Essays on Mainstream

Introduction 3

Method 3
Context 5
Youth Justice Facility Background 7
Discussion 10
Reflection 15
Summary/Conclusion 15

References: 22

Youth Justice Education
Introduction
Young people, who have been in youth justice residences and are released into the community when their stipulated term is over experience a lot of challenges like stigma, failure to fit in and generally have to contend with a completely different way of doing things in day-to-day life. The bigger challenges are in getting favorable opportunities to continue with education, vocational training or even employment placements. The shame associated with having been in a youth justice facility keeps the young Continue reading...

Introduction 3

Method 3
Context 5
Youth Justice Facility Background 7
Discussion 10
Reflection 15
Summary/Conclusion 15

References: 22

Youth Justice Education
Introduction
Young people, who have been in youth justice residences and are released into the community when their stipulated term is over experience a lot of challenges like stigma, failure to fit in and generally have to contend with a completely different way of doing things in day-to-day life. The bigger challenges are in getting favorable opportunities to continue with education, vocational training or even employment placements. The shame associated with having been in a youth justice facility keeps the young Continue reading...

Pornography is, ironically, one of the messier topics related to women and gender issues to discuss; the existence of pornography has a tendency to divide those within the gender studies community. Is it a symbol of the objectifying, male-dominated, sex-focused culture in which we live, or is it an opportunity for women to express their sexuality and take ownership of their bodies? Pornography is a much more diverse industry than one might expect, with varying companies and individuals creating and distributing it in different ways, making it a mistake to discuss porn as a monolith. Instead, the complex intersection Continue reading...

Arguably, both Mainstream and Independent cinema in the United States have had a profound effect on the nation’s entire cinema and film industry since the beginning of the 20th century. It is coherent to note that since the 1920s, the film industry in America has had remarkable progress and has grossed more money annually than any other country. There are numerous changes in film production since its initiation in the early 1920s to date. Notably, independent and mainstream films have had similar changes in stylistic traits and have over the years gone a step further to broaden their Continue reading...

In the United States of America, the links between journalism and public reaction easily trace back to 1788 when the Independent Journal and The New York Packet published the original essays for the Federalist Papers serially, giving free rein to public commentary on the issues that were later to become The Bill of Rights. . The technology of the day that made that possible was the moving type printing press and improved delivery systems that brought the papers out to the public on a regular basis. Radio brought the news every day into peoples’ homes. However, public reaction to news Continue reading...

The great impact of social networks on nowadays society is unquestionable, as everyone can observe by himself or herself how all the current events are quickly dispersed and distributed through all over the world by the common people using their PCs and/or smartphones. Everyone has become a news agency nowadays with the development of the social networks, as the information you post on your profile can be available for everyone, can be discussed and argued. However, the information content in the social network is completely various including fake information, which purpose is to draw the viewer`s attention, shock Continue reading...

Introduction:

The media is an important source of information. The media has become very influential in modeling people’s lives through different decades. The society today thrives on the media a reliable source where they get informed. The coming of new media has become more influential in the recent days. Social media has become very influential and has been used by everyone across the board for business and recently politicians have turned to the social media as a way of furthering their agenda. Many of the elite groups of politicians have used the media to reach out and organize their Continue reading...

Chavet Breslin

A Research Project Presented in Partial Fulfillment
Master of Education
Regis University
ABSTRACT
Over the past decades, there has been a significant shift in the perceived best practices in the field of special education. While the paradigm for special education, at one time, involved removing students with special needs from the classroom to receive specialized instruction from specifically trained practitioners, the social stigma and lack of academic progress pushed administrators to move toward a more inclusive philosophy of education. A meta-synthesis was performed of past quantitative and qualitative studies to determine what type of structure will best benefit special Continue reading...

Indigenous Midwifery Practices in Canada

Introduction
The indigenous people of Canada are the initial occupants of the present day Canada. They include the First Nations, Inuit and Métis. The indigenous people had a solid cultural health infrastructure even before the advent of modern medical system (Waldram, Herring & Young, 2000). The cultural health system had elements like midwifery, surgery, diagnosis and prescription principles. However, by the transition of the cultural health systems through periods of colonial influence, they have been significantly diluted. The indigenous body of beliefs about healthcare, wellbeing, spirituality and physical health, were considered deficient and substandard to the colonial health systems ( Continue reading...

I. INTRODUCTION TO SUBCULTURES: CONSUMPTION OF IDENTITY
Subcultures are, at their core, a way for people to differentiate themselves from the culture that they are surrounded by. These subcultures can take a variety of different forms, from the relatively innocuous to the highly deviant-- however, one thing that they all share is the drive to differentiate themselves from the larger society to which they belong. Commonly, the majority culture has been considered to be the culture that accepts widely-held norms and beliefs and consumes the related products, while subcultures have been seen by sociologists and businesspeople alike as members Continue reading...

Throughout history, sections of the community in many parts of the world have adopted some subcultures quite unique to the common culture, and sometimes very controversial. Some of these subcultures actually evolve to develop into relatively new cultures, religions and beliefs, while others are short lived but leave some marks in the community. An example of such subcultures includes the hippies, punks and old religions (Falk and Falk 57). A comparison of these subcultures in their early development and their modern equivalent has been discussed in detail. Although the earlier versions of these subcultures share some common features with Continue reading...

Introduction

There is nothing called objective viewpoint. Media which plays a big role in giving information on the world often is accused of showing bias towards a particular ideology or a particular social group or a particular party. Though a journalist tries to be objective in his viewpoint by following two methods, 1) showing fairness to those associated with the news and 2) a professional approach to gathering information that seeks completeness, accuracy and fairness, he often fails to reach the ethical heights just like anyone involved in the profession of politics (The Rhetorica Network). Since reporting of news is Continue reading...

The media plays a vital role in the dissemination of information within the society. The relaying of information plays a critical role for social movements that are keen on spreading their ideologies and objectives. This illustrates why the activists within the US National labor union adopted mass protests as a core way of attracting the media’s attention. Since time immemorial protests have been the most effective kind of ways of attaining both social and media attention. Through protests televised or reported on the media, the US National Labor activities managed to be highlight their issues to a greater Continue reading...

English

1. What is your chosen topic, and how did you come across it? Why is it interesting to you? What do you personally hope to gain or accomplish by writing about this topic? In this section, define your topic and explain where you first heard about it (i.e. local newspaper, website, etc.). Reflect on how or why your background, motivations, needs, or interest sparked your interest on this topic and relate to your overall goals for writing
The topic, Breakdown on Hipster, explains the context of the emergence of Hipsters as a subculture that breaks away from the mainstream Continue reading...

Introduction

Programming and program development has taken centre stage in the computer world and every day a news item is posted on a new development that has occurred within this field. This paper will discuss one such article as well as its contents that are related to computer programming and development. The article is entitled “Code Watch: Functional programming’s smugness problem.” The article speaks about functional programming as the next generation means of programming. It appraises functional programmer against mainstream traditional programmers and their programming techniques. It advocates for the adaptation of functional programming by other mainstream traditional programmers Continue reading...

Book review: In search of respect by Philippe Bourgois

About the author

Philippe Bourgois is an experienced writer and researcher. He is also a professor and the chairman in the anthropology, history and social medicine department at the University of California. He mainly focuses his research on political mobilization of the ethnic communities in central and north America, political violence, labour relations in this region and the general life of the marginalized communities within America and especially the street families in the inner city dwellings of North America. He has also done research about the violence and the HIV prevalence in such dwellings, bringing out the suffering that Continue reading...

Disney Princesses

(Continued from the paper provided by the client)

Little Mermaid

Late eighties was a decade of immense transformations. This chunk of the time was a period during which the roles and perception of women in the mainstream society went through sheer changes (Buckland 178). The same mainstream thought of the society is reflected in the role of the princess depicted in Walt Disney’s animated musical fantasy film, “The Little Mermaid”. The character of the princess in the aforesaid fantasy film was played by Ariel, who is a young sixteen years old mermaid. Dissatisfied with her life in the water, she Continue reading...

THROUGHOUT THE DECADES

Relationship of Music Throughout the Decades
Throughout the decades, music has seen a lot of changes. One thing that stayed the same is Rock. It was popular from the 60s all throughout the 2010s (Cox & Warner, 2004). It was the only genre to survive all five decades, and has constantly been reinvented. Many different artists saw their rise and fall throughout the decades; many have also made their comebacks in the 2000s. There are a couple of key artists that have made their name prominent in music history, changing the way people heard music (Cullen, 2001). The important eras Continue reading...

[Professor]

History as we know it is always written in the bird’s eye view. It is always in the perspective of the victors. Those who subjugated lands and people that include Christopher Columbus wrote heroic actions of expedition to save the wretch from damnation or to civilize the savages. Spain, Portugal and other conquistadores in the 13th to 18th century used Christianity in their search for gold, slaves and glory. Howard Zinn’s book entitled, “History is a Weapon” mentioned that the conquests of Spain and other powerful countries during the colonial era was written in history in Continue reading...

Imagine being in a wilderness, in an alien place, life all around you, life going on unhindered. Despite the abundance around you, you still can’t find something to feed on, cheer you or relate to. It is like the unlikely situation where all over sudden, your friends quit speaking in a language you understand. You can no longer understand what they say, nor can they you. The world can become a very lonely place in such circumstances; when you fail to fit, not of your own doing, but a cruel mix of fate and circumstances.
This is the Continue reading...

SEX ON THE MEDIA LANDSCAPE

With this generation being at the boom of information technology, the media is buzzing with sexual content that has tantamount effects on the society in general. Teenagers remain the most affected group by indecent exposure of sexual activity in mainstream media (Huston, Wartella & Donnerstein, 1998; American Academy of Pediatrics, 1995). Nevertheless, some scholars and researchers have argued that display of educative sexual content on media may have immense benefits on enlightening the society; however the pertinent question arises as to whether mainstream media is displaying sexual content that is beneficial or harmful to the society. This paper will talk Continue reading...

Abstract

The society is continually experiencing emergence and development of new cultures and subcultures. New cultures mostly develop from the popular culture as some individuals embrace new perspectives regarding common beliefs and values. Cultural elements present means of expression and influential habits that individuals of a particular group or belief identify with. Various cultures and subcultures are presently identifiable in the present day social media. One of such subcultures common in the contemporary social media includes the American hipster culture. The paper focuses on this culture by evaluating it from diverse perspectives. This includes providing a background of the development Continue reading...

The immigrant families are considered inferior and uncivilized. The dominant race fails to embrace the diversity presented by the immigrant families. Particularly, the dominant race blames the immigrant families for various societal ills that are unrelated to their populations in certain geographical areas. For example, the society believes that the immigrant families have prompted economic recession and increased unemployment rates. Furthermore, the society believes that diversities in race, religion and language amid the mainstream group and the migrant subgroups result to cultural misunderstanding. In this respect, the mainstream citizens treat the immigrant families ruthlessly with hatred and discrimination as Continue reading...

Someone who has the initiative to organize a venture for taking benefit of an opportunity is an entrepreneur. He is a decision maker and his decisions involve what, how, and how much of products or services will be produced.

Entrepreneurship is one of the most important fields within several key sectors such as economics, finance, management, and law. However, even today and even with the recognition of the importance of entrepreneurship as a primary driving force of the “market”, there is very little consensus about how economics incorporates entrepreneurship into its overall theoretical framework. Hence, there is no single Continue reading...

Queer theory had been popular since eighties taking the place of gender theory appeared to be more primitive. The ideas of queer theory are widely implemented by those who fight for human rights and freedoms. This paper is devoted to the research of two studies, namely: Wilchins, R. Queer Theory, Gender Theory and Sycamore, M.B. “That's revolting: Queer Strategies for resisting Assimilation”.
Before discussing potential flashpoints between persons with non-traditional sexual orientation (gays and lesbians), and queers let us consider similarities and differences between them. At first sight there is no difference between queers and gays/lesbians.
Gay or lesbian Continue reading...

Abstract

Conventional medicine or mainstream medicine, which is often called as allopathic medicine, is based on the Cartesian model of dualism that holds the view that the human body and the mind are two entities. On the contrary, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) views the human body and the mind as a single entity. Many mainstream therapies were once considered complementary until they were proven clinically effective through research. Currently, many mainstream practitioners are adopting CAM therapies to provide integrated or holistic care. The National Institutes of Health and National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NIH/NCCAM) have divided CAM Continue reading...

Background

The inclusion of learners with special needs is gradually becoming a major concern to various governments (Holt, 2004). With the enactment of the Disability Discrimination act of 1992 and changes in community perceptions towards individuals with disability in Australia, mainstream primary educational institutions have had to prioritize children with disabilities’ inclusion (Forbes, 2007). Holt (2004) gives a social model definition of disability as the disadvantage or restriction of activity resulting from contemporary social organization which takes either little or no account of individuals with physical impairments thereby excluding them from mainstream social activities. Generally, children are considered learning Continue reading...

Marketing Plan – Annie’s: Growing Organically

The paper presents a marketing plan for Annie’s organic food company that uses healthy natural ingredients in preparation of organic foods. The company currently offers products in three main categories namely meals, snacks and desserts. Now, the strategic planners aims to enter in frozen food category as part of product and business expansion strategy; therefore, this paper will critically analyze target market, product planning, pricing, place and promotion components of will analyze the marketing plan. The researcher will provide arguments and recommendations that will lead to growth of Annie.

The Target Positioning Strategy

Annie has divided its target market into two core Continue reading...

The origin and the culture of blacksmiths in Kuku society date 1790 – 1960s. Kuku consisted of a large ethnic group of southerners in Sudan (Poggo 169). The cultural and the linguistic group were among the Eastern Nilotes. The Eastern Nilotic Group occupied the Kajo-Kaji territory. The territory was originally the home of the Moru – Madi Sudanic community. As Kuku crossed the River Nile, they absorbed some of the communities living in that territory at that period. The interaction of the Kuku and Lugabra from the southern region, Kakwa from the west, and the Bari from the north led to Continue reading...

The mainstream media (consisting of films, TV and print) shapes the manner in which people form their self-concept and interact with others. The media also helps to share the stories of people’s culture, and what people of other cultures can expect from them. However, many are the cases whereby the mainstream media helps to propagate some stereotypes. Stereotypes are unfounded beliefs, and the mainstream media helps to strengthen those beliefs through the use of characters performing stereotypical roles. A good case is the portrayal of Asian Americans in film and print media. The mainstream media still conveys the Continue reading...

Introduction

As directed by the project of modernity, media is presumed by the secular narratives as the agent of social change. ( Deacy, C. & Elisabeth, A. 15). It is actually suppose to be the intermediate between pre modern and modern, should not be oppressive but free, egalitarianism is considered to hierarchical, tyrannical to democratic, it should also be religious rather than being secular and finally should decease from the background information to enlightened. The narratives originated fro Europe helped in transforming the TV channels from states to the markets. This move was strongly opposed by the Muslims in the Arab Islamic Continue reading...

Introduction

The use of the term social commerce can be traced to the year 2005 and has risen to become one of the most commonly articulated typesof e-commerce. Companies are currently ripping millions of shillings from social commerce. In 2008, for instance, Dell reported that it had experienced more than one billion worth of sale through the use of tweeter commerce (conventionally called T-commerce). Successful social commerce sites are known to have two main characteristics; be able to integrate social media and buying capability and also to fully utilise major advancement in technology. This is what gives social commerce an Continue reading...

Introduction

Context and Thesis Statement
Although Western countries have issued acts to support students with special needs to be taught in normal schools, as part of the inclusive education program, schools are still reluctant in receiving students with different types of disabilities, facing various challenges that refer to the prestige of the school, to meeting inclusion standards and regular examinations in this purpose or to installing increased bureaucratic educational demands (Konza, 2008). Schools’ attitudes towards the children with special educational needs vary between aiming for an inclusive education and between maintaining the elitist standards, where inclusive education is not an Continue reading...

1) Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's many poems, plays and novels poke subtle fun at the Victorian mainstream, addressing the faults and the problems inherent within that society. Many of his works deal with the decadence and beauty of the Victorian upper class, as well as how empty and duplicitous that society is. By painting detailed portraits of flawed and overly vain characters, he shows the Victorian aristocrat as someone nearly inhuman, and far from sympathetic. In many ways, it transcends the nature of the Victorian mainstream by holding a mirror up to it and pointing out its flaws, whether Continue reading...

The types of fiction created by writers sometimes appear to fall into endless categories; walking through a bookstore or browsing sites like Amazon for a new book to read demonstrates the variety of fiction written today. However, it is not so difficult to classify writers and the type of fiction they produce. Fiction writers fall into two groups, commercial writers and literary writers.
The first major category of fiction writers are the commercial fiction writers. Commercial fiction writers “attract a broad audience” with their published pieces and a hallmark of commercial fiction is that it has an easily read Continue reading...

Complete Name of Student

Mainstream culture refers to the current of thought that is presently prevalent in a given community or society. This includes the popular culture and the media culture; whereas the former is the totality of ideas, attitudes, perspectives, images, and other phenomena that has something do and are within the mainstream of a particular culture most especially Western culture; while the latter refers to the current Western capitalist society that rose and developed under the wide influence of mass media.
These three go hand-in-hand denoting what is popular, what is trendy—giving the masses the illusion of what they must Continue reading...

The topic is on the perception of the Trayvon Martin and that of Michael Brown as perceived by mainstream media. However, you tend to limit yourself to the online articles that may not be part of the mainstream media. The mainstream media is broad and is not limited to the online articles. It is expected that you use different modes of presenting news of the mainstream media. For example, the news bulleting, live interviews as well as the print media. Such shall ensure that the versatility of the news reporting is covered. Remember that online articles are mainly opinions Continue reading...

The Church of Latter-Day Saints-- sometimes called the “Mormon” church-- is an American sect of Christianity that became famous for its practice of plural marriage, or polygyny. Even today, certain sects of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (referred to hereafter as the LDS church or Mormon church) practice plural marriage, or, more specifically, polygyny: the plural marriage between one man and multiple wives (Land, Schippers). Before discussing the current Mormon policies on polygyny and plural marriage, however, it is important to understand the historical structure of polygyny in the Mormon church.
Mormonism, as a religion, is quite a young Continue reading...

History:

Music is a very important art form that has been a characteristic of the human beings. This form of art involves the manipulation of sound. It has been greatly used as form of entertainment and expression for people and has had great importance in people’s lives. Music has undergone great changes throughout history attributed to changes in social, political and economic factors. Development of new musical instruments has also led to the advancement in music over time. Interaction between different cultures has resulted to the sharing of ideas as far as music is concerned and thus resulted to Continue reading...

Summary

The research that was undertaken as stated in this article was executed with the main intent being to establish the relationships that exist between the level of job satisfaction and high-involvement work practices. These include feedbacks, task teams, suggestion programs, feedbacks and quality circles. In an effort to accomplish the objectives of the research mentioned herein, the researchers retrieved the necessary data from the 1999-2002 Canadian Workplace and employee survey. According to the authors of this article, the data from the were purposely used because the survey is perceived to be appropriate subsequent to the fact that it was Continue reading...