British doctors yesterday called on the media to use female models with more realistically proportioned bodies instead of "abnormally thin" women who contributed to the rise in the numbers of people suffering from eating disorders. A report by the British Medical Association claimed that the promotion of rake-thin models such as Kate Moss and Jodie Kidd was creating a distorted body image which young women tried to imitate. It suggested that the media can trigger and perpetuate the disease. "Female
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Being in the category branded ‘young women’ myself‚ I firmly believe that the way in which magazines are being portrayed in today’s body image driven society‚ is wrong. Despite the positive information that the media communicates to the world‚ they also have a propensity to convey negative messages. Teenagers should not have to feel that what they read in magazines compared to what they see in the mirror is a compulsory way of life. Models and celebrities have the life airbrushed into them only to
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travel broaden the mind. ’Travel broadens the mind’ Travel does broaden the mind. However it is what ’travel’ means to the individual. Is it is the consequence of travel where the true expansion is achieved. Travel opens a doorway for the individual to seek the experiences and be open to the absorption of those experiences. Allowing to take from those to build on and develop. These journeys could be far afield or a walk to the corner shop- Muslims praying to the West or the tired eyes of the
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Introduction The field of education is loaded with rhetoric and blather‚ but most teachers have little time‚ patience or energy to take on new burdens that are ill-defined and impractical. In many respects‚ teaching is a game of survival‚ but those who argue for increased quality are often remote from the concerns and realities of the classroom. Many of their strategies‚ prescriptions and models fail when the school bell rings the start of day. Over the decades‚ quality achievement and performance
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123 Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology ISSN 0272-4340 Volume 33 Number 1 Cell Mol Neurobiol (2013) 33:119-127 DOI 10.1007/s10571-012-9877-4 Myo-Inositol Treatment and GABA-A Receptor Subunit Changes After Kainate- Induced Status Epilepticus Revaz Solomonia‚ Nana Gogichaishvili‚ Maia Nozadze‚ Eka Lepsveridze‚ David Dzneladze & Tamar Kiguradze 123 Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer Science+Business Media‚ LLC. This e-offprint is
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The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens is a pre-20th century short story‚ written in around 19th century. It is a Gothic story as a genre. A Gothic story is a type of romantic fiction that predominated in English literature. The Gothic novel emphasized mystery and horror and was filled with ghost haunted rooms‚ underground passages‚ and secret stairways. These ingredients are essential and crucial for Gothic story in order to create suspense to the readers. In the story an obvious theme of mystery
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IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL‚ VOL. 12‚ NO. 3‚ MARCH 2012 439 Film-Type Sensor Materials PVDF and EMFi in Measurement of Cardiorespiratory Signals— A Review Satu Rajala and Jukka Lekkala Abstract—In this paper‚ some recent results obtained with filmtype sensor materials polyvinylidenefluoride (PVDF) and electromechanical film (EMFi) are presented. The materials generate a voltage when they are mechanically deformed‚ however‚ because of their capacitive nature only the change of an external force
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a demand side perspective. The analysis has been based on Chenery’s factor decomposition approach based on input-output framework. It decomposes output growth into its four sources: domestic demand expansion‚ export expansion‚ import substitution and intermediate demand expansion due to change in input-output coefficient. The basic data used for this study has been the input-output tables for 1983-84‚ 1989-90 and 1997-98. The analysis has been done separately for the pre-liberalisation
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Summary Assignment "The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore‚" by Sherman Alexie is a story that starts out with two guys‚ the author states in the beginning of the story Victor is holding a pistol to his temple and said he wished he was drunk enough to pull the trigger. Adrian then took the gun and put the barrel in his mouth‚ smiled around the metal and then pulled the trigger‚ soon after‚ the author says he spits the BB out. Adrian and Victor both sat on the
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The Application of the Input Hypothesis and the Affective Filter Hypothesis to Independent Colleges English Listening Teaching Chapter Ⅰ INTRODUCTION 1.1 Research Context In each language‚ listening plays a big role in our daily life‚ let alone English. Listening occupies the top position in the communication‚ for we always get the input first and then produce the output. Most of the information about the world we gain is through listening. Listening also occupies the central role in language
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