no
knowledge of an injury, there is a very strong likely hood that physical abuse
exists. Here are some of the signs of physical abuse.
Bruises happen for various of accidental reasons. There are also
bruises that are tell tal ...
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Is Monogamy The Best Form Of Marriage?
Number of Words: 569 / Number of Pages: 3
... and eighty-five contemporary cultures studied, less than sixteen percent restrict men and women to a single partner for life. However, less than one-third of the twenty-nine monogamous cultures completely disapprove of both premarital and extramarital relations (Francouer 72).
For centuries, marriage was a dynastic affair, arranged by the parents and families. During the Middle Ages, they thought of marriage as a passionate love for an unattainable woman, usually the wife of a noble lord. In the 1970s, extramarital sex was estimated at as many as fifty-seventy percent of husbands and wives had ...
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Gun And Children: Ways To Keep Them Safe In The House
Number of Words: 602 / Number of Pages: 3
... from harm. Is there anyone that doesn’t want to be able to keep there family safe from any harm that might be their way. I want the same thing, but I also want to keep the children from harming them selves or others in anyway thinkable. I feel the same about that ,but if I was a parent or had a gun in a home with small children I would want to keep them safe any way possible. Wouldn’t you want that too? You have to keep the children safe from themselves.
Still people say “dismantling and restoring the weapon is hard and a waste of time.” There are ways of learning to do that, heck there is probabl ...
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Socialism
Number of Words: 565 / Number of Pages: 3
... cycles, and conflict
between owners. Through socialism a nations wealth can be distributed more
equally. Socialism is therefore based on cooperation rather than competition.
Socialist believe that by creating an economic plan, farmers, manufacturers,
workers, and government officials can properly adjust the production of goods to
meet the needs of the people. Some socialist believe that government should go
so far as to pay for education and Medicare. It is disagreement among
socialists that has made for a wide spectrum of ideas, possibly making it more
difficult for socialism to exist.
Socialism ...
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Persuasive Essay: Overpopulation
Number of Words: 258 / Number of Pages: 1
... planet now provides for approximately 5.8 billion people, with
projections of around 10 billion by the year 2050. Two billion of these are
extremely poor, the poorest of which live in absolute poverty and misery.
One very serious effect of the population explosion is its detrimental
effects on the global environment. Increasing amounts of food, energy, water,
and shelter are required to fulfill the needs of human society. Much of our
energy is derived from the burning of fossil fuels-releasing millions of metric
tons of toxins into the atmosphere annually. The amount of land required for
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Social Deviance
Number of Words: 2437 / Number of Pages: 9
... for many years and many different points of view. Sociologists Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber all studied from a macrolevel perspective.
Emile Durkheim uses the basis he believes is the basis of the social structure, collective consciousness. Collective Consciousness is the beliefs, values, and norms that members of a society hold in common. Durkheim believed that deviance was present in every society, and that it was an integral part of the social structure. According to Durkheim deviance helps societies maintain themselves by reconfirming the collective consciousness and the common basi ...
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The Influence Of Black Slave Culture On Early America
Number of Words: 1095 / Number of Pages: 4
... gospel train's a-leavin'
..." The "gospel train" of the song likely represented an escape method, such
as the Underground Railroad. Another type of music distinct to African slaves
was gospel. These songs originated in plantation fields as work songs, and were
later sung in churches of Black congregations. They were intended to enliven a
crowd, and employed bright music and joyful lyrics. Gospel music contributed to
the development of musical genres historically considered "white", such as rock'
n'roll and country and western.
Religion
Before Blacks came to America, they had their own hi ...
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