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Uses and gratification theory is one of many communications theories that help to explain human’s relationship with mass media. The main idea is that people turn to media to assist them in fulfilling certain needs that used to be filled by just talk to other people. The uses and gratifications theory (UGT) is a way of understanding why audiences use media and what they use it for. It can be applied to many areas of society from entertainment to news content. However, it’s relevance in social…

Society’s Obsession with Perfection: Impact of Media on Self Image Magazine’s line the shelves of nearly every grocery store, enhanced with beautiful models flaunting their skinny frames, big breasts and flawless complexions. Social media feeds are stocked with an endless amount of women boasting about their latest exercise routines and diets they swear by. Television has become nothing but twenty minute long commercials, endorsing their latest beauty product with promise to transform you…

Monroe’s death, it can be concluded that she was not a victim of a cruel murder Instead, Marilyn Monroe overdosed on barbiturates, specifically Nembutal, resulting in a suicide, as ruled by the officials on the scene. Specific evidence, such as lack of a needle puncture, proof of a Nembutal prescription from multiple accounts, and probable reports of depression contradict the conspiratorial beliefs that characterized this…

Research question: Why should the deep web stay hidden? For my literature review I chose the Cultivation Theory. According to Wikipedia, Cultivation Theory is defined as, “Cultivation theory examines the long-term effects of television. "The primary proposition of cultivation theory states that the more time people spend 'living' in the television world, the more likely they are to believe social reality portrayed on television. According to the theory, cultivation leaves people with a…

Few things are as devastating as disease or terminal illness. Several diseases have made an appearance or re-emergence over the last couple of decades – HIV being among the most prevalent and devastating. HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus, “is a chronic infectious disease passed from one person to another through blood-to-blood or sexual contact” (Hoeger, Hoeger, Hoeger, & Fawson, 2015). HIV was originally formed in chimpanzees in Central Africa, and spread to humans through infected…

Johnson dive into the much-researched topic of “media effects.” The book begins with an explanation of the rise in number of television channels and the shift towards partisan news outlets. Historically, media effects research veers from the “hypodermic needle” model in which information from the media travels like an infection to the “minimal effects” conclusion and back to “contingent effects” where the framing and priming affect the audiences’ views (17-20). The authors argue that the…

Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 film starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie about a women’s 18-month stay in a mental institution. The film takes place in the late 1960’s and focuses around a main character by the name of Susanna Kaysen. The following summary was written with help from the American Mental Health Foundation website and Wikipedia. In the beginning of the film we learn that Susanna Kaysen had overdosed by taking an entire bottle of aspirin followed by a bottle of vodka. Despite many…

patents were issued for the drug and easy trade continued. In 1803, Morphine is created by Friedrich Sertuerner in Germany. In the 1800’s, the War on Drugs was very real. The British and China actually went to war over the trade. In 1853 the hypodermic needle was invented. Bayer company announces a new drug, Heroin, in 1898 as a substitute for Morphine. It was supposed to be a drug that didn’t have the nasty side-effects of Morphine. In the early 1900’s, Heroin addiction sky-rockets. In 1924…

Silent Pain Imagine being treated very poorly, imagine having a nozzle put over your mouth, and imagine being locked in a cold barren cage, where you are forcibly dragged along with a rope around your neck and pushed down. You can either face death or replicate the dreadful steps of cosmetic testing. Many chemicals and products are forced into your airways. While aching with loneliness, you have to wait for the next painful procedure. You do not get the opportunity to say no, get up and leave,…

Based on witchcraft and the excruciating trials that occurred in the Massachusetts, Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” takes the audience through a storm. It portrays its different ways of which the characters were prosecuted for supposedly being involved in a lot of crimes that they did not necessarily commit. In the following essay, an attempt will be made to discuss the idea of the media effect and define the long and short term…