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Causes and Effects of Violence in Schools

to violent acts in the news and other programming content. Television is not alone in this respect, however. Newspapers and even...

21st Century Terrorism

or was considered newsworthy--it blew the Gary Condit scandal off the map--the media coverage was unrelenting. It went on for days...

Using Mass Media to Argue for Gun Control

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

Adolescents and Crime

possibilities; and other issues. They also dont seem to understand that older people were once young, and therefore understand th...

Comparing Two Articles Regarding Africa and the AIDS Epidemic

population, but they are taking a hands-on approach to fighting "against the scourge" (Bayingana). According to Dr. Agnes Binagwa...

Media Prejudice and its Effects

have strong political views they not only would keep those to themselves, but they made sure that it did not impact their professi...

Strategies in the 2004 Presidential Campaign

and many of his henchmen. The Presidents campaign has also pointed to the strides in Medicare prescription coverage. The basic s...

A John Kerry Presidential Campaign Assessment

speech. Of course, the American military involvement in Iraq remains a lightning rod of controversy and conflicting opinions. Al...

Women's Conventional Definitions Perpetuated by the Contemporary Media

of society; that women are given the wrong perception of how they are supposed to look, act and feel; and that the infiltration of...

Functionalism and the Media

that the function of homeless shelters should be to provide an avenue out of homelessness. Instead of providing this, she argues t...

September 11th Attacks and the Impact of the Media on Public Opinion

but also determine how the stories should be shaped for emotional effect, for political purposes and for directing public opinion....

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,...

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 ...

Media Studies and Theory

concepts and have produced new technologies and data largely based upon past theoretical research and evaluation. Unders...

The Impact of E-Commerce on the Entertainment Industry

something Online (n.d.). About 40 percent of others research the product Online but buy it in a store (Zolzer, n.d.). The majority...

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...

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...

Social Divisions Reflected and Reinforced by Representation of the Mass Media

culture may be seen as the culture of ordinary people, but has a basis in history, Strinati (1995), argues that this is usually se...

Overview of the Generation Gap

[was] ...especially intense and disruptive" (Smith, 2000). The 1960s and early 1970s saw the division between generations was base...

SARS Epidemic, Iraq War, and Lessons in Media Management

meaning information positive to the organisations goals. However, for governments, especially in countries where there is freedom ...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

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...

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...

Pros and Cons of E-Commerce for SME's

and for many companies these will be higher than initially planned due to hidden or unexpected costs, such as increased fees for t...

Media Convergence and the Computer

et al, 2003). In regards to issue that the computers convergence with television as a media tool is often considered the most infl...

Research Report 'Taking the Plunge 2000; Sink or Swim' Reviewed

including the document entitled "taking the Plunge" which was the organisations own research undertaken two years earlier in 1998....

Harpers Ferry Raid by John Brown

role played by the media and the impact that this event the historical event needs to be considered. John Brown was born in 1800 ...

Interactive Media and Audio of the Future

does bring to light some of the inherent problems with computer-enhanced learning. One of the potential problems that expe...

Educational Software and Interactive Multimedia

The use of educational software enables truly student-led education, ensuring the student masters one concept before progressing t...

Globalization and Orientalism

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