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Media Effect
Number of Words: 3034 / Number of Pages: 12
... II. Kinds of Media Television The fossils found in American garbage dumps clearly show the evolution of the radio into the television set. Layers of fossil garbage from the WWI era (10 million years ago) contain fragments of radios that use vacuum tubes. The first televisions appear in the WWII layer (8 million years ago) that lies immediately above the WWI layer. The components in these early television sets are nearly identical with those in the WWI radios, so the radio clearly evolved into the television. Both the radio and television show signs of further evolution, with transistors replacin ...
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Theory Of Knowledge
Number of Words: 1207 / Number of Pages: 5
... make sense and have a rational and understandable explanation. There are two types of logic, deductive and inductive. Logic, whether inductive or deductive, must have a premise. To have a sound argument, I had to have two true premises and the conclusion had to be in specific relation to the premises given. The premises come from our knowledge, and more specifically that the Empiricist called sense perception. When we put reasoning into these premises, we come up with a conclusion that also becomes part of our knowledge. Therefore, logic is a tool that is applied to knowledge to gain more knowledge ...
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Persuasion Theories In Adverti
Number of Words: 1869 / Number of Pages: 7
... partly on their representation of it. There are three main categories, or source characteristics, we use to analyze a source, credibility, similarity and attractiveness. In this ad for Ortho Tri-Cyclen the source is the young woman who serves as a spokesperson for the company. I will use the characteristics mentioned above to assess the source presented.
Credibility is an essential factor to a communicator’s effectiveness. Their message is believed to have a greater influence if they are perceived as credible sources. Credibility is dependent on a source’s believability, which i ...
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Chinese Architecture
Number of Words: 769 / Number of Pages: 3
... This feature has been preserved up to the present. Builders
would apply a lacquer to the wood to preserve it. These lacquers were made
in bold colors, and this became one of the key ways to identify Chinese
architecture. The highly varied color found on a traditional Chinese
building have a symbolic meaning to the Chinese culture. People would
paint dragons, flowers, birds, and landscapes on these buildings. These are
called murals that are painted onto the buildings to give it more meaning.
The Chinese would make a platform, and build the structure on the platform.
A high platform wo ...
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Acid Rain
Number of Words: 1272 / Number of Pages: 5
... DEFENCE
Areas in Ontario mainly southern regions that are near the Great Lakes,
such substances as limestone or other known antacids can neutralize acids
entering the body of water thereby protecting it. However, large areas
of Ontario that are near the Pre-Cambrian Shield, with quartzite or
granite based geology and little top soil, there is not enough
buffering capacity to neutralize even small amounts of acid falling on
the soil and the lakes. Therefore over time, the basic environment shifts
from an alkaline to a acidic one. This is why many lakes in the Muskok ...
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Our Declining Education System
Number of Words: 2277 / Number of Pages: 9
... system at this time is regulated by
states which implement their own curriculum, set their own goals and have their
own requirements for teacher preparation. Combined with this is the fact that
we have lowered our expectations in these areas, thus we are not providing an
equal or quality education to all students across the country. The commission
findings generated recommendations to improve the content of education and raise
the standards of student achievement, particularly in testing, increase the time
spent on education and provide incentives to encourage more individuals to enter
the fie ...
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Advertising
Number of Words: 1863 / Number of Pages: 7
... look at who would use the item. If the product was make-up, the type of person that would use it would most likely be a woman, around the age of thirteen and up. The advertisers would then find an ideal looking woman to model for ads to show the makeup on a person and try to get women to use it. The way that the advertisers describe the model will also get your attention; they might say that she is not really beautiful until she puts on the makeup, or something along those lines. is an effective method of public relations communication for several reasons. It is economical, making it possible to car ...
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Co-Op Housing
Number of Words: 530 / Number of Pages: 2
... his could be a nightmare.
I think the biggest advantage in co-housing is the sense of security. It could mean more eyes are watching your property. Co-op’s are much cheaper than private houses. You can find a co-op in a neighborhood where you can not afford a house. You may have amenities you couldn’t afford otherwise. For example, swimming pool, underground parking, tennis courts and a small gum.
Monthly fee regarding maintenance, property tax, insurance or mortgage could be very low comparing to a private home.
Last week we visited the brand new co-housing project in Fayetteville. In my opinion M ...
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Overpopulation And The Economi
Number of Words: 2270 / Number of Pages: 9
... overcrowding. 1996 statistics show that 75% of the worlds population live in both Africa (13%) and Asia (63%). The overpopulation in these continents, is so much higher for many different reasons. The main reason being culture. When comparing a continent like Africa, to a continent like North America, there are many different, noticeable, differences. An example of this being the fertility rate. In Africa’s particular culture, having many children equals high fertility rates and this, they believe, is a great blessing from God. Also, here women are not educated, as well as the developed countries, a ...
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The Olympic Games
Number of Words: 1124 / Number of Pages: 5
... of 776 BC a festival was held at
Olympia on the highly civilized eastern coast of the Peloponnesian peninsula.
That festival remained a regularly scheduled event, taking place during the pre-
Christian golden age of Greece. As a testimony to the religious nature of the
Games, which were held in honor of Zeus, the most important god in the ancient
Greek pantheon, all wars would cease during the contests. According to the
earliest records, only one athletic event was held in the ancient Olympics--a
foot race of about 183 m (200 yd), or the length of the stadium. A cook,
Coroibus of Elis, was th ...
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