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Sex In Advertising
Words: 857 - Pages: 4.... attention.
The problems associated with are overlooked. One ad designer said, “it’s supposed to be funny. People shouldn’t take it so literally and seriously. It’s just advertising” (p 596). But advertising is serious because it affects everyone’s lives. It impacts everyone since we learn about society through it. In sex ads, we learn that women are just objects and we can do whatever we want to them. It is offensive to women and causes insensitivity to them. It basically says “hey, look at me, I’m sexier than you.” Women in society start believing this and it results in .....
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How To Produce A High School Newspaper
Words: 1076 - Pages: 4.... a newspaper every three weeks is a lot of fun, but on
the other hand, it involves a lot frustration. Much goes into producing a
high school newspaper, but most important is the ability to manage and
organize a group of people within an allotted amount of time. Patience is
also crucial in order to understand and help other staff members. However,
when it’s completed, the satisfaction is its own reward.
Before understanding the entire newspaper production process, there are a
few key people whose duties rely heavily on it. The editor-in-chief is the
actual “big cheese” or “head honcho.” As the editor-in-chief, it was my
job to org .....
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Is Our Society Becoming Post-l
Words: 2344 - Pages: 9.... post-literacy, created by new means of communication, is a new stage in our development with profound effects on the structure of our society and look at how different life is with modern technology than life with simple literacy.
I will start by comparing orality and literacy to illustrate the deep implications of each. An oral culture is one in which all communication is by talking and listening. The fact that there is no means of writing anything down means that all values and morals of the given society are stored in the minds of the people. As cultural knowledge is so deeply embedded into stories and ritual the concept of knowledge .....
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Phobias
Words: 2185 - Pages: 8.... fear of a specific object or situation. It is a category for any other than agoraphobia and social phobia. The categories of specific are 1. situational such as: fear of elevators, airplanes, enclosed places, public transportation, tunnels, or bridges; 2. fear of the natural environment such as: storms, water, or heights; 3. animal such as: fear of dogs, snakes, insects, or mice; 4. blood-injection-injury phobia such as: fear of seeing blood or an injury, or of receiving an injection. (Wood 520).
Social are fears of being in situations where your activities can be watched and judged by others. People with social try to avoid .....
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Tooty’s
Words: 780 - Pages: 3.... a sweatshirt and framed in glass on the wall between a CSU banner and one of the beer signs. In the corner just below an old air conditioning unit is the greatest game ever made, “Golden Tee 99”. Many drunks have stepped up and pumped their quarters in the game and tried their luck to just have a chance to place their initials on the leader board.
Many genders, races and ages line the long bar that is just right of the poolroom. An older mysterious lady who is loving called Judy can serve you anything from your favorite brew to names of drinks that defy the laws of gravity. Neon signs of different liqueurs and beer give off a bog .....
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Moral Decline
Words: 327 - Pages: 2.... a definite step in the right direction, more needs to be done. The reason Thomas Jefferson was so moral was because he understood morality and was able to recognize immorality. We all need to step back and learn from ourselves. Everyone should examine their own faults and try to change them. We all know stealing is wrong, but some of us do anyway. We need to ask ourselves why and then understand we need to stop.
Other people may think that is stimulated by immoral leaders. This is partially true. Leaders like Bill Clinton need to be moral to set a good example. But American citizens need to ask themselves: “Who elected him to office, twi .....
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Milestones In Communication
Words: 1394 - Pages: 6.... Pheidippides' run following the battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
As told in the history books, a badly outnumbered Greek force defeated an invading Persian army on the plains of Marathon, 20 miles from Athens. Fearing that the defeated Persians would regroup and attack Athens and that the city would surrender without knowing of the victory, the Greek general dispatched his swiftest runner, Pheidippides. As he reached the city, Pheidippides stumbled, delivered his message, and fell dead of exhaustion.
Paul Revere’s Ride
"One if by land and two if by sea" refers to lanterns hung from the North Church in Boston in 1775 to indicate the route the .....
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Money Laundering--The Process
Words: 362 - Pages: 2.... place them into the financial system, the retail economy, or smuggle them out of the country. The aims of the launderer are to remove the cash from the location of acquisition so as to avoid detection from the authorities and to then transform it into other asset forms; for example: travelers checks, postal orders, etc.
The second step, layering, is the first attempt to conceal or disguise the source of the ownership of the funds by creating complex layers of financial transactions designed to disguise the audit trail and provide anonymity. The purpose of layering is to disassociate the illegal moneys from the source of the crime by pur .....
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Evolution Of Women’s Underwear
Words: 1157 - Pages: 5.... little trend in the 1890s. Piercing was done to improve the bust line by making it curve more. “By the end of the nineteenth century skirts still trailed on the ground at times, corsets were still too tight, but there were no more freak fashions and the Edwardian fashionable woman was not the model for others to seek to follow…” (Ewing, 137).
As years went on underwear changed. Between the years 1990-1910, underwear had a face-lift. Cotton underwear was now a thing of the past, and silk and other products took over. Now the corsets and slips weren’t only used for looks on the outside, but also were made to look good underneat .....
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How To Play Asshole
Words: 1562 - Pages: 6.... out there) and remove the jokers. To begin play, have all the cards placed in the middle of the table and have every player draw a card. The player with the highest card, 2 being low and Ace high, is appointed President. The next highest cardholder becomes the Vice-President, and so on and so forth until the player holding the lowest card becomes affectionately known as the Asshole. In the event that two or more players draw the same value card, have those players draw again so that their position can be determined. However, if one of the players involved in a second drawing happens to draw a card higher than the card that of the Presi .....
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