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Righteousness And Racism One Fifth British
502 wordsThere are several attitudes towards the empire expressed in the music and visual material provided. The key attitude of the British toward the Empire is patriotism, which naturally is followed by pride, then in turn developed in self-righteousness and ego. The strong sense of patriotism grew when the British power provided peace and wealth. Days of plenty and years of peace; March of a strong lands swift increase; as Henry H. Bennett wrote in The Flag Goes By. Citizens were brought up in an envi...
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Hot Dog Red Hot
534 wordsSausage is one of the oldest forms of processed food, having been mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as far back as the 9 th Century B. C. Fraunken-au-main, Germany, is traditionally credited with originating the frankfurter. However, this claim is disputed by those who believe that the popular sausage-known as a "dachshund" or "little-dog" sausage-was created in the late 1600 's by Johann Georghehner, a butcher, living in Coburg, Germany. Georghehner later traveled to Frankfurt to promote his new pro...
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Media Violence American Academy
1,008 wordsTechnology has created many good things for humanity such as cures for illnesses, ways to make transportation faster and many other things. Yet technology has also done harm to human culture, and it is easily spread to many people all over the world. This dark side is communication, either by television or radio, violence is spread everyday. The most affected are children because they are young, easily persuaded and their innocence can not distinguish right and wrong. Children tend to see violen...
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American Medical Association U S News
742 wordsTobacco Advertising and its dangerous effects on young people. Tobacco Advertising Makes Young People Their Chief Target Everyday 3, 000 children start smoking, most them between the ages of 10 and 18. These kids account for 90 percent of all new smokers. In fact, 90 percent of all adult smokers said that they first lit up as teenagers (Roberts). These statistics clearly show that young people are the prime target in the tobacco wars. The cigarette manufacturers may deny it, but advertising and ...
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Alcohol Abuse Alcohol Advertising
1,242 words... ion of football in the Bud Bowl. Some might say that these games wouldnt be if it werent for these companies, but Dr. Gary Hopkins suggests that in all realization, alcoholic commercials only constitute for seven percent of advertisements in sports programming (n. p. ). Another statistic from the NIAAA proves that these imbedded messages appear at a rate of over three per hour in major sports such as baseball, football, hockey, and basketball (2). Thousands of teenagers watch sports on telev...
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Recommend This Book 00 P M
696 wordsTitanic was the biggest ship ever made. It was a miracle of twentieth century technology. The ship consisted of the most sophisticated safety devices of its time. Yet on Sunday, April 14, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg, which soon led to disaster. I read the book, A Night To Remember written by Walter Lord. The book is a minute by minute account of the Titanic's fatal collision with an iceberg and how the tragedy brought out the best and worst of human nature. There were 2, 207 passengers aboa...
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Postmodern Culture Constitutes A Crisis In Representation
1,315 words... paranoia of modernism? Jameson according to Harvey, sees this as a linguistic disorder, a breakdown in the signifying chain of meaning that creates a simple sentence. When the signifying chain snaps, then we have schizophrenia in the form of a rubble of distinct and unrelated signifier's... (The Condition of Postmodernity) Are these the signifier's that postmodernism's are occupied with? The surface meanings or appearances rather than the root meanings and disappearances? By breaking down th...
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Domestic Violence Police Officer
1,542 words... and the apartment did not reflect any recent violent activity. She did know the name of her assailant. She described him as an acquaintance. This gave the officer more suspicion that she was a prostitute. The officer told the victim that it would be in her best interest if she did not continue the allegations. He said that a jury would laugh her out of the courtroom. He also told her that it would be a waste of time to go to the hospital for a checkup. The officer tells the known prostitute ...
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Sides To The Story Television
690 wordsTelevision is a big part of most of our lives. We watch our favourite shows on it every week. Our parents watch the news on it every night, and we settle down in front of it for the weekend movie. Most Australian families have one in their household, so its not as if we dont have a clue what it is. Like anything in the world, there are different sides to the story, but is TV really as good as it is hyped up to be? Television can be educational, such as when stations broadcast documentaries like ...
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Walt Disney Company Mickey Mouse
664 wordsThe Walt Disney Company is a company that developed from the vision and work of only a small amount of people, mainly Walt Disney. Disney Studios became a big success because of the creativity, determination, and effort put forth by Walt Disney who never gave up and got upset when people wouldn't work as hard as him. In 1893, Roy Disney was born on December 5, and in 1901 on the same day, Walter Elias Disney was born. As children their father beat them, and it was said that the beatings always h...
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Play Football Quality Education
773 wordsSo those places which have different latitudes receive unequal heading by the sun, and that is the fundamental reason of producing wind... ' One afternoon of early winter, the geography teacher systematically talks on why we have wind, bringing a lot of sound of making notes. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew the window open, like an unexpected guest, gently touched my face, and I realized I was absent of mind. Then you were indeed absent of mind just now? Oh, well yes. What were you thinking about ...
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Early Twentieth Century Late Nineteenth Century
1,145 wordsBetween the period of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, expansionism was a major part of the United States. Since there were many advances in technology and knowledge of the world many different countries tried to expand there countries as much as possible. Between this period there was a lot of continuation of expansionism plus there was also a lot of departure of expansionism in the country. Many things contributed to this expansionism such as the American Diplomacy ...
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Bobby Kennedy Invade Cuba Missiles
907 wordsIn October 1962 USA discovered Soviet nuclear bases on Cuba. This was only seventy miles away from the US coastline. It was literally in America s back-yard. It came as a shock to the Americans because Cuba and the US had such close ties so recently and this was going against such ties. This source is from a historian named Stephen E. Ambrose. This means that it is a reliable source because history books have to go through checks from other historians. It tells of the Executive Committee that Ke...
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Susan B Anthony Gave Women
911 wordsAt the turn of the nineteenth century into the twentieth century women began to get the equality, most women were so desperately fighting for. Women wanted the right to be able to vote in the next election, work in establishments outside of their homes, own land, and to be independent from the traditional male chauvinistic society. Over the years it became a long, grueling, and frustrating task, fighting for their rights, especially for those who led the battles; like one woman, who could be con...
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Centers For Disease Control Children And Teenagers
803 wordsEffective Media and Tobacco Advertising is everywhere we look today. According to recent estimates, most Americans see or hear nearly 2, 000 advertisements a day, whether it is on television, radio, billboards, magazines, or newspapers. But what is advertising exactly? In short, advertising is a form of persuasion and misdirection from businesses or companies to convince buyers that their product is the best. One area of effective advertising is tobacco companies advertising. Tobacco companies t...
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Zelda Sayre Younger Generation
1,730 wordsFlappers of the 1920 s When one pictures a young lady of the 1920 s, what does one see? Most often a neatly dressed elegant woman comes to mind. Many teenage girls are always told to act like young women, and are given speeches of how in the old days; everyone was on their best behavior. Actually, this generation s youth is being misled to how the past really was. In the-mid 1920 s the so-called ladies werent all they seem to be. Even though it may be hard to believe the obedience and politeness...
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United States Army United States Government
1,077 wordsThere are hundreds of thousands of icons throughout the world that represent many different things. (Nachbar and Last 171) GI-Joe is an icon that is sort of out dated now, but represented several things about the United States and the people that lived it. The twelve inch GI-Joe was released by Hasbro Toys in 1964 as the first ever action figure. It thrived for twelve years, changing from one soldier, to several members of every different military service. (Son) He represented, as the song goes,...
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Philip Morris Tobacco Industry
628 wordsDid 1960 s TV Influence Kids To Smoke? Jurors Spent The Day Looking At Examples Of Cigarette Placement In Vintage TV Clips The Latest | The Players | They Said It The Paperwork | The Archives: How We Got Here | The Front Page ST. PAUL, Posted 5: 28 p. m. March 09, 1998 One woman juror kept time with the music as the theme from The Beverly Hillbillies was played Monday in Minnesota's tobacco trial to show how cigarettes were marketed to youth. In the introduction to the television show, Jed Clamp...
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Mark Twain Political Cartoon
635 wordsIn Running for President, Mark Twain writes sardonically of the American political process which consists largely of investigating political candidates for the purpose of finding weaknesses or scandals in their past in order to defeat them in an election. In doing so, he takes the approach of rectum ad absurdum, i. e. taking the argument to absurd lengths, and verbally sketches a brilliant political cartoon whose imagery reduces the reader to wry chuckles of recognition. Twain starts his essay w...
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Teddy Bear Started Making
534 wordsHistory of the Teddy Bear There are many variations of the story explaining the origin of the teddy bear. Some believe it was completely a German creation. Others believe it was American. Some say it was a combination of the two. Still, others think it started in England. The first story is that of Margarete Steiff, a woman born in Giengen, Germany in 1847. When she was only two, she contracted polio and spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair (Margarete). That didnt stop her from being produ...
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