Louis Bernstein was born on August 25‚ 1918 in Lawrence‚ Massachusetts. He was known to family members as Leonard or Lenny. He officially changed his first name to Leonard at the age of sixteen. At the age of 10‚ Leonard played his first piano. Leonard became interested in taking lessons however‚ his father refused to pay for lessons. His determination motivated him to raise a small pot of money for his lessons. He did not need much practice and his father became impressed. For his bar mitzvah‚ his
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Quiz 1 MCOM 1. The television program Survivor is an example of a: X message 2. Which of these is an example of negative feedback? X talk radio host hanging up on a caller. 3. The mass communication audience is large‚ heterogeneous and X all of these 4. Which of the following is true of traditional mass communication organizations? X All of these. 5. AOL’s merger with Time Warner is an example of: x corporate convergence 6. Which of the following has increased
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The printing press‚ paper‚ and cell phones are all inventions that changed history in many ways. They have changed industry and communication as well as our everyday life. We use these objects all the time but never even think about how it was possible for you to have that object. What made those objects available for you to use without even a thought about how it was possible. What are some of these inventions‚ how have they changed society‚ and how has it improved for our use today? Yes‚ one
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Griet’s Power "As a woman and a maid‚ Griet holds little power‚ while Vermeer exercises his authority over her." In the novel Girl with A Pearl Earring’ we find that Griet has more power as a woman and a maid then we may have first thought. As we move deeper into the novel we find that Griet has some power over Vermeer’s paintings‚ along with the Vermeer family and as we reach the end of the novel we learn of her power to destroy the Vermeer family. Griet becomes a well respected critique
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Gutenberg’s creation of the printing press was a revolutionary innovation which permanently changed the culture at the time. This invention was created around 1440. Nothing like it was ever seen before it. It allowed for many copies of books or articles to be printed relatively quickly. Books at the time were extraordinarily expensive. The only people that had access to them were the extremely rich. A peasant couldn’t imagine owning a book‚ let alone reading it. Because they were so unobtainable
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Johann Gutenberg’s printing press is one of the most influential inventions ever created. Gutenberg was a goldsmith/shopkeeper who invented what is known as the printing press. He completed the printing press by the 1452‚ when he began printing 200 copies of the Bible. He then sold those Bibles at the 1455 Frankfurt book fair. He made it because he wanted money from it. He made the printing press by combining ideas from the wine press and woodcuts‚ which were popular in China. He also created a recipe
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In 1445 the German Gutenberg concocted the printing press. He changed the lives of a great many individuals all through Europe. Interestingly‚ bookmaking got to be shoddy and Gutenberg could print numerous books rapidly. In the Middle Ages books were exceptionally costly in light of the fact that they were composed by hand. Just ministers and friars could read them on the grounds that a large portion of them were composed in Latin. In the Renaissance the white collar classes had the money to
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Imagine you being an author and having to make a new mold for each of your book’s pages. During the Song Dynasty‚ a man named Bi Sheng‚ created a system called‚ Movable Type Printing. This system came in place when Block Printing was around. During the Song Dynasty‚ authors started writing long scrolls and books. If authors wanted to publish their scroll or book‚ they would have to invest a lot of money and time. How did the Movable Type Printing change all of this? When an invention is made‚ it
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When the chinese invented block printing in 1045 they had no idea of the global impact that it would have in the future. The printing press ad its greatest impact on society during the renaissance. Block printing was invented in china in 1045 and movable type was invented by Bi Sheng. European printers used block printing to create pages to bind into books around the 13th century in 1440 Johann Gutenberg created a new way of printing that was faster and wa able to produce books quickly and cheaply
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During the Middle Ages‚ great improvements were made. All over Europe people were making new advancements to make a difference within the public. For instance‚ they created paintings‚ new music‚ architecture‚ and work of literature to help the public show the understandings of the people. Another improvement they made was creating the printing press‚ invented by Gutenberg. The printing press was created by putting what they used to print before the printing press‚ wooden blocks with ink on them‚
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