Mass Effect

One of the long-standing debates in society today are concerning the potential effects the mass media has upon the public when reporting news, which has contributed to their fear of crime. In their desire to sell more newspapers journalists often present the news in an distorted view as it attracts the public attention. One way this is achieved is by the media playing a vital role in agenda setting in relation to crime and deviance. In 2011, Marsh and Melville defined moral panics as an…

Mass Hysteria Mass hysteria is caused by fear. Where this fear comes from may vary, and could even be caused by many forms of fear put together. A country having fear, not just fear as a whole, but fear that separates the people within, is exactly what happened in the United states prior to the civil rights movement. This goes clear back to the end of the civil war, when the segregation of the blacks and whites began. Before the civil rights movement, mass hysteria was caused in the United…

The significant timing of the mass migration of black communities to urban cities created a rare opportunity for African-Americans to escape their bounded poor economic status and instilled hope for them to aspire for more skilled jobs and a better future. During the outbreak of World War I, there was a huge demand for jobs that became opened for African-Americans in industries such as the meatpacking, automobile and railroad. This economic opportunity led to Black migrants employed in higher…

parties, and political gatherings occupied with the movement strategy face off regarding. On the off chance that the effect of mass movement is politically nonpartisan, there is no motivation to be worried that bodies electorate will change obviously by the settlement and naturalization of fresh introductions. All things considered, migration may have financial and social effects that ought to be expected, however nobody need be worried about political movements. The evolving economy, the…

grandma’s house and spent my week there. When I was at my grandma’s house I played on the computer waiting till the release date of a new game called Mass Effect: Andromeda to come out. While I was waiting i talked to my friend Aydan over skype about the game since he was also getting the game. We discussed the lore of the of the first trilogy of the Mass Effect series. When the day came to get me pre-ordered game my grandma took me to Gamestop and we waited till 9:00 pm to receive my game.…

The year of 2015 has been a year filled with high profile events. These events are almost always involved a mass shooting. A mass shooting can be defined as an incident involving multiple victims of gun violence. However, the FBI has no true definition of a mass shooting, it can be prepared to mass murders as killing 3 or more people in a short amount of time. Just in 2015 alone this definition fits almost an unlimited number of high profile cases. However, these shooting are not shown as simply…

“After me and my family got evicted, I’m out of here. It’s hard to find a job, so this all I know. This is the first thing I go to.” Says Ross- a resident of Nicetown, Philadelphia, PA: which is among one of the areas hardest stricken by the effects of mass-incarceration and the lack of opportunities that accompany with it. Ross –a good-looking young man with tattoos up to his neck- recently finished time in prison and has no high school diploma, leading him to dealing drugs as the streets…

By building a weapon of mass destruction, The United States created tension between herself and the U.S.S.R that led to a full scale nuclear arms race, which not only threatened the safety of the world, but triggered a breakdown of global interdependence. We all get scared sometimes, and we act irrationally out of fear, but building weapons of mass destruction is not an appropriate reaction to being scared. J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted: “Now I become death, destroyer of worlds” from the Hindu…

crack cocaine is associated with communities of color), along with heavy police presence in communities of color – mass-incarceration has been able to take place. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the population of people incarcerated, in both state and federal facilities, was 1, 508, 600 sentenced to a year or more (Carson, 2015). It has been well documented that mass-incarceration disproportionately affects communities of color, specifically due to the harsh sentences around drug…

The fueling of racism through Mass Media. “Mass media has played and will continue to play a crucial role in the way White Americans perceive African Americans” and other races (Balkaran). Post’s on the internet may not have been racially motivated or have racist intentions, but misinterpretations can lead others to think they were. For instance, if a cop was arresting someone and there was a struggle between them and it was caught on camera, people might say it was racial profiling. So now…