In medias res

In Battling for Hearts and Minds Stern said, “To be young, to dream of something better, to oppose dictatorship: the mix was dangerous” (Stern 2006). The dream is the first step to get what you want. Every nation wants to fight to have a more decent life, and every youth generation wants to live better days than the older generations had before. The youth generations wants to fix everything now in order for the next generations not to face the same struggles as much, but rather have a life that…

The paper “Postmodern Representation and Commodity Spectacle in Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locusts”, written by Mr. Darvay, allowed me to gain insight on a novel I had never read, and to be frank never heard of either. As I was working my way through the paper, my brain was scattered as I tried to grasp the concept that was being talked about. Although, right of the bat the sentence “compressed into one huge junkyard...commercialized society and culture” truly stood out to me. My first…

What are scare tactics and why do people use them? A scare tactic is a strategy that intends to influence the public’s opinion by arousing fear or anxiety on a specific issue. We see scare tactics every day when we watch the news. News stations use scare tactics because it simply boosts their ratings and people tend to pay more attention to the negative things than the positive things. The order in which information is presented is important especially when using scare tactics. To have an…

the likes. Why do we categorize them the way we do? One of the biggest influences is the media. In movies and television, we are shown all the smart kids being teased and called “nerd” and the beautiful girls getting the handsome jocks. Cliques are a not the only forms of stereotype we perceive throughout life. There is power fueled by money and greed, competing for superiority, gender, and racial roles. The media has set the limits of what is acceptable and what is strange. Hollywood and the…

country by making, changing and implementing policies when the necessity arises. However, the mass media has been described by many as the fourth arm of the government. The reason why it has been seen as another arm is because, like the other three arms of government, the mass media has been able to influence policy change, due to its power over the general public, (Fields, 2008). And also,…

GurinderPal Singh John Kincheloe English 101B 6 August 2015 Convergence Culture Convergence culture is the term coined by Henry Jenkins meaning the colliding of old and new media (Jenkins 425). It is also a world where consumer participation can simultaneously create productive global conversation, as well as devolve our understanding of the human condition and art. Convergence has been created to better our lives and make things simpler. In todays society convergence plays a huge roll in our…

While we see media every day in our own lives, media has been there since the first colonies of America but a lot has changed since then. Media can generally be defined as a means of communication that reaches or influences a large or wide audience. Although media is something that we experience every day and most likely something we do ourselves, it has been around for a much longer time than people think. One of the first forms of media in America was the Publik Occurrence newspaper in 1690.…

Steven H. Chaffee and Miriam J. Metzger entitled “The End of Mass Communication?” Two Decades ago, So many questions come to my mind so many opinions, reactions, thoughts, ideas, and even why? Like why some people wants to replace the word mass to media? And they want to call it. Before I gave my reaction on that question, first lets know what Mass Communication means, Based on Steven H. Chaffee and Miriam J. Metzger Mass Communication is different things to different people, for some the core…

In class, we spent a fair amount of time discussing Caitlyn Jenner and what her transition and experiences mean for the transgender movement. Many people in class proclaimed that they believe that all news coverage is good news coverage, similar to the sentiment “all publicity is good publicity”. However, I do not believe that that is necessarily true. For the most part, Caitlyn Jenner and her actions have set the transgender movement back tremendously. One major issue is that the general public…

For reference, take a look at where your phone 's Home key is; to the left of it, there 's a key that will open the multi-tasking menu. You know you 're in the right place if you see all of your open apps and are able to scroll through them as you would an old Rolodex. This is the fastest way to get to where we need to go. In the future, you can also use this button to quickly switch between and close…