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Media Control

... media fall short. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky have defined the reasons that media fall short in their mission to inform. The model they created has four major filters: (1) the size, concentrated ownership, owner wealth, and profit orientation of the dominant mass-media firms; (2) advertising as the primary income source of the mass media; (3) the reliance of the media on information provided by government, business, and "experts" funded and approved by these primary sources and agents of power; and (4) "Flak" as a means of disci ...

Number of words: 903 | Number of pages: 4

Rise Of The Tech Stock

... have caused the United States’ economy to flourish? The answer lies in one, simple, recently coined phrase: the tech stock. The stock market has been around since people traded silver for ownership of cargo 200 years ago, yet many people don’t know how it works, or where their money goes when they purchase a stock; they simply think "buy low, sell high." Although this is a good basic investment plan, it is imperative that one knows where his money is headed when he buys a thousand dollars worth of a specific stock. When one ...

Number of words: 1538 | Number of pages: 6

Sex Education --

... in the U.S. Every year, one million girls aged 15 to 19 become pregnant each year in this country alone (Schools Skimping… 13). Sex education was introduced to help solve the problem of STDs and teen pregnancies by giving teenagers real facts and correct information about sex. Teenagers can therefore make wise and safe choices about sex. However, there are major flaws in sex education. While it is extremely important to educate teenagers about sex and sexuality, putting sex education in the American educational system in not the co ...

Number of words: 1530 | Number of pages: 6

COMPUTER SECURITY ISSUES

... removable storage media, such as floppy disks and zip drives. They can also be caught through computer networks, where a third party from another machine in the network introduces the virus (accidental or otherwise) which then spread throughout the network. The most unlikely way of virus contaminating the system is through malicious employees creating them on the system but this will be discussed later on. There are a number of precautions that can be taken to help prevent this. By simply making employees not to use mobile storage med ...

Number of words: 876 | Number of pages: 4

Bullying In School - Relevant Articles

... the finding of these journals, into a classroom setting. It is hoped, thus, that this critic of journal articles will offer a potential solution to the problem of bullying. Stuart Greenbaum’s article, “What Can We Do About Schoolyard Bullying?,” is a good example of bullying and its prevalence in today’s society. In this article, the author states that bullying is an extreme problem in North America, and particularly in the United States. The author begins the article with a short recounting of Nathan Faris and his tragic and fata ...

Number of words: 3080 | Number of pages: 12

Body Image

... disparity between our current cultural beauty ideals and our actual bodies. Although most of the research surrounding the influences of media on has taken the form of analyzing exposure through the examination of such things as magazine content, recent research has begun to focus on an individual’s awareness of societal pressures, as well as one’s acceptance, or internalization, of these societal standards (Cusumano & Thompson,1997). Every culture has standards of beauty. Through the ages and around the world,people have ...

Number of words: 1905 | Number of pages: 7

Video Games And Children

... games has many positive effects on children. Video games can be used for therapeutic purposes such as assisting student with learning disabilities. Students with learning disabilities are able to learn effectively when pursuing highly motivating computer game learning tasks (Funk, 1993). Through electronic games, children can control levels of difficulty; game rules and tools for problem solving, allowing them to construct cognitive skills. Video game playing also contributes to improved hand and eye coordination, reaction time, and at ...

Number of words: 565 | Number of pages: 3

Two Little Bunnies

... are the score cards from the event: Chili #1: Mike's Maniac Mobster Chili JUDGE ONE: A little to heavy on the tomato. Amusing kick. JUDGE TWO: Nice, smooth tomato flavor. Very mild. FRANK: Holy smokes, what is this stuff? You could remove dried paint from your driveway with it. Took me two beers to put the flames out. Hope that's the worst one. These hicks are crazy. Chili #2: Arthur's Afterburner Chili JUDGE ONE: Smokey (barbeque?) with a hint of pork. Slight Jalapeno tang. JUDGE TWO: Exciting barbeque flavor, need ...

Number of words: 806 | Number of pages: 3

Annexation In Texas - The Basics

... by Masonic people who believed firmly in a tenant called E pluribus Unum, meaning from many one. As this statement suggests, we were the formational creation from many states into one consistent union. Annexation works pretty much the same way, in that a larger body envelops and consumes the smaller one into itself, so that the larger may prosper. As could be said of the residents in our own city of Houston, Bellaire was only recently annexed to the dismay and objection of its citizens. This would preclude to the ideology of Thomas Aqu ...

Number of words: 600 | Number of pages: 3

Premarital Sex

... to and to educate a child. The purpose of sex is to unite a married couple as one loving body. This is because God’s intention in creating the first man and woman was for them to love and create more men and women. To do so a married couple must join as one loving body or to have sexual intercourse. In having intercourse the first time in a marriage you are consummating the marriage therefore making the marriage official in the eyes of God. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says: “the union of man and woman in marriage is a ...

Number of words: 908 | Number of pages: 4

Divorce 2

... is "Thou shalt not commit adultery", while lust is one of the seven deadly sins. Whereas, it is common sense that due to human nature, people are never content with what they have. We always long for others even though we know that it is wrong and unfair. In the teenage drama, "Dawson's Creek", the main character's mother is caught having an affair with her co-worker. When asked why she cheated, she replies, "I had a perfect life" and admits that she longed for the feeling of needing something. In spite of the fact that it is just a tel ...

Number of words: 499 | Number of pages: 2

Advertising 2

... or watch television, the images posted over our urban surroundings are inescapable. Pervading all the media, but limited to none, advertising forms a vast superstructure with an apparently autonomous existence and an immense influence."(11) Television commercials and magazine advertisements tend to focus toward the people most likely to watch that television program or read that magazine. For example, if people are watching a soccer game then the commercials in between will most likely have to do with soccer. In magazines the advertisement ...

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