YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Combating the Cult of Thinness
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become everything. Delia not only wants to look good for the attention that it gets her, but she is also determined that her sel...
Recent stories of mass suicides of cult members has led to an interest in the people who join cults and their rationale. Tis paper...
Religious cults have been a fact of life for years, but the phenomenon of mass suicides has recently engrossed the public. This pa...
and the power of the government to act; it is the implementation of formal rules by the society. The second type of authority that...
In ten pages this cult's history and its techniques of persuasion are analyzed. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....
this movement, they are turned against their families, their grades fall and they drop out of school, and they "surrender" their w...
of society. How do these cults form? Often, there is one spiritual leader who attracts the group. The newly emerging gurus are m...
for boyish, flat-chested women with no hips.) Leaving that aside, what does this image say to young American women? It says that ...
combatant soldiers. A combat soldiers livelihood and health is attached to training (Meyer, 1990). The way that he is trained wil...
honorable combat and murders Ither by throwing a javelin into Ithers eye (Ash). A true knight would never have indulged in such a ...
God, and the nation represented. Linderman tells the story of this unique group of men in an understandable order from ant...
information technology has been growing at an exponential rate. In just a few short years, computers have evolved from large, clun...
This paper provides an annotated bibliography of 15 journal articles related to radicalization. Definition, causes, combating it, ...
Did Christianity borrow ideas and practices from pagan mystery cults. This is an allegation that has been popping up since the 19t...
This paper considers the various factors that weigh into distinguishing between a cult and a religious sect. There are four sourc...
like a satanic cult? Sound like the type of organization which should be shut down? Think again. This description just given was o...
Discusses the Church of Scientology and whether it is a "viable" religion or a brainwashing cult. There are 5 sources listed in th...
up their brand. This is true for the Apple Company in general. The introduction of iPod gadget, iTunes, iPhone and iPad all supp...
resuilts in problematic outcomes. This is not true; experimental designs sometimes result in problematic outcomes for the partici...
The Breakfast Club has become a cult movie because it shows the angst of being not only a teenager but a youngster who has been ab...
of course, was according to legend. However, the legends gained such popularity that in time many came to worship Isis, alone. Tem...
single women over the age of twenty-one and widows had the power to make contracts and hold property in her own name (22). A marri...
An essential rite of the Bacchic orgies was the practice of omophagia, the dismemberment of the sacrificial victim and the eating ...
away at a person until there is nothing left. A loss of humanity and depth is mourned in this movie, it could be stated. Demonic ...
a religion. By practice, the Church of Scientology is a cult. Since practice and the effects on people are more important than she...
womans place was perceived to be located securely in the private sphere, which she ruled as a domestic goddess, creating a haven o...
individual zealously devotes himself to some leader or ideal" reveals the inherent social bigotry that has long obscured cults and...
the goddess (Thuggee). The British made a determined (and successful) effort to stamp out Thuggee beginning in the early 1800s. ...
the Supreme Court sees it, Satanism is a religion ("High Court," 2005). It does appear that one mans cult is anothers religion, bu...
the Unification Church (Sontag 11). Image of the Divine in this religious tradition The Unification Church, according to its De...