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REVOLUTION OF REAL WOMEN™

This movement is for every one of you who has, in one way or another, been negatively affected by the societal quest for perfection and beauty. Ever felt you weren't thin enough, good enough, athletic, tall, short, curvy, sexy, smart, wealthy, or PERFECT enough?

Ever felt the need to conform to images of beauty that the media portrays as "Real"? We are for every individual who is ready to join a new Revolution for Women who demand to be respected and celebrated for who and what we are -- no matter what.

We come from different countries, religions, races, families, and lifestyles -- but we remain united. Guys, if you believe in our message, I encourage you to join us, too!

This is about standing up and standing out. We are a Revolution of Real Women™.

JOIN THE REAL MOVEMENT!

CHECK OUT OUR MYSPACE PAGE, TOO!
www.MySpace.com/RevolutionOfRealWomen
www.RevolutionOfRealWomen.com

STAND UP. STAND OUT. SPREAD THE WORD.™

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Three classmates and I started a local area 32-page color magazine for teenagers. This was developed and funded by teenagers and targeted for teenagers and contains useful information about colleges, trends, news, how-to help, etc. We have put out three issues and the fourth one is in the pipeline. We need financial help to come up with a Spanish version of this magazine which has been very well received in the community.

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Help launch www.TeenAmbition.org, the online magazine for people who have dreams, goals, and a desire to make a difference. TeenAmbition provides a forum for young writers, business owners, and community leaders to share their stories.

This project was started to help young adults improve their financial literacy. Anyone can learn about money, business, and the economy. These topics impact everyone’s lives, yet few people take the time to understand them. A fundamental knowledge of these issues can make it much easier to succeed in almost any venture.

With your help TeenAmbition can become a major success.

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Fatra magazine is a future project that a team of highschool students and I are currently working on. It's a culture magazine celebrating the arts and the community, giving the spotlight to locals kids making a difference. Proceeds from the magazine plan to go to events servicing our communnity.

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To a certain extent, there is a hierarchy in the publishing world between literary magazines and the book publishing industry. Writers are expected to first seek publication of short stories before they “progress” to publishing a novel. At the same time, however, there are few opportunities for young adult writers to publish their work; there are few literary magazines that actively seek new writers and even fewer that seek young writers.

The purpose of Absynthe Muse as a Web site is to provide free services for young adult writers to help them better their craft and enter the publishing world. As a resource of Absynthe Muse, the Absynthe Muse Review aims to publish only young adult writers and thus is unique among literary magazines.

The Absynthe Muse Review will provide services to young adult writers in the following ways:

Only publish material created by young adults. The magazine defines young adults as under the age of 25.

Provide feedback on all submissions received. The Absynthe Muse Review will never send out form rejection letters, but will strive to provide useful, encouraging, and educational feedback for all contributors.

Collaborate with accepted writers to edit submissions. The AMR staff will work with writers to take them through the process of editing a piece for publication with the aim of familiarizing the writers with what other magazines will expect of them.

Provide a competitive level of payment to contributors. AMR will always pay its contributors as much as its budget allows to both encourage young writers to submit to AMR rather than a non-paying market and to reward them for their work.

Include contributor’s bios and pictures in each issue and on the AMR Web site. AMR will retain a great respect for the writers behind each work and will include bios and pictures to promote the writers and artists it features.

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Publicity can be sometimes the most important thing in order to bring awareness in the society. Irvington High School Do Something Club would like to bring attention to the new Do Something Club to incoming Freshman's, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Do Something is an organization where youth are being encouraged to create changes in the community ,society or the world. There is so much to do. We can easily find so many topics to bring more awareness and changes towards. For example, environmental issues, politics, education. Newsweek, TIME magazine,and National Geographics have centered there publication about global temperature changes and many other hot issues, which are effecting the world right now. Why is that? They are trying to ring awareness to people to get up and DO SOMETHING about them.Being young representatives of the world, we have a lot to do in our hands. However in order to do that we need people to get involved. We will be setting up a booth dedicated for people to join Do Something club and leave feeling that they are going Do Something during their school year. We as a club want people to create awareness of the Do Something Club as well as the project goal we have set. ( If you can, please check out our other Project : "School is Cool" )This publicity of Do Something club to high school students ties back to our central goal for our Project of"School is Cool."High School Dropouts are often a reason because students loose their way. If they get themselves involved with such organization and start creating value in their community they miht feel the significance of education and giving back to the society. The project is to bring awarness to the Do Something Organization Club and get young people more involved with creating changes in their community,and the world.The project will take place from August 27th-29th. Pictures will be added as soon as possible during those dates.

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Capital Culturel Africain, translated means African Cultural Capital, is a new journal which will work toward increasing, preserving, distributing and creating objectified forms of African cultural capital. These cultural goods can be transmitted physically as an exercise of economic capital, and symbolically as cultural capital. Popularized by Pierre Bourdieu, capital acts as a social relation within a system of exchange, and the term is extended ‘to all the goods material and symbolic, without distinction, that present themselves as rare and worthy of being sought after in a particular social formation (Harker, 1990:13) and cultural capital acts as a social relation within a system of exchange that includes the accumulated cultural knowledge that confers power and status.

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Up to 2.5 percent of children and up to 8.3 percent of adolescents in the U.S. suffer from depression and the numbers are rising.

The NIMH postulates that the increase in clinical depression may be due to the fact that there is increased pressure on youth to be perfect, as achievements become the norm.

This is a serious problem, one that we have personally been affected by. We have decided to create a children's magazine called JJ Express that targets youth ages 10-15 years old. Our magazine will be unique because it centers around a collection of comics and art - something that has never been done before. We feel that art is therapeutic and can speak to youth across all ages and backgrounds.

We have already recruited more than 15 talented college students who are willing to donate their time and illustrate for our magazine. We have already done a lot of market research. We have been in touch with the Associate Editor of New Moon Magazine for girls, Lacey Louwagie, and gotten a lot of help from her. We have even created an Editorial Panel consisted of children ages 10-15 years old who are given the opportunity to participate in all aspects of magazine publishing. We have also received a grant from Youth Venture.

But we are still a while from success. We need more funding, we need more artists, and other contributors. If you would like to help in any way, we'd be happy to invite you into our team.