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Experience and Internet News: The Real Reason for The online New Reading Gender Gap
Experience and Internet News: The Real Reason for the Online News Reading Gender Gap by Amy Schmitz Weiss, Master's Student Sharon Meraz, Master's Student Nilo Figur, Doctoral Student Paula M. Poindexter, Associate Professor School of Journalism University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 Presented to: Newspaper Division AEJMC Annual Convention Kansas City, MO July 2003 Introduction Reading news is now the third most popular activity on the Internet behind e-mailing and Web browsing. According
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The Ue of Diet Pills Among Adolescent Girls
The Use of Diet Pills among Adolescent Girls Dieting is a common occurrence in our country, but dieting is most common among adolescent girls. Since millions of Americans try to lose weight every year, many of them turn to weight-loss pills for help (MFMER 2004). Dieting may place the risk of using unhealthy weight control behaviors such as diet pills (Eisenberg, Neumark-Sztainer, Story, & Perry 2004). A study by the CDC showed that 10.9 percent
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Gender Roles and Socialization in Adolescence
From Girl to Woman: Gender Roles and Socialization in Adolescence Reviving Ophelia: A Brief Overview Adolescence is one of the most difficult times for development. This difficulty is experienced very differently for boys and girls. This paper will examine how gender role socialization effects girls more specifically, the emergence of eating disorders and depression in adolescent girls. Mary Pipher, Ph.D. in her book “Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls”, discusses extensively the
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Gossip Girl
The fictional two-hundred paged book Gossip Girl is written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The book was published in May of 2002. The setting of this story is taken place in New York City’s Upper East Side during the fall in 2001. The story begins with Blair Waldorf attending a party at her house with her friends Kati Farkas and Isabel Coates. Soon after, Blair sneaks away from the party to her bedroom in order to
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Bringing up Baby
Bringing Up Baby was created in 1938 and is considered by many to define the screwball comedy genre. It was directed by the extremely versatile Howard Hawks and was written by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde. This fast-paced film involves the unlikely relationship between its stars, Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. Its fame stems from many causes, one being perhaps the best chemistry ever caught on screen between a leading man and woman. According
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Femininity and Gender Roles
Feminism and Gender Roles Society has set certain standards that women are supposed to follow. The most common image of women is that they are very passive and try to avoid conflict in any situation. More and more in society women are breaking down the social barriers that confine them to their specific roles. The movies The Graduate and The Last Picture Show reveal to viewers a side to females that is very untraditional. These
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The Lost Boy
' Abbie Rader Title: The lost boy Author: Dave Pelzer Publisher: Health Communications, Incorporated Publication Date: September 1997 Number of pages: 250 Lost boy is a follow up to Dave Pelzer’s book A Child Called It. This Novel Is a Auto-biography by Dave Pelzer. It follows his experiences in the foster care system. After being taken from his mother Dave goes from one foster home to another and he describes his life there. The
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Storytelling in “the Story of an Hour” and “girl”
Storytelling in “The Story of an Hour” and “Girl” Reading Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” for the first time, there seems to be a similarity in the story. Even though both stories are focused on women and their roll, the two stories are very different. “The Story of an Hour” is about a woman who has a heart trouble and also fined out that her husband had died in
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Gender Differences
Gender Becomes an Issue During class we discussed a lot about gender discrimination and how this type of discrimination is still rampant through many parts of the world. Even though we live in an age where women have gained a lot more rights and have been accepted into society, in some parts of the world where traditional roots are still apparent, women are still treated differently than men either creating a negative inequity or a
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5 Girls
When adults speak about their adolescence they always mention the growing pains they experienced throughout that period of their lives. Whether it be parental pressures or trying to find who you are in a world where adolescents are given mixed messages by everyone around them, it seems as though every adolescent has been faced with obstacles they need to overcome. The ways in which adolescents deal with these barricades that are placed in front of
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Fast Girls
Critical Book Review Joan Brumberg's Fast Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa Brumberg, Joan. Fast Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa. New York: First Vintage Books, 2000. 2. I selected this book because it was one of the recommended readings from our textbook After The Fact: The Art of Historical Detection in chapter 17 "The Body in Question". Anorexia Nervosa seems to be associated with the importance of a super lean female figure and I
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Essay
topic:How much harder slavery was for women than men... I got a w/o a work cited. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Essay No one in today’s society can even come close to the heartache, torment, anguish, and complete misery suffered by women in slavery. Many women endured this agony their entire lives, there only joy being there children and families, who were torn away from them and sold, never to be
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Life as a Kaffir Boy
Marc Mathabane's Life in "Kaffir Boy" Summary: Marc Mathabane describes his treatment in 1965 South Africa in his autobiographical "Kaffir Boy." The book provides a look at South Africa's apartheid society of the time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Think about it. It's around 6:45 a.m. in the year 1965. You are in your house lying on your cardboard bed with your little sister. Your Father is leaving to go to work and your Mother is outside using the
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Boy: Tales of Childhood
Kevin P. McCauley Final Essay In the pre-industrialized world, that is any time before the 18th century, there are several common themes that occur all the time. In the industrialized and post-industrialized world, these same themes appear, but in different looks and different ways. The common themes are politics, modernity, globalization, socio-economic organization, and culture. Other kinds of themes are society and religion as well. These themes played out all differently in their own ways
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Gender Roles: Past, Present and Future
Ashley Bialek Gender Roles: Past, Present and Future As a child growing up, I can always remember watching every cartoon, film, or television show and wanting to be princess of girly character. The particular film that stands our most in my mind is the Disney film, The Little Mermaid. The film is about a young mermaid that has always been daddy's little girl, but wants to run away to have a life that she has
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Rainbow Boys
The question of sexual identity is asked to many professional athletes when they are first diagnosed with HIV or tested positive for the AIDS virus. Magic Johnson is a five time championship winner with the Los Angeles Lakers, awarded MVP three times, and played amongst the first nine Olympic All-Star teams (Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame). Despite these great achievements in his life, his contact with the HIV virus caused him to face much
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Real Boys
“Real Boys” By: Christopher Booth When The Bough Breaks Part 3 Outline What this section of the book is trying to address here I think, is the need for people, (parents especially) to be aware of signs of depression in young males. The first chapter in this section goes through different scenarios and real life stories of boys that have had depression, and have been afraid to talk about it, or even didn’t really even
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Magazines Target Preteen Girls
I’ve decided to write a review of Seventeen Magazine. It is owned by Hearst Magazine that also distributes such readings as Cosmo Girl, Teen, and Marie Claire also targeted at adolescents. Even though this magazine is called Seventeen it’s targeted audience is structured for teenage girls between the ages of 13-18, roughly. The topics that are most popular in this magazine are many. The ones that stand out the most are on the cover which
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Gender Discrimination
Gender Discrimination Written by: Brent Davey TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction--------------------------------------------------------------------3 Gender Discrimination Defined-------------------------------------------3 Gender Discrimination at Work-------------------------------------------5 Gender Discrimination and Politics--------------------------------------6 Conclusion---------------------------------------------------------------------6 Works Cited-------------------------------------------------------------------8 Introduction To discriminate socially is to make a distinction between people on the basis of class or category without regard to individual merit. Examples of social discrimination include racial, religious, sexual, weight, disability, ethnic, height-related, employment discrimination and age-related discrimination. Since this course is related to Gender Relations, the focus
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Girl Interupted
Girl, Interrupted Girl, Interrupted is an autobiographical book written by Susana Kaysen which was turned in to a movie. Susana Kaysen expressed promiscuous behavior earlier in her life and was sent to the Claymore Mental Hospital to be analyzed. Throughout her development at Claymore, Susana formed bonds with a group of girls she would have never met until she was sent to Claymore. Claymore Hospital allowed these girls to become so close, and without this
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Gender Bias
Education has been a major factor in everything for as long as I’ve known. It’s definitely something that everyone needs to have in order to be successful in any sort of way. So to hear that I may have been put at a disadvantage because of gender bias in the classroom upsets me in a way. I mean not to an extent where I think that every single thing I have ever learned was made
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Cover Girl
Tactical Marketing Plans CoverGirl Outlast All-Day LipColor Implementation of this tactical plan positions Covegirl to provide services to customers who will purchase Outlast Lipcolor. Several approaches are identified in the tactical plan. To be able to further refine the overall strategies for Outlast Lipcolor, below are precisely the tactical plans that will be incorporated into the marketing plan. Organizational • Consolidation of Covergirl makeup products, evaluate each of the existing products for possible consolidation to
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Gender Roles in Society
Culture plays a major role in the determination of gender roles in our society. Socialization in all cultures is directly linked to the final product of a human being. Culture dictates, at a very young age, how boys and girls are supposed to act, feel and respond to certain situations. These factors lead to identifying gender roles by our society. At birth, boys and girls are separated by gender. Almost immediately boys are dressed in
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Girl Interrupted
It's 1967, and a compulsive writer 17 year old girl named Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) is like a lot of American teenagers of her age; confused, insecure, struggling to make sense of the rapidly changing world around her. But she had suicide intent, she mixed a bottle of aspirins with vodka, so pressed by her parents, she went to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist she meets with, however, gives to her behavior a name: Borderline Personality
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Desiree’s Baby
"Desiree's Baby'', is about a young lady who was nameless and abandoned as a child. Desiree was a child who's future was uncertain until she was found by the Valmonde family. During this time of the Valmondes' life, they had not been blessed with any children, therefore they took in Desiree and raised her as their own child. From the very beginning of the story, I knew that this would be something that I would
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