This paper will discuss the American Legacy Foundation and its anti-smoking prevention campaign known as “Truth.” The history of the foundation will be reviewed‚ and the fundamental elements of the program‚ including its claims of success‚ how that success is measured‚ and the basis for the program design‚ will be presented. Foundations‚ Elements and Focus The Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) between the tobacco industry‚ 46 state governments and five U.S. territories resulted in the creation
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“Raymond molested me for either four or five years.” Those words came from a 24-year-old Alabama woman‚ reflecting on what happened to her from the ages of around 4 to 8. (The Washington Post does not name sexual assault victims.) Raymond Earl Brooks had adopted the victim’s mother. To the young woman‚ for several years‚ Brooks was her adoptive grandfather. Then‚ while she was still a small child‚ he began molesting her. She told AL.com‚ “I don’t remember when it started happening but I know it
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Discuss some Problems in Establishing Objectivity in Social Science * Scientists have heralded ‘objectivity’ as their shibboleth‚ warranting a perceived superior or privileged position relative to other forms of knowing. George Simmel‚ (1858 – 1918) for example‚ saw objectivity as the greatest achievement of Western cultural history. In recent decades however‚ the ‘magnificent Minotaur’ of objectivity (Gouldner‚ 1961-62: 1) has been pushed back into its lair‚ accused of acting as a subterfuge
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“Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion‚ for the real and for the truth.” -Abraham Maslow It’s important to have objectivity in writing so it is all truthful. The article “Painful Beauty” by Melissa Tan is objective because of the content‚ tone‚ and purpose. First‚ the article “Painful Beauty” by Melissa Tan is objective because of the content‚ which is strictly fact based. “In China‚ foot binding was a common practice from the 10th century onward.” (Tan) This shows that the author is
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The film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was first released in November of 2015 and was directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. It stars Thomas Mann‚ Olivia Cooke‚ and RJ Cyler as the main protagonists. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl follows the story of a young teenage boy (Thomas Mann) named Greg Gaines who is a senior at Schenley High School. Greg tries to have vague‚ shallow relationships with his fellow students while still being polite with them‚ but his only true friend is Earl (RJ Cyler). One day
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Essay Why international agreements are necessary to protect Environmental and Community Health International agreements are necessary to set out the ground work to protecting the environment and health of the communities from potentially harmful substances. The agreements are important to protect our ozone‚ water sources and control air pollants‚ dangerous chemical usage‚ storage of those chemicals‚and greenhouse gases. The agreements allow Canada to have involvment over pollutants that originate
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and the United Kingdom have specifically been involved in the most significant weapon agreements and relations. There are many agreements and treaties to control and regulate the mass amounts of weaponry traded and sold to states around the globe. Arm control agreements deal with two separate weapon regimes: weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and small arms and light weapons. It is harder to achieve agreements on small arms and light weapons than weapons of mass destruction because both sides get
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Visiting Forces Agreement (Balikatan) Thesis Statement: The Philippines should consider terminating its Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States before it’s too late for the government to overcome its unexpected dilemma. I. What is the RP–US Visiting Forces Agreement? a. A bilateral agreement between the between the Philippines and the United States consisting of two separate agreement documents. a. Balikatan as VFA-1 b. Balikatan as VFA-2 or the Counterpart Agreement II. There
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achieving the journalistic ideal of objectivity. Introduction In the media world we observe that the framing of narratives in conflicts plays a crucial role in politics and in lives of regular people. There is a certain manipulation on the presentation of war and peace in the media. Main question is what media ought to do and what they can do. One of the alternatives is Peace Journalism. This paper will analyse it in the light of the journalistic ideal of objectivity. George Orwell wrote that “history
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AGREEMENT BETWEEN OWNER AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGER Pre-Construction and Construction Phase Services FP&M Project No‚ CP00{ XXXX } AGREEMENT made by and between the Board of Regents‚ State of Iowa‚ acting for Iowa State University‚ hereinafter called the Owner‚ and { CM Name and Address } hereinafter called the Construction Manager. A strikethrough of paragraph(s) represents deleted or modified language. See Article 16 for deletions‚ modifications and additions to the Agreement. The Owner intends
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