Misrepresentation

“Island Archaeology and the Native American Economies (2500 B.C. – A.D. 1700) of the Georgia Coast” The small islands off the East coast of North America may appear to simply be marshlands, but from an ecological and archaeological perspective they are teeming with information. Researchers are interested in whether the smaller islands were important to Native American economies before European contact, during contact, and/or after? This is one of the questions authors Victor Thompson and John…

education in public schools has been one of the most controversial topics in Ontario in recent months. Children in public schools are susceptible to learning about a delicate topic from media and their friends. These kinds of sources may give misrepresentations and misinformation of the sexual content. Having sex education in public schools allows students to have proper education and information about body parts, senses, and functions, and stages of development. It benefits parents who are not…

The film Beyond Good and Evil: Children Media and Violent Times, presents an in depth view of the role in electronic media as it relates to violence and children. The film exhibits a concerted effort to inform individuals of how violence through electronic media adversely affects children. Specifically, how the media portrays accepted means of violence to resolve clashes between good against evil. Moreover, the film discloses the active role of the government and some news media in presenting…

deal with present and past stereotypes in the context of today’s society.” In order to display connections between the past and the present, Charles takes common black stereotypical characters and reinterprets them in contemporary ways. For example, the image of Aunt Jemima, a mammy, which is a black character that is historically known for being the caring house servant for the white family, is a caricature that Charles often critiques in his work. Similar to Charles, Colescott plays upon the…

deny receiving payment from the party that made the deposit payment (Frey& Martin, 2000). The only option would be pursuing the matter from another angle where Jim and Laura can argue that the salesman defrauded them through false pretence of misrepresentation because he did not offer them a receipt upon making the payment of $100 in deposit for the purchase of the car. Pursuing the matter from such a direction is likely to lead to a compensation of the claimed amount because the dealership and…

In a society where the dominant culture controls the majority of media communication, marginalized social groups continue to create an alternative public space through independent and underground media in order to combat dominant media’s attempt to maintain society’s status quo. In the song “Joe Metro,” the Asian American hip hop duo Blue Scholars use underground hip hop as a form of alternative media that recognizes the every day lives of both Asian Americans and other minority groups. The rap…

objectives and applied only to the sale of securities. First it required investors have financial and other specified information concerning securities being offered for public sale in interstate and foreign commerce. It also prohibited deceit, misrepresentations, and to prevent fraud in the sale of securities. There were a number of items considered securities such as stocks, bonds, notes, debentures, warrants, voting trust certificates, subscriptions, rights to oil, gas and minerals, and…

this article as a way to let the media and anyone in charge such as producers, directors to see how important it is to correctly represent bisexuals in television and movies. Zimmerman supports her arguments by exposing various examples of the misrepresentation of bisexual characters, stating convincing facts and statistics, and leaving an underlying consequence to appeal to emotions of the readers. The author…

have public legal counsel are at a 35% chance to receive the death penalty. Criminals who receive the death penalty are also at a disadvantage because of their education level, and the education level of an offender can have consequences on income. In a study done by National Demographic data, it was found that, “That 52.3% of death row inmates did not finish high school and 12.7% attended only to the eighth grade or less.” Education levels of most death row inmates are low, thus not allowing…

“Changing the face of Poverty: Nonprofit and the Problem of Representation,” by Diana George, is about the misrepresentation of poverty shown through the mainstream media and films. The stereotypical images shown in these collages are not so black and white in reality. The malnourished and emaciated children and families along with a broken shelter are not the only type of poverty that exists in today’s world. The author in her article explains in depth about the flaws of the representation of…