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October 14th, 2016 was an exciting day for baseball fans in Toronto, Ontario. The Toronto Blue Jays prepared to face off against Cleveland in the American League Championship Series. Catch anything out of sorts about that last sentence (specifically relating to the teams)? Read it one more time. The full name of the team the Cleveland Indians was purposefully left out. The Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer, Jerry Howarth, also uses selective vocabulary like this. Howarth’s protest efforts…

the role of the media in a democratic state is to provide a voice for the marginalized in society. Therefore, a failure to ensure press freedom is a democratic failure. This essay will explore the way in which the negative portrayal of African Americans in the media has led to oppressive behaviour targeted towards them by the government, and how this is directly correlated to the status of the United States as a democratic country. Press freedom, within a state, leads to an enlightened…

over the years we have over 300 reality television shows (Yahr, Moore, and Chow). Reality TV shows have impacted society negatively because they promote aggressive behavior and the use of drugs and alcohol causes society to imitate famous celebrities. While most of us think of Survivor as being the first reality TV show that came on air in 2000, reality television really started in 1948 with Allen Funt’s Hidden Camera show. Before it became a television show Funt had a radio show called Hidden…

However, modern cosmetic surgery came into play as a result of the advancement of motion pictures and television as well as the American eugenics movement around World War II. The first modern cosmetic surgery was rhinoplasty; performed in 1923. That was followed by the first public face-lift in 1931 (Donohoe, Martin 2). Cosmetic surgery is known to be an expensive hobby…

The Portrayal of the Criminal Justice System in TV Dramas “Orange is the New Black” is an American comedy-drama television series. It tells a story about the life, struggle and experience of Piper Chapman in a female prison. The first episode “I Wasn’t Ready” explains why Piper is sentenced to prison and describes her beginning days in there. About ten years ago, Piper helped her girlfriend, Alex, to transport a luggage of drug money. Ten year passed, in her thirties, when she and her fiancé,…

Polio Vaccine Polio Vaccine was found in 1953 by a doctor named Jonas Salk to cure the virus “Poliomyelitis”. Polio attacks the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous system, causing muscle wasting, paralysis, and even death. Polio is caused by the poliovirus, a highly contagious virus specific to humans. The virus usually enters the environment in the feces of someone who is infected. From this outbreak, many people including children have suffered severe injuries. A 1916 polio…

well as a technician; His mother, Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury (nee Moberg) was a swedish immigrant. Ray Bradbury was the third son of the family (Shelokhonov). His middle name, Douglas, was given to him by his parents after Douglas Fairbanks (an american actor, director, producer, and screenwriter who lived from May 23, 1883 to December 12, 1939). His grandfather and great-grandfather worked as newspaper publishers. When he was a child, he was obsessed with magicians…

first-time drug use was sixteen. Today the average first-time drug user is twelve (Current & Stutman, 1998). After experimental use of illegal substances, the individual advances to the purposeful stage where they use the drug for social purposes (Judge, 2000). The next stages go from abusive use of illegal substances to addiction to the substance. The trend in the U.S. is that individuals are starting younger and the increased use is putting pressure on lawmakers to legalize drugs that are…

Introduction 1.1 Cultural Phenomenon In the past few years, America superhero movies such as Spider-Man, Captain America and X-Men have swept around the world. People in different countries show great preference in them. In the past 12 years from 2000 to 2012, there have been 67 movies about superhero on the big screen, the market share of which is more than 10% in the movie market worldwide. In the future 5 years from 2014 to 2019, 22 more sequels of them and new superhero movies will be on…

negative consequences that evidence its short-sightedness and the lack of synchronicity among the various stakeholders affected. In tracing the various conditions that produced the CMHA, it becomes apparent that impactful policy is assembled out of a series of cultural, scientific, political, and social circumstances that must all exist and come together within a very specific…