...female. Reality television have damaged my home and even my sisters are falling into the messages they are sending. Should reality television be ban like some television shows? Government officials have banned some of South Park and family Guy episodes. So why can’t they ban reality television shows or ban some of them to aired? It does not teach anything useful. People become addicted to it very often. Anything excessive is not reality. In reality, people do not slum around the pool all day getting wasted. Reality does not consist of girls having make up on every hour of the day. In reality, people go to work, and spouses don’t sit around the house all day gossiping about their friend’s life or what is happening in another city. People on reality shows need to grow up and get a job. They need to stop relying on others to support them because that is all reality producer do. The actors and actresses make a fool of themselves and get pay big money. Reality television does not teach any good life lessons. Young kids watch shows like that and thinks partying, drinking, and acting up is all cool. It only teaches young and older kids how to be rebellious and getting kick out of school. Reality television should be ban because it does not teach any valuable life...
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...have to get me involved with the story somehow in order for me to get interest. If it’s not catching my attention, I’m not reading it. But most importantly, critical thinking is what ties reading and writing together. I am very picky about the books and articles I read. Stories for me have to have a mystery or even sometimes a sappy love story. Of course I’m going to love romantic books because I’m a girl, right? Yet again, some love stories bore the living hell out of me because it’s a “typical” love story. Reading books just all depends on how the author grabs his reader’s attention and how he plays the story throughout the book. When I find a book that I’m interested in, I will read the entire novel. Or even something that is scary will keep hooked on the story. Scary stories are my favorites because the story just keeps my suspense in play. Celebrity gossip is definitely something that I get into reading. There is always something new with these celebrities. Since these celebrities are well known, their lives are somehow interesting to us. We love the celebrity gossip because they’re famous and any juicy story about a celebrity will catch our attention. The writers of these magazine articles know how to grab my attention. It’s almost like they just suck all your attention into the story to where your face is only an inch from touching the magazine. In order for these writers to...
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...Serena ultimately set the high expectation point for any female athlete playing tennis. They are the michael jordan of basketball, the babe ruth of baseball. They are the ones that many people emphasize. These 2 girls prepared themselves with vigorous training and practice to become where they are at today.Such as lifting doing speed drills and agility. Now many young tennis players are doing the same so one day they could be the one who everyone looks up to. To be the best you have to do what others don’t they say. This means preparing yourself and your body for doing beyond and extra of what is expected. It comes down to how bad you want it. In today's women tennis women have never hit harder not only because of improved equipment, cause of the improvement of training and preparation for the game. “For example Venus and Serena who are both athletically fit have defined the game around power.” I a personally agree with this statement. These two woman are phenomenal. They are both tall with great reach serena standing at 5’9 and venus at 6’1. On top of that they hit the the ball harder than any women in tennis and maybe even some men. They have been measured up to hitting the ball to 110 mph. Thats pretty fast especially for a female athlete.Even other players would gossip about these superstars , it was nsaid usually at the grand slams you'd only have to perform at your half best to get through them but now you have to be at your best at the beginning of the tournament since venus...
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...Pursuit of Happiness As life continues people are always striving to find their own forms of happiness. But what defines happiness? Happiness is found in different ways for different people. Is it achieved through money? Some people find that wealth ultimately makes them happy. Or could it be the feeling of being accepted by your peers? Trends are followed because people want to fit in. Society can consume someone because the feeling of being accepted can create happiness for that individual. Or could happiness be related to your position in class. Some believe that the poor cannot be happy because they are poor and the wealthy upper classes are the happiest of all. What could make someone truly happy? Different questionings of happiness appear in Leo Tolstoy’s books Family Happiness and Death of Ivan Ilyich. Tolstoy portraits the search for happiness in his two books through society, wealth, and social class. In the book Family Happiness, the main character, a young girl named Masha was driven through the acceptance of society. She wanted to be a part of “the normal”, and believed that would make her happy. Ivan Ilyich of The Death of Ivan Ilyich believed he was happy only when he was wealthy and a part of the upper class. Classes have been molded since civilization truly formed. The Greeks, the Romans, and even the present-day United States have classes. The only thing that has changed is the sizes of each class over the centuries. In Leo Tolstoy’s...
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...ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS All praises due to Almighty Allah who enabled me to complete the research work. I am pleased to avail myself of the opportunity to express my deepest sense of respect, sincere appreciation and heartfelt gratefulness to my Anthropology department, to honorable supervisor & teachers who helped me for increasing anthropological insights by their guidance in planning and execution of present research work, suggestions, inspirations, affectionate feelings and constructive criticism through the work. I am very grateful for the support that our seminar librarian has shown by allowing me to take books in case of necessity and within short notice. The support will always be remembered. I am indebted to my parents and my friends for their immense mental support and courage to perceive through all sorts of difficulties until this research work was completed. I really feel proud of my honorable respondents who helped me to collect data in regard of my research title. Their helping mind really impressed me. So, I show my deepest sense of respect to them. My supervisor, I thank you for your guidance that brought me to the end of this work. Your politeness & cordial behavior added encouragement to my work. December, 2014 | Roll No:09203219Registration no: 3552Session: 2008-2009MSS, Department of Anthropology | ABSTRACT Being the main force conditioning human relationship, sex is essentially political. In any social context, the construction of...
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...Our town is a play written and published by Thornton Wilder in 1938. The set of the play is very scarce throughout the play but the actors and stage manager use a lot of spoken décor throughout the scenes to make up for the limited props. The play takes place in a small town in New Hampshire called Grover’s Corner in the years 1901-1911. Throughout the play the stage manager comes on stage and narrates what is taking place. “Our Town” consists of three different acts that are spread out over the span of eleven years. The play is based mainly off the lives of two families; the Gibb’s and the Webb’s but offer’s information on other members of the town. In scene one the play starts off with Howie Newsome making his rounds through the town dropping...
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...THE REAL 99 FACTS ABOUT GUYS THAT GIRLS DON'T KNOW!. SO GIRLS PLEASE READ THIS ** HERE'S 99 FACTS ABOUT GUYS 1. Guys don’t actually look after good-looking girls. They prefer neat and presentable girls. 2. Guys hate flirts. 3. A guy can like you for a minute, and then forget you afterwards. / 4. When a guy says he doesn’t understand you, it simply means you’re not thinking the way he is. / 5. “Are you doing something?” or “Have you eaten already?” are the first usual questions a guy asks on the phone just to get out from stammering. 6. Guys may be flirting around all day but before they go to sleep, they always think about the girl they truly care about. 7. When a guy really likes you, he’ll disregard all your bad characteristics. 8. Guys go crazy over a girl’s smile. / 9. Guys will do anything just to get the girl’s attention. 10. Guys hate it when you talk about your ex-boyfriend. 11. When guys want to meet your parents. Let them. 12. Guys want to tell you many things but they can’t. And they sure have one habit to gain courage and spirit to tell you many things and it is drinking! / 13. Guys cry!!! 14. Don’t provoke the guy to heat up. Believe me. He will. / 15. Guys can never dream and hope too much. 16. Guys usually try hard to get the girl who has dumped them, and this makes it harder for them to accept their defeat. 17. When you touch a guy’s heart, there’s no turning back. 18. Giving a guy a hanging message like “You know what? Uh…never mind!” would...
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...Discussion Questions for Chapter Three of The Great Gatsby What simile does Fitzgerald use to describe the way people came and went to Gatsby’s parties? (39) Like moths among the whispering and the champagne and the stars. What does Gatsby’s Rolls-Royce seem to become on the weekends? (39) An omnibus. What arrives at Gatsby’s every Friday? (39) Five crates of oranges and lemons. What leaves Gatsby’s every Monday? What change has occurred? (39) The same oranges and lemon lay in a pulp-less heap ready to be picked up. How does Gatsby provide music for his parties? (40) He has an orchestra. What’s present at Gatsby’s parties that the Volstead (or, Prohibition) Act of 1919 prohibited? (40) Alcohol. What about Nick is different from the other guests at Gatsby’s parties? (41) He had actually been invited, unlike most who had shown up. Nick says, “People were not invited.” What does he say that they do instead? (41) He said they got into automobiles that drove them to Long Island and somehow they arrived at Gatsby’s. Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby and after that just had a good time. What rules of behavior seem to apply at Gatsby’s parties? In other words, how do people conduct themselves while there? (41) While at Gatsby’s parties, people act as if they were at an amusement park. Who comes to invite Nick to Gatsby’s party? (41) A chauffer in a uniform. What adjective does Nick use to describe Gatsby’s handwriting? (41) Majestic. What...
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...perfect community to raise children. Our family moved in about a year in a half ago we were the third family to move into our community and the neighbors seemed really nice one neighbor even put welcome cards in everyone’s mailboxes, I was so excited to live in this community. We have three young boys ages 13, 11, and 6 so when we found out that our neighbors had three boys we were excited because they had someone to play with. I also have two teenage girls ages 17, and 15 they were quickly bored because as other people started moving in their kids were boys as well so my daughters pretty much just stayed in the house. My oldest needed a way to make money so she became the neighborhood babysitter, so that worked out perfect for her and now she is my neighbors on call nanny. The problems in our community started happening about six months ago when a lady moved in two houses from mine; she has five boys in which they all are autistic so she doesn’t let them play with the other kids she keeps them in her back yard. My boys didn’t understand why she wouldn’t let them play so they took it personal, and I tried to...
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...Television Karen Christy ENG122: English Composition II Sara Esquivia May 5th, 2012 Reality television has set low standards for ourselves and our youth in society today, such as glorifying being sixteen and pregnant, how real housewives in the "city" act, and having toddlers look too grown up for their ages. There are still some good values in some programs but there seem to be more diminishing values in reality television shows. Reality television has distorted reality for our children in this society. The show Jersey Shore has little positive values in its episodes. The positive values that are portrayed for teens and young adults to pick up on are loyalty and family importance. Then we have the diminishing values of Jersey Shore. In the show you have a group of young adults who show no regard for caring about what they do to the insides of their bodies. Jersey Shore shows the group binge drinking, which leads to making out with complete strangers and then bringing random people back to the home. Jersey Shore has no talks on the show about using condoms, the different types of birth control out there, or the risks of catching a sexual transmitted disease. The girls run around on the show wearing almost next to nothing and calling it clothing, and the whole group portray sexual activity is no big deal. When teenagers and young adults see this they believe this as being okay for them to repeat. This is not the message we want our youth to learn. These are...
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...inception in 1959, by creator Ruth Handler, the Barbie doll has taken on more than 100 different career paths and has become the most successful doll ever produced. This iconic and often controversial doll has had a great deal of influence on every decade since the late 1950s. From its very inception, Barbie was an innovative fashion doll, whose desirability and influence among girls quickly skyrocketed. It was the first ever adult-bodied doll, equipped with breasts, long legs, and a small waist. Previously, the only dolls for girls were baby or infant dolls that allowed little girls to play mommy. But with Barbie, little girls were soon able to imagine being much more than just mothers or wives, and could play as any career they wanted. The Barbie doll was not simply a fashionable toy, but a role model for individuality and freedom of choice for all females. It broke through gender barriers by teaching girls they could be anything they dreamed. However, the doll received a great deal of outrage and criticism throughout the decades as well. In its early years, people criticized the toy for being too sexual and lascivious. On the one hand, this reaction was understandable because...
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...(Chapter 1) One evening, Janie Crawford comes back from Eatonville, Florida. As she walks through the town, her old neighbors were sitting on their porches talking about how she had left town in nice clothing with a younger man and came back muddy and in overalls. When she walks by the neighbors, she doesn’t stop to chat with them which only causes them to talk about her more. The chapter then tells the Janie was in love with a man named Tea Cake which the women tell that she was way too old for him. Even though the ladies were jealous of Janie being with a younger man, they tried to label her as whorish, in which Janie’s best friend defended her saying she’s never done anything to her anyone and then later took her to dinner. As Janie and her friend talk, we find out that they have been friends for a long while and they trust each other. Pheoby was afraid that Tea Cake has taken all of Janie’s money and ran off with a younger woman but Janie makes it clear that he was very good to her and tell Pheoby that he was ‘gone’ but we aren’t sure exactly what that means. Characterization- Protagonist: Janie Mae Crawford- An attractive, independent, middle-aged black woman who is curious and has lots of confidence. Direct: “Youse just as crazy as you ever was (5).” -This sentence tells that Janie is still the same person she was before she left which is a good thing. Imagery- “But nobody moved,...
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...big house, a nice car, and a life of ease. In the past century, the American dream has increasingly focused on material items as an indication of attaining success. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a self-made man who started out with no money—only a plan for achieving his dream. He is so blinded by his luxurious possessions that he does not see that money cannot buy love or happiness. Fitzgerald demonstrates how a dream can become corrupted by one’s focus on acquiring wealth, power, and expensive things. Gatsby’s dream “is a naïve dream based on the fallacious assumption that material possessions are synonymous with happiness, harmony, and beauty” (Fahey 70). His American dream has become corrupted by the culture of wealth and opulence that surrounds him. Gatsby is a “nouveau riche,” and his romantic view of wealth has not prepared him for the self-interested, snobbish, corrupt group of people with which he comes to associate. He throws lavish parties for countless people, yet he has no real friends. Gatsby buys expensive things and entertains large groups of society because of his incommunicable desire for something greater. Nick Carraway realizes that although Gatsby is involved in underhanded business dealings and is fixated on money, he...
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...CARAGA STATE UNIVERSITY AMPAYON BUTUAN CITY MAIN CAMPUS SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE TITLE: TEENAGE PREGNANCY SUBMITTED BY: BAJAO, ANNE GUILIPA LADIELOVE NAQUILA, MARITA SUBMITTED TO: MS. MAGLENTE, ORDEM MARCH 2015 Introduction Teenage pregnancy is widespread in the Philippines, especially amongst the poor. It is a story that may not be too pleasant, but one that is repeated all too often. Teen pregnancy is an obvious rising issue in our society. Teenage pregnancy is seen as the result of early sexual activeness. Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenage girl, usually within the ages of 13-19, becoming pregnant. It is one of the most difficult issues that teenagers, their family and communities face today. Teenage pregnancy is widespread in the Philippines, especially among the poor. The Philippines is experiencing a crisis of overpopulation which have consequences on the quality of life of the Filipino people. Here in the Philippines, we believe in the saying of our national hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal that “Youth is the hope of our Mother land”. In their hand lies the future generation to follow. But as we see from the situation nowadays, what we’re expecting from the youth is the contrary of the saying. Teenagers are prone to pregnancy. Almost every year there is a rapid increase on the number of pregnant youths. One of the major causes of this problem is that most of the youths nowadays grew up in broken...
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...sorts of bodies, culture’s perception of the sports body has evolved over time, but not as much as one would think. When the Athenians started the Olympics several millenniums ago their ideal athlete was well built and muscular (so much so that participants in the games at that time performed naked so the crowd could admire their appearance as much as their ability to run, jump, etc…) which is not very different from what we picture the ideal athlete as today. Webster’s dictionary defines athlete as “Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion” which is a very vague definition when you look at the variety of different types of athletes we have in the U.S. Does a thin, toned Olympic champion such as Michael Phelps really share similarities with an offensive lineman in the National Football League? Throughout this essay I will be commenting on the variation of athletes in modern society, the steroid controversy, and how the United States in particular has a skewed perception of what an athlete should be. A recent major example of one of the most popular sports figures going down the abyss of the steroid scandal, among other gossip, is New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. Since A-Rod’s first season playing for Seattle he has been glorified as having the potential to be the greatest to ever play the game of baseball. He played precociously at such a young age in Seattle, hitting for...
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