Essays Tagged: "magazines"

The Pressure to be Perfect

uts this pressure upon us. We are typically faced with this pressure by models on television and in magazines. Companies seem to have targeted women more so than men. They usually use women with good ...

(3 pages) 254 0 4.8 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

What two guys imagine and think about when they think of women

to look like perfect and in many ways models.With the experiment, I handed both Mike and Timmyfour magazines: two Mademoiselles and two Allures. I then asked them to go through them and rip out the p ... ed for them to tear out pictures that they would want their wives to look like. With four different magazines they tore out picturesQuach pg.2of more conservetly dressed women. Their selection still c ...

(10 pages) 149 0 4.7 Feb/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Suicide

ce I was born had given serious thought about it. She is a wonderful poet with poems in hundreds of magazines, and she is also an extraordinary artist with paintings in museums that are selling for a ...

(5 pages) 305 1 4.5 Jan/1990

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide

Should There Be Stricter Laws On Pornography?

t Amendment Junkie', by Susan Jacoby. Susan has written many articles on women's issues for popular magazines such as Glamour, McCalls, and The Nation. This article appeared in her syndicated 'Hers' c ... sent through the mail. Seventy-six felt that there should be stricter laws concerning the types of magazines and newspapers sold over the counter. Although there are many similar ideas among t ...

(3 pages) 122 0 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Censorship in America

ted issue. Parents have long wanted stricter laws to help prohibit young children getting a hold of magazines, videos and other pornographic materials. With the development of the Internet and the Wor ... rs. Should magazine companies, such as Playboy, Penthouse, etc, be prohibited from publishing their magazines on the web when magazines like Time, and Sports Illustrated are allowed? How easy is it to ...

(3 pages) 116 0 3.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Pornograhpy on internet

dily available as what it is now. Erotic stories, explicit pictures, XXX-rated films and modern day magazines, are all part of the stimulus material which is known as 'pornography' or as it is legally ...

(4 pages) 120 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Gender Stereotypes

is spending more of his leisure time watching TV, listening to the radio or reading newspapers and magazines. The shows on the TV and the articles in the newspapers influence our decision process, sh ...

(6 pages) 286 0 3.4 Apr/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Cigars vs. Cigarettes (an observation of recent tobacco popularity)

becoming popular again. For example,you can't pass a magazine stand without seeing two or three new magazines glorifying thesubject, and restaurants all over the country are devoting entire nights to ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

An essay about Per-Marital sex

ot the idea that sex was such a great thing is a question that one must ask? The movies, maybe. The magazines that one sees when digging through the drawers of an older brother, uncle or ones father. ...

(5 pages) 214 4 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Just-In-Time Systems

e popular ideas that iscirculating around these days is the idea of just-in-time manufacturing.Many magazines and newspapers have documented the efforts of companiesto develop and implement just-in-ti ...

(8 pages) 552 0 3.9 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

The future of the internet

has become part of ones regular vocabulary. The internet is everywhere, in the news, the newspaper, magazines, and entire books are written on it regularly. Its growth rate is incredible, increasing b ...

(2 pages) 102 1 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Pornography on the Internet, Freedom of Press or Dangerous Influence?

s which each have different contexts. Is it nudity, sexual intercourse, art, or all of these? Is it magazines, videos, or pictures? For the purposes of this paper, pornography will be defined as any m ... ver, Burton believes that these pornographic web sites must be treated the same way as pornographic magazines or videos.One fear of many people is that children will happen across pornography, but as ...

(8 pages) 296 0 4.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

"1984" by Orwell

e Ministry of Truth" where they falsificate or remove all past documents such as books, newspapers, magazines, records, tapes and anything containing information about the past and are rewritten with ...

(3 pages) 40 0 3.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Prohibition of alcohol in the States. A Noble Experiment?

casual drinkers, and beer and wine. Propaganda flooded thecountry in the form of temperance books, magazines, plays, and pamphlets. Localtemperance societies sprouted up everywhere. Millions pledged ...

(11 pages) 176 0 3.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

About standard english and why it should or shouldnt be used

s" comprised of dialects, slang, technical jargon and slogans we learn from television, movies, and magazines. However, Grammar books commonly describe one of the many dialects spoken in America, "Sta ...

(2 pages) 158 1 4.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

Image of Women in Advertisement

How would you compare yourself, with the ideal bodies of models from fashion ads in today's magazines? Are you skeptical with your body in terms of its color, size or shape? How much time do y ... tising, and this portrayal have not changed significantly during the past years. The printed ads in magazines often imply that women relegate entirely within the home, and that they do not make import ...

(10 pages) 455 1 3.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

The way photography was used as a method of persuasion in America

many aspects of American life. They came through the mail, and pictures appeared in newspapers and magazines. Photography was starting to have an influence not only on how people saw the world, but o ... housand photographs taken by the FSA photographers were distributed by the agency to newspapers and magazines to build support for Roosevelt's "New Deal" rural programs, which served as labor programs ...

(8 pages) 178 3 4.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

catcher in the rye book notes

t.We don't even know it's a boy talking until he mentions an ad his school runsin "about a thousand magazines" claiming that they turn boys into youngmen. We won't know his first name until his visit ...

(57 pages) 227 3 4.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Civil War reconstruction.

s idea was further by both women and veterans' groups throughout the South. From there it spread to magazines and journals until the concept was adopted by the Democratic Party and shifted to the Reco ...

(6 pages) 147 0 4.8 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

Stem Cell Research Moral Debate. An ethical debate about stem cell research. Inlcudes both pros and cons of the issue, along with the view of the Catholic Church as well as a personal opinion.

years people have been subject to the debates over stem cell research in the news, in books, and in magazines. But what exactly is stem cell research and how can it benefit the human race? What are th ...

(4 pages) 797 3 4.4 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays