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    References Discoverpolicing.org. (2008). (International Association of Chiefs of Police) Retrieved January 2017, from DiscoverPolicing.org: http://discoverpolicing.org/ The Associations of Chiefs of Police created this website as a police informational site. It is an educational site that explains the hiring process, basic requirements, training and academy life, and skills candidates should process. The site also offer a virtual ride along. I can use this site to explain the training and academy

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    prosecuted, and organizations should do everything they can to win legal battles. Because businesses who steal media promote piracy and creators of the media are losing potential money, it is appropriate for organizations such as the Motion Picture Association of America to use charged language like "piracy" to win legal battles. Businesses who pirate movies and songs need to be prosecuted, because they make people view piracy as morally fine and promote it. In the article "When Stealing Isn't Stealing

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    Women are more likely to be sexualized in movies than their male rival. The female body is three times more likely to appear partially or fully nude in movies and cable television. Male nudity is normally used as shock-value in movies by today standards. Viewers from a heterosexual male perspective don’t want to see male genitals because it could make them feel uncomfortable. Our society have prevented male actors from wanting to exposing themselves because of fear. This taboo public display of a

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    ‘Loss of cultural diversity is an undesirable consequence of international interaction’ Introduction ‘Loss of cultural diversity is an undesirable consequence of international interaction’ this statement can be explored by looking at a cultural element, more specifically the cultural element of Hollywood/commercial film. Culture refers to the behaviours, beliefs, attitudes and traditions shared by a group of people and that are passed on from one generation to the next. The integration of the

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    hit in America after 1910. These movies were silent movies so therefore; we didn’t have the problem with vulgar language. The first spoken movie was in 1927, called The Jazz Singer. At that time, the movie industry was so worried about keeping his or her audience happy and didn’t want to offend anyone. That we didn’t have the problems that we have today. In 1922, William H. Hays founded the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. This organization, which later became the Motion Picture

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    The film history of Hollywood is an extremely intriguing and intense. The film industry flourished in the 1890s, when motion picture cameras were invented and film production companies started to be established. It is fascinating how short films displayed in nickelodeons soon developed into feature films shown in luxurious movie palaces across the country. Technology was improving at a fast rate and later on new film techniques such as artificial lighting, fire effects and enhanced movie sets were

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    TV set there were only a few sets in the home of the consumer. For post-World War II Americans, television largely took the movies' place as a dominant cultural influence. The television reached audiences far larger than those attracted by motion pictures, and it projected images right into family's living rooms. The Paramount decision effectively disintegrated the studio system, major studios survived by changing the ways they did business and establishing practices (still in use today) that

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    smartphones and virtual reality headsets. When moving pictures first appeared in nickelodeon theaters across the country in the early twentieth century, it was met with similar reactions. Many individuals believed exposing the American public to questionable topics such as criminal activity and prostitution would incite in the audience the desire to replicate the scenes depicted on screen. Among those advocating on behalf of the moving picture were Charles Sprague-Smith and John Collier of the People’s

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    illegal copies of copyrighted content is very hard to do without placing very hard legislation on the internet, which will result in a loss of rights that the internet is fighting so hard to retain. The RIAA, which is the Recording Industry of Association of America, has been trying very hard to protect their property by using unconventional methods to protect their property, which includes often searching and pestering people about how they obtained copies of their music. The reason this is an issue

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    The Cold War split America into two groups: those willing to conform and those not. This divide discriminated against filmmakers who exercised their right to freedom of expression. The Cold War’s “culture of conformity” forced Hollywood to create films embracing conservative ideology and opposing left-leaning thought. The influence on cinema can be examined through Herbert Biberman’s Salt of the Earth and Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront. Salt of the Earth’s production was suppressed due to its alleged

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