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The Advent of Peach People—The New Minority within the Majority In an article by Verysmartbrothas.com author Damon Young, titled “I Will Never Underestimate White Peoples Need to Preserve Whiteness Again,” Young discusses the inability of whites to “votes against their self-interest”—the preservation of “White Power.” Damon Young’s feature piece does what all journalistic mediums seems to do and generalizes a people as Donald Trump supporting Republicans. The feature neglects to mention…

On average, American’s watch about 28 hours of television per week. Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to death” reinforces his many ideas and theories that revolve around the concept of how media is seen in a much bigger picture, and tries to offer some solutions to the issues that are happening right under our noses. It also shows how television has affected the perspectives of many and cultures in negative ways. Postman makes other points such as the how the truth can be seen or manipulated…

In the article “The cultural logic of media convergences,” Henry Jenkins argues that the meaning of media convergence cannot be simply defined as a development of technology that combines different types of media into one platform, and it is a process that created by media audiences’ desire for more entertainment and the cooperation among many media industries for fulfilling those audiences’ behavior. For a further understanding of convergence, Jenkins believes that it is a shift of culture that…

TV and press) that normally spend costly compare to digital one. There were three types of existing companies competing each other; large-multi agency conglomerates (Omnicom and WPP), mid-sized and smaller boutique agencies, and specialist agencies (AKQA). By doing some research, they able to provide and create the digital media to be more advance, like AQKA offer and diversify mix of web (e.g. internet advertising/marketing…

to collusion in the industry and may further lead to fixing of prices. There is said to be a congeneric type of M&A when firms that offer similar services but not in same industry merge. Example is a bank and a leasing & Investment company. In conglomerate M&A, the parties involved are in different industry . Example is an oil producing firm and television station…

An isolated mountain range rising abruptly from a plain. Uluru is mainly composed of arkose, a sandstone infused with plenty of feldspar and some conglomerate. It is composed mainly of rock grains, and after around 400 million years, the sands and gravels were so far down they were knitted together, changing its form from sediment into a rock. It is therefore a visible tip of rock slabs that spread far…

The number of craft-spirits distilleries in the US have exploded from 51 to 588 in the past 10 years. And with a market share is predicted to rise from its current 1% to 8% by 2020, large conglomerates are assessing them carefully. The craft movement renaissance in America has changed the marketplace for bread, beer, coffee and now spirits. Behind these small brands - many of who craft, bottle and blend their products by hand—are stories that the large companies can’t tell. But they haven’t let…

A freshman taking a Dying Environment class believes that blood is a substance; however, he or she is incorrect. Substances and mixtures are both types of matter that act in different ways. A mixture is a combination of two or more substances that are not combined chemically. Furthermore, substances cannot be separated by physical means, whereas mixtures can. Because it contains many substances that can be separated through physical means after being combined, blood is a mixture instead of a…

Simply put, I have always looked for knowledge. For years I have read nonfiction rather than fiction, I have always found comfort in the known and since then have strove to excel at understanding and contemplating the unknown. I believe that with the help of a well regulated and up kept community of people with the same interest as me, I will be able to understand the material provide in my coursework at UIC. The reason I and many others go to a university is to learn, of course they have an end…

Do you actually know where your food comes from? Your basic fruits and vegetables and meat does not automatically land in your lap or into the downtown supermarkets from just nowhere. As you would have guessed many of your fruits, vegetables, meats and grains come from hundreds of exports from many countries around the world. In the United States, to different types of agriculture and climate, it is hard to produce the hundreds of different food items that the world has introduced to the world.…