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Essays 271 - 300

Islam Perceptions

In three pages this paper discusses the media's role in shaping perceptions and misperceptions of outsiders regarding Islam in a c...

Media and Chicago's Highway Construction During the 1950s

This paper examines the media's portrayal of Chigago's highway construction and other industrial projects during the 1950s. This ...

Media and Language

returning a signal in some way that the message has or has not been understood (Watson/Hill). The purpose of written communication...

TMI News Coverage Back in 1979

editorials and newspapers articles, a student writing on this subject may conclude that indeed, there is some bias in various publ...

Why There Are Few Women Running for Office

as solid political material. As a result, there are handfuls of women politicians on the national level, perhaps a few more women ...

Critique and Analysis of Wag the Dog Film by Barry Levinson

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

Media Distortion

to take lightly. However, it appears that those who report the news do not take into consideration the very lives their stories a...

Function of Printed Media

been used before with old messages. However, when they are read it was possible to put them into a different order, to place diffe...

Portrayal of Racial Stereotypes in the Media

to recognize the implications of such attitudes is the only way to fight against its continued allowance. Descriptions of such ra...

Media and Women

creatures that nurture and tend house. We can look at almost any television commercial and note that women are often the ones t...

Comparison of Films Robert Altman's Nashville and Robert Drew's Primary

Dean Story, was far more interested in film as an expansive theatrical art, represented by the Hollywood blockbuster features (ONe...

Culture and Media

accepted portrayals of violent, true-to-life occurrences that television has successfully imparted upon impressionable juveniles i...

Electronic Media and Books

wave of the future. Computers have, in fact, become one of the most innovative and captivating educational tools currently in use...

Media Monopoly and Ben Bagdikian's Views on Reform

(and most of them own all three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They m...

Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death

In 5 pages this paper provides a review of the text and its depiction of the media's mind numbing aspects and what has caused this...

January of 1979 Media Uses and Public Perceptions

In five pages this paper examines media uses and public perceptions of the media during this time period. Six sources are cited i...

Vietnam War and the Role of the Media in Shaping Public Opinion

In eleven pages this paper examines the conflict in Vietnam and how the public opinion was shaped by the media's depiction of eve...

Foreign Policy and the Impact of the Media

attention as possible to whatever political plight they represent (Meyers, 1997). Media coverage is something that cannot be avoi...

Crime Investigations and the Media's Role

has also led to accusations of copycat crimes. Overall, it has been determined that the best balance of this relationship is too m...

Media and Environmental Issues

any news interest in the first place: The scientific conviction that global warming is happening and is being caused by man incre...

Brazil's Media

Brazils difficulties, and comparing it with the situation in the United States, an examination of theory is helpful. II. Theory:...

AIDS and Media Advocacy Campaign

who are HIV positive or already in full-blown AIDS, inasmuch as 8,994 children under thirteen were diagnosed with AIDS, while anot...

Issues Permeating the 2004 Presidential Candidates

prescription drugs, I would choose Grandma every time" (Wise, 2002). Howard Dean mirrors Sharptons opinion that President is doin...

A Legal Courtroom Visit

the description of the room itself and the way the people orient to that room. There is, for example, the distinct separation of ...

Minority-Owned Media Outlets

is cause for serious concern (Rawls, 2003, See also Wilson and Gutierrez, 1995). "The cultural, economic and social gap between w...

Media and Crisis Issues

had turned its collective back on this particular crisis (Brown and Minty 9). The support that is generated among the public in ...

Technology and Culture: The Electronic Media and Our Children

accounts of child abductions, rapes, and murders practically every day. We are kept up-to-date on the violence in Iraq and that u...

So How "Evil" is Fox News?

our minds the targeted messages of mass media so that we "eventually, even if subtly, begin to act out or speak differently as we ...

Sports Public Relations Pros and Media Control

& Johnson had determined it was safe to do so, and it used its PR department to keep the public informed. As a result it came out ...

American Culture and the Media

for boyish, flat-chested women with no hips.) Leaving that aside, what does this image say to young American women? It says that ...