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that are covered in pesticides! As we know, these chemicals are extremely hazardous for our overall health. I also believe that Whole Foods Market’s sparked some competitive pressure to the mainstream stores. I started noticing various sections of natural products. In a competitive market, these mainstream stores like Giant Eagle have offered just enough to prevent me from…

News media has and continues to have an instrumental role in the shaping of protests movements. However, the role of the mainstream media in contrast to social media encompasses some over arching similarities and also some very distinctive differences. Through a critical analysis of the scholarly articles of both, Occupy Wall Street in Perspective, Calhoun (2013) and Twenty-First-Century Debt Collector: Idle No More Combats a Five-Hundred-Year-Old-Debt, Morris (2014), illustrates the sway of…

There have been a few mainstream films whose protagonist is a transgender man but have starred cisgender females. The depiction of transgender men is important but the issue has arisen concerning whether or not it is appropriate for the films to star cisgender women. Some argue…

One in five college students experiences sexual assault – defined as any forced or unwanted sexual activity, including but not limited to kissing, groping, and rape – during their college career. Around 38% rape incidents are committed by a friend or acquaintance. Furthermore, college men in fraternities are three times more likely to commit sexual assault than other college men (Foubert, Brosi, & Bannon 2011: 217). While there are many factors that could explain a college fraternity member 's…

between blacks and mainstream American society forming from an inadequate understanding of the reality and causes of ghetto culture continue to set back black people’s progress in the nation. Culture results from the interaction with the environment and the people within it, and the variation between the realities of mainstream American society and impoverished minority neighborhood could not be any more drastic in nature. In many cases the sheer differences in culture between mainstream America…

author observes that not only did the mainstream media get it wrong but it showed how the influence of the mainstream media has declined. With a lot of biased coverage, the media had put a lot effort at throwing the election at Hillary Clinton, by giving her unlimited and positive coverage, but surprisingly, she still lost in the elections. The author argues that there is only two steps the media can take after what happened in the U.S elections; the mainstream media would decide to match on…

of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis, on American Pop Culture was that the music that was put out was no longer driven, or controlled, by these big rock ‘n’ roll stars, or the smaller independent producers who helped promote the music. The larger mainstream record companies who disliked and distrusted rock ‘n’ roll instead produced and sold music that was bland and white-washed in comparison. This did not mean that there was a lack of demand from the kids who were rock ‘n’ roll aficionados,…

Introduction Powers of media should not be eliminated as it has deeply influenced our ideology and controlled our life. Many media scholars agree that media can help to define humankind and provide standards for proper performance and attitudes. Media plays the leading role in drafting the blue print of both masculinity male and femininity female outlook. People tend to follow the image constructed by media as a perfect appearance is highly required for the modern society so as to increase…

who were Americans through and through, “whiteness ” eluded them. In his article, Gans states that Eastern and Southern Europeans were able to become “white” due to their integration into the mainstream economy and entry into the middle class. Asians and Asian-Americans have been a part of the mainstream economy and middle class since the 1900s, but the feeling of “perpetual foreign-ness” persists. This raises the question, “what makes…

Introduction In this exploration, I will be looking at the correlation between the budget of a movie and the gross of the same movie, which refers to the amount of money made by the movie. I will analyse in detail the relation between both aspects of the movie and check if my conjecture is true. I chose to do this for my mathematical exploration because I am interested in the field of films and am an avid movie-goer. I like to keep up with the latest movies, that is, be up to date about the…