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are expected to be leaders of the home, breadwinners, and dominate over the women. The original purpose of fairy tales was not for the enjoyment of children, but to focus on cultural issues and biases. Beauty and the Beast, originally written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, is an example of a fairytale written to share a liberal aid of gender expectations and prejudice ideals. “Beauty and the Beast” emphasizes negative

Minecraft: Building Better Minds Many adolescents today are obsessed with playing in a sandbox—a virtual one that is. Welcome to the world of Minecraft! The computer programmed game offers kids the opportunity to create worlds from virtual building blocks that form an elemental terrain, limited only by imagination. Minecraft offers single player mode and interactive play, linking kids with other Minecrafters online, and with over 33 million copies sold worldwide since its launch in 2011, the

Introduction: The Context of Journalism at UCLA Journalism in the United States is in the midst of an upheaval, spurred by the digital shift online and the industry’s early reliance on advertising instead of subscriptions. Caught in this movement are organizations big and small. The most vulnerable, though, are often community-based media groups and local newspapers and newsmagazines. At UCLA, there are seven cultural newsmagazines that have served various campus populations for the past decades

Technology Collides: Why Texting and Driving Don’t Mix. What laws should we have about cell phone use in cars? Mobile devices have become very popular to the point where they have had some deadly and unintended consequences. There should be more laws put in place to regulate texting while driving in order to cut back on the amount of fatal car accidents. The use of cellphones while driving should be illegal. Not only does texting while driving put the driver at risk, but it also puts the passengers

Wal-Mart and Guns On December 14, 2012 a mass shooting occurred in Newton, Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary School resulting in the deaths of twenty children and six adults. The gun used at the elementary school was an AR-15 which was registered to the assailant's mother. This same assault rifle was used in an Oregon mall shooting two days before, as well as in the Colorado movie theater shooting of July 2012 (Zornick 2013). Since this incident, politicians as well as businesses throughout the

We are fortunate to live in a country whose Founders valued the critical right to bear arms enough to protect it. They were able to defeat tyranny. In the end, that's what this right is about (Staff 1). The gun control controversy began when many started to die and get harmed due to gun violence. Gun control became a problem because people began questioning the 2nd amendment right, to a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, and the right of the people to keep and

the motivational posters claiming, “Positivity leads to success.”? Has it ever been that simple to use positive affirmations alone to achieve one’s goals? In an article published in The New York Times titled “The Problem with Positive Thinking”, Gabrielle Oettinger (2014) argues against positive thinking and how it may in truth interfere with the achievement of goals. Oettinger conducted research that considered how fantasies and expectations could influence the success of participants starting a

87). Other monarchial countries were concerned that the idea of a republic would spread to their people, and thus start rebellions all over. These countries wanted to siege France and stop this so-called nonsense at once. After the death of Gabrielle, one of Danton's colleagues, he attempted to draw up a new constitution, known as the Constitution of 1791. This proposal, however, was rejected by the Convention, but Danton continued to speak in front of the members in efforts to persuade them

“Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.” This was written by the former New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer, just after the 2012 shooting in Oak Creek Wisconsin. Because I agree with Spitzer, I would like to affirm the resolution which states Resolved: In the United States, private ownership of handguns ought to be banned. For simplicity in the debate today, I would like to offer the following definitions:

Gabby Douglas is a gymnast that performs on the mats. She also performs in a diverse way out of the sport as well. Gabby Douglas had many barriers in her life to defeat. Her path to the London Olympics stood disastrous. There were many distasteful roads to pass. She bestowed perseverance and grew through these troublesome circumstances with God's guidance. She showed her determination by winning a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Team Final and the All Around Final. Gabby Douglas is true to her beliefs