... between reality and pretend. For my experiment I used a Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, Sony Playstation, and PC CD-ROM. The games I used were Mortal Kombat Trilogy (on Nintendo 64), Mortal Kombat II (on Super Nintendo), Mortal Kombat (on Sega Genesis), Killer Instinct Gold (on Nintendo 64), Power Rangers (on Sega Genesis), Tomb Raider (on PC CD-ROM), and Bishouju Senshi Sayla Moon SuperS (on Japanese Playstation). The first step I used was gathering a group of children ages 8-10 years old (5 girls, and 5 boys), got their parents permission, and made sure they had no idea there was an experiment taking ...

... on the shelves. Advertising is not necessarily a bad thing though; it can be helpful. For instance, it makes people aware of all the choices available to them and even provides them with valuable information about products and services that can improve their lives. Advertising is a very powerful influence in American culture. Of concern is the false misleading nature of advertising. Sometimes it is a fact that advertising tends to make people unhappy, because they cannot have what they see. However advertising can also have good effects in society, by giving positive information. There are a lot of good, meani ...

... successful civil rights remedies, voting right laws, which have begun to take part in the Congress and state legislatures, have come under attack from conservative polititians. Affirmative action, for example, wich has created an increasingly diverse workforce, has also been a victim of strong criticism. There are several minority groups which have been the most affected, and are frecuently being denied of their unalienable rights written in the above statement of the Declaration of Independence. Within these we find several that will be discussed in this proyect: blacks, American Indians, Latinos, Asians, wom ...

... were sent to people who advertised in the local paper. Single's club participants were presented questionnaires and asked to complete them at one of the two clubs in the same geographic region. Those who attended bars were either contacted directly or given questionnaires. The questionnaires were completed by 152 subjects: 40 from ads; 62 attended singles clubs, and 50 frequented bars. (Yelsma and Weinir, p. 35) What effect does self esteem have in a person's decision on what type of method to use to find their possible companion? It is shown that people with lower self-esteems tend to choose pe ...

... We cannot hate that which we understand. Hate is our frustration at failure to comprehend. The more we understand something hated, the more our hatred becomes sadness or pity, or deepens to a hatred of that which caused whatever it was that we did not understand. In the latter case, the hatred may increase with understanding, but the object of the hatred has shifted. We are given a wide range of paths for dealing with our hatred, from the altruistic to the reactionary. The altruists, wishing peace without societal discord, tell us to repress our hatred and replace it with love, a path bound eventually ...

... the problems that come with being multi-cultural. One of the biggest problems biracial children have is finding their identity. "What are you?" is one of the most commonly asked questions that biracial children have to answer to. Being unable to give a one race answer causes problems for both the child and whom ever they are talking to. Many people do not understand how someone can be two or more races. In their eyes you can only have one race. Since being biracial is not normal to them, they look down on these people. This kind of behavior can make growing up especially hard for children. In the past childre ...

... rises, the first thing that comes to mind is blacks. Being black myself, it's only logical that I would be concerned about this issuoe and for my race. In roaming the internet and reading about affirmative action, there is one case that I feel displays why affiramtive action is so needed in the work place. There was a case in 1975 concerning 28 of the local Sheet Metal Workers' International Assoc. The association had been discriminating against black workers. They adopted discriminating admission criteria, restricted the size of memebership and organized shops with very few minority workers. In reaction to th ...

... anymore, now it must be managed. Managing our trash is the "in thing", yet it is hardly convenient. Lets face the facts, sealed toxins "won't affect us for a good twenty years". Although this may be true, there are still many advantages to waste management. Today, more people are in favour of companies who invest in "green products". As a result, companies have removed phosphates, bleaches, and have made their paper products out of recycled papers. At home, families, are saving things, like leftovers, and making sandwiches for the next day. Industries are also manufacturing most of their christmas cards out of ...

... why they do it or if they should do it. They believe it is right because it is tradition. Having a sense of tradition is a very strong force that can influence lots of the things we do within a society. It can keep us from becoming our own individuals and acting on our own. This village is so caught up in tradition that not only do they continue to have the lottery, but they never question it and believe that it is the only way to do things. Any other town that decides it is wrong and stops doing it is considered to be run by stupid youngsters who don’t understand the importance of tradition. The people in t ...

... up early and walk every morning with my Grandfather on the beach, at night we all would go out to dinner come home to the condo and watch movies till we fell asleep. Everything was going accordingly until one night my Grandfather became sick. He was taken to the hospital and put into critical condition. The disappointment of this situation was taking its toll on the whole family; moreover the tension building was taking away from the real problem, my Grandfather. I thought long and hard, and I felt like the disappointment was beginning to bog me down. I made a vow to myself that no matter how bad thing would get ...