Shiny Objects: Our Obsession with Possession and the Truth by James A. Roberts

By James A. Roberts

american citizens toss out a hundred and forty million cellphones each year. We discard 2 million plastic bottles each 5 mins. And our overall credit-card debt as of July 2011 is $793 billion.

Plus, charge cards could make you fat.

the yank Dream was once based at the trust that anybody devoted to thrift and difficult paintings might create possibilities and accomplish a greater lifestyles. Now that dream has been diminished to a hyperquantified hope for fancier outfits, sleeker vehicles, and bigger houses. We've misplaced our means, yet James Roberts argues that it's no longer too past due to discover it back. In glossy items, he bargains us a chance to check our day by day behavior, and once more try for lives of caliber over quantity.

Mining his years of analysis into the psychology of patron habit, Roberts will get to the guts of the often-surprising methods we make our buying judgements. What he and different researchers in his box have came upon is that it doesn't matter what our source of revenue point, americans think that we want extra to dwell an exceptional existence. yet as our lifestyle has climbed during the last 40 years, our self-reported “happiness levels” have flatlined.

Roberts isn't simply keen on the GDP or big-ticket purchases--damaging spending behavior play out numerous instances an afternoon, in methods giant and small: he demonstrates that even the quantity we spend at our favourite fast-food joint raises anyplace from 60 to 100% once we use a bank card rather than funds. each time we watch television or activate a radio we're uncovered to advertising messages (experts estimate as much as 3,000 of them daily). intake is king, and its toll is not only a monetary one: relationships are affliction, too, as materialism encroaches at the time and price we provide the folk round us.

via laying off much-needed gentle at the technological know-how of spending, Roberts empowers readers to make shrewdpermanent adjustments, enhance strength of will, and curtail spending. the yankee Dream continues to be ours for the taking, and glossy gadgets is eventually a hopeful assertion in regards to the energy we each one carry to redefine the pursuit of happiness.

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By James A. Roberts

american citizens toss out a hundred and forty million cellphones each year. We discard 2 million plastic bottles each 5 mins. And our overall credit-card debt as of July 2011 is $793 billion.

Plus, charge cards could make you fat.

the yank Dream was once based at the trust that anybody devoted to thrift and difficult paintings might create possibilities and accomplish a greater lifestyles. Now that dream has been diminished to a hyperquantified hope for fancier outfits, sleeker vehicles, and bigger houses. We've misplaced our means, yet James Roberts argues that it's no longer too past due to discover it back. In glossy items, he bargains us a chance to check our day by day behavior, and once more try for lives of caliber over quantity.

Mining his years of analysis into the psychology of patron habit, Roberts will get to the guts of the often-surprising methods we make our buying judgements. What he and different researchers in his box have came upon is that it doesn't matter what our source of revenue point, americans think that we want extra to dwell an exceptional existence. yet as our lifestyle has climbed during the last 40 years, our self-reported “happiness levels” have flatlined.

Roberts isn't simply keen on the GDP or big-ticket purchases--damaging spending behavior play out numerous instances an afternoon, in methods giant and small: he demonstrates that even the quantity we spend at our favourite fast-food joint raises anyplace from 60 to 100% once we use a bank card rather than funds. each time we watch television or activate a radio we're uncovered to advertising messages (experts estimate as much as 3,000 of them daily). intake is king, and its toll is not only a monetary one: relationships are affliction, too, as materialism encroaches at the time and price we provide the folk round us.

via laying off much-needed gentle at the technological know-how of spending, Roberts empowers readers to make shrewdpermanent adjustments, enhance strength of will, and curtail spending. the yankee Dream continues to be ours for the taking, and glossy gadgets is eventually a hopeful assertion in regards to the energy we each one carry to redefine the pursuit of happiness.

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There has also been agreat deal of attention given to erotic film and video scenes that feature violence. Depictions of rape have been asource of much concern and hence much of the research into video pornography has studied the frequency and natureof such portrayals. Analysis of themes of sexual aggression against women has not been restricted to pornographicmaterial. Such themes, and theoften graphic images that characterise them, can be found in mainstream entertainment media, including general release cinema films and television programs.

8 per film), with female nudity exceeding male nudity by four to one. The main (8 category of sexuality was sexual intercourse between unmarried partners acts per film). , 1993). Sex in Explicit Videos Sexual content has traditionally been associated with restricted adult forms of entertainment. Prior to thepopularity of entertainment videos, explicit sexual content could be obtained through printed media,including books and magazines. Much explicit sexual material could be found,for instance, in adults-only paperbacks.

They distinguished two broad categories of music video. Performance videos contained images of the musical performer or group in concert,with or without a live audience. Concept videos werebased on astory line or subject of the story and featured the song’s artist(s) as the main performer(s). Love emerged as the dominant theme of performance and conceptvideos on bothtelevision channels. In one in three cases on MTV, sexual relations were featured prominently, and this was also true of four in tenvideos from the BET channel.

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