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    What Shapes You?

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    What Shapes You? Often times‚ we rely on the world to we live in to shape us. From mass media‚ to magazines to commercials‚ we always find ourselves seeking the next best thing instead of what we already have. The way society shapes us develops each and every one of us because we are persuaded by such advertisements. Robert Scholes of “On Reading A Video Text”‚ and Shirley Jackson of “The Lottery”‚ show appropriate examples of the world we live in today. Robert Scholes proves how distorted

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    from others because they do not have a group of friends to socialize with. After struggling to find people to sit with at lunch‚ Natalie Hampton‚ who is sixteen years old from Sherman Oaks‚ California designed an app called Sit With Us. Elyse Wanshel states that‚"Sit With Us helps students who have a difficulty finding a place to sit that is welcoming in their school lunchroom." The reason behind why Natalie made the app was because when she was in seventh grade‚ she ate lunch alone which gave the kids

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    Chapter 4- storyline The Chesapeake said life was nasty‚ brutish‚ and short because there were diseases‚ the climate was unhealthy and life expectancy was less than 20 years of age. Although life was unhealthy for humans‚ it was healthy enough to grow tobacco. They didn’t have anybody to plant the tobacco because life expectancy was short and people were dying because of the harsh diseases‚ so they got indentured servants‚ who were people who voluntarily mortgaged the sweat of their bodies for several

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    Arch 8011 Research Methods 2013 Jonathan Jordan‚ 1361176 ARCHITECTURE: WORDS OR SHAPES Introduction Architecture can be viewed with two different types of properties. Properties that can be seen like shapes‚ their composition‚ the spaces they create and‚ the colours and textures that make up their appearance. These properties are considered to be visual while other properties are considered to be abstract

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    word personality when describing others and ourselves. Personality can limit or expand option and choices of lives. It has also been said that personality is shape through environmental‚ learning‚ parental and developmental factors. People developed different personality that can be can be studied through forces‚ factor and influences that shape personality. Different theories believe that personality is build on different factors such as the genetic‚ environmental factors‚ learning factors‚ parental

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    The goal of SHAPE America is to develop physically literate students in the K-12 spectrum. These are national standards that prepare students for a lifetime of physical activity and wellness after secondary education. SHAPE presents objectives that will cultivate one’s cognitive function‚ psychomotor skills‚ and motor control skills. The premise of the SHAPE curriculum embodies the mind‚ body‚ and spirit. SHAPE presents national standards for local and state school districts to examine. There are

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    Female Body Shape

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    girls and their views on their body. This has a negative contribution to their well being and self-esteem 1. Age  14151617 | 2. Are you content with your body image? YesNo | 3. if no‚ why? OverweightUnderweight | 4. Do you believe that how the media portrays the ideal body appearance pressures you to mimic this image? YesNo | 5. Do you buy magazines that influence views and opinions on body image? YesNo | Which Magazines? | 6. When viewing magazines or TV shows that deal with

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    The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol Karlsen (1987) astutely focuses attention upon the female as witch in colonial New England‚ thus allowing a discussion of broader themes regarding the role and position of women in Puritan society. Karlsen’s work‚ which has been well-received‚ focuses on the position of accused witches as largely females placed in precarious social and economic positions‚ often because they stood to inherit‚ had inherited‚ or lost an inheritance in property. Karlsen departs

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    How Advertisers Lure Us in

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    How They Lure Us In Advertisers use many different ways of selling products to us; they tug on our deep-lying desires‚ the things that we yearn for; advertisers know this and they live on flirting with this concept and that is how the money is made and how we end up with shelves full of products that we probably don’t even need. Jib Fowles describes in his article fifteen ways advertisers appeal to their audience; how they stereotype their audience and so

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    Body size and shape

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    WGSS 1- Body size and shape is a controversy subject in all cultures. Large-size is acceptable in some places around the world but the others would prefer the small size. We all have that idea “fat” means ugly‚ health issues and wrong habits of eating but that’s defiantly not true according to the chapter 4 some societies consider large women attractive and see their fat as an evidence of prosperity (The Beauty Ideal‚ 189). Also in the website Health At Every Size that there is myth about fat kills

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