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"The Simpsons" and Gender Roles, 2007.
An examination of how stereotypical gender roles are simultaneously upheld and challenged in the animated television show, "The Simpsons."
4,711 words (approx. 18.8 pages), 16 sources, MLA, $ 121.95
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This paper discusses "The Simpsons," which is the longest running primetime cartoon on American television. The author looks at how this show reflects and challenges stereotypical gender roles such as father knowing best, work, and education. The author explains the conditions under which "The Simpsons" was originally developed and how the content of typical family programming changed over the decades with the political ideologies of the time. The author also compares "The Simpsons" with other TV family shows, with respect to the frequency with which male and female characters appear, whether the plots revolve mostly round the male or female characters, and the themes of marriage, education, and how gender roles are perceived by the characters themselves. Each of the members of the Simpson family is looked at in detail, and the paper concludes that "The Simpsons" weaves traditional family values with contemporary criticisms of the limitations those same values create.
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"The conditions under which The Simpsons were originally developed help to shape the issues the show was able to tackle in its program. Timing was critical in the evolution of The Simpsons. In the 1950's family life on television seemed to only be diverse in terms of where the family lived, be it in the suburbs or the city. Shows often played up the neighborhood social bonding aspects from America's past in order to reach a broader audience."
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"The Simpsons", 2008.
An analysis of the Simpson family in Matt Groening's animated show "The Simpsons".
1,195 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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The paper discusses Matt Groening's show, "The Simpsons', which offers a a comedic look into American suburban family life. The paper examines how the show satirizes American suburbia and American family life by revealing truths about how American families function. The paper further looks at how "The Simpsons" addresses issues related to gender roles in the family as well as how the family deals with crises, marriage childcare and housekeeping. The paper analyzes the main members of the family, namely Homer, Marge and Bart.
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"The Simpsons offers a comedic look into American suburban family life. Because they are depicted in an animated show the Simpsons can represent families of any ethnic, religious, or cultural background living in suburban USA. Moreover, the name of their hometown is Springfield, one of the most common city names in America. Therefore, Matt Groening satirizes American suburbia and American family life by revealing truths about how American families function. The writers and producers also elucidate issues related to gender roles in the family as well as how the family deals with crises, elder care, and child care."
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Lives of Street Kids, 2002.
A comparison essay that contrasts "Youth Gangs and Moral Panics in Santa Cruz" by Tim Lucas and "Living on the Street: Social Organization and Gender Relations in Australian Street Kids" by Hilary Winchester and Lauren Costello.
1,390 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 46.95
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Discussing how gang activity is on the rise throughout the United States, along with the poverty that is the root cause. Comparing two articles that deal with this issue - Tim Lucas' article focuses on the general panic across America concerning the presence and spread of gangs. It explores the barriers built between the white majority and the impoverished Hispanic minority in Santa Cruz's Beach Flats area, and discusses how these barriers have affected the rise of gangs. The second article details a study in which Australian street kids were observed and interviewed. This study focused on gender relations between street kids as well as social organization and moral conduct. These two articles are compared on several grounds, this first being an assessment of the main points of each, second is an evaluation of their contributions to the literature on this subject. Next, the differing approaches to research are contrasted, as well as the results of this research. Finally, the strengths and weaknesses of each article are compared.
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"The issue of urban poverty, homelessness and gangs is a very serious one, and will only continue to gain importance as more and more of the world develops. These two articles both deal with this issue but in very different ways. Lucas tries to develop a model that can be universally applied to urban gangs, and does this through the example of the Beach Flats area of Santa Cruz. It?s main conclusions are that although youth crime is increasing, there is an over inflated fear of this increase, and that it is the boundaries formed in the midst of this moral panic that the problem of youth gangs is exacerbated. Winchester and Costello?s article is at the opposite end of the spectrum, in that it focuses solely on a single group of homeless children, in an attempt to understand their nature more thoroughly, but with no attempt made to provide deeper insight into the problem of homelessness as a whole."
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"The Simpsons", 2004.
An analysis of the use of satire in the popular television show, "The Simpsons".
1,097 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper analyzes one of the longest-running cartoon shows on television today, "The Simpsons". The paper contends that "The Simpsons" has always operated on two levels, appealing to children as a fast-paced cartoon and to older audiences for its wit and satire. The paper describes how the show reflects various aspects of American life, including parenting, religion, and discrimination to help us see our own flaws and laugh at ourselves.
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"Homer Simpsons is the device for delivering the most satiric comments on everything ranging from alcohol to children to law to religion. What makes this satire quite wholesome and hilarious is the lack of subtlety with which it is presented to the audience. Homer isn?t interested in pleasing anyone so he says what is on his mind and that takes the viewers by complete surprise, though may be no longer with everybody becoming familiar with the show?s incongruity. MacGregor maintains: ?It is Homer Simpson who drives the show?As a moving, ever expanding satire, he is at once the best and worst of American dadness. He is forever wanting the things he'll never have, scheming to get them and failing, his appetites and disappointments as classic as the central conflicts from which all great theater and literature derives.? (MacGregor 27)"
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Psychological Affects of Domestic Violence on Children, 2002.
An examination of various studies which determine the possible psychological affects of domestic violence on children.
3,027 words (approx. 12.1 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 89.95
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This paper begins by providing statistics of how common domestic violence is in the home. In turn, the writer states that these high numbers expose an enormous number of children to affects of domestic violence. The paper discusses the various affects which range from developing violent tendencies themselves, low self-image, aggression in problem solving, behavioral problems and even suicide.
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"In the area of psychological research there a thousands of pressing questions, yet among all those questions one rises to the top of the list. In the area of family psychology and family therapy the question of the psychological affects of domestic violence on children has been hotly debated and eternally researched, yet many questions remain unanswered. These questions are pressing as the institution of family in our culture evolves and emerges as an entirely different social dynamic than existed even twenty years ago. The psychological effects of violence, in the family upon children are vast and will probably always need further address. Many families garner a different definition as more and more family units are head primarily by one parent and many families combine to become families consisting of several members who are related only by law, rather than by genetics. These trends began many years ago but continue to change the face of the American family today and will no doubt continue to do so in the near and far future. In this proposed study the issues of the psychological effects of domestic violence upon children will be addressed through diligent research. The problem has been clearly assessed for at least the last ten years and possibly longer as more and more information about developmental psychology leads to clearer and clearer indications of causation between parental behavior and children?s behavior."
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How Racism Affects Education, 2008.
An analysis of the ways that racism has changed in America and how it affects education in today's society.
2,002 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper discusses how racism affects education in the 21st century. The paper discusses how racism in America has changed over time from being directed almost entirely towards African Americans, to now include other minority groups. It specifically looks at how racism affects education in terms of classroom practices, access, admissions policies and results, quotas and more.
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"With their college preparation then lacking and as a result qualitatively unequal to the preparation for college of white students also seeking higher education admission, higher education becomes even harder for minority students to successfully obtain. In 2004 Solorzano and Ornelas compared patterns of enrollments of Latino/a and African American high school students in advanced placement courses in four separate high schools within the Los Angeles [California] Unified School District. The four particular high schools studied by the authors were spread over four very different geographical areas of Los Angeles."
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"Myspace: Your Kids' Danger", 2008.
A rhetorical and semiotic analysis of a CBS news item, "Myspace: Your Kids' Danger: Popular Social Networking Site Can Be Grounds For Sexual Predators," by Sandra Hughes.
3,101 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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This paper presents a rhetorical analysis of Sandra Hughes' CBS news item, "MySpace: Your Kids' Danger? Popular Social Networking Site Can Be Grounds For Sexual Predators." It aims to move beyond the implicit and relatively superficial review of the text to a fuller understanding of how the text creates meaning, how it helps the reader to construct knowledge and how it sways us to take action. The paper specifically looks at how the language of this article works.
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"Visually, the story is arranged as a headline, a smaller-font secondary headline, and then twenty-two paragraphs, this for a story containing not quite 650 words. Immediately below the headlines, half of the reading column is taken up by a graphical image showing a computer in silhouette with transparencies of several young children, mostly girls, and several of them using cellphones. Below the graphic is a quote, suggesting the danger the article warns of. The effect of the graphic, the quote, and the headlines is to draw readers to the story that follows, a story that opens with three suggestive vignettes about children being approached in a sexually explicit manner on the Internet. Two of the three teenage girls described in the opening vignettes were murdered."
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Egbede World Outreach for Saving the Kids, 2005.
An overview of the Nigerian Egbede World Outreach for Saving the Kids.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper presents a brief introduction to Egbede World Outreach for Saving the Kids, a benefaction of the Edo prince Nosa Okunbor and others, often of the Nigerian elite abroad. The paper shows that the organization is typical of those that emerge in response to particular, topical developments, in this case, the news that Nigerian anti-AIDS treatment was being extended to adult cases, ignoring the countries thousands HIV positive children.
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"The mass media can give the idea that large and longstanding non-governmental organizations, or United Nations agencies, are the main source of relief or development work in poor societies. However, Nigeria's Egbede World Outreach for Saving the Kids provides a reminder of how important quite small, and privately financed projects can be. The charity's main sponsor has been Prince Nosa Okunbor, a member of a family much involved in different kinds of Christian and other Edo activism, alert to the need to invest in children in sub-Saharan Africa, as the only chance for the future."
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The Simpsons, 1997.
Examines TV cartoon show's origins, popularity, predecessors & successors in animation. Looks at the show's social effects.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, $ 47.95
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"The Simpsons is a highly successful animated television series on the Fox television network. The success of the show has been noted even more because it is on Fox, a network only about a decade old and in need of as many hits as it can produce. In addition, the fact that the show was part of a genre that usually does not succeed on a network primetime schedule has given it more attention. The Simpsons went on the air in 1990 and remains an important part of the network's schedule today. It has also been imitated with varying degrees of success, though most of the imitators have been on cable outlets rather than other broadcast networks.
The Simpsons began before the show reached network television. Creator Matt Groening first developed the characters for a novel called Mean Kids he wrote in high school. Groening.."
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Not All Kids are Created Equal, 2005.
This paper argues that, because not all kids are created equal, the educational system of tracking as represented by the core curriculum approach should be abolished.
1,730 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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This paper explains that, by schooling low-ability pupils and high-ability pupils together, the low-ability pupils may wrongly come to understand their position in the hierarchy as a reflection of individual worth and most often do even worse academically than before. The author points out that many European schools do not employ tracking and yet their students as a rule perform better than American students. The paper stresses that, if a child runs into problems, only a careful analysis of his own personal case can ever hope to resolve the difficulties rather than imposing a core curriculum that is the same for every child.
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"Nor will dividing an individual class into ability groups necessarily alter relative performance. This method, while having the advantage of keeping the students together at least on a social level, still divides them when it comes to learning. If the teaching method used with each group is identical, the division into groups will only benefit that group for whom the teaching method is most suited. A "head start" reading program in pre-school for example, will benefit high-ability students but will likely do nothing for low-ability students who need more attention or cannot keep up with the pace. At the same time, students who flunk out of such a program will then be behind their peers. In other words instead of being on the "fast track," they will be on the road to underachievement. Once a bad apple, always a bad apple."
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Kids and Television, 2003.
A look at how violence in the media affects our children.
1,733 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper examines how thousands of studies have pointed to a relationship between media violence and real life crime and how years of research show that exposure to media violence causes children to behave more aggressively, both immediately and in their adult years. It discusses how violence on television is detrimental to our society and its future and looks at ways in which it can be controlled, such as the Action for Children's Television (ACT) and the V chip.
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"In 1968, Action for Children's Television (ACT) was established in order to convince the Federal Communications Commission to limit violence and force the networks to show programs that are more educational for children(Howe 123). Despite ACT's efforts, Congress and the FCC did nothing to promote children's television. However, twenty-two years after the creation of ACT, Congress passed the Children's Television Act of 1990, which directed the FCC, in reviewing TV broadcast license renewals, to "consider the extent to which the licensee has served the educational and informational needs of children." Congress also prohibited indecent broadcasts outside of "safe harbor" hours (10 p.m. to 6 a.m.), the hours when it is least likely that unsupervised children will be in the audience(Carter 67)."
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The Holocaust's Affects on America, 2002.
An examination of ways in which the Holocaust and the Second World War affected America - directly and indirectly.
1,982 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 62.95
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This paper explores the ways that American society and culture was affected by the Holocaust. It explains how at first the Americans thought they would be spared the horrors of this war, but how towards the end they were as deeply involved in witnessing the attrocities as the other Allies. It explains how the American public received the news of the concentration camps, how the war affected American-Jewish relationships and its relationship with Germany after the war.
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"Nazi Germany?s rule led to the death of millions of European Jews. While World War II began as a European War, American eventually got into the act as an ally. By the end of the War, America was rolling its tanks into the concentration camps of the Nazis, all across Eastern Europe, freeing concentration camp prisoners and experiencing firsthand eyewitness accounts that were indescribable and utterly inhumane."
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Affects of New Weapons in the Twentieth Century, 2002.
This paper discusses how new weapons and technologies affected wars in the 20th century.
1,750 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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An analysis of how weapons have developed in the 20th century and the affect that they have had on the many wars fought in this century. It gives examples of different types of explosives, firearms, tanks, aeroplanes, submarines etc and explains how each of these has changed the character of war and battles.
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"Wars have always varied from one era to another, and one major reason for that variance is the weaponry of that time. Strategies and weapons revolve around the technology of the time. In the Twentieth Century there were many new weapons invented, which significantly changed the ways wars that were fought. These weapons range from handheld grenades, to nuclear warheads. They also include new transportation modes such as submarines or airplanes. Each weapon affected wars, some more profoundly than others. "
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Industrialization's Affects, 2002.
A look at industrialization's affect on societies and indigenous peoples.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses industrialization's affect on societies and indigenous peoples. It argues that industrial capitalism is very much connected to the degradation of the environment, and especially to indigenous populations.
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How Birth Control Affects Society, 2002.
A description of how birth control has affected society as a whole, society's perception of women, and the impact it has had on the AIDS virus.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper discusses the introduction of the birth control pill, outlining society's concept of a woman's duties from pre-1920's and up to the surge of the feminist movement. The paper explains how the popularity of the birth control pill, and the feminist movement has made a major impact on the difference of the roles and lifestyles of women. This paper also takes a look at the positive impact birth control has had on preventing AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
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Background
Birth Controls Impact on Society
AIDS
Conclusion
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"The popularity of the birth control pill brought the world into the sexual revolution. The easy access to birth control encouraged promiscuity, and eventually brought us into the women?s movement in the 1970?s. Women?s freedom over their sexuality allows freedom of their financial independence. However the true beginning of the women?s movement began as early as the 1920?s. The possibility of contraceptives would not have been possible in the 1960?s without the original women?s movement in the 1920?s. The purpose of this essay to describe how birth control has affected society, and the impact it had on the AIDS virus."
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