Miscellaneous Essays
Aids in the USA
Aids in the USA AIDS PAPER AIDS has been an issue dealt with in the United States for 20 years. What is usually appalling when told to someone is that the American public contributed to the spread of AIDS. This may be appalling by its true and is not helping the AIDS epidemic. The media has lacked attention to the AIDS epidemic as well and this has also contributed to the spread of AIDS. Some of what caused the American public�s lack of interest in AIDS are prisons, foreign cou...
Aids
Aids For an epidemic that would explode to claim hundreds of thousands of lives, AIDS surfaced very quietly in the United States, with a small notice on June 4, 1981 in a weekly newsletter published by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, alerting doctors to five unusual cases of pneumonia that had been diagnosed in Los Angeles residents over the previous few months. All the patients were homosexual men who had come down with PCP (Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia), a lung infection u...
Air Bags
Air Bags Airbags Crash! Your car just smashed into the car right in front of you at a speed of 35 mph. The whole front of your car is smashed but luckily your head isn�t, thanks to the airbag deploying. This scenario happened over 2.9 million times through August, 1998. Airbags significantly reduce the risk of being killed in a crash. The risk of being killed, if you have your seatbelt on, is reduced by 26% and 32% if you don�t have a belt on and the airbag goes off. Airbags al...
Aggression
Aggression Testosterone Equals Aggression or Aggression Equals Testosterone? High levels of testosterone seem to encourage behavior apparently intended to dominate -- to enhance one's status over -- other people. Sometimes dominant behavior is aggressive, it is apparent intent being to inflict harm on another person, but often dominance is expressed nonaggressively. Sometimes dominant behavior takes the form of antisocial behavior, including rebellion against authority and law breaking. ...
Aggressive Behavior Equals Man
Aggressive Behavior Equals Man Aggressive Behavior Equals Many Rewards A little boy in Eastern Oklahoma is riding a bicycle for the first time, when suddenly he falls to the ground. His father running behind him tells him to get up and not to cry. A little girl from the same city is playing on the playground at school; she falls out of the swing and scraps her knee. She cries for hours, while her mother tells her, �It will be okay.� From the time little boys are young they are t...
Aggressive behavior equals many rewards
Aggressive behavior equals many rewards Aggressive Behavior Equals Many Rewards A little boy in Eastern Oklahoma is riding a bicycle for the first time, when suddenly he falls to the ground. His father running behind him tells him to get up and not to cry. A little girl from the same city is playing on the playground at school; she falls out of the swing and scraps her knee. She cries for hours, while her mother tells her, “It will be okay.” From the time little boys are...
Aging as a mental issue
Aging as a mental issue Aging comes naturally and people should not be frighten be it. As it turns out the fear of this process is enough to speed it up. The negative attitude is a very powerful factor in this process and has a great effect on the physical aspect of aging. It is enough to put people into deep depression or lose their confidence with many other things like good posture. On the other hand maintaining a positive thinking can really slow the process down. In fact it can do m...
Agoraphobia essay
Agoraphobia essay A phobic disorder is marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger. Agoraphobia is an intense, irrational fear or anxiety occasioned by the prospect of having to enter certain outdoor locations or open spaces. For example, busy streets, busy stores, tunnels, bridges, public transportation and cars. Traditionally agoraphobia was solely classified as a phobic disorder. However, due to recent studies it is now also viewe...
Agression in males
Agression in males The case study "Songs My Mother Taught Me" discusses a boy named Charles who at first glance, looks like an ordinary, nice, charming young man. However his appearance is only skin deep, one would never assume just by looking at him that he is a cold -blooded killer. In a random town, on a random day, A door to door sales girl came to Charles' home selling religious materials. Ten minutes later she was dead; bludgeoned on the head with a hammer, stabbed sixty nine times in ...
Affirmation
Affirmation Affirmation is defined as a recognition of political, personal, cultural values and identity. The Puritans, African Americans, and Native Americans affirmed their identity in Colonial America through: oral traditions, songs, and rituals. This is the reason they are studied all over the world. The Puritans affirmed their identity through their religious beliefs, utopian ideas and theocracy. The Puritans had a storyteller who spoke of their genealogy. Since these stories were...
Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action Affirmative Action �Affirmative action was orginally designed to help minorities, but women-especially white women-have made the greatest gains as a result of these programs�(Gross, 1996). Affirmative action is a growing argument among our society. It is multifaceted and very often defined vaguely. Many people define affirmative action as the ability to strive for equality and inclusiveness. Others might see it as a quote-based system for different minority...
African Psychology
African Psychology Black Consciousness has been defined as an attitude of the mind and a way of life. Therefore, the purpose of teaching Black Consciousness was to conquer feelings of black inferiority and replace it with a new solid social identity which encouraged black pride and independence from white oppression. Africans should reject the myths from which Apartheid was conceived, where blacks were depicted as inferior, savage, simple and having a primitive culture which needed to be m...
African Women
African Women Introduction 70% of African women with disabilities get them from their husbands. In Africa, most women have little or no rights. This effects what they can do for work, how their family life is, and what future they have. Women throughout time, especially in African culture, have always been subservient to men. The status of women in Africa is second-rate. In countries like the United States, women have the same rights as men and are almost equal. But in Africa it�s t...
African american bell curve
African american bell curve The bell curve of African American rights has risen and fallen throughout America’s history. The period between the Pre-Civil War Era and the Post Civil War Era, were momentous in displaying the status and rights of African-Americans in the time. As the Civil War approached, the status of African-Americans was an increasingly troubling issue among the American Public. During the War, the bell’s curve had reached its height. And during the Post-Civil Wa...
After various writings by Rich
After various writings by Rich After various writings by Richard Rodriguez and Octavio Paz, I have come across several realizations. Who am I? Should I be a part of a nation and a �system� that does not value me, or should I be a part of a nation that does not acknowledge my existence? The United States as a nation does not value me, and M�xico does not even know that I exist. These are difficult matters to discuss. We are all in search of our own identity. However, some of us ar...
Aggression in play
Aggression in play Aggression in play. Adults may think that play is something that is fun and shouldn�t be taken seriously. Children often take it seriously. They may concentrate on something for quite a long time and practice it over and over again. Play is a developmental process for children and has important consequences for them. For example some activities may help to develop muscles and concentration while others may help develop social skills and to act towards each other. ...
Advertising of 1890 compared t
Advertising of 1890 compared t Modern advertising really began in the middle of the century. World War II had taught Americans plenty about propaganda and new technologies had erupted, offering both increased production and more ways to propagate a media message. They combined to create the modern ad. In addition to stating the facts somewhere in the fine print, advertisers began to lace their ads with ideas designed to appeal to the senses of the reader, as well as the deeper, more emoti...
Advertising of 1890 compared to 1990
Advertising of 1890 compared to 1990 Modern advertising really began in the middle of the century. World War II had taught Americans plenty about propaganda and new technologies had erupted, offering both increased production and more ways to propagate a media message. They combined to create the modern ad. In addition to stating the facts somewhere in the fine print, advertisers began to lace their ads with ideas designed to appeal to the senses of the reader, as well as the deeper, more...
Advertising
Advertising ADVERTISING PRODUCT NAME: Nike Biking Shoes NAME OF SOURCE: Men's Health DATE VIEWED: April 6, 2000 MAIN APPEAL: Belonging Needs, Esteem Needs, Self-actualization FIRST IMPRESSION: 7 TARGET AUDIENCE: Adult or Adolescent males who play sports TONE: Direct CONTEXT OF AD: Middle of Magazine PROPOSITION: If you buy Nike Biking shoes then you can have the power of a steam engine in your legs to push you further t...
Advertisment
Advertisment Advertisement relies of the use of languages and tone to persuade people to feel a certain way and hence would behave in a manner that they normally would not in the absence of the advertisement. Though this basic fact of marketing is understood by a majority of people, it is very difficult for anyone to be really aware of when marketing or the advertisement is actually at work unless one is paying very careful attention. In this sense, the ad ��Frame It�� is no except...
Aerospace psychology
Aerospace psychology Aerospace Psychology 1. The complicated task of piloting an aircraft can be broken into two broad categories. The first is keeping the aircraft flying. The second is arriving at a given destination. The second is always being effected by the first. Unlike a car, small deviation in course can over great distances cause the aircraft to arrive hundreds of miles from the target destination. To successfully accomplish the task, safe arrival, the larger tasks can be s...
Affecting how we think
Affecting how we think Mass communications is one of the most popular college majors in the country, which perhaps reflects a belief in the importance of communications systems in society. The communications system, consisting of radio, television, film, newspapers and magazines, effects how we think, how we feel, and how we live. Therefore, we must ask ourselves, "Is media 'mere entertainment,' or are there serious side effects of the national preoccupation with the media?" Long-term ...
Advertisers take us for Spend
Advertisers take us for Spend- ADVERTISING a collective term for public announcements designed to promote the sale of specific products or services. Advertising is a form of mass selling employed when the use of direct, person-to-person selling is impractical, impossible, or simply inefficient. It is to be distinguished from other activities intended to persuade the public, such as propaganda, publicity, and public relations. Advertising techniques range in complexity from the publishing of ...
Advertising 2
Advertising 2 The main purpose of advertising is to sell a certain product of send a message to a certain group of people. Advertisements can be found anywhere from billboards on the highway to banners on the Internet. Some advertisements try to sell a certain product and make people aware of their presence. Other advertisements are there to deliver a certain message to the people. As Judith Williamson says "Advertisements are one of the most important cultural factors moulding and reflec...
Advertising 3
Advertising 3 ADVERTISING PRODUCT NAME: Nike Biking Shoes NAME OF SOURCE: Men's Health DATE VIEWED: April 6, 2000 MAIN APPEAL: Belonging Needs, Esteem Needs, Self-actualization FIRST IMPRESSION: 7 TARGET AUDIENCE: Adult or Adolescent males who play sports TONE: Direct CONTEXT OF AD: Middle of Magazine PROPOSITION: If you buy Nike Biking shoes then you can have the power of a steam engine in your legs to push you further...