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The "Manly" Way, 2008.
An overview of masculinity stereotypes in film.
1,424 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses how men and woman are stereotyped to play a specific role in the community, family and even the work force and how men are stereotyped to be aggressive and play a more charging/leading role in the community, "the worker" in the family and the boss in the job departments. In particular, the paper looks at how films like "Gridiron Gang" (2006) and other popular cultural films reflect the kind of stereotype of masculinity that is found all over in our society. At the same time while the films reflect the stereotype they also reinforce it by teaching it as being "common" to the viewers.
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"A child is born; he quickly has his room painted a "manly" color and gives things such as toy cars, trucks, and airplanes to play with. Another child is born; she is quickly given a "womanly" colored room and receives Barbie's, dolls, and stuffed animals to play with. The male child is taught to grow up being aggressive, strong, emotionally un-weakened, and head of the family. On the other hand the woman child is taught to be passive, emotional, a listener, and a follower of her future husband. Parents are the creators of the masculine trait that will pertain in the children. As children grow up their parents become less and less involved in teaching them masculinity and societal roles and peers become a bigger part of that. "
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Frankie Manning, 2006.
A study of Frankie Manning, the father of the Lindy Hop swing dance.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper studies swing dancing, focusing on Frankie Manning, the father of the Lindy Hop. As the paper explains, Manning created some of the Lindy Hop's most famous moves and continues to teach it today, at the ripe old age of 90. The paper demonstrates how Manning is one of the most important swing dancers ever, detailing his influence on the genre. The paper points to Manning's role in the widespread resurgence of swing dance and swing dancing popularity today. The paper also discusses Manning's continued influence through choreographing films, Broadway shows, and television shows.
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"The jazzy, rhythmic beat of swing music just urged people to dance, and so, a new dance form began, called "swing dance" that went along with the big band beat and rhythm. One of the first popular swing dances was the "Lindy Hop," first danced at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the early 1930. Legend has it that the dance was named after Charles Lindberg and his famous solo crossing of the Atlantic in 1929. After he successfully landed in Paris, newspapers across the country reported that "Lindy Hops the Atlantic" ("Happy Feet" and Editors). In Harlem at the Savoy, the most popular swing dance was simply called the "hop." However, after Lindberg's success, "a reporter, looking at the crazy antics of the dancers at the Savoy, asked what the name of the dance was. 'It's the Lindy Hop!', came the reply. And thus the first real swing dance was born" ("Happy Feet"). The story is as plausible as any about the dance's origins. This Lindy Hop eventually evolved into a conglomerate of swing dance and jitterbug that is generally known simply as 'swing.'"
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"Students for Sale" by Steven Manning, 2002.
A review of Manning's article on advertisements and corporate sell-out to students.
1,178 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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The writer presents an overview of "Students for Sale", an article that discusses the way many schools are accepting corporate money in exchange for allowing different forms of advertising and marketing in the public schools. The paper cites specific examples used by Manning where advertisers have entered the schools to promote their products to the student body. The writer looks at the reasons why schools allow such promotion on campus and relates to the benefits and harm caused by such activity.
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"Manning analyzes the specific cases of Palmer High School in Colorado Springs, where advertising messages are found throughout the hallways, where the snack bar has new vending machines with specific companies, where computers have ad-bearing mouse pads, and where the gymnasium is decorated with banners from corporate sponsors. This explains why advertisers want to advertise, but the real question is why school districts want to be partners in this process."
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Manned Mars Missions, 2002.
A review of manned missions to Mars.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 53.95
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This six-page graduate-level paper examines and analyzes manned missions to Mars, and concludes that sending human crews to explore our neighboring planet would not be a wise choice at this time. There are better alternatives, such as establishing a commercial presence in near-earth orbit and the Moon, and exploring Mars with unmanned probes.
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Mans Search For Meaning (Viktor Frenkl), 2001.
Examines triumph of human freedom over oppression & degradation of concentration camps.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 55.95
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"1. Introduction
Based on Viktor Frankl?s Man?s Search For Meaning, this essay is an examination of the capacity of human beings to hold on to their freedom and find meaning in life, in spite of adverse physiological, social, and psychological conditionings. While reading Frankl?s depiction of the traumatic life in a concentration camp, one poses this fundamental question about human existence: how can human beings tolerate this level of degradation without giving up their faith in human freedom and meaning in their lives?
The answer lies within the inner souls of the prisoners who possessed the courage to exercise their freedom and make their own choices when confronted with the nightmarish options available to them. As Frankl points out, even though most of the.."
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Lifestyle Values and Marketing Strategy, 2002.
An analysis of the Marlboro cigarettes advertising strategy and how the company created its manly image.
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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A look at how companies pitch their products to appeal to their customers' lifestyles. Theories of marketing and advertising strategies are examined. The Marlboro Cigarette company's advertising pitch of the Marlboro Man is analyzed in order to understand the link between products and lifestyles.
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"There are two significant steps how a customer decides whether he or she will buy the product or not. First, the product has a strong appeal if it is a primary need of the customer for its literal function. Second, customers will buy the product if they find their value or lifestyle is related to it; this one is that the product makers mostly will encourage to boosting the sales. Advertisement should be designed effectively to bring the product value to the primary need of the customers, as if they really need it, by exploiting the different side of customers? life, then finding catchy lines to persuade them (in seconds) to improve their style, to get more acknowledgement, or to be ?like the man on TV?."
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"Students for Sale", 2002.
An examination of this controversial article by Steven Manning about advertising on school grounds.
1,452 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper provides an analysis and critique of Manning's article which discusses the way many schools are accepting corporate money in exchange for allowing different forms of advertising and marketing in the public schools. It explains why many people are against the use of external advertisers to raise money - how the student market is very ripe for consumer purchasers, but its usually the parents who end up paying for their weaknesses.
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"Manning analyzes the specific cases of Palmer High School in Colorado Springs. In that school, advertising messages are found throughout the hallways, the snack bar has new vending machines from specific companies, computers have ad-bearing mouse pads, and the gymnasium is decorated with banners from corporate sponsors. This explains why advertisers want to advertise, but the real question is why school districts want to be partners in this process.
The superintendent of the Colorado Springs School District cites budget cuts as a reason why schools are seeking other funding for programs and for the benefit of students. The biggest deal the district has made is with Coca Cola, giving the district $8.4 million over a period of ten years and more if it can sell more than 70,000 cases of Coke a year. Administrators have thus been urged to increase sales of Coke products in the schools. While most teachers and administrators seem happy to work with these companies, some are objecting, feeling they are being forced into the position of selling their students. The message being sent is that if the school approves of these products, the products must be good and should be consumed."
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?Race, Reform and Rebellion?, 2006.
An overview of Manning Marable's book on post WWII African-American history.
820 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 29.95
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In his book "Race, Reform and Rebellion", Manning Marable takes readers on an informative trip back in time to witness the lives of blacks in America from the end of World II to 1982, or what he calls the Second Reconstruction. The paper shows how, with the arrival of this Second Reconstruction, came the advancement of civil rights and the passage of laws to legislate equality among the races. The paper examines Marable's views that only the Third Reconstruction will respond to the need of economic disadvantage, the actual root of the problem.
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"According to Marable, however, the success of the Second Reconstruction went hand-in-hand with failure. Socio-economic gains made over the past three decades for a small number of blacks, also brought increased poverty for much larger numbers remaining in the inner cities. In 1946, the South became agriculturally mechanized: Many jobs were lost, and larger numbers of blacks moved to the North. As a result, ghettos and unemployment worsened into the mid-1950s. The blacks' problem of inequality continued, says Marable, due to the socio-economic differences that were not addressed."
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Police Use of Force, 2008.
This paper reviews and discusses the article "Police Culture and Coercion" by W.Terrill, E.A. Paoline, and P.K. Manning.
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses the article "Police Culture and Coercion" by Terrill, Paoline, and Manning, and explains that the article is about the possible connection between police culture and coercive tactics or the use of force in performance of police duties. The writer then explains the initial expectations and the findings expressed in the article and then concludes with his own response to the findings of the article.
Outline:
Introduction
Initial Expectations
Experimental Findings
Response
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"The article accurately described the likely evolution of what it characterized as the traditional mindset reflected universally among police officer, particularly first-line police officers engaged in street patrol. According to the authors, the combined strains associated with police work in the form of perceived threat potential from citizen contacts and arbitrary, unpredictable, and punitive enforcement of procedural rules by superior officers and police administration. Those psychological strains produce an "us against them" mentality with respect to citizens and police administrators alike.
"The authors correctly defined the component elements of the described police mindset in terms of the three main contributing variables of attitude toward the public, attitude toward immediate superiors and police administration, and self-described roles as law enforcement officers. The study effectively limited the effect of extraneous factors by appropriately excluding both working environments where increased vigilance and concern for officer safety are to be expected, as well as issues corresponding to the most likely areas of idiosyncratic prejudices capable of skewing the accuracy and relevance of the results observed."
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"Let Nobody Turn Us Around", 2007.
An analysis of the narratives of African-American women in "Let Nobody Turn Us Around," edited by Marable Manning and Leith Mullings.
2,373 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper discusses the narratives of African-American women and their struggle to realize the American Dream. It presents these narratives from the articles in "Let Nobody Turn Us Around," edited by Marable Manning and Leith Mullings. The paper discusses how, through the struggles of African-American women, we can learn much about the goals of the Black Freedom Movement.
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"The African American movement of the later half of the 20th century profoundly shifted from the Civil Rights movement towards the much murkier field of providing freedom and liberation for subclasses of the subjugated. In section five of "Let Nobody Turn Us Around", the reader is presented with the narratives of African American women and their struggle to realize the American Dream. The conflict embodied within these articles provides a telling struggle of a two front war. Not only were African American women victimized for their black heritage, and thus racialized and castigated by society, they also fought an internal war against the pervasive sexism of the times. Through their struggles to gain recognition not only as African Americans, but as African American women, we can learn much about the goals of the Black Freedom Movement. The cry for equality that these women iterate through their narratives is matched by the historical feminist stances of past generations. The struggle for freedom and equality voiced through the experiences of contemporary African American feminists mirrors a historical and cultural struggle for gender equality that paralleled the movement for racial equality. The crystallization of African American women's struggle for independence is emblematic of the greater struggle for independence from racial divides."
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Postmodernism, 2002.
This paper is a theoretical discussion about postmodernism as seen through the eyes of two philosophers, Manning Nash and Frederic Jameson.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper explores several discussions about modernity and its meaning. The author explains its impact on the world as we know it.
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Mission To Mars, 1997.
Discusses the underlying questions surrounding a manned mission to Mars. Examines whether there is sufficient technology in existence, what kinds of data can be expected, what sorts of problems can be anticipated and whether it is important.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 31.95
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"Manned Mission to Mars
Ever since the Sojourner began sending back video images from Mars, a renewed interest in the possibility of a manned mission to Mars has occurred. Such a plan as a mission to Mars raises all sorts of scientific, technical, and philosophical questions that this analysis will attempt to deal with. The main questions covered will be: 1) is there sufficient technology right now to handle such a mission? 2) is it important? 3) what kinds of data can it be expected will be returned? and 4) what are the problems of such a mission?
Is Technology Available
According the best data available, a manned mission to Mars is conceivable using the current technology resources available."
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Women in Homer's "Iliad", 1996.
Examines the social, sexual, dramatic & moral roles in Greek epic.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 7 sources, $ 47.95
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Women in The Iliad serve as helpless pawns but also as a moral voice in the poem.
I. Introduction
A. Homeric poems may contain several layers due to revisions throughout history.
B. The Iliad is an epic poem about the manly heroic ideal.
II. Women in The Iliad serve as pawns in the Trojan War.
A. Helen is a pawn in the Trojan War.
B. All humans in the poem serve as pawns to the gods.
C. Aphrodite uses Helen as a pawn toward her own quest for power.
III. Women also serve as the moral center of The Iliad.
A. Helen recognizes her role in the Trojan War.
B. Andromakke reminds Hector of his obligations to his household.
C. Women have a voice through laments and dirges.
IV. Conclusion.
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In Feminism in Greek Literature, F. A. Wright argues that Homeric poems were not written to suit the old Mediterranean people, whose rather low code of sexual morality inclined them to regard women as mere instruments of pleasure (7). Instead, the epic in its original shape was composed for the people who came down into Greece from central Europe and, therefore, recognized a much stricter code of sexual conduct (7). Wright believes that the apparently differing layers of the Homeric poems was caused by the constant revision of the poems as the ruling classes of Greece changed (8).
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George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss", 2005.
The paper discusses the different social issues that are explored by George Eliot in her novel "The Mill on the Floss" and its relationship to England during the 1830s and the Victorian era .
6,780 words (approx. 27.1 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 154.95
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This paper explains that George Eliot in the "The Mill on the Floss"
very much reflects the 1830s in England including themes relating to social hierarchy, religion, gender, lifestyle, education, family and relationships and morals, principles and values. The author points out that Eliot demonstrates how the middle class' way of life largely dominated Victorian society by the way the novel is largely dominated by the lives of the main characters who are all middle class and represents, through the character Luke, what was expected of the working class people. The paper relates that homosexuality was a growing concern during the 19th century and most straight men strived to emphasize their masculinity. The paper points out however, that there is no evidence of homosexuality being a concern in the novel but the concern of a man being masculine enough is related in the novel, mainly through Tom, who becomes more and more manly as the novel progresses.
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"The Victorian age was certainly very materialistic and the people's choice of a life of materialism meant that hey grew a spiritual emptiness. There is a great relation of this throughout The Mill on the Floss. Eliot tells us that the Dodsons and Tullivers led a "sordid life" because of their lack of an "active, self-renouncing faith". Mr. Tulliver is said to have been "destitute" of the "spiritual seed"- does this suggest that if the Victorians were not brought up to be spiritual that they had no chance of acquiring spirituality later on? I do not think so, seeing as Maggie Tulliver, who throughout her whole life yearned for spiritual fulfillment, was an exception for the people of the 1830s- she came close to such a fulfillment upon being handed the "Christian Year"; however, it was not a complete fulfillment, because she soon afterwards fell back into her former life of materialism. Perhaps she is an example of one of the few Victorians who were in touch with their spiritual needs."
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Feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 2000.
This paper describes the life and achievements of feminist leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
1,570 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper explains that Elizabeth Cady Stanton is credited with the authorship of "The Seneca Falls Declaration" (1848), the seminal of the United States feminist movement, which then was called woman's suffrage because women, along with African Americans and Native Americans, were still disenfranchised. The author points out that, after the death of her brother, young Elizabeth vowed to do all in her power to become manly, which, to her, meant becoming learned and courageous, so she studied Greek, learned to ride a horse like a man and developed an independent intellectual life. The paper relates that when she listed all the economic grievances in the "Declaration of Sentiments", from denial of educational opportunity to making her 'civilly dead' upon marriage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first to describe the double-standard, a concept that still lingers.
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"By the time, the married Elizabeth Cady Stanton moved with her family to Seneca Falls, NY, in 1937, her life had degenerated into the typical one of a rural woman of her era: too much looking after too many people, from children to servants. While she slaved, white men's rights were expanding and reformers, among them Susan Anthony and Lucretia Mott, recognized that "Jacksonian equality was rhetoric as far as women and slaves were concerned." Still, there had been other small movements. During the 1830s, it became possible for married women to own property that had brought into a marriage and the money they earned; this eventually undermined male dominance to a small degree. The changes had not, however, been altruistic, a representation of the uncommon notion that women were morally superior to men."
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