Mass hysteria

With the spreading and advancing of technology companies can easily reach millions of people when advertising. This also means there is more competition so commercials are getting more creative to catch people’s attention. The commercial by Extra Gum called “Extra Gum: The Story of Sarah & Juan” caught mine. It aired in 2015 and is one minute and 57 seconds long. This commercial tells a love story about a guy and girl, Sarah and Juan, who meet in school when she gives him a stick of gum for…

Advertisements are everywhere you go now. Without realizing we see at least a hundred ads a day. Advertisers will try pretty much anything to sell their products. So how far are they willing to go to sell you their products? What emotional appeals will they use to catch your attention? Jib Fowles “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appels” breaks down the fifteen basic appeals that you will find in ads today. You will find at least one of these appeals in every single ad that you see.In “Advertising…

Television is used as a source of entertainment for all, and it is a good one at that. Thousands of different shows everyday, a different one for every person and their likes, but television can actually be harming us in a very terrible way. The effects of television on society are negative. It can harm children's growth, it reinforces negative stereotypes, and it shows too much violence to the people. Children can be harmed so much by the television if they watch too much. Watching too much…

Mass Surveillance in Modern Society “We need more cameras, and we need them now” was a headline run in Slate Magazine (qtd in Proctor).This is what the world has come to- being obsessed with cameras. Every country is installing surveillance technology which decreases the employment rates for those areas and is more expensive. Although there are many positives, do they outweigh the negatives? Cameras are increasingly invading people’s private lives which is considered to be a violation of…

Preface: Alcatraz prison, one of the most heard of and spoken about prisons. It has been on the news, in newspapers, in movies, and even as a setting for video games. Having seen and heard so much about it, I thought to research and try to understand, why it’s so infamous and what makes it so special. Introduction: So where is the Alcatraz prison exactly? It is located in San Francisco, California, USA. On the island of Alcatraz or also known as The Rock. The island did not originally serve…

Source 1 Ronson, Jon. (2015, February 12). How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?_r=0 Currency 5 of 5: [This information is considered to be current, given that the article was elaborated on and information was collected over the course of a year. Corrections had been made up until May of 2015. No new developments have been publicly made about Sacco story.] Relevance 5 of…

The Industrial Revolution was a period of industrial growth during the late 1700s and early 1800s. This period of industrialization began in England but then spread to other areas of the world. The Industrial Revolution is such a significant period of history because machines were created that could do the work that people originally did. Before the revolution, England was a collection of rural communities that revolved around farming. From 1700 to 1750, Britain’s population had relatively no…

The Political Spectacle is the idea of how politicians can manipulate public opinions and actions by diverting attention from more pressing social and political issues such as poverty, climate change, and racial inequalities. Many politicians take advantage of social constructs to draw attention to foreign threats. By doing so, they skillfully lessen the attention on domestic concerns. External threats tend to appeal to broader audiences and feed the fears of less informed individuals, whereas…

The Influence of Media on the Older Teenager’s Values and Beliefs about Relationships Teenage (or any) relationships are often influenced by media that a person exposes themselves to. Personal beliefs and values, as well as those about people around you can be determined or affected by what media tells you or determines as ‘acceptable’. Core Values and Beliefs in Relationships While everyone’s personal and relationship viewpoints vary, there are certain values and beliefs that should be…

“There were three rules for reporters: ‘Accuracy, accuracy and accuracy.” - Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911) Introduction Media shares stories, records history and projects reality. Therefore, Journalists have been provided with a certain code of ethics that would inform people rather than inflame them to create chaos. To inform, educate and to entertain have always been the three basic functions of media. This paper puts forward a case where a Hasidic Weekly newspaper named Der Tzeitung, based in…