Disengagement Theory

Disengagement theory was one of the earliest theories written on aging and it was formulated by Cumming and Henry in 1961. This theory states that the society should find avenues for older people to actively disengage from authority to give way for younger people to take over. Through this way, the society creates a smooth transition for the younger generation to take over the active roles while the elders are expected to lead a sedentary life. Though this augured well for the society as a whole, it began to create negative impressions about older people. The primary negativity is that disengagement can happen at different times for different individuals and it was difficult to define a range (Morgan & Kunkel, 2011). Also, the media began to show older people as inactive with no responsibilities and this eventually led to their biased portrayal.

Activity Theory

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References

Nelson, Todd. (2004). Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice against Older Persons. Boston: MIT Press.

No Author. (2001). Commentary: Sexuality in the Older Person. British Geriatrics Society. Vol 30(1). pp 121-124.

Morgan, Leslie; Kunkel, Suzanne. (2011). Aging, Society, and the Life Course. Fourth Edition. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Hillier, Susan; Barrow, Georgia. (2010). Aging, the Individual and Society. Independence, KY: Cengage Learning.

Media Analysis -- Your Media Analysis is due this week. For this assignment, you will conduct a sociologica
This analysis focuses on the 2006 film Bordertown, which starred Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Lopez and was directed by Gregory Nava. The movie was widely panned by critics, and received limited publicity in the U.S. Such adversity was largely due to the political nature of this film, which widely depicted a series of brutal, unsolved murders (which were still prevalent during the time the film was made) of young women -- from mid-adolescence to their early 20's -- in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez. There is a reporter from Chicago who travels to Juarez specifically to write a story about these occurrences, and the major media outlet that she writes for (The Chicago Tribune) refuses to publish the story. Despite the fact that the star witness for the story has her life threatened to cooperate with…...

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References

McLelland, K. (2000). Functionalism. www.web.grinnell.edu. Retrieved from  http://web.grinnell.edu/courses/soc/s00/soc111-01/IntroTheories/Functionalism.html 

Nava, G., Lopez, J., Fields, S., & Nava, G. (2006). Bordertown. United States: Capitol Films.

Schaefer, R.T. (2010). Sociology: A Brief Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Part of this is due to the fact that mainstream periodicals are written by full-time professional journalists, whereas blogs are usually not. It is also because of the higher expectations placed on mainstream periodicals. Reputation and credibility are huge assets to a mainstream periodical. Mainstream periodicals are scrutinized by rival periodicals and by their own readership through the "Letters to the Editor" section. logs face much less scrutiny because people do not rely on blogs for basic factual information.
The expectations of a publication's audience are also important. Readers of a mainstream periodical will typically read the periodical as a matter of habit, of finding out what is going on for that day. ecause of this, it is the periodical that will suggest to the reader what is important. Readers of a special interest blog, on the other hand, know what topic the special interest blog is covering and are…...

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Bibliography

Romer, C. (Sep 24, 2011). A Plan on Jobs Deserves a Hearing. New York Times. Retrieved from  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/business/economy/obamas-jobs-plan-deserves-a-hearing.html 

Reynolds, A. (Sep 22, 2011). The Spend Now, Tax Later Jobs Bill. Wall Street Journal Online. Retrieved from  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904194604576583151431651920.html 

Raum, T. (Sep 24, 2011). Obama Jobs Plan: American Jobs Act Would Make Small Dent In Unemployment Rate. The Huffington Post. Retrieved from  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/24/obama-jobs-plan_n_978956.html .

CNN Wire Staff (Sep 24, 2011). Obama says jobs bill will have immediate impact. CNN. Retrieved from  http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/24/politics/obama-bet/index.html?hpt=po_bn1 .

Howeve, it seems that customes ae not inteested in the motives of these companies, they just want thei poblems addessed.
It is impotant that media companies focus on such activities. The fact that the activity of Faifax Media allows the company to each a lage numbe of uses, this can be consideed an advantage in pomoting its copoate social esponsibility activities. This stategy can help the company incease its numbe of customes, because they want to be associated with companies that eflect thei inteest in thei communities' situation by making significant investments.

The educed level of pofits is anothe poblem that Faifax Media must addess. Thee ae seveal factos that detemined this situation. Some of the most impotant factos in this case ae epesented by the financial poblems detemined by the cisis that has affected most media companies, but also the stategy of the company.

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references of customers. This means that the company must establish the customer segments that it is recommended to be addressed. Fairfax Media must analyze the characteristics of this customer segment and determine the purchasing behavior and the needs that are reflected by this behavior. This is important in increasing the number of customers.

The company must also increase its investments in technological advancements. This is because the development of the digital media industry requires that Fairfax Media focuses on addressing the Internet and mobile phones customers. It is important that the company orients its research and development activity towards digital media products.

In order to improve its performance, it is important that the company increases the motivation of its employees. In other words, the success of Fairfax Media on the media industry relies on the quality of the work of its employees. This objective can be reached by investing in training programs intended to develop the skills of these employees that can be used in addressing the digital media market. T is important to focus on employees and on improving their performance.

Reference list:

1. Fairfax Media (2012). My Share Trading. Retrieved August 17, 2012 from  http://www.mysharetrading.com/fairfax-media-fxj.htm .

In this way they are getting a 360 degree of their customers over the purchasing lifecycle (Field, 2008).
Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) in a Web 2.0 Era

The experiences of BabiesRUs in managing digital and print media in a multichannel strategy illustrate how critical it is to manage each channel to its unique strengths while paying attention to customers' changing preferences for how they purchase products. This retailer has been successful by concentrating on the respective roles of online media to drive upper funnel interest and traffic, with print media and couponing to drive lower-funnel selling and repeat purchase activity. The combination of these approaches also allows for flexibility in how consumer's choices in how they purchase are changing very rapidly -- too rapidly to predict in fact. That is why IMC strategies must concentrate on how to have enough agility of selling process to compensate for any rapidly changing preferences…...

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• Consumer Wikis enable users to comment on content, in addition to editing content

• Wikipedia, a community Wiki encyclopedia, includes approximately 1.3 million English-language articles

Sources: (Bernoff, Li, 2008); O'Reilly, 2005. What is Web 2.0. Design Patterns and Business Models of the next generation of Software. Tim O'Reilly. Published September 30, 2005.  http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

' Also, the target audience seems to be single females, given that almost all the recipes are in single servings, and seems unlikely to be palatable to anyone but a dieter.
One exception to this single-serving focus is a burger recipe (a presumably unfeminine food) which is introduced with the tag like: "There are some days when a silly little salad or steamed chicken & veggie dish isn't gonna be enough to satisfy you. That's why we've whipped up some Hungry Girl MANLY MEALS! Get ready for some guilt-free stuff that'll have your boyfriends, brothers, handyman knockin' at your kitchen door!" ("Ready for a little manly meal action from HG?! (2007). eekly eigh-in: Hungry Girl) of course, women are always hungry in a frightening way that they must deny, but if they must indulge, they will do it to attract a 'manly man' with a sure crowd-pleasing meal involving red meat…...

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Works Cited

Ready for a little manly meal action from HG?! (2007). Weekly Weigh-in: Hungry Girl. Retrieved 12 Apr 2007.  http://www.hungry-girl.com/week/weeklydetails.php?isid=1074 

Strip Tease." (2007). Chew on This: Hungry Girl. Retrieved 12 Apr 2007.  http://www.hungry-girl.com/chew/chewdetails.php?isid=1065 

Who is Hungry Girl?" (2007). Hungry Girl. Retrieved 12 Apr 2007.  http://www.hungry-girl.com/meet/index.php

it's just how one presents the numbers. Besides story selection, Fox News often picked information to present in stories in an effort to persuade viewers to hold a specific opinion. Proponents of such practices claim this was an example of Fox News being hard hitting and not kowtowing to the liberal media's agenda (Anderson, 2004). In an excerpt published in the American Enterprise from his book We're Not Losing the Culture Wars Anymore Fox News senior vice president for news John Moody told Brian Anderson that Fox News would opt to begin a story on an upcoming execution by telling about the crime the person committed while the network news channels or CNN would start the story with footage of death-penalty protestors (Anderson, 2004).
According to the documentary, Fox would also use framing to appeal to its audience. For example, it made the American flag its background and had its…...

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References

Anderson, B. (2004). Why FOX News beat the mainstream media. The American Enterprise 15.: 52+. Academic OneFile. Web. 21 Mar. 2011.

Farhi, P. (2003). Everybody wins: Fox News Channel and CNN are often depicted as desperate rivals locked in a death match. In fact, the cable networks aren't even playing the same game. There's no reason they both can't flourish. American Journalism Review 25.3: 32+. Academic OneFile. Web. 21 Mar. 2011.

Rieder, R.(2008). In the tank? John McCain more than earned his negative coverage. American Journalism Review 30.6: 4. Academic OneFile. Web. 21 Mar. 2011.

Study: (2003). FNC viewers show ignorance. The Quill 91.9: 6. Academic OneFile. Web. 21 Mar. 2011.

Diversity in Multimedia Analysis
There are various immediate factors that easily give away the age of a person by looking at the skin elasticity, wrinkles, height, the clothing one is wearing, the activities the person participates in, energy and level of speed. In most instances, if a person sees a child in an elementary school who is three feet tall and has roughly 40 pounds running it is equally safe to assume that the learner is below ten years or ten. At times if one is walking slowly using a cane, many people would conclude that the person is aged. Clothing might give a clue to a person class, sexual preference, age, gender in most cases.

On the other hand, it is not a trusted way of evaluating a person as it gives room for many assumptions (2012). If a man is putting on a skirt and high heels, a person would…...

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References

Resources: Myplace: The Place for Diversity multimedia, Retrieved August 14, 2012,

 http://corptrain.phoenix.edu/CAS/COMM315/diversity/index.html 

Lind, R.A. (2010). Race/gender/media: Considering diversity, across audiences, content, and producers. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Advertisers recognize that brand loyalties and consumer habits formed when children are young and vulnerable will be carried through to adulthood.
However, by shifting children's preferences and their preferences as adults, the way of American eating has changed. Snacking on convenience foods advertised on television has replaced mealtimes, and the American preference of sweeter and blander foods has also increased. Before the mass media came to dominate American life, economics, culture, and parental dictates determined what food was served, and how it was served to children. Now children, under the persuasive influence of advertising, persuade their parents to eat more meat, processed foods, and to eat more snack foods like pizza rather than mealtime foods that require preparation.

orks Cited

Beder, Sharon "A Community View', Caring for Children in the Media Age, Papers from national conference." Edited by John Squires and Tracy Newlands, New

1998. pp. 101-111. 11 Oct 2007. http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/sbeder/children.html

Coon, Katharine a.,…...

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Beder, Sharon "A Community View', Caring for Children in the Media Age, Papers from national conference." Edited by John Squires and Tracy Newlands, New

1998. pp. 101-111. 11 Oct 2007.  http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/sbeder/children.html 

Coon, Katharine a., Jeanne Goldberg, Beatrice L. Rogers, & Katherine L. Tucker.

Relationships between Use of Television during Meals and Children's Food Consumption Patterns." Pediatrics. 107.1 January 2001, p. e7. 11 Oct 2007.  http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/107/1/e7

"Doctor Gordon twiddled a silver pencil. "Your mother tells me you are upset." I curled in the cavernous leather chair." (Plath, 1999, p.128) "A few more shock treatments, Mrs. Greenwood," I heard Doctor Gordon say, "and I think you'll notice a wonderful improvement." (Plath, 1999, p.145) Insulin therapies merely make her miserable and gain weight. Only her own bonding with the female psychiatrists on staff, and overcoming her sexual frustrations and hang-ups provides her with some tenuous relief at the conclusion of the book.
Thus, the Bell Jar can be seen as a portrait of a uniquely feminist crisis of the self, of the adolescent self in a normal but fragile and frustrating juncture of development, or of modern psychiatry's inability to deal with such a crisis, except in very ineffectual ways. Esther feels conflict as a woman frustrated to choose between masculine professional ideals and maternity, although upon closer…...

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Works Cited

Borgen, William a. And Norman E. Amundson. (2005) "Stages of Adolescent Development." (2005) From Amundson, N.E., Borgen, W.A., & Tench, E. "Personality and intelligence in career education and vocational guidance counseling." In DH Saklofske & M. Zeidner, Editors. International Handbook of Personality and Intelligence. New York: Plenum.

Kaplan, Cora. (1990) "Language and Gender." The feminist critique of language. Routledge: London and New York.

Plath, Sylvia. (1999) the Bell Jar. New York: HarperPerennial.

Plath, Sylvia. (1992) the Collected Poems. New York: HarperPerennial.

Media as the Linguistic Discourse Analysis Object
esearch in Discourse Analysis - Linguistics

Discourse analysis' focus is noteworthy semiotic events. Discourse analysis aims to understand not only the nature of the semiotic event, but also the socio-psychological traits of the participants of the event. The proposed subject of research is media discourse analysis or media as the linguistic discourse analysis object. Media is highly relevant and almost fundamental to life in the 21st century. There is no doubt that there are social, perceptual, psychological, linguistic, and behavioral affects of technology and media upon users and communities. Objects of discourse analysis vary in their definition of articulated sequences of communication events, speech acts, etc. Media is nothing but a series of coordinated sequences of various communications events operating semiotically. Therefore, media discourse analysis is a worthwhile linguistic research endeavor. The hypothesis of the research contends that media discourse analysis, as part of media…...

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References:

Chen, L. (2004) Evaluation in Media Texts: A Cross-Cultural Linguistic Investigation. Language in Society, 33(5), 673 -- 702.

Chigana, A., & Chigana, W. (2008) Mxit It Up in the Media: Media Discourse Analysis on a Mobile Instant Messaging System. The South African Journal of Information and Communication, 9, 42 -- 57.

Constantinou, O. (2005) Multimodal Discourse Analysis: Media, modes and technologies. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 9(4), 602 -- 618.

Gamson, W.A., Croteau, D., Hoynes, W., & Sasson, T. (1992) Media Images and the Social Construction of Reality. Annual Review of Sociology, 18, 373 -- 393.

Arguably, the raw data at ikiLeaks is far more powerful than anything that can be found in traditional media or satire news. The audience here must also acquire the tools necessary to properly digest the information, as an audience accustomed to uncritical digestion of mainstream media will be challenged by the raw information presented devoid of spin and context.
orks Cited:

Feldman, L. (2007). The news about comedy. Journalism. Vol 8 (4) 406-427.

Ludlow, P. (2010). ikiLeaks and hacktivist culture. The Nation. Retrieved November 27, 2011 from http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/7669895/771113000/name/ikileaks.pdf

McCue, D. (2009). hen news breaks, "the Daily Show" fixes it: Exposing social values through satire. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Retrieved November 27, 2011 from http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl%3furl_ver=Z39.88-2004%26res_dat=xri:pqdiss%26rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation%26rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1456354

Postman, N. & Power, S. (2008) How to watch TV news. Penguin Books.

Reilly, I. (2011). Satirical fake news and the politics of the fifth estate. University of Guelph. Retrieved November 27, 2011 from http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl%3furl_ver=Z39.88-2004%26res_dat=xri:pqdiss%26rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation%26rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR71829...

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Works Cited:

Feldman, L. (2007). The news about comedy. Journalism. Vol 8 (4) 406-427.

Ludlow, P. (2010). WikiLeaks and hacktivist culture. The Nation. Retrieved November 27, 2011 from http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/7669895/771113000/name/Wikileaks.pdf

McCue, D. (2009). When news breaks, "the Daily Show" fixes it: Exposing social values through satire. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Retrieved November 27, 2011 from http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl%3furl_ver=Z39.88-2004%26res_dat=xri:pqdiss%26rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation%26rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1456354

Postman, N. & Power, S. (2008) How to watch TV news. Penguin Books.

Media Presentation Analyzation: Design & Ethical Relationships
The war in the Middle East is an example of an on-going media presentation that is covered in the radio, television and on the Internet. More recently covered are the accounts of the beheadings of those kidnapped and in yesterday's news, of numerous people killed or wounded in the Iraqi car blasts in Najaf, Iraq. This paper will examine the design and ethical relationships of the media's presentation of the war in Iraq using the attached article downloaded off the Internet for the analysis. It will examine television and the new media environment of the Web, for both have become central in determining both the design and ethical dimensions of the media's coverage of the war in the Middle East.

Turning on the television means establishing a connection with the place of broadcasting and being literally and continually present at the birth of the picture.…...

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Bibliography

Bruce, B.C. (2000), "Credibility of the Web: Why we need dialectical reading," Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 34, no. 1, pp.97-109.

Design -- Media Presentation Analysis

In the novel, Howad is foced to seve as an U.S. secet Agent by the Blue Faiy, a caee that eventually led to his own death.
Mothe Night epesents the fictional memois of Howad W. Campbell J., an Ameican who seved as a secet agent fo the Ameican Amy duing the Second Wold Wa. Giving that the actual autho of the novel seved himself as a soldie duing the same wa, the question of whethe o not the autho esembles the potagonist in the novel is undestandable. Pehaps one of the visions they shae is the eality of facts, Mothe Night being Vonnegut's only novel that does not featue fantastic elements. Vonnegut wote "We ae what we petend to be, so we must be caeful about what we petend to be," as the final moal fo his novel and one thing Campbell and Vonnegut shae afte all is thei vocation…...

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references to such stories like "Jack the Giant Killer" and uses the image of some demons and serpents to create the background. The tone of the play is quite humourous and ironic, thus explained by the existence of the Fool. However, the King himself is quite intelligent, even though Shakespeare uses his insanity to address nonhuman objects. Like in many of his other writings, Shakespeare's style of writing is poetic, using iambic rhythms and free verse.

Therefore, it is quite interesting to observe that such aspects of human nature depicted in King Lear resemble other works like that of Vonnegut's and his Mother Night. The technique used by the later is ultimately different from that of Shakespeare's, less dramatic, but tragic nonetheless, written in a first-person journal style. This confessional style is bound to credit the protagonist-narrator because we only get his version of the events. Interesting enough though, it seems as though Campbell discovers more things about himself as the story unfolds than does the reader.

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Violence in the Media

Huston and colleagues have estimated that the average 18-year-old will have viewed 200,000 acts of violence on television (Huston, a.C., Donnerstein, E., Fairchild, H. et al. ig World, Small Screen: The Role of Television in American Society. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.)

41% percent of American households have three or more televisions (Nielsen Media Research, 2000).

56% of children ages 8-16 have a television in their rooms (Annenberg Public Policy Center, 2000. Media in the Home 2000)

Percentage of television-time children ages 2-7 spend watching alone and unsupervised: 81 (Kaiser Family Foundation, 1999. "Kids and Media @ the…...

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Bibliography

Alter, Jonathan. "Moving Beyond the Blame Game. (Panel Discussion)," Newsweek, May 17, 1999.

Beyer, John. "PERSPECTIVE: How movie and TV violence hits children; Is there too much violence on television and is it time to curb it? John Beyer, director of the organization mediawatch-uk argues that media viol," Birmingham Post, March 21, 2007.

Chatfield, Joanne E.. "Influence of Media Violence on Children." American Family Physician, February 15, 2002.

Children's Hospital Boston. "Teen-Rated Video Games Loaded With Violence;

Here are some options for essays on gender equality in your community or culture:

1. Research-based essay: Explore the current state of gender equality in your community or culture by examining statistical data, trends, and research findings. Discuss the barriers to gender equality that exist and propose potential solutions to address these challenges.

2. Persuasive essay: Make a case for why gender equality is important in your community or culture by presenting arguments and evidence to support your position. Use persuasive language and rhetoric techniques to convince readers of the need for greater gender equality.

3. Historical essay: Trace the history of gender....

Topic Development in Criminal Investigations: Exploring Critical Concepts and Contemporary Issues

1. The Interplay of Forensics and Criminal Investigation

The evolution of forensic science and its impact on investigation techniques
The challenges and limitations of forensic evidence in criminal prosecutions
The impact of forensic technology on case resolution and the justice system

2. The Psychology of Criminal Behavior and Its Application to Investigations

The psychological profiles of different types of criminals
Investigative techniques for understanding and predicting criminal behavior
The use of psychological theories to develop investigative strategies

3. The Role of Interviewing and Interrogation in Criminal Investigations

Ethical and legal considerations in....

Leveraging Social Media for Enhanced Homeland Security

Social media platforms, with their vast reach and capabilities, offer a transformative tool for enhancing homeland security efforts. By harnessing the power of social media, authorities can effectively monitor threats, engage with the public, and foster collaboration to mitigate potential risks.

Monitoring Threats and Early Detection:

Social media platforms provide a real-time pulse on public sentiment and potential threats. By analyzing posts, comments, and trending topics, authorities can identify potential security concerns at an early stage. Keyword monitoring and sentiment analysis algorithms can flag suspicious activity, allowing for swift investigation and response.

Public Engagement and Awareness:

Social media....