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- 751: Youth Violence
- ... away from gang influences, the most effective is training in conflict resolution because it gives kids another alternative to fighting. There are many different reasons as to why kids administer violence. Families, neighborhoods, peer groups, television, schools, and your personal factors are the main reasons. According to Joy G. Dryfoos, Children who demonstrate antisocial behavior come from very non-supportive families at two extremes: either the family is repressive and abusive ... onset of serious violent behavior is involvement with a delinquent peer group (Elliot 72). This is where violence, crime, and delinquent behavior are encouraged. One of the easiest ways to access violent scenes is through television programs. Every time you get home, and turn on the TV a violent scene usually comes on. This is very sad, because many people around the world are concerned with all the violent acts that ...
- 752: The Modern Men's Movement
- ... the male movement is a response to their changing wants and needs. Most men, likewise, recognize that a change in their own behavior is needed to promote the social well-being of both sexes. The television media today is but a single example of many institutions striving to embrace the goals of the men's movement. One television show comes to mind immediately. Home Improvement, and Tim (the toolman) Taylor personify the male striving to embrace the new order. Every episode features a man trying shed his male, grunting, belching, insensitive past. No ...
- 753: J.M Coetzee's "The Harms of Pornography"
- ... person enjoys at one time or another and obscenity which is the element that MacKinnon says "keeps sex interesting for men". It seems that if things (sex and pornography) were less extravagantly portrayed on the television, print and even the radio, that less would be needed to fulfill one's "appetite" for eroticism. If there actually were some "line" that were drawn, unable to be crossed, would that given amount of ... being done". Coetzee challenges this argument by asking the reader about violence in movies. He asks, "Are knife thrusts and gunshots not just as real?" According to Coetzee, the acts of sex portrayed on a television screen are happening to real people, yet one of the greatest attributes of sex, and one of the things that make it sacred are the feelings involved between the two people. Therefore, if there are ...
- 754: Netspeak: An Analysis Of Internet Jargon
- ... currently spoken by people on the Internet, and is rapidly spilling over into advertising and business. The words "online," "network," and "surf the net" are occuring more and more frequently in our newspapers and on television. If you're like most Americans, you're feeling bombarded by Netspeak. Television advertisers, newspapers, and international businesses have jumped on the "Information Superhighway" bandwagon, making the Net more accessible to large numbers of not-entirely- technically-oriented people. As a result, technological vocabulary is entering into non ...
- 755: Ethics and Advertising
- ... should offer, as was said before, any relevant details, good and bad, about the product, and it should include some proof that its claims are true. If you pay attention to the ads on television, the radio, newspapers and magazines, ask yourself, Are the sales pitches for these beverages, automobiles, appliances, etc., honest? Are they appropriate for the wide variety of audiences who are taking it in? Do the media ... vein of the Ku Klux Klan or Neo-Nazi groups. Some media reject ads for foods and beauty products containing ingredients considered unhealthy, abortion clinics or pro-life counselors, term paper consultants, and so on. Television broadcasters are required by the government to reject tobacco ads and restrict ads on Saturday morning childrens programs. Other ads are scrutinized for acceptability depending on if they violate the viewers tastes. To ...
- 756: Nat King Col
- ... devastated by her death and at the funeral he completely broke down. He sobbed uncontrollably, until he had to be carried out of the church, after faintingg. Later in 1956, Cole was offered a weekly television show by NBC. This was remarkable, not only in the fact that he was offered a television show, but also because he was of an African-American descent. The show went on to become quite successful, however even Nat King Cole could not elude the racism of the times. Though its ratings ...
- 757: Cyberspace Offers A Revolution
- ... made cyber-democracy a reality and has given people the tools (in the way of information) to challenge ideas that are presented in the usual mediums. For example, in the past it has been mostly television and newspapers that report on national and international issues. But each television station or newspaper usually only shows one angle of the issue. For example, the media coverage during the Vietnam War was ver biased. No longer are we limited to what our government wants to show ...
- 758: Commercialism As Americas Hidd
- ... just have to see the new GAP Khakis commercial! proclaimed my excited brother. I even went as far as watching the same channel until I finally saw the commercial. I sat in front of the television for over a half an hour, and turned my head at the sound of catchy swing music to see young men and women dancing to music on a stark white backdrop. Their energy and enthusiasm ... a mass audience in a clear and definite way. People are ashamed of this comparative strength. Many of my self-fabricated intellectual friends claim to enjoy gallery fine art more than they enjoy movies and television. When we are at the gallery, I watch my friends ooh and aah at the work as they interpret its meaning amongst themselves. After dragging them cynically into the movie theater, they exit two hours ...
- 759: Propaganda in the Online Free Speech Campaign
- ... revision of our country's communications laws in 62 years. This historic event has been greeted with primarily positive responses by most people and companies. Most of the Telecommunications act sets out to transform the television, telephone, and related industries by lowering regulatory barriers, and creating law that corresponds with the current technology of today and tomorrow. One part of the Telecommunications act, however, is designed to create regulatory barriers within ... the maximum number of possible people. While they all maintain traditional offices, phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and fax numbers, they are virtually unknown by the populace outside of the Internet. While purchasing print or television advertisements might not be as direct and monetarily efficient as utilizing the Internet to promote propaganda, those traditional methods would help get the word out to the largest number of people.. Just as all other ...
- 760: The Truth Is Not Absolute
- ... to follow their own truth, has led many people into frustration and hostility. All concepts are so dynamic that the truth that one believes may appear to be self-ironic. A person may believe that television promotes violence in kids, exposes the use of profanity, and stupidity. Another person my believe that television may be educational because the exposure of all these problems will form into understanding. Although both may be perfectly true to each other, the two issues are found to be to be contradictory. Thedisagreement does ...
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