Photo manipulation

That is a lot of people commenting, tagging and liking photos on a daily basis. Although there are many positive influences towards Facebook use, there are many negative connotations to Facebook use among youth. Recently, researchers have noted the correlation between an individual’s mood and their Facebook…

Idioms and Slang vocabulary are different. An idiom is a figurative expression or phrase used to express an idea vaguely, so it does not relate directly to the person you are speaking to (Real Life Blog, 2015). Idioms are simply a group of words which have a different meaning than the sum of their parts. An idiom is a combination of words that has a meaning that is different from the meanings of the individual words themselves. It is a phrase which does not always follow the normal rules of…

The general topic the class experiment was how attractiveness affected the sentence length of a crime. This is important since it directly affects the lives of defendants in court room situations. Judges should be aware of this potential bias as they are deciding ruling. Sigall and Ostrove, conducted a study focusing on the same topic. The independent variable was the level of attractiveness with the crime committed. The dependent variable was how long the sentence was that the participant…

In Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women, Jean Kilbourne (Jhally, 2010) focuses primarily on the effects of media on women and attitudes towards women. The objectification and dehumanization of women can be seen in many advertisements, with images portraying disembodied parts (often breasts), images juxtaposing women with objects, and images portraying women as literal objects. Kilbourne argues that the proliferation and saturation of unhealthy images circulated by ads in daily life…

historic data.  Stabilizers for polymers Stabilizers for polymers are used directly or by combinations to prevent the various effects such as oxidation, chain scission and uncontrolled recombinations and cross-linking reactions that are caused by photo-oxidation of polymers. Polymers are considered to get weathered due to the direct or indirect impact of heat and ultraviolet light. The effectiveness of the stabilizers against weathering depends on solubility, ability to stabilize in different…

Robert Philip Hanssen, born April 18, 1944 to police officer Bob Hanssen, was one of the most damaging spies in United States history (Deep Inner Conflicts). Raised in Chicago, he would later attend Knox College where he received an AB degree in Chemistry. Next, in 1966, he would attend Northwestern University. Initially studying to become a dentist, he would decide to instead pursue a degree in Accounting and Information Systems. While in college, he would also take classes on the Russian…

Shepard Fairey has been subtly demanding obedience for decades. Unconscious stares meet the face of his ubiquitous image of the late professional wrestler Andre the Giant in the streets of nearly every major city worldwide. Stickered haphazardly onto street signs, plastered to overpasses and billboards, the graphic, propaganda-esque portrait of Andre stares through dark black eyes, silently commanding “OBEY.” Or is the command to dis-obey? Such are the sardonic messages behind much of street…

My personal role heading into the production of “Kernel of Lies” was essentially to handle all the post-production as well as some voice-acting. This involved several steps from bringing the script, storyboard and VO assets together, modifying the animatic’s timing based on feedback, re-recording some of the VO and sending it to the animators before editing all the material afterwards. I spent some time speaking with the animators about what was achievable in post-production and the best ways to…

such as exhibitions pavilions” (p. 66 Curl). Photography was a new medium that was being repurposed for the use of design and the interpretation of different information as subjective or objective forms; this encouraged Bayer to experimented with photos and shadows to mold reality at his will in a three-dimensional playground. “I got started in the early twenties while I was studying at the Bauhaus. We were working in many different media and I became interested in photography as a new and…

Even though Adolf Hitler was a controversial leader who did many bad things during his run, he did know how to deliver a speech and win an audience over. (THESIS) Hitler 's vital component to the rise of his power was through effective use of physical gestures, repetitiveness and speech content. Hitler was a well developed orator; he knew when and how to portray himself to the people and the media. All in all very deceiving during his run for fuhrer. Lastly, Hitler knew how he wanted to…