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    Stanley Cohen (1973) suggests that the media depiction of anti-social behaviour helps to construct folk devils. Folk devils become the focus of public fears and anxieties. They are made to stand for wider problems and concerns and‚ in the process‚ become the figures who exemplify ‘what is wrong with society today’. Today’s folk devils might be the ‘yobs’‚ ‘hoodies’‚ ‘yobettes’ or ‘alco-yobs’ referred to in newspaper headlines. In Cohen’s original study they were the ‘mods’ and ‘rockers’‚ members

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    Theoretical Legacies- Stuart Hall the following write up on Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies is by Rinu Dina John ------------------ Stuart Hall is one of the most influential figures in cultural studies. He was part of the time when cultural studies was originated as an academic discourse or discipline. In this essay he questions the seriousness with which this discourse is engaged with a personal version of the history of the cultural studies. According to Hall cultural studies emerged

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    Stuart Hall - The Floating Signifier Part 1 Starting with Spike Lee’s movie in wich individuals trowing racial slours and insoults on every race - Afro-Americans‚ Aisans‚ Latinos‚ Jews.. Sut Jhally (University of Massachusetts) is talking about visual race diferences (color‚ hair and bone). If we want fight against racism‚ first we have to understand it and see how it works in our minds‚ so we could better combat it on the streets.   What racism as philosophy contains is that is a natural connection

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    A moral panic in Stanley Cohen’s terms defined as a social group of people coming together to create a threat to social values and interests. The social groups are a group of young people that are usually associated with youth‚ crime and violence which lead to moral alarms in the public. In serious events such as the Cronulla riots that occurred in 2005 and the middle eastern “ethnic gangs” that occurred in 1998-2000‚ the mass media plays a huge role in sending out an exaggerated message to the public

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    Leonard Cohen is one of the most famous singer songwriters‚ to ever come out of Canada. He is often compared to Bob Dylan in style and depth and the impact he had on the music scene starting in the 60’s and his popularity still continues to today. Famous songs include Bird on a Wire‚ Everybody knows‚ Hallelujah and Dance me to the end of Love. Several of his songs have been featured in films such as Wonder Boys and Natural Born Killers‚ which opened his music to new generations. Leonard Cohen was

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    Cultural Identity and Diaspora STUART HALL A new cinema of the Caribbean is emerging‚ joining the company of the other ’Third Cinemas’. It is related to‚ but different from the vibrant film and other forms of visual representation of the Afro-Caribbean (and Asian) ’blacks’ of the diasporas of the West the new post-colonial subjects. All these cultural practices and forms of representation have the black subject at their centre‚ putting the issue of cultural identity in question. Who is this emergent

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    Leonard Norman Cohen‚  is a Canadian singer-songwriter‚ musician‚ poet‚ and novelist. His work often explores religion‚ isolation‚ sexuality‚ and interpersonal relationships. He was born on 21 September 1934 in Westmount in Quebec‚ into a middle-class Jewish family.. His father‚ Nathan Cohen died when Cohen was nine years old. Cohen attended Westmount High School‚ where he studied music and poetry As a teenager‚ he learned to play the guitar‚ and formed a country-folk group called the Buckskin Boys

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    1. The (first) Cohen Fallacy is a term used to describe the erroneous method by which Cohen argues that socialism is superior to capitalism. In this method‚ one compares an ideal form of an economic governing system to a realistic form of an economic system and claims that the former is better. The issue here is that one makes a comparison between vastly different systems operating under differing assumptions‚ and therefore fails to compare them properly. Hence‚ the claim that one could be better

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    Firm Size and the Nature of Innovation within Industries: The Case of Process and Product R&D Author(s): Wesley M. Cohen and Steven Klepper Reviewed work(s): Source: The Review of Economics and Statistics‚ Vol. 78‚ No. 2 (May‚ 1996)‚ pp. 232-243 Published by: The MIT Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2109925 . Accessed: 14/01/2013 05:08 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms

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    Stanley Ho Hung Sun : the ‘King of Gambling’ ‚from his multiethnic identity to the contribution to society Introduction Macao is known to the world for its casino industry. Macao ’s richest man‚ Ho Hung Sun‚ is an entrepreneur in Asia. Ho is also known as "The King of Gambling"‚ showing the monopoly he held of the Macau gambling industry for over 40 years. Behind Stanley Ho ’s successful career is a story of ordeals and adventures that will inspire everyone. This essay focuses on the contribution

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