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Children And Television Advertising
3,428 wordsThe following research has sought to understand the influence of television on children over the past twenty years using a variety of social models, from public policy and industry self-regulation, to how children receive and process media messages and the parental responsibility in monitoring what is acceptable for children to view. As a baseline, our research used a model of children interacting with television. We expounded on this model in an effort to seek current data and information that ...
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Drug Addiction Negative Reinforcement
4,209 words... ve drugs. The Addiction Research Center Inventory, an empirically derived test designed to measure the subjective effects of addictive drugs, detects the mood-elevating effects of psychomotor stimulants and opiates on the same scale (see Haertzen and Hickey 1987). On the other hand, the subjective-effects of these two drug classes can be easily distinguished. This is not surprising considering that ex-addicts report a preference for heroin over morphine (Martin and Fraser 1961), even though ...
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Occupied Territories Middle East
2,032 words... greater attention to Canadian relations with the Middle East than in 1985. However, in our view, the coverage remained episodic in nature and did not reflect a new concern to inform readers about a range of Canadian relations with the countries of the region and Canadian policy with respect to the central issue of an Arab-Israeli reconciliation. The press's preoccupation with the Canadian dimension was principally a product of highly controversial statements by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney ...
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Supreme Court Ruled U S Senate
5,404 wordsWhile the censorship of art is not a new phenomenon, recent years have witnessed renewed and intensified attempts to control popular culture. In particular, rap and rock music have come under increasing attack from various sides representing the entire left and right political spectrum, purportedly for their explicit sexual and violent lyrical contents. In this paper is investigated which moral codes underlie these claims against popular music, how social movements mobilize actions around these ...
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Patently Offensive Legally Obscene
5,385 words... to Sound Warehouse, a record store in Broward County, and bought a cassette version of the "Nasty" recording. He listened to the album, had six of its songs transcribed, and prepared an affidavit stating these facts. On February 28, 1990, Deputy Wichner sent the affidavit, the transcripts, and a copy of the "Nasty" tape to Judge Mel Grossman of the Broward County Circuit Court, requesting that the judge find probable cause that "Nasty" was legally obscene. On March 9, Judge Grossman issued a...
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Accounts Receivable Cash Flow
1,321 wordsPurpose: To analyze the cause and effect of the significant drop of Traditional Industry's (Traditional) 1989 net income, from 1988 record breaking amount number. We have noted the following weaknesses in reporting as the primary cause of Traditional's bankruptcy: Traditional had not properly recorded bad debt expense and account receivable for the year 1988, as such, we will reconstruct the journal entries for bad debt expense and accounts receivable write-offs for 1987, 1988, 1989. If bad debt...
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Symptoms Of Stress Adrenal Glands
1,624 wordsIn 1936 an endocrinologist, Hans Site, discovered stress. Stress is present in everybody. It occurs daily in peoples lives. Stress is a body condition that occurs in response to actual or anticipated difficulties in life (Rice, 1987). Stress can also be defined as the sum of physical and mental responses our bodies experience in relationship to any change. There are many causes of stress and many different ways to handle stress. Stress can also be harmful to ones health, both physically and ment...
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President Ronald Reagan Health And Human Services
2,088 words... career had started to die down in the late 1950 s. In 1953 he moved into television as a host and frequent performer for the General Electric Theatre. He eventually went from host and program supervisor of GE Theatre to actually producing and claiming stakes in the TV show itself and at one point Reagan was earning about $ 125, 000 a year (equivalent to $ 600, 000 today). In politics Ronald Reagan started out as a Democrat supporting Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal but he graduall...
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Shareholders' Equity Marketable Securities
1,994 words... 24, 273, 000 Total income 983, 959, 000 879, 587, 000 812, 621, 000 Cost of goods sold 366, 040, 000 375, 794, 000 345, 097, 000 Operating expenses 478, 974, 000 374, 736, 000 342, 467, 000 Selling, administrative, and general expenses 75, 387, 000 69, 513, 000 63, 314, 000 Interest expense 10, 867, 000 8, 832, 000 20, 700, 000 Other deductions 785, 000 1, 590, 000 1, 518, 000 Total costs and expenses 932, 053, 000 830, 465, 000 773, 096, 000 Income before income taxes 51, 906, 000 49, 122, ...
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Iran Contra Independent Counsel
1,356 wordsNational Security Council was really concerned about Iran contra issue and two secret Reagan Administration policies were instructed to take measures to release the American hostages. In 1985 - 1986 in order to do that they tried to sale the US weapons to Iran notwithstanding that it was forbidden (embargo). Also during 1984 - 1986 operation used support of the military activities in Nicaragua, though that also was prohibited. The operation of the both Iran and Contra began act together when the...
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Hrm Soft And Hard Model
2,861 wordsHRM, soft and hard model. Human resource management is a distinctive approach to employment management which seeks to achieve competitive advantage through the strategic deployment of a highly committed and capable workforce, using an array of cultural, structural and personnel techniques (Storey J. , Human Resource Management - A Critical Text) First of all it should be noted that human resource management, or HRM, emerged as a practiced personnel function, promising flexibility, responsiveness...
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Saturday Night Live Pee Wee
4,659 wordsBy the mid 1950 s, comedy virtually disappeared from the lists of top-ten moneymaking films. In 1959 it came back and has remained a steady part of America&# 39; s film diet ever since. The genre returned with two hit films which typify the extremes in audience tastes: The Shaggy Dog and Some Like It Hot. Although now rarely revived and barely remembered, the Walt Disney Company&# 39; s live-action comedies were among the biggest box-office hits up until the late &# 39; 70 s. Blending broad humo...
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Coral Reefs Fringing Reefs
4,088 wordsCoral reefs are arguably the worlds most beautiful habitats. Coral reefs have been called the rainforests of the oceans, because of the rich diversity of life they support. Scientists have not yet finished counting the thousands of different species of plants and animals that use or live in the coral reef. There are three types of coral reefs: fringing reefs, barrier reefs, and atolls. Fringing reefs are located close to shore, separated from land by only shallow water. Barrier reefs lie farther...
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Criminal Justice System Cruel And Unusual Punishment
1,077 wordsDeath Penalty An eye for an eye, a life for a life? Does this philosophy hold true in the twentieth century? Is the death penalty a Cruel and Unusual punishment or is iknow a necessary tool in the war on crime? With the increase in crime and violence in our society due not only to gang and drug activities, but also psychotic murderers, our criminal justice system must decide whether or not death as a form of criminal punishment is economical, non-discriminatory, and a deterrence factor of crimin...
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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Cerebral Cortex
7,827 wordsDementia is an organic brain syndrome which results in global cognitive impairments. Dementia can occur as a result of a variety of neurological diseases. Some of the more well known depending diseases include Alzheimers disease (AD), multi-infarct dementia (MID), and Huntington's disease (HD). Throughout this essay the emphasis will be placed on AD (also known as dementia of the Alzheimers type, and primary degenerative dementia), because statistically it is the most significant depending disea...
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Parental Divorce Psychological Bulletin
3,038 wordsThe Affects of Divorce on Children As a child, there are many things that affect a view, memory, opinion, or attitude. Children have many of their own daily struggles to cope with, as peer pressures are an example. As an adult, we sometimes forget what it is like to be a child dealing with some of the childhood pressures. Many parents do not realize how something like divorce could possibly affect their children as much as it does themselves. As the case may be, children are strongly affected by...
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Friedrich Engels Karl Marx
2,227 wordsThe Ideas and thoughts of Karl Marx by: John Rising The latter part of the nineteenth century was teeming with evolving social and economic ideas. Karl Marx (1818 - 1893) was a proponent of many of the radical ideas circulating at the time about class structure. The views of the social structure of society came about through the development of ideals taken from past revolutions and the ongoing clash of individuals and organized assemblies (Mckay, 1987: 234). As the Industrial Revolution moved fo...
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Wes Craven Woody Allen
2,064 wordsAs a companion piece to the articles outlining the histories of the eight major film studios, this survey examines four relative newcomers to production: New Line, Orion, Miramax, and TriStar. They aren&# 39; t studios in the classic sense; none have their own big lots where their films are shot. However, they all produce original and important films as well as distribute independent and foreign works. They&# 39; re the new players in the brave new post-studio world of American film. NEW LINEThe...
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Dow Jones Interest Rates
1,101 wordsThe stock market plays a significant role in the health of the economy; the economy has to be strong for a country and its citizens to prosper. In 1929 over a period of two weeks 30 billion dollars disappeared from the U. S. economy, this was the event that started the greatest period of human hardship of the twentieth century known as the great depression. On October 19, 1987 the Dow Jones industrial average plunged almost a third of its value. Many investors went completely bankrupt after one ...
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Sustainable Competitive Advantage Value Chain
7,569 wordsThe Path of Development of Strategic Information Systems Theory Zedrik Avecilla Abstract During the last 15 years, an area has developed within the Information Systems discipline which is generally referred to as strategic information systems. It concerns itself with systems whose importance to the organisation extend beyond merely assisting it to perform its existing functions efficiently, or even just effectively. A strategic information system is instrumental in the organisations achievement ...
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