Distraught over mounting debt and an inability to pay her bills‚ 18-year-old freshman Mitzi Pool hanged herself to death‚ in her dorm room at the University of Central Oklahoma. She had spread out on her bed‚ her checkbook and the bills for three credit cards she had maxed out to $2‚500. How does a college freshman barely old enough to vote‚ end up with three credit cards and insurmountable debt? Many‚ young people first learn to be fully responsible for their personal expenses in college. Most of
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The statement that formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free seems true to a very good extent. It is based on the assumption that too much of formal education tends to create a narrow line of thinking. Formal education dictates the path that a person is supposed to follow to reach his/her destination. It stresses on the need to learn from the mistakes of the unsuccessful people and adopt ways of the successful people. It discourages experimentation and out-of-the
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"The media (books‚ film‚ music‚ television‚ for example) tend to create rather than reflect the values of a society." For most who live in first-world countries‚ it is impossible to go through a given day without being inundated with messages through media. Marshall McLuhan argued in his seminal research that "The medium is the message‚" and examining the values that are propagated through media is an important one with implications for how societal values are formed. Does media create or reflect
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Introduction Leadership has been traditionally regarded as a solely male domain (Spector‚ 1996). However‚ it is quite apparent that the working female population has rapidly increased‚ and furthermore many females hold supervisory‚ managerial‚ and consequently leadership positions (Klenke1996). Robbins‚ Bergman‚ Stagg‚ and Coulter (2000‚ p.593) define leadership as “the ability to influence a group towards the achievement of goals”. There are various methods that can be used to influence a group
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High-speed electronic communications media‚ such as electronic mail and television‚ tend to prevent meaningful and thoughtful communication The advanced technology helps us to communicate with others. High-speed electronic media‚ such as email and TV‚ gives us a lot of meaningful communications. These cutting-edge technologies are powerful to enhance our communication in many ways. If we use them properly‚ they are better than many other media in exchanging meaningful information. We can find
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his/her dissatisfaction and pressure from the society. Another good example that media reflect value of society is how people in different areas treat sex that affects their media. In some religious countries‚ people consider sex as a taboo. People tend to not talk about it in public. So it is not easy to see authors describe sex explicitly in their works‚ no mention that public media will advertize this topic. But in western countries‚ sex for their people‚ is just a common and regular need in their
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Before the age of modern technology‚ media primarily consisted of books‚ newspapers‚ theater‚ etc.‚ all of which played a huge role both in creating and reflecting the values of a society. In the 21st century we have much greater versatility of media but it still has the same function. Hence‚ i disagree with the statement above. I believe‚ that media plays equally important role in creating and reflecting the values of a society. Furthermore‚ in today’s society media is a primary source of information
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Topic: Young people nowadays tend to leave their home earlier and live on their own. What are advantages and disadvantages of living independently? Moving out and living independently is a normal part of growing up. Different people choose to leave their home at different times and for different reasons. As an overall trend‚ these days‚ a considerable number of young adults and even teenagers leave their families to settle down by themselves. However‚ the effects of this trend are various and
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discuss how far sociologists would agree that the image of women represented by the mass media tends to be stereotypical rather than realistic The image of women in mass media is constantly under discussion and always changing. Mass media have been known to represent women in various ways; for example page 3 of the sun makes women appear to be some sort of sexual object and James Bond films also portray most women in this way. Many shows portray women as simple housewives and mothers and nothing
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Modern communication‚ on the one hand bring people closer and on the other‚ tend to isolate them. Show the truth of this statement._GP_890 One human dream was always to overcome distance‚ to increase speed‚ and to make all parts of his planets within easy reach. This dream has become true today. The modern forms of communications have made our planet smaller in a sense so that the term global village is fully justified. Today countries have become a series of villages through play to our primitive
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