Engage Fear to Win with “Vampire Diaries”

 Marketing Broken Down Each market in the economy uses different techniques to engage its customers in buying the product at hand. Television shows must convince their audience to watch a new series by making the viewer invested in the program. In particular, the action television show Vampire Diaries engages its audience by evoking emotion … Read more

Exploring Eye Witness Testimony’s Validity: Is It Reliable?

   An Evaluation of Eye Witness Testimony   Despite the fact that eye witness testimony is renowned worldwide, evidence supporting its validity and efficacy present a variety of different opinions. Everyday eye witness testimony is used to help the law convict criminals of various crimes but there is an academic debate as to whether … Read more

Exploring the Immigration Debate: The Cultural, Political, and Economic Effects

 Since the birth of America, immigrants have been coming from all over the world. It has been coined ‘the melting pot’ since the historical peak of immigration between 1880 and 1920, in which people of all races, ethnicities, and cultures brought forth a contribution of diversity and society-building skills (NTY 2017). Throughout history, there … Read more

Immigr. in UK: Debunking the “Folk Devil” Falsehoods in Mass Media

   The subject of immigration has always been a continuous and prevalent argument within the British public and media, a double-edged sword that can be debated for eternity. “Racism and anti-racism are powerful twin social forces that will continue to shape news communications through the twenty-first century” (I. Law, Racism and Ethnicity (2010); page … Read more

The Revolutionaries and Traditionalists of Jewish History: Maimonides, Mendelssohn and Spinoza

 The landscape in the modern world changes every day. And if certain values are in the center of society right now, a hundreds of years ago it was religion. Discussing, arguing, praying, defensing and attacking it – everything could happen on daily basis. In this whirlwind of opinions and views, some were the revolutionaries … Read more

Sustainable, Masdar City to be Built in Abu Dhabi by 2025–Strengthening the Orientation with Energy-Reducing Designs.

 Masdar City is an ambitious city design by Norman Foster and partners which is intended to be completed in 2025 in Abu Dhabi. Currently, the city has not been completed but it hopes to implement sustainable ideas through energy-reducing design which would then cause the city to become self-sufficient. As seen in Figures 1 … Read more

Exploring the Origins of Sampling: Pierre Schaeffer’s Journey and the Art of Musique Concrète

 Xavier Westergaard   Thursday, December 13th, 2018 Professor Konrad Kaczmarek MUSI315: Fundamentals of Music Technology Final Paper TA: Anteo Fabris Sampling as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary is “to record (sound) digitally for subsequent electronic processing; to store (an excerpt of recorded sound) in digital form, esp. in order to reuse it, often modified, … Read more