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advertisers or to promote the company itself. A perfect example of this currently happening today is at Fox News. The 2004 documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch 's War on Journalism by filmmaker Robert Greenwald criticizes the Fox News Channel, and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, claiming that the channel is used…

“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world” (Marilyn Monroe Brainy). This quote stated by Marilyn Monroe directly describes her life. Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles, California. Her mother gave birth to her in the charity ward of the hospital and Norma never knew her father (Marilyn Monroe International). Norma had a tough childhood, going from one foster home to another because of her mother’s mental instability. At age 16, she married James…

caricature East India Stocks published in London in 1788 portrays an assortment of characters, referring to corruption and embezzlement of the East India Company stocks by the people in authority, specifically that of Henry Dundas, a lord advocate under George III, who would later become the president of the Board of Control. Although William Pitt the Younger, the English Prime Minister from 1783-1801, was seemingly the face of these charges, Dundas was the cunning politician dismaying Pitt from…

A long while ago a young housewife became an international icon in a matter of days. That lady’s name was Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn could do whatever her heart desired. She went from a housewife of a soldier, to a model in a few weeks. Why was Marilyn so famous? How did her picture on the air vent become so popular, and lastly, why is she still popular today? Marilyn Monroe was an icon of her era. How did Marilyn become popular? There are many reasons why, and many other opinions, but this is…

Media Literacy is defined as the ability to analyze and understand what we see in the news everyday. Media literacy is super important in today’s society. It is clear in examples like the case of Michael Brown that media perspectives warps everything we see today. One example that stands out to me was the activity we did in Contemporary Social Themes examining different perspectives in articles about the Murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Most of them seemed to take the side of Michael Brown.…

and Sac-Fox Indian descent, and Charlotte View, of Potowatomi and Kickapoo descent. Jim Thorpe was baptized “Jacobus Franciscus Thorpe” in the Catholic Church. He was born in Indian Territory of the United States (Later Oklahoma) but no birth certificate was found. Jim’s parents were Roman Catholic, a faith which Thorpe observed throughout his adult life. He grew up with five siblings, although his twin brother, Charlie, died at the age of nine. Jim's athletic…

TV Series Review: Empire “Empire’s are not built in a day but this one was created in one season. Writer and Producer Lee Daniels has once again out done himself with his creativity and adaption of his new hit series Empire which first aired on FOX news last spring. Daniels directed and produced many other hit movies such as Precious and The Butler which won several awards for its outstanding production and outstanding performance by the cast. Empire, a new television series created by…

by grounding troops after President Obama has vowed to not get into another ground war in Iraq. Both Fox news and CNN news have made it clear to specify and show who the “good guys” and the “bad guys” are. To CNN Ray Rice is the bad guy in the story once the video of him hitting his now wife Janay Rice in an elevator in Atlantic City. To CNN the NFL and Janay are the good guys in the story. To Fox news, the main story they focused on was Obamas foreign policy and how he vowed to not get…

were gripes about coverage, with party aides dismissing the MSNBC host Steve Kornacki as a “hipster pit bull.” And there was disdain for the frequent flattery by television journalists. When Fox News sought permission to sponsor a Democratic primary debate — “Please know that you are always welcome at Fox,” an executive wrote — the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, seemed unimpressed. “Boy,” Ms. Wasserman Schultz wrote to an aide hours…

Many people live in a world that leads them to struggle with social problems regarding their physical appearances and family relationships. However, this can easily result in a limiting mindset and disappearance of individuality as others struggle to fit into society’s “correct answers.” Instead of questioning society’s views, people are submissive and fail to rise up for changes. The film Little Miss Sunshine is an effective contemporary interpretation of an archetypal journey based on…