Knowing Your Audience (Your name) BCOM 275 February 07‚ 2012 Eileen Broyles Knowing Your Audience The collapse of the Chilean Copper Mine was covered worldwide for several weeks. Over 30 workers were trapped in a mine for well over a month. The rescue teams and US advisory team had to be very cautious when speaking to the miners‚ families‚ and news reporters. These teams had to keep in mind the different roles of the people in the audience and how they would receive the message.
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by Dr. Eagleson. Her hypothesis suggested that the socioeconomic group of a child’s parent would affect the name chosen for that child (Rabinovich‚ 1993). The theory is an interesting one‚ yet it is faulty. The argument presented is inductive‚ albeit a weak and uncogent inductive argument. There are several key issues with this study. The evidence presented in support of the comparative claim to socioeconomic groups and children’s names is flawed‚ at best. A child’s name is not necessarily related
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Writing about habitual matters in Asu’ culture is quite the difficult task‚ simply because we as humans unconsciously begin to evaluate different cultural tendency based on our own propensities in life; but this should never halt us from understanding‚ learning‚ and analyzing the other ethos. I believe human survival from its earliest existence was based on exploring the common facts and constructing their lives upon these similarities. What we can see in a diverse cultural issues is the harmony
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and express her culture. “Our hair is not an accessory. It’s literally who we are” (Welteroth) she continued‚ direly trying to convey the ideology that hair and culture is more to them about expressing who they are and where they come from‚ than merely just a fashion trend. Alternatively‚ a young Jamaican and Haitian woman says‚ “If I see someone on the
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Critical Argument Analysis Essay Sara London ENG/215 May 4‚ 2015 Virginia Stewart Critical Argument Analysis Essay As a youth‚ I often wrote essays for school. Although writing isn’t my strong point‚ I recently have learned new skills and tactics to formulate decent articles. I also have learned what to notice while reading articles. Following the reading of three articles‚ I can analyze and evaluate them and identify several essential elements. I plan to determine the strengths and weaknesses
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observation‚ experience‚ reflection‚ reasoning‚ or communication‚ as a guide to belief and action. I have learned even when a person thinks critically their ideas can still be rejected‚ I have learned that getting and keeping the attention of the audience is important‚ and I have learned to use other people’s critiquing of my ideas as an advantage instead of seeing it as something negative. Since the start of this class my thinking as changed immensely. At the start of this class I was a “challenged
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Macbeth’s Modern Audience The Shakespearean classic Macbeth features many themes and issues that were around in the 1600’s‚ but are they still relevant modern audiences today? The main themes in Macbeth are mainly issues that we still encounter every day in modern society. The themes that are explored in Macbeth that would still have relevance today in modern society include guilt‚ power‚ bravery and violence. Let’s begin with guilt. In the play‚ Macbeth’s guilt prevents him from enjoying what
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The culture created through the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is an important factor in relationships throughout many member’s lives. From the beginning of dating as a teenager‚ to dating‚ to find an eternal spouse‚ to the time when children are being discussed and the views on the use of birth control. The LDS culture has a great influence‚ on these milestones. One can conclude that the LDS Faith has a great impact upon how the members’ behave versus how other people of different faiths
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Mickey Hess looks at the use of multiple identities by rap musicians to obscure the conflicting contradictions between authenticity and marketability. Hip hop‚ having budded from a culture of oppression against African-Americans‚ grew as a medium of resistance. Hess cites Tricia Rose’s words‚ stating that hip hop‚ in the context of resistance‚ wages an “ideological warfare with institutions and groups that symbolically‚ ideologically‚ and materially oppress African Americans” (pp.298). Therefore
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Halperin article: I strongly agree with the findings of this study dealing with malleable and fixed nature traits. Although‚ a person may have been raised under strict beliefs and even to have hatred toward a certain group of people or topic‚ this is not an indication that those individuals are not capable of altering their beliefs. The four studies that were done‚ just prove that regardless of the beliefs we carry that we commonly feel are set in stone‚ are capable of being modified. Four studies
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