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for most of her childhood. Because of this, she described her family as “uncultured,” and much of her time was spent outdoors or in playing sports rather than in radio, TV, and so on. She listened to records like Neil Diamond, Cat Stevens, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and Joni Mitchell. California based group the Beach Boys was one of her favorites. She discovered artists pretty much solely through her peers. This is still true of many kids’ music experience today, but the iPhone and the…

Weber State University Web-Camera System in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit NICview is a password-protected Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) webcam system mounted close to the premature infant, or patient, that allows remote viewing by parents and family members. (Hill, 2011) The system was designed to facilitate the bonding of parents with their infant by providing 24/7 access for remote locations. A NICU webcam program allows management of the camera by the NICU staff, meaning they have…

people decided that Johnson might not be the correct choice for president again. Knowing the American people trusted Cronkite, Johnson dropped out of the race knowing he could no longer win and also ended the bombardment on Vietnam (Austin Ranney). The one newsman had an influence on not only the general public, but the president himself. Before television this could have never…

Today, television has claimed its spot as the dominant past time in society. Whether it is informative, dramatic or comedic shows of all types are tuned in daily. Before television asserted its popularity, years were spent being shaped and reshaped by social, cultural and political context changes. However, television discovered a way to embed itself in the domestic life and transform this new phenomenon of technology into an acquainted social custom within the household. In Lynn Spigel’s…

During the two days I unplugged myself from technology was very interesting. I had already known I use my cellphone and internet more than other technology. I do love watching movies but on an average I only watch maybe once a week. I love playing video games but I have to be in the mood. I always find myself on my cellphone connecting to the internet to check the site very often at multiple hours of the day. Instead of wasting hours on the internet looking for new stories because I already read…

We should participate in shut off your screen week because it will help your health,I know I wouldn't want to do that I would rather be outside that's why I want shut your screen off week.When you shut your screen off it helps your health.Also it helps your health and helps with not being distracted. Helps your health.People get addicted to technology.That does not help your health because your always on your electronics and not learning a lot of new stuff.Also it can really gets you off…

minutes advertisement after every 30 minutes. Therefore, I decided to go for radio and internet. To be honest I am only listening to the radio when eating my breakfast or lunch. But once I hear something strange, I cannot believe, I start my laptop and google the thing to be sure that the media did not lied to me. There are many ways how the media manipulates us and I would like to mention five of them. The first one would be to report news from fake sources. News are reporting about…

from Radio’s mother. The coach also finds out that Radio’s real name is James Robert Kennedy. Radio ends up not being allowed to get on the bus with the football team to travel to the game. The last football game for the season, Radio gets to keep the game ball. Frank (coach’s “friend”) calls Radio a distraction on the sidelines during a football game and it offends the coach. The school board assumes Radio is a distraction in a classroom setting and the school board manager says it is not good…

areas. The spectrum of influence that musicians had became significantly larger once their music could be produced and sent to different areas. Because of the rate technology becomes more advanced, the phonograph soon became a thing of the past. One-hundred years after the phonograph was created in 1877, computer technology had already begun to advance vastly. The idea of music being produced and dispersed to many people was…

this hypothesis, we found that our calculations were wrong and we tested this by using the electromagnetic spectrum: radio wave, microwave, radiation, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays. We went outside and made a simulation by walking and each group was one of the spectrums and we looked at how many more laps one group did than the other and we found that radio waves have the lowest frequency and gamma rays have the highest. Materials: we used human bodies, a parking…