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Advocacy is led by advocates or, when they are organized in groups as is the case most of the time, advocacy groups. Advocacy groups as defined by Young and Everritt (2004, 5) are different from political parties which "seek to influence government policy by governing." They are "any organization that seeks to influence government policy, but not to govern." This definition includes social movements, sometimes network of organizations which are also focused on encouraging social change. Social movements try to either influence governments or, like the environmental movement, to influence people's ideas or actions.

Today, advocacy groups contribute to democracy in many ways (ib., 2004.) They have five key functions:

* Give a voice to (misrepresented) citizen interests
* Mobilize citizens to participate in the democratic process
* Support the development of a culture of democracy
* Assist in the development of better public policy
* Ensure governments' accountability to citizens.

In comparison to other countries and other the last thirty years, an increasing number (40 percent) of the Canadian population is member of an organization which has had an advocacy role and has tried to achieve political change. Such a level of participation is a positive indicator of the health of the democracy in Canada (ib., 2004.)

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2. American Flags - International Flags - FlagSupermarket.com

We take extra care in making these flags. Designs are researched to make sure that they are authentic and we use sturdy nylon so that they can be flown outdoors, indoors, or carried in parades.

But perhaps the best reason is what we don't do to these flags - we don't omit colors, change their designs, or even slightly alter their correct proportions. We use a combination of the highest quality components and state of the art manufacturing to give you the best looking and most durable flags in the industry. Construction begins with the finest fabrics and color matched threads available. Your FlagSupermarket flag will be the best flying flag manufactured in the United States!

Because they look better and last longer, they will give your business, institution, or home the best value.

Our signature flag is the Nylon U.S. Flag with its highest quality of nylon fabric*, color matched thread, and flawlessly embroidered star fields. But FlagSupermarket offers many other styles of U.S. flags, including ones with appliqued star fields and printed star fields all made in the U.S.A. We also offer U.S. flag kits which include flagpole, mounting straps, and a mounting bracket. Click here to see all U.S. flags.

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3. Celebrities LV

A celebrity is a widely-recognized or famous person who commands a high degree of public and media attention. The word stems from the Latin adjective celeber meaning famous or celebrated. While fame is generally considered a necessary precondition for celebrity status, it is not always sufficient. There has to be a level of public interest in the person, which may or may not be connected to the reason they are famous. Many celebrities are only so for a certain amount of time, perhaps after appearing on a television program or doing something to cast them into the public eye, such as rowing the Atlantic Ocean or being the first to do something. There are also specialist celebrities, who are only celebrities to those who enjoy a particular subject and so consider them a celebrity.

A public figure such as a politician or CEO may be famous, but they may not become a celebrity unless public and mass media interest is piqued. For example Virgin Director Richard Branson was famous as a CEO, but he did not become a global celebrity until he attempted to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon. On the other hand, mass entertainment personalities such as soap opera actors or music stars are likely to become celebrities even if the person deliberately avoids media attention.

A famous definition of celebrity comes from the cultural theorist Daniel Boorstin. In his book,The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, he cynically describes celebrities as people well known for their "well-knowness".

A small number of celebrities can be considered 'global', in that their fame has spread across the English-speaking world and even into non-English-speaking cultures. These celebrities are often prominent political figures, Hollywood actors, globally successful pop musicians and sports stars. A few examples of internationally-known celebrities include South African politician Nelson Mandela, Hollywood actors Tom Cruise,Tom Hanks and Will Smith, Hollywood actresses such as Sarah Michelle Gellar,Jennifer Lopez, Lindsay Lohan, Halle Berry, Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston, pop singers Robbie Williams, Cher, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Paris Hilton and Madonna, and sports stars David Beckham and Tiger Woods.

The rise of international celebrities in acting and popular music is due in large part to the massive scope and scale of the US media industries, which has enabled US media firms to dominate the English-speaking film, television, and popular music markets. The reach of US entertainment products is further extended by large-scale illegal copying of Hollywood movies and US popular music, which makes inexpensive pirated versions of US DVDs and CDs available throughout South America and Asia.

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4. Cracksmokingshirts.com - Hilarious Funny t-shirts, offensive funny t shirts

On May 10th 2003, Beniko, Profits and Kelly Marie moved into The Wicked Crib. We knew after our first hot tub party, that this was not going to be just an ordinary household.

We spent a long, hot summer working our crappy 9-5's, drinking, smoking and hottubbing. It was around this time that Profits purchased an online business that came with a commercial transfer press for making T-shirts. The business was not quite what Profits had hoped for and as such, it quickly fell by the way side.

Around Mid September, Beniko was looking at He-man images online. He found a perfect Skeletor image and decided he needed to make a shirt out of it. We drug out the press which had been collecting dust since summer and our first shirt was born.

We decided that we needed to share the hilarity of our shirts with the world and began posting them on eBay. We weren't surprised that they sold, but we didn't expect them to sell so well. We were having such a great time selling these shirts that we knew we needed to make more. Being as witty and brilliant as we are, this was quite an easy task.

Soon we had an entire arsenal of shirt designs. The three of us each have our own talents to add to our new business, which we utilized to get our site up and running. In mid October 2003, six months after becoming roommates, we officially became business partners. Our site was launched and the rest is CrackSmokin' history.

Beniko is our main designer. If you love our site you have him to thank for it. While we all come up with silly phrases, it is Beniko who draws up our images and makes them work. This talented 27 year old has been in the web design business since graduating high school, getting his start at Thriveonline, an internet health website.

Aside from designing, Beniko is also a talented guitar player has done several American and Canadian Tours. His band, All Shall Perish is some of te sickest metal you have ever heard, check them out! In his free time, Beniko enjoys... oh wait, this boy HAS no free time!

KELLY MARIE: Chances are, if you have sent an email to us, Kelly Marie is the one who responded. Kelly's duties with the business include: processing orders, printing invoices and packing and shipping the orders. Also dealing with all your emails on a daily basis. She tries her best to be nice and deliver the kind of customer service that she would expect from a company. So be nice to her when you write!

Kelly enjoys reading and photography and is a Reality TV and Web community junkie. She loves to have parties at the crib and is thankful for Profits' camera because she normally doesn't remember much of what goes on at these parties. On top of all this, she is also Beniko's ever faithful bitch.

Profits is the business man in blue jeans. Significantly older than the rest of us, he has years of experience in business and accounting that the rest of us certainly don't. Profits is the man who deals with the receipts, buying bulk orders of shirts, payroll and tax issues. Basically all the boring stuff that we have never cared enough to learn.

Profits drinks a lot of budwieser and runs warehousewrestling.com. He watches a lot of reality TV and CKY videos and always has his video camera ready in case something funny happens. Despite his graying beard, Profits really is young at heart.

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5. Credit Card Mom

Credit Cards introduce financial flexibility into modern consumers' lives. For those who always pay off their balances, credit cards eliminate the need to carry cash or obtain check-cashing approval. For those who carry a balance, credit cards allow acquisition of goods and services that cannot be paid for in full when purchased. The twenty-first century extent of credit card use may be new, but its function is not. Before 1900, American families obtained "book credit" from merchants who allowed the same financial flexibility now provided by credit cards. But urbanization and the chain store movement rendered the old system of book credit infeasible. The first step on the road to credit cards was development of store-specific metal charge cards in 1928. These cards continued the system of extending credit to favored customers. Clerks no longer needed to assess customers' creditworthiness; any one with a charge card received store credit. Oil companies moved into credit cards as a way of building a customer base. As automobiles increased in popularity in the 1920s and gasoline stations proliferated, oil companies gave loyal customers paper "courtesy" cards that could be used at any of their stations. Balances were paid in full monthly. In 1939, Standard Oil of Indiana made a startling move when it mailed 250,000 unsolicited cards. By 1940, over 1 million cards circulated. In the 1950s, gas companies moved to embossed aluminum charge cards in the size still common in the early 2000s. Early charge cards did not possess the key feature of modern credit cards: revolving credit, which allows card-holders to pay balances over time while simultaneously charging new amounts. Wanamaker's Department Store in Philadelphia moved toward a revolving charge account in the late 1930s when it gave customers four months to pay off a balance. This was not truly revolving credit, however; new charges were prohibited until the previous balance was paid. William Gorman introduced true revolving credit to department store cards in the 1940s, first at the L. Bamberger & Co. department store in Newark, New Jersey, and in 1947 at Gimbel Bros. of New York. In all these cases, the card issuer's goal was to boost sales of the issuing company. Indeed, due to bad debts and fraud, the credit operations often generated a loss.

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