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Changing Meanings - Reconsidering Advertising Texts Regarding Beauty

The writer looks at two advertisements supplied by the student, designed to appeal to men with a dating agency providing contacts ...

What It Means to be a California Peace Officer: A Cadet’s Story

breaking down Penal Code 502 (c)(6) into its proper sections. This breakdown is based upon the code as stated in version three of...

The Meaning Behind the Jena 6 Incident

the 2008 ticket, but still, racism has not yet been eradicated. The facts of the case suggest that racism against black people is ...

Meaning and Consequences of Patriotism

of patriotism. This use of patriotism, to support war, can be rationalized with extreme ease, which is a factor quite evident in t...

Sovereignty: What It Means In Today's Global Society

in world politics illustrates how such groups form out of a need to "right" perceived wrongs. Since they believe their duty is to...

Human and What Humanness Means

is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...

Religion and its Meaning

that such an individual needs more church. Of course, the person who only is inclined to go to church on holidays may possess any ...

What Globalization Means

In five pages this paper considers how various people define globalization and whether or not they believe it has an impact upon t...

The Meaning of Magic

never "proven entirely sufficient for all circumstances and contexts" (Bailey, 2006; 1). In addition, the author illustrates that ...

Meanings of Racial and Ethnic Histories

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

'News' and What it Means

radio station or television station (and most of them own all three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed ...

War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

and shot at by Serb snipers (p. 2). Hedges offers a vision of war that means much more than political and ideological rhetoric and...

What it Means to be an Educated Person

merely went on the academic criteria alone, then the other facets would be negated. The other facts being that of the emotional an...

Speech Meaning and Its Social Consequences

language and sounds. He makes an example of everyday speech, suggesting that in conversation with another person, we think we are...

Alfred Ayer's Verification Theory and Meaning

Immanual Kant, who possessed knowledge at the core of his being, was consumed with the learning of reason. He believed that reaso...

Analysis of the Phrases 'The Reign of God' and 'The Kingdom of God' and Their Meanings

scholars. In Matthew 25, Jesus says that when the hungry are fed and the blind can see and the naked are clothed, that will signif...

What Being a Writer Means in Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

demonstration of Alice Munros unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women" (Codys Books). This illustrates that Munro i...

The Meaning of Life According to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

quite a bit about himself, he insists that he is lying. There is no point in this narrative in which the Underground Man becomes ...

What it Means to Be Creative

be very discouraging and lead many people to give up on a dream of being an artist or a writer or anything else that calls for the...

Erik Erikson's Theories and What It Means to Be an Adult

human beings into jeopardy. Thus, adults have a responsibility to use their ability for higher reasoning and abstract thought to p...

Meaning and Symbolism of Ancient Egypt's Shawabtis

This is the function of a shawabti, but does it really describe the way in which one was lovingly carved, placed, or the perspecti...

Meaning of 'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...

Trying to Find Meaning in 'A Clean, Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...

Ends and Means Justification

of test tube experiments, many drugs would not be capable of being tested in this way. This is an highly debated argument, and for...

Man's Search for Meaning by V. Frankl and Zinnemann's Man for All Seasons

easily see that living in the moment was the only thing that someone in that situation could hope to do, and to turn inward, losin...

Bush Conservativism Dangers and What it Means to Be an American

government. In particular, concerning a worldwide perspective, it is the Moslem countries that are the most frightening to me as a...

French Films La Regle du Jeu, Zero de Conduite, Meaning and Ending

another toots a miniature horn through his nose. When they arrive at the station, the boys join the rest of their peers, who are...

Content and Meaning of Phaedrus by Plato

Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and the Title's Meaning

the beginning she has no doubts about the importance or the validity of such faith. And, in all honesty, there is something to thi...

What is Meant by Mindful Listening?

supervisory egos in exchange for an atmosphere of openness, encouragement and teamwork. For the most part, the concept of busines...