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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
Childhood Socialization
<view this essay>.... need direction and example in order to be social. Children don't decide that they want to be "social" in every sense of the word, rather they have to be taught. Socialization is not the
idea of being a "social" person, having a lot of friends, or being involved with society as a whole. Many adults believe that they fall under the definition of socialization because they
are active in their community, popular, and have many friends and acquaintances. Ironically, a person could have all of those characteristics and not fall under the definition of "social."
Socialization is the ability to look at society as a whole and be unbiased and open-minded which .....
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Advertising
<view this essay>.... of stockings to sell; and the Kleenex company used to decide which of two products they should sell. has different effects on consumers, it changes their perspective on what is, or is not, worth buying; what they buy, when they buy it and how much are bought. "symbolizes and concentrates in its image all that is considered good and bad in present day commercial and industrial capitalism in America." (Bensman 9).
When advertisers plan their strategies for the sale of a certain product, they look at who would use the item. If the product was make-up, the type of person that would use it would most likely be a woman, around the age of thirteen and up. The a .....
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Asian Economic Crisis
<view this essay>.... are going bankrupt. The government is remarkably affected, especially those whose main source of income is tourism. All the companies and businesses which deal with and/or depend on tourism is on its way to impoverishment. This means that export prices had to be raised in order to
stay in competition. It seemed, although, that this wasn’t enough to accommodate the money losses. Cutbacks, thus needed to made; extra expenditures and areas of obscurity had to go.
With this in mind, many businesses (mostly private) began cutting back in the employment line. Many workers were fired, or “let go,” as they put it, because the company couldn& .....
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Concentration Camps
<view this essay>.... throughout history.
Western Camps
Modern appeared at the end of the 19th century. The Spaniards used them in Cuba during the Spanish-American War (1898), and the British established them for thousands of women and children during the Boer War (1899-1902) in South Africa. In the West camps have been created several times during periods of war and national emergency. In France the government committed Spanish Republican refugees to reception centers in 1938 and added Jewish and other anti-Nazi refugees the following year. In Great Britain the government used Defense Regulation 18B in 1939 to send potentially disloyal citizens and refugees from enemy countrie .....
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McDonaldization Of Society
<view this essay>.... Mario’s Restaurant’s establishments while the dinner menu was being served on Saturday evenings between 6pm and 8pm to evaluate the ways in which McDonaldization has affected their company. On January 29th I visited East Side Mario’s in London, Ontario, on February 19th I visited East Side Mario’s in Plano, Texas (I used to hold a job as a server at this location) and on February 26th I visited East Side Mario’s in Orange, California. With the diversity of locations I was able to observe, I compared and contrasted many angles of the East Side Mario’s concept. East Side Mario’s Restaurants Inc. is one of the millions of business’ that has implemented the four .....
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Descartes Second Meditation
<view this essay>.... is "I manifestly know that nothing can be perceived more easily and more evidently than my own mind…" His conclusion is reached through a process of argument elimination. The argument begins with an implicit premise that "bodies" can perceive things in three ways. These ways are through the senses, the imagination, or the intellect. So his first premise implies that Descartes believes that there are only three ways to perceive things.
The structure of the argument is based around the type of argument known as an argument by elimination. Argument made by elimination exists by beginning with a number of possibilities, then ruling out all but one possi .....
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Dave Matthews Band
<view this essay>.... need for many Jerry Garcia "Dead Head" survivors to find a new musical connection to life.
Using the Official Dave Matthews Web Page (http://dmband.com) as a reference tool, I found that the life of the saga begins early in 1991.Dave Matthews decided to put the songs he'd been writing on tape. But rather than recording just his voice and guitar, he decided to gather some other musicians to give the project a fuller sound. Carter Beauford, Leroi Moore, Stefan Lessard, and Boyd Tinsley teamed with Dave Matthews and became the . After several rehearsals in basements, they were ready to play in public. The first gig was May 11, 1991 at a party on the roof of .....
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Free Speech On Campus
<view this essay>.... public intoxication or disturbing the peace, but I believe that Brown University took the case way past extremes to expel the boy. The young man at Brown did not lay a finger on any of the students he was yelling at. If he had, I could then see a little more clearly why he would have been expelled. It was the students’ choice to follow the drunken boy outside and to start more with him. I personally think they should have just left him alone. He was drunk and probably did not even know what he was saying. Much less, he probably didn’t even remember in the morning. How many times have you had something said to you that upset you, offended you, or made you .....
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