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    approximately twenty eight hours a week watching television‚ which is twice as much time as they spend in school ("Facts about media violence and the effect on the American family‚" 1998). Unfortunately more often than not adolescents shape their lives after characters they can relate to on prime-time television (Fisher‚ 1994). When sixty percent of popular television shows depict sex and/or violence and the characters committing acts such as unsafe sex‚ sex with multiple partners and depictions of

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    Mass media plays a paramount role in today’s society‚ as it showers over increasing numbers of people all around the world. Used to communicate news and events on a daily basis‚ mass media is defined as those media that are designed to be consumed by large audiences through the agencies of technology. Mass media caters to a diverse audience‚ ranging from children‚ to adolescents‚ to adults. Amongst said audiences‚ “Adolescents are vigorous users of the information broadcasted in media” (Werner-Wilson

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    25.maturitní otázka The role of mass-media in our life When we speak about massmedia‚ we speak about press‚ TV‚ radio and the Internet. They all bring information to mass/large audiences and people and they can really reach them. All people in the world are curious; want to be informed about everything that is going on their town‚ village‚ country‚ in the world. That is why they: read newspapers listen to the radio watch TV browse the WEB Massmedia are a very important part of our life and

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    What if you were surrounded by media messages telling you that‚ "people will like you more if you have the perfect body" or "being perfect makes people like you" ? How do you think young female teenagers would interpret these messages that the media are portraying? 81% of ten year old girls are afraid of being fat‚ of being considered ugly. Why do you think ten year olds would ever care about how they look? It’s because of the media implying that being slim is beauty. Due to the media’s brainwashing

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    Casey Harmon Mrs. Bynarowicz AP Literature and Composition 5 December 2014 Media Representation and Sexualization of Female Athletes Through Visual‚ Verbal‚ and Written Commentary Six time U.S. Open champion. Highest-earning woman athlete of all time. Currently ranked No. 1 in the world. Posed naked on the cover of a magazine and in a bikini for several others‚ downsized to nothing more than a sexy body. This is the sad reality of this star tennis player‚ Serena Wiliams‚ along with many other female

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    But the Internet did not bring on this type of identity formation; the Internet just enabled everyone to create these usernames. Comparatively‚ Facebook enables everyone to personalize their profiles in many different aspects‚ giving more room to show their cultural identities. From types of pictures a user chooses to upload‚ to the pages they are actively involved in‚ Facebook has provided the platform for fostering an individual’s cultural identity. In our society‚ people generally want to

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    Anorexia Nervosa and Media Influence. Girls are given the message at a very young age that in order to be beautiful they must be thin. Our society today places much value on being thin so it’s not surprising that eating disorders are on the increase. If you think about it‚ every time you walk into a store‚ you are surrounded by the images of thin models and celebrities that appear on the covers of magazines. Once opened up you see pages filled with these thin beauties and adds promoting diets

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    Sexual Decisions by Media By Brandon Nandalall Almost everywhere you look and hear nowadays is always something sexual. Music‚ Television‚ Commercials‚ and most definitely the Internet. We as teenagers are busy trying to fit ourselves in with what society wants us to be. So we buy a specific brand of clothing‚ rock a certain type of hairstyle‚ and listen to certain type of music. I hear friends talk all the time about their experiences in life. But‚ one conversation i’ve had with some friends of

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    Reality Shows In china: A Road to a More Democratic China or Not? In 2005 up to 400 million viewers‚ nearly a third of the population of China sat to watch the grand finale of The Chinese version of American Idol Supergirl Idol. The winner Li Yuchan was chosen via text messages receiving 3.5 million votes. Apart from voting through new age technology ‚the 2005 finale also was covered by over 100 newspapers with series of articles and the website sina.com alone received 2.4 million comments on the

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    The Rise of Harry S. Truman A few weeks before his appointment as America’s president‚ Truman was the vice president to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. During that time‚ “Harry S. Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt‚ and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman’s to solve when‚ on April 12‚ 1945‚ he became President. He told reporters‚ ‘I felt like the moon‚ the stars

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