.... a hoop to play with. The girl is given dolls and doll clothes to dress them up in. Sounds pretty normal right? Why? As illustrated in the scenario above, gender socialization begins very early in life. Society has accepted such stereotype. We seem to accept that blue is for boys and pink is for girls. Boys generally play with balls, toy trucks and building blocks whereas girls spend their time with dolls, tea sets and stuffed animals. But these are the stereotypes that are influenced by the parents. A baby child isn't concerned with his or her gender identity. As the child gets older though, he or she will begin to develop an identity for his or .....

.... one source to another. Religious disciplines were the first information passed from person to person through entertainment. In the third century B.C., Buddhist monks tried to win converts outside India through the use of theater and song (Burdick 97). They taught the precepts of Siddhartha and Buddha in such theatrical epics as Ramayana and Mahabharata, setting exacting rules for theater performance in the process (Burdick 99). Similarly, Irish monks established singing schools, which taught uniform use of music throughout the church (Young 31). Through chants which were all the same, they spread identical teachings. Christian psalms and hymns in Apostolic t .....

.... our attention to. We should look at the positive things that people do. The media does not go around reporting all of the good things that these people do, just the bad things and their mistakes. They are only human just like the rest of us. Are these people safe for our children to idolize to look up to? I think that the answer is YES! If you were watching the news, would you really want to hear about all of the charities that an athlete has donated money to? It would be interesting at first, but you would get tired of it afterwards. That is why the media never covers anything like this. We all know that they really don't care about anything else e .....

.... fitness concept will be found but the idea of a personal body image will remain fixed as body image is a determined part of one's psyche. A significant correlation was discovered between those who viewed the thin package and their attitudes on social fitness. However a low score in the self- acceptance scale in all three groups suggests a low self-concept within all participants. This supports my statement that there would be a connection between the fitness concept and the media packages as well as a constant self- concept maintained by all participants. In assessing personal attitudes it is often important to measure not only what an individual feels t .....

.... cars, chances are the boy will also want to work on cars. The same is true for the sports the father likes and the television shows he watches. If dad comes home everyday and watches the news with a beer in his hand, that is what the boy will think is what a man should do. Just as if a father treats his wife badly, a young boy will pick up on this behavior and think it is acceptable for a man to treat a women that way. The reverse is also true. If a boy sees his father treat his mother with love and respect, he is likely to appreciate women. A prominent image given to guys is that they have no feelings and would never cry. Crying is for girls or .....

.... the television. i. For example: There was a study done in 1996 on a group of second graders. The control group was sat in front of a television where they watched Sesame street and Mr. Rogers ; the second group of second graders were sat in front of a television where they watched the Power Rangers and G.I. Joe. ii. After each program was over they sent the children out to play. The control group did not to seem to act out as much as the children who had watched the Power Rangers and G.I. Joe. The control group seemed to get along well with each other and played more with the toys. Where as the group of fourth graders who had watched the Power Rangers .....

.... on this Earth everyday, there are more and more mouths to feed. With millions of people going to bed at night, unprotected, the World is seeing an enormous child-birth rate. There are also people who choose to have more and more children, seeking them out of love, with good intentions, but not realizing the problems they're causing. World energy needs are projected to double in the next several decades, but no credible geologist foresees a doubling of world oil production, which is projected to peak with in the next few decades. While protein demands are projected to also double in the century ahead, no respected marine biologist expects the oceanic fish ca .....

.... will substitute a sick relationship to an event or process for a healthy relationship with others. The addict's relationship with a mood altering experience becomes central to their life. They will be willing to jeopardize everything that they love. Sexual addicts progressively go through stages in which they go further away from reality of friends, and work. Their secret lives become more real than their public lives. Denial leads the list of ways addicts distort reality. They deny to themselves and others that they have a problem. Arguments, excuses, justifications, and circular reasoning abound in the addict's warped mental processes. Some of .....