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    years. Barbie ads nowadays still features young girls who wear similar sets of clothes with their Barbie. Barbie ads have always involved the dolls being almost lifelike, and even giving Barbie a personality. And as Barbie came out with more back stories, movies and TV shows, the ads reflected more of Barbie’s character in the specific media and often advertising the a DVD set along side the doll and accessories. Barbie still uses TV ads nowadays, according to ispot.tv Barbie had 559 airings in the last

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    the early 20th century, before TV was invented. While new media options –TV, laptop, and mobile phone are invented and available now, the radio is seen as old-fashioned media device in today’s society. ` In the lecture, I learned that the radio—wireless telegraph, has such a long story in its development. Not only to entertain people, but the radio was initially used as a tool of land and ship communication by the radio wave. When I compared the radio with modern TV, there are both similarities and

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    While new technology encourages the TV networks to improve the local content to satisfy the demanding young audience, it also scatters the audience into different media platforms and drives them away from traditional TV broadcasts. The first part of this essay will analyze the current trends in the Australia television industry. As the audience tends to spend more time on the Internet interacting with the live TV programs and watching videos content, the commercial TV networks still broadcast quality

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    Unappropriate Television Shows Abstract Children are being influenced by television shows on a daily basis. Some children are watching inappropriate television shows such as SpongeBob, Fish Hooks, Family Guy, South Park, Ed, Edd, Eddy, Scooby-Doo, Boondocks and etc. These shows can affect children as they grow up in many ways such as using profanity, violent and aggressive behavior, poor school performance and watch too much television may cause a slight obesity. There are many educational television

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    The topic of near-death experience has brought forth a debate on how the brain is connected to the consciousness. Two hypotheses, the materialist view and the dualist view, have been suggested. One claims that the brain creates the consciousness and the other that the brain interprets the consciousness. In the following paragraphs, I plan to address the hypothesis put forth by authors Greyson and Calvi-Parsetti, the hypothesis I feel best follows both the SEARCH criteria and the criteria of adequacy

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    SCALE AND SCOPE: The rapid growth of on-demand digital streaming as well as user-generated video sites has transformed the way Americans consume media. Online video streaming has quickly become a multi-billion dollar industry with companies like Amazon, Hulu, Facebook, YouTube, and Netflix, which valued at fourty-two billion in 2015, generating large quarterly profits. This entertainment landscape not only provides an endless buffet of choices that are instantly accessible at the touch of a screen

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    television industry Many years ago, people gathered around the TV-sets and later on families together with friends met up and watched their favourite shows. Nowadays, due to the availability of low-priced technology as well as various channels and programmes, people lock themselves in a private space watching TV. (Harboe cited in Nicole C.Stephan W.Brenda B.Christine G. 2015). As a result, people have multiple preferences in TV programmes but nowhere to express their opinions. “One-way” communication

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    “individuals are regarded as sex objects and evaluated in terms of their physical characteristics and sexiness.” When reading this statement I strongly believe our society is overly sexualized. With the rise of social media, the popularity of reality TV and new means of advertising, the sexualization of our society has increased. With this growing idea of sexualization comes many problems such as, mental illness, eating disorders and a culture based mainly on appearance and willingness to reveal your

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    Television The beginning of TV can be tracked back to the discovery of photoconductivity back in 1873 by Willoughby Smith. TV was invented in the mid 1920’s by a Scottish inventor name John Logie Baird in London. Baird patented technology by using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images to be delivered to a television set. The first picture of moving object was transmitted by Baird in 1924, televised human face in 1925, and last but not least the first real – time moving object in 1926. The

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    finding that media use is a prime contributor to trouble falling asleep. TV Rules Television is one of the areas that require parent supervision and strict rules all the time. Earlier in 90s, we never felt the need to set any TV-viewing rules as there weren’t as many programs as they are now. The amount of grossly inappropriate content that has been airing on the television currently severely needs a rulebook. The New Rules for TV • A total of 30 to 60 minutes maximum in the evening that too after completing

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