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- 681: Satellites
- ... At&t has used this communications satellite (top right) ever since the late 1950s. TVS and radios are also turning to the use of satellites. RCA and Sony have released satellite dishes for Radio and Television services. New technology also allows the military to use satellites as a weapon. The new ION cannon is a satellite that can shoot a particle beam anywhere on earth and create an earthquake. They can ... the reception would be horrible. We wouldn't know what the weather would be like on earth, or what the stars and planets are like in space. We wouldn't be able to watch live television premiers across the country because all those are via satellite. A satellite is a secondary object that revolves in a closed orbit around a planet or the sun, but an artificial satellite is used to ...
- 682: The Roswell Incident
- ... the 1990's, people have despised the thought of sharing the universe with other intelligent life forms. Now people are interested in this mysterious phenomenon. People think it is the blame of the movies and television. By watching this, people are at a level at which they understand. Not only do these movies entertain, they inform people about the little information we obtained from the government. The thought of government cover ... trying to locate her. Five nurses are pictured in the 1947 Roswell Air Field yearbook. The files of all five are strangely missing from military records. A couple of years ago a report on Fox television network broadcasted a show called ôAlien Autopsyö. This show was mainly about what happened to the bodies which were recovered from the Roswell crash site. Bodies were showed being dissected on video tape. The whole ...
- 683: The Birth Of Fiber Optics-To it's Popularity
- ... Reuss of Vienna used bent glass rods to illuminate the bodies' cavities. In 1895, french engineer Henry Saint-Rene designed a system of bent glass rods for guiding light images in an attempt at early television. In 1898, American David Smith applied for a patent on a bent glass rod device to be used as a surgical lamp. In the 1920's, Englishmen John Logie Baird and American Clarence W. Hansell patented the idea of using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images for television and facsimiles respectively. In 1930, German medical student, Heinrich Lamm was the first person to assemble a bundle of optical fibers to carry an image. Lamm's goal was to look inside inaccessible parts of ...
- 684: 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 ...
- 685: Internet Censorship
- ... met with mixed results. People who support freedom of speech on the Internet quote from the first amendment of the Constitution. In addition, many groups are in favor of restricting the Internet, similarly to how television is regulated in the United States. In favor of this regulation are groups emphasizing values and some foreign governments. In the latter, often the government does not want the citizens being introduced to new ideas ... in some situations. Many proponents of Internet restriction have rallied around "community standards." However, it should be noted that these standards have not yet been implemented in any medium currently available, with the exception of television (Robischon, 57). Even here, their effectiveness is the source of fierce debate. The Simon Wiesenthal Center recently submitted a list of Internet sites which negatively depict Latinos, Jews, Gays, and African Americans (Jones, 18). Though ...
- 686: Leonard Bernstein
- ... On September 9, 1951, he married Felicia Montealegre in Boston. She was a young actress, born in Costa Rica, who had come to the United States trying to make appearances on the stage and on Television. They lived in a nine room duplex on Fifty-seventh Street, diagonally across to Carnegie Hall. There they raised their first two children. Their household included Helen Coates, who had been Bernstein's piano teacher ... given to an outstanding figure in popular music; the Datsun Award for “outstanding service to American music”; the Institute of International Education Award presented by President Nixon; and the George Foster Peabody Awards for his television programs. Bernstein provided the music for four famous Broadway musicals with a superior amount of sophistication and technique. Often times, he would produce music with great humour and sentiment. Bernstein's great talents led him ...
- 687: The Connections Between Violen
- Violence, Corruption, and Wealth: The Connections Made in Today s Popular Culture Today s society is no stranger to violence and corruption. We see it in our streets, on our television and movie screens, and we hear it in music. However, as we move closer and closer to the 21st Century, a clearer connection is being made between this corruption and wealth. Our culture is beginning ... Not much unlike Rap music, the Mafia has drawn many fans. What is worse in this case is that violence and corruption do lead to wealth and respect. Most of today s Mafia movies and television dramas are in one way or another based on a true story. They depict scenes of brutal murders and assaults, then the next scene will show the criminals splitting up all the money they made ...
- 688: Walt Disney
- ... showed how animals lived in nature. In 1953, Disney released his first full- length nature film, The Living Desert. All of his nature movies included scenes of animal life rarely seen by human beings. After television became popular about 1950, many filmmakers either ignored T.V. or fought it as a threat to the movie industry. But Disney adjusted easily to the new form of entertaiment. He hosted a weekly show that presented Disney films made especially for television, featuring such characters as Davy Crockett, and Ludwing Von Drake. Disney achieved one of his greatest successes in 1955, when he opened Disneyland, a spectacular theme park in Ahaheim, California. Many of the attractions at ...
- 689: Boxing - Should This Unjustified Sport Be Banned
- ... laboratory subjects exposed to violent material on film tend to behave more aggressively than those who are not exposed to such material. As children are very impressionable, they tend to emulate whatever they see on television and watching boxing on television might encourage aggressive behavior among them. Some of these children may also regard boxers as their role models and grow up wanting to be boxers too. This is contradictory because as an article from 'Boxing ...
- 690: The Curse Of Right And Wrong
- ... what is happening. When Americans look for something to blame for declining morals, they point straight at the media, particularly the entertainment media, and especially TV. Jason Sines of Chase, Md., says the worst is television. He notes that TV is readily available in the home, and harder to avoid. Other sources like magazines, movies and other media require a trip to the store or the theater. Sines views are widely shared. More than 3 out of 4 Americans say that the values portrayed on television are getting worse. Because of this, children are much more aware of things they shouldn t know about until later in life. Effects of the moral climate also show up with children, who often reflect ...
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