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    for being convicted of transporting a suitcase full of drug money to her girlfriend Alex Vause. Jodie Foster uses a variety of diverse techniques including camera angles‚ sound‚ lighting and colour and costumes to describe the challenges faced in an American prison. Through the use of camera angles and symbols‚ Foster elaborates on loss of identity‚ as a theme in Orange is the new Black. Foster chooses to display several close up shots of prison gates‚ barbed wire fences and handcuffs to demonstrate

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    particularly in the sporting industry‚ which remains male dominated. Female sport has been given much notoriety over their uproar in the past decade‚ but is finding in a male controlled industry it is difficult for women to receive help from governing bodies. Female sport is marginalised compared to male sport‚ largely due to the sexualisation of the athletes themselves. Professionally they are receiving very little media coverage in comparison to males and in an amateur sense; females are being stereotyped

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    Hollywood is welcoming Olympic gold medal winners in a big way this year. The best athletes in the world are competing in Rio for the ultimate prize...a medal. While all their hard work‚ guts and determination are on display for the world to see‚ Hollywood is where they will go after their events are over. For most athletes‚ once they win it’s time to hit the circuit and show off their shiny prize. As NBC has the rights to the Olympic broadcasts‚ it’s not surprising to see the stars on the Today

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    IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY BASED STRATEGIES IN DELIVERING COMMUNITY BASED MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH Community health strategy is a community based approach through which households’and community take active role in health and health related developmental issue. Its aim is to enhance community access to health care through‚ providing health care services to all cohorts and socio economic groups at house hold and community level; building the capacity of community health extension worker (CHEW) and

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    The media and its use of language In a democratic society there is an understandable reliance on the objectivity of information. Whatever is reported ought to be a valid representation of what has taken place. Noam Chomsky has stated that without this vital feature of accuracy‚ it would not be possible for a democratic society to function properly. This is because when news reports‚ for example‚ are no longer a faithful representation of the reality which has occurred‚ then people are unable to

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    a major difference in ending violence on one ’s community. In addition each citizen may have his‚ or her own ideas (due to race‚ religion‚ etc)‚ pertaining of crime prevention‚ but the public believes that this issue should be addressed. Citizen ’s have already made an extraordinary difference in preventing crime in his‚ or her own communities. Example‚ Neighborhood watch) is used often around community neighborhoods. Various people of the community (teachers‚ parents‚ police) have implemented various

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    Fan death is a widely held belief in South Korea that an electric fan left running overnight in a closed room can cause the death of those sleeping inside. All fans sold in South Korea come with an automatic timer that turns the fan off after a certain number of minutes.[1] ------------------------------------------------- Origins of belief The genesis of this misconception is unclear‚ but fears about electric fans date almost to their introduction in Korea‚ with stories dating to the 1920s

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    Media plays an integral part in today’s society by giving entertainment to large audiences. They are composed of press‚ television‚ magazine‚ internet and the radio. TV has the most significant impact. Media produces a specific type of message‚ which can shape people’s opinions. I would like to emphasize this complication and seek to state gender biases which are used in advertising as a seduction way. Throughout sports‚ women and men are always looked at the same and sexism plays a big part. Men

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    moment people are discussing the importance of media coverage in women’s sport and whether or not it is sufficient. For many years the media has been dominated by men’s sport in not only television‚ but also the radio and more recently on the internet. Many people that are ‘for’ this statement believe that equalling the amount of sport in the media is not needed due to it not being as interesting as men and that there are not as many women that play sport compared to men. On the other hand people that

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    Rising Professional Sport Ticket Prices COMM/105 Rising Professional Sport Ticket Prices The rise of ticket prices for sporting events in America has spiraled out of control into a nosedive that may prove to be impossible to recover from. Dedicated fans of most economic status are becoming more inclined to watch sporting events on television than ever before‚ turning many families into perpetual couch potatoes. This is a direct result of the current greed of professional sports as a whole

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