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Nonetheless, given journalism is itself a product of culture, it is not solely responsible for these cultural misrepresentations. Instead, systemic financial, corporate, and governmental factors influence journalistic frameworks, thereby making issues circular, and inherently difficult to overcome. This is especially evident in environmental media coverage. Bacon and Nash (2012, p.250) determine media often, “…take a structural position that is tightly aligned with the interests of the coal…

Women In The Renaissance Throughout history, women have continuously been the victims of discrimination and sexism. During the Renaissance Era, which lasted from the fourteenth century to the sixteenth, things were no different. Although the Renaissance was supposed to be a time of “rebirth” and improvement in society,women did not experience these positive effects due to their treatment and society’s unfair expectations. The Renaissance was a time of rebirth during the fall of the middle…

Millions Exscinded: The Hindrances of Internet Censorship Approximately 270,000,000 million people use the internet in the US and the government hold the power to access and use the information of any one of them (“Censorship”). Furthermore, the National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting people’s information and censoring for the past decade (“Censorship”). The internet began as a “linkage of powerful information technology to free, open, global communications [that made] gigantic…

I fell in love when I was 18. Specifically, it was the first week of my freshman year at college. This was not a typical romance, but like any other, it had its fair shares of struggles, frustrations, doubts, and required a wholehearted commitment which continues to this day. On the first week of my first year at college, I stepped foot into the university gym for the first time. I was immediately enthralled with what I saw. All the people in the room were committed to improving and pushing…

invention of the printing press, only monasteries, education institutes, and the extremely rich had books. It was a painstaking process to create a book because one had to measure and outline the page and then copy the text from another book. The invention of the printing press in 1445 by Johannes Gutenberg allowed for more books to be reproduced at a much quicker rate and for them and their information to be spread to people all over the world (Head). The invention of the printing press by…

Change The Protestant Reformation became so widespread across Europe primarily because of the printing press. Martin Luther was able to spread his ideas for change so quickly because the printing press made books cheaper and more available to the public. Books have been a method for seeking reforms in society for ages. Harper Lee uses her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, to plead for change in the unjust way people treat others. This story, narrated by Scout Finch, takes the reader to a small town…

necessary, since technology can do it for you.Different forms of writing such as novels, textbooks, etc. will no longer be needed. With almost every book available via internet, the necessity to print books will no longer be necessary. Gutenberg 's press, the machine that was known at one point to have changed the world, is no longer…

fourth-largest by nominal GDP in the world. According to Freedom House’s report, the status of the German press freedom remains free. The media in Germany enjoy an editorial independence when it comes their content, the German constitution also secures their freedom of expression and press, except in the case of hate speech, Holocaust denial, and Nazi propaganda. Regardless of their freedom of speech and press, 29 journalists were reported to have been physically attacked by right-wing actors…

Books, films, news and more! So many ways to get the word out there. But if it is politically unacceptable, considered indecent, or even a threat to society it needs to be prohibited. The novel Go Ask Alice by anonymous is an intense book about a fifteen-year-old girl who gets mixed up in the wrong crowd and wants so badly to fit in she does not care that her "friends" take hardcore drugs. She even started taking them herself. This novel without a doubt needs to be banned. It is not only…

The greatest invention of all time is the printing press, the printing press is the greatest invention of all time for a few reasons. The printing press allowed people to purchase books for a cheaper price and to learn more without having a teacher telling them what they need to know. The invention of the printing press also made a lot of the stories and information that people spread a lot more precise and correct. Before the printing press came to be, almost all of the information that was…