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    a thirty seconds commercial that initiates a conversation between a woman and her boyfriend or husband about body wash products. The advertisement targets audiences are directed at women, who are in heterosexual relationships and who does the shopping for personal-care products on behalf of their boyfriend or husband. Simply, the female audience is being influenced to purchase the Old Spice body wash for their men. The main tools used to analyze this advertisement are Job Fowles’ “Advertisements Fifteen

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    Trojan Women Analysis

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    wrote a moving script that portrays the struggles these women are forced to face such as prostitution and slavery. Parry displayed an emphasis on the art of dreaming and the anguish of detachment. The Trojan Women was not a play for all types of audiences due to the high level of interpretation required for the viewer. Personally, this play is not one I would see twice. However, the acting, the set design, and the direction tied together interestingly to make this production. Initially, the acting

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    lower class as "millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths". This suggests that the Inspector values the rights of the lower class and would like the upper class to comprehend the importance of socialism. Priestley uses dramatic irony, as the audiences are aware of the struggles of the lower class people during that time of war and conflict. Additionally, the repetition of "millions" displays how the Inspector highlights the importance of unity between societies and emphasizes on the amount of

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    Basics Journalism

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    of content. Today’s journalists are expected to go beyond traditional journalistic practices. They need to know how to be experts in digital reporting and publishing. By providing tips on how to organize data digitally, build websites, build an audience, create video, audio and photographed content, editing and publishing this content, Briggs covers all areas of digital journalism. Briggs book, consisting of 11 chapters, is divided into three sections including basics, multimedia storytelling and

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    it takes four separate murders until he is finished. This goes against Machiavelli’s prescription in The Prince: “Violence must be inflicts once and for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful” (32). Though the audience does not get a chance to see whether the people are resentful, Macbeth is resentful of himself. He has “terrible dreams / that shake us nightly” (III.ii.18-19), violent nightmares, because of his guilt from murdering Duncan. His own rumination contains

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    Academic Health Center, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.” This study was done because it “could open up new avenues connecting metabolic control, chemo-sensation and behavioral neuroscience research.” The assumptions made about the audience reading this is that the audience should know about the ghrelin hormone, and how the sense of smell and hunger play a role in food. The agenda that is served by the article is to bring about the knowledge of how ghrelin is involved with our ability to locate and

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    The adverts however, purposefully choose someone who is considered “being in need of a transformation” and shows his or her before and after face to make it more apparent. With the before photo, the audience can tell that the company purposefully leaves the patient looking in need of a makeover such as a face with no make up, casual clothes, and casual hair style. The after photo leaves the patient looking “beautiful” after having them go through the

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    Language allows us to bring life to things, people, places and experiences. However, choices of what language to use has an impact on perception of our message, so when communicating it is important to know not only how different language can benefit a communication, but also how it can be a hindrance. There are 6 barriers in language that can have ill-effects on the message that is being conveyed: clichés, jargon, slang, sexism/racism, euphemisms and doublespeak. This essay will describe each so

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    Analysis: I Am A Mac

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    manipulating/influencing our subconscious. In particular, her claim of how marketers present clear and simple decisions is most evident in commercials; specifically the Apple, “I am a Mac/I am a PC” commercial. In the commercial, Apple tries to influence the audience to purchase their product by relying heavily on the “obvious choice” approach. This approach

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    I was pleased to have attended a lecture cosponsored by the Ethics Center, the Fresno State office of the president, the Fresno Bee and Valley PBS. The lecture began with Dr. Castro recognizing a few leaders on campus, including a past Fresno State president, Dr. John D. Welty and campus volunteer Mary Castro. Dr. Castro then mentioned a few things about Mr. Brooks stating that he is a columnist for the New York Times and an analyst for the PBS “News Hour” and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Dr. Brooks

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