Movies Course Works Samples For Students

Intellectual Elaboration

Among the many examples of gender or racial stereotyping that can be found from film or media, I chose the following; Gender Stereotypes within Children, Labels Against Women, and Raise the Red Latern. The Gender Stereotypes within Children has emphasis on how children respond from the given questions about the difference between a boy and a girl. The Labels Against Women talks about a commercial advertisement that represents women empowerment. The movie entitled Raise the Red Lantern demonstrates polygamy happened in China during the era of warlords, before the civil war of the ...

Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese film, directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is based on two tales; In a grove, which provides for the plot and characters, Rashomon which creates the setting. The film is about a priest and a woodcutter who are standing under a gate to protect themselves from the heavy rain that is pouring. They are later joined by a commoner, they explain to him a scene they have witnessed in the forest. This article will describe the film using some questions offered by the professor.

Humans are not able to be truthful with themselves of their real nature; they cannot describe themselves ...

21movie directed by Robert Luketic is a film based on a true story, and it involves six students trained to become professionals in card counting, by using the knowledge acquired in class, these students takes Vegas casinos for millions ensuing their innumerable winnings. Essentially, for these students to increase their chance of winning the card game Blackjack at Vegas casinos, they basically “count cards” a trick acquired from class (Mezrich 67). Evidently, it is ostensible that this movie has a lot of mathematics involved, the most profound mathematics technique incorporated into this movie is the “counting of cards”, a technique published in the book ...

In his speech and article, John Hages is trying to persuade the target audience of taking reality as it is. He does it with a great example that is the movie “Matrix”, where the computer programmer chooses between the red (reality) and the blue pill (the world of dreams). In the speaker’s opinion, all people should make this choice, and realize all threatens as soon as it possible.

The speaker is a missioner who helps poor people in the name of God. He travelled all around the world, and he has seen many things, especially that in many countries ...

Review of Physical Images in South African Theatre

Mark Fleishman’s article “Physical Images in the South Africa” explores the meaning of theatre in the African context and the Western context. The author tends to relate the views held by renowned personalities in the art such as Lecoq. In the view of this critic, the world is a theatre of incessant movement and to frank, other than being arena for recitation, the theatre must comprise of elements such as color, complexity, and rhythm.

Although artists agree that the physical body forms part of the process, in South African theatre it serves as part of the text. Moreover, ...

Historically, movies production target to capture and sale for a large global audience. Therefore, it is natural that companies and organizations dealing in consumer goods, however without contact to motion picture industry, have used movies as a feasible marketing channel. Principally movie genre for example action, drama, science fiction among others naturally represent a given specific target market. Consequently, it becomes easy to incorporate commercial messages to influence specific target audience. The messages are included in the movies via a promotion method known as product placement. This paper will briefly give three examples of brands featured in television programs.

The first example ...

The movie by Shaw titled Spartacus was documented and mentioned to showcase the lives of the slaves as early as the time and period of 73rd BC. It included the slave trade and the kind of life that the slaves were subjected and exposed to in Athens and Greek region as a whole. The irreducible and indisputable minimum was the right of the Romans to own slaves. On the contrary, what was up for debate or negotiation was the aspect of how to treat the slaves. Most of the people, especially the slaves, were captured or defeated soldiers, who were ...

In the age that we live in today, the media are a great tool for companies, both small and large, to get their marketing messages across to a vast range of viewers. This is especially true for visual media, i.e. Television and Film, where, a huge amount of audience almost always guarantees that the advertisements projected for a certain brand will result in sales.

The movie 'The Greatest Movie Ever Sold', was a documentary that premiered first in January of 2011. The documentary was based on product placement and how brands market themselves using Film and Television media. The unique part about the ...

The movie Ordinary People describes the tragedy of family in a realistic manner. It portrays what can happen to the family belonging to the upper middle class when they face tragedy unexpectedly, and the entire order is disturbed. The movie has shed light on a family that has become separate individuals residing in a similar house, without any communication with each other because of the tragedy. The movie has realistically considered the guilt that is misplaced at each level. The inability of the family for working together in the form of the system via the tragedies bring them to the path where ...

Exam #1

- What are the two types of statistics? (5pts.)

The two types of statistics are descriptive and inferential. In descriptive statistics, the data of a population is summarized graphically or numerically through derivation of statistics related to central tendency and dispersion around the same. The shape and nature of distribution is also used in descriptive statistics.
In inferential statistics, the parameters of a population are inferred according to sample statistics. This involves the estimation of statistics of a group allowing for approximation of information data relating to the entire population. In this type of statistics, modeling are used to generate mathematical ...

Daniel Day Lewis in the Last of the Mohicans, is pointed to as one of the great method actors of our time. He totally immersed himself in the role actually killing and skinning his own food, learning the crafts of the Mohican tribe, and carrying a rifle with him everywhere during the shoot. Before the filming ever began he lived for six months in the woods and continued to do so throughout the shoot. By believing he was the character he was portraying, he convinced the audience as well as his co-stars who also gave more realistic and believable performances.
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Section 1:

Aileen was a sad documentary. We are shown in the documentary that Aileen is a killer and a prostitute. The director tried to show that Aileen had brain problems. Her mother said she may have brain damage when she was born. This might have started all of her troubles with killing people and being a prostitute. The director shows us that Aileen is not evil but maybe needs help instead. Her moods change fast and she almost seems a different person in different minutes. Her history is bad. The documentary said she was abused and ran away. She was poor. She sold herself to ...

Introduction

One of the most important message that is brought out in the film is determination. The movie discourages people from losing hope. After the death of Tomoko , Reiko sits on and start to investigate the mystery about this death. She finds the cursed tape and with the help of her ex-husband she is able to connect the content of the tape with psychic who died 30 years ago and a child sadiko.

The other message that the producer is trying to put across is the theme of death. Many people in the film have lost their lives in a very mysterious ...

Question one:

According to the cost benefit principle, an action should be taken only if the extra benefits from taking the action are at least as great as the extra costs. The economic surplus derived is $2.5. This is arrived at by subtracting the cost of doing the car wash personally that is, $3.5 from the benefit of having a washed car which is $6.

Question two:

At Smiths house, each child knows that the cost of failing to drink a can of cola now will result in the cola ending up being drunk by the other sibling. Each child, therefore, has a motivation to drink ...

Brainstorming is a great concept and idea that generates important artistic works displaying different themes and messages. It has impacted other sectors positively, as well. Brainstorming in art has been used not only in the process of generating and creating an artistic work, but also in interpreting a finished artistic work. Brainstorming provides a good environment under which new ideas and broad interpretations of artistic features and products are presented.

Creativity and innovation are the most important in the field of art, and through brainstorming it has made the field revolutionize and come up with new ideas and concepts that have put ...

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Introduction to Film: Focus on Society

According to Peter Lalonde, our culture and values are passed along through film. Among the movies I watched, these two movies captured my attention; “Apocalypto” directed by Mel Gibson and “Shooter” directed by Antoine Fuqua.
In “Apocalypto,” communicates positive facets that provide comfort to the soul, the message on how to reject fear as a human sickness, alluding to the society where fear is utilized as a way of brainwashing.

The film reminds a total fascination in the atmosphere of the experience. Few films have the impact of leaving the viewers ...

Introduction to Film

There are various different types of actors or performing artists in the world of industry and they are categorized according to the roles they play or portray on stage, television shows, on commercials, and in movies. The five types of actors are impersonators, personality, star, wild card, and character. Impersonators are someone who imitates the actions or behavior of another person, actors, or celebrities. Personality actors play unusual roles and as he in many instances, they are better suited and successful in soap operas and sitcoms. Stars or movie stars can perform much whatever they want, cast based on ...

The introduction of the television meant a big blow to the movie industry since most people could use the television to watch movies. This meant that the studios were to look for alternative as the move meant a big economic blow. However, in 1970, there was an introduction of pay television and therefore people had to subscribe for movies and pay monthly or pay on demand. This further led to the development of pay on demand and this was meant to satisfy the public with movies whenever they required one. Predictably, broadcast network executive, who advocated successfully until the late 1970’ ...

Horror movies have become extremely popular. The main question is why people enjoy being scared and disgusted while seeing monsters and serial killers. During the last thirty years, the horror genre has gained a lot of attention even among academics. It has been researched in sociological and cultural way but also as a psychological phenomenon.

"An Introduction to the American Horror Film" by the film critic Robin Wood was published in 1979 and the horror genre was studied within psychoanalytic theory. Horror movies were thought to be a metaphor for an oppressed society: the monster represented the marginalized, "Frankenstein symbolized ...

Several issues arise in this article. To begin with, I have a take on the research findings, as well as how accurately it complemented what I had anticipated. Moreover, it fuelled my thoughts to query what other research could be carried out on television programming via-à-is the utility and gratifications technique, and what can be foreseen as pertains to the study (Abelman, 1987). In addition, the article raised the topic of reactionary usage of religious programming, which additionally precipitated the thought of other types of programming that most people will watch since they do not want to watch any ...

In order to do a trip to New York, I and a group of my friends had to plan it in advance and calculate time and costs of stay there. First of all, in order to see four performances on Broadway, it would take us a week of time to stay in New York. The roundtrip flight tickets would be around $270 per person. Potential accommodation would have to be quite far from the city centre and Manhattan in order to save some money. One of the potential options might be Sun Bright Hotel in Chinatown, which would cost $180 for 6 ...

Later in October, I plan on visiting New York with a group of four friends in order to see four Broadway shows; we have never seen professional New York theater performed before, and so we thought it best to go there and see what the city has to offer. Our proposed budget is approximately $9800 for five people; $4000 for air fare and accommodations, $4500 for show tickets and $300 for food and cab fare while we are in New York. We would leave October 19 and return October 23, booking a flight plan to New York and back from Home, ...

There are numerous websites currently running providing reviews of movies and information on movies, documentaries and television shows. One of the most comprehensive website catering to these services is the Internet Movie Database, Inc or www.imdb.com. It is one of the biggest movie databases available which features not only movies but also television shows.

This movie database provides an easy to use graphical user interface and several search comprehensive search options. Services of the site is not limited to having a database of movies and television shows but it also provides movie reviews, trailers, profiles of celebrities and news as ...

1. While I am open to the idea of karma and believe to some degree that what goes around does come around, I think that this belief – especially when tied to religion – can be misused and abused as is the case with the Tamil Tigers.

As with everything, I believe in moderation and that freedom comes with responsibility. As such, I think that people should be allowed to practice their religion only for as long as nobody is harmed. I think that the United Nations plays an important role in this. It has representatives from every country, ...

A Case Study on Intellectual Property (George Freestuff Case)

George Freestuff advocates that information including software, games, and movies should be free. He feels strongly against companies who charge too much for such. In response, he and his friends developed Free Range Property (FRP), a program that allows Internet users to share digitized files over the Internet for free.

Ethical Guidelines

Running a site such as the FRP is unethical because it can be considered stealing, that is, taking someone’s property without their permission. In the case of the FRP site, movies, music, and other forms of digital media are being distributed without the owners’ permission. This is against deontological ethics, ...

Nobody hates looking at women’s funny character in movies. Something that mulvey well put across. The conditions of watching a move in the cinema gives authority to a voyeuristic spectatorship. All spectators are chirping characters taking pleasure and watching others while they remain unseen. In other fields, feminists have identified voyeurism as violence that is because of gender. The chirping character is most often a man-watching female without her knowledge. Most of the funny erotic scenes, you find a woman fully exposing her body and private parts but never will you find a man doing so. The power of the man’s look ...

Background

Taiwan has a magnificent movie industry. The movie industry in Taiwan is filled with talented actors, singers, dancers, and even personalities who excel in all of these three fields. The movies that will be reviewed for this paper are the movies “Invitation Only” and “Comedy Makes You Cry”. Both movies were filmed in Taiwan and the actors and actresses who filled the roles of the movie characters were either Taiwanese or of Taiwanese origins.

Narrative Strategies

This movie was one of the blockbuster hits about 3 years ago. “Invitation Only” was considered to be a movie under three genres: crime, ...

I was about ten years old when I first noticed that communication was important to me. My best friend and I spent one whole summer talking to each other with cordless Walkie Talkies. We didn’t see much of each other in person but we did communicate. We had all the ingredients necessary for good communication: a sender, a receiver and a way for our voices to reach each other. I call the communication we had ‘good, effective communication’ because we had fun and we laughed a lot. I’m not sure that we understood the words we were saying to each ...

Introduction

Madea Goes to Jail is just one out of a series of films produced and directed by Tyler Perry. These films have many things in common. For one, they are immensely popular largely because they draw on a pool of familiar black female characters; the title character being Madea herself. They also owe popularity to a host of other factors – including the shortage of quality black movies.

Madea is the quintessential black matriarch. She is large, she is loud and her language is foul. While she does have a good heart, her rants play straight into the stereotype of the mammy/angry black ...

1. AN EVOLVING INDUSTRY

The advent of the Internet is placing a greater emphasis on online streaming as a means to distribute and exhibit movies online. Given that movies are so easy to pirate today with torrenting and downloads, movie studios are more desperate than ever to find legal ways to offer their movies. Today, Netflix offers a large library of movies for instant streaming that customer pay for by the month – often, this can help more independent releases, as it spotlights films that would not be seen by as many people otherwise. Independent films like ‘Ink’ and “Strictly Sexual’ would not have the followings they ...

FILM TITLE: This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Director Kirby Dick

Basic Plot (a single sentence if possible), and what areas of “politics” are present in the film:

This film is about the problems inherent with the ratings system of the MPAA, tackling race, gender, and sexual politics as the ratings board’s view of them is examined.

1. Does the movie have a point of view? Is it advocating a political philosophy or policy orientation? What is it?
The movie has the point of view of admonishing the MPAA for being ignorant and conservative in their ratings decisions of films ...

Discussion Question #1

In popular culture, Goodykoontz is correct in that the majority of pop culture figures are white; there are many factors for this. First of all is the obvious remnants of racism that remain in today’s culture; white and black cultures have split to the point where it is difficult to balance the two. There are either “white” movies or “black” movies nowadays; most movies geared toward African-Americans have all-black casts (e.g. Tyler Perry movies), and most movies for white audiences will still have ethnic characters, but they are never the lead. There have been great strides so far ...

Music and Sound Recording: popular music and protest songs.

1. My personal preference is to experience all things for myself, before passing judgement. The reason for this is that reviewers and critics are only people too and as such, their opinion is as subjective as my own. For the most part, critics are working on a mainstream basis: their opinion is one which they feel would best fit with most people’s expectations of a certain type of movie or album etc. For example, when Incubus released Morning View, many of their fans were dismissive of it for being less alternative than their previous albums. However, that is their opinion ...

The author of the review has used adverbs to indicate manner, this can be shown by, for example, the use of ‘weirdly’ (5, 5). This adverb qualifies the verb ‘entertaining’ and is hence used to show how entertaining the two actors are.

Adverbs of time have also been used and one example is the word ‘medieval’ (1, 3). This adverb is used to show when the tale was given. Adverbs have also been used in the review to show degree. An example of this can be shown by the author’s use of the adverb ‘almost’ to qualify the ...

Question 11 - New World for the Puritans

What is now called the USA was initially the discovered new world of Columbus. Many people decided to build a new life there and travel hundreds of kilometers from their home in the UK or somewhere else in Europe. Some left in search of religious freedom, some – for seeking a new and better life, other were forced to go there either by someone or by the circumstances of their life. This was a new start for all. A new and better world was to be built. Puritans decided it was their calling to build and purify the existing social standards. Small ...

Media has been a part of people’s lives since the dawn of human civilization. From figurines of Venus that show signs of success of fertility, the printing press came about and gave way to what became the modern mass media. It is this modern mass media that became the focus of studies conducted by scientists and psychologists, determining how its effects on children can cause the development of negative behaviors. Researchers have conducted extensive studies regarding this issue through the years, and although correlation between media violence and the development of negative behaviors among children has been proven to ...

Why is it important to be objective when receiving feedback? How might you use feedback to revise your rough draft to make it as effective as possible?

1. When receiving feedback, it is very important to be as objective as possible. Most of the time, constructive criticism is extremely helpful but it is imperative to maintain your original ideas as they are just as important. Feedback can sometimes offer you fresh ideas – everyone has the ability to give different opinions and points of view: to encompass those as well as your own in your work is a fine line to ...

The survival of the modern economy depends on a neverending stream of consumption. This is why cars do not last as long as they used to, it is why the cost of a new television is not significantly higher than the cost of television repair, and it is why restaurants continue to proliferate across the map, hopping from retail corner to retail corner to chase families down before they can get home and cook their own meals. This trend began in the wake of the Great Depression; while it was largely the mobilization of industry for World War II that brought ...

4th May, 2011
The movie Hotel Rwanda is a film based on the story of the Rwanda genocide that took place in the year 1994. During this time, it is estimated that more than 800,000 people comprising mostly of Tutsi tribe members were killed by their Hutu neighbours. The setting is at a time when Rwanda is experiencing economic depression and political problems marked by the death of the country’s political leader. The Hutu extremists believe that their neighbours, the Tutsi minority are to blame for the misfortunes that are befalling them. They embark on killing sprees, getting ...

Assume you are consulting for a media conglomerate that is perplexed by the parting fates of Blockbuster and Netflix. As a consultant, you want to highlight the varying fates of the two companies via a strategic audit. Focusing on (i) customer (ii) product and (ii) market audits, compare and differentiate Netflix and Blockbuster’s differing fortunes to date with 1 difference between the companies for each audit and a KPI (measure) to understand customer engagement, product success and market performance. Explain the reasoning behind each KPI. First of all it is important to comprehend what is meant by the term strategic audit. For any ...

- Evaluate personal values and paradigms around body decoration and physical beauty
- Investigate how physical appearance affects definitions of identity and belonging
- Analyze values and belief systems of physical appearance across cultures, sub-cultures and generations
Artifact: People Watching in the street and the reflection about how my personal values and beliefs influence the way I dress.

This assignment made me realize how I judge people by the way they dress. I chose to analyze three women of different age and styles. Each of them was different and unique in many ways. I tried to ...

(a) The price in the market for this perfectly competitive from when p1, the firm would desire to sell over a hundred units. This is because the prices of single units would have gone down. The firm would sell more units with a tiny profit margin on each unit to make profits. The firm will then sell more units so that it can accumulate more profits and be able to stay in the business. Economically, the firm would not be making tangible profits because the margin on each unit is very small. If the firm does not have other products it is ...

Film Studies Questions

There are three basic categories of sound in a movie: dialogue, special effects and music (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011, ch.6.4). In the film When Harry Met Sally, the film relies heavily upon the dialogue between Harry and Sally; they are two witty, intelligent characters whose friendship develops into romance and it is through their dialogue that we witness this happening. In Jaws, the film relies upon its music to engage the viewer in the fear that the various scenes exude. For instance, as the shark begins to enter the scene and is leading up to its attack, the music plays ...

Film Studies Questions

There are three basic categories of sound in a movie: dialogue, special effects and music (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011, ch.6.4). In the film When Harry Met Sally, the film relies heavily upon the dialogue between Harry and Sally; they are two witty, intelligent characters whose friendship develops into romance and it is through their dialogue that we witness this happening. In Jaws, the film relies upon its music to engage the viewer in the fear that the various scenes exude. For instance, as the shark begins to enter the scene and is leading up to its attack, the music plays ...

Analysis of Communication in a Scene from The Devil Wears Prada 1

The identity of the main character, Miranda Priestly in the movie The Devil Wears Prada is clearly constructed in the one of the first scenes of the movie when she interacts with her new assistant, Andy. Miranda strategic communicator who incorporates many of the concepts of communication, both verbal and more importantly in this case, nonverbal. Miranda defines herself in her opening scene as a strong, confident ...

When most people are asked to identify the reasons why a public support for an ongoing war changes, the media’s coverage usually comes on top of the list; yet most scholars neglect the influence of the media on war. The media has the ability to shape our outlook on almost every topic under the sun, this means that the general assumption that the support of a war depends on its cost and casualties alone is disfigured. Information on whether a war is being won or being lost is relayed through the media, also, are the reasons behind a war (Arraf, 2009). This ...

1) What happens to Andy Dufresne and red?

Andy Dufresne spent the span of 19 years in prison against the accusation of the murder of his wife and her lover. He pledges for being innocent. Red was the character he met in prison who was also charged for life imprisonment. The two friends passed through the series of happening and challenging incidents through the term of imprisonment with a climax of reunion of the two friends on a beach in Zihuatanejo.

2) What do we learn of Andy's and red's character?Andy:, red:,..

Andy; The character of Andy is a that of a clever being with high spirits. Apparently, he is charged for a sin, he never committed. Yet, he remains composed and plan vengeance ...

Ang Lee's 2007 political romantic drama Lust, Caution is a beautiful, contemplative and breathtakingly tragic story about an undercover resistance fighter in World War II-era China, who begins to form a relationship with the man she is meant to kill - a collaborator with the Japanese. By presenting a hauntingly beautiful and poetic tale of a woman torn between who she is and who she is pretending to be, with tremendous stakes in the balance, Lee's film explores the ideas of performance and identity as a means to demonstrate her nationalism. Wong's character is presented as an actor, first and foremost, from her humble beginnings ...

Abstract

As a senior manager of a computer company that competes with Apple, Inc., this paper will conduct a SWOT analysis of Apple Inc. that could help me with my own strategies. The Analysis will identify roughly five factors of Apple’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, and will explain why each factor is relevant. It will go into explaining why each example its strength, weakness, opportunity, or a threat. After the analysis, a strategy there will be proposal as well as a product introduced to take advantage of Apple’s vulnerabilities that will help increase my firm’s market share (AIU, 2014).

Introduction

According ...

The development of criminal profiling is very important in crime investigations. It is defined as a behavioral tool that is used in investigations. Investigators, use the criminal profile in order for many reasons. Ta start with, criminal investigators use the criminal profile in order to be able to predict the unknown characteristic of the criminals or offenders who have committed a given crime. Many criminals have the tendency of committing crimes and trying to run away from the authority. However, when a criminal profile it developed, it helps the authority is able to start their investigations and if carefully carried out, the ...

The Behavior to be changed

Several individuals suffer from sleep disorder. The disorder may result from sleeplessnessor the inability to sleep for the required time. Consequently, several individuals have resorted to sleeping pills to help them sleep.Lately, I have been sleeping late, and the condition developed to the point that it feels normal, resulting into sleeplessness in the early hours of the night.

Behavior Assessment

Sleeping does not come easy to me unless induced by use of some medication.For example, I have to go to bed, twist, and turn severally, until late in the night. Mostly, I sleep at around 2 o’clock in the morning ...

Recent decades brought a lot of changes in businesses. Information security has become very essential to the companies and ensuring this safety has become a big problem. Nowadays, information is mostly saved in electronic form on computer hard drives, but this is not the most secure way. The problem is that computers can break down, they can be stolen, hardware or software failure can cause damage or loosing important files or even the user can delete important files by mistake. Along with development of computers, people started to think how to secure the information. The best way to prevent data loss ...

Introduction

Description of Bayside Queens New York Community

Bayside is located within Queens Borough. It is a very affluent middle class community comparable to Douglaston and Middle neck. On the north can be found the Bronx and Little Neck; easterly Cross Island Parkway and Douglaston; to the west Francis Lewis Boulevard/Utopia Parkway and Auburndale; in the south can be found Union Turnpike and Queens Village. Bayside Hills has been recently added as a subdivision of the community. Zip codes 11360, 11361, 11364, 718, 347, 917, 646 are definitive of this location (McKay, 2008).
The 83,104 population consists of 65% white; ...

1. Claims of Globalism

Globalism is mesh of inter-reliance at a multi-continental level whereby, there is exchange of people, information, and capital between continents. An increase in Globalism is termed as Globalization while a decrease is De-globalization.

Globalization integrates global markets and liberalizes them

Globalism integrates global markets via the inter-reliance among the continents and liberalizes global markets through the divide between a state’s economy and the government, such that there is minimal interference from the government. The absence of government interference increases social interaction among the continents and the exchange of technology, labor, and wealth.

Globalization is unavoidable and permanent

The establishment of inter-reliance among the continents has been going on and will continue to take ...

Hosoda Mamoru’s film, Summer Wars is a relevant piece in entertaining and providing information regarding the culture of the people from which it is derived. This animated film addresses various factors such as the power of westernization, the cultural perspectives, problems facing the young people in the Japanese society, and the manner in which trickery can inhibit one’s power. Coupling animation and reality, the movie clearly tackles technological evolution and scenes of extreme disaster with ease. This essay will discuss the social conditions that affect the Japanese people, characterization, and the manner in which solution is sort within ...

Discussion Question #1

The recent trend of making the news more entertaining only serves to dilute the importance and relevance of the actual important news stories. The peppering of puff pieces with real news detracts from the impact when a real news story hits. More time is spent on human interest stories than the actual news sometimes, and therefore people will pay more attention to that. The role of news to educate viewers can get sabotaged by the need to keep people feeling better and entertained. While the news may be seen as ‘sad,’ there is no need to force happy stories down ...

Ch.5.1 Nature and Nurture are two distinct elements that control and mould our personal development. While one is associated with heredity, the other is associated with the environment where they live. A child’s nature develops at home; from his/her family members, while it is nurtured by the influence of the outside. As a child, there is not much that I did on my own. I would go to school, study, and play with other children till I developed a particular interest in a boy or girl whom I would call my friend. Mrs. Chan was my ...

Esoteric:

Designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone: “Anime fans have some of the most esoteric interests I know.” (Said by friend in conversation). (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). SYNONYMS: abstruse, deep, profound, recondite. ANTONYM: easy. (Roget’s Interactive Thesaurus).

Verisimilitude:

The quality or state of being verisimilar: “The dense language lends the film verisimilitude, and even lay audiences will be engrossed by the thrill of discovery” (Film review). (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). SYNONYMS: believability, color, credibility, credibleness, creditability, creditableness, plausibility, plausibleness. ANTONYM: falseness, impossibility. (Thesaurus.com).

Evulsion:

A forcible separation or detachment: “I got an evulsion cut on my finger when I tried to open a ...

Introduction

Remember the Titans is a movie centered on group development. It is about a Virginia football team that fell under the direct effects of racial conquests. In essence, the school was composed of a team that was characterized by those whites and blacks. In this regard, a new coach for the team was in cooperated into the management of the affairs that was pertinent to the affairs of people. Mr. Boone was a black coach who was appointed to replace the incumbent white coach. However, his leadership in the school team could not yield the expected results from the fact that, some members of ...

Introduction

Mass media remain one of the single most influential facilities in the society today. The media cultivates certain matters into people’s normal lives to the extent that most people have become indoctrinated by different media facilities. In all spheres of life, the media continues to be the most trusted element (Baran, 2009). People would rather have information factual or otherwise, without interrogating the essence of the information provided. Mass media models people’s perceptions and way of life either positively or negatively.
As information hub, the media provides information on different fronts. From political to ...