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Worldwide Negative Effects of Media Advances

more beneficial than the solitary activity of watching television, or have people merely altered their focus from one screen to an...

Oprah Winfrey's Personality Characteristics

something of herself. Instead of hiding herself from her origins, however, she has been remarkably upfront about her origi...

Media and Inappropriate Language

beginning to use foul language more often (The Real Truth, 2005). Another author argues that "What is causing the increased am...

Politics and Media Bias

2001, p. 163). A Pew Center report published two years later revealed that number had increased to 69 percent of Americans who be...

Conflicts and Causes in Cote D'Ivoire and Sudan's Darfur Region

there is in fact no valid justification. Despite the fault of the typical student in not staying abreast of their world,...

UK's Small and Medium Hospitality Business Strategies

compete. Basic strategy theory indicates there are two major ways of competing. Michael Porter has considered the way in ...

Elementary School and Family Life Education

informing their children about the "birds and the bees" and expected this topic to be covered within the school curriculum (Price,...

US and Mass Media

slant the truth in order to cater to their sponsors. Of course, the studios got around this by having their news anchors hawk ware...

Paul Thaler's Take on the O.J. Simpson Trial, The Spectacle

in some respects hypocritical. He speaks about the evils of the industry but does not specifically point out what evils were media...

Turner's Theory and the Use of Text in Film as Interactive Social Practice

the change - dwindling audience numbers, and the need to cope with more complex narrative structures, for instance - were the outw...

Children and the Effects of Media Violence

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...

Democracy and Media Globalization

of "players" in terms of owners and mega-merger conglomerates, such information becomes increasingly homogenized and increasingly ...

Medical Treatment, Complimentary Alternative Medicine

a concept created by Andrew Weil, MD (2004). He claims that it refers to the best of both worlds and an integration of alternativ...

Celebrity Depiction by the Media

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

Persian Gulf War and Iraqi Portrayal by the Media

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

Prejudice Against Catholics in Television and Film

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

Media Messages Content Analysis

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

Media Role, Urbanization, and Community

areas has become considerable. As de Cauter (2001) notes,...

Women's Freedom and the Detriment of Marriage

is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...

The Culture of Fear by Glassner

does is to expose the media for what it is, which is an opportunistic and often inaccurate and inept body of reporters that is onl...

Death and Attitudes

but there was also a corresponding increase in the secularisation and commercialisation of the rituals surrounding death. In the 1...

Health Issues, Diet, and the Media

There are those who believe that advertising can actually be beneficial in promoting health and nutrition; after all, television e...

Methods of Qualitative Research

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

Media News 'Dumbing Down' as a Result of Commercialism

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

Media Coverage and the Consumption of Alcohol

alcohol as a positively valued activity (Snyder, et al, 2000). In other words, drinking, as it is portrayed in ads for wine, liquo...

A Prototype for a Media Player

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

Criticla Questions in Modern Society

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

Intercultural Communications and Media Coverage of Political Events

The Internet allowed individuals to access information about, and exchange ideas with, those from other cultures without being lim...

Russia's Authoritarian Media

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

How Racism in the Criminal Justice System and Media is Reflected in Literature

In six pages this paper discusses how racism by the media and the criminal justice system is reflected in the novels Native Son, A...