These industries created the shift in our thinking from viewing children as trusting, impressionable humans that should be protected from the not so innocent adult world, to seeing children as "economic resources to be mined." (www.commercialalert.org) Alcohol promotions target youth and encourages positive affiliations with alcohol by linking drinking alcohol with attractive symbols and role models. ... When I first viewed this commercial I was intrigued by the animation and felt that kids younger than I, would find this interesting and cool, which is precisely the issue at hand....

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Starting with the Hudson River School founded by Thomas Cole, the nation obtained a visual representation of Manifest Destiny. ... Cole was famous for the spiritual or moral symbols he was used to put in his work. ... As Albert Boime says, "inevitably, the extermination of Native Americans is tied to the conquest of the wilderness and its transformation into an Edenic garden - The wild and dark area with the natives on the left contrasts with the right side of the painting, a light and open area occupied by the white Americans, which represents the "paradise regained - in which civilization...

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Along with advances in science and technology, philosophers began to see the world as governed by natural laws such as gravity and motion. ... Once realized, this brand of political association would be one which "will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before". ... Certain aspects of seventeenth century philosophy left room for human err, such as the easily influenced mind and its ability to misrepresent information, beside the already prev...

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However, her assumption was not correct, as she explained to Primo, "so my first judge, she didn't consider me with respect because of the way I was dressed" (Bourgois, 257). The Game Room, founded by Felix, owned by Ray, was a video game arcade established as a crackhouse. ... He was able to sell drugs with excellent profits through his challenging workers. ... Moreover, "it is when an individual can use power and ability to use symbols, props, and implements of cultural form" (Lecture, 4/5/2003). ... After working in different locations with his new coworkers without being assi...

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