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equipment and songs by yourself. Many people have no idea how long DJ’s have been influencing the music industry and what is to be played on radio stations worldwide. The first known disc-jockey took his place in history in 1909. Ray Newby of California played records from a small transmitter while he was a student in college at the age of 16. By 1910, radio broadcasts had become a very normal, but still exciting part of life. The world’s first DJ dance party was thrown by Jimmy Savile in 1943; he

Most Americans watch TV daily. Some have television shows that they watch religiously, while others rarely turn the television on. Television is a great past time, and it has grown greatly since it was first successfully demonstrated in 1927. If finding a good show to watch on TV were difficult for someone, they may turn to Google or their Facebook friends for suggestions. The Simpsons would be a good choice for an older audience and someone who enjoys more family oriented subjects; but Family Guy

Have you ever wondered how often a black male visits the barber? Before 2007 the males in my family visited the barber every two weeks. At that time, it was $10 for a cut hair and a shape up without tip. However, during the recession (2007- 2009) was a very uneasy time where job security was uncertain so many individuals were trying to save or cut cost and so was my family. Barber visits gradually decreased from twice a month to once a month to self-shave and barber visits every 5 to 6 weeks. Initially

Television has changed though years and years of researching and now all those have paid off but no one actually could understand what the trouble of the old TV’s were like. Back when Tv’s were rare and very expensive they were extremely popular for the rich because usually they were the only ones who could afford these sets. In the 1930’s Tv’s were large sets and were usually around 12 inches and costed about $300 to $400 dollars per set. Now we have smaller sets with much larger screens and they

earned some extra money” (Folkart, 1986). Arlin’s popularity grew fast, “He was said to have become radio station KDKA” (Covil). KDKA located in Pittsburgh was the first commercial radio station in America and began broadcasting in 1920.

communicate easier and more efficiently with radio, telephones, and movies. Radios between the 1920’s and now have not changed that much. “Radios were analog rather than digital but the ways of receiving the radio were the same.” This shows that radios are very similar as they were back then. Back then they tuned the station manually with a simple radio compared to now we turn a dial to the correct number and we have the audio being sent to us digitally. The radios in the 20’s were mainly hand built and

the Worlds” by H.G. Wells. CBS is responsible because it broadcasted the show and if the show hadn’t been broadcasted, the panic would have never happened. “The radio play, narrated by Orson Welles, had been written and performed to sound like a real news broadcast about an invasion from Mars (“’War of the Worlds’: Behind the 1938 Radio Show Panic” 1). CBS broadcasted the story like it was a real news announcement making it sound very realistic and more believable. If CBS hadn’t made it as realistic

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, television quickly emerged into a popular and greatly desired entertainment system in America. Although expensive, the television was still found in over fifty million American homes. Socially, the television not only embellished what the time period believed to be the “ideal” family, but the new technology also helped pull women closer to a world vacant of sexism and stereotypes, while also drawing African Americans closer to a society without racism, segregation

People like to be informed. According to Nielsen’s Q4 report in 2012, Americans have a voracious appetite for content, spending an average of 41 hours per week engaging with it across different screens. For the consumer, it’s about being entertained and staying informed [1]. The onset of the internet has revolutionized the news business in several ways, making an impact in society; 50% of the public now cites the internet as a main source for news, percentage that will increase in the next years

Chapter 15: Interference and Diffraction Chapter 15 is broken into three different sections; Interference, Diffraction, and Lasers. Throughout the chapter there are various real world examples. This chapter introduces the vocabulary words: coherence, path difference, order number, diffraction, resolving power, and laser. There are inphase and outphase. The first section is titled, Interference. Interference takes place between waves that have the same wavelengths. A resultant wave is formed