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Censorship of Pornography and Violence

they begin to see that as normal and it promotes many ideals that are not good for the morality of any individual. They put sex in...

Medical Ethics on Television

One particular episode of House stands out with a number of ethical breaches and dilemmas in "Informed Consent," an episode that a...

Racial Profiling: The Classroom as the Base of Societal Change

consequences. It can lead to children repeating the actions of perceived heroes that may get them incarcerated. It also leads to e...

TV and Society

some level, the shows impact society by questioning values that are currently held. For instance, Jersey Shore has created a lot o...

Organized Crime from the Personal Viewpoint

This paper explores some of the beliefs regarding these criminal organizations. Discussion Its probably fair to say that most peo...

Hunter Thompson and The Hells Angels

topic of controversy ever since the group came on the scene in the early 1950s. While members of the gang claim they are simply mo...

Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber

nations universities, in order to stay viable financially, have placed undue emphasis on their sports programs, utilizing a perspe...

Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

Book Industry Approaches to Communication Technologies

communication technologies have led to our age being branded the "Information Age". What this means in todays business environment...

Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies

and reinforcement. In her case, this led to fairly early experimentation with sex and drugs. Lamott doesnt sensationalize her exp...

Freakonomics The Truth About the Economics of Dealing Drugs

Our popular conception of drug dealers is a guy with gold teeth and gold chains driving a BMW or...

Economics and Political Influences in Sport

may be akin to saying to the leading fast-food chains, such as McDonalds, Burger King KFC etc, and telling them that they will all...

Popular Culture and Patriarchy

The Opinions of Laura Mulvey Laura Mulvey uses psychoanalytic theory to explore cinema in her article entitled "Visual Pleasure ...

The Television as a Cultural Artifact

Modern culture is replete with a diversity of what could be described as cultural artifacts. Consider, for example, the telephone...

1862 by Conroy

a book that offers up a fictional account of what could perhaps happen if the scenario presented were part of history. It reads, i...

Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

Television and Its Historical Impact

2009). One very different thing to emerge was MTV. People by that time were used to situation comedy and drama, but music was gear...

Social Surrogacy Hypothesis

emotional ties to the characters on the television. One assumption made is that the social surrogacy hypothesis is valid. One wr...

Lincoln’s War

he unravels the various people involved that served under, and aside from, Lincoln. While one could argue that his work, and sourc...

The Crusades by Riley-Smith

of crusaders, demonstrating that it was religious zeal and absolute devotion to the Roman Catholic Church, which was associated an...

Book Report on Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune

prominently into Elizas later life. The first part is also when Eliza falls in love with Joaquin Andieta, who dreams of ending th...

Mathabane/Kaffir Boy

a distinct segment of the society. In US history, anyone with even a drop of African blood was considered culturally to be "black"...

A Book Review of a Classic

and that He should have in todays world. unfortunately, that statement made in 1950 is even more true today, more than 50 years la...

A Theology Book For Everyone

words of major scholars and theologians from the past and present to explain ideas. There is another statement the author makes ...

The Animated Characters of Disney

in the way different characters are presented, as well as beauty in different meanings at different levels. It may be argued tha...

Theories in Sociological Studies

interact with each other, and tend to ignore larger structures such as national governments and economies ("Theoretical Perspectiv...

Introduction to Evangelism by Alvin Reid

chapters in the first two sections and eight in the final section of the book. The first section covers ministers and church leade...

Censorship is an Imposition on Others

is, they might not be so eager to seem "cool" by carrying guns. But television doesnt show what its really like, perhaps because i...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

The Cosby Show

of the African American community in the nation (The Professor). From the opposite perspective another author, in quoting ones com...