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- 631: Childhood Socialization
- ... and at the same time it opens up children's minds to different types of cultures, races, ethnic groups through various friends without them being aware of it. Children also learn a great deal from television, movies, and radio. Often times the children learn from media are negative. For example, the T.V. show "Cops" portrays mostly minorities. Is this because more minorities are arrested or is this because more minorities ... movies, "Menace to Society," "Boys in the Hood," and "Dangerous Minds." These movies show children the negative stereotypes of minorities, because more than 50% of the characters in the movies are minorities. These movies and television shows are about violence, gangs and other negative societal events. This is teaching children, in a roundabout way, negative attitudes about the people around them. The movies present ideas about stereotypes and because children are ...
- 632: An Increasing Problem On High
- ... both events, hence the name, "The Crucible." On April 20th 1999, two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, opened fire in a suburban Denver high school, killing 13 people, including themselves. What ensued afterward through television analysts and newspaper columns across the nation, was a barrage of people who appeared to know the personal lives of these two boys, and with that, a knowledge of what drove these boys to go on a killing spree. Video Games, popular music, guns, movies, the media, lack of chistianity, parenting, and television all compose a short list of all the things that were blamed. In addition to what was blamed for this tragedy, characteristics of the boys were also mysteriously attributed to them without any proof. The ...
- 633: Madonna
- ... film industry. Her first debut album was called Borderline. In addition to the album she also produced a short musical video to accompany the album. Her music and video were featured on MTV, a music television channel found on cable television. After heavy airplay of her music video on the MTV cable channel, her album became very well known. Her first music video for MTV reached the top of the music video list. The album reached ...
- 634: American Pickup Trucks
- ... respond quickly to defend the proud heritage that these vehicles have made. Men probably are the main buyers of pickup trucks as they are seemingly marketed towards the male consumer that is evidenced in most television commercials. These marketing ploys always use the typical cowboy type performing some act of hard labor and the truck gracefully tackling some ridiculous task. But the fact of the matter is that the truck has ... lot of people when they think about a pickup, thoughts of rednecks chewing tobacco and drinking beer comes to mind. The truck with the rebel flag and the gun rack that one would see on television or in country music videos could be the stereotypical driver but make no mistake about it, pickups are everywhere and driven by all kinds of people. It has even been rumored that Wal-Mart founder ...
- 635: Walt Disney
- ... practical know-how enterprise and ingenuity. He accomplished many things in his life time. Completing twenty one full length animated films, 493 short subjects, forty seven live-action features, 330 hours of Mickey Mouse Club television programs, and two extraordinary amusement parks, just to name a few. On December 15, 1966, at 9:35 am in St. Joseph's hospital in Burbank, California, Walt Disney died. Many people were shocked as ... only sixty six years old but accomplished so many things before his death. By that time, 80,000,000 people had at one time purchased Disney licensed merchandise, 10,000,000 had watched a Disney television show, 240,000,000 people had seen a Disney movie, and 800,000,000 at one point read a Disney book or magazine. In addition, Disney received a total of thirty nine academy awards through ...
- 636: Racism
- ... service workers, material movers, and assemblers, all of which are manual labor jobs, with low wages. Blacks are not only encountering discrimination in their jobs and economic status, they are also facing discrimination by the television media. Movies are very much responsible for stereotyping blacks as violent, ignorant and racist. "In such movies as Hard Cover and Point Blank have shown black people as a group infatuated with guns and drugs ... have the highest median school years finished among the entire U.S. population. This represents the striving and the effort made by this group in what concerns educational achievement. Asians have also been victims of television media discrimination. In KTVU, you said it, an asian boy, under the name of Max, expressed his feelings towards the discrimination in what concerned a broadcast about the widespread decrease in enrollment in UC campuses ...
- 637: Science Fiction In Human Socie
- ... realities are sometimes included in science fiction. In American literature many writers expressed their ideas of future advances in technology, events or future events, society and future societies in imaginative stories, poems, periodicals, films, and television shows. Television shows and movies today have depicted imaginative technological advances "that makes people hope for based on present-day science but haven't developed yet" (Treitel 2). For example, in the show "Knight Rider", Michael Knight ...
- 638: The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan
- ... additional one-year terms and was responsible for negotiating several of the union's contacts. Reagan became embroiled in disputes over the issue of communism in the film industry. He toured the country as a television host, becoming a spokesman for conservatism. In 1940, Reagan married actress Jane Wyman. "They were young, attractive, naοve, and unattained by scandal."8 Wyman met Reagan while on the rebound and dated him during the ... Americans, a male dancer is synonymous with homosexual, but "Skip" dispelled these fears by marring in November 1980. Reagan's entry into politics was helped by a speech he gave in 1964. It appeared on television and bought him to the attention of powerful Republicans. They urged him to run for Governor of California. In the 1966 election, Reagan faced Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, who had been a popular Democratic governor ...
- 639: Neil Postman
- ... true, and false, will happen to words such as semantic, and pedagogical. Vocabulary tests should be left as they are. If a student wishes to study words of everyday use, read a book, or watch television. The next principle was thought provoking as well. The use of a metaphor as a tool in education is rarely used, as Postman notes. Unless our students are aware of how metaphors shape arguments, organize ... a bridge, but does not tell us with which tools he intends to build it with. This particular concept is valid alone for the above reason. Whether you are talking to a teacher or watching television, metaphors need to understand. The fifth concept is that of reification. This means confusing words with things. We falsely associate simple words with things they don t even resemble. This occurs many times when we ...
- 640: Welafre
- ... in Los Angeles he received his party's nomination on the first ballot. During the campaign Kennedy and Vice-President Richard M. Nixon met in four nationally televised debates. It was generally conceded that these television appearances helped Kennedy more than Nixon. Problems Facing the New President As Kennedy took office, cold-war tensions between Communist and Western nations increased. Communist forces pushed into Laos and threatened South Vietnam. The new ... basement of the City Hall for transfer to another prison, Jack Ruby (born Rubenstein), a Dallas nightclub owner, broke through a cordon of police and shot Oswald. The murder was committed in full view of television cameras as millions watched. The Return to Washington The casket bearing Kennedy's body was removed to the presidential jet plane, Air Force One, where Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office as president ...
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