No, playing with a Barbie doll isn't going to destroy brain cells, or cause things such as cancer, but the mental impact this small $15 doll could cause your child to have in the long run, could be devastating. ... Maybe we are introducing these things to children at such a young age because we know that they helped benefit our lives, but we aren't looking enough into whatever they are looking at. ... We are handing 3-4 year old children a piece of plastic that they are obviously going to be infatuated with, making something click in their head possibly that that is something that th...

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The laws that go against merchants from selling alcohol to people under the age of twenty-one are nearly impossible to enforce. ... Besides, if someone under the age of twenty-one cannot buy alcohol themselves because they are refused by a merchant, they are able with no trouble to find a willing adult and simply give them the money to purchase whatever kind of alcohol they desire. ... I was told it seems to be an acceptation for the seniors, who generally already have been magically transformed into a responsible twenty-one year old, to go and purchase the alcohol for the underage drinkers in...

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The courts, for whatever reason, are allowing these laws to be interpreted so African-Americans are indeed getting jobs because of their race. ... It seems that people can say just about whatever they wish in the movies and in music today. ... The problem comes in when African-Americans can say whatever they please, and the worst thing that the law will do to them is maybe put a parental advisory sticker on their CD, or rate their movie "R". ...

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These workers often work in horrible conditions and are treated inhumanely, yet do nothing about this discriminatory mistreatment, for fear of being sent back to Mexico or whatever country they have migrated from, jailed for illegally crossing the U.S. and Mexican border, or even blacklisted as a worker that other employers should not hire for work. ... Rather than pay American workers a small amount a day or even a week, farm owners could pay nothing to these workers and pocket whatever money was set aside for payment of employees; this notion could be achieved through slavery. ... However, ...

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The knockout game is a game played mostly by teenagers in which a friend picks out a victim and the person has to go and try to knock that person unconscious with one hit to the head or face. ... These places attract criminals because there is a sense that you can do whatever you want in these places. ... This affects the individual because hes not going to be able to get a high paying job with the amount of education he has. ... If you hang out with people that do bad things you are most likely going to do bad things as well. ... Children who are poor are most likely going to live in areas ...

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Despite the fact that most Americans did not want to go to war, FDR thought war was inevitable. ... Why America Entered World War II The Allies dismissed the aggression of the Axis, which consequently led to more aggression because the Axis then believed they could "walk on water- as they say for people who think they can do whatever they want and not get punished. ... The Japanese were kind of shaky on going to war with America though. "When can we go to war and win?...

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For whatever reason, college life does not prepare the student for the enormous amount of paperwork that he or she will have to deal with in the office. ... This is just the beginning of basic knowledge students need to know before going out on their own. ... I had no clue where I was going, or how to get there. ... Things are not always going to go as planned. Directions to events and places are not always going to be clear and concise. ...

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You must go through military checkpoints on a daily basis where soldiers can harass you or destroy your property with no compensation or even reprimand (reporters have witnessed Israeli soldiers casually destroying farmers' crops while laughing at them). ... Of course, it goes without saying that they would never do such a thing in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, no matter who they suspect of being there. However, if you're killed, whether it be at a checkpoint by a trigger-happy soldier or as "collateral damage" due to the indiscriminate use of powerful area-effect weapons, yo...

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Tavion Robinson says "Sometimes I get high just to go to the movies, its like I enjoy it more so I just do it"(personal communication, October 18 2001) When under the influence of weed a person seems to pay more attention to the movie the two most popular types of movies that a high person would go and see are comedies and suspense movies. ... Weed is and environment drug, whatever environment the smoker is in determines how the drug affects them. ... While high friends get together and play video games, go to movies and go to the mall. Going to the mall was one of my favorite activities to...

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This affected the laws which go into place and how things are conducted in government both on the federal and state levels and is by far not what democracy should include. ... "For seven months, Clinton has let stand his denials of any sexual liaisons with Lewinsky and allowed aides and even his wife go on television to repeat them." ... Not many people truly know where all this money is going because media is reporting on how lovely the first lady's Vera Wang dress was. ... This becomes a reassurance to people that perhaps the government is taking the correct steps in the direction to ...

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Our country has been experiencing one of the worst recessions ever for quite a few years now. Many people are just making enough money to live on. The working class has been struggling the most because they don't have the best jobs out there and if you don't have a good job you are probably making m...

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Slowly, going shop to shop with a portfolio full of amateur drawings turned out to be very unproductive. ... Becoming a tattoo artist was without a doubt the last thing my mother would ever have wanted me to become, so I spent the money I had saved to go back to art school on tattoo supplies and kept them in tattoo tool boxes, and became a traveling artist, going wherever I could just to practice on friends who would lend me some skin. ... Not only do I get to put beautiful art on peoples bodies, but I get to interact with them, learn their stories, and help them through whatever they may be g...

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Just War For more than a thousand years Christian ethicists and theologians have used the language of just war theory to determine when it is morally acceptable for a Christian to go to war. The theory has been flexible enough to accommodate political, military, and social change, and still ...

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A lot of money and preparation goes into having a cotillion; at the birth of this tradition cotillions were only held by the wealthy. ... When a non-Hispanic goes to an event like this it shows them the perks of being a latina as well as showing them one of the most popular tradition of their culture. ... The change in shoes is a symbol of the girl leaving childhood and going into adulthood. ... (Davis et al. 54) It's a little similar to the quinceañera where as the celebrant goes to their place of worship and is brought into their religion as an adult. ... In Sweden, the Lutheran ...

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Living in the country, she was able to purge after meals with the family at home by going outside into a nearby wooded area. ... Dilts goes on to say that "admitting the problem is the first step."" ...

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Nick Carraway, too, was seeking his piece of the American Dream by moving to New York from the Midwest to take job as a bond salesman " I decided to go east and learn the bond business. ... Once engaged in conversation, Daisy flightingly moves from one topic to the next, with no apparent connection between them other than what presents itself to her at that moment - e.g., she goes from the candles, to missing the longest day of the year, to planning something with Ms. ... In one way, Fitzgerald may have been referring to his belief that if a woman was to actually live in a high-class, monied ...

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Whatever the Age it started off much like the age previous to it, and it ended up being a well-developed industrial age at the end of the century. ... On the contrary, she was likely to have been a conventional middle class lady going about her fancywork. ...

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The food that we are buying today goes through a lot of processing and by the time we get the food there is not much left of it. ... The food goes through a cycling process in which its broken down into manure and then is used as a supplement for the plants to grow. ... Slaves basically did whatever their masters wanted them to. ...

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The current matter of the nursing shortage has been going on for more than a couple years and only continues to worsen as time goes on and solutions are not made. ... Although work-related stress should be expected when it comes to nursing, One must remember that this stress is in addition to whatever stressors are affecting the individual from back home, therefore it may become an issue and affect overall work performance. ...

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But women do this not only as displayed by Naomi Wolf in the "The makings of a slut" but it goes in today's society with grown women. ... But Janice Dickinson and these other women who choose to slut shame Kim most likely have the same type of sex Kim had in her sex tape or they are just envious because their sex life is boring whatever the reason is the only thing that makes her situation different from theirs is because she was caught on a sex tape that went public. ...

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In my opinion this goes to show that in countries such as Amsterdam, France, and Germany that sex is more of an open topic instead of one that is just seen in terms of entertainment purposes and not to the extent it actually could be. ...

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The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. After W.W.II, even though the Soviet Union had a strong military, it was encircled by hostile capitalist governments and felt that if communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other communist countries. Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ...

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Wherever gangs go, they will need to recruit additional members. ... Self Recruitment For whatever reasons, many teens go looking for a gang and ask to join. ... This can go on from 45 seconds to five minutes.The meaning of a gang initiation is a rite, ceremony, or instructions with which one is made a member of the gang. ...

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Baby boomers Our children are our future; our seniors are our foundation (Wissel L. 2000). Fifty five million Americans are age fifty five and older, according to the United States Census Bureau, of that number, thirty five million are age sixty five and older. By the year 2030, the sixty five...

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An important topic in international politics today is if Iraq has the ability to politically succeed. Judging by their present democratic and military standing; Iraq seems to be headed in the wrong direction. The westernized view of political success or democracy is still in reach but Iraqi citizens...

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