This is not only where one would see a cartoon character influencing children and adolescents to an unhealthy lifestyle. ... Of course there are many other examples where cartoon images, usually associated with children and young teenagers, are use to relate to them and are influenced by them. ... Advertisers manipulate the parents perceptions of the cartoon characters on the box. ...

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The last film is "Van Wilder", a film again similar to "American Pie" and "Sex Drive", however the plot is told from the perspective of the Van Wilder, a multiple year college senior whose goal is to party in school for as long as he can until he meets a girl that has no interest in him at all. His goal is to be with this girl and will do anything to do so, even if it means cleaning up his act and trying to actually graduate. ... By looking at Cartoons, Comedies, Dramas and Realities, Gottfried and his team found that "Dramas on average presented significan...

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The term 'totalitarianism' was first coined in Italy in May 1923 as a term of abuse against Mussolini's Fascist government. In England in 1929 the term was used to describe both Fascist (Italy and later Germany) and Communist (Soviet Union) states. Indeed, these countries were ruled by a single mas...

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Socialisation: Socialisation is a process by which people learn the accepted ways of behaving in the society and the roles, norms, values and culture of the society and a sense of self.it mainly takes place during childhood, but continues throughout life via various agencies like education, mass media etc. There are two types of socialisation, primary socialisation, which is the early form of socialisation in the family and close community and secondary socialisation, which takes place beyond the family and close community, such as through education system, mass media and work place. Socialis...

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Research reports are divided on the causes of school violence. Some refer to family situations. They say that when students are likely to live in poverty, witness drug abuse at home, have parents arrested and/or sent to prison, then it is not surprising how many students behave well, rather th...

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Abstract The object of this study is to explore specific identity-formations that have occurred under specific cultural and socio-political contexts that have enabled women politicians in India to acquire political power. The paper will examine Indira Gandhi, Mayawati, Mamta Banerjee, and Jayalalithaa, and try to understand what led to the personalization of power in all four cases. The idea is to analyze the relationship between particular identities that these figures have acquired in popular discourse and particular modalities of power. What do the invocation of mother or sister figures sig...

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