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Unit 6 - Audience Response - Assignment 2 Task 1 A Media Product that has had a strong impact on its audience is the film ‘Jaws’. This film uses the hypodermic needle technique as it emphasises a negative opinion on sharks and how they are dangerous man-killers which is what gave them such fearsome reputations. The film spawned an international panic about sharks and this created a mass audience effect as the attraction to go to destinations with beaches declined as people were afraid to go…

The book “The Zimmerman Telegram” had many key points, including the importance of keeping “room 40”, the confidential room used for decoding the german telegram code, a secret. Britain needed this room to keep watching germany and their political and military moves. Another point would be the importance of the US and its final decision on either joining the allies or staying neutral. Before the telegram President Woodrow Wilson was very adamant about staying out of the war, and even ran his…

In 1897, the United-States militarily intervened outside of their territory for the first time since the Mexican war in 1845.The Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino war represented a major challenge for the McKinley administration, the United-States were just recovering from a recession, but were also becoming the most important economy in the world. The 1897, war represented the first diplomatic test on the American continent over a European country, Spain. In 1917, the United-States were given the…

Down through the years since the United States began, each president has faced different challenges, especially pertaining to foreign policy and war. George Washington chose neutrality when England and France were ready to destroy not only each other but the allies as well. Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president, took a page out of George Washington’s book over 100 years later. When Europe was fighting in the First World War, Woodrow Wilson had a difficult decision to make regarding the future of…

The service assignment that I would most thoroughly enjoy serving in the Navy would be the Surface Warfare Community. I believe that the opportunity to work on an aircraft carrier would be awe-inspiring privilege. Throughout this essay, I plan on discussing the rich history of the surface warfare community, while touching on the main missions that drive this particular community. Surface Warfare Officers (SWO’s) are trained extensively to maintain and operate United States Naval ships, their…

Whenever there is a major jump in technology, a strategic revolution often matches it. The industrial revolution and steam power completely swung the strategic advantage from the offensive to the defensive, evidenced through the Civil War. In the context of the Navy, one of the latest technological innovations is aviation; it was being integrated into the Navy before World War I, but wasn’t advanced enough to be of any major strategic use until World War II. For this reason, the strategic and…

The Enigma of the 20th Century “Send the U-Boat to (51° 15' 43", -6° 45' 4"); attack at 15:00.” This could have been a message that was ciphered using a secret code during times of war. Cryptography, the study of securely coding messages, has been around for thousands of years (The Enigma Machine Explained). It started out with pencil-and-paper codes, made of substituting letters for each other in the alphabet. Then, there were more geometric codes, relying on using grids to write out messages…

After she is left unhappy in her marriage because of Tom’s many rendezvous, Daisy is confronted by Gatsby and her past, and she chooses to begin a relationship with Gatsby. With this relationship, she becomes involved in a conflict with time, for Daisy is probing for a feeling she once knew in her rich, young innocence. During her prime blossoming at eighteen, Daisy had had men from a nearby army base occupy her attention, and one particular officer that Daisy had fallen in love with was Jay…

physical labor utilized during a total war, but innovations in medicine and technology were being made specifically for war. A total war also entails attacking all parts of the population of the enemy not just the army, for example in WW1, German U-boats sank civilian merchant ships, and a naval blockade was put up against Germany that successfully starved them into surrender. (Gossard) All parts of the enemy were attacked not just the soldiers on the battlefield. A total war is something that…

and analyzing accordingly. Countries Populations More than50years Health expenditure (GDP 2015) % Purchasing power (GDP 2015)$ Inflation rates % Local market growth for herbal tea U.S.A 88.98 million 17.1 17.97 trillion 0.2 Low U,K 18.88 million 9.1 2.66 trillion 0.1 Low JAPAN 50.02 million 10.3 4.65 trillion 0.7 High SAUDI ARABIA 2.199 million 3.2 1.681 trillion 2.3 Low QATAR 0.223 million 2.2 324 million 1.6 Low AUSTRALIA 6.2 million 9.4 1.489 trillion 1.9 medium…