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The Body In Consumer Culture: Performing Masculinity

buff model. Indeed, it can easily be argued that while there is some form of embellishment in most advertising, employing bodybui...

Thomas A. Bailey and the Trail of Tears

as noted above deserves some further expansion so that we know how to respond to it. When he discusses Baileys remarks, Peloso is ...

The Mind/Body Problem

infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...

Feminist Theory and Videos of Shakira’s “Whenever, Wherever” and Lil’ Kim’s “No Matter What People Say”

how old and new discourses about sex are portrayed within the context of a "televisual apparatus" (134). This refers to how the v...

Body Image

images, ultimately made to understand that they, as an individual, are not as pretty or as thin or as attractive as they should be...

Tennyson: “Ulysses”

author or both; the last suggested interpretation is that "Ulysses is an Ancient Mariner who has never learned his lesson" (Landow...

Global Justice and Cosmopolitanism

2001). Therefore, there can be a favorable view of geophysical boundaries or divisions, attorney to the extent that they will prov...

Does An Effective Learning And Development Strategy Enables Organizations To Compete More Effectively?

order to asses show firms can use learning to create and maintain competitive advantages it is first necessary to look at the conc...

Mind/Consciousness/Body Duality

as inhabiting, in a manner that is rather analogous to wearing a specific set of clothes. In other words, the traditional view if ...

The Meaning of Tattoos and Body Piercing

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Cosmetic Surgery Addiction

physician Enrique Morselli back in 1891 as dysmorphophobia, BDD has been defined as "the fear of having a deformity" (Hunt, Thienh...

Criminologist Sheldon Glueck and His Theory on Juvenile Delinquency:

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

Elasticity of Addictive Products

This 6 page paper examines the concept of price elasticity of demand for tobacco. The concept and literature is examined and then ...

Winterson's "Written On The Body" And Barry's "Postmodernism" - Critical Reading

of art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, politics, communications, fashion, and technology (Barry 81-82). Also f...

Women's Perception of Female Images in Ads

fashion magazine indicated greater body dissatisfaction than the control group after only a brief exposure to type of advertising ...

Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

Psychological Dependence and Drug Abuse

craving for the drug (Edlin & Golanty, 2009). Someone who has never taken a recreational drug can understand what a craving is lik...

The Practical Application of Several Economic Principles

ice cream may have a high opportunity cost. When considering the marginal principle the way in which different products are desig...

Impact Of Healthful Eating On Physical And Mental Processes

a day of nothing but McDonalds food. It was a matter of a few days before Spurlock began to realize a tangible change to his expa...

An Overview of Body Systems and Function

the pancreatic islets are regulated by blood glucose concentrations (Saladin, 2007). Glycogen is a polypeptide which is also prod...

The Modern Taoist and Yin Yang

by modern Taoists as well. It might be contended that in our modern world, however, that conflict is even greater. When consideri...

Amendment to the Constitution to Ban Tobacco

Convention that is called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures (Mount, 2010). The second method has never been used, but, i...

The Concern Over Anorexia

the stimulation derived from the aberrant behavior even after treatment and recovery has ensued (Evans, 2006). This condi...

Vital Impact Neurotransmitters Have Upon Mind And Body

function and neurotransmitters (Benson, 2001). For example, Elbogen et al (2004) note how violent behavior such as hostility and ...

Conceptual Marketing Models

In eleven pages this paper examines marketing audit, processes of consumer decision making, product life concept, and GE matrix co...

Therapeutic Massage Good For Mind And Body

fear and anxiety, as well as "a sense of well-being and decreased isolation" (Trombley et al, 2003, p. 92). Ernst (2005) points t...

The relationship between mind and body

say that empirical scientific methodology is not appropriate for the study of faith-based religious belief). Anomalous monism stat...

Comparing Leadership In Public And Private Sector Organizations

of people". This is a view with agrees with Drucker, who does not believe that leaders can be defined merely by personality, but t...

Alfred Hitchcock and His Auteur Style

theorists and directors," note that "Hitchcocks films are deeply infused with anxiety, guilt, and existential angst, which they tr...

Financial Principles

The writer looks at several financial principles and concepts that may be useful when studying the Guillermo Furniture case study....