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to as peer pressure in more juvenile situations. The article and the clips cover many interesting aspects of social conformity, and just how vital it may be to understand it. I was quite baffled by the “What Were You Thinking?” clips presented by NBC Dateline. Some of the examples were certainly theatrical in my opinion. At the begining of a clip, Chris Hansen spoke of how childlike istincts, like mimicking elders, stay intact with our thought processes throughout our lives. This simple truth…

One of America's religious practices that not many people talk about, but is shown a lot on the big screen, are exorcisms. On NBC in 1971, the first ever exorcism was televised (Newkirk, Week In Weird). The clip features NBC journalist Carole Simpson interviewing Ed and Marsha Becker, a couple who began to experience strange things after moving into their new Chicago home. They claimed to have been experiencing dramatic hauntings in their home. The couple called upon the help of medium Joseph…

should be able to embrace their appearance instead of fixing it with plastic surgery. Also, it justifies that the adults and people their age should help them embrace their true selves. Another example is from the documentary “Second Chances” by NBC Dateline about another participant named Donovan. He, unlike the others, was not accepted by the Little Baby Face Foundation to get plastic surgery on his chin, but in the end, he was glad that he was rejected. Some time after his rejection phone…

In the play, Peter Pans parents represent facts and reality as they have a plan for Peter as he becomes a man. They show how life is supposed to be in a human society that is filled with responsibilities and obligations, although peter did not approve. Peter is shown to be born as a human who ran away from his parents because he refused to grow up. “I heard father and mother talking of what I was to be when I became a man. I want always to be a little boy; so I ran away to Kensington gardens and…

against the acquisition of NBC universal by Comcast. Firstly they proposed the competitive harm from a Vertical Transaction. A vertical merger can harm competition by facilitating exclusion or collusion. Free Press argued that Comcast’s collaborative effort with NBC would stifle competition in online video (TV Everywhere model) by restricting where, the vast amount of “must-see” NBC-owned content can be offered, and charge higher rates to television providers for accessing NBC-owned networks.…

Golden Girls was an NBC show written by Susan Harris. Golden Girls aired on Saturday nights with the idea that the show would raise their ratings and bring in an older demographic. NBC had a hard time fulfilling Saturday ratings until Golden Girls joined the line up. There are a total of 180 episodes. Golden Girls had 15 Emmy nomination and 10 wins, Golden Girls ran from 1987 and eventually ended in May 1992. The shows premise surrounds three widows and one divorcé, based in Miami all living…

Social Media And The Erosion Of Journalism Overtime, everything must evolve. From fashion trends, to the human understanding of the universe, the world is a never ending string of fluidly shifting events. Even the way information is created and consumed is relentlessly altering and adapting. In the digital age, journalist, the gatekeepers and protectors of public information, are hard to distinguish from the herds of bloggers, and the countless soap box preachers. Often, the lines between fact…

Answering the question as to whether or not I think the case was handled properly provides little challenge when considering the basics: a young man was killed, the person who killed the young man was tried by a jury, and the accused was acquitted of the crime. In essence, the criminal justice system worked when viewing this case from that overarching perspective, but when we consider how we got from the death of Trayvon Martin to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, I am of the opinion the case…

R. Kelly Struggle and Pain Of all the things I could have been, a Producer is what I am. I have been through many phases in my life thus far and music is the one constant that has never let me down. I’ve been an athlete, playing basketball from age 5. Participated in just about every sport with a ball until injuring my knee. I’ve been a Soldier, fighting wars and traveling the world. That too came to an end. Through it all I still have music. The subject for my report is R. Kelly. Why R.…

Though drastic, this change makes sense because we already spend far more on our military than any other country does. According to an article from NBC with data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, In 2012 the US spent more on its military than the next ten highest military spending countries of (in order of highest to lowest spending) China, Russia, the U.K, Japan, France, Saudi…