English Speech Analysis

Adam Goodes booing is firstly not about his background and where on this planet he came from. It has nothing to do with that. He brought that all onto himself by saying that it was all about his aboriginal background. It is all simply on the way he talks to the crowd and the way that he communicates to the crowd. Some of the gestures he does and words said can be considered offensive to the crowd. He knows that it is wrong to do these thing, and what a bad influence it can have on Australian Rules football.

Adam Goodes is an Indigenous Australian famous for being a player for the Sydney Swans team in the Australian Football League (AFL). Being a well-known AFL player and also winning Australian of the year for his charity work with indigenous youth, Adam Goodes can be considered as a high profile Indigenous person. Throughout his career, he has used his status as a platform to address racial discrimination towards indigenous peoples within Australia, as he himself has received public discriminatory racial slurs. Through sport and community work – Adam Goodes has transformed indigenous culture, by challenging its race relations and empowering the next generation of Indigenous role models. Indigenous Australians continue to have an ongoing resistance to the processes of colonisation and also of emphasizing an indigenous presence within Australia.

In the slide show, the first to people who reported to the newspaper, were using bais. Bias is when an author allows his feelings or opinions about something, interfere with the actual truth of the information. Sally was being baised when she reported that she saw a poor pit-bull tied to a tree. The dog, in the first slide, was obviously not poor or helpless, but he was panting, but the dog was not acting like he was overheating in the second slide, as she reported. The next person, Clifford, saw a dog tied to a tree, but that is not what Clifford reported.

1985 was the year, and the NSW Blues had not won a single series since the induction of State of Origin in 1980.

Now, in 2017, the protests over Australia Day and the history of the country have escalated to a level first seen here in America. Over a week ago, in Sydney’s Hyde Park, the statute there dedicated to Captain James Hook was vandalized. With what is presumed to be spray paint, “no pride in genocide” and “change the date” were written across the statute. Many members of Australia’s nationalist party have spoken out and held their own protests in response to this “heinous” act. They have spoken out how this act is tarnishing the history of Australia and given the country a bad name as well as spreading the positivity of nationalism. The Prime Minister of Australia, Malcom Turnbull called the act, via Facebook, an act of Stalinism, and that Australians

They recognise the various ways in which each and every text is the creation of the author.” In order to do this, there must be an understanding of the author and the origin of their perspective. This article was written by Andrew Bolt, a columnist who refers to the stolen generation as a myth and believes that there were no large scale removals of children for “purely racist reasons.” Furthermore, in the past, Bolt has been accused of having a serious case of historical denialism. After analysing the author’s background, it is guaranteed that this article is in the perspective of someone who was never on the indigenous side to being with. This perspective is clear in the lead where bolt says, “Footballer Adam Goodes has let us down as Australian of the Year, using his soapbox to vilify out past and preach division.” This quote has illustrated the way Bolt has positioned the readers to view Goodes, the Australian of the Year, as a villain. Bolt continues to say that Goodes apparently, “attacked Australians who resisted this lurid characterisation of our past,” by saying, “the people who benefited most from those rapes, those killings and theft ….turn away in disgust when someone seeks to expose it.” However, if read with in further depth, it is clear that Goodes was not trying to “vilify our past,” but was simply acknowledging historical shame and how it can be used to

This can be seen as a potential halt in the development of Australia’s national identity as other countries may ridicule and mock the way in which they believe Australians live.

However, theorists contend that the news media has a much larger role in shaping the way members of a society think and behave. For example, Wilson and Gutierrez argue that the news media plays a central role in defining society (by virtue of its surveillance and informer functions) through the reinforcement of standards, norms, and values. 4 Likewise, J. R. Ponting, in his analysis of stereotyping of Aboriginals in Canada, notes that the news media imposes a culturally racist model of Canadian society by using ethno-specific values and norms. 5 In addition, Todd Ferguson, a Montreal-based social activist, argues that the news media constructs status quo reality through the process of legitimisation and reinforcement of standards and norms. 6 That is, the media transmits and reinforces culturally specific standards (i.e. beliefs, images, norms, and values) by selecting value-laden news coverage.

from the writings of others. In the media bias plays a role in the validity of certain things. An example,

Now, an iconic, non-judgmental documentary Cronulla Riots voices the untold story. We are invited to believe their voices as they believe the riots as “un-Australian”, just like John Howard.

The words “Come on Maroons” echoed through the house as my dad encouraged our team through the TV. The monster I witnessed yelling as Queensland was being slaughtered is completely different from the person I see on a day to day basis. From a kind and caring father to someone who fills your heart with fear as the New South Wales scores against Queensland.I’m sure many of you were yelling last week at the atrocious outcome for State of Origin, but this isn’t the only place we see aggression towards others.

Biased language impacts negatively on the behavior displayed by individuals. It leads to the assumption that others have an advantage over them because of

In so many words, the image can be influential in delivering a subconscious message. Another problem that occurs with the use of images in the media, is the disagreement that occurs when ‘textual crawls on the bottom of the screen are unconnected to the captions, images, and audio narrative’ they are shown in conjunction with (Wojcieszak, 10). This results in audience distraction, as the work required to comprehend the contradictory messages is similar to reading two newspapers at once (Esser, 4).

Today's mainstream media contains a wide variety of media outlets that can lead to a miss conception of information through the biases it may incorporate. Different media outlets may display the exact story, but their perspective may be viewed in a different way depending on how they’re being presented. Bias plays a vast role, on how news is being presented not only by the word choice and writing style being used but also on how one may interpret the information being presented to them. If the article or news outlet leans one way more than the other, the reader of the opposing side may have a tough time trying to make out an idea on how it’s being presented and this can lead to a misunderstanding of the news overall. All of the methods and techniques that media outlets use to sway readers, can all be generalized as a use of connotation and denotation. The connotation of a term can be used to favor one’s views on a certain topic. For example, one media platform may refer to something as being “almost done” while the other side may refer to the same issue as “close to being done”. One has a more positive connotation than the other. Small things like connotation can change the whole meaning of the issue or alter its original intent. While other media platforms may use the exact definition also known as denotation to provide a factual piece of information. Media outlets like USA Today, New York Times and Fox News all had their own say on Sexual Harassment, but each one has taken

As we have seen throughout the course visual communication techniques play significant role in our life since it touches upon almost every sphere starting from social aspects to political ones. These techniques are not important per se but rather there is a particular purpose they seek. One of these purposes is persuasion. According to Lester (p. 77): “communication is fundamentally and essentially a matter of persuasion, attitude change, behavior modification, and socialization through the transmission of information”. Images are an essential part of the visual persuasion, which modern mass media incorporates. As we have observed in our readings this visual persuasion can take different forms in order to be the most effective and to achieve its goal. Lester states that: “most information, whether factual or not, is communicated through the mass media. More and more that information relies on the emotional appeal inherent in visual presentations” (ibid). Moreover: “pictures have always been the surest way of conveying an idea” (ibid). One of the brightest examples is the covers of different newspapers and journals that not only demonstrate the certain attitude and opinion toward particular topics but also try to make the