Within a social structure, there are many factors that influence how individuals view others and themselves. As an example, an individual\'s social class, cultural beliefs, and commitment to religion will influence how that person functions within a social structure. While all of these factors and m...

The growth of communication from sign language and drumbeats to the instantaneous transmission of words and pictures around the globe via satellite is a long and fascinating story. After Gutenberg\'s invention of the movable printing press in 1468 and the emergence of newspapers thereafter, we saw t...

Invasion of the Airbrush Every day millions of bone thin models are plastered upon magazines, in television and within movies for the average public to idolize. Kate Moss, Lara Flynn Boyle, Calista Flockhardt are just a few extreme cases of caving in not only their bodies but to the pressure of th...

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE WATCHING BIG BROTHER! In the first block we saw how Western science is one particular way of viewing the world. And, as Heisenberg has argued, the way in which we view reality, frames the way we do science, which influences the answers, or represe...

Introduction According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administrationstatistics, 16,653 people died in alcohol-related crashes in 2000, anincrease of more than 800 deaths from 1999. This represented the largestpercentage increase on record. According to some estimates, about two outof every...