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Violence In The News Media
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This 10 page paper discusses how violent acts are depicted in the news media, i.e., objectively, persuasively, controversially and so on. The writer focuses on the shootings at Colombine High School in Littleton, Colorado to demonstrate different types of reporting. The writer also comments about how other violent acts were reported and the motivation behind the types of reports made. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PGnews.wps

Violence, Society, and The Media
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In this thought-provoking 8 page essay, the writer tells us that as violent as some contemporary presentations have become, we cannot point an accusing finger nor blame today's society for it is far from unique -- Even two thousand years ago, Greeks & Romans sat in Coliseums and cheered as one opponent brutally slayed another. All that has changed today is the media through which we view such violence. Art is but an imitation of life and we must therefore acknowledge that as frightful as it may seem, television and movies are definitive art-- and the violence they are depicting is but an imitation of life. No Bibliography.
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Violence: Media and Children
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A 5 page paper which examines the influence violence has on children through television, movies, and video games. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAkdv.rtf

Virtual Communities -- A Threat to Real Community
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This 10 page report discusses the existence and proliferation of virtual communities and whether or not they truly exist as the new and future form of community building and human interaction. The most fundamental concepts of community has been long recognized as having a central place in the social fabric of human life. Therefore, the question presents itself as to whether or not virtual communities serve or damage the larger human community. This writer examines the issue from the view that virtual communities are ultimately detrimental and serve purposes that have little to do with true community building. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: BWvircom.wps

Visual Communication through Mass Media
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5 pages in length. There is no doubt that visual communication plays a large part in relaying information to the masses. While audio only communication forces the listener to conjure up his or her own images, visual communication is more in control of what the media wants to convey to their public. The use of audio and visual or even just visual can communicate so much more in mass media. The phrase 'a picture is worth a thousand words' is one that is extremely accurate in the world of information processing. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: JGAviscm.doc

Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller" As It Relates To Orson Welles' "The War Of The Worlds"
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5 pages in length. The specialized talent that Welles had in his storytelling ability is precisely what Benjamin discusses in his essay as being the missing component in the true gift of storytelling. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: TLCwells.doc

WAR PROPAGANDA
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This 10 page paper discusses the various ways in which the United States has utilized propaganda to what affect. Also included are three literary references about war and propaganda. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: MBprpgnda.rtf

Wartime Readership: The Correlation Between Newspaper Circulation Figures and War
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A 5 page discussion of the correlation between wartime events and newspaper circulation. Contends that there is an increased circulation associated with U.S. involvement in war but cautions that this increase may occur gradually over a period of months following the event. Questions whether it is newspapers and other form of the media which make the general public aware of and interested in an event such as an act of war in the first place, or whether it is the public's interest which inspires news coverage. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PPwarNws.wps

Weaver & Aristotle/Views on Rhetoric
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A 5 page research paper that compares Aristotle's forms of rhetoric (ethos, logos, and pathos) with the modern model proposed by Richard Weaver (1953), which entails the use of "universal terms." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khweaari.wps

Website Analysis: Tobacco-FreeKids.Org
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This 3 page paper analyzes the website Tobacco-FreeKids.Org to see if it’s well-organized and effective. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: HVTobKid.rtf