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Thin Ideal Direct Correlation
1,077 words... 81) conducted more research with preschool aged girls. This study showed that young girls are now all emulating the behaviors of Wonder Women, Charlies Angels, and Bionic Women. This shows that young girls now have role models to look up to that are doing the same types of things the males are doing in the media. Dominick (1992) in a study showed a noticeable consistency in gender roles published between 1970 and the early 1990 s. Results showed that more women on television in the 1980 s we...
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Protect Their Children Freedom Of Speech
841 wordsCensorship: an official authorised to examine printed matter, films, news, etc. , before public release, and to suppress any parts on the grounds of obscenity, a threat to security, etc. (Dictionary, MS Encarta) Censorship is the removal of material from public viewing or the ability to withhold any material from being released. Using this definition, this issue of pornography seems to be in the grey area of the censorship debate. On the one side there are the people who want to protect their ch...
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Marlow Describes Kurtz Actions
1,830 wordsThroughout his narrative in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Thomas Marlow characterizes events, ideas, and locations that he encounters in terms of light or darkness. Embedded in Marlow's parlance is an ongoing metaphor equating light with knowledge and civility and darkness with mystery and savagery. When he begins his narrative, Marlow equates light and, therefore, civility, with reality, believing it to be a tangible expression of man's natural state. Similarly, Marlow uses darkness to dep...
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U S Government Amounts Of Information
1,308 wordsDuring the last decade, our society has become based on the sole ability to move large amounts of information across great distances quickly. Computerization has influenced everyone's life in numerous ways. The natural evolution of computer technology and this need for ultra-fast communications has caused a global network of interconnected computers to develop. This global network allows a person to send E-mail across the world in mere fractions of a second, and allows a common person to access ...
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Amounts Of Information Large Amounts
953 wordsTo a greater or lesser degree, tacit knowledge affects nearly every interaction people have with automated systems or interactive software. The experience an individual brings to their interactions guides their goals and expectations - and experience and goals are unique from person to person. Some of the guiding questions for system designers are: To what extent does tacit knowledge and embedded skill affect the process for which were designing? To what extent do people collaborate in this proc...
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Lot Of People Tupac Shakur
1,100 wordsSince the late 1980 's rap music has been called the Anti Christ in our culture, because of it's so-called influence in people's life. People swear up and down that the music is why people, specially the youth resort to violent crimes. I think by saying this they are trying to cover up the real truth by giving simple answers. Rap is defined as a style of popular music consisting of improvised rhymes performed to a rhythmic accompaniment. The first rap song was made in the late 70 's, the songs w...
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Material On The Internet Difficult To Find
1,172 wordsIntroduction With more and more frequency the newspapers are reporting instances of school children distributing disks of pornographic images which they have downloaded from the net and recently a university student was found to be operating such a site for material. On November 11, an Associated Press release (Phillips, 1994) reported that Carnegie Mellon University had decided to block its users from accessing sexually explicit materials through the Internet: the university's president feared ...
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Social Contract Life Threatening
1,298 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites The issue of abortion is emotionally loaded and this often makes for poor, not thoroughly thought out arguments. The questions: "Is abortion immoral" and "Is abortion a murder" are often confused. The pregnancy (and the resulting foetus) are discussed in terms normally reserved to natural catastrophes (force majeure, in legal lingo). At times, the embryo is compared to cancer: after al...
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Why Is America A Country Of Violence
1,222 wordsWhy is America A Country of Violence Many people might ask themselves, Why is America a country of violence and hate? There are several factors that contribute to making the United States one of the most violent and highly crime rated countrys in the world, such as the history of war, and poor gun control. But there is one reason that stands out from the rest and that is, the media. The media has an enormous impact, and influence on todays children and young teens. There have been several report...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexual Harassment
849 wordsAs I, the television program producers know, there are many sinful electronic devices today that have turned our once peaceful and nave world into one that consists of hate, crime, and deep obscenity. Such examples fits directly into the world of technology, like computers, the Internet, and last, but not least, what I think is the most destructive; the television. All of these technological devices were invented for our convenience, enjoyment, and most of all, profit. Nevertheless, I shall say ...
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Violence On Television Years Of Age
1,428 wordsCensorship is a word with many meanings. In a broadcast sense the word censor, according to the Pocket Oxford Dictionary (seventh edition 1984), means an official with power to suppress whole or parts of books, plays, films, letters, news, etc on the grounds of obscenity, or threat to security. Suppress and obscenity are the key words in that definition. Censorship occurs when we watch television or a movie, listen to the radio or buy music, or even read a book or magazine. Censorship also occur...
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Emily Dickinson Robert Frost
1,016 wordsBreaking Breaking The Silence SHHHHHH! ! ! ! ! Breaking the silence Intimacy and sexuality are the most important aspects of our life, our sex lives affect all other spheres and often determines a sense of our adequacy. However, as human beings, Christian morality has left a deep influence on the development of the modern individual. Christianity has always prohibited open portrayal of human sexual feelings and activities. Sex, as a theme has always been a taboo subject. Which was an inappropria...
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Sexually Explicit Material Parents Music Resource Center
858 wordsCensorship in music The first amendment to the Constitution contends that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the press. In the past ten years especially, music has been under assault by law makers, prosecutors and critics of morality and taste. One attack on this freedom comes from parental advisory stickers. These stickers are used as a form of censorship against an artist and his or her lyric...
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Sexually Explicit Material Parents Music Resource Center
1,131 wordsCensorship of American Music Although is clearly states in the first amendment that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, censorship in America still exists in a big way. I think censorship can be applied to almost anything, including music of all kinds. Music cens...
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Communications Decency Act Moral Guidance
1,237 wordsThesis: Censorship of the Internet, because it limits free speech and economic freedom, is unconstitutional Although the Internet was created in the 1960 s as a communications tool for the U. S. military to withstand a severe nuclear war and still be operable, until the government opened it up to public use in the late 1980 s. The Internet became a unique communications phenomenon. Nobody could predict the speed which people all over connected the world on to this new form of technological commu...
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Gangsta Rap Interpersonal Violence
1,218 wordsThroughout history the human populous has been attracted to music. Whether it be part of a ritual, an emotional release, religious reasons, or just for listening pleasure music has been at the center of our society. We have used music to express ourselves, tell stories, and let others into our thoughts. However, we often wonder whether what we are saying has an effect on the listening audience. Recently, in the 1990 s references have often been made to link violent and deviant behavior to music ...
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Narrative And Value Communication And The Audience Elements
511 wordsBut communicators also portray themselves, the communication and the audience not only in the explicit content of the communication, but also implicitly, in ways that are implied by the communication, but not directly stated. To use a common sense example, a lecture given in English using terms known mostly to physicists, also paints a picture of the lecturer and audience of their language use, interest and expertise, of the lecturer as a kind of person who can stick to a subject, refer to relev...
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Uncle Sam Chat Room
1,094 wordsWho is supposed to be the watchdog on the net? This question will raise the temperature in almost any room. The government already has to many regulations on lots of things, who wants Uncle Sam? s hand in the web. Some of the regulations that are applied are there for specific reasons. Those protect the people before the damage to say a young child posing for porn can be done. Those people that would be trying to regulate the Internet could be going after those sick, pathetic peta files that flo...
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Material On The Internet Source Of Information
870 wordsI believe that the Internet is a good source of information on a wide variety of subjects. I have personally used the Internet for a year now and have found it very useful for helping me with my school work as well as being very entertaining. However I have been deterred by some of the information that is easily accessible and that anyone could look at such as, detailed instructions on how to make harmful or fatal explosives and illegal pornographic material. Growing concern about the availabili...
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Soap Operas Daytime Talk
987 wordsProfessional wrestling programs are among the most popular shows on television; they often represent six out of the ten top-rated cable shows each week. In addition to boosting ratings, the World Wrestling Federations (WWF) increased emphasis on violence, raw language and sexual suggestion has made it controversial. Even though the televised events the WWF chooses to put on television may be disputed; the broadcasts should still be considered acceptable on television today. Although the WWF is o...
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