Lunch With The Rastafarians
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Jamaican culture, the Rastafarians and reggae culture are all components of the island's political, economic and social structure. This 7 page paper explores a situation whereby the communication is defined by the religious orientation, the sub-culture that is a shared characteristic and the age of the participants. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Magazine Content and Advertising
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This 6 page paper looks at how clients, who advertise in magazines, can affect its content. The problem is looked at primarily in terms of inadvertent influence. Many examples are noted. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Making Connections: Freire and Bordo
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A 5 page paper which discusses how to make connections in relationship to two specific articles that insist the reader examine common realities from a different perspective. Paulo Freire's essay is "The 'Banking' Concept of Education," and Susan Bordo's essay is "Hunger as Ideology." In the following paper three excerpts are taken from Bordo's work and analyzed in a manner that might be seen if it came from Paulo Freire. Both authors discuss different aspects of society that we often take for granted. Freire discusses particular aspects of education and Bordo discusses different aspects of gender roles. No additional sources cited.
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Managerial Communications Barriers for Women in Agriculture
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An 11 page paper discussing issues of business communications as they apply to agribusiness. Agriculture typically has remained male-dominated while other types of businesses were in the process of working at becoming androgynous. There are increasing numbers of women in agribusiness, but their influence only recently has begun to expand. The problem for women managers is to gain acceptance by male workers. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
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Marcus Garvey: The Art of Persuasion
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A 6 page paper which examines Marcus Garvey’s New York, NY speech from August 1, 1924 and discusses its focus on persuasion. The paper examines its content regarding pathos, logos, and ethos. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Mass Communication Affects Social Policies
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A 5 page paper that provides a review of an article by Mira Sotirovic (2001) entitled Affective and Cognitive Processes as Mediators of Media Influences on Crime-Policy Preferences. The writer provides an overview and critique of the article and study. The writer also provides additional support for the premise that media affect people's thoughts and opinions. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Mass Media & How People Think
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A 9 page research paper that examines the mass news media and its influence. The new media is enormously powerful, as it provides the main conduit through which the public learns of the state of current events. Research demonstrates that often journalism does not provide the public with sufficient background information to thoroughly understand a news event. The emphasis is on sensationalism and drama rather than on information content. Sociological, political and psychological research demonstrates both the relevancy and power of the mass media--where strengths exist, but primarily where its foibles lie. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Mass Media And Its Influence
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A 10 page paper that begins with data regarding the ownership of different media and how that results in homogenization of mass media. Other topics include: the purpose and goals of media; the power and influence of the media by exploiting some stories and suppressing others; censorship of the media; how the media impacts American thinking and opinions; external control of the media; and a brief discussion focusing on whether or not certain media should be censored. Examples included. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Media Relations
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The development of company policy is a process that takes into account the situation, the personnel involved and the options that may be available for responding to a crisis. This 7 page paper argues that a clearly written media policy allows the company to control, at least to some degree, the way that it is represented by the media and how it might be perceived by shareholders and the general public. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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