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Miscellaneous Issues Term Papers and Reports |
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The Tradition Of The Twelfth Man
1487 Words - 6 Pages.... on both sides. Towards the end of the game, the Aggies had only 11 players left standing and all of them were on the field. One more injury and the Aggies would have to forfeit the game. Coach D.X. Bible looked up in the stands and found E. King Gill, a former football player and current basketball player, and asked him to come down and suit up. When interviewed later Gill remarked: "I wish I could say I went in a scored the winning touch down but I didn't, all I did was stand by ready to go in case my team needed me (Parks No 4., 108)." Although he didn't play in that game, he was ready and able to go in and give it his best. This readiness to support the team inspi ....
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Religion In Media
1534 Words - 6 Pages.... money. The greedy, selfish, minds of our world see this not as a way to fix problems, but as a way to make money. “Television,” Billy Graham has written, “is the most powerful tool of communication ever devised by man. Each of my prime time ‘specials’ is now carried by nearly 300 stations across the U.S. and Canada, so that in a single telecast I preach to millions more than Christ did in his lifetime.” (Postman, 118). Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” sets forth the notion that religion is a bad thing, and that it only leads to problems.
“But if you know about God, why don’t you tell them?”
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If I See A Ghost Are My Senses
1659 Words - 7 Pages.... our cultural heritage. But can these nightmares simply be dismissed as superstitious by-products of the medieval mind?” Introduction to Creatures from Inner Space by S. Gooch
The subject will be argued from the two possible, yet opposite, sides: the “ghost” as a non-existent and the “ghost” as an existent spirit. This will be done through the elements of perception. Perception, although being so complex, is the medium by which individuals receive information from the surrounding world.
Let us consider the situation where a person believes that s/he has perceived a ghost. This can be an optical illusion created by the classical example o ....
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Advertising 3
1874 Words - 7 Pages.... to decide which of two products they should sell. Advertising has different effects on consumers, it changes their perspective on what is, or is not, worth buying; what they buy, when they buy it and how much are bought. Advertising "symbolizes and concentrates in its image all that is considered good and bad in present day commercial and industrial capitalism in America." (Bensman 9).
When advertisers plan their strategies for the sale of a certain product, they look at who would use the item. If the product was make-up, the type of person that would use it would most likely be a woman, around the age of thirteen and up. The advertisers would then find an ideal looking ....
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Private Schools
549 Words - 2 Pages.... provides the strict discipline that some students need. Basically, a
private school works for the students' desires, while a public school demands
that its students work for their designated needs. The intellectual climate at
a private school is more academically oriented than public schools. Private
education provides students with a broader education that accepts diversity.
Public education, however, does not have as much diversity due to strict public
control that tries to avoid offending others. Private schools are considered to
be more experimental because they try and accept new ideas faster. The American
public generally seems to support private educat ....
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Bulimia
1123 Words - 5 Pages.... affect men, the preponderance of people with are female adolescents and young women. Many are self-critical, perfectionist women from high achieving families. There are two subtype of nervosa: purging and nonpurging, it occurs in 0.5 percent to 2.0 percent of adolescents and young adult women. Purging type: this subtype describes presentations in which the person has regulatory engaged in self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas during the current episode. Nonpurging type: this subtype describes presentation in which the person has used other inappropriate compensatory behaviors, such as fasting or excessive exercise, but has not regul ....
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Should A Superpower Establish
813 Words - 3 Pages.... Americans could penetrate Russian soil on the same day they attacked. Now, if the spheres of influence were surrounding Russia the story would be different, the outcome positive for Russians. Their are two positions one could take on this problem. Superpowers should or should not establish a sphere of influence in the world. A positive answers justification would be that a sphere of influence protects you from the enemy and also protects weaker nations from the threat of a hostile takeover. A negative answer would claim that this influence impairs smaller nations from making their own decisions and removes their freedom. My position on this question is yes. Smaller nations ....
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Misconceive’o By John Leo
749 Words - 3 Pages.... particular audience that, whether intentional or not, characters have taken on harmful images some may find offensive. He is not speaking only to his fairly educated, loyal readers, but also to those who may have taken part in producing the movie. Mr. Leo makes visible to his readers what he believes to be stereotypes in the film. People may not have noticed these before, so he makes clear definitions and comparisons. To the rest of the audience, those who had a hand in making the movie, he makes a plea not to redevelop these characters in future films.
Mr. Leo uses several analogies and examples in his presentation, and they are all tied to his thesis. He points out so ....
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