It is the most important aspect of the human body shape. ... Today's slim body perception poisons and leads many to dissatisfaction with their bodies, harmful effects of dieting, and extreme measures of weight control. ... The 1997 Psychology Today Body Image Survey shows there's more discontent with the shape of our bodies then ever before. ... The idealized male body image nowadays is beefy and muscled, as epitomized in the Calvin Klein underwear advertisements show casting the bulging pecs and rippling abdomen of Antonio Sabato Jr. ... Statistics on steroid use show an alarmin...

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Referred to as the "mother of feminism", Mary Wollstonecraft, claims that men "spend many of the first years of their lives in acquiring a smattering of accomplishments; meanwhile strength of body and mind are sacrificed to libertine notions of beauty" for women (10). ... All United States presidents for the past 228 years have been male. ... According to Aristotle, "between the sexes, the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject" (NP). The suggestion that men are superior brings about the submission of women with ...

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Physical appearance was at the top of the list, but also mentioned were things like how a person carried themselves, how they spoke, body language and so on. ... I think it was in Italy where it was pretty normal and accepted for young males to ride around females on their bikes and pick them up. ... All the males seem to be attracted to what their culture held as beautiful and showed signs of feeling success when they acted on that attraction. ...

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Two hundred years ago in our country, you had to be white, male, and wealthy in order to vote. ... The government feels that at the age of 18 years old we are at the age to make such potentially dangerous long-term decisions for ourselves such as smoking, which has been proven as being a cancer-causing product to our bodies. ... The selective service department states in its website, that all male U.S. citizens, and male aliens living in the U.S., between the ages of 18 and 25, are legally required to sign up for selective service within 30 days of their 18th birthday. ... Another argument ...

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All able-bodied white males 18-35 would be required to serve in the military for three years. ... When the popularity of the war went out, Congress followed the Confederacy's example and created the Enrollment Act of 1863 which made every able-bodied white male citizen aged twenty to forty-five eligible for the draft into the Union army. ...

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Many people scrutinize the small percentage of African tribes that practice body scarification as a barbaric, yet their own people view it as heroism and art. ... Women in Saudi Arabia are expected to cover their bodies from head to toe when they are in public. ... From an outsiders view into the world I live, is a place where women reveal their bodies to endorse sports drinks, fast food chains, and even bare all body parts for a porographic advertisement. ... Often times rape cases sympathize with the male because the females attire was "asking for it". Is it fair for males to blame...

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Before I put any thing in my body I read a lot about it so I know what I am taking. ... When you take it for a long period of time your body becomes dependent on it and that is when you can get sick. ... They see the picture of the body builder on the label and think that this is an easy way to get "jacked" or "ripped". ... First of all, the study that she mentions, I want to know who did it and on how many males and females were included. ... Women should not take nearly as much as men do because our bodies are different. ...

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For example, the media portrays black males either as basketball players, gangsters that deal drugs, or people that would do anything for money, including murder. ... It was written on women many years ago that their bodies must be shaped like a vase and that they must be tall and slim to be attractive. ... This is another construct created by the media, saying that a woman has to make her body into a slim, curvy shape that resembles that of a vase. All of these constructs that were created were used to capture the male gaze. ... Since we live in a male dominated society, women have to fol...

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Certain privacy issues relating to public male restrooms impinge on their functionality. As implied by its obvious definition, the public male restroom is a non-domestic space; rather it is a public space. Disposal of body excrement requires the exposure of intimate parts of the body, an action that is typically exercised in the privacy of ones own home. ... Whether a set of urinals is executive material or Motel 6 like, not many males dare to use a urinal located next to a urinal in use. ...

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For some time now, feminists have examined literary works in terms of the absent/objectified presence of the Other, in whatever form Other might be recognized (for example, anyone not white, male, or educationally and economically privileged). ... Through significant and underscored omissions, startling contradictions, heavily nuanced conflicts, through the way writers peopled their work with the signs and bodies of this presence--one can see that a real or fabricated Africanist presence was crucial to their sense of Americanness. ...

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This came about when Bryant and two male associates check in at the lodge and spa where the accuser worked at. Then Later on that night the accuser allegedly said she gave Kobe and the two body guards accompanying Kobe, a tour of the place. ...

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For many men and women, the bodies seen in the media are unachievable or unrealistic by the general population. ... d open with sex, has taken the teenage male and female couple in their parents car, holding hands, and exchanging their high school pins, and changed it to a male homosexual couple who has just met giving each other sexual favors at night in a wooded area (now what kid going through puberty would that not confuse!). ...

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There are also young male prostitutes, known as hustlers, who serve the homosexual community, and males, known as gigolos, who sell sexual services to older women, and women are available to female homosexuals. ... I think that it is their choice to sell their bodies of they want to. ...

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Body rolls from the African-Americans, the sways of the indigenous Lundu, and the carnival steps (i.e. the Capacabana) from the society of Rio. ... The male dancers became choreographers right away, making charges to the original dances. ... It characterizes the Torero (the male dancer) and his cape (his partner), and is performed to the characteristic march music. ... Samba, Rumba, and Jive have one thing in common; they all originate from Latin America, but have totally different styles, moods, body movements, and rhythms. ...

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The paper birch has both male and female flowers called catkins. ... The head of the bird is white, the body of the bird is black, and the tail is white. ... This bear can run up to 25 miles per hour, which is very quick for its 220-594 pound body. ... A lake is a large body of fresh water. Lakes can range in size from small ponds to huge bodies of water such the Great Lakes in the U.S. ...

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Faludi tends to look at the sexual discrimination between male and female where as Paglia tends to comment on discrimination between races and social classes. ... As she goes on to describe rape as being "a symbol of the horrors and mysteries of the body-. ... Faludi tends to direct her article towards a male/female relationship where as Paglia directs her article between the social classes. ... Why do men receive more finical aid than women do, just because they are male? ...

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Shortly after her tiny body was discovered, the story of her brief life became public, especially details about her involvement in child beauty pageants. ... The public quickly learned that at these events, held in nearly every state across the United States, female children, more so than male children, are basically the targets and, as young as ten months old, they wear makeup and extreme fashions to compete for titles and money. ... (In-text citation, paraphrase from an expert opinion) Windsor also stated that children who fail at these events may feel unattractive, rejected, and worthles...

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Male students in middle schools that consume inhale tobacco or chew tobacco reach up to approximately twenty five percent. ... I believe that one is responsible for their health no matter what any business sells because as well as cigarettes there is alcohol and many other substances that may harm the body. ... It is one's responsibility and own choice to either take care of our bodies or ruin them and face the consequences without blaming anybody or any industries for their own personal actions. ...

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The plaintiff, a white male, brought up the issue that he believed he had been rejected merely on the basis of his Caucasian status, and that minorities who had gained admission into the University had lower test scores then he did . ... The rewards of "diversity", or, in reality, a student body that is proportionate to the nation's racial and ethnic populations is so beneficial to everyone, that admitting students based on the equity movement should be permissible. ... Year after year, our student body proves it and now the court has affirmed it: Our diversity is our...

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THE OCELOT The rainforest used to cover over 15% of the earth's surface. With the ongoing destruction of many of the world's rainforests they now cover less then 7% of the earth's surface. One of the negative things about the destruction of the rainforest is that many animals, like the Ocelo...

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It has been estimated that at least 1 in 15 male, high school sports athletes have used steroids, which means more than a half-million high school athletes have used steroids. ... Excessive use may cause an imbalance in the users normal hormonal balance and body chemistry. ...

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The question is why would one want to take such a risk and play with his life, since smoking is bad for the body and will eventually kill you. ... This PSA advertisement is aimed to inform men and women who smoke or have thought about smoking, and the general public about the effects of smoking on one's body, and how to prevent them since "on average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers" (SDCP) In todays society anyone can get access to cigarettes, even those who are underage and do not have the legal right to buy or smoke tobacco can get them. ... The statistics today ...

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In 1629 it was told about a substance that, when drank, would alter the way your mind and body works so monks were told to never drink it in excess.* That was the beginning of restrictions being placed on alcoholic beverages. ... Please go in your mind to being a male and just turning 18 years old. ...

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Unlike the male sex, females have not been eligible for many aspects of political, economic, and social life, and therefore have suffered extensively in past centuries, and inevitably for centuries to come. ... Wade trial legalized abortion, and previous to the benefits of birth control, a woman was a slave to her own body. ...

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These employees work hard long shifts, which take a toll on a person's body, not just physically but mentally. ... As a white male, I have personally noticed at my places of employment, people getting turned away because of their race. ...

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