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- 341: Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age
- ... to the physical environment by portals which allow people to see what's inside, to put knowledge in, to alter it, and to take knowledge out. Some of these portals are one-way (e.g. television receivers and television transmitters); others are two-way (e.g. telephones, computer modems). Most of the knowledge in cyberspace lives the most temporary (or so we think) existence: Your voice, on a telephone wire or microwave, travels through ... fax machines and overnight delivery -- even though the "private express statutes" that technically grant the U.S. Postal Service a monopoly over mail delivery remain in place. During the past 20 years, the market for television has been transformed from one in which there were at most a few broadcast TV stations to one in which consumers can choose among broadcast, cable and satellite services. The market for local telephone ...
- 342: Kurds Vs Turks
- ... very anxious, but is relatively normal despite being totally isolated from the outer world and exposed to psychological pressure. The British Involvement: Although the British authorities have shut down the world's sole Kurdish-language television station, its director has vowed to find a way to bring it back to life. The decision came as a great shock to us," the station director, Hikmet Tabak, said. "But Kurds will not give up their right to broadcast. We are not going to enter the new millennium without television." Tabak did not say how he hoped to resume broadcasting. He is reportedly approaching European governments in search of one that will give him permission to operate. "I don't think every possibility is exhausted," he said in a telephone interview from Brussels. "We are not without choices."On Friday, the Independent Television Commission, which regulates broadcasters based in Britain, ordered the Kurdish station, Med-TV, to halt operations permanently. It said Med-TV had broadcast programs "which included inflammatory statements encouraging acts of violence in Turkey ...
- 343: The American Dream
- ... social consciousness. Alter it to the point that we feel that the American dream is no longer a luxury, it has become a necessity. Today there is almost no way to escape advertisements. The radio, television, and magazine ads make sure of that. The more we view these advertisements, the more we are persuaded toward the American dream. With a television in almost every household and magazines an arm=s length away, advertisers basically have us on our knees. We must digest advertisers= views so frequently that you would think it was necessary to sustain life ... a very early age. They lay the groundwork of ideals early on because it is easy to persuade a child. Now, with the two income family, children are left to interpret not only advertisements but television programming as well without supervision. Children are forced to make their own evaluations and most of the time they go along with the views of what they see. How many times do children want ...
- 344: Drugs And The Internet
- ... anything directly encouraging a dangerous treatment of the Human body, especially one directed, to an extent, towards minors, should be shut down in all media, Internet and beyond. These people fail to consider tobacco sales, television, candy, and countless other harmful, everyday, legal products. The very same people that disapprove of drug related media fail to point out the flaws of tobacco sales; first and second hand smoke can cause cancer ... however, causes death in no more than 1 per 3 million people on average doses, as well as directly affected only its user, much unlike tobacco use. Parents watch and allow their children to watch television on a regular basis, sometimes in upward of five hours a day. Television fails to stimulate the brain, promotes laziness, and at times provides poor role models. Candy, a favorite for all ages, causes tooth decay, changes in metabolism, and in some children, can cause extreme hyperactivity. ...
- 345: Appalacian Regional Commission & Poverty In Appalachia
- ... century. The Internet can help link Appalachian schools to the world beyond the region. This was possible thanks to the donation of 1,500 Internet boxes by Zilog, and each school receives a 27 inch television. Since 1965, the ARC has funded nearly $600 million in education projects in 13 states (ARC-PNEAT Press Release). Housing is another economic indicator that links economic resources and human development capacity to show the ... the middle class American\\'s belief that the lifestyles of the poor are why they remain impoverished. This is the view of those who advance the culture of poverty model. In his book about how television frames political issues, Shanto Iyengar shows in his research that the media and the public was more likely to see individual causes for the poverty of single mothers, while social causes were attributed to the ... due to dominant cultural values but also to the negative media coverage of poor people that shows a false reality, far different from those of the average person on welfare. Iyengar shows how the simplistic television framing of issues like poverty play an important role in shaping attitudes of political responsibility, and that episodic news frames on poverty tends to cause individualist attributes to be applied to the problem. That ...
- 346: Reasons for Juvenile Crime
- ... the effect of the media on the juveniles of today. Before the time a child has reached seventh grade, the average child has witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on the television. There is no doubt that heavy exposure to televised violence is one of the causes of aggressive behavior, crime and violence in society. Television violence affects youngsters of all ages, of both genders, at all economic levels, and all levels of intelligence. Long-term childhood exposure to television is a casual factor behind one half of the homicides committed by juveniles in the United States. The increased availability of guns has played a big part in escalating the number of crimes committed ...
- 347: Societies Scapegoat
- ... to look for a cause. Society, when looking for a scapegoat, becomes worse than a blood thirsty lynch mob at a witch trial. Usually the most obvious source of violence within a home is the television. However, in most cases it is not the true cause. With the TV in the forefront of virtually every home in the civilized world, it's no wonder that it's the easiest target for ... TV many times is identified as the cause of aggressive acts to avoid dealing with other underlying issues. Society today has an entire array of different afflictions that plague us from day to day. The television is of very little significance alongside the landfill of troubles that influence children today. Besides, trying to get networks to cut out violence and aggression entirely would be like trying to get Jesus Christ to ... not going to happen.) TV is not the reason that our youth courts are filled to capacity with court dockets so hideous you would swear that you were looking at the start of the apocalypse. Television programs are not the reason for the apparent increase in adolescent crime. If you find yourself picking up your kids from the police station all the time, it's not the TV's fault!!! ...
- 348: Irving's The World According to Garp: Analysis
- ... extent he will even chase after cars that are speeding in his neighborhood to tell them to slow down. Garp wants to protect his children from all things that are evil and violent “ the cancerous television is violently loud... Duncan and Ralph, half in their sleeping bags, asleep (of course), but looking as if the television has murdered them. In the sickly TV light their face's look drained of blood.”(281) Garp is so protective that even the television is an evil praying on his children, draining the blood from their faces. The irony of Garp's protective nature emerges when Garp starts writing books that he feels are to violent for them ...
- 349: Radio: A Form of Communication
- ... After this voltage has been suitably amplified, the original information contained in the radio waves is retrieved and presented in an understandable form. This form may be sound from a loudspeaker, a picture on a television, or a printed page from a teletype machine. HISTORY Early Experimenters The principles of radio had been demonstrated in the early 1800s by such scientists as Michael Faraday and Joseph Henry. They had individually developed ... network; it was set up by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). Radio was also being used in the 1930s by airplane pilots, police, and military personnel. Significant changes in radio occurred in the 1950s. Television displaced the dramas and variety shows on radio; they were replaced on radio by music, talk shows, and all-news stations. The development of the transistor increased the availability of portable radios, and the number ... range in power from 100 watts to 100,000 watts. They cover distances of 24-105 km (15-65 mi) because government frequency allocations for commercial FM are in the VHF range, unlike commercial AM. Television transmitters use AM for picture signals and FM for sound. The CW system described earlier is used in a modified FM form known as frequency shift keying (FSK) by high-speed teletype, facsimile, missile- ...
- 350: Media Violence
- ... and the Associated Press speak some studies. The first one was an eight-year by Doctor Brandon Centerwall of the University of Washington. Statistics from this study show that "long-term exposure of children to television violence has led to an increase of an extra ten thousand homicides a year in the U.S.. The American Medical Association found that violent crime between the years 1976 and 1992 among 13 and ... and alcohol use. As a result, specific levels of violence become more acceptable over time. Then, it takes more and more graphic violence to shock (and hold) an audience" (Rund np). In an experiment on television violence on memory for commercial messages, participants saw commercials embedded in violent and nonviolent film clips. After viewing clips, participants completed several recall and recognition memory test. In all the experiments, participants who saw a ... violent film clip had poorer memory for commercial than did participants who saw nonviolent film clips. Participants also reported their mood after viewing a film clip but before completing the memory tests. Anger mediated between television violence and commercial memory. Television violence increased anger, and anger, in turn, impaired memory for commercials (Bushman np). Over the years, violence in movies has influenced people so much that crimes have been committed. ...
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