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  • Selling Of Pornographic Magazines
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    The freedom of speech in communities is important, but many people say that the selling of pornographic magazines in grocery, convenience stores, and others stores is a big problem. Many people think that magazines, like pornographic ones, send bad messages out to people especially kids. They think that the magazines cause an uproar in peoples moral standards and be the cause of various criminal acts. From 1954 to 1968 Playboy averaged in monthly depictions of children, crime, and violence. Sinc...
  • Sexuality And Self Help Articles
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    This paper will examine the portrayals of women in two different gender-based magazines through their respective editorials, articles, and advertisements. The first magazine is titled Complete Woman. This is a general interest publication that concerns itself with issues of health, fitness, dating and relationships, romance, sexuality, and self-help articles. The second periodical, titled Women's Sports and Fitness, emphasizes both participatory and spectator sports. It includes articles about h...
  • Larry Flynt
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    Larry Flynt Infamous pornographer and free-speech activist Larry Flynt has brought about controversy for nearly 30 years. As the editor of Hustler magazine, Flynt has publicized pornographic obscenities in several manors. By doing this, he has challenged Americas interpretation of the First Amendment, insisted that freedom of speech include obscenities and pornography, and made the anti-porn activists and feminists fight for constitutional protection from obscenity. Larry Flynt was born on Novem...
  • Jacobson's Receipt Of The Magazines
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    Jacobson vs. United States Supreme Court of the United States 1992.503 U.S. 540,112 S. Ct. 1535. FACTS = On September 24, 1987, Keith Jacobson was indicted on charges of violating a provision of the Child Protection Act of 1984, which criminalizes the knowing receipt through mail of a "visual depiction [that] involves the use of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct". On Feb 1984 Jacobson ordered two magazines in the mail of young boys. The magazines entitled Bare Boys 1 and Bare Boys 2, ...
  • American Media's Star Magazine
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    According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, a tabloid is a newspaper characterized by half the standard page size, abundant illustrations, and generally, fairly brief article. In every supermarket, every corner store, and in hands of people all across America and the world are the compact, computer friendly covers of the tabloids. The tabloids of America, however, are not what one might call an extremely credible source of inside information, yet their underlying integrity has kept these magazines...
  • Small Business Opportunities And The Second Magazine
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    Compare and contrast essay. English 320 For my compare and contrast essay, I have decided to compare two magazines in the financial and business world of entrepreneurs. The name of the first magazine is " Small business opportunities" and the second magazine is "Entrepreneurs - Be your own boss " The theme of the first magazine is to highlight, how and what type of businesses to start and make money without putting in much of the hard work. The very first page of the magazine shows an absolute i...
  • James Montgomery Flagg
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    James Montgomery Ward James Montgomery Flagg was born on June 18, 1887 in Pelham Manor, New York. As a child, Flagg loved sketching with pen and paper. In fact, his first published painting was at the age of twelve by the then popular magazine St. Nicholas Magazine. By the age of fourteen, he was a regular contributor to Life Magazine. A year later, he was hired to be on the staff of Judge Magazine. Flagg continued to contribute by drawing famous celebrity portraits for the popular magazines fro...
  • Former Editor Of Loaded Magazine
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    For those who have not taken the time to read a selection of men's magazines they may associate them with pornography or sport. Since the mid-90's, a crop of very successful magazines aimed at young men has emerged, spearheaded by the controversial Loaded. It is important for me to establish early on in this essay that men's magazines such as loaded and FHM, are general lifestyle magazines; the modern men's magazine is about sports and cars as well as sex, fashion, women, and humour. This essay ...
  • Pace Of The Television Experience
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    Beware of Television It is considered that one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century-the television-completely changed the way of a person's life. Television has brought into every home a lot of information and easy-to-reach entertainment. Is its influence on the personality, family, or children positive only or is there another side of the coin? Yes, there is. A negative one. The effect of television depends not only on the content of its programs, but there are more general aspec...
  • Main Section Of The Bookstore
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    The bookstore is the place where people go to buy books and magazines. On the first day of our school day we went to bookstore for our field trip. The bookstore that we just went to on our field trip is a big and new building. When I just step by the gate I can felt that door is really heavy, and the color of door is like dark brown. The left side of door is the place has some graceful music, that place is CD section. And the right side of door is the place has strong smell from coffee, yeah, th...
  • Person's Individual Rights
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    What Happened To Our Rights? Censorship in America today has gotten way out of hand. There always seems to be some holier than thou group speaking out as if they were representing the majority of Americans. These groups want to censor just about anything and everything we do. When it comes to watching television, reading a book or magazine, listening to music, or buying products, people should be able to make these decisions for themselves. Where do we draw the line with censorship? After all we...
  • Skateboard Wheel
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    Skateboarding has rich history of innovation and is full of intriguing stories. Many of these stories are documented in this book in great detail. However, this essay will provide you with an overview of the last nine decades. The first type of skateboards were actually more like scooters. These contraptions, which date back to the early 1900's featured roller skate wheels attached to a two by four. Often the wood had a milk crate nailed to it with handles sticking out for control. Over the next...
  • Time Magazine Show Patsy Ramsey
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    As a child I repeatedly stood in line with my mother at the supermarket waiting to pay for our groceries. I often grew bored and found cheap entertainment in reading the thick, dark print of the supermarket tabloids. I would gaze my eyes and drop my jaw in shock at their stories; but, the one thing I never did doubt was the drama of their plots. As I grew older, I would watch television news magazine programs and think how different the facts, and pictures, as presented on television were from t...
  • Glamour News Portion Of The Magazine
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    "Life Is Glamorous" Whether you wander down random roads or plan precise paths, the exciting journey we call life involves many choices. The decisions we make on a day-to-day basis affect everything. Questions such as, "What should I wear today?" or "Should I really be eating this?" are asked by many people everyday. Sure, a simple beauty magazine could probably answer both questions in one article, but in order to live a happy, healthy life there are more important questions to be resolved. Gla...
  • Models In Womens Magazines
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    Where and how did the beauty myth originate Women cannot find strong role models in todays society without getting a false impression. Too often the role models are of women of unrealistic beauty. Take for instance the big screen: a bunch of long legged, skinny, women with flawless faces, voluptuous breasts, and not a spec of cellulite. All of the model women in the media seem to have perfect lives; their biggest catastrophe being where to put the indoor tennis court, or the indecisiveness of wh...
  • Feminine Mystique By Betty Friedan
    697 words
    Women make up a fair portion of the most wonderful people on earth. They are compassionate, intelligent, patient, careful, independent and focused, They are business executives, actors, artists, poets, scientists, wives and mothers. They are, perhaps, the most subtly oppressed and disillusioned group in society. THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE, by Betty Friedan, champions the case of the maladjusted, unsatisifed and all too common victim of "the problem that has no name"-the American housewife. She is tol...
  • Mind And Other Newspapers And Magazines
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    My family and me are fond of reading newspapers. At our flat you can always find very much different magazines and newspapers lying everywhere. There are political, economical, informational, reading for mind and other newspapers and magazines about all spheres of life. We don't like to eject old magazines because there is always interesting and useful information that one-day can be used. Nowadays we don't subscribe to any newspapers or magazines. Some years ago we subscribed to some newspapers...
  • Stimulatory Between The Tabloid And Broadsheet Magazines
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    I have chosen to compare The Sunday Times' Culture with The news of the world's Sunday magazine. Culture is taken from a broadsheet newspaper and the Sunday magazine from a tabloid. News International who owns the largest percentages of newspaper circulation in Britain owns both papers. The most obvious different in the magazines is their size Culture is larger than the tabloid's magazine. The front covers of the magazines are also very different, Culture has use very dark and soft colours such ...
  • Samples Of Commercials And Magazines
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    "We don't need Afghan-style burqas to disappear as women. We disappear in reverse-by revamping and revealing our bodies to meet externally imposed visions of female beauty". Robin Gerber Images of female bodies are everywhere. Women-and their body parts-sell everything from food to cars. Popular film and television actresses are becoming younger, taller and thinner. Some have even been known to faint on the set from lack of food. Women's magazines are full of articles urging that if they can jus...
  • Common In Large Clothing Companies
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    Spring is coming to the colleges of Portland. The seven-month winter is finally over and students know that new summer clothes are a necessity. The question in people's heads is how they look in those clothes that they are picking out. Does this skirt make me look fat? Would I have more sex appeal if I bought this blouse? It seems as though women and sometimes men are always comparing themselves to the flawless figures that pose for ads that we are constantly exposed to. After prolonged exposure...

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