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    Jon Stratton

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    Jon Stratton’s article “Nation-Building and Australian Popular Music in the 1970s and 1980s”‚ seeks to outline an understanding of the development of uniquely ‘Australian’ popular music throughout the named decades and the relationship this has with various national projects at the time. Published in a 2006 edition of the Australasian peer-reviewed academic journal ‘Continuum’‚ the article outlines the development of two of three identified ‘strands’ of popular music‚ which he defines as ‘Oz Rock’

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    Thin Slicing

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    LDC 13-03: Leadership for the Information Age Thin-Slicing: A Foundational Perspective Team 2: Steven Cox‚ Tina Harmon‚ Bonita Hilliard‚ Tracy Hines‚ Damen Hofheinz National Defense University Information Resources Management College 10 February 2013 This paper is my own work. Any assistance I received in its preparation is acknowledged within the paper or presentation‚ in accordance with academic practice. If I used data‚ ideas‚ words‚ diagrams‚ pictures‚ or other information from

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    Dying to Be Thin

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    In the documentary‚ Dying to be Thin‚ dancers and regular people are asked about the pressure to be thin. This video has taught me that in our society being extremely skinny is considered beautiful. Not everyone is meant to be a size 2. It all depends on what your body type is. Everyone is beautiful no matter what size they wear. The word beautiful does not require the word skinny. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you don’t see yourself as beautiful your confidence is very low.

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    Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild is the story of a young man who wished to begin anew by changing his name and leaving all of his monetary belongings behind to experience the beauty of the Alaskan wilderness. Of course his actions were affected by more than wishing to see the Alaskan wilderness and becoming a new person. He had an awful relationship with his father and wished to get away from him‚ although he disliked his father it is clear he respects his father’s wishes for his educational success

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    thin film

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    and characterization of amorphous selenium thin ®lms Heat transformation to nanocrystalline gray selenium thin ®lms Biljana Pejova*‚ Ivan Grozdanov Institute of Chemistry‚ Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics‚ Sts. Cyril and Methodius University‚ PO Box 162‚ Arhimedova 5‚ 91000 Skopje‚ Macedonia Received 24 August 2000; accepted 31 January 2001 Abstract A novel solution growth methodology for fabrication of amorphous‚ red selenium thin ®lms and their conversion to the hexagonal

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    Analysis: Emotion and Jon

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    characters. Jon and Fleur are the lovers. “It was a love-in-a-mist – one of those illumined pages of Life…all was as little gold and red and blue butterflies and lowers and birds scrolled in among the text”. Irene and Jolyon are husband and wife and parents of the Jon. Character drawing is both direct and indirect. The images of Jon and Fleur are described through the conversation‚ thoughts‚ action and mood. Jon is young‚ hot-tempered person. “Isn’t already there any place‚ cried Jon”‚ “Consumed

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    Models to Thin

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    Thin Is there a point where someone is to thin? Today there is no such thing as to thin. Many places represent the super thin look and it is part of the requirement to be a model‚ however there are many types of modeling agencies in America; every agency includes one or more types of modeling. The goals of models in America leave unhealthy images imprinted in the minds of children in today’s society. It is much more than a job‚ it is a way of life which consists of nothing but working harder

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    The Thin-Ideal

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    Summary The thin-ideal in advertisements has been a topic of wide debate for decades‚ specifically concerning its ethicality. As seen in various types of media‚ the “thin-ideal” occurs when a very thin model is featured as its lead‚ thus promoting the concept that thin is desirable to be. The thin-ideal has been a controversial topic in advertising and other forms of media due to the potentially harmful effects that it can cause to women who have been exposed to it. Issues such as body dysmorphia

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    Dying to Be Thin

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    Dying To Be Thin: Anorexia Nervosa The individual may not recognize that her weight loss or not eating at all is a problem. Anorexics may be afraid of losing control over the amount of food they eat; thus‚ they want to control their emotions‚ and reactions to their emotions. Stacy was a beautiful 16-year-old girl. At that age everyone adored her: her friends‚ her teachers‚ her parents‚ etc. She was on the honor roll in school. She was very athletic‚ being on the track team‚ soccer team‚ and the

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    Dyig to Be Thin

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    Dying to Be Thin A Look Into the Life of an Anorexic and the Health Risk That Come With It By: Andrew Peterson 1.       What did you see regarding ideal body weight?   What other attitudes exist about weight? When watching the video‚ I realized that anorexics don’t want to eat. They don’t feel hungry; they don’t think that they are destroying themselves. When they look at themselves‚ they see themselves as fat and overweight. To try and fit the image of what they think they should look like

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