Major corporations like Wal-Mart, Target, Lowe's and Home Depot have monopolized the shopping experience once enjoyed by the mom and pop stores, the backbone of small town America. ... The "Super Centers" have invaded and crippled small town America and have gone further offering Internet shopping for "our convenience". ... While the shopping experience of interaction with the salesperson may be a positive one in some cases, the lack of social interaction may be devastating in the long run. For example, shopping by phone, QVC or Internet does not allow you to smell the fabric, feel the...

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Many black Americans are descendants of slaves, abducted from their homes, shackled, stuffed in boats and brought on long, disease-ridden journey. ... Years ago, while I was standing in line at a grocery store and the person behind me kept pushing the shopping cart into me. ...

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Since I was a little girl, my father would always bring him with me when he met up with his friends at work at a small coffee shop near where I lived. ... Friends and especially co-workers like to hang out together at coffee shops in the morning or at lunch break. Families often gather together, watching TV and drinking coffee at home on Saturday afternoons. ... I still remember my father going to the coffee shop about 3 or 4 times a week with his friends. ... In my memory of drinking coffee at home with my parents and grandparents, my father always made coffee for the elders first and taught...

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A program such as E-bay allows the people to shop and also gives them the opportunity to auction goods or items on the internet. People who are busy can easily purchase items such as groceries, clothing, cars or even houses without leaving their homes or offices thus saving time. ... Information to make home made bombs are posted on websites on the internet are in the hands of criminals and children. ...

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One other service or activity that has been McDonaldized is shopping. For those shop-o-holics like me, the activity has become faster than ever. ... If u prefer to shop at home, online the process is even faster. ...

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At home this just would have been a normal trip to the mall for some shopping but this time we were in Virginia Beach a place where no one had ever seen us so of course you know eyes were following us. ...

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Raw by Scott Monk, is about a young protagonist, sixteen year old Brett Dalton, who is sent to a youth rehabilitation center for juvenile delinquents after he is arrested for stealing from a bottle shop. ... He doesn't come from a broken home, or has experience any emotional scarring event. ...

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They go to the theatre and at-homes' and try to remain at that level of society despite their lack of wealth and struggle to survive. ... Although it does not necessarily buy you happiness, it brings respect, status and power as is evident in the film when Edward takes Vivian shopping. ... The snobby, haughty attitude of disdain Vivian received when she went shopping in her original outfit reflects society's prejudice and judgement of others only by appearance. ... Eliza wants to make something of herself and has ambitions to work in a flower shop. ...

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The social influences that effect "Lamb To The Slaughter" are that Mary Maloney doesn't have a social life and just sits at home all day waiting for her husband to come home from work each day. ... Also the shop keeper knows the name of the Mary these days that doesn't really happen that much. ...

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Statements like ethos – "If I should need to move, I can pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area I can afford and which I want to live," logos – "I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a super market and find the staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions, in to a hairdressers shop and find someone who can cut my hair," as well as pathos – "I can go home from most meeting or organization I belong to feeling somewhat tied in rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, ...

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It is so culturally diverse that you could walk down the street, got to the movies, go shopping, and go to the bank and hear six different languages in one day. ... On the other hand, you could walk down the street, go to the movies, go shopping, and to the bank and see people of subcultures walking and talking like the average WASP culture shock is "the feeling of disorientation tat can occur when one encounters a new or rapidly changed cultural situation"(Anderson, 84). ... I was brought up in a typical Indian home, but the family life was totally different. ...

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As Edward notes the influence of wealth when taking Vivian shopping, "stores aren't nice to people, they"re nice to credit cards". ... This aspiration is also shared by Eliza, for even before contemplating the idea to visit Professor Higgins for elocution lessons to become a flower-girl, she returns home to her squalid lodgings, "dreaming and planning" what to do with her "new riches" to better her life. ...

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That was me, a boy that had never been so far away from home. ... Even though I did not know the boundary of this area, I knew I was there when I saw all the names of the shops and restaurants alongside the road were written in Chinese. ... It becomes home.... He starts to perceive it as home. ... I didn't feel like I was at home. ...

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One day, after steps out of the photo studio shop, she miraculously transform back to herself when she was 20 years old. ... Adults will send elderly people to nursing home because adults are too busy with their work, they do not have time for elderly people. ... Moreover, there are not many nursing homes in Vietnam. Most of them are built very poorly, and the living condition is not as good as a nursing home in South Korea can provide. ...

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For example, they do not want to do shopping. ... Since they do not want to comment on their appearance and they are afraid of being criticized, they just want to stay at home and they do not do any social activities. ... They just want to stay at home because of fear of being teased. ...

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However, in 1983, she became pregnant with me and decided to quit her full-time job to be a stay-at-home mom. ... We most definitely would have moved into a much nicer home in the school district that we wanted. ... My dad would not be working sixty hours a week--in the shop--doing work that is meant for a 20-year old. ...

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Surrounded by the colorful happenings in town, the school has a location that offers much to do, from shopping, to great food. ... Aside from the Student Center and athletic facilities, a student at Smith finds time to enjoy right at home. ... Each home looks different, and you can enter the front door with your key or by knocking and having someone answer it. ... The dining room is set up much like a kitchen at home, with round wooden tables that seat about six people each. ... The house-style living is geared to make the students feel like they are at home, like they belong. ...

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At the beginning of the film there is a scene which depicts Mr Olsen (the shoemaker) coming home with a new car for his family. ... The women in The Blot are nearly all depicted within the home setting. ... The main action in the film is orientated around Mrs Grigg's everyday routine, cleaning, cooking and shopping for the home. ... If Mrs Griggs was to break out of the home and go to work her and her family might not have to suffer so, however the patriarchal insistence to have women in the home and not in a professional space does not permit it. ... (Kaplan 137) However it is in...

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Economic status is crucial when shopping for a home; which is why the advertisement aims to specify the wealth of each person shown. ... Her costuming, home décor, and posture all represent her wealth and the idea that she has the money to afford these things. ... The purchasing of expensive things, such as superior homes, help to shape our social identity, or the &q...

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On the other hand you could derive that if people need to be religious then they can practice their religion for the most part the length of they are in their own specific home, or a position of affection. ... Most ladies' attire route back when was simply fit for house work, shopping for food, or dealing with children. ...

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Ben and Jerry launched their "Cowmobile ", a modified mobile home used to distribute free scoops of ice cream in a unique cross-country marketing drive. ... Ben and Jerry's continues to support worthwhile causes by teaming up with non-profit organizations in PartnerShops, Ben & Jerry's scoop shops that are independently owned and operated by community-based nonprofit organizations. ...

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Among these, the ordinary merchants and prosperous shop keepers, the traditions of 17th C. life were stronger. ... The trade of England, both overseas and domestic, was extremely rich and varied, based partly on things made or grown at home and partly on an extensive re-export trade of row materials from the colonies in America and luxury goods from the East. ...

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"Gran Torino" is a movie starring Clint Eastwood (as Walt) that deals with many sociological concepts such as deviance, gender stratification, race, ethnicity and socialization. I feel that these four concepts apply relate to the movie better than most than any others. Deviance can be defined as nor...

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The survivors of an epidemic that has resurrected the dead find refuge in a shopping mall only to find that their hopes for easy access to material objects are shared by the growing hoards of undead. ... When granted the opportunity to transcend the framework of a "late-capitalist society" in a situation that provides them with all their needs, the surviving humans in Dawn of the Dead only attempt to recreate the irretrievable structures of society and become fatally overwhelmed by the apparent desire to own rather than produce. (1) The characters successfully convert the mall into a...

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"Food not Bombs is perhaps the best, single idea to come out of the Anarchist Movement in the last fifty years" (Pfeiffer, 2006: 80). It represents an independent, collective movement which focuses on giving vegan and vegetarian food to various groups of people, under two main circumstances, which w...

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