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- 5681: Psychology Of Television
- ... are often concerned with what the television portrays and why it portrays the way it does. Even though they know that their shows are representative to their viewers tastes and not that of the real world. Although this information is not acknowledged as fiction or non-fiction it is still portrayed and processed information by the viewer. One must be able to realize, How this information is different from everyday life ... the television when these subjects are compared to real life. Still unsure of these problems the majority of humans watch even when they don t understand why? Television is a medium of novelty, with each new season bringing new shows with dreamier characters and more enticing situations. These shows are successful because they challenge one s wisdom if he or she were in the same situation. This is the reason why people are ...
- 5682: Capitalism In Mass Media
- ... business aspect of the relationship as if it were the focus; capitalism would be portrayed in a negative light. The film is aimed at 20-35 yr old females, using unrealistic visions of a compassionate world, where financial profit does not conquer all. The narrative of the developing relationship between the main characters is the focus of the film. The genre "romantic comedy", would more likely appeal to women, as romantic ... live quite comfortably (materially speaking), blind to their actions (as a result of 'fate'). This brings forward the opportunity to look into the commercial products that could be identified as a natural part of the world these characters live in. The most obvious commercial product in the film is the computer. Within the computer, there is the brand of computer, the operating system used and the Internet provider. These are frequently ... It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behaviour that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfil this role requires systematic propaganda." (Chomsky 1988a: 1) In the case of entertainment, that which is not detrimental to the beliefs of the ...
- 5683: Crusoe Savage Man
- The book Robinson Crusoe1 written by Daniel Defoe is about a young man who learns about the real world by "traveling the seas," in doing so he skips the "middle station" of his life and away from the safety nets of his parents. Jean-Jacques Rousseau author of, The First and Second Discourses2, describes ... with less than thirty years between them. The time period of which these books were written coincide with each other. The basis, which Robinson Crusoe was written, was the idea of capitalism and discovering the New World. The First and Second Discourses was written with the idea of the New World's people, for example the "Caribs" of Venezuela. Rousseau refers to the savage man as having desires for food, physical ...
- 5684: Computers That Mimic The Human Mind
- ... mental term with a more accurate physical description. Eliminative Materialists take this idea to the extreme by stating that everything that is believed to be mental will someday be explained in terms of the physical world. One way that people try to prove Eliminative Materialism to be true is through technology. Certainly if we are able to create computers and software that mimic the human mind, then Eliminative Materialism is a ... information and solve problems logically. This is where things get complex. There are expert systems that can solve complex problems that humans train their whole lives for. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated the world champion in a game of chess(Karlgaard, p43). Expert systems design buildings, configure airplanes, and diagnose breathing problems. NASA’s Deep Space One probe left with software that lets the probe diagnose problems and fix ... same sense that humans do but it is a start. Human creativity springs from association. One has spontaneous thoughts or actions that are a result of many different past experiences that are related by this new thought. “Copycat”, the brain child of Hofstadter, is closer to this type of thought than any other program(Boden). In her article “Artificial Genius” Boden states “Hofstadter believes that capturing the processes that make ...
- 5685: JFK
- ... D. Roosevelt. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940. In 1941, John Kennedy joined the Navy. He became the commander of a small boat assigned to the battle in the Pacific against the Japanese. After World War II he soon decided to run for political office. In 1946, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, Kennedy, a Democrat, served three terms (six years) in the House of Representatives, and in ... moon by the end of the decade. In 1963, clashes between the police and demonstrating blacks in Birmingham, Ala., and elsewhere, especially in the South, induced the president to stress civil rights legislation. Kennedy's new civil rights message included bills to ban discrimination in places of business; to speed up desegregation of public schools; and to end discrimination in the hiring of workers on federal construction projects. On Nov. 22 ... 1963, Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas, Texas, the fourth United States president to die by an assassin's bullet. The state funeral of President Kennedy was watched on television by millions around the world. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. During his time as President, JFK had to make difficult decisions. Many of the hardest choices concerned the relationship between our nation and the Soviet Union. President ...
- 5686: Jesus, Paul, And Mohammed: Com
- ... did play a considerable role in the shaping of civilizations, it is no coincidence that these three people are respectively the three most important people in the founding of the top two religions in the world. Also Hart s ranking of these three men will be analyzed, and compared to my own rankings of these three influential men. In Hart s book, The 100, he regards all three of these men ... from this statement most people would believe that Hart is already wrong, and that Jesus should be one. In some sense those who believe that Jesus are right because the amount of Christians in the world almost doubles that of the Moslems. Yet if we carefully look at Hart s reasons for ranking them the way he does, you would see that his ranking seems more understandable. First we should start ... of Christianity. Though Jesus was responsible for the main ethical and moral precepts it was St. Paul who was the main developer of its theology, its proselytizer, and for writing a large portion of the New Testament. While on the other hand Muhammad was the only one responsible for the teachings of Islam, and also to the moral and main ethical principles. This is shown in the idea that the ...
- 5687: First Amendment
- ... the press.” From the 1791 and until the beginning of the twentieth century the idea of “freedom of speech” and the “freedom of press” was not interfered in by the judicial system. And only during World War I did the Supreme Court actively start to work on the issue of the “freedom of speech/press” of the First Amendment. In 1919 cases like Schenck vs. United States and Abram vs. United States did the new interpretation of the First Amendment come into place. Schenck vs. United States was argued on January 9 and 10, 1919. The first charges were based on him breaking the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917 ... the trial that the defendants printed and distributed around 5,000 pamphlets on August 22, 1918. And that they did all of their work at night in the basement that Jacob Abrams has rented in New York City. The circulars were distributed by throwing them of the buildings and others were distributed secretly. One of the articles on the pamphlets said: “The Russian Revolution cries: Workers of the World! Awake! ...
- 5688: Kitty Freemont
- ... typical girl next door, she was a different kind of woman than most would expect her to be. The reader was lead to believe that Kitty had a disliking for the Jewish population of the world near the beginning of the novel. One could also take this as simply being a misunderstanding of culture, and a source of intimidation. Brought into the whole Exodus situation by coincidence, Kitty was caught unprepared ... She wasn't in agreement for what was happening to them, but she wasn't prepared to take a side for them. She seemed to follow the passive way of so many others in the world of just thinking that maybe what was happening was right and they must have had some clarification for it. "Everything connected with Caraolas is neck deep in politics. I am certain that the British have ... When Kitty gave into Ari Ben Canaan's offer for her to work as a nurse in Caraolos, it was initially for the wrong reasons, but she had never actually intended on giving in. "The World is filled with suffering. I can give my services a thousand places just as needful as Caraolos, without the strings attached." (kitty,pg51) As Kitty is exposed to more and more of the Jewish ...
- 5689: Crucible 3
- ... ordinary. When Arthur Miller writes: they [Puritans] carried about an air of innate resistance, even of persecution So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their New Jerusalem be defiled and corrupted by wrong ways and deceitful ideas They believed, in short, that they held in their steady hands the candle that would light the world He is remarking about the way of life and beliefs of Puritans. He says they will not let their new world be polluted with sin and crime, and the world will imitate their actions, depending on the way their society is ruled. The people of this time and era think their justice system is ...
- 5690: Death Of A Salesman 4
- ... this ideal in the drama Death of a Salesman. The main character, Willy Loman, is a complex and tragic figure. He is a man striving to hold onto what dignity he has left in a world that no longer values the beliefs he grew up with. While society can be blamed for much of Willy s misfortune, he must also be blamed for his bad judgement, disloyalty and his foolish pride ... in Hartford (1809). However, in those moments that he begins to realize the truth, his wife Linda while understanding his situation, supports his delusion. She says to him you re the handsomest man in the world (1809). But the truth is being popular and good looking is not the key to success. Success is achieved through hard work and perseverance. The American Dream has long turned sour for Willy. At the beginning of his life, he remembers travelling in a wagon going westward. His parents conquered the new frontier and succeeded. His brother Ben, Walked into a jungle, and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he s rich (1811). For a while, the American Dream was alive in Willy too. ...
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