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    Mike, sorry I'm late,” Jim Stanfield said as he placed his brown-bag lunch along with his book of crossword puzzles down onto his desk located directly across from Mike's. “No biggie,” shrugged Mike Kaputtie barely glancing up from the small television set he’d been glued to—an old black-and-white episode of the Andy Griffith Show was playing on its tiny screen. The graveyard shift so far that night at Airingdale Cryogenics, like all shifts at A.C. was slow, but midnights were by far…

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    In “The Allegory of the Cave,” an important distinction is made between two types of people, people who are blissfully ignorant and people who are painfully enlightened. The people who are blissfully ignorant choose to see things as they think they are; they mistake appearance for reality. These are the people who remain shackled to the wall, are unable to move their legs or heads, and, “see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another” (Plato 587). These people remain in the darkness,…

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    The health campaign I have chosen is a Finnish PSA meant to discourage alcohol abuse and/ or alcoholism in adults who serve as parents or guardians. The video opens with a montage of frightened and upset children looking at something in a distasteful manor. Then, in junction with a blast of jarring music, the camera focuses on an unsettling monster sitting across from a little girl. This is when the video flashes from child to child showing them with creepy, disturbing, or scary adults dressed…

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    In May, actor Jamie Foxx received criticism for his disrespectful mockery of sign language, which he used during his recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Foxx appeared on the show to promote his new Fox game show, “Beat Shazam.” As host Fallon was going to commercial, actor Foxx made several hand gestures that were meant to mimic a sign language interpretation of what Fallon was saying, making Fallon laugh. However, all the “signs” were made up, as Foxx was attempting a…

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    Canadian ice hockey and 2014, American football concerning the abuse of coaches to children. It is juvenile/naïve to think that this only occurs within the dance industry, which is what the media has portrayed, and what the readers believe. An ABC television report conducted interviews with parents of dancers who were recently dragged into the spotlight over their ‘over sexualized, provocative’ dance. The parents answered to accusations about letting their children dressing like prostitutes and…

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    Exposure to violence in movies, is it harmful? In many ways, exposure to violence in the media affects our actions and thoughts. While growing up, we watch our favorite superheros use violence to vanquish their enemies over and over again. But does this constant exposure to brutality desensitize us to violence? While some things can impact us in positive ways, there is an abundance of negative influences that we come in counter with. The article “ Violence in the Movies: Cinema Craft of…

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    Imagine only having three main ways of entertainment. This is how it was during the 1930s. The Great Depression was going on during the ‘30s. A lot of people had wanted to be entertained as the Library of Congress states, “Even during “hard times” and war time, people needed to be entertained. The Americans in the 1930s and 1940s were no exception. They enjoyed many forms of entertainment, particularly if they could do so inexpensively” ( “Art and Entertainment in the 1930s and 1940s” 1). The…

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    Rhetorical Analysis Universally, people are unable to shove away the natural desire for "stuff." The media promotes new inventions because society will always be interested in the latest and greatest. However, sometimes it can be difficult to see past the exaggerated claims of a new item, and advertisers will not stray from outlandish when describing their products to draw in curious customers. In this mock article from The Onion, the author jokingly pokes innocent fun at public advertising…

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    In this day and age kids have been beginning to watch television more. We live in a generation where technology is everything. Nowadays there are iPad’s and tablets. iPads were created by Apple and tablets were created by an Android company which is Samsung. iPad’s and tablets have become such an important factor in children’s lives because nowadays kids can watch T.V. on different platforms such as YouTube and Netflix. Netflix and YouTube have turned into a more popular route for children to…

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    Analysis Of The Pedestrian

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    used daily. “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury is a short story about a man who is thought to be insane because he does not own a “viewing screen” or television. These pieces have similar messages, but the authors have different methods…

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