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    anchor to day time talk show , and from this step she start to shine and be known as a…

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    Parents however, were weary about this new style of music. For them, it drew too heavily from the influence of blues music, a style created by Afircan-Americans expressing their struggles as a minority in America. Viewing blacks as less than whites was nearly the social norm of the 1950’s, where segregation was in abundance and parents didn’t want the “colored music” seeping into their homes. Record companies however, saw the interest and potential in this blues/pop hybrid and set out to sell.…

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    What Is Going Green Essay

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    from just learning ways to have a more energy effiecint home from Deltec homes, I also found a similarity common to a life changing benefit from living in a Green Home, economically safe and friendly. From an episode that I viewed on the Oprah Winfrey show, which can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgHgk6ONHOk. This episode was dedicated particularly to Oprah’s “Going Green” Special and pertained to a family that now has actually bought out the Shaklee-Better products that…

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    families have more than one television set per household, and 46% of homes own all four electronic media—television, VCR, video game player, and computer” the parents themselves grew up with television, and their parents disallowing them to watch vulgar shows like wrestling (Hogan). Nowadays, these vulgar media sources are often portrayed in the internet now. The once childrens on wrestling are now using effective parenting to grow their children to their best…

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    The Relation of Work, Wealth, and Interdependence Everyone knows that the harder one works the wealthier they will be. The logic makes sense, people who are lazy and do little work won’t do their job, and therefore won’t become wealthy. When a person works hard it makes sense that they will earn a lot of money. This means that work and wealth are directly related, as one increases so does the other. Even though it is commonly believed that wealth is acquired by hard work there are some people…

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    Her mind wanders as she drags her pudgy form across the hatched navy carpeting, but her eyes remain fixed on the girl perched on the edge of the threadbare sofa, feet dangling within inches of the floor. And when the girl plants herself firmly on the ground and strides down the hallway in the opposite direction, the toddler’s innocent face fills with admiration. But her own feet quiver beneath the weight of her infantile body, rendering her incapable of standing on her own; she looks up to her…

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    what most actual families endured. “Our most powerful visions of traditional families derive from images that are still delivered to our homes in countless reruns of 1950s television sit-coms” (Cootz 1992) . Leave it to Beaver and The Andy Griffith Show were the pinnacle of television sit-coms of the time. They both had the stereotypical all American family with hardworking fathers; stay at home mothers [aunt] and children who are responsible and well mannered. Life in the fifties and sixties…

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    “The support changed my life.” Dishani Paul was one of eight children, who grew up in Kenya Africa. She was raised by a single mother, and grew up in poverty. She was brought out of poverty because one girl named Christine, wanted to make a difference (A Grateful Former Sponsored Child Becomes A Sponsor). If every person did just a small act to help someone in need, the world would be a better place. 328,000,000 children live in extreme poverty, and 1 in 10 people live on less than $1.90 a day.…

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    1950s Gender Roles

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    the 1950 's women were portrayed as housewives who have low intelligence and are completely dependent on their husband. For example on the Burns and Allen Show, Season 2 Episode 2, which aired on CBS in 1951, George and Gracie are a married couple. The husband in this show is very smart and the wife is very dumb. In fact all the women in this show tended to be dumb and/or goofy. George has control of the household and the money. Gracie is gossipy and can 't get money. During this time period in…

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    Oprah Winfrey Adjectives

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    Her show later became a nationally syndicated phenomenon seen in one hundred-forty countries. With her career in broadcast journalism and a host of her own talk show, the stage was set for her transition into film. In 1985, she found herself in the midst of what was soon to be the groundbreaking role of the feisty, “Sophia” in the most…

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