COM 3703 MEDIA STUDIES: MEDIA CONTENT AND MEDIA AUDIENCES SEMESTER 2‚ 2013 PORTFOLIO TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA SEMIOTICS 3 3. TEXTUAL ANALYSIS 3 4. NARRATIVE ANALYSIS 5 5. MEDIA AND VISUAL LITERACY 7 6. MEDIA‚LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE 8 7. CONCLUSION 10 8. SOURCES CONSULTED 10 9. SELF ASSESSMENT 10 10. ADDEDUM A 11. ADDENDUM B 12. ADDENDUM C 13. ADDENDUM D 14. ADDENDUM E 1. INTRODUCTION
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Women have been and are still seen to be valuable based on their attractiveness‚ according to their body‚ or should we say media influenced body image (American Psychological Association‚ 2010; Moffitt & Szymanski‚ 2011 as cited in Sue‚ & Sue‚ 2016‚ pp. 725-746). Society is constantly pressuring the idealized body image for women and this result in dissatisfaction‚ disorders
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Labourers/workers/farmers were fed only enough food to keep them alive. It is known that there is an old Chinese saying‚ "Each stone in the wall represents a life lost in the wall’s construction". This plan continued long after the first Emperor Qin’s death. Building the wall was a project that went on for many hundreds of years until the wall was over 3700 miles long. Almost every emperor used the same system/process that Qin used‚ forced labor. The Wall is made up of dirt‚ mud‚ stone and brick. It is roughly
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The Vietnam War The Vietnam War began on November 1st‚ 1955 and officially ended on April 30th‚ 1975. It began because of South Asian countries falling to communism. There was a term called the “domino theory” which states that when one country falls to communism‚ the surrounding countries fall soon after‚ causing a domino effect to ensue. Therefore‚ when Vietnam began to fall into communism‚ the United States was determined to stop the spread of communism in South Asia by stopping the source: Vietnam
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What Americans keep ignoring about Finland’s school success The USA’s school system needs to be improved‚ and they can look up to Finland. Finland is always one of those lands who has the highest scores in PISA tests‚ and that means that there is something all other countries can learn from Finland. In Finland’s school they don’t exhaust the pupils through several hours‚ but they assign the pupils less homework and teach them through creative play. We can also take notice of the fact that they don’t
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Parts: Coax Cables‚ Yellow composite cable‚ Cable box‚ Audio cables Operation: Cable box have ability to get or convert any channels from cable company to an analog RF signal to a channel. Instructions: 1. To begin with‚ first step in setting up cable connection is to connect coax cable from the wall to the cable in port on the cable box. 2. Connect one end of the yellow composite cable to the video out port on the back of the cable box and video in port on the back of the TV. 3. Connect
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“tweens” which some refer to them are the 12-14 year olds who are in the awkward stage between childhood and being a teenager. As they don’t yet have the age to be classed as a teenager‚ they are stuck in the middle. However with the influence from the media‚ this is changing. When can see in this quote what Bruce Friend thinks of this; "The 12- to 14-year-olds of yesterday are the 10- to 12-’s of today‚" says Bruce Friend‚ a vice president of the kids’ cable channel Nickelodeon. The Nickelodeon-Yankelovicht
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1 ENG 101 7 October 2013 Coal Keeps the Lights On Rev. Delbert Jones lived in Harlan County‚ Kentucky all of his life. His grandfather and his father were both coal miners‚ he too carried on the tradition. After all‚ that is all his family and him knew. He gave the coal mines twenty two and a half years of his life. And like most other coal miners he did not reach the age of retirement before health issues wore down his once able body. Delbert started working in the mines of Harlan in 1966
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Mary Burgos ELA Credit Recovery August 13‚ 2010 Essay # 1 There are various people in our life that affect us in different ways‚ whether good or bad‚ they have had some sort of influence on our thoughts‚ emotions‚ or growing process. Yet‚ there is one person who has greatly influenced us‚ that we have grown to admire them above the others. One individual who I admire is Oprah Winfrey. Although she has succeeded remarkably in her career‚ becoming one of the world’s top African-American billionaires
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Europe 1914 and lasted until 1918. Around seven million civilians died and more than nine million combatants died. Among other factors‚ Imperialism lead up to the War‚ which is a policy of extending the authority of an nation over foreign countries and holding dependencies. In which empires were building militarism which was especially important of how a country was run. Also‚ the Industrialism which involved the ability of production of cheap goods‚ weapons and other helpful supplies for war and this
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