Hixson‚ Walter‚ "’Red Storm Rising’: Tom Clancy Novels and the Cult of National Security‚" Diplomatic History 17 (Fall 1993): 599-61 . Exit BlackBoard. If possible‚ avoid using a military‚ government‚ or employer’s computer or email address. 2. Instead‚ use Internet Explorer or Firefox to go to http://www.ctcd.edu[->0] and click the "Library" link on the far‚ left-hand side. 3. Click the tab "Find databases‚ articles‚ e-books. . . . ." and then‚ the "off-campus" link. 4. Follow the log-on
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Soviet Union The Perceived Thawing of the Cult of Personality Nikita Khrushchev attacked Joseph Stalin at the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU in his secret speech. His goals behind the presentation of the speech were self-serving in nature. Khrushchev wanted to consolidate power while at the same time distance himself from Stalin. His lack of political forethought created a specific set of problems for the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. Khrushchev’s program of de-Stalinization had a negative
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It can be argued that cults and sects are only fringe organisations that are inevitably short lived and of little influence in contemporary society‚ however some may have views to contrast this idea. A sect is an organization‚ which usually breaks off from an established religion‚ which finds itself in disagreement with beliefs and values of wider society and refuses to tolerate the beliefs of others. Although the desire to be a member is voluntary‚ as oppose to being born into‚ like religion‚ sects
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perfection. Through interpretive sociology‚ Hesse-Biber highlights the various ways in which American families‚ schools‚ popular culture‚ and the health and fitness industry all contribute to this "cult of thinness‚" undermining young women’s self-confidence as they emphasize the notions that thinness is beauty and that a woman’s body is more important than her
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advertising the women’s body and exposing it in an inappropriate way and that by using thin and sexy hot female bodies to attract people and get their attention to buy their product. The word created a vision of sexiness and beauty relating them to thinness so most models in magazines‚ commercials are thin and beautiful and that makes women all over the world feel bad about their bodies and start looking for ways to lose weight and look sexy. The commercial of rebel fleur by Rihanna is meant to
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to the creation of the so called “cult of thinness”. This cult has a number of consequences‚ that negatively affect the daily lives of many women. Women often scrutinize their flaws in mirrors or compare themselves to other females‚ usually being overly critical. This cult can also result in unhealthy‚ obsessive behaviours such as extreme food monitoring. There are even examples of women creating so called shrines of the perfect body‚ further resembling the cult nature. It is possible to connect
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is tabooed for the people in each gender is well-known and followed by most” (Lorber 732). Lorber states that the boundary lines are set by religion and culture‚ telling the members of society what is “permitted” Religion and culture controls its “cult” by the media expressing what is valued among the masses. Biber states how young children have the idea of what is needed to be desired trained into them from a young age
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develop from this fear. Anorexics are very ill or near death. Often they will develop strange eating habits such as refusing to eat in front of other people. The disorder is thought to be most common among and people involved in activities where thinness is very important‚ such as dancing‚ theater‚ and modelling. Bulimia is similar to anorexia. However the main difference is that sufferers binge on crisps and chocolate etc‚ and then make themselves sick to get rid of the calories. The main question
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not only unrealistic‚ but unhealthy ideal of what it means to be physically attractive. By these false images being presented‚ the media has created an ideology of attractiveness. Images have powerful effects on their readers‚ serving to maintain a ‘cult of femininity’ and supplying definitions of what it means to ‘be a woman’.
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people. Some ways that it can encourage eating disorders include: television shows and movies associating thinness with success‚ advertisements and fashion industries using very skinny girls to promote products and fashion lines‚ and companies modifying already skinny girls with computers to create an unattainable image for teenage girls to pursue. When television shows and movies associate thinness with success‚ young girls are raised believing that if they want to be successful‚ they must have the
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