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- 451: Click Vs Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And Onlin
- ... choose not to buy recorded music; it is not an essential commodity as in the case of the starving man and the loaf of bread. They could still hear the music on the radio or television. If a whole generation of people become used to not paying for music, the industry may never recover and aspiring musicians will have no motivation to create new music. The ethics become even more questionable ... labels are embracing the Internet and file sharing as a way to promote their artists. This may be because they exert less influence over the media, and may not be able to get radio or television airplay. According to the New Musical Express, many leading independent music acts will see their songs legitimately return to Napster once its paid membership service gets going - through their independent labels. It is the major ... piracy as an act that is difficult to justify by anyones definition of ethics. There are further arguments that claim file sharing can aid the music industry, much in the same way that commercial television and radio do. This is claim is supported by many musicians as well as consumers. The effectiveness of this strategy, unfortunately, is difficult to gauge and contradicted by recent industry sales figures. It is ...
- 452: Direct Mail Marketing
- Direct-Mail Advertising As consumers, we are often bombarded with different types of advertisements each day. Whether it s by television, newspaper, billboards, or the internet, advertising has reached us one way or another. Yet, a majority of the ads that we encounter are often meaningless and uninteresting, because of the fact that these ads are ... mail to respond to inquires. Thus, making direct-mail advertising to be the most effective method for closing a sale or generating attention of products, services, or ideas. Throughout the history of advertising, newspapers and television have been the most widely used medium, based on total advertising dollars spent. However, their share has declined, as the amount of dollars spent for direct-mail advertising has increased. The Direct Marketing Association estimates ... billion on direct mail in 1997, thatΉs nearly 20 percent of all the ad dollars spent in the United States. Making direct-mail advertising the forth-ranked advertising medium used today. Surpassed only by television, the Internet and newspapers. The Development of Direct Mail in the Internet The future of direct-mail advertising has developed side by side with the technology development of the World Wide Web. Through the ...
- 453: I Didn't Do It: How The Simpsons Affects Kids
- I Didn't Do It: How The Simpsons Affects Kids The Simpsons is one of Americas most popular television shows. It ranks as the number one television program for viewers under eighteen years of age. However, the ideals that The Simpsons conveys are not always wholesome, sometimes not even in good taste. It is inevitable that The Simpsons is affecting children. Matt ... and Wolodarsky) Unlike many sitcoms, The Simpsons is more like everyday life. Homer works in a power plant. In many other sitcoms, the father works a popular job, such as an accountant, or with a television studio. The Simpson family is not a wealthy family living in a $300,000 house. Many children can relate to this. (Rebeck, 622) In some cases, The Simpsons is educational. Karen Brecze credits Homer ...
- 454: Internet Advertising
- ... product or service on the smaller firms web site. Internet advertising is less expensive compared to direct advertising which creates more profit for advertisers and businesses. When compared with advertising in magazines or on television, Internet advertising is far more beneficial and less expensive. Smaller businesses should take into consideration, the Internet advertising campaign because it is less expensive, more interactive, and easier to track and target than other advertising ... an interested consumer clicks on the graphic, he/she is usually redirected to the businesses site according to the particular goods and services being offered. Internet advertising is also more interactive compared to magazine or television advertisements because the consumer can not request or look up more information in magazine advertisements or television commercials, and is usually not willing enough to call or mail companies or businesses for information. This aspect as well as the others mentioned makes Internet advertising much more interactive, beneficial, effective, less expensive ...
- 455: How The Simpsons Affects Kids
- The Simpsons is one of Americas most popular television shows. It ranks as the number one television program for viewers under eighteen years of age. However, the ideals that The Simpsons conveys are not always wholesome, sometimes not even in good taste. It is inevitable that The Simpsons is affecting children. Matt ... and Wolodarsky) Unlike many sitcoms, The Simpsons is more like everyday life. Homer works in a power plant. In many other sitcoms, the father works a popular job, such as an accountant, or with a television studio. The Simpson family is not a wealthy family living in a $300,000 house. Many children can relate to this. (Rebeck, 622) In some cases, The Simpsons is educational. Karen Brecze credits Homer ...
- 456: Arthur Miller and "The Crucible"
- ... and screenplay published; divorced Marilyn Monroe. 1962 Married Ingeborg Morath. 1964 After the Fall and Incident at Vichy produced and published. 1967 I Don't Need You Anymore (collected stories) published; The Crucible produced on television. 1968 The Price produced and published. 1969 In Russia, a travel book with pictures by Ingeborg Morath, published, followed by In the Country (1977), Chinese Encounters (1979), "Salesman" in Beijing (1984). 1972 The Creation of the World and Other Business produced. 1979 The American Clock produced. 1980 Playing for Time, play made for television, produced. 1986 The Archbishop's Ceiling produced and published; Danger: Memory! published. 1987 Clara produced and published; Timebends, his autobiography, published. 1992 The Ride Down Mt. Morgan produced and published. 1993 The Last Yankee produced ... residing in human nature. His autobiography Timebends (1987) gives insight into Miller's personal life and the experiences which have shaped his work. Miller's major plays have been produced internationally and adapted for radio, television, and motion pictures. In 1993 he received the National Medal of the Arts from President Clinton. He continues to write and publish plays including Broken Glass (1994) written for his late father. Further insight ...
- 457: Media vs. Masses...Who Controls Who?
- ... channel. They, in many ways were considered "boring." Networks were growing more interested in attracting their audiences. As the years advanced and technology followed, media began taking different approaches to arouse the public. Conflicts on television where seen as a more interesting and productive approach to increasing ratings. After a while, interviewers would attempt to provoke debate, mud throwing and even emotion out of it's political guests. Politicians who be ... technology has superseded the audience's capacity or desire to absorb it. There is only so much news a person wants to hear. People have Newschopers with nightvision, satellites, cameras, recorders, computers, E-mail, Cable television and CNN. Something has to be more interesting than the next in order to get the viewers to watch. So in many cases the media mimics the behavior of a sleazy talk show. Jerry Springer ... be that the media manipulates the masses and the masses manipulate the media. It is true that the media could enhance how the public may feel towards a public figure or towards a recorded event. Television could make a person a hero or villian at the whim of the presentor through the use of rhetoric or just the data that was selectively presented to the intended audience. But people's ...
- 458: Why Do Kids Want To Play The Guitar
- ... video from a concert that displays literally thousands of fans in attendance. Musician hopefuls see the mass attention and want very badly to be appreciated in the same way. In addition to this, interviews on television stations like MTV relay opinions of the band over national television that many people might be able to identify with. Teenagers may place themselves in the "same boat" as these musicians and again gain imaginary aspirations of being a famous musician though identifications of similarity like ... will never come true. Another reason that instrument playing has become more popular is due to the fact that there is so much more musical diversity and its accessibility through radios, compact discs, and music television stations. In a recent survey I conducted of twenty adults, when asked the question, "Why do you think instrument playing has increased in popularity?", the most common response was that over the past twenty - ...
- 459: Gender Differences
- ... always looking good would be greater if I was to be a female. I would always try to look good and to please others. Girls, I think, are faced with enormous pressures to look good. Television, for example, almost never features old, heavy, or unattractive women. Even if a character is a doctor or a scholar on television, she looks like a Playboy bunny. When it comes to sexuality, I think there is great confusion for both males and females. One contributing factor is the double standard still existing. For instance, the same ... and the media, and each of us must integrate these messages and arrive at some value system that makes sense to us. Another reason there is confusion is that we are taught by movies and television that sophisticated people are free and spontaneous while we are being warned that casual sex can kill us. Double binds and impossible expectation trap us. Becoming a female Asian Catholic, I think my parents ...
- 460: Walt Disney
- ... cartoon with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Within the next five years, he produced other feature-length cartoons such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi. In 1961, Disney was the first to produce a color television series which was called, "Disney's Wonderful World of Color". In the 1950's and 60's , Walt Disney Productions, Ltd., with Disney as executive producer, was one of the major producers of films for motion-picture theaters and television. Still today the company produces more animated motion pictures than any other. From all of Disney's accomplishments from his career in animation and motion pictures, he received a total of 39 Academy Awards. Disney died in 1966 at the age of 65, and since then the Walt Disney Company has produced a new series of animated feature films and in 1995 purchased Capital Cities/ABC Television. You've just heard a brief synopsis of Walt Disney's contribution to the film industry. There's no doubt that his creativity and vision in the area of film-making has inspired many ...
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