Abstract
This paper examines the formation and recent development of reality television: the type of television that reflects personal lives and encounters. The author attempts to tackle why reality television exists, the types of reality television that is offered and the future of reality television and society. Included is a review of different television shows that fall under this category.

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"In the past few years? society and the entertainment industry has been more and more obsessed with the idea of reality-based television. This desire to find the real amongst society is a reflection on a society, which is based on lies, fraud and war. Television shows such as Real World, Cops, and Hard Copy introduced television viewers to the world of the unscripted and spontaneous. We often put aside these television programs calling them trash TV, or game shows, when really it is society, which has made these shows popular and allowed for the major networks, to demand for our attention in their scheduling. This essay will introduce many different types of reality television and begin to guide us to understanding why it exists and where it is expected to go. Society has been waiting for television to reflect our personal lives and the real world in which we live, and now it does."

Tags:911, abc, big, brother, cbs, cops, copy, crossing, entertainment, fox, hard, island, line, nbc, prostitution, real, rescue, september, survivor, temptation, tonight, world

Abstract
This paper explains that androgyny can be seen in many areas of the contemporary cultural spectrum, especially where the focus is on self-expression and experimentation. Although androgyny is not a modern phenomenon as witnessed by Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa", the author believes that it only has been in more recent decades that it has become accepted as part of society and is actually encouraged. The paper presents examples of androgyny in modern culture such as in the worlds of music with Boy George and Lady Gaga, in fashion with Andrej Pejic and in the movies with actor James Franco.

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"In October 2010, actor James Franco, who has starred in films such as Pineapple Express and 127 Hours, is always one for the avante garde and dressed as a woman for the cover of Candy magazine. The magazine is described as, "The first fashion magazine ever completely dedicated to transvestism, transsexualism, cross-dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations.". Wearing a full face of make up and a variety of dresses, the 32 year-old describes himself as not being gay but after staring as Saun Penn's homosexual lover in the film Milk now feels "homosexual loves stories are more interesting". It speaks volumes that a Hollywood actor would feel comfortable doing a thing such as this and shows that these types of images are not as shocking or as frowned upon as they once were.
"Moving on from the fashion industry, there are also many examples of androgyny in the music world, music has always been an expression of the culture at any given time and no period in the music industry was more focused on androgyny than the 1970s and 80s.
"In the early 1970s glam rock began to gain popularity, a UK invention, glam rock was characterised by quite often ridiculous costumes and outrageous over the top make up, with platform boots and copious amounts of glitter being must haves."

Tags:make-up cross-dressing, glam rock, costumes, annie lennox

Abstract
This paper explains that ethical behavior means more than following rules or a code of conduct with a list of "thou-shalt-nots"; it is a set of guiding principles, which people should do, not necessarily what they must do. The author points out that the first thing the employee in this case needs to learn as a corporate person is to never promise never: She should not have agreed to confidentiality before knowing what information she was going to be given, which put her in a difficult position when she tried to verify the information. The paper stresses that, while the superior did have the right to demand to know the name of the informant, he did not have the right to threaten the employee's job if she would not tell.

Table of Contents
Introduction
What Ethical Issues Are Involved?
Ethical Issue #1
Ethical Issue #2
Ethical Issue #3
Conclusion

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"This is the case of a company employee who received some information that could seriously impact the credibility of the company at a future date. She has only worked for this company for two months, but spent a year at the parent company in a probationary period before being sent here in a management position. Her direct superior is a go-getter whose only goal is to move up and out of the present company. The employee has received some information from her superior's secretary regarding some promises the man made to the union in order to avoid a strike."

Tags:guidelines, union, superior, secretary, strike

Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses the western frontier concentrating on two novels on this issue, "The Crystal Frontier," by Carlos Fuentes, and "All the Pretty Horses," by Cormac McCarthy. The writer maintains that both Mexicans and Americans have an attachment to one another in the frontier because of their western culture, but racism quickly stops any sort of true assimilation. The writer discusses that there is some evidence of the border being more definite in terms of racism and opportunities in both novels, but it is only because the reader chooses to make it that way. The writer concludes that the United States and Mexico are attempting to communicate openly, but with the difference in economics, it seems impossible to become a true melting pot on the frontier.

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"Carlos Fuentes' novel "The Crystal Frontier" describes what it means to be a Mexican in the border region. Through nine interlinking anecdotes, Fuentes describes the life of Don Leonardo Barroso, a rich factory owner in Campazas and the people who are affected by his influence. The characters include the rich factory owner, a Mexican doctor who owes his schooling to Don Leonardo, a group of female factory workers, Don Leonardo's senile, abandoned brother, and several Mexican laborers attempting to cross the Rio Grande hoping to find work in the United States. The novel chronicles the characters desire to improve their lives and how none of their struggles produce anything."

Tags:immigrants, melting, pot, expectations

Abstract
This paper uses scenes and quotes from two famous modern pieces of literature, "Black Boy" by Richard Wright and "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams, to illustrate the tendency of modern-day writers to base their fictional stories on their own personal conflicts and tragedies. This, the paper points out, is in contrast to the writers of the past, such as Shakespeare and his contemporaries, whose writings did not reflect their personal experiences. The paper also investigates some of the reasons for this trend in modern literature, attributing it to modern social qualities like freedom, lack of restraint, and boldness.

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"In 'Black boy' (1998), author Richard Wright gives a non fictional account of his life in the black neighborhoods of America. All elements of the Southern Black settlements like the ghettos, the squalid living conditions, the lack of an identity etc have been very clearly mentioned as part of the story of the central protagonist who is in fact the author himself. Wright actually emphasizes the identity crisis of young Richard who passionately feels about his isolation in a society that seems to be made only for the white man. Soon Richard rebels in his own small ways against authority, which is despised by him. It does not matter to him whether he rebels against his father or his white masters as long as his ego prompts him to fight against authority. Richard is a perfect example of how identity crisis encourages rebel ideas in a boy."

Tags:ideas, literary, content, gap, real, life, fantasy, over-dramatized, reflect, qualities

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This essay will argue that Shakespeare's use of this device in "Twelfth Night" is much more complex and significant than in "Comedy of Errors", as it is central to the theme of blurring gender roles in the play. As will be seen, Viola's transvestite impersonation of the male Cesario creates a site of gender confusion that challenges our understanding of the major characters and, in a broader sense, subverts the audience's certainty as to the nature of love and the permeability of gender lines.

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This is an in-depth study about how performance and reality are blurred, using Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Psycho," as a case study. The author looks at the techniques the director used with his actors, how the movie was shot, and even at the way it was marketed to the general public. The author also looks at how acting allows both the actors and the public to cross gender boundaries, that would normally be taboo. Several studies done by women on gender, and performance in film are also discussed, in order to show how some of the gimmicks used in films such as "Psycho," challenge the actors and their use of different techniques to present the characters.

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"One of the most powerful aspects of acting as an impersonation is that it indicates the fluidity of gender boundaries by its very nature. A man can pretend to be a woman within the context of a play or vice versa. This gender impersonation was regularly undertaken and accepted as a theatrical convention in both the ancient Greek and Elizabethan theater, two distinct parts of our own present theatrical condition. Everyone watching a performance of a "Midsummer Night's Dream" in the 16th century knew that the person playing Hermia was really a young boy in costume. Yet they accepted this fact because it was part of the conventions of the theater. But by accepting this, one is complicit in the notion that gender is not simply a natural state of bodily being like sex. Rather clothing, length of hair, and other alterable factors that can be simulated in performance mark a character's gender. In film, this ability to transform one's gender can be limited to a lesser degree by the closeness of the camera."

Tags:women, gender, boundaries, character, sex, film, camera, hitchcock, acting, identity, femininity, psychoanalysis, blurred

Abstract
This paper discusses the power of science to do good and to do harm. Several examples are used to illustrate this often blurred line. The author points to Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein" and how it dealt with science, nature and morality. The controversy surrounding its connection to the Nobel Peace Prize is also evaluated. The paper also describes some practices from previous centuries to acquire bodies in order to do anatomical research. The paper concludes that the debate regarding medical ethics will continue, although today it is becoming less blurred because of standards that are being developed in this field.

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"There are many examples of scientific and technologic discoveries, not limited to medicine, that have blurred this boundary, like dynamite, an invention intended by its creator, Alfred Nobel to help not hurt, but rather was frequently utilized to destroy and as a tool of war. "He received the tribute of scientists and educators but the ignorant people regarded him with a mixture of awe and fear--'he had put the long hammer of Thor to work again among the giants.'" (Marble 6) Nobel is best known for the award named for him The Nobel Peace Prize, a distinction and a foundation said to be founded, by Nobel in the name of Nobel's concern for scientists to create without censure but for peaceful means and the betterment of society. (Marble 4-6) The blurred line between the power of science to do good and to do harm is a universal of literature and life, and was especially important during great periods of human growth, such as the naturalist movement, and the industrial revolution, taking place during the Shelley's lifetime and frequently discussed by the literary and scientific set, "The circumstance on which my story rests was suggested in casual conversation." (Shelley 5) Shelly goes on to discuss a rumor of the ability of Darwin to reanimate a vermicelli, that he had kept under glass, as the source of the literary conversation about the ability of science and humans to discover the spark of life and then reapply it to previously dead beings, including human bodies. Through her apologetic prologue and later in her introduction Shelley speaks of the logical fear of such an occurrence, though recognized as unlikely, as a common place fear among people both in an outside the scientific community. (Shelley 10)"

Tags:ethics, autopsy, medical, ethics

Abstract
There are three major classes of computers: mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputers. As computer technology has developed, the lines between these classes have blurred and each class has stretched its boundaries into the other.

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"Introduction
There are three major classes of computers: mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputers. As computer technology has developed, the lines between these classes have blurred and each class has stretched its boundaries into the other. Today's desktop and laptop computers (microcomputers) are capable of performing calculations which 30 years ago would have been limited to the powerful mainframe computer class. A product such as the microcomputer, which has experienced a strong surge in demand during the 1980s and 1990s, has not gone unnoticed by competitors in this industry. This research examines the history of the microcomputer industry and the major participants, and considers the direction in which the industry is headed through the use of Porter's Five Forces and STEP analysis. Trends in the industry are noted as well ..."

Abstract
An in-depth discussion about the murder of Amadou Diallo, who was shot by four white police officers under suspicious circumstances. The writer claims that the true facts of the nights events were blurred due to the sensationalizing of the facts by the press. The paper addresses issues of racism in general and in particular discusses racial profiling by police officers. It also mentions other cases when police were put on trial for murder and their verdicts.

From the Paper
"A couple of years ago, an immigrant from West Africa was shot and killed by four Caucasian police officers, at the same time he reached for his wallet. The police officers were tried, but acquitted in court on racism and murder charges. Media coverage has highlighted that this was a racial issue, while downplaying the facts and putting what they feel will make the headlines, which may have been the reason for the police department having to go through trial."

Tags:racism, police, murder, shootout, racial, profiling, trial, media, bias, immigration