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In today’s world, advertisements are one of the most powerful tools aimed to persuade people to behave or act in a certain way. Marketing agents around the world are trying to make the best advertisements that will be persuasive and will direct people towards some ideology. The majority of the advertisements are aimed to convince people to buy a certain product. Because TV and radio channels as well as newspapers are the most popular media sources, corporations find that they are also the best…

A Great Actor and Comedian Bob Hope Bob Hope was among my favorite actors and performers. He was never what you could call a handsome movie star but he was very likeable. I enjoyed watching him in the movies and on TV and his smile was always infectious. On May 29, 2003 this wonderful personality celebrated his 100th birthday. There were about 35 U.S. states which declared this to be Bob Hope Day. To honor him a public ceremony was held in Hollywood, California. On this day city official…

magazines, events, doing your advertisement the right way gets the readers and or listening interested in your message. The advertisement Shake Shake Sensible Meal, by the Slimfast company is introducing new smoothies. Slim Fast is a weight loss system that consist of meals and drinks. It shows there “tasty shakes” and meals. The ad provides statements that drinking the shakes your able to “see results in just one week”. The audience this ad is trying to have is people that wants to be slim…

The reading for this week declared accurate data of how the media (newspapers articles and television stations) can control and manipulate salience and how it impacts the general public on immigration as a whole. I did appreciate the article speaking of the reasons why the media uses only certain data or stories to release. The media has studied Americans and knows what will encourage them to watch the news or read their articles. The news media is the gatekeeper to what the public hears…

(Children and TV) There were some good effects that television brought to children. Programmers had advanced TV shows that could positively influenced children. Children and their parents would watch cartoons together when they went to the department stores every Saturday. Children found their new friends and their role models by characters in TV shows. (Purdy) "The Mickey Mouse Club” taught children meaningful moral lessons and promoted their self-esteem by providing them with positive role…

XI, The black shoes: Bitterfield 1935. A mother is peeling potatoes while the daughter is doing her homework in a working-class flat. The daughter ask the mother if she could have two pfennings for the week. This way she can make the trip to the country because her teacher said Hitler wants the town people to get closer with the farmers. The mother does not have the money but said she will try. The daughter starts to help her peel potatoes when she ask her if she has to wear the old black shoes…

Problems in the world are presented through television. Before the invention of newspapers and other media, information was spread through the word of mouth and later in written forms. When television was invented, communication became visible and information was being spread instantaneously. However, electronic media is reshaping the culture in which we live today by televising serious issues into a form of entertainment. Neil Postman, the author of his 1985 Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public…

Doordarshan with a hope of applying my technical knowledge in one of the largest broadcasting organisation. I was called for an interview as application influx was very high in this organisation and retention was less. I successfully cleared my technical interview rounds and finally started trainee tenure on 13.06.2011. Research & Analysis about company…

The person who wrote the passage “Streams of Content: Limited Attention” is named Danah Boyd. This passage was published in 2010. Boyd tries to inform the modern person by conveying a message on how people would receive information and how people use and react to it. The author uses a logical appeal, which then turns into a more ethical appeal and this makes Boyd seem much more credible. Boyd begins with stating that people should not “be a passive consumer of information” (558-559). She also…

Information Box or Idiot Box How television was used, and its purpose for the world? Having probably surpassed the hopes and dreams of its creators, the television has made a huge impact on the lives of billions of people. The “boob tube” or “idiot box” was initially used to help advertisers sell their products; however, it has become a means of rapidly informing the world of current events and other forms of entertainment. Widespread panic that took place in 2009 as the June 12th switch from…