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- 261: Mass Media, Sex, and Pornography
- Mass Media, Sex, and Pornography It started by way of messengers and scribes, evolved through the presentation of newspapers and radio, brought us together with television, and now serves us world-wide via the ever-popular Internet. It is the mass media, and even from the earliest days of ... males and overstimulates them through pornography to the point that they become aggressive towards females. But this is completely baseless; just as pornography arouses or stimulates, it also satisfies. The American Commission on Obscenity and Pornography performed a study in which several college students were asked to spend one and a half hours in an isolated room with a large volume ... Cited Christensen F.M. Pornography. New York: Praeger. 1990 Howitt, Cumberpatch. Mass Media, Violence and Society. London: Elek Science. 1975 Harmon, Check. Role of Pornography in Woman Abuse. (City unknown). American Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. 1988 Hawkins, Zimring. Pornography in a Free Society. (City unknown). (Publisher uknown). 1988 ---Bibliography 1. Pornography, Christensen F.M., 1990, New York, Praeger. 2. ...
- 262: Landfills: A Growing Menace
- ... prepared food. Plastics present in landfills will most likely be there forever. Even the most unstable plastic requires intense sunlight to decompose, and sunlight is denied in a sanitary landfill. Newspapers from before World War Two are still readable in these landfills; they have in fact become important date markers for scientists examining garbage strata in landfills [Rathje 112-13]. If ... comes along with the trash. This, of course, only transfers the problem from one population to the other. Stories of wandering garbage barges and orphaned garbage trains have appeared in American newspapers. Covert garbage disposal has become a lucrative business, as the plethora of medical waste washed up along the New Jersey shoreline proves. Despite these horror stories, recycling really is ...
- 263: The Simpsons
- ... LA Reader picked up a copy of his comic strip and liked what they saw. Life in Hell gradually became a common comic strip in many free weekly and college newspapers across the country. It even developed a cult status (Varhola, 50). Life in Hell drew the attention of James L. Brooks, producer of such works as Taxi, The Mary Tyler ... the strip. Groening presented Brooks with overweight, balding father, a mother with a blue beehive hairdo, and three obnoxious spiky haired children. He intended for them to represent the typical American family "who love each other and drive each other crazy" (Groening, 4). Groening named the characters after his own family. His parents were named Homer and Marge, his younger sisters, Lisa and Maggie. Bart was an anagram for "brat". Groening used the last name Simpson to sound like the typical American family (Varhola, 51). Brooks decided to put the 30 or 60 second animations on between skits on the Tracy Ulman Show on the Fox network. Cast members Dan Castellaneta ...
- 264: AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
- ... bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland. "Top Secret" is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and is considered by many to be a sister publication to the American Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article, named "AIDS: US- Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins," is lengthy, has ... workers at the Bethesda Cancer Research Center published their discovery of the same virus, which is cytotoxic. ( i.e poisonous to cells ) Shortly after publishing his discovery, Gallo stated to newspapers that the virus had developed by a natural process from the Human Adult Leukemia virus, HTLV-1, which he had previously discovered. However, this claim was not published in ...
- 265: William Lyon Mackenzie
- ... Mackenzie went to the United States to buy books for resale, and to study the actions of the newly appointed Andrew Jackson. He compared the simplicity and the cost of American government to Canada s, and saw that their spoils system might be a way of doing away with some Family Compact members. When an assembly met in January of 1831 ... of substantial aid, such as an invasion by sympathetic Americans. In January of 1839, Mackenzie moved to Rochester. Later in that year, Mackenzie, beset by personal problems and discouraged by American attitudes and the failure of association, turned his mind from thoughts of invading the Canada s. In May of 1839, generous supporters lent Mackenzie enough money to form a new ... and let out of prison. He hadn t even served one full year in jail! Upon his freedom, Mackenzie started making new editions of the Gazette. The new editions criticized American life for not being what it claimed, and Van Buren for his shabby treatment of Mackenzie. In December, 1840, Mackenzie s Gazette died due to lack of funding and ...
- 266: Freedom of Speech
- Freedom of Speech The First Amendment clearly voices a great American respect toward the freedom of religion. It also prevents the government from "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble ... the racism that has plagued the world today this is the most extreme and most desperate way to use your freedom of speech. The First Amendment clearly voices a great American respect toward the freedom of religion. It also prevents the government from "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble ... Francis ruled that the student's rights were violated under the state Constitution. I feel this is a major break through for students' rights because it limits editorialcontrol of school newspapers by educators and allows students to print what they feel is important. One of the more controversial issues was the recent 2 Live Crew incident involving obscenity in rap ...
- 267: The Evolution of the First Amendment
- ... speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.(encyclopedia) The inhabitants of the North American colonies did not have a legal right to express opposition to the British government that ruled them. Nonetheless, throughout the late 1700s, these early Americans did voice their discontent with ... right of the students to protest the Vietnam War by wearing black armbands. In 1989 and again in 1990, the Court upheld the right of an individual to burn the American flag in public as an expression of disagreement with government policies.(Eldidge,19) Other examples of protected expression include images in works of art, slogans or statements on T-shirts ... of suppression effort. Artists, performers and authors now occupy the same weak position that political radicals did in the late 1950s. TV networks and local stations as well as large newspapers owned by fewer and fewer large corporations with less and less concern for journalism or public discourse claim absolute protection not only from government censorship but also from any ...
- 268: History of Turkish Occupation of Northern Kurdistan.
- ... of Turkish Occupation of Northern Kurdistan. Author: Eric jensen Since 1984, and especially the last few months, the domestic problems of a major N.A.T.O, Middle Eastern, and American ally state have come to the forefront of the international news scene. That state is the Republic of Turkey and it's primary troubles stem from the past seven decades ... coup, the army would state that there was a planned Kurdish uprising. Nevertheless, throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Kurdish nationalism did emanate in the form of small underground publications and newspapers, but they were always instantaneously banned and the editors immediately apprehended and given lengthy jail terms. Throughout all the repression, the Kurds were able to participate in political life, although ... amount of the P.K.K military force were female. The P.K.K also believed the only way to attain freedom and independence were through violence, much like the American and French revolution of mid 1700s. To conceive the P.K.K as completely leftist is untrue, they have adapted the Communist theme of ideology to counter-weight the ...
- 269: William Lyon Makcenzie
- ... Mackenzie went to the United States to buy books for resale, and to study the actions of the newly appointed Andrew Jackson. He compared the simplicity and the cost of American government to Canada’s, and saw that their spoils system might be a way of doing away with some Family Compact members. When an assembly met in January of 1831 ... of substantial aid, such as an invasion by sympathetic Americans. In January of 1839, Mackenzie moved to Rochester. Later in that year, Mackenzie, beset by personal problems and discouraged by American attitudes and the failure of association, turned his mind from thoughts of invading the Canada’s. In May of 1839, generous supporters lent Mackenzie enough money to form a new ... and let out of prison. He hadn’t even served one full year in jail! Upon his freedom, Mackenzie started making new editions of the Gazette. The new editions criticized American life for not being what it claimed, and Van Buren for his shabby treatment of Mackenzie. In December, 1840, Mackenzie’s Gazette died due to lack of funding and ...
- 270: Communication Through Pictures
- ... F. Gibson, Timothy O’ Sullivan, and Thomas C. Rote (“Photographs in the Civil War” Internet). The photos that they compiled went into the collection of Civil War photographs included in American Memory which represents the Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Easton Collation of Civil War Views. It’s housed at the Photographs Division of the Library of Congress (“Photographs in the Civil ... 1865 which reproduced 1,047 copy negatives in the collection(Ibid). Photographs in the Civil War changed the way we looked at war. The photographs for the first time in American history, showed the grim realities that war brings. At the same time, they showed the brave and magnificent soldiers. They help historians picture what the soldiers wore, and how they ... While the photographers could only show still pictures, that didn’t stop them from photographing famous battles, they just had to find other ways to take pictures. Through the photographs, American people had an idea of what war really looked like. Before, people only knew what they read in newspapers or herd by word of mouth. This changed the way ...
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