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- 3871: The Paparazzi And The Legislat
- ... told the House Judiciary Committee on May 21st that "State and local jurisdictions already have laws dealing with invasion of privacy, intrusion upon seclusion, trespass, harassment, and other problems taken up in the federal legislation (American, 30). To further support this statement McMasters brought up the 1973 trial where a judge ordered free-lance photographer Ron Gatella to stay 25 feet from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and 30 feet from her children ... vague and ambitious law interferes with the public s right to see, hear and be touched by the news, they are robbed of their ability to make their own judgments about what they consider "news" (American, 31). Trying to create more laws that serve relatively the same purpose would be irrelevant. The California Newspaper Publishers Association has support of the top 3 TV networks in fighting the Anti-paparazzi bill, SB262 ...
- 3872: The Media As An Institution
- ... during the Gulf War, people watched war live via satellite in their living rooms. Whilst being a strictly controlled coverage, information and live reports were sent globally. Australian reporters sent live broadcasts from Baghdad during American missile attacks whilst Generals gave television conferences to detail the intricacies of the confrontation as it occurred. The most significant change in the mass media has been the increased role of women as consumers of ... Most national newspapers and all of the commercial television stations have internet sites. The users of these information sites pay by the presence of advertising. Reasons for Change A study was carried out during an American Presidential campaign in the 1970 s to find out why people voted as they do. By conducting interviews over the six month election campaign the study hoped to determine the impact of the mass media ...
- 3873: The Major Jewish Holidays
- ... the first and second days of Tishri. In Hebrew Rosh Hashanah means "head of the year." Rosh Hashanah is most often known as the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah is however very different from the American New Year. It is different because there is not a lot of drinking and football games. It is similar in the American New Year in one way. Rosh Hashanah is a time for the Jewish people to look back at the mistakes they made in the past year, and try not to repeat them in the upcoming ...
- 3874: The Growing Need For The Aware
- ... racist epithet by whites. Bennie M. Currie put it best when he wrote, the love/hate relationship many black people have with nigger, one of the most complex, perplexing, and emotionally incendiary words in the American lexicon (194). Today, if an Afro-American is called a nigger by a white person, despite the fact that it is the nineties, the insult becomes like a dagger through the heart. It is very hurtful because those single words can evoke ...
- 3875: The Effect Of Media Images
- ... television shows. The media have portrayed the successful and beautiful protagonists as thin. They have promoted the image of thinness through popular programming.. Thinness has thus become associated with self control and success. The average American woman s body weight has increased over the past thirty years, yet the models that represent American women have become increasingly thinner. The media s portrayal of happy, successful women being extremely thin makes a huge impact on women s perception of beauty. When girls begin to compare themselves to the famous ...
- 3876: The Consumer Price Index
- ... the NASDAQ Small Cap Market, with emerging growth companies. The current market value of the NASDAQ National Market is around 2,553.2 billion dollars. The market and its value reflect the tendencies of the American people regarding their finances. If the market is up and the volume is up then the economy is thriving and booming. Conversely if the market is down and the volume is down then the economy ... two years the CPI has risen $6.60. This means that the market basket of goods costs $6.60 more now than it did two years ago. This Figure does not mean mush to the American people because the growth is in line with inflation. The second graph show the CPI over the last 100 years and how it has sky rocked over the past thirty years. The graph of the ...
- 3877: The Color Purple
- ... many themes; some concern the relationship between males and females, the relationship between Africans and black Americans, and personal independence. However, one thing that I felt strongly about was her commitment to G-d. African-American people have had to climb over many obstacles to get to their position today. First, was the selling of their people into slavery. Then, they endured slavery itself, being treated like an animal. After slavery was abolished, colored people still had to deal with racial discrimination and hatred. If this sounds rough, black women had it worse. African-American women had to deal with all the previously mentioned things, but they were women too! Females were oppressed almost as bad as the blacks. White women were not able to vote until the 1920. Therefore ...
- 3878: The Aids Crisis
- ... They did not know where it came from and how people acquired the disease. This not only added to their fears but put them in more danger. They lived in the middle of the sexual revolution and it was almost like a way of life for these people. Moreover, because they were ignorant, it put them in more danger of getting the disease. This ignorance was finally abated in 1986 when ... something bad is going to happen to them. They always think it will happen to the next person or a bad person. Yet, people realized that the accepted life style during their time, the sexual revolution, was dangerous. The broadcast also tried to deal with the ostracizement of certain individuals because of general stereotypes that related their beliefs or lifestyles to the AIDS virus. However, human nature is not that easy ...
- 3879: Tennis 2
- As we all know, America is a nation of sports enthusiasts. Most Americans participate is some kind of sporting event, either as a spectator or as a competitor. In the pantheon of great American sports, there is one that stands out. It has been called the great American pastime. Yes, that great sport known as tennis. Tennis requires a mastery of many skills to be able to play competitively, but the primary skill needed to win in tennis is the serve. The serve ...
- 3880: Telvesion
- ... bad influence of television on today s society. Television is a drug that interfere with family ritual, destroys human relationships and undermines the family. Marie Winn claims that television over the years have effected many American family life. Since television is everyday ritual, many American tend to spent more time with television than they do with their family and this result in unhealthy relation in family. She also acknowledge that television destroy family unique quality that they carry, such reading ...
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