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    Where have all the criminals gone? Sherri Ryan Medical Careers Institute In Steven Levitt and Stephen Dunbar’s article‚ they argue that there is evidence to support a link between the abortion rate and crime reduction. The authors first talk about the abortion history in Romania‚ how a dictator named Nicolae Ceausescu imposed his will on the people by enacting a ban on abortion in order to increase Romania’s population. By doing this however‚ he was denying the rights of many teenage

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    Negative Effects of Consumerism on North American Society Consumerism is damaging to our society‚ in our North American society consumerism is often portrayed to be a negative aspect of people’s lives. However‚ one can also argue positive effects that result from consumerism‚ or emphasize on the negative effects of consumerism and how it can be a constraining force in one’s own life. Consumerism is an idea of an economic policy that the market is shaped by the choice of the consumer and continues

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    In American Culture today‚ the extreme emphasis and competitive drive toward the abundance of consumerism and materialism rules our society as a whole. Stepping back from our wants‚ our needs are much different then what we are striving for. In Tim Kasser’s eye opening book‚ The High Price of Materialism‚ the author takes a scientific and very modern approach to this world wide epidemic that is costing people their happiness. Kasser explains how people who value and put priority on materialism often

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    Cultural Materialism and Contemporary British Poetry with Special Reference to Selected Works By Geoffery Hill (b.1932)‚ Ted Hughes (1930-1998) and Philip Larkin (1922-1985) تأليف الأستاذ الدكتور/ أسامة العبد عميد كلية الشريعة بالقاهرة عام الف و ثمانمائة وخمسة من القرن التاسع عشر الميلادى Abstract In the light of the above-mentioned definition‚ Hill’s poetry rejects materialism for realism; he seems to be unconcerned with the course of events

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    The effects of consumerism on individuals and society. ‘The new slavery is consumerism’ (Bryant H. McGill); people use consumerism to gain control and power. In Bruce Dawe’s poems Americanized and Abandonment of Autos‚ and Claire Carmichael’s novel Ads R Us‚ consumerism is conveyed as a trap that is a continuous and vicious cycle of replacing products with new and “better” things even if the old product still works. Dawe’s Americanized is an extended metaphor for the way that America has taken

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    A Study in Materialism and it’s antidote… Giving Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things‚ or more money‚ in order to do more of what they want‚ so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. ~Margaret Young By: Jon Winslow Intro: Just two weeks ago I was in Radio Shack looking at a pair of head phones I wanted. Though merely forty dollars‚ I couldn’t at first bring myself to buy them. Why? Because that was money I could

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    and white. She walks past the shelf displaying all other products she and any consumer might have. She eventually uses the saving grace of shampoo and conditioner‚ “Pantene Pro-v”. The scene suddenly switches to bright colors and her attitude changes as she seems more lively and upbeat. The song playing in the background is titled “Happy Endings” by Mika. A person who would have seen this commercial might have found the symbolism with the song and the name of the Pantene product; repair and protect

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    Randell Pugh “Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve” CIS 521 Professor: Due Date: October 23rd 2011 “Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve” Peachtree Healthcare has major information technology (IT) infrastructure problems‚ and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Max Berndt is struggling to find the right fix. Max can go with a single set of systems and applications that will provide consistency across Peachtree’s facilities but may not give doctors enough flexibility. Max

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    After the Civil War‚ American ideals and views shifted greatly as the country moved into an industrial era; big business leaders came out on top and the rest of society worked day in and day out with not even a fraction of such success. This structure of society was reflected in the sport of sailing. At the beginning of the 1870s‚ sailing was changing from a classic leisure activity to a more competitive sport as it moved from Europe to America. The same business tycoons who took control of the markets

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    Too Far With Science Creating bodies with two people is the mainstream line of creating life‚ but when a person with a love of chemistry wants to create life‚ strange things happen. “His yellow skin scarcely covered with the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black‚ and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes‚ that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which

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