Monthly Archives: June 2012

News Updates from All Directions

Tweet, picture upload, email, and text! What happened to the simplicity of turning on the television and updating yourself on all the news of the day?

These days are long gone. Our world is full of news, information, and countless …

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Women as sex symbols? What about men?

There’s no doubt that women are incredible sexy creatures and the male population becomes weak to the knees when it comes to their undeniable beauty. Us men will do anything to have women at our finger tips. Most times this …

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The Value Behind Each Word

Handwritten or typed, then neatly folded, and placed in an envelope. Sitting down to take the time to not only write a letter, then addresses it and pay for a stamp is essentially unheard of anymore. What happen to the …

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Changing the ways we read: Is it beneficial?

If you look in a classroom today, it probably looks much different than what you would imagine five, ten or even twenty years ago looked like. Students are now attached to technology and as a result their reading habits and …

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Evolution of Children’s Television

We have all heard time and time again that children should not watch an excessive amount of television. We have been told that television can lead to obesity, laziness and even social deficiencies among our youth. The leader of our …

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What Is “Children’s” Programing?

As a child I recall watching a wide variety of different programs. Some of which may have been intended for children and others that were not. From Saturday morning cartoons, to Mr. Rogers, to PBS documentaries, to Sixty Minutes, to …

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The Evolution of Television and Reading Technology

Education has been a necessary and exceptional form of achieving knowledge. Reading has been the basis of attaining learning skills that help to improve and enhance our critical thinking. As the years have progressed, the age of technology continues to …

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Sex sells in entertainment and perhaps women suffer for it

Yes, sex sells in entertainment and perhaps women suffer for it. In her article “Girls Gone Anti-Feminist” Susan J. Douglas asserts that women suffer as a whole from their portrayal in mass media. She discusses different ways in which this …

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Never forget Big Brothers watching! Are you sure you want to post that?

As our newest form of communication and connectivity grows and surpasses the traditional fourth estate; the Internet or the “interconnected estate” as Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen have so appropriately dubbed it in article ‘The Digital Disruption”, has grown tremendously …

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Is TV making kids fat?

The research laid out in Article 3 supports more than one view on how television effects children. I definitely think it is great that research is being conducted in order to improve children’s programming because I was convinced that in …

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