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The paper gives the background of the controversy surrounding dress codes in schools, from students who claim the restrictiveness to sources that cite the declining level of violence where dress codes are enforced. The paper specifically argues the case in order to decrease the occurrence of gang-related attire. The paper includes a detailed example of a dress code and recommendations to school districts for implementation.

From the Paper
"The dress code provides a balance between an individual's First Amendment right to free expression and the school's responsibility to provide a safe and secure educational environment. Schools have a responsibility to customize their individual dress codes to address the needs and standards of their communities through use of a process that ensures input from students, parents, faculty and staff, as well as other interested community members. On the other hand, students and their parents or guardians have a responsibility to be aware of the school dress code and to conform to its requirements. Finally, the principal of each school has a responsibility to interpret and enforce the policy stated herein."

Tags:education, student, violence, individual, faculty

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This paper discusses how professional dress of the teacher affects student behavior in the middle school. Specifically, it discusses the contention that a simple way that middle school teachers can improve the effectiveness of their educational services delivery is by wearing professional attire. The paper analyzes the literature, draws conclusions and provides recommendations.

Table of Contents:
Review and Discussion
Background and Overview
Importance of Professional Attire for Middle School Teachers
Practical Realities and Constraints to Professional Attire
General Professional Attire Guidelines for Middle School Teachers
Conclusion and Recommendations
Conclusion
Recommendations

From the Paper
"The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ensures that right of all American citizens to wear just about anything they damn well please in their private lives, but this part of the Bill of Rights becomes cloudier when middle school teachers step across the schoolhouse door. Even assuming that a middle school district does not subscribe to a formal dress code for its teachers, the research was consistent in showing that students who perceive their teachers to be attired professionally performed better academically and behaved better as well. Since these positive outcomes directly relate to virtually all middle school teachers' goals, it just makes good sense to use this simple but effective approach to delivering improved educational services in the middle school classroom today. The research also showed that it is not impossible for even the most fashion-impaired teacher to develop a sense of what types of dress are appropriate in the classroom and some common sense will go a long way in making these decisions. In the final analysis, the same concepts of professional attire that apply to other professions are just as important to the teaching field, and in some cases, it would seem that they are even more important because they provide a win-win outcome by helping young people learn more effectively by providing a classroom environment that is more conducive to learning."

Tags:attire, perception, respect, learning

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This paper discusses the way women were represented in paintings of the period 1875-1915. It shows that women were revealed in one of three ways; they are either nudes or semi-nudes, working women (urban and rural) in relaxed or revealing clothing, or fashionable women (respectable or otherwise) whose adherence to the strange costume of the bourgeoisie contorts and reveals their bodies in bizarre ways. The writer discusses how the implications of bourgeois dress for women in this period are manifold and painters' various approaches to costumed women bring out the range of meanings in this form of attire.

From the Paper
"Leaving aside the complex questions of men's direct dominance in fashion choices, the fashionable female figure of the nineteenth century possessed various attributes that intensified by the mid-1870s. In the period when crinolines dominated and into the 1860s the fetishistic emphasis of male voyeurs was "decidedly on the feet [but] by the mid-70s it moved with even greater decisiveness to the corset" and this fashion was to prevail until the advent of World War I (Kunzle 135). As the corset's importance increased so dramatically waists were lengthened, skirts tightened, and the hip-contour was defined and revealed as never before. The French magazine La Vie Parisienne offered guidance to the women who were subjecting themselves to the new fashion (and no little delight for the male voyeur whose tastes could be formed by the journal as much as his wife's or mistress' were). The magazine promoted the new fashion and, in hyperbolic fashion-magazine language, raised the corset-ire to the dignity of a sculptor."

Tags:fashion, clothing, attire, bourgeois, nude, art

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This paper discusses how a person who knows the rules of social etiquette will feel better about himself and will also make those around him feel respected and important. The rules of social etiquette help people learn not to act on their first, natural impulses. When young men fail to do so, sometimes they get in trouble with the law. This paper explore the importance of social etiquette among young males, especially African-American males and offers guidance in business and personal etiquette.

Outline:
Older Rules of Etiquette
Basic Rules of Social Etiquette
Cell Phone Etiquette
Email Etiquette
Introduce People Properly
Business Attire
Table Manners

From the Paper
"Bill Cosby, in his famous, controversial "Pound Cake" speech, noted that "we are in a new time, where people are behaving in abnormal ways and calling it normal..." He said that although racism is still present in society, it is not an excuse for young African-American men to stop trying to act in a manner that they should. By remembering their traditions and learning personal responsibility, Cosby said that young African-American men can be proud. Part of this involves learning the rules of social etiquette. Young men, regardless of their race, need to take responsibility for their own actions. Ultimately, they must learn and decide to behave in a way that correlates with polite society."

Tags:Business, Attire, Table, Manners, Bill, Cosby

Abstract
This paper moves through different historical events and shows how due to the necessity, society's attitudes towards fashion changed accordingly. It examines events such as the world wars when women joined the work force and had to dress appropriately and the move to more relaxed work attire in the current market.

From the Paper
"Fashion is not just art, it is a measure of social attitudes for a particular period in history. Today, a woman cyclist will most likely be wearing spandex and skin-tight bicycle shorts. Her male counterpart will be wearing the same. What is acceptable now would have been scandalous in our mother's time. This paper will illustrate through example that fashion is a reflection of societal attitudes."

Tags:fashion, clothing, attire, dress, society, social, acceptance, attitude, change

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The characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald?s "The Great Gatsby" are largely members of a falsely created American aristocracy. But some of the higher aspirations of this decadent elite for truth, beauty, and, more importantly, a secure sense of home and identity, mirror the far less decadent, but equally passionate desires of the members of the all-female book reading society found in "Reading Lolita in Tehran". This paper shows that Jay Gatsby desired to improve himself by "making himself up" to be worthy of the love of the faithless Daisy Buchanan. He did this through bootlegging, purchasing fine shirts, and securing a home in Great Neck, Long Island. The paper shows that, similarly, through a shift in attire and place, the women of Azar Nafisi's book wished to reinvent themselves by casting off their chadors and the external social and moral strictures that restricted them in their theocratic, Islamic educational framework.

From the Paper
"The girls revealed the hidden colors of concealed banned clothing, from under chadors, colorful as Gatsby's fine shirts that he showed to Daisy, concealed in his drawers. "Recovering himself in a minute, he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high". (Fitzgerald 91) Yet like these Iranian women, Jay Gatsby too has a hidden past and life, of his mundane Midwestern beginnings, as well as his criminal past. Gatsby keeps this boring past hidden life, filled with the shame of wealth he has not inherited, concealed under the colors of his shirts, while the women of Tehran keep their colorful plumage and reading a secret under cloaks of blackness that hide their faces and light. But like Gatsby, too, "it was not until I had reached home that I realized the true meaning of exile", writes Nafisi. (Nafisi 145)"

Tags:Daisy, Vladimir, Nabokov

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Examines the use of courtesy and its direct relationship with specific issues, such as proper attire, use of non-gendered and racially or culturally respectful language, avoidance of discrimination, sexual, and other forms of harassment.

From the Paper
"Etiquette refers to any special code of behavior or courtesy. As Shaw and Barry (p. 5) have pointed out, in contemporary Western society, it is usually considered appropriate to use courteous phrases when requesting ..."

Abstract
Moogunghwa (Rose of Sharon) is much loved as the national flower of Korea, because it symbolizes the strong and simple spirit of the Korean people which has endured the nations' long and often difficult history. Korea is known as the "Land of the Morning Calm". The beauty that can be found in Korea's culture can be seen in the people's attire and masks, religion and rites of passage and its arts, crafts and music.

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This paper examines four plays from around the globe and analyzes their central themes. The paper shows how David Hare's "Absence of War" introduces audiences to the British political system and the total lack of personality in its leaders. In "Indian Ink", by Tom Stoppard, the paper discusses the play's emphasis on the colonial era in India and power relations in the world. The paper looks at the psychological state of the characters in Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker" and the way their attire contributes to this state. Finally, the paper shows how Sean O'Casey, in his play "Shadow of a Gunman", shapes his material the distinction between illusion and reality.

From the Paper
"The play involves an ongoing series of interactions among these three. Davies and Aston conflict almost from the moment they arrive in this room, for they are very unlike and react differently to everything that happens. Mick, on the other hand, serves the role of goad, seeming to come from nowhere and to place demands. In the First Act, Mick is only seen twice, both times in his leather jacket, signaling a certain fascist mentality in his dress. His behavior confirms this as he enters silently, twists Davies's arm, and searches through Davies clothing, all as if he had the right to do so and should never be questioned."

Tags:George, Jones, Whitehall, Cenotaph, Flora, Crewes, Nirad, Das

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It emphasizes the influence of Queen Victoria's 40-year mourning period for Prince Albert, and goes into the social psychology of the veil, as well as the color black. The paper concentrates on women's mourning garb, but also mentions the fact that men's mourning clothing was not that different from their usual formal attire.