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¶ … country has been experiencing a religious "war of words" for several decades now. Some Democrats were caught completely off guard by it when most of the swing voters voted for Bush instead of Kerry, giving Bush the Presidency. Surveys and polls done afterwards revealed that those voters, the ones who won the election for Bush, were opposed to the Iraq war, but saw Bush as representing the one thing that was more important to them than whether we were at war or not: moral values. Actually the movement to make the Presidential race a moral one has been going on for decades, galvanized by the shift in this country in the late sixties and early seventies regarding both sex and drug use. The Roe V. Wade decision by the Supreme Court became a rallying cry, and that issue has been important in every Presidential election since. This time, the issue of gay marriage was added, and it apparently was enough to tip the election in Bush's favor.
What does that have to do with the film industry? Quite a lot, actually. A significant number of people in this country feel that America's traditional moral values are being assailed on all sides, led...
Those who do not agree with them will point to the Constitution, citing freedom of speech and right to privacy. Some actually view that as hypocritical because the same people who use the Constitution to defend freedom of speech also support gun laws. The belief that our country has lost its moral center reflects deeply held feelings, and those who hold them are unlikely to change their minds.
Parents who are concerned about moral values are often particularly concerned about what the larger society may teach their children in spite of their best efforts to counterbalance those influences. Movies have been of considerable concern. In the middle of all this have come first, the Harry Potter books, and then, the Harry Potter movies.
Parents concerned about what the larger culture may teach their children are sometimes especially concerned about the Harry Potter books and movies, because they glamorize witchcraft. While supporters of the books say this isn't true, the concerned parents have a strong point. Harry Potter can perform magic before he even knows his birth parents were a witch and a wizard. In the movie we see him trap his cousin in the snake exhibit at the London Zoo, and in the books there are several other examples as well. Once Harry finds out he is a wizard, he is immediately trotted out to what is essentially a witchcraft shopping center, where he buys a wand destined to be…
Country Evaluation Pakistan is the South Asian country and was established in 1947. It shares border with India, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Iran and China. It has a coastline spanning of 1,046 km with Arabian Sea. The country has highest peaks in the world that are K2 and Nanga Parbat of Karakorum and Pamir in the northern and western highlands of Pakistan. Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi provide the major by air gateways to
So, even in such situations as when the countryside has also been hit by war, the local administrators are much more likely to be able to function productively as they are fundamentally closer to the need and have strong community ties and possible a strong desire for social order but more importantly for the meeting of the local publics' needs. The importance of establishing a public administration theoretical framework that
War and Peace: The War on Terror The first time "war on terror" was used was in the aftermath of the infamous 9/11 al Qaeda attack. Even though this phrase has been used severally in passing to describe a wide variety of aims, policy guidelines and actions, the major moves made specifically under the direct explanation of the phrase is much more complex than just words. There are two major goals
The worship of Mazu shares many elements with other types of Chinese folk religions. Mazu was based upon a historical figure and is said to play a protective role over the people in her region; in Mazu's case, she is said to protect fishermen (Lim 2010). She was worshipped for over 500 years in China, so that many elements of her worship are traditional parts of culture. However, the modern
However, in the case of Sudan, it may be said that none of the above theories applies. This is largely due to the fact that there are specific internal factors which determine the orientation of the economy in a certain direction. These are most of the times related to the historical evolution of the country under discussion. In the Sudanese case, the end of the war and the independence from
The municipality, for instance, tried time and again to upend or regulate Carnaval, the annual festival "of the flesh'; that precedes lent and that had deep African roots. The city's Chief of police, on another occasion, stated that "None has the right to discredit the setting in which they live by reviving African customs" (124). The Black middle class were complicit in this War on Blackness since they were seeking