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Notes On The State Of Virginia
1,519 wordsAny study of the United States should include Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia. Not only does he meticulously gather information, categorize and document the natural resources, but also discusses Virginias constitution and laws, which he uses as a microcosm for the United States government. Jefferson's celebration of the national bureaucracy is not without the various problems that existed in the United States during his lifetime. The most problematic issues were the institution...
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Acts Per Hour Violence On Television
1,335 wordsAmerican children and adolescents are being exposed to increasing amounts of media violence, especially in television, movies, video games, and youth-oriented music. By age 18, the average young person will have viewed an estimated 200 000 acts of violence on television alone. [ 1 ] Video game violence, children's cartoons, and music lyrics have become increasingly graphic. In movies, action films depict anatomically precise murders, rapes, and assaults; with each sequel, the number of deaths in...
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National Institute On Drug Abuse Tens Of Millions
1,692 wordsLegalization of Drugs Such an issue stirs up moral and religious beliefs; beliefs that are contrary to what America should "believe." However, such a debate has been apparent in the American marketplace of ideas before with the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920 's. With the illegality of alcohol the Mafia could produce liquor and therefore had considerable control over those who wanted their substance and service. The role that the Mafia played in the 1920 's has transformed into the corner dru...
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Number Of Immigrants Point Of View
1,268 wordsThe concern about the impact that immigration impose on American society is not a new one. Since the discovery of the New World immigrants from all over the world moved to American continent in search of a better life, that this vast and rich in sources, yet scarce in population land had promised them. Soon the immigrants outnumbered the native population. They came from England, Europe and Asia. In addition, millions of Africans were imported as slaves. By 1700 the United States became a countr...
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University Of California Mentally Retarded
1,431 words... desires, including sexual sin, and concealment. In both sexes, Hehe's require each other to hinder all of their desires for sexual intercourse, although they admit to having strong needs for sex. They also believe that people must keep the producers of sexual excitement repressed. The things that produce sexual excitement for them include womens breasts, and the Hehe women keep themselves completely covered at all times. The most proper people in their culture conceal all enjoyment, not only...
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Lao Tzu The Moderation Of Rule
850 wordsRuling a country effectively is executed through a variety of methods. Lao-Tzu, a follower of Taoism, expresses his belief on the most efficient way to govern. "The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self-reliant people will be" (25). This quote from Lao-Tzu can be interpreted many different ways. The author discusses what he feels the role of a leader should be, the restri...
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Native Americans Wounded Knee
624 wordsIn the 30 years after the Civil War, although government policy towards Native Americans intended to shift from forced separation to integration into American society, attempts to Americanize Indians only hastened the death of their culture and presence in the America. The intent in the policy, after the end of aggression, was to integrate Native Americans into American society. Many attempts at this were made, ranging from offering citizenship to granting lands to Indians. All of these attempts...
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Man And Woman View Of Women
1,164 wordsWalt Whitman helped shape American poetry through his various works. In I Hear America Singing, he glorified the average working man in his Ideal Democracy. In the introduction to Leaves of Grass, Whitman expressed his belief in the common man and woman (Napierkowski 157). Whitman used many different themes to get his point across, and these themes shaped his work. The theme of common people in the American democracy sets the tone and wording, and contributes to the overall message of I Hear Ame...
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Extremely Important Mass Media
1,227 wordsThe following was written, 20 April 2005. In 21 st century American society, there seems to be a growing infatuation with technology and mass media in the midst of natural disaster and terrorist attacks. Specifically, Americans seem to be inundated by so much television that they no longer have the capacity to think outside the box, and would rather be immersed in the idiot box than in a good book or a news paper. Mr. Murray, Washington bureau chief for CNBC and the Wall Street Journal columnist...
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Men And Women Sexual Harassment
1,569 wordsUndermining Political Correctness When we talk of John Taylor Gatto's Dumbening Us Down and David Mamet's play Oleanna, it cannot escape our attention that the both writings subject has to do with concept of political correctness being institutionalized on academic level. The conclusion, to which John Gatto takes us to with the mean journalistic analysis, can also be found in David Mamet's play, although he does it not quite as directly as Gatto. George Orwell's concept of big brother controllin...
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Dominant Culture Critical Theory
2,167 wordsCultural Democracy Through the process of examining more fully the link between culture and power, it becomes quite evident that in order to move toward a genuinely laboratory form of cultural democracy there must exist in theory and practice an emancipatory political construct on which to build a critical bi cultural pedagogy. This is particularly true given the asymmetrical power relations in American society. Significant to this discussion is the notion of student voice and empowerment and th...
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Religion And Its Impact On Society
610 wordsReligion and its Impact on Society Karen Armstrong, a former Catholic nun, considers that the religion has great positive impact on the modern society. With the aid of religion you acknowledge something more important you bridge your personal constraints, social restrictions and frailty, located on the one side, and the other angle of absolute values on the other side. In other words, the correlation between religion and society eliminates a gap between the lowest and the highest levels of being...
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Media Gender And Identity Angry White
708 wordsGender and Media It is a fact that since the time when Medias began to play an increasingly important role in lives of Americans, the whole gender-based structure of American society started to become more unisex. Because of that, the social roles that used to be traditionally assigned to males and females cannot be thought as distinctive behavioral concepts. The essence of this metaphysical evolution appears to be quite simple. Medias try to apply notions of sensitivity, insecurity and feminini...
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Franklin D Roosevelt U S Economy
4,155 wordsThe Great Depression was the worst economic decline ever in U. S. history. It began in late 1929 and lasted about a decade. Throughout the 1920? s, many factors played a role in bringing about the depression; the main causes were the unequal distribution of wealth and extensive stock market speculation. Money was distributed unequally between the rich and the middle-class, between industry and agriculture within the United States, and between the U. S. and Europe. This disproportion of wealth cr...
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Human Rights Abuses Noam Chomsky
3,203 wordsCorporate Power and the Negation of Democracy Ottawa was recently host to the G- 20 summit where the leaders of 20 nations assembled with their head financial officers, the governors of the World Bank and the IMF. Monetary issues discussed at this conference included: the worlds economic situation, third world poverty, debt and education. Most would consider these to be matters of multitudinal proportions, however it did not receive the media attention it deserved. Some of the key issues discuss...
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Ralph Ellison Battle Royal
889 wordsThe history of African integration into American society has been Permeated with human tragedy. Ever since the first slave boat reached the shore? s of America, a deep affliction to the African race transpired. Generations upon generations were ravished by the rapacity of there captors. Kept enchained and illiterate for hundreds of years, the idea of Blacks as the Untermensch in American society was milled into the American psyche, the remnant of which still till today remains. Untermensch, a Ge...
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African Americans Asian Americans
995 wordsAt some point in the course of human events, America decided that the television was their Dali Lama, their cultural and spiritual leader. Overlooking its obvious entertainment based purpose, Americans have let the television baby-sit and rear their children. I do not recall a manifesto from the television industry, but society put television in a role it does not have authority in. The only thing television set out to do was provide the passive entertainment American society wants. True, televi...
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Members Of Society Point Of View
4,449 wordsThey are everywhere we turn these days; images of scantily clad women selling you a product, an image, a sound, and even sometimes an attitude. If an alien was to come down from his planet and judge this planet from the images that dominate our society, besides assuming that everyone is drop dead gorgeous according to our planetary standards, he would also come to the conclusion that everything on earth revolves around women and that therefore they must dominate our planet. From a human point of...
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Huck Finn Runaway Slave
532 wordsThroughout the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Mississippi River plays a highly significant role. The American landmark represents freedom, in many cases, to the runaway slave Jim. A cornerstone of Huck s maturity during the novel was the Mississippi River. This body of water reveals all that is wrong and ignorant in American society. The ignorance ranges anywhere from slavery to something as petty as a couple of small town swindlers. The Mississippi River was as routine as slaver...
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Black And White Good And Bad
2,749 words? Much that characterised Hollywood in the 1950 s can be described as paradoxical and ambiguous due to anti-communist hysteria and the blacklist. ? How accurate is this statement in relation to two films of the 1950 s? A lot has been made of the suggested subtexts present in High Noon and On the Waterfront, that they reflect the experiences of Carl Foreman (the writer of High Noon) and Elia Kazan with the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Foreman has openly assented to this, and Kazan h...
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