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Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie
1,305 wordsTheodore Dreiser was born August 27, 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana. The younger brother of Paul Dresser, a well-known songwriter, Theodore was a famous novelist known for his outstanding American writing of naturalism. He was also a leading figure in a national literary movement that replaced the observance of Victorian notions of propriety with the unflinching presentation of real-life subject matter. Even though a majority of his works were about his life experiences, he also wrote about new so...
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1,082 wordsI had modified my car stereo system the first day I got my new car. What's the reason made me want to modified my car stereo system so badly? I always love to enjoy music especially when there's nothing to do in the car. Music seems more important to me. Excellent quality of car stereo system satisfied my enjoyment of music. I've conducted a survey to 20 Purdue University students. The survey included open question and short answer questions. The survey is easy to answer and really come out with...
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Anorexia Nervosa Negative Stereotypes
1,219 wordsThe Effects of the Media on Women The obsession with how a person should look is becoming a national priority among women, especially among young girls and teenagers. Women in general are most preoccupied with being thin. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, this obsession of being thin can usually be labeled in two ways, which are anorexia nervosa and bulimia (Caldwell, 109). What would influence women of all ages to starve themselves to death or to seek out other means of chan...
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American Medical Association Cigarette Ads
850 wordsIn todays society the media has a great effect on what people buy. The media has been telling us what to buy since the beginning of the printing press. There is only one problem now; industry is trying to target certain groups that are more susceptible to buy their products. The most publicized of these big corporations are the people of the tobacco industry. What does one think of when asked; name a company that targets mostly underage kids? Most everyone would say the tobacco industry. They ha...
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Men And Women Blood Flow
549 wordsThe statements that Median % increase in penile blood flow among men exposed to the scent of roses is Four and the median % increase in penile blood flow in men exposed to the combined scent of doughnuts and cola is thirteen, Can be related in several ways. The best way to argue that the two statements are in fact related is to start by talking about the way in which our culture views sex. Our television media is filled with images of men and women eating right after sex or comparing sex to food...
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Parent Company News Coverage
1,305 wordsIn this book report, the book that I read was The Media Monopoly, the Fifth Edition. This book was written by Ben H. Bagdikian, who is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Bagdikian originally published this book in 1983. Author Bagdikian explores the way in which the media functions. His particular area of interest is the way in which the media is controlled. His exploration details various forms of...
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Hard Core Pornography Violence Against Women
974 wordsThe freedom to read is essential to the democratic way of life. But today, that freedom is under attack. Private groups and public authorities everywhere are working to remove both books and periodicals from sale, to exclude certain books from public schools, to censor and silence magazines and newspapers, and to limit "controversial" books and periodicals to the general public. The suppression of reading materials is suppression of creative thought. Books and periodicals are not the only ones b...
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One Can Find Newspapers And Magazines
1,274 wordsThere is nothing perfect in our world. If we look meticulously on different things from different angles we are able to see some defects in them. Newspapers and magazines are not exceptions from these rules. Even in well-known and authoritative editions one can find a number of logical fallacies. What is a logical fallacy? It is a technical flaw which makes an argument unsound or invalid. To prove this point I will try to find them in different newspapers and magazines on such subjects as aborti...
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Sexual Allusions Sell Products
1,218 wordsSexual Allusions Sell Products Advertising is all around us, its everywhere we look from the televisions in our homes to signs on the busses. It is almost impossible to avoid. Since advertising is such a big part of our social and economical environment, it is important that we know what these images our doing to us. Advertising influences us in many ways, often we do not even notice its effects. You turn on your TV and probably first thing that you see are beautiful attractive women. Almost 40 ...
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Ten Psychological Appeals Product Or Service
1,752 wordsSex in Advertising Advertising is all around us, its everywhere we look from the televisions in our homes to signs on the busses. It is almost impossible to avoid. Since advertising is such a big part of our social and economical environment, it is important that we know what these images our doing to us. Advertising influences us in many ways, often we do not even notice its effects. Sex is everywhere, in almost every advertisement we see. While some people do not even realize it is there, othe...
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Stricter Laws First Amendment
767 wordsShould There Be Stricter Laws on Pornography? Three articles have opposing viewpoints on laws concerning pornography. All three authors argue their side of this issue while having many of the same ideas as their opposing writers. The first is, I am a First Amendment Junkie, by Susan Jacoby. Susan has written many articles on womens issues for popular magazines such as Glamour, Mc Calls, and The Nation. This article appeared in her syndicated Hers column in 1978. Jacoby believes that certain rest...
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1,339 wordsCareer of A Journalist A Day in the Life of a Journalist There are many types of journalists, from the local beat newspaper reporter to the foreign correspondent, from the magazine feature writer to the freelance book reviewer, so it is difficult to pin down the daily routine of the average journalist. Journalists interview sources and review records to assemble, collect, and report information and explore the implications of the facts. Journalism informs, educates, chastises: Don? t underestima...
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Plato Mass Media
1,442 wordsTHE MEDIA AS AN INSTITUTION? ? ... it will create forgetfulness in the learners? souls because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written words and not remember of themselves. They will appear to be omniscient, and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality. ? Plato? s Phaedrus The media has become the institution that it is today because of the associated commercial concerns. Mass media is financed due...
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Cigarette Ads Cigarette Advertising
1,836 wordsThe issue of cigarette advertising has been controversial for many years. Recently, opponents of cigarette advertising, believing that the ads encourage young people to take up smoking, have called for stronger governmental controls. Proponents claim that a product that is lawful to produce, sell, and consume has every right to be advertised. This article examines recent research on the effects of cigarette advertising and shows that there is no evidence to support the belief that cigarette ads ...
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Mass Media Sesame Street
1,846 wordsThe Positive Benefits Of Mass Communication ToThe Positive Benefits Of Mass Communication To Society society Marc Wallin Wallin # Mass Comm. 110 3 / 28 / 2000 Assignment # 2 Professor Papa george The Positive Benefits of Mass Communications to Humanity Mass communications, like anything for humans, has its advantages and disadvantages, but mass media has far more advantages to offer the world. From taking you to a far off land to teaching you about the intricacies of the life inside a colony of ...
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Lose Weight Young Girl
1,015 wordsMirror, mirror on the wall, who s the fattest one of all? If you can relate to the above saying, you are not alone. Thousands of women and an increasing amount of men look in the mirror everyday and hate what they see. Here s where the problem begins. Research shows that society adores the thin and deplores the fat, so why do you think people get eating disorders? Because being thin is society s way of saying you fit in. Most people consider the lean body envious and push slimness to a point of ...
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Media Man And Society Put To Blame People
883 wordsWhat is it that is deep in the souls of people that makes them believe thin is in, or thinner is more beautiful? Why are all the ladies and men of advertising sending the message that slim is hip, its a fad? Or the billboards all over the city display skinny woman in nice clothing. Is this the message society want its children to see? Or does media, man, and society just ignorantly push people in general to thinking this is better? As Maggie Helping writes in her essay A Certain Hunger It was a ...
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Emma Bovary Middle Class
890 wordsemail: title: The Need For Change Change is a central theme in the novel Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, and is key to understanding the character of Emma Bovary. Through parallel events the reader comes to realize that Emma's need for change is the result of the influence her early life had upon her. At the convent Emma is left to develop into an extreme romantic with high hopes for excitement and dreams of sensuous pleasures that will never be fulfilled. Thus, when life refuses to conform ...
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1,727 wordsJournalism on the Untitled Journalism on the Internet The common forms of media in todays world each have both advantages and disadvantages. The Internet has been around for an almost equal amount of time as most of them, but only recently has it become a popular way of retrieving information. The Internet takes the best of all other medium and combines them into a very unique form. The Internet is the best way to retrieve information. This combination of paper publishing, TV, radio, telephones,...
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Turning Boys Into Girls Boys Into Girls Men
848 wordsSuck Out Your Gut By Sandy Naiman Suck Out Your Gut By Sandy Naiman And Turning Boys Into Girls By Michelle Mirror mirror on the wall who is the fairest of all! Good old days when women were the ones standing in front of the mirror for hours dressing. Women used to spend so much time making their hair, makeup, and dress look perfect just to please their men who were just worried about money and raising their family. Nowadays, men are spending as much time on their appearance as women are. Are me...
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