... behavior. It helps our taste for things that visual. The impact of the picture and its colors. It encourages in us a strive for the big spectacle. The effect can be seen in the way we react to one another and in the world of advertising. But television cannot yet be said to have enriched our civilization. For that to happen it must become interactive, so the viewers may cease to be just absorbers. In the flood of images from the silver screen the less good accompanies the best, just as in cinema or in literature. The factor which distinguishes television from the cinema and books, however, is that the full quality range, down to the very worst, is offered to us ro ...
... pertaining to this, is the reason the flood was sent. Noah’s story rules that the flood was sent because the earth had become corrupt and filled with violence, (Genisis, 6). The only way to destroy this violence was to drown everyone but the chosen few. These chosen few were hand-picked by God as good people to start a new, more wholesome and obedient civilization. ’s story says the reason for the flood was the volume the people created. The noise was intolerable and the gods insisted on ending the racket at once, (Duiker, 20). The singular reason was spared is that he was informed of the flood by Ea, the water god, through a dream. Ea was on ...
... are the entities with the greatest advertising resources. Large totalitarian governments have greater resources, and when they do this sort of thing, we quite correctly refer to it as propaganda III. The third filter: Sourcing Mass-Media News Time and monetary concerns force media to rely on official/State sources for information. Persons in official capacities are thought by the general public to provide objective news, while it is instead in their best interests to give information with a pro-establishment spin. IV. The fourth filter: Flak and the Enforcers "Flak" (negative responses to a media statement or program) serves to narrow coverage and debate ...
... with your privacy. Living so close to each other could mean much more interaction with neighbors. For a social person this might be a good idea but for a person who does not like to socialize as much 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, insuranc ...
... of living, per household drops and consumer spending decreases, in order to save enough money to pay for oil. If this continues on, it will very well cause the economy to fall into a contraction period. In Canada the cost of fuel has hit record highs of $.69 a liter to $.71 to liter. As you can see those prices are ridiculous and all Canadian citizens agree with me, especially those people that devote their life to being on the road, truckers. Truckers are outraged with the prices of diesel it has increased 100% and most of them can afford to pay those prices. Some truckers who work for large companies also sometimes pay for fuel if the total price exceeds the ...
... approaching retirement, can choose benefits that will maximize his/her retirement income as much as possible. With his/her own children grown-up, he/she needs to attend only to his/her own needs. Also known as “cafeteria plans,” the organization offering a choice of applicable benefits to their employees ensures that the benefits for which they pay are the most useful for each of their employees. Costs are rising in almost every area of benefit provision and administration. The organization is able to secure more favorable rates for those benefits used, if the organization is not required to provide the same service to each employee (Webster, 1996). Employee ...
... and can listen to different opinions of controversial subjects. Millions of families used to gather around the radio to listen to dramas, light comedies, variety shows, livemusic, and other programs. However, people can communicate a lot more quickly between any two points either on land, at sea, in the sky, or also in space, with the use of the radio. Politically, the radio made it possible for the people to be informed about government policies directly. Radio was "born" in the twenties, and "died" in the forties. Because the depression made listening the only amusement people could afford, the thirties were radio's finest years. Later, in the fifties tel ...
... as well, not necessarily for their health, but because of the amount of stamina the game requires at high levels of competition. It is not uncommon for a professional player to lose 10 to 15 pounds during the course of a match. Matches can last as long as a month, with one game every day, eight hours each. Over 120 countries officially consider chess a sport. The Unites States is not one of them. That may be because we seem to have a very narrow-minded view of what exactly a sport is. Ask any random person if chess should be considered a sport, and the most likely response will be hysterical laughter, yet more people play chess competitively than any other game ...
... speakers to go with the computer. The Gateway computers come with a Boston Acoustic Digital Media Theater. The apple computers come with build in speakers in to the modems. But the on think that makes this to computer companies different is the processes they use. Gateway uses the news Intel Pentium processor III. Apple uses the power PC G4 with velocity Engine. Both seem like good processors, but apple new G4 is said to be faster then the Intel penitent III. The power PC G4 with velocity Engine processor is the news processor from apple. The G4 is a supercomputer on a chip. Because the G4 is able to execute at least one billion floating point operation per. seco ...
... about her private life. Her mother’s stories, which at one point seemed interesting to her, is now ‘become melodramatic, irrelevant, and tiresome’. She knows that her mother only means well but sometimes she wishes she could be like Lonnie. Lonnie is in care of her father; her mother had passed away some time before. Her father never notices her and does not show his affection for her, she is pretty much on her own. The narrator considers her as a ‘Blue-Baby’ and privileged. The narrator also sees her mother as ‘shameless and obscene’; she tries to direct her friend’s attention away from her mother as much as ...
