... the truth of the extremity and the reality of the war broke ground and reached the public eye, society's realization of the truth collided head-on into the government's world of lies, and all hell broke loose. The people's opinion began drifting non-stop against the war, as opposed to their previous pro-war attitude. There were anti-war demonstrations and peace movements (Almond) that shut down colleges, and sometimes towns across the country. Then one day, as the media was delivering their daily recurrences of the horror that was Vietnam, reports of a massacre in a village designated as My Lai 4 came up. Following these reports and some "thorough" investigation ...
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... island and by 1979 Time magazine ran an article in which some of the local people expressed their desire to keep outsiders out. The issue of protecting paradise is a hotly debated topic that is currently being fought over by surfers. To a surfer nothing is more rewarding than the search and discovery of perfect uncrowded waves. This notion of the search for uncrowded surf was brought to the attention of the general public with the 1963 release of Bruce Brown’s The Endless Summer. The film documented two surfers traveling around the world to exotic locales previously left unexplored by the surfers of Western civilization. The images that Brown brought b ...
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... organization called big brothers/ big sisters of America. A man who saw a young boy sifting through the trash for food created this establishment over 90 years ago. He took the boy home, fed him, and then met his poverty-stricken family. From that point on, he became a mentor to the little boy, and this inspired him to form the organization for other boys, and in following years, a group of Christian women created a program for little girls. The soon joined forces and became the big brothers and big sisters of America. In today’s society, there are a lot of things for a child to face each day. These things can include anything from illegal drugs to simply ...
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... they are encouraged to shoot for a high status occupation that will generate wealth. In America we like money, we like jobs that make us money, not jobs that make us good people. Our society values scientists. The scope of Western thought is based on reason and logic, everything that we produce is supposed to have a direct purpose and function, production for the sake of consumption. What happened to creating something for thought? Where did our artists go? When was the last time the US won a Nobel Prize in Philosophy or any field other than Science? We don’t think about things unless we get paid for it. Why is an artist not as important to us as a brai ...
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... American folklore, Santa rewards children by giving them gifts on Christmas for being good boys and girls. If the child were bad, Santa would leave a stump of coal in their stocking, (but what type of parent would do that!) Santa Clause delivers gifts by riding magical reindeer and enters houses through chimneys. Depending on parts of the world, he is also known as “Father Christmas,” “St. Nicolas,” and “Pere Noel.” The figures of Santa Clause also vary diversely, from being an elf who delivers gifts in shoes, to a saint who died in A.D. 300 Christmas originated in the Bible under a story of three wise men and a sacred child born in a manger. This child was b ...
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... first context of an assessment of the New Age, as a ministerial student, is religious. For the purpose of this paper, however, I shall endeavour to limit the assessment of the New Age to the primary context of social psychology. As this paper is an exposition of the presence of persuasion in the New Age (contrary to its assumed freedom), it is also necessary, in the interest of fairness, to make some fundamental distinctions, with respect to the possibility of illusory correlations being formed from the conclusions of this paper: 1. if the New Age does indeed use elements of persuasion, it is not necessarily cult-like, any more than is the average Christian deno ...
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... contaminated with cyanide. Not only was $400-million-per-year Tylenol the best-selling U.S. drug, but it was a product that symbolized the Johnson & Johnson reputation for quality, gentleness, and fine health care (Kreitner, 1990). Despite the pressures of dealing with national media coverage, J&J executive immediately opened their doors to the press and took great pains to keep the public informed about the situation. It soon became apparent that the cyanide had been put into the capsules after they had left J&J's factories, and the problem seemed to be confined to the Chicago area. Nevertheless, Tylenol sales sank to 20 percent of their previous level, ...
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... the problems with injustice, inequality, and oppression. In order for us to become more fully human, and move along on our road to our own formation we must break free from our oppressors. By breaking free, you are not starting a war, or even a conflict, but you are actively participating in your own realization. Before we can break free of the oppression that I just described we must first be able to realize when we are being oppressed. Through a complicated process of influence we gain our own thoughts, words, and actions. It first starts with our own set of beliefs. Most likely the ones that our parents set for us. But after we gain that first sense o ...
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... theory of began to take shape in 1924 by Max Weber. He was the first theorist to use the term as a form of authority. “His conceptualization of “charismatic authority” has had a significant influence on our notions of what a charismatic leader is and is not” (Conger 12). Weber stated that charismatic authority derives its legitimacy from not rules, positions, or traditions but rather from faith in the leader’s skilled character. The holder of charisma is “set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least…. exceptional powers and qualities…. which are not accessible to the ordinary person but are regarded as of divine ...
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... signed star center Shaquille O'Neal, the biggest force in the league. Now that they Shaq, Magic Johnson will unretire (again), because he feels that with Shaq, Nick Van Exel, Cedric Ceballos, Eddie Jones, and Kobie Bryant, they will finally be a contender for the title. They have drafted Derek Fisher, he is a strong player and shows good leadership, but he will mainly serve as Van Exels backup. Finally, the Houston Rockets. They have Hakeem Olujuwon, Clyde Drexler, and guess who? Charles, yes, Charles Barkley, the man from Phoenix, the round mound of rebound. They have alsodrafted Othello Harrington, Randy Livingston, and Terrell Bell. Livingston was the ...
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