... spending millions of dollars for the right to place soft drink vending machines on school campuses across the nation. Los Angeles County reported from this source average annual revenue of $39,000 per high school and $14,000 per middle school. Sexually suggestive advertising aimed at today's youth can be seen nightly on television. Teen magazines are filled with airbrushed models ... - that marks October 16, 2002 as a national day of action to speak out against ads and images of women that are offensive, harmful, and disrespectful. Commercial Alert, based out of Portland, Oregon has even...

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... the defendants" favor. (Reuters). While outcomes of this sort are not uncommon, the verdicts could come out quite differently as well. In April of 1999, the family of a man from Portland, Oregon, who died of lung cancer in 1997 was awarded $81,000,000, the largest ever verdict in a smoking liability case. The jury found Philip Morris at fault in the ... death of Jesse Williams, a retired custodian for the Portland school system. Williams reportedly smoked three packs of Marlboro cigarettes for over 40 years. His widow, Mayola, and his six adult children were awarded $79,500,000 in punit...

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... and impartially, but left open the question of whether the exclusion of others who would not consider imposing the death penalty under any circumstances violated the defendant's constitutional rights," (Craig Haney) proving that these cases are judged off of opinions and emotion, rather than justice. Culture comes into play here because some cultures are more aggressive and believe in things ... and impartially, but left open the question of whether the exclusion of others who would not consider imposing the death penalty under any circumstances violated the defendant's constitutional r...

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... century in East Coast communities such as Boston and Harlem. During both world wars, official marriage certificates could be obtained for gay couples in Harlem on a somewhat legal basis. (Eskridge 39-44) Despite the evidence of these fairly common unions, many of our law makers strongly oppose the legalization of the practice in America, based on the opinion that as heterosexuals ... as "automatic inheritance, burial determination, divorce protections, immunity from testifying against spouse," certain membership, taxation and insurance breaks to which all people, including homosexuals a...

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... and the United States there came many hardships, such as unemployment and high inflation. These hardships produced a restless society. The society then looked for something or someone to blame (Fried, 39). They found someone to blame. Communists. Throughout the country there was a witch hunt known as the Red Scare. A basic idea was formed: Communism was evil. Anyone who participated in such ... attention grew McCarthy made more speeches condemning Communists ( Garraty, 531). McCarthy never showed any evidence of his accusations. This was in part because he never had any. There was no li...

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... national family with duties and loyalties to each other. "Naturally, this submerges the importance of the individual and gives rise to strong cooperative group orientation" (Franklin Jr. 1981, pp 36 - 39). Economic employment takes on a social role to fulfil life, in this value spectrum. Americans, on the other hand, are a relatively recent culture. "They emphasise individuality, personal freedom, and ... competitiveness as a means to get ahead" (Franklin Jr. 1981, pp 36 - 39). Unlike the Japanese, America is ethnically and racially a diverse population of values. Economic activity is a...

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... sexual exploitation by a trusted caretaker ("Children of the Night"). Estimates of the prevalence of incest among prostitutes range from 65% to 90% (Aid for Teens). The Council for Prostitution Alternatives, Portland, Oregon Annual Report in 1991 stated that: 85% of prostitute/clients reported history of sexual abuse in childhood; 70% reported incest (Aid for Teens). The higher percentages (80%-90%) of ... ...

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... and CEO Tupperware Corporation Orlando, FL Ken Griffey Jr. Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati, Ohio George V. Grune Chairman Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds New York, NY Life Member, Board of Governors Peter L. Haynes Portland, ME Joe R. Lee Chairman and CEO Darden Restaurants, Inc. Orlando, FL Ronald T. LeMay President and COO Sprint Corporation Westwood, KS Edward M. Liddy Chairman, President and CEO Allstate Insurance Company Northbrook ... ...

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... show that jocks have graduated from Harvard, Dartmouth, and Yale. These players include Matt Birk of the Minn. Vikings, Brad Ausmus of the Houston Astros, and Chris Dudley of the Portland Blazers. Next the media perpetuates jocks to be violent. In a clip of a Espn commercial it shows how a hockey player beats up a delivery guy up becuase he would not give identification ... ...

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... standard. In fact, some women's need to be thinner has reached almost epidemic proportions with more than seven million women and girls suffering from some form of eating disorder (Zimmerman 39). Washington 2 To understand the severity of the problem, we must first understand the eating disorders themselves. The most common of eating disorders is Anorexia Nervosa. This disorder is characterized by ... exercise are the common methods through which this is achieved. Starving, binging, and purging are just several methods women are using to achieve their goal of being supermodel thin(Zimme...

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... meaning every time a rapist walks free. Lately, there has been much controversy in regards to the book, A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer. This book states that rape is a form of sex. It is a way to reproduce in the eyes of man; however, many feel it is a form of power and violence ... ...

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... . The first was from an article from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology entitled "Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and in Life" by Craig Anderson and Karen Dill. In the article, the effects of violent video games on youths were studied. What was found was that real-life violent video game play was positively ... ...

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... it has become an American icon, a corporate totem and a national export to symbolise American prosperity world-wide. The Coke bottle is the most widely recognised commercial product in the world. Craig Gilborn, an American writer, maintains that the Coca-Cola bottle deserves "classic- status because of its form, durability, powerful sculptural and optical aesthetic, and its ubiquity. In his judgement it ... ...

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... the New York public school district in which the prosecutor's children attended only twenty-nine of the four thousand five hundred students asked to be excused from the prayer (Haas 39). Most people in America favor voluntary school prayer. "To forbid the majority the right to pray because the minority objects, is to impose the irreligion of the minority on the ... . The regent's prayer consists of twenty-two simple yet meaningful words. It required only thirty seconds to recite which was hardly enough time to mean a great deal to anyone (Haas 39). Therefore the prayer was a harmless act...

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... . NRA President, Joe Foss, describes his group's convictions this way: "I say all guns are good guns. There are no bad guns. I say the whole nation should be armed. Period" (Landau 39). When asked about the Second Amendment, the battle is "to retake the most precious, most sacred ground on earth," says NRA Executive Vice President, Wayne LaPierre, "This is a battle for ... concept of self-defense. Obviously, it is not in the best interest of criminals to attack victims who are armed and ready to defend themselves. Wright and Rossi found that 39 percent of felons admitted to aborting a cr...

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... done in New York of 133,000 people showed that 85% of Americans would classify themselves as Christian (Wauzzinski 18). 56% of Americans identify themselves as protestant, 29% catholic (Gallup 39) and seven in ten Americans claim church membership (Gallup 54), and 40% attend church on a regular basis (every week) (Gallup 1).the majority of the American people will tell you that ... one third of Italian Catholics (15,908,000 people) attend mass regularly (adherents.com). In all of Europe in 1998 there were only 286,124,000 pronounced Catholics making up 39% of the population (adherents.c...

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... explored the idea that Christians were obliged to suffer under an oppressive ruler, as some Anglicans argued. Nonsense, said Mayhew; resistance to a tyrant was a "glorious" Christian duty." (Hutson and Pelikan 39) Abraham Keteltas, another minister stated in a sermon, "the cause of truth, against error and falsehood . . . the cause of pure and undefiled religion, against bigotry, superstition, and human inventions . . . in short ... , it is the cause of heaven against hell--of the kind Parent of the universe against the prince of darkness, and the destroyer of the human race." (Hutson an...

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... Saginaw, Michigan, a local minister collects twenty thousand signatures that support canceling a Marilyn Manson concert at a city owned venue" (Nuzum 284). These are just some of the never-ending list of censorship examples our nation has experienced. But just because censorship occurs this often doesn"t make it right. There are many reasons why censorship does not work, and shouldn"t be ... intentions. One example of this is the effects of the World Trade Center attacks. After the attacks, Clear Channel Radio Broadcasting released the now infamous list of "questionable songs". Many of ...

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... in 1950 on charges arising from espionage activity. In a speech at Wheeling, on February 9th Senator McCarthy claimed to have in hand a list of 205 people in the State Department known to be members of the Communist party. In subsequent speeches and interviews he kept shifting the ... figures, depending on his forum and his mood. The list of names was not a secret and had infact been published by the Secretary of State in 1946. Some had infact been suspected communist ... and sexual deviants. If screened, McCarthy's own drinking problems and sexual preferences would have resulted in him...

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... to work for wages that were close to nothing just to make it in this new land. Rank 6: Migrants to the West Number six on my list is the Migrants to the West. During 1965- 1890 there was rapid settlement of the Great Plains. After the Civil war, there still existed a vast ... picked the Western settlers 6th because of the lack of resources and the unexpected territory that they were in. Rank 5: Freed People The Fifth on my list is the Freed People. After the Civil War many changes had come to America. This included the freed black slaves. With the freeing of these slaves ... the segreg...

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... dedicate myself only to school. In the fall semester of 2002 I had taken 15 credits and finished with a GPA of 4.0 and my name had been published on the president's honor list. Today I maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.67 and I am striving to finish, as well as I did in the fall, in this spring semester. My goal is to take two more classes ... and make school my first priority. In the fall semester of 2002, I had taken 15 credits and finished with a GPA of 4.0 and my name was published on the president's honor list. Today I maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.67 and I am striving to finish, as ...

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... terrorists had during the Cold War (U. S. Intervention Overseas 1). Leaders are also concerned about China rising to a world power in the future. The spread of nuclear weapons tops the list of fears that the America public thinks is very important. The next goal on the list is to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. On the bottom of the ... list is helping to improve the living conditions of underdeveloped nations, bringing democratic form of government to foreign nations, and also protecting the weaker nations against the aggression of other foreign ... ...

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... enables animals to be saved if they do start to become endangered they can be saved so they have a chance to recuperate to healthy populations and be taken off the list. And it also enables the endangered animals to be saved for future generations so they can save these animals. Some problems of this act are that some people think that ... the animals that are not on the list can be hunted more rapidly. Like deer, their populations are too big. But they don't stop and think that the animals that are endangered need that animal as a food source ... is that some evidence suggests that it...

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... that I have yet to complete. I choose which subject I need to study for after dinner, and what it is I do not understand in it. Thirty seconds. Here I think about personal issues. I list out who to call to go to dinner and what I can possibly do for fun at night. Ten seconds. The last ten seconds are always reserved for a special cause. I think ... feeling of the morning being just like the first day of class. The thought process made from the moment I wake up through the time of showering provides a list of objectives for the day. The list created is like the crisp syllabus each studen...

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... first label of an independent group to appear on national billboards and pop charts, and it managed to peak to top ten in the list. It was the biggest hit on R&B magazine charts, remaining number one in the list for some weeks. When a vocal crew, referred to as the Crew-Cuts, covered the version, it became number three on the pop charts ... ...

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