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anything which did not fit into that perspective was either ignored or discarded as being atypical. From the Western point of view...

currently exists does not give content providers absolute control over how users use their material, but it can place some prohibi...

(Anonymous, 1997), thereby deciding which social and political issues are worthy of attention and establishing an unnatural promin...

perspective. The free press in the United States is predicated upon the notion of freedom of information, that nothing should be w...

data, the use of the objective viewpoint in the development of qualitative methods suggests the balance between differing perspect...

four hour per day programming incorporates all sorts of fare all the time. It is because of this trend, and the trend to ignore th...

to a public that wants sound bites, simple stories, sensationalism and ideas that are not too complex. It does appear that news me...

many of the present expectations associated with the various controls. This level of recognition helps with the interaction, as le...

government, constituting an educated elite while the rest of society was expected merely to follow and obey. Democracy is founded...

They find escape in the medias presentation of the celebrities and it seems that in times of political and global chaos they want ...

were people that were also torn by the events of the war. Media coverage of those people, however, revealed an image that from an...

of priests are true servants of God and their parishioners but, as is always typical with the media, sensationalism sells. Therefo...

influence of the television news programs on the American public and on our understanding of political, social and international i...

group originally formed spontaneously, and then integrated through conflict" ("Frederic"). According to Thrasher, gangs are charac...

way in which competing messages may be perceived as persuasive. In any commercial environment there is likely to be different mess...

it draws on what students already know, which aids them in assimilating new material. The learning environment should be both chal...

then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...

prove that the reason for the higher mortality rate was poor hygiene and overcrowding (Glass, 2002). The research was suppressed...

as pariahs. Although the film is science fiction, this along with other fictitious works demonstrates the problem of human nature ...

Alcohol poses a direct risk as a result of the physical impact it has on the body. The use of alcohol is often seen as a social ...

different from its competitors, with unique characteristics (Morgan, 2009). This may be the result of the ways the product charact...

Contrasting the images of fire and ice are repeated to emphasize the duality of human nature. They also reveal how love and hate ...

competing Netscape equated to exclusive dealings and were anticompetitive (Lapotka, 2009). Not all charges were upheld; the second...

order to overcome potential problems associated with monopolies. Many railway industries had been nationalized, this facilitated l...

hopelessness; he feels he is not good enough and not worthy. (2) affectivity (i.e., the range, intensity, liability, and appropri...

Austrian psychologist Fritz Heider developed one of the earliest consistency theories, balance theory, which focused on the relati...

that employees may take time off of work for a number of reasons, some of which may be valid, such as illness and family emergency...

they have always purchased (Postrel, 2009). Consumers can no longer purchase a simple chocolate bar or a package of laundry deterg...

disorder that is characterized by obsessions, i.e., thoughts, and/or compulsions, acts that must be done. The acts become rituals....

important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...