... age cohorts within the overall U.S. population, the SPPA concluded from these percentage breakdowns that long-term trends suggest fundamental shifts in the relationship between age and [theatre] attendance. "3 A 2009 report published by Stanford University, "Recreating Fine Arts Institutions " analyzed these findings and concluded that, "The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) reports that between 1982 and 2008, adult attendance for ... promoting greater attendance of younger age cohorts through Broadway fare such as Spring Awakening, American Idiot, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Pe...

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... the Western media, but the fact that it is owned by a very small handful of media moguls. The shocking truth is that ownership of newspapers and TV stations has already been consolidated to such a staggering degree that unmanipulated news coverage has practically ceased to exist. Only one man and his media holding need be mentioned to provide some semblance of ... the said Fortune magazine to be the 5th richest family on the planet. Billionaire Randolph Hearst and family, owns 14 daily newspapers, 6 TV stations, 7 radio stations and some book publishing companies. Lastly, Kenneth Irving ...

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... the Western media, but the fact that it is owned by a very small handful of media moguls. The shocking truth is that ownership of newspapers and TV stations has already been consolidated to such a staggering degree that unmanipulated news coverage has practically ceased to exist. Only one man and his media holding need be mentioned to provide some semblance of ... the said Fortune magazine to be the 5th richest family on the planet. Billionaire Randolph Hearst and family, owns 14 daily newspapers, 6 TV stations, 7 radio stations and some book publishing companies. Lastly, Kenneth Irving ...

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... . "Tell your friends the Beatles gave it to you."" (p.16). In the first chapters of the book, there are mentions of a "pale god", signs that the local people have been already affected by the colonial mentality of white as foreign, and foreign as superior. Therefore, men with white ... workers, as well as families who had camped won in the basement of the building were buried alive by the building collapse. The workers report sounds of screaming, and yet the first lady shows absolute indifference to the incident, demanding the continuation of construction. " "Workers have reported ... d...

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... . With financial success came political involvement. In the 1930s, Joe Sr. became a major backer of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, making large donations to the Democratic Party and even penning a book, in 1936, entitled I'm for Roosevelt. Later, his support for some of Roosevelt's more radical fiscal policies cooled, but he remained an enthusiastic Democrat and a famous, if controversial, national figure, ... States naval and air quarantine would go into effect, preventing any further missile shipments from Russia to Cuba. He also demanded that the Soviets remove any and all nuc...

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... American Media Scholar and former MIT Lecturer who is known for his theories in ˜Media Convergence' and ˜Transmedia Storytelling'. In his book Convergence Culture, Jenkins brings forth the idea that we have been living in a time of Spectatorial Culture. Companies like Disney started copywriting stories ... : 43) Mass Media Utilizing Citizen Journalism An example of this would be CNN iReport. CNN brought the rights to ireport.com and i-report.com in 2008. They set the domains up so that participating citizen journalists could post their work to the public instantly, rather than ... allo...

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... being able to know that they would become friends right as he sat down at the table and played his first hand. The next morning, they already start on a project together, writing a play for the Triangle Club, which is a comedy club on campus. Although the musical titled "A Cracker ... near future. Considering his absence at classes and Finals threatening in the distance, John pulls 2 all-nighters, and sleeps through his finals. His report comes littered with D's and F's. Academic probation is his sentence for his misjudgment of priorities throughout the life of "The Ritz."" Next semeste...

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... people begin to question the legitimism of the theory by addressing these facts, and despite whether they are proven wrong or not, it's already to late and the damage has already been done. The constant spreading of the fiction never ceases to stop; therefore, causing yet another conspiracy to be born. Sadly, ... replayed the entire day and the days to come, they effectively added more fuel; assisting the already growing conspiracy fire. Thomas Friedman, a columnist for the New York Times, pleads with the reader in his book Longitudes and Attitudes, to realize that in this day in age, w...

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... grown to forty students before they were found out. Severe punishment obviously followed, but no amount of lashings could revoke the seeds that had already been planted. Frederick was so happy for what he had done. He wanted more. He wanted to be his own master, and ... Douglass published his autobiography, Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglass. He feared that his identity as a runaway slave would be revealed when the book was published, so he went to England. England welcomed his continued speeches against slavery. His newfound friends there raised money to buy his freedom ... la...

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... than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover." Al Franken, from his book Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them, makes an excellent point about how the media is biased. Many times, people manipulate the media ... TV reporter could get it wrong from time to time, he could be snippy or snooty, but he could not be boring" (Goldberg 17). In his book Bias, Goldberg, a former CBS reporter, explains why media is changed. He reports that media is essentially altered so that people are entertained. The news ... that t...

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... . "Cause of Hamlet's destiny. . . in intellectual terms . . . is a tragedy . . . of excessive thought." (Mack. 43) Hamlet's role was to make a transcendental move from scholarly prince to man of action. Hopefully this report will help open another, or even stress a classic, view as to Hamlet's character and his prolonged delay. When a student goes to write about Hamlet's character they often begin by hitting ... Polonius can retort is, ". . . this be madness." (II.II.205) The next great display of hamlet's ingeniousness is when all within the castle are looking for the late Polonius" bod...

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... Primetime can consequently be signified as the 'marked? class, because it does not overuse typecasts, which are when characters are cast in roles that require characteristics similar to those already possessed by the performer. Certainly the primetime ads in this illustration were established to symbolize a more stylish and unbiased depiction of gender. Ads are not arbitrarily strewn all over ... began to notice this growing wave of feminist objections and major efforts were made to gauge just how influential their ideas were becoming? (Craig 3-4). As a result of her book and its charges...

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... defense, Burgoyne continued to lay blame on Lord Germain's orders, insisting he had no choice but to continue to Albany. The defeat at Saratoga forever changed the war for America. Already contemplating an alliance with America, France considered the American victory at Saratoga a demonstration of the ability of the Continental Army and the potential of the American Revolution for success. The ... Washington besieged Boston, while Benedict Arnold surrounded Quebec. Royal governors had to find sanctuary, and decisions made to quit Boston and send an expedition to North Carolina with the ge...

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... Tenth" who through their knowledge of modern culture could guide the American Negro into a higher civilization. The culmination of the conflict came in 1903 when DuBois published his now famous book, The Souls of Black Folks. The chapter entitled "Of Booker T. Washington and Others" contains an analytical discourse on the general philosophy of Washington. DuBois edited the chapter himself to keep ... or failed to prosecute lynch mobs. Though the U.S. Congress never passed the bill, or any other anti-lynching legislation, many credit the resulting public debate "fueled by the NAACP's rep...

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... was a printer's devil in the liberal, working- class newspapers The Long Island Patriot and The Long Island Star. At the age of twelve, Walter was already contributing to the newspapers. Whitman's first signed article was in The New York Mirror in 1834, were he compares the present metropolitan city, as it was ... This novel centers on a country boy who, after prey to drink in the big city, eventually causes the death of three women. However, this book sold more copies than anything else Whitman published in his lifetime. During the time Whitman was writing fiction, he remained a successf...

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... for drive-by shootings, murders, drug activity, and violence. He says that most of the gang members have migrated from Chicago and Detroit to capitalize on the drug market. A 1997 report from CNN attributes the migration of gangs to family relocation. When a gang member moves from a city such as Los Angeles or Chicago to a small community, he will be "revered in ... many reasons to join a gang. Why do youths join gangs? Adolescents join gangs for many reasons, including individual needs for identity, recognition, protection, love and understanding, and opportunity. In the book, Gangs: A...

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... , most people would be feeling the lack of something that they can't explain. What is it that we feel the lack of? It is the news. Reading the newspapers has already become a habitual activity, as we do it daily, and the news that the newspapers contain have also become like a drug to us. Now, you"re thinking, why is news so ... be aired without even confirming whether it's factual or not, would be rather ridiculous. There is always possibilities that a news is not true, but then again, most of us have already made a perception that news always come through by facts and through research....

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... NY are eligible for all job categories. The only jobs to which they have access are those in which they can be paid "off the book" and in factories where they are not asked to show proof of resident status. One-third of Haitian Immigrants fall in this category; most ... Also because of our negative label imposed on the Haitian community, many of our young people are no longer proud of their roots. I was reading a book (sorry I forgot the title) and I read an article about how the United States government was discriminating against the Black Haitian boat people, they allow ... that we ca...

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... basements of homes from the landfill, things like pesticides and dioxin which is possibly the most toxic substance known to man. In 1980 a report was published that suggested that the residents of Love Canal were being exposed to chemicals that were causing chromosome damage. In fact newborns had a ... the New York State Legislature In accordance with Chapter 487 of the New York State Laws of 1978, I hereby submit to you a Special Report on the Love Canal crisis. The profound and devastating effects of the Love Canal tragedy, in terms of human health and suffering and environmental damag...

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... also poses a problem for conflict theorists. Although these tests, to a functionalist, will fulfill the requirement of placing one accordingly in society, conflict theorists see these standardized tests as exacerbating the already pronounced socioeconomic, and racial inequalities education creates (Grodsky, Warren, & Felts, 2008). More specifically, conflict theory greatly criticizes the SAT, claiming that the test is used by elite universities to limit ... ; ("Rising costs could push college out of reach" 2008). The idea of college slowly becoming extremely unaffordable to the less fort...

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... , especially youths, the propensity to commit delinquent acts of violence. The study by Ferguson and Olson (2014) did an intensive study on the aggression and delinquency in videogames with youths already problematic symptoms and found that, "violent video games were associated with neither delinquent criminality nor bullying behaviors in children with either clinically elevated depressive or attention deficit symptoms" ... lawbreakers fit within the context of simplification and decontextualization of the news in order to provide sensationalistic accounts which sell newspapers." Tho...

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... the project and instead shipped out of America as a cabin boy on the St. Lawrence, bound for Liverpool. By this time, Melville had already started writing. In January of 1841 Melville undertook a second voyage on the whaler Acushnet from New Bedford to the South Seas. By June of ... his first two novels were notorious successes. In August 1847 Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of the Chief Justice of Massachusetts, and began a new book,  Mardi, which would be published in 1849. The novel was another Polynesian adventure, but its fantastical elements and jarring juxtaposition of ...

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... found that although corruption among police officers was not restricted to this area, the bulk of it involved payments of money to the police from gamblers and prostitutes. (Knapp Commission Report,1973:pp 1-3) "The cops who were engaged in corruption 20 years ago took money to cover up the criminal activity of others,'' says Michael Armstrong, who was chief counsel to ... on internally," says former U.S. Attorney Thomas Puccio, who prosecuted a number of police corruption cases. (New York Times,April 3,1993:p.5) Getting that information was no easier when officers were encouraged to re...

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... species are often out-competed or consumed by organisms introduced from elsewhere. Extinction is a natural process, but it is occurring at an unnaturally rapid rate as a consequence of human activities. Already we have caused the extinction of 5%-20% of the species in many groups of organisms, and current rates of extinction are estimated to be 100-1,000 times greater than pre ... their food supply, killed them to protect themselves or for their pelts and from fear. The Burch ell's Zebra, or Dauw, used to populate Africa's plains in great numbers. Settlers report seeing groups of thousa...

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... Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock". With the likes of Elvis Priestly, Buddy Holly and Little Richard it became more popular. Rock and Roll was really a black form of music already, but it didn't become popular with the mainstream until white artists such as Holly and Priestly made it more "acceptable" to white audiences Young people were attracted to this new ... it became, especially when used as a tool of rebellion. This kind of behavior is reflected throughout history especially in recent decades. The reason why such things as the Kenneth Star Report or books banned by the library ...

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