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- 301: Media And Culture
- ... is not derived from the exposure of visual images and commercials that tend to create a popular consumer culture, but actually from what we are not exposed to. The gate keepers of the news industry control all the information, and decide on what to publish or broadcast, based on the ideology and the structure of the institution. This is not censor in classical sense, but rather an auto-control mechanism that functions for the survival of the system and the controlling of the public. Therefore, whatever is presented in the news would rather be a part of the popular culture (created by the entertainment ... Mosco puts it; "electronic communication and information systems (from ATMs to TV) make it possible to gather massive amount of information about the choices of different groups of people, so as to better manage and control group behavior (Roach, 46). Lets, now look at different examples of the use of TV as a mean of control over the society. Before January 1991, public opinion polls showed that the American public ...
- 302: How Can We Control The Drink Till You Drop Mentality At Colleges?
- How Can We Control The Drink Till You Drop Mentality At Colleges? While I was in college I realized that there was a big problem on campus. My first encounter with binge drinking on a college level was at ...
- 303: Gibbons Vs. Ogden, 1824
- ... war would ensue. Thus, the court was forced into a "middle of the road" decision-they said that Congress had the power to legislate on the Commerce of the United States, as opposed to direct control. The Supreme Court also said that the New York Steamboat Act was in conflict with the Federal Coasting Act, and thus, the New York law had to be repealed. This decision managed to both protect ... Ogden, he made an appeal to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court took great interest in the case, for it was a battle between the Sectionalist idea of the sovereignty of states and the uniform control of the nation under the Federal Government, and maintaining the power of the Federal Government was one of the obligations of the Supreme Court. The state of New York was, in effect, supporting a trend ... New York made its Legislature the supreme power, as opposed to allowing the National Legislature to hold that place. The Sectionalist movement of New York had to be ended before it could grow out of control and turn New York totally sovereign and spread the poisonous vices of sectionalism throughout the country, breaking it apart and dissolving any power that it had gained previously through unity. Recognizing this, John Marshall ...
- 304: Integrated Pest Management
- Integrated Pest Management Integrated pest management (IPM) is a recently developed technology for pest control that is aimed at achieving the desired control while reducing the use of pesticides. To accomplish this, various combinations of chemical, biological, and physical controls are employed. In the past, pesticides were all too often applied routinely whether needed or not. With IPM ... the pests actually present a serious problem that needs to be treated. If properly and extensively employed, IPM might reduce pesticide use by as much as 50 percent, while at the same time improving pest control. If this goal were achieved, the environmental problems would be minimized, and significant benefits would result for farmers and society as a whole. IPM coordinates economically and environmentally acceptable methods of pest control with ...
- 305: The Choosing of a Landfill Site
- ... are designed and constructed to allow generation and leakage of leachate at a calculated, controlled rate. An environmental assessment is always necessary to that the impact of the emitted leachate is acceptable. No active leachate control measures are used. Such sites are only suitable in certain locations and for certain wastes. A typical example would be a landfill in a coastal location, receiving an inorganic waste such as bottom ash from MSW incineration. D) Unrestricted contaminant release No control is exerted over either the inflow or the outflow of water. This strategy occurs by default for MSW, in the form of dumps, in many rural locations, particularly in less developed countries. It is also ... D might be considered unacceptable in some European countries. Landfill techniques Landfill techniques may be considered under seven headings: location and engineering phasing and cellular infilling waste emplacement methods waste pre-treatment environmental monitoring gas control leachate management 1) Location and engineering Site specific factors determine the acceptability of a particular landfill strategy for particular wastes in any given location. In theory an engineered total containment landfill could be located ...
- 306: Johnny Got His Gun Book Report
- Dalton Trumbo's JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN is a controversial anti-war story of a soldier who lost his arms, his legs, and most of his face in a World War I from a shell. Trumbo's soldier is Joe Bonham who ...
- 307: The Threat of Nuclear Energy
- The Threat of Nuclear Energy You are watching the control panels and gages for rector two. Sitting comely you think about how easy your job is. It is a joke! All day you sit around and watch the gages for reactor number two just to ... reactor, half-inch long pellets of uranium are packed into 12 or 14 foot tubes made of an alloy of the metal zirconium. About 50,000 zircalloy fuel rods make up the reaction core. To control a nuclear reaction control rods made of cadmium is used which absorbs neutrons. With the control rods in place in the core, a chain reaction cannot begin. When the plant operators want to start the chain reaction they ...
- 308: Mrp Ii
- ... the most important feature is the addition of the finance interface. This module provides the capability of transforming the operating production plans into financial terms, consequently the data can be used for financial planning and control purposes of a more general management nature. Another significant addition is the simulation module. This simulation capability enables management to perform a more comprehensive alternative planing work in developing the marketing and business plans. Operating variable could be regulated to examine the systemwide response to the proposed operating change. Besides MRP II includes the entire set of activities involved in the planning and control of production operations. It consists of a variety of functions of modules and includes production planing, resource requirement planning, master production scheduling, materials requirements planning (MRP I), shop floor control, and purchasing. Process of MRP II Step 1 - Market Demand; the process begins with an aggregation demand from all sources. Examples of sources are firms’ orders, forecasts, and safety stock requirements. Step 2- Production ...
- 309: Persuasion Theories In Adverti
- ... our idea of how, what or who people should be. The media uses this tool in an attempt to create a need for their product in society. In the ad for Orthro Tri-Cyclen birth control pills they focus on the added benefit their product has over other birth control pills and topical skin medications. The producers try to entice the consumer into using their brand by promising extra rewards. The strategy producers employ to execute this persuasion and the effectiveness of that strategy will be identified and analyzed through the advertisement for Ortho Tri-Cyclen birth control pills. Advertisers use a variety of techniques to modify our thoughts, beliefs and actions. One such strategy is the source used to transmit their message. We, as consumers, judge the source and formulate an ...
- 310: Adorno And Horkhiemers Dialect
- ... attempt to influence) and sacrifice. The magician imitates demons; in order to frighten them or appease them, he behaves frighteningly or makes gestures of appeasement (p.9) but neither this nor sacrifices are attempts to control nature but are pleas to animistic forces of nature that the shaman considers more powerful than himself. The gradual move from myth to Enlightenment is the move from reaction to nature to interaction with nature. Enlightenment is the attempt to directly dominate and control nature instead of a mere mimetic reaction it. Adorno and Horkheimer describe Enlightenment as that which compounds the animate with the inanimate just as myth compounds the inanimate with the animate# (p.16). The world ... All thought which goes outside the formal laws of nature is condemned as meaningless, hence, thought must conform to nature, it is the servant that the master cannot check as he wishes (p.37). Our control over the self diminishes as enlightenment progresses, until it becomes an automatic, self-activating process . In this process not only has man restricted the self to pure instrumentality but also he has completed his ...
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