The 13th (film)

The film The 13th mainly focuses on African-American in the United States (US) or widely known as the black people and also the “super predators”. The main ideas of this film are to emphasize that “Black Live Matters” and to reveal the hidden truth of society towards the African-American especially regarding mass incarceration in the … Read more

How the media perpetuates and displays images of disability

A disability is a condition or function judged to be significantly impaired relative to the usual standard of an individual or group. The term is used to refer to individual functioning, including physical impairment, sensory impairment, cognitive impairment, intellectual impairment mental illness, and various types of chronic disease. Disability is conceptualized as being a multidimensional … Read more

A Man for All Seasons (film, Sir Thomas More)

A man for all Seasons In the second half of the fifteenth century, England appears as a country being in full recovery after a period of historical events such as “The 100 Years War” (1339-1453) or the War of the “Two Roses” (1455-1485). Regarding the political control from this period, the highest position is occupied … Read more

Coaching in Miracle (movie)

Miracle, a movie inspired by the 1980 US Olympics Hockey team were about 20 College All Star players, showing everyone what skills and sacrifice you had to take to make the impossible possible, while making history at the same time. For 20 years straight, they were defeated in the Olympics by the Soviet Union for … Read more

Gran Torino by Clint Eastwood – An Ultimate Sacrifice

An Ultimate Sacrifice Multicultural communication is a form of study that involves different culture and social group communications. This is a topic choice that many producers are filming in recent years. Gran Torino by Clint Eastwood is a powerful film that shows many examples of cultural context within many cultures. This film is about a … Read more

The film Selma

The film Selma, tells the story of how Pastor and President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., led marches in 1965, demanding equal voting rights.  And by no means is this an easy task.  Although the South was tecniqually desegregated from the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, … Read more

Ripley dispelled the “final girl” trope in cinema (Alien)

“Final Woman” Director Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) is a seminal science-fiction horror film released with the tagline, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” The film encompasses the story of seven-member crew in the year 2122 and their survival aboard the ship Nostromo against a menacing, carnivorous, hermaphroditic Alien. At its core, however, Alien … Read more

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Qs (some answers)

Introduction The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas depicts a fictional friendship set during World War II. Bruno, the eight-year-old son of a newly-promoted Nazi officer, moves with his family from a comfortable life in Berlin to a lonely existence in the countryside. An adventurous boy with nothing to do, Bruno ignores his mother’s instructions not … Read more

Sex, self and consumerism in Stuff magazine (article analysis)

Introduction This article examines the use of persuasive language and images by stuff magazine: uk’s self-described market leader in consumer oriented technology) in advertising and reviewing consumer electronic equipment. Particular notice is taken in the way that consumers of electronic devices such as: mobile phones, pcs and plasma TVs are trapped in a continual cycle … Read more

Does the Media Enhance Democracy?

Does the Media Enhance Democracy? I think that the media does not support an enhancement of democracy. In my opinion, the media is growing to be a threat to democracy. Some argue that it is one of the mediums that is owned by the people, which means democracy is enhanced by the government’s lack of … Read more

Issues with the shift to online news

Technology impacts our lives more than we realize on a daily basis. The way we get our news, both locally, nationally, and internationally has been directly affected by our rapid expansion of high tech devices. One hundred years ago the only way to get the news was to read a printed newspaper, word of mouth, … Read more

Censorship process and changes in China

In recent years people are beginning to shift their attention to the technological advancements as more and more people buy into these new products for everyday information. Because these media platforms are so easily accessible to a greater population, people can more easily find information they didn’t know before, and it is clearly beginning to … Read more

Positive and Negative effects of social media vs traditional media

Introduction: Now a days, the traditional conventional news media is being challenged by the social media. People actually felt more when they are using traditional media compared to the social media. In these days social media is getting more popularity with it’s vast amount of users while the traditional media like newspaper circulation has been … Read more