Advertisers appealed to the morality of buying now paying later rather than spending all your money at once which created a sense of guilt. ... Television gives Americans wisecracks and at the same time sparks conversation but, still the conversations are all about television which creates the perception that all Americans do is watch television because they're too lazy. ... These massive social changes that occurred in the 1950's modeled very much how we live our daily lives every day in America as whole , creating the perception of Americans being all the same, being lazy and watch...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

And though All Quiet on the Western Front may appear, at first glance, as a novel committed to revealing the senseless horrors of modern warfare with an extraordinary fierceness - indeed, it partly was - beneath the graphic prose resides a perception of World War I unprecedented for its time. ... As early as the 1870s, disruptions to the carefully calculated balance of power in Europe began to shift, with much of Europe embarking on a global scheme of Imperialism, fueled at least in part by a growing sense of Nationalism within the many countries of Europe. ... He loses all sense of securit...

• Word Count: 1278
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was used in this sense until the mid-19th century when it gradually began to refer to eracial characteristics. ... Nationalism forges together a sense of people hood or belongingness based on common history, ancestry, culture, language or religion. ...

• Word Count: 1928
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Media: The Puppeteer of the Public's Perception Ever watch Bugs Bunny and the Looney Toon gang? ... The best advice to give is to take many resources into account and combine with common sense, the one thing that the media may sway, but cannot control. ...

• Word Count: 1448
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In George Catalano's article "Promoting Peace in Engineering," he proposes that the way to promote peace is through the education of engineering. He proposes several ways of modifying the ABET Criteria. ABET, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, is an organization that accredits col...

• Word Count: 1335
• Approx Pages: 5

In a sense, he chose an idiom that was especially comprehensible to European sensibilities. ... However, unlike the perceptions Hussein and the British government had regarding this agreement, the Balfour declaration became a policy through Jewish activists. ...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hachiya "matter-of-factly dislodged [the glass fragment from his neck] and studied it" (Atwan/McQuade 33) immediately after the pika, for some reason, my perception of the event changed drastically. ... This was never a judgment in the sense that I dislike, fear, or distrust any race of people. ...

• Word Count: 1909
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Communism is any ideology based on the communal ownership of all property and a classless social structure, with economic production and distribution to be directed and regulated by means of an authoritative economic plan that supposedly embodies the interests of the community as a whole (Johnson). The United States created policies to stop the spread of communism out of the fear that it will one day overthrow democracy throughout the world. Americans believed that everyone in the world freedom and liberty in their country. To most communism may look good at first glance, but once put into pr...

• Word Count: 1902
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

The setting was perfect because the people of Germany were itching for any leader that would tell them just what they wanted to hear. World War I was over and the people of Germany were in an economic depression that crippled the country. The German mark had lost so much value that it took a wheelba...

• Word Count: 2463
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School