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Essays 1831 - 1860

Violence Against Women and the Media

(Kilbourne, 2004). Many people do not like to see women exploited on television, but they reason that it is not all that bad, an...

Definition of an American and Homelessness

91). The first threatening wave of homelessness swept America between the years 1820 and 1860, when more than five million immigr...

HarperCollins, Sales of eBooks, and Benchmarking

website and provides a variety of methods by which site visitors can purchase a book after reading its description and possibly a ...

Politics, Organized Crime, and a Reciprocal Influence

"union members were denied the right to go to federal court to challenge elections won by violence and fraud; only the Secretary o...

The Relationship Between Mass Media and Violence in Society

by the influence television has upon youth is both grand and far-reaching; that TV is used as a babysitter and teacher speaks to t...

Web Hoaxes and Paul Piper's Article 'Better Read That Again'

actually believe it. As the example of the Enquirer indicates, the Internet does not have a monopoly on misinformation or hoaxes...

'On Bullshit' Essay by Harry Frankfurt

also have to talk about "the action that brought the bullshit into being: Somebody bullshitted" (Noah, 2005). In this context, "bu...

Overview of Illegal Immigration in the U.S.

want to reduce the number of green cards while other members want to increase the number (Martinez, 2006). There are also "480,000...

Social Work Examination of Postsecondary Binge Drinking

2003). In fact, researchers have indicated that historically black colleges have about half the percentage of students participat...

United Kingdom and Developments in its Mass Media History

each in order to tune in, which over 2.25 million people did" (BBC, 2004). This number apparently quadrupled by the 1930s. The fir...

Small to Medium Sized Entermprise Marketing and Communication

an open door policy. However, there have also been problems. With a small company, as many of the processes are less formalised....

Racial Profiling and Media Coverage

that authorities should consider what occurred during the summer of 2001 when "Phoenix FBI agent Kenneth Williams urged his superi...

1997 Tobacco Deal and its 1998 Renegotiation

and accepted deal are as follows. By 1997, published reports alleged that the use of tobacco kills approximately 440,000 American...

Global Setting and Small Business

may be good examples of how, in the past, companies would establish their home market, but then look to expand as a result of both...

Political Socialization and Its Major Agents

mass media, school and peers are "major agents of political socialization." Family Lundblad (2004) describes two of her "de...

Urban Legend or Zeitgeist Myths

still believe that they will get cancer by overuse of their cell phones. By and large, this is not a bad urban legend in that it m...

Sexuality and Differing Gender Perceptions

Womens magazines are not the only entity attempting to homogenize the male/female experience, however. Numerous...

Criminal Profiler Job Description

"an unrealistic career goal for most people without prior experience" (OConnor, 2003). Academic requirements include an undergrad...

TV, New Media, and Audience Engagement

yet learned to manipulate the public by means of psychological strategy; indeed, it has not been all that long since marketing cam...

A Globalization View

governments (405). For example, the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City on September 11, 2001 caused "s...

'News' and What it Means

radio station or television station (and most of them own all three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed ...

Media and US Military's Relationship

Vietnam continues to this day. By the time the Grenada and Panama invasions rolled around, the military instituted a complete med...

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...

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...

Should Comcast Buy Disney?

to increase market share they will have to make acquisitions. Increasing market share in the same market also indicates horizontal...

Iraq War and Coverage by the Media

sporadic unless something major happens (like the killing of American civilians or the capture of Saddam Hussein). But critics hav...

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...