... and include participation in Race for the Cure, the Roberto Clemente Memorial Golf Classic, youth baseball clinics, and offering Pirates team mascots for free 1-hour appearances at non-profit funcitons. The major contributing force in the Pirates clubhouse, however, is the Pirates Wives organization, which holds ... toys and warm winter clothing; The Power of Reading literacy programs; the Tickets for Charity Program, allowing charity organizations to include Penguins" games on their list of fundraising functions, and many others. Perhaps one of the most novel charity traditions carried...

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... taste, touch, hearing, seeing, smell – the whole corporeal sensorium" (Buck-Morss 6). In the 21st century, the development and proliferation of video games has shown the world how pixelated, simulative art can be made into a reality, a phantasmagoria of sorts, by invoking reactions from all the senses in the ... us optimally with surfaces," "sound gives a perception of interiors as interiors without their being opened up" (Ong 122). Video games seamlessly meld the two senses through fantasmatic effects and in doing so, provide us with a clear definition of the mood and setting of the...

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... , most notably the Tara set, Scarlett's family and spiritual home. When designing the sets, researchers consulted period photographs particularly for the 1864 Atlanta set, whereas the Tara set was more free to the producers imagination. Despite the novels depiction of Tara being a fairly ordinary home, as opposed to the stereotypical grandness usually associated with the south, Selznick had grander ideas in ... over the years from lo0ckets, chocolates, brooches, perfume, nail polish and Rhett Butler bow-ties. The die-hard Gone with the wind fan could purchase dolls, cookbooks, jigsaw puz...

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... , and printers. Computer software consists of a program or programs made up of machine-readable instructions that perform a logical sequence of functions-anything from maintaining software a bookkeeping system to performing computer games. All of the remarkable and continuing advances in computer technology may be credited to the highly trained and skilled group of professionals called COMPUTER SCIENTISTS. This group includes computer designers ... requires open pathways to sent messages, documents, and data from one computer "mailbox" to another across different equipment and program li...

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... . The next phase of m-commerce will see more interaction between the network operators and content providers as they develop service-orientated applications and delivery channels for digital products--information services, games, mobile accessories, ring tones and so on--which, like airtime, can be bought, paid for and delivered almost instantaneously. We will also start to see a greater uptake in the mobile ... ...

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... child may see more than 20,000 TV commercials each year. In addition, there are some television programs for children which are actually hour-long commercials for expensive toys and games. While it is true that advertising helps to support the programs on commercial television, scientists have found that advertising can cause children to "want" toys or foods that they do ... ...

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... the substance's eligibility for legalization. The half truths that conceived the myths of marijuana came from similar sources who opposed liquor, tobacco, jazz, rock, rap, provocative dress, pinball machines, video games, comic books, television and a catalog of innumerable issues but all of which who for the most part remain entirely legal. However, it was the actions of one Harry J. Anslinger who ... ...

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... related telecommunications and information technology enablers. Essentially, Digital Media is about content creation, content management and content distribution across multiple Internet and digitally-enabled platforms such as the PC, television, games console, mobile and other devices, as well as packaged media such as Interactive CD-Rom's or DVD"s. Essentially it is the center of all these related mediums and it represents ... ...

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... In being able to choose how much liberalization to allow, governments are responding to a variety of factors and politics. Liberals argue that governments should want to promote free trade to make everyone wealthier. Technological change makes the benefits especially large and therefore increases incentives to liberalize trade, particularly as companies will pressure for opening so they ... . To frame the argument in Marxist terms, a monopoly over technical knowledge and managerial techniques creates power that can be used for exploitation. If governments were completely free to make thei...

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... were three ways in which Tocqueville delineated liberty as a concept: " first, in terms of the benefits produced by the political life of a free government; second, in his distinction between democratic and aristocratic liberty; and third, in his rhetorical inclination to praise liberty as a good in and of ... determined by its consequences"9. However, it is the first type, liberty "in terms of the benefits produced by the political life of a free government" that concerns us, for it targets the characteristics of liberty in a democracy, of which Tocqueville points to "a dynamism of gen...

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... description of freedom would still hold, but since culture is inherently biased against the idea of an equal physically capable woman, women are not radically free, as Sartre would argue. However, Sartre's reasoning of freedom and Iris Marion Young's reasoning of a woman's lack of confidence stemming from doubt ... of her physical capacity, are both fundamentally convincing and compatible with each other. Jean Paul Sartre's thesis that humans are radically free starts of by his argument that existence precedes essence. Sartre argues that objects that like the pots crafted by an artisan ...

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... a new fear was born, coined by history as the "Cold War-. In Italy the people had won the right to vote in a "free- election and choose the type of government they deemed fit to effectively govern the nation. The 1948 elections in Italy led promise that the people ... choose to install a democratic form of government in 1948, but how much of a choice did the people of Italy actually have in this "free- election? Did the citizens of Italy truly believe that a democratic government would serve them best, or did outside interference from America corner the ... Americans strongly urged Italy...

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... 1991, after several integration approaches between Argentina and Brazil , the Asuncion Treaty was signed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and the MERCOSUR was created. The purposes of MERCOSUR include: Free transit of production goods, services and factors between the member states with inter alia, the elimination of customs rights and lifting of nontariff restrictions on the transit of goods or ... member states relating to foreign trade, agriculture, industry, taxes, monetary system, exchange and capital, services, customs, transport and communications, and any others they m...

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... a lexicon of iterable signifiers capable of communicating, intelligibly and in a regularized fashion, the ideas of the speaker. This essential function of signifying concepts stabilizes language, limits the free play of substitutions, and grounds human speech by tying it to the intentions of the speaker in a fixed relationship between signifier and signified. In Derrida's terms, intentionality functions ... as the center of the structure, which imposes structural constraints on free play as all utterances cease to be equal (and thus substitutable) and only those utterances which signify...

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... freely chosen representatives and (b) to vote and be elected at genuine periodic elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret ballot, guaranteeing the free expansion of the will of the electors 1 As considering that masculinity's view of democracy solely emphasizes civil and political right which can be defined to the form of patriarchy, among ... political right, but also class, gender and race structures. Therefore, in terms of Eisenstein's argument that women's girl bodies determine democracy; free from violence and sexual abuse, free from maln...

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... at the time of the Industrial Revolution, modern capitalism is the most practised as well as most influential economic system in the world today. Even though Ed Finn argues that free-market capitalism is barbaric, it creates the most stable economic environment, leading to perpetual international unity, thus eliminating any boundaries of success a hardworking, determined individual can achieve. ... trade with other countries that have an advantage in other areas of resources and products, each side benefiting by receiving a needed component. As import products become available in free tr...

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... 1860 the figures were 26 percent and 10 percent, respectively. In 1800, 82 percent of the Southern labor force worked in agriculture compared with the 68 percent in the Free states. By 1860 the Northern share had dropped to 40 percent while the Southern proportion had actually increased slightly to 84 percent. Southern agriculture remained traditionally labor intensive while Northern ... but from choices of Southerners who had money to invest it in agriculture and slaves rather than human manufacturing, according to James McPherson. Due to this difference in industrialization, the Free s...

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... disband government barriers against the economics of capital and competition, arguing a policy of government non-intervention with trade. In which, he established an intruiging case for the future promise of free-market capitalism, a system of economics based on the control of production by forces of popular appeal and buying capacity, in which the flow of revenue from such sale would be ... fairly straight forward to understand, yet has very powerful analyses of the capitalistic system of even today. His first premise was that increase in economic growth would only occur with free trad...

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... rather than its basis in religion or tradition. Hobbes's pragmatic view of government, which stressed the equality of individuals, opened the way to free criticism of government and the right to revolution, ideas that Hobbes himself opposed. An influential early liberal was the English philosopher John Locke. In ... an evil, and that a belief in divine order was all the religion that need be demanded of free people. Thomas Jefferson also echoed Locke in the Declaration of Independence and in later pronouncements defending revolutions, attacking paternalistic government, and upholding .....

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... the Democracy's cause. North and South, the democratic reforms achieved by plebeian whites "especially those respecting voting and representation "came at the direct expense of free blacks. Although informed by constitutional principles and genuine paternalist concern, the Jacksonian rationale for territorial expansion assumed that Indians (and, in some areas, Hispanics) were lesser peoples ... Through the 1830s and 1840s, the mainstream Jacksonian leadership, correctly confident that their views matched those of the white majority, fought to keep the United States a democracy free from...

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... shape SAPs gained prominence in the IFIs in the 1980s. The neoliberal philosophy of economic development revived the old precepts of economic liberalism, which hold that an unregulated free market and private sector are the engines for unrestricted growth, the benefits of which will trickle down from the owners of capital to the entire population. Plant ... Leftwich notes, the aim of adjustment was to shutter the dominant post-war, state-led development paradigm and overcome the problems of developmental stagnation by promoting open and free competitive market economies, supervised by m...

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... and the overriding motivation for this work ethic: financial gain. Franklin also believed that only people of the nature which he encouraged could truly be free, which one could argue was his reason for encouraging virtuous' lifestyles of industrious, frugal, independent and public-spirited' people, as he strove for ... people, although many suggest he took on this role during the first rumblings of independence so that he may assume power of these apparently free thinking, self sufficient people. If we take a more cynical view of American culture and how its morals have come to be unde...

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... and by limiting its expansion, it would leave the federal territories as a "whites-only preserve", although another argument from Lincoln is that it threatened to limit opportunity of free white labor which was also delivered in his Coopers Union Speech. His thoughts on race did influence the expansion of slavery into the territories, however at the end of the ... territories. This act replaced the 36' 30' Line from the Missouri Compromise of 1820, to the idea that popular sovereignty could be decided into which state would come in as a free state or a slave state. This ended the contai...

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... seek at all times a society in which we could eliminate the issue of dependence on each other while also permitting every individual to only obey himself allowing him to remain free. He believed that this could be accomplished through each individual giving up his or her right to control their life in exchange for a voice in the establishment of societal rules ... utmost importance to produce a "fair" society is freedom of thought. Individuals must be able to think for themselves and form their opinions, but, the ideal state of that free thought is when it centers on concern for the gre...

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... give a card blanche to Kazakhstan in the constructing of democracy achievement model without pressing, but only with the condition of its compliance to the basic ingredients of a democracy such as free and fair elections, a transparent government, a parliament that holds government to account and a vibrant civil society, which could be achieved only after the shifting of mass consciousness to understanding of the ... are capable of weighing actions and behavior as well as bearing responsibility for personal decisions. It is obvious that making a choice is never easy, but that's what fre...

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