University Degree: Paper-based media studies
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Chocolate vs Vanilla
Body: Main Point A.: Chocolate is delicious and good for your health. * Antioxidants found in dark chocolate can help your heart by lowering blood pressure and preventing heart disease and diabetes. Contrary to popular belief, saturated fats found in chocolate have no adverse effect on cholesterol levels. (Ingall, Marjorie, cnn) * Chocolate promotes brain health by increasing blood flow to the brain; improves memory and fights memory loss (Ingall, Marjorie, cnn) * Stimulates metabolism with the chemical theobromine and small amounts of caffeine (Smith, HJ; Gaffan, EA; Rogers, PJ, pubmed).
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Zygmunt Bauman. Bauman, in his book, highlights the most impossible thing, to find real meaning of the elimination process in both programs Big Brother and The Weakest Link. Baumans Dread of Death focuses only on the process of evicti
Bauman, in his book, highlights the most impossible thing, to find real meaning of the elimination process in both programs 'Big Brother' and 'The Weakest Link'. Bauman's 'Dread of Death' focuses only on the process of eviction, which is unavoidable, every contestant faces eviction. Bauman writes that every person is an individual and 'the whole point is that you do not need to do 'something' 'to deserve' the eviction' (Bauman 2006: 24). 'The Weakest Link' is a program in which the teamwork is an illusion.
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Myth of co parenting
To finish, I will compare and contrast the two texts and explain: where do my sympathies lie? Hope Edelman looks at the realities of marriage and imbalanced parenting roles in her article "The Myth of Co-Parenting." Edelman uses her own marriage to reveal the unexpected difficulties that married couples experience when trying to share responsibilities of working and raising a family. The author explains the challenges of striking a balance between a married couple in the home and at work. She shares how she always imagined that she and her husband would work during the day and share household chores.
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Why did the Whitechapel murders attract so much attention in 1888?
The location of the murders attracted greater public attention than other areas of London, because of the press coverage and exaggeration, which made Whitechapel feared. Another reason could be that Whitechapel is a poor area and people didn't have anything to give, so what could Jack the ripper gain from murdering, this puzzled people making them more interested. The nature of the crimes also attracted more attention; all 5 women were killed by a slash from ear to ear. 3 of the five women had their skirts pulled up suggesting the murders were of a sexual nature and sex was taboo at that time.
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Why did the White chapel murders attract so much attention in 1888?
The majority of female Whitechapel residents were disrespected prostitutes and the East End became known as the home of the unemployed. The Ripper cases were seen as the first ever serial killer and so immediately attracted a lot of attention; during the 18th century serial murders were unheard of, no one had ever seen or heard about such violent and gruesome attacks so everyone wanted to know more. However, the main cause of so much attention towards the murderers was the press at the time.
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Currie, David P. The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period 1789 -1801. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Dumbauld, Edward. The Declaration of Independence and What it Means Today. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950 In this book the author presents the historical and political events and circumstances which accompanied the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and marked the end of British authority over the American Colonies,2 and analyzes the extend to which adoption of this document has influenced further growth and development of the United States. Dumbauld also compares the philosophy of American and English governments and as appendixes presents The Dunlap Broadside of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson's Preamble to Virginia Constitution Or Form of Government, English Bill of Rights and Virginia Bill of Rights.
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Textual Assignment
The third and final section is written from another characters point of view, this being the character of Mr Stevenson, this section runs through until the end of the article. In the first section, the introduction, the main points of the article are all summarized to give the reader an understanding about what the article is about and whether it interests them. This introduction introduces the article, the basic story and gives the reader a good impression of what it is about.
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Coursework Assignment 1: Author Profile (Shani Mootoo) Shani MootooShani Mootoo was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1958 and raised in Trinidad. At age nineteen she migrated
Shani said that she gravitated toward visual arts most of her life. A victim of child abuse, she was told to never speak of it, so she found it safer to express herself using pictures instead of words and described her art as "trying to find out what the purpose of life is, wondering why certain things that happened to me as a child could be permitted to happen, and why the universe would allow such a child to survive...it's about what
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"Do We Want To Follow New York& Be Smoke- Free"?
and has a daily circulation in excess of 424,000 and an estimated readership of 1 million. The paper also comes with a supplement four times a week and Metro Life on a Thursday which contains all the information concerning what is happening in London for the forthcoming week in relation to cinema, clubbing and the arts. The general readership is made up of commuters as the paper has its own newsstands set up around the capital as well as sellers at traffic lights and around train and underground stations. The content is generally specific to its audience as it regularly reports on London issues and prides itself on this and utilises it as a selling point.
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Communications Bill (Nov 2002) and its Effects on the Press.
The feeling is that, with Ofcom being a government regulatory body and therefore working closely with them, the government now has the freedom to control everything that goes out in newspapers to their favour, therefore making it impossible for any paper with an anti-Labour stance, or any paper that chooses to disagree with them in the future, to do so publicly through their own newspapers. The government, however, more notably Culture secretary Tessa Jowell who helped devise the bill, state that the regulatory body is only there in the case of newspapers to advise the Secretary of State in the event of any mergers, and would not have any control over the editorial content of what the newspapers publish.
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The content analysis, which I preformed, is based on twenty magazine articles.
Gender plays a vital role in the representation of the familiar, the desirable and the "real" in popular media culture. As an integral part of this culture, the world of advertising plugs into gender representations in particular and often very interesting ways in order to locate its products within the world as perceived by its intended viewers. Several famous Hollywood actresses and performers have been seen on many magazine covers displaying their nipples and cleavages.
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Describe what is meant by the term 'moral panic', using your own words as far as possible - Cite at least one example of a 'moral panic'.
The notion of a moral panic attempts to understand such claims. Stanley Cohen used the notion of moral panic whilst examining the disturbances between the mods and the rockers' in Clacton in 1964. In his view the media reaction was excessive, generating widespread public concern and causing the authorities to react stronger in later incidents and ultimately fuelling the original problem. The initial clashes between mods and rockers' in 1964 were relatively small. The press arrived the following day and proceeded to interview participants and members of the public.
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Thought Control - How the Media Decides What is Important.
Why? Well, simply because the media companies are not covering these wars. I agree that media companies should deliver the stories that are most relevant to their subscribers, but then, does this not turn into a matter of delivering only the news their subscribers want to hear, and what the media companies want them to hear, not what is really happening. Moreover, it is just na�ve not to believe that the executives behind the scenes of these gigantic media conglomerates are not constantly in discussion with national heads of state about the content that should and should not be published or aired.
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In the light of a number of recent high profile complaints about invasion of privacy, critically assess whether or not the UK press should continue to be self-regulating.
As Chippendale and Horrie put it, Hillsborough was "an unparalleled journalistic disaster" for the Sun. Such incidents amassed many complaints against the press, however there was no official regulatory body or formal codes of practice. The Press Council, which was established in 1953, had the aim to "maintain high ethical standards of journalism and promote press freedom" (www.pcc.org.uk/students/info3.htm). However, it was soon criticised for its ineffectiveness in dealing with certain complaints as it had no statutory power and no money.
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'Fireworks and a number twenty-two' - Commentary.
This is a method I decided to adopt in order for my audience to relate to my character by exploring the commonality of experiences, which provides the audience with a comical reassurance of their everyday lifestyle. An example of this can be seen in my article; 'I rushed through the ever-growing crowd of people, who incidentally all seemed to be heading in the totally opposite direction to me, in a bid to catch my bus.' Theories indicate that audiences' posses the need for reinforcement of self-understanding and indulgence, thus they find comfort in the media and compare their own lives to those portrayed in pieces such as this.
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Discussing slogans.
" Sorry, No McDonalds" This advertisement use minor sentence, stress , colloquialism technique. It use easy slogan. It also make people think about holiday. The target is high income people. I would place this advertisement in high quality magazine or billboard. "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY" This advertisement is the advertise of Hershey chocolate. It use Colloquialism technique , Graphological thick. It means that when there's a problem this can save you. After you eat this you will be happy.
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Poor people.
that was killed while he was working, (for certain reasons he has climbing a tree and fell down) doing one of his jobs, and this was one of their paragraph where we can see how they refer to this man that was saving to buy his own house: "Morse, who owned his own landscaping business as well as working at the Home Deport store in Danvers, had been working on a new family home in Hamilton, and was only a month away from moving in, according to family members."1 Like this article I read many, who described situation of people that had a low paid job.
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Should the Press be completely free?
In other words, it is a mouthpiece of the state - nothing more. In most democratic countries the press has a certain measure of freedom. I can raise its voice against the government and in fact can belong wholly to an opposition party and attack the government of the day, as long as it keeps within the law. Herein lies the catch: It is the government which decides what the law is. If one follows this lien of argument, what may happen is that the press's freedom can be curbed by just passing new laws.
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Press freedom and censorship are flipsides of the same coin - Which side should be applicable, given the focus of newspapers today?
The British Guardian newspaper reported that the US Defense Department has spent millions of dollars to prevent western media from seeing highly accurate photographs, taken by privately owned satellites, which show the effects of the bombing. While censorship of the press may be necessary to prevent negative mindset, the newspaper should not shield realities, which affect the global community at large, and thus, press freedom should be exercised as opposed to censorship. Freedom of the press allows for social stability by providing the truth of what occurs in society.
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How far should people's privacy be protected from the press?
how to handle the press in their own way. Each star receives a varying amount of press attention in their life and usually music celebrities are more hounded than film personalities simply because they appear in added mediums separate from their music. Whereas a film star is in the actual movie and a select few interviews, musicians can be found on records, in music videos, in interviews, and at live performances and award shows. This increases the press intrusion into their lives.
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