There are now rental programs at colleges, sites online that allow you to find the best deal on used books, open source textbooks and e-books. Although publishers still have an upper hand when they engage in practices that drive up costs by constantly issuing new books to make used ones obsolete and bundling textbooks with non-optional CD-Rom disks or block textbook websites unless a passcode is purchased. ... When I was employed in the healthcare arena for many years, I was part of a trial that transcribed written medical notes by medical personnel to computerized documents. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We report what is said, we provide some context and we may occasionally note where some leaders are economizing on truth as happens all too often." ... A well-informed citizen must read the newspapers, the magazines, books, and listen to radio as well as watch television. ... It has brought the news to people who simply didn't read the papers or books before. ...

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In this essay the term media refers to television, films, magazines, books and newspapers. ... It is also interesting to note that these women always have the perfect or "ultimate" bodies; they are well toned, and have a small waist with large spherically rounded breasts. ...

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Though the different types of media are evident, I will list the most common ones: movies, television, magazines, books, newspapers, and the internet. ... Postman also notes that every bit of technology is negatively reshaping the American culture without them even realizing it, that now technology has become a medium, and that it seems to always find itself in a social setting. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I will be operating under the theoretical frameworks of several writers and scholars, as the information provided through their books and scholastic journals will help elucidate the topics I have chosen to focus on. ... This breeds an entire generation of people whose perception of the world is molded and shaped by the mass media they consumed, creating what Kendell and her colleagues would term to be "media culture" as they made note of certain observable behavioral traits that young people display due to the influence of the media consumed, such as being violent and self-entitled, ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Is any cliché in American public discourse quite as stale as "liberal media bias-? Probably not, unless it's "tax-and-spend liberal."" Is there a literate adult living in this country who hasn't heard or read that dull, deceptive phrase literally hundreds or even thousands of times? Not unless said...

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How media portrays crime and the effect it has on the public In our everyday life, we rely on many different forms of media for both information and entertainment; from news channels, to television, even the video games we play all fall into the category of media. Since we have such a social connection to media, we have begun to realize the media, for all its benefits, may also affect the mindset of the general public. This review discusses and compares the layperson and actual sociological findings of the potential affects. It goes through what people believe about the sensationalization of c...

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One of Africa's leading critics and theorists of the mass media, Cehn Chimutengwende (1992) notes: 'The mass media have long been recognized in developing countries as essential auxiliary means of modern economic construction, social and cultural development. ...

• Word Count: 8649
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate