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    Because of the negative effects of casinos‚ the government should ban them from populated areas in the United States. Gambling is a growing addiction in America‚ and casinos will only provide residing citizens with a larger opportunity to progress in their gambling addictions and allow room for others to gain the ensnaring addiction. Gambling addiction is also called compulsive gambling or pathological gambling. It also is said to be a disease‚ like its neighboring addiction/sickness‚ alcoholism

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    are represented in the horror genre? In this essay I am going to look how woman are represented in the horror genre and how much of an impact it has on the success of the movie. In my research I seen that woman cover two main roles in the movies‚ the villain e.g. The Exorcist or the victim e.g. The others. When woman are the main villain in horror genre I found it mainly was teenage girls e.g. The Ring‚ The Exorcist‚ The Grudge and The Orphan. I think the reason many horror movies use young woman

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    The Representation of Women in Horror Films Traditionally‚ women in horror films are portrayed as damsels in distress that need to be rescued by male dominant characters in order to survive or live. They are weak‚ innocent and fragile that have absolutely no strength to fend for themselves. Women in horror films are also portrayed with no initiative – they always have to follow some kind of male dominant leader – and don’t have much personal perspective or opinions. Throughout the years since the

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    The Psychological Effects of LSD Introduction LSD has always been a center of controversy in American society‚ often times because peoplehave been miseducated about its effects or exposed to media bias. Its physiological effects onthe brain and body have become more and more apparent in the last few decades when research in neuroscience peaked. The psychological effects of LSD have been often difficult to describe and document very well -- they were first discovered on April 16‚ 1943 by

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    Hitchcock’s amazingly directed film‚ Psycho is known as the “mother” of all modern horror suspense film. This film makes as there were not much progression of the horror movies since 1960s‚ when Psycho was produced. Before when Psycho was produced‚ horror movies generally produced with fictional creatures such as Dracula and Godzilla. Hitchcock was also well known for breaking the conservative way of producing the horror film and he produced new subgenre of horror film called ‘Slashers Movie’ which

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    men who fit the rapist’s profile report more sexually coercive behavior in the past and more sexually aggressive intentions for the future than do men who do not fit this profile‚ Men who fit the rapists profile are also more likely than other men to have high levels of arousal in response to violent pornography. The Family and Pornography -Married men who are involved in pornography feel less satisfied with their conjugal relations and less emotionally attached to their wives. Wives notice and

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    Does Tumblr have a negative impact on an adolescent girls psychological wellbeing. Antoinette Capili Since the grand opening of the renowned blogging website‚ Tumblr in 2007‚ there has been an overwhelming “15 billion page views a month” 1. From this time on‚ Tumblr has played a significant role in shaping an individual’s identity and personality towards themselves and society. The Tumblr environment has remarkably transformed the perspectives of adolescents’ own appearance and is one of the

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    Media and the Negative Effects on Body Image Many things contribute to how a woman feels about her body. Peer pressure‚ family history‚ and age all play important roles in how people feel about how they look. The media can also play a dominant role on body image‚ as it almost always ties success‚ health‚ and happiness with being thin. To clarify body image‚ it is how you see yourself when you look in the mirror or picture yourself in your mind. With the constant exposure to media images of the

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    PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF TRAUMA Introduction A traumatic event is any situation whereby a person is affected psychologically due to the severity of the event. In such cases‚ a person may find it difficult to move on to normal life which they had no problem with before the traumatic event. A recent event that affected hundreds of people in Kenya was the Westgate terror attack. Terror attacks cause people to lose trust in humanity. This attack left many people traumatised Fortunately‚ these consequences

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    Horror films were created to make the audience feel emotions of fear and terror into their lives as well as making it entertaining for people to watch . Horror in general effectively centres on the negativity of reality‚ the thought of monsters‚ death‚ pain and blood makes a regular sane human being squeamish. Even though they are made to play on our worse fears‚ our worst nightmares yet somehow people always wish to watch these types of films‚ making it one of the most successful genre of films

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