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US Sexuality and the Media

up, an idea that is still being felt in many rape cases where women are asked if they were acting seductively, wearing revealing c...

American Literature's Romantic Movement

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

Theories and Methods of Socrates and Plato

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

Analyzing the Portrayal of the Media in the Film Bob Roberts

himself completely to his ambition (Roberge, 2002). This is evidenced by his decision to run for political office (Roberge, 2002)...

Global Media, Culture, and Language

million people in the world who live outside their countries of birth or citizenship (Kent, 2002; U.S. Newswire, 2002). In 1990, t...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

Aggressive Behavior Stimuli

made them more susceptible to aggressive cognition (Aggressive Behavior Linked to Exposure to Media Violence, 2001). Even small am...

The Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

"tumbles" his family into a "financial ruin from which they do not recover for two generations" (Bottum 64). Clarence finds that a...

'Mr. Television' Milton Berle

could readily relate. His approach to comedy was like his approach to life: if you cannot laugh, you cannot live. Indeed, Berles...

The Trial Scene in A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

as those which the British themselves aspire to. Mahmoud...

International Media and Language Diversity

According to Muhlhausler, the choice of a single national language is regarded as a precondition for all modernization (Muhlhausle...

U.S. Welfare Policy and the Department of Agriculture's Food Stamps Program

Republicans when it comes to voting and election time (Enda, 2002). Just as interesting, however, was that Bushs predecessor, Pres...

Women of Color and Print Media

and Cosmopolitan. While both magazines market their product to a primarily female audience, it can readily be argued that Black B...

Branch Davidians, FBI, and ATF Standoff

groups have long been at the forefront of controversy with their indignation toward government and strong-arm tactics. These ordi...

Human Life in the Films Man Facing Southeast, A Short Film About Killing, and Taste of Cherry

the most fundamental truths of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress and feelings of social and ...

Library Science Challenges

Libraries need to respond to those challenges by initiating programs that will cater to the needs of present and future users, in ...

Global Manipulation by the Media

has a detrimental effect on elections. Some believe that the media was set on Gore. They contend that even if one contested medi...

The Political Functions of Mass Media in America

our place in that world. In many ways it could be said that we are being lulled into a sense of complacency by the glowing light ...

Canto 3 of 'Inferno' by Dante

Dante used the framework of the poem to convey his ideas concerning religion and morality. An overview of Canto III and its level...

Gays and Stereotyping

lose weight for genetic reasons and that of course they would be thin if it were possible. Similarly, homosexuals claim that their...

Ancient Literature and Cultural Characteristics

Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...

The American Press and Its Bias Against Arabs

practice the religion? Why is there an anti-Middle East sentiment? By and large, Americans get the news from American media and it...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'Self Reliance' and 'Nature' Essays

or change as well as "identity or rest...the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may b...

Karl Marx, Immanuel Kant, and Albert Camus' The Stranger

their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...

Cognized Environment and Rites of Passage

characteristics. If we consider some of these we can start to understand the impact of the cognized environment. One rite ...

Self-Regulation Within the Liquor Industry

out above its competitors. There is no law in the land that can prohibit advertisers from portraying their products in the most a...

Media and Body Image

the self-perception and health care of young girls. Hogan notes, with some validity, that media education is important: if the med...

Symbolism of the Coyote in The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

waxed Japanese car with personalized plates" hits Candido on a road going through the canyon (Boyle 3). While the lives of these t...

Ralph Ellison's Philosophy in The Invisible Man

standing and he is awarded a full scholarship to a prestigious black college. This of course doesnt last long, as through a serie...

Mass Media and Entertainment

on the futures of children who are currently nurtured on violent images as pleasure. In an equal area of concern, owners of mass m...