It speaks of the influence that the media and government have over the people. ... These people are unable to stand or move their head from side to side or turn it at all, they can only face forward. ... The people behind the fire control what the chained people see and neither realizes there is life outside the cave. ... The people in the cave were chained by ignorance. ... There are still people in the background (media) making shadows for the people to see and believe. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Is he saying that K-Mart will move its employees and their families across state lines and across the country; to set them up in new jobs with the company? ... We examine newspapers and magazines for instances looking at the many forms of doublespeak uses, so that we know what is going on but we do not always know what is going on Page 3 Doublespeak makes it almost impossible to advance in society, which leaves us in the hands of people who do not have our best interest at heart. ...

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FDR brought us the fireside chats in one of which he requested the American people to put their money back into the banks and get our economy moving again. ... He tested these subjects before and after the showings and found that in all but one issue, the subjects had moved in the hypothesized direction. This last issue was inflation and he concluded that people just could not think this issue was more important then they already did. ... This is when the president appears on prime time television to educate the people on a subject. ... Third, and most difficult, the people must be effected an...

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Violent images on television, as well as in the movies, have inspired people to set spouses on fire in their beds, lie down in the middle of highways, extort money by placing bombs in airplanes, rape, steal, murder, and commit numerous other shootings and assaults. ... Just asking children how they feel after watching a violent TV show, movie, or music video is enough to move them from their innocent dream world into reality. ... When children, teen-agers, and adults all mindlessly automatically imitate and follow the leader, it is hard to believe that there are so many non-aggressive and non-...

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Before starting the experiment, we read a couple of articles to see other people's views in what they think about the digital world. ... (add sentences talking about music ) Now let's move on to Sunday morning. ... Since I always turn my phone back on and text people back. ... Then other people started coming and joining in the conversation it ended up becoming a group conversation, which was pretty cool to see. ... I'm going to start living in the moment when I'm around people and give them my full attention. ...

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Now that NBC has alliances with companies such as Microsoft and several other Internet access companies, it has moved into other forms of media and its influence is spreading to a wider audience with a broader demographic profile. ... In February 2000, Bob Wright established the NBC Diversity Council, in order to increase the recruitment of people with diverse backgrounds across all NBC businesses. ... Also, the article looks at different jobs within CNBC and how certain people work in order to give the viewers what they want to see or what the network thinks they need to see. ... Through t...

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This move can be called gigantism and "in its present form the benefits are obvious to those it favors "growth, wealth, influence and prestige.""... The Tet Offensive, a concerted, nationwide Communist assault, caught the U.S. and South Vietnam off guard and shocked the American people. ...

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Gender and the Media In this essay I will discuss the types of images presented by the mass media of men and women. I will use examples and insights from the text, video clips and lecture, and my own media experience to support my observations. Mass media presents something called gender ima...

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My perceptions were based on opinions I gleaned from people in the media. I particularly remember a radio show with Dr Dean Edell praising the new Clinton administration and the liberalizing of abortion laws and how this would be a boon for fetal cell research, at the time I thought it was a positive move. ... In forming and expressing their own opinions, people often consider the opinions of others. ... In spite of the many reasons people may have for making such an inference, we know from a multitude of data and the theoretical ideas discussed above that people are susceptible to misju...

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I saw something in this movie that I think the large mass of people who also saw it didn't get. ... This scene is this most important in the movie, showing us that these Arabs are people not stereotypical images of terrorists or oil tycoons. ... It seems that they rely on sex, violence, profanity, and racism to move their products. ...

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