Marshall Applewhite

Regional perspectives historically influence many different aspects of the community. Typically, they are used to express certain attitudes, concerns, and ideals to ultimately translate to the public and therefore create visions and attitudes, that lead to plenty of opinion. However, what many do not realize is that these perspectives are the core to the judgement that will make up future actions and or behaviors. Media for instance, is a heavily influenced field that as much as many networks…

1. What area of journalism or communication studies do you find particularly interesting and think you would enjoy learning more about? (simple statement) The area of communications that I find particularly interesting is mass media, and it’s role in developing opinions on disenfranchised groups of people and their struggles, especially the first nations. 2. Why do you find this topic interesting and important? (500 words) There are many interesting aspects of this, like what kinds of…

Choi (2010:392) argues that people generally shape national images based on information given by the media. He reinforces that the image of a country is to a certain extent created and influenced by media coverage. Smith (as cited in Choi, 2010) further states that in framing and creating the national image of a country, the media usually use “catch phrases, pictures, special words, and metaphors.’’ Saleem (2007:136) agrees that the “image of a country” in the media is analysed through the…

Target Canada Company Target Canada company was a subsidiary of the famous target corporation based in the United States. The company came into existence in 2011, and its base was in Canada. Its functions were to control and run the operations of Target Corporation in Canada. It was a discount departmental store selling various products. I chose this company because it failed to control the market and win the hearts of the Canadian consumers despite its initial extensive expansion. The company's…

exhilarating world in which the human tribe can become truly one family and man’s consciousness can be freed from the shackles of mechanical culture and enabled to roam the cosmos” (McLuhan 1969). In a 1969 interview for Playboy Magazine, media theorist Marshall McLuhan dreamt of a world where man was capable of individual thought, yet still linked seamlessly to the rest of the world through the media. This notion of a virtual community that breaks down the borders of time and space is what…

Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2nd, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland and died on January 24th, 1993 in Bethesda, Maryland. He was an American attorney who was appointed as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1967. He was the first African-American to have the position & served for 24 years, until 1991. Marshall studied law at Howard University. As counsel to the NAACP, he used the judiciary to promote equality for African Americans. He won the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954,…

In today’s society, many people learn more from the media and technology than any other source. The media provides us with the message, and media is also considered the messenger because of the way it feeds the public information. Over 1 billion people in the world use the internet and the media can send out messages through this. The 2011 American documentary, Miss representation, is a film based on how women are portrayed by the public, and it is not a positive one. The film discusses how the…

Much has been written about the pervasiveness of the media in our everyday lives—from television shows, to ads on the sides of buses, to friend’s posts on Facebook, we are constantly being exposed to the media in all its forms. As such, it is no wonder that the information and images shown in the media have such large impacts on our understanding of the world around us. This profound influence which the media has on our beliefs can be dangerous, however, when the information being spread is…

Mean Girls For my second Journal, I have chosen to examine what role media has in portraying the ideas of sociological ideas. For my example, I have chosen to analyze the movie Mean Girls. This movie sets a good example of how socialization comes into play from the media. There are many sociological terms that can be applied from the movie. The reading that best represents all these examples is from the the reading called “Constructing Differences”. This reading examined the ideas of what…

Within “The Medium is the Massage” scholar Marshall McLuhan proactively examines the future of the media landscape. Within the specific passage, pages 92 to 95 (beginning at the word “amateur”), and in the book as a whole, McLuhan conveys the theme of progress, giving his perspectives on the ways in which it manifests itself. The author does so through the literary devises of anecdote, giving real life examples of his perspective on progress and parallelism through diction and syntax, showing…