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Mass Destruction Mass Production
528 wordsIn Alvin Toffler's book, "The Third Wave, " he discusses our progression as a society. One can easily see the pattern to the mentioned waves. He describes wave one as the start of agriculture. It also marks the beginning of our culture. Wave two, marks the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, atomic destruction, and mainstream items. The change that takes place between these two waves is the start of what we call progress. It impacted our families, our planet, and set the pace for economics. ...
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Bring In 'da Artistic Director Rent
1,772 wordsThere's a scene in the new musical "RENT" that may be the quintessential romantic moment of the ' 90 s. Roger, a struggling rock musician, and Mimi, a junkie who's a dancer at an S/M club, are having a lovers' quarrel when their beepers go off and each takes out a bottle of pills. It's the signal for an "AZT break, " and suddenly they realize that they " re both HIV-positive. Clinch. Love duet. If you don't think this is romantic, consider that Jonathan Larson's sensational musical is inspired b...
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Men And Women Part Of Society
1,240 wordsIn the words of Pap, You think youre better your father, now, dont you, because he cant [read and write]? (2). In Mark Twain's adventure novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn escapes from civilized society to traverse the Mississippi River. Throughout the book, Twain uses various themes such as social ostracism to comment on human nature and its role in shaping society. Sometimes mainstream society is not as right and moral as it believes, and when individuals try to justify it they pu...
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Violent Crimes Homeless People
842 wordsHomelessness Thesis: Contrary to much public opinion, the growth of the homelessness is caused by economic conditions, personal choice, society, and other factors such that they are discriminated by the mainstream society. Homelessness seems to be an expanding problem of the modern age over the past year. Homeless people face an intense struggle just to stay alive despite the fact hat society turns its head from the problem. The government makes laws that discriminate against homeless people, wh...
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Money Wealth And Energy V1 1r
1,591 wordsMONEY, WEALTH, AND ENERGY v 1. 1 r 0 Authorship by: Tyler Jordan Money is like an iron ring we have put through our noses. We have forgotten that we designed it, and now it is leading us around. - Bernard Letter Introduction Money affects nearly all aspects of our lives, how it works is something everyone should be interested in understanding further. Unfortunately, politically and financially motivated and biased "experts" actively work to discourage us with terse jargon and assurances that the...
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Set The Stage Million Copies
1,607 words... llc was the proud father. In 1984, Metallica's second album was released. The much-anticipated "Ride The Lightning" spent almost a year in Billboard's top 200 ("The Band"). It features such tracks as "Ride The Lightning", "For Whom The Bell Tolls", and "Fade To Black." Even with its success, stations refused to play the album because of its harsh attitude. The album goes gold in the same year. Metallica's third album, "Master of Puppets", showed a more melodious approach to metal. The album ...
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Discussing Waterlily Marriage And Dakota Life
600 wordsIn modern Euro-American culture, if a man were to simply mention the idea of buying a wife he would face certain ridicule and would be considered sexist. Wife buying is not a pc option in todays society as it stands in direct opposition to the mainstream idea of womens liberation and independence. That is not to say that it doesnt happen (remember the show Who wants marry a Millionaire? ) it is just to say that it is not overtly accepted. Waterlily, by Ella Cara Deloria, details the religious an...
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Sex Or Subordination Violence And Pornography
1,115 words... orography available to adults. The courts assess that to ban or censor the material would be infringing on the public's First Amendment Right (Carol 28). Maureen O'Brien quotes critics of a congressionally terminated bill, the Pornography Victim's Compensation Act, as saying "That if it had passed, it would have had severely chilling effects on the First Amendment, allowing victims of sexual crimes to file suit against producers and distributors of any work that was proven to have had 'cause...
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Poet Laureate Ted Hughes
2,097 wordsKnowledge of contemporary British poetry is of great importance when it comes to understanding the reigning trends of England. The 1970 s saw a fair amount of polemic concerning the discontinuities of the national "traditions, " most of it concerned with poetry, all of it vulnerable to a blunt totalizing which demonstrated the triumphant ability of "nation" to organize literary study and judgment -- as it does still, perhaps more than ever. It remains the case twenty years later that there is a ...
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Sexual Aggression Sexual Violence
1,027 words... e Court judge is quoted as saying, "I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it" (Itzin 20). This statement can be heard at community meetings in every state, city, and county across the nation. Community standards are hazy due to the fact that when asked what pornography is to them, most individuals cannot express or explain in words what pornography is, therefore creating confusion among themselves. Communities are left somewhat helpless in this matter since the federal courts ...
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Japanese Animation Folk Tales
1,456 words... e beginning as a medium, 's aid Linda Simensky, Director of Animation for Nickelodeon. We agree completely. Clay Animation may not be at it's highest potential, but we hope that it will make it someday. Maybe if additional feature films were made it would boost the industry of clay animation to an all time high. The only problem is that it takes such a long time and if the studios happened to take on a film, they would have to quit their other tasks and focus directly on that film. It took y...
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Rave Culture And Its Effects On Popular
1,199 words... posts individualism, a come-as-you-are mentality, there are definitely many similarities among ravers in general. A unique aspect of rave culture is the fashion. There is a definite sense of individualism within the rave fashion scene; you are likely to see someone in jeans, someone in black vinyl pants, or someone in costume. However, many people fit into a definite 'typical raver' mold. For males, baggy pants are the norm. A very tight shirt, no shirt, or a sweatshirt is also common for ma...
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Punk Rock Punk Bands
1,072 wordsMrs. Barbara Simpson English Comp II 25 March 2000 The Origination of Punk Rock The time was in the mid-seventies, there was a void in the music industry that needed to be filled. This need for a new sound was aptly filled by punk rock, a new type of sound that had evolved from mostly rock and a little pop music. The focus of this paper is on punk rock and it's ample beginnings, early pioneers of the new sound, punk rock listener's cultural background and their ideas as a whole, bands influenced...
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Political Correctness American Medias
1,514 wordsMedia Bias in Politics The Medias are being traditionally referred to as the democracy's fourth column, in the sense that they influence peoples minds to a great extent, which is often a single factor that defines citizens political affiliation. One of the most important principles of democracy is independence of Medias. In theory, Media owners biggest goal is to deliver honest and unbiased information to the people, while leaving it up to them to come to their own conclusions. Of course, it is ...
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Animal Rights Activists Mercedes Benz
2,603 wordsCollege: Lecturer: Course: Date: Outline of contents Contents Page Abstract 3 Michaels background 3 Impact on the society 4 The fall of Michael 5 Rehabilitating Michaels image 7 Works cited 11 Abstract This paper examines the life of football player Michael Dwayne Vick, the mistakes he has made in the past, the retributions, and the way ahead. It seeks to show how Michael can rehabilitate his badly tarnished image despite the sordid past. It also draws lessons from the past that should feature p...
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Citizen Kane Wuthering Heights
2,916 wordsExcellence, Popularity, Typicality Discuss The Relative Excellence, Popularity, Typicality Discuss The Relative Merits Of Each Of These As A Basis For The Inclusion Of Films In A Film History Excellence, popularity, typicality discuss the relative merits of each of these as a basis for the inclusion of films in a film history Any attempt to study film history requires the consideration of films, which occur within the categories of excellence, popularity and typicality. They are three very diffe...
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Point Of View Mainstream Society
1,842 wordsIn today s society, there exists a myriad of issues which, when discussed, tend to raise the temperature of the citizens proverbial blood. There are a handful of topics that always seem to escalate this temperature to the boiling point among individuals who earnestly participate in discussion, debate and argument. Some examples of such delicate subjects are the death penalty, abortion, and euthanasia. An issue that has in recent years, begun to command the intensity of the foregoing, is the acce...
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Hard Core Pornography Soft Core Pornography
4,515 wordsViolence and Pornography Pornography Sex or Subordination? In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged by the rape, mutilation, and murder of over a dozen young, beautiful girls. The man who committed these murders, Ted Bundy, was later apprehended and executed. During his detention in various penitentiaries, he was mentally probed and prodded by psychologist and psychoanalysts hoping to discover the root of his violent actions and sexual frustrations. Many theories arose in attem...
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Rave Culture Club Drugs
1,454 wordsRave and drugs The new millennium is coming soon. So, there are many of special parties will appear at the end of the year. All of the youth people are being busy to think what party they should attend and have the most fun on this special New Year Eve to greet the Y 2 K (year 2000). In my mind, a word Xrave pop up because it can have more than thousand of people dance in a place and create the festive atmosphere. This is the reason why the rave culture will still go on to capture the attention ...
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Hip Hop Ain T
3,377 wordsSpirituality in Hip-Hop Many people view hip-hop from only a commercial standpoint. This would force them to believe that since mainstream rap is riddled with references to violence, sex, and money, that there is a lack of reverence or acknowledgement for God. This problem is remedied, however, if one looks deeper into the sources of hip-hop. Mainstream music is the sub-genre of rap in which the consumers most readily purchase. For rap, the ideas that sell the easiest are these sex and money-fil...
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