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Martina M. Cartwright, who has more than 20 years of education, said, “Intense participation that spotlight physical appearance instills the idea that physical beauty and superficial charm are the key to success.” Beauty pageants leads young contestants’…

cultural identity according to Martin and Nakayama (p.111). Additionally, they examine how the cultural forms and frames (terms, rituals, myths, and social dramas) are enacted through structuring norms of conversation and interaction according to Martina and Nakayama (p.111). One must also take into consideration that patterns are not connected in a deterministic way to any cultural group as cited by Martin and Nakayama (p.111). Two methods that reinforce culture through communication…

Pilots miss the mark in their offer to rehash as WTT champions The San Diego Aviators' Naomi Broady in real life amid the ladies' pairs last against the Orange County Breakers. The San Diego Aviators' Naomi Broady in real life amid the ladies' pairs last against the Orange County Breakers. (Fred Mullane/Camerawork USA) Wear Norcross Three hours and 14 minutes after the primary yellow ball was hurled skyward Saturday night at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa, the San Diego Aviators' rule…

Beauty pageants are viewed on television nationwide in America. It is a tradition for many pageant-based families. Researchers have stated in several ways how beauty pageants affect young viewers and people that are contestants. Beauty pageants affect the contestants by robbing them of their childhood, making the child self-conscious, and creating a false standard of beauty. The Pageant world annihilates childhood for each contestant. It forces the child to grow up too fast and skip a part…

I was born in North Carolina on April 4th 1998. Where I grew up listening to an album titled Patriotic Country it is full of various artists such as Lee Greenwood, Martina McBride, Kenny Chesney and others. It was a compilation produced in response to the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. I also grew up going to visit my cousins and grandmother in Northern Virginia where almost every time my family would visit our nation’s capital. I have also been on various trips to twenty-six out of the…

Should pro athletes be drug tested? Many athletes are drug tested each year, If they decide not to do drugs and pass or they decide to do them and fail is all up to the athlete. Almost every athletic team or company drug tests. It is a big part in sports behind the scenes. You hear on the news about how a big time athlete is under questioning about a drug scandal they were involved in or knew about. Many people involved in drug scandals have tarnished their careers and…

prejudice in the court of law. He argues that justice is for everyone and not individualized to a particular person. He also suggests that justice is blind and treats everyone with courtesy and respect under the law. In addition to Judge Deleon, Martina Hicks, an African American women, age thirty-five described justice as the right outcome being made during an event that requires other people to decide someone’s fate. Here, it seems that she understands justice to involve people making the…

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a German Film Director who has worked on several short films before this movie. The Lives of Others is the first film that Donnersmarck had written, directed and won an oscar in 2006 for being the best foreign-language film. This film works in Germany, around 1984, while Germany was still split into 2 parts; East Germany and West Germany. The film depicts how the environment was like in Germany at this point of time and how one side is better than the other…

Children are a good source of companionship, although there is a point where they will want to be independent from you because your life stages are vastly different. In a study done by Martina and Stevens (2006), fostering friendships in older aged women who had little contact with family was looked at. Martina and Stevens had the women attend a friendship enrichment program; the results demonstrated that the women were able to make new friends or…

For this Artifact Creation Task, my group consisted of Martina, Tesha and Sara, sitting beside one another; we decided to form a group. After we were briefed on this task, it was extremely necessary for us to have a way that we could communicate with each other effectively and efficiently. After discovering each of us had a Facebook account, it was unanimous that a Facebook group chat was the best way to go. Throughout the task, the Facebook chat was significant in connecting us together…