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- Welcome
December 18, 2009, 22:48
Hello everyone Welcome to The Glaring Facts. As you can see, there are several topics that may or may not have much to do with Communications, but are still…
- The Staff
December 18, 2009, 22:52
Hey TGF readers, I hope your interest in us has brought you here to check out on our writers! Here's a list :) Sufi M (The Glaring Facts) Shelly…
- Contact Me
January 4, 2010, 03:04
Hey there, Do you have something on your mind? Would you like to suggest a subject, ask a question, or chat casually? Fill out this form and let's get…
- Link Exchanges
January 17, 2010, 00:18
This is the place I exchange links
- Site Map
January 29, 2010, 08:44
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Blog Posts
- Category: Communications (91)
- Media Advertising and Marketing by: glaringfacts
August 25, 2010, 20:42
Media products have dual markets, content for audiences and time for advertisers. We buy media products (a television show) but advertisers also buy them (they…
- CRTC New Media Hearing 2008-11 by: glaringfacts
August 5, 2010, 10:25
The discourse surrounding this new media hearing resonates closely with stakeholder interests rather than the public’s interest.
- Subculture and Fandom by: glaringfacts
September 9, 2010, 09:37
This post examines what John Fiske beileved about fandom as well as de Carteau's theories of how the audience develops.
- Ethnic Identities vs. Contemporary Popular Culture by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 00:08
Ethnic identities are interestingly and slowly being undermined by popular culture forms
- Media Studies Definitions by: glaringfacts
July 25, 2010, 05:54
This post examines definitions most commonly used in Media Studies.
- Popular Narrative Readings by: glaringfacts
August 14, 2010, 13:30
This post examines the literature I read during my course: Popular Narrative
- Fan, Fan Theory and Contemporary Culture by: glaringfacts
August 17, 2010, 15:03
Fans who ally themselves within their counterparts have adopted a different outlook on life, or a lifestyle that differs from the suburbanized constructs of…
- Narratology and Story-making in Film by: glaringfacts
April 26, 2010, 15:30
This post examines the narratological aspect of filmmaking, through a description of tone, story, plot, and the classification of genres.
- Cultural Theory and Postmodernism by: glaringfacts
August 30, 2010, 11:32
This post examines the cultural form that postmodernism takes, the influence of industrial culture
- Theories of Popular Culture by: glaringfacts
August 27, 2010, 21:22
This post examines the cultural relationships between folk culture vs. popular culture and high culture vs. low culture.
- The Frankfurt School by: glaringfacts
April 27, 2010, 15:34
Frankfurt’s school’s critique didn’t just suggest that mass media was an economic exploitation, there was an ideological exploitation going on. It…
- Mise En Scène by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 14:10
Mise En Scène implies how the visual materials are staged, framed, and photographed. The frame’s aspect ratio: dimension of the screen’s height and width.
- Cultural Identity and Stereotyping by: glaringfacts
August 19, 2010, 17:16
In recent times, and partly as a result of the increasing importance of the media in constructing people’s identities, people seem to have developed a much…
- Standpoint Theory by: glaringfacts
September 7, 2010, 07:57
Standpoint provides a well-structured framework for understanding how social groups affect our life.
- Agenda Setting Theory by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 16:59
The Agenda-Setting Theory says that news are quite successful at telling us what to think about.
- Muted Group Theory by: glaringfacts
August 19, 2010, 04:15
Women and members of other subordinate groups are not as free or able as men to say what they wish because their words have been formulated and translated by a…
- Behaviour-Making Theories by: glaringfacts
August 23, 2010, 06:44
This post examines the way in which behaviours are induced, modified, and the theories that explain them.
- Reality and Ideology by: glaringfacts
August 12, 2010, 12:53
The most commonly held theory of ideology, a realist theory, defines ideology as ‘false consciousness’. Marx and Engels claimed that the dominant ideas of…
- Speech Codes by: glaringfacts
September 5, 2010, 18:17
Speech Code Theory explores the manner in which groups communicate based on societal, cultural, gender, occupational or other factors.
- Canadian Idol by: glaringfacts
August 21, 2010, 05:50
One thing that I’ve always never understood is Canadian Idol. It ceases to make any logical sense. Why is there such hype for this capitalist exploitation of…
- Corner Gas by: glaringfacts
September 3, 2010, 16:17
I think this show has good standing as a season in progress because of its relationship to Canadians. Corner gas also makes good use of Canadian stereotypes…
- Last Night by Don McKellar by: glaringfacts
May 12, 2010, 16:30
Don McKellar’s Last Night brings to life the essence of Canada’s cultural values and identity. McKellar demonstrates unique approach that characterizes a…
- Duality of the Workplace by: glaringfacts
August 26, 2010, 09:02
This workplace has a distinct dual nature. We are Canadians that handle American calls. It is pretty disturbing to know that Americans hope that we assimilate…
- Speaking to a Deranged American by: glaringfacts
May 13, 2010, 11:32
hen you speak to a deranged American, it is very nasally and they most often speak with broken English. This is not an assumption, it’s first hand experience.
- Cultivation Theory and Law and Order by: glaringfacts
August 30, 2010, 23:43
Using Gerbner’s Cultivation Theory with the show Law and Order, we can understand how this exposure to violence in television can make the audience feel a…
- Knowing More and Increasing Prevention of HIV/AIDS in Canada by: glaringfacts
September 8, 2010, 21:03
when one acknowledges the effects of the HIV/AIDS virus, the individual will come to understand what HIV does to the human body.
- Writing an Academic Essay by: glaringfacts
June 9, 2010, 01:55
This post examines the academic writing styles, techniques, and strategies. This post outlines ways to prevent redundant mistakes when writing academic papers.
- Using Clauses when Writing by: glaringfacts
June 9, 2010, 21:34
This post examines an integral component to effective writing -- clauses.
- MAPL-MUSIC Regulations in the Canadian Industry by: glaringfacts
June 9, 2010, 21:52
This post explores the music regulations currently effecting the music industry in Canada, this regulation is known as MAPL.
- Platinum, Canadian Stereotypes Examined by: glaringfacts
June 10, 2010, 21:06
This post examines a hit Canadian television series called Platinum, including input from Peter Harcourt.
- Post-Fordism and Nike Inc—Sweatshop USA by: glaringfacts
June 15, 2010, 16:33
This essay will assert that Nike Inc.’s organizational culture coincides with post-fordist industrial change
- Local Culture vs. Local Identity: Globalization by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 15:05
The prevailing debate regarding the effect of global popular culture industries (Globalization) on local cultures and local identities are significant today…
- What is Documentary Film? by: glaringfacts
July 18, 2010, 23:04
This post examines the original theorist of the documentary mode--John Grierson and how his ideas have shaped documentary styles today
- Trait and Factor Theories & Cattell by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 15:54
Hans Eysenck and others have used factor analysis to identify traits, that is, relatively permanent dispositions of people. Whereas Eysenck extracted only…
- Category: Audience Studies (11)
- From Flick to Flack by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 01:23
Corporate synergy, product placement, branding and cross promotion have found increased emphasis in media forms
- Advertising and the Audience by: glaringfacts
August 16, 2010, 14:09
Media are actively engaged in creating tastes and producing demand
- Core Concepts Regarding Audiences by: glaringfacts
September 1, 2010, 01:30
This post examines how audiences make meaning in the things/texts they see/read. It also outlines major proponents of such theories like John Corner.
- Cultural Studies and the Audience by: glaringfacts
April 18, 2010, 23:46
This post analyses the ideological and cultural facets that facilitate and help the audience make sense of their media consumption.
- Smoking and Drinking in Disney Cartoons by: glaringfacts
August 6, 2010, 22:51
Today’s Disney seems to be sending a direct message to young viewers that smoking is not an action to engage in but drinking is a viable option.
- Retail Credit and Mass Media by: glaringfacts
April 26, 2010, 04:17
A rhetoric of ethos played a critical role in making the idea of retail credit acceptable to a culture that for centuries had resisted the notion of debt as…
- Encoding-Decoding Model by: glaringfacts
April 26, 2010, 22:18
The Encoding-Decoding Model argues that (i) meaning is not simply fixed or determined by the sender; (ii) the message is never transparent; and (iii) the…
- History of Audience Studies by: glaringfacts
August 14, 2010, 13:30
This post examines the history of audience studies and the changes since then.
- Minority Models in Advertisements by: glaringfacts
August 18, 2010, 15:56
Advertising models should consider model ethnicity, ethnicity of the targeted consumers and situational or biographical reasons for awareness of it, and…
- Behaviour-Making Theories by: glaringfacts
August 23, 2010, 06:44
This post examines the way in which behaviours are induced, modified, and the theories that explain them.
- Facebook as a Genre by: glaringfacts
May 5, 2010, 13:24
Facebook as a Genre Facebook can be seen as a well-received addition to the increasingly digital, “real-time” culture in which we live As many Facebook…
- From Flick to Flack by: glaringfacts
- Category: Canadian Television (10)
- Canadian Television Screenings by: glaringfacts
August 29, 2010, 10:49
Description and summaries of the screenings I watched in my Canadian Television Course.
- Canadian Television: An Introduction by: glaringfacts
September 4, 2010, 05:02
Introduction Canadians were watching American TV before Canadian TV existed Other American media perceived as “not as dangerous” as television To…
- Canadian Newspaper Ownership and Convergence by: glaringfacts
August 18, 2010, 03:22
Canadian Newspaper Ownership in an Era of Convergence: Failed Attempts at Regulation of Newspaper Ownership Canadian newspaper conglomerates appear intimidatin…
- Canadian Idol by: glaringfacts
August 21, 2010, 05:50
One thing that I’ve always never understood is Canadian Idol. It ceases to make any logical sense. Why is there such hype for this capitalist exploitation of…
- Corner Gas by: glaringfacts
September 3, 2010, 16:17
I think this show has good standing as a season in progress because of its relationship to Canadians. Corner gas also makes good use of Canadian stereotypes…
- Workplace Canadianisms by: glaringfacts
August 15, 2010, 01:46
I work at a call center called NuCOMM International. This workplace is marked by rows and rows of endless paths and zigzags of ailes leading to cubicles that…
- Duality of the Workplace by: glaringfacts
August 26, 2010, 09:02
This workplace has a distinct dual nature. We are Canadians that handle American calls. It is pretty disturbing to know that Americans hope that we assimilate…
- Speaking to a Deranged American by: glaringfacts
May 13, 2010, 11:32
hen you speak to a deranged American, it is very nasally and they most often speak with broken English. This is not an assumption, it’s first hand experience.
- MAPL-MUSIC Regulations in the Canadian Industry by: glaringfacts
June 9, 2010, 21:52
This post explores the music regulations currently effecting the music industry in Canada, this regulation is known as MAPL.
- Platinum, Canadian Stereotypes Examined by: glaringfacts
June 10, 2010, 21:06
This post examines a hit Canadian television series called Platinum, including input from Peter Harcourt.
- Category: Journal Logs (5)
As part of the requirement for this course, I had to write journal logs. Some are amusing, hope you enjoy!
- Canadian Idol by: glaringfacts
August 21, 2010, 05:50
One thing that I’ve always never understood is Canadian Idol. It ceases to make any logical sense. Why is there such hype for this capitalist exploitation of…
- Corner Gas by: glaringfacts
September 3, 2010, 16:17
I think this show has good standing as a season in progress because of its relationship to Canadians. Corner gas also makes good use of Canadian stereotypes…
- Workplace Canadianisms by: glaringfacts
August 15, 2010, 01:46
I work at a call center called NuCOMM International. This workplace is marked by rows and rows of endless paths and zigzags of ailes leading to cubicles that…
- Duality of the Workplace by: glaringfacts
August 26, 2010, 09:02
This workplace has a distinct dual nature. We are Canadians that handle American calls. It is pretty disturbing to know that Americans hope that we assimilate…
- Speaking to a Deranged American by: glaringfacts
May 13, 2010, 11:32
hen you speak to a deranged American, it is very nasally and they most often speak with broken English. This is not an assumption, it’s first hand experience.
- Canadian Idol by: glaringfacts
- Canadian Television Screenings by: glaringfacts
- Category: Comm Theories (30)
- Systems Theory by: glaringfacts
September 1, 2010, 13:37
Systems theory states groups are open systems, which are influenced by such independent variables
- Relational Dialectics by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 15:38
Communication parties experience internal, conflicting pulls causing relationships to be in a constant state of flux, known as dialectical tension
- The Interactional View by: glaringfacts
August 3, 2010, 09:23
Communication among members has both a content and relationship component.
- Social Information Processing by: glaringfacts
April 12, 2010, 16:05
Contrary to the Media Richness Theory, Social Information Processing believes that people are intelligent and can adapt to different communication medias.
- What is Communication? by: glaringfacts
July 30, 2010, 08:06
What is Communication anyways? How does it occur? How do theorists explain communication and life?
- Politeness Theory by: glaringfacts
July 27, 2010, 06:53
Politeness theory is the theory that accounts for the redressing of the affronts to face posed by face-threatening acts to addressees.
- Expectancy Violations Theory by: glaringfacts
April 16, 2010, 12:10
Expectancy Violations Theory attempts to explain people’s reactions to unexpected behavior.
- Symbolic Interactionism - George Herbert Mead by: glaringfacts
July 24, 2010, 17:47
Humans act toward people or things on the basis of the meanings they assign to those people or things.
- Uncertainty Reduction Theory by: glaringfacts
July 31, 2010, 08:18
When people interact, they will act to reduce the uncertainty about the other person, seeking ways to predict their behavior.
- Communication Theoretical Disciplines by: glaringfacts
April 17, 2010, 15:50
This post examines the disciplines and angles of communication theories, primarily the following: socio-psychological tradition, cybernetic tradition,…
- What Makes A View Strong? How Do We Evaluate Them? by: glaringfacts
July 13, 2010, 07:35
What makes a good objective theory? Objective Theories Explanatory Power – explanation of data How well it make sense out of chaos. How it provides an…
- Semiotics and Roland Barthes by: glaringfacts
July 23, 2010, 17:16
The study of the relationship between images and what they signify is called semiotics.
- Gerbner & Cultivation Theory by: glaringfacts
September 4, 2010, 17:32
Gerbner’s cultivation theory says that television has become the main source of storytelling in today's society. According to Gerbner, the over-consumption…
- Saussure and Semiology by: glaringfacts
April 21, 2010, 18:40
Ferdinand de Saussure was the father of semiotics. Here, an description of his general propositions are explained.
- Social Penetration Theory by: glaringfacts
August 1, 2010, 20:44
Social penetration theory was formulated by Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor as their attempt to describe the dynamics of relational closeness.
- Personal Construct Theory by: glaringfacts
August 8, 2010, 11:41
This post examines George Kelly's foundational Personal Construct theory.
- Correlation, Cause, and Effect by: glaringfacts
April 25, 2010, 14:17
Understanding cause and effect can lead to substantial increase in your ability to reason
- Uses and Gratifications Theory by: glaringfacts
August 2, 2010, 21:09
Blumler and Katz’s Uses and Gratification theory suggests that media users play an active role in choosing and using the media. Users take an active part in…
- Constructivism by: glaringfacts
July 16, 2010, 21:01
Constructivism is a scientific theory that attempts to explain why some people are more successful in attaining their interpersonal communication goals than…
- Stuart Hall & Cultural Studies by: glaringfacts
April 29, 2010, 15:35
The mass media function to maintain the ideology of those already in power. Corporate controlled media provide the dominant discourse of the day that frames…
- Coordinated Management of Meaning by: glaringfacts
April 30, 2010, 00:45
This post examines the central facet of the the theory CMM: People co-construct their own social realities and are simultaneously shaped by the worlds they…
- Cultural Identity and Stereotyping by: glaringfacts
August 19, 2010, 17:16
In recent times, and partly as a result of the increasing importance of the media in constructing people’s identities, people seem to have developed a much…
- Standpoint Theory by: glaringfacts
September 7, 2010, 07:57
Standpoint provides a well-structured framework for understanding how social groups affect our life.
- Agenda Setting Theory by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 16:59
The Agenda-Setting Theory says that news are quite successful at telling us what to think about.
- Muted Group Theory by: glaringfacts
August 19, 2010, 04:15
Women and members of other subordinate groups are not as free or able as men to say what they wish because their words have been formulated and translated by a…
- Behaviour-Making Theories by: glaringfacts
August 23, 2010, 06:44
This post examines the way in which behaviours are induced, modified, and the theories that explain them.
- Reality and Ideology by: glaringfacts
August 12, 2010, 12:53
The most commonly held theory of ideology, a realist theory, defines ideology as ‘false consciousness’. Marx and Engels claimed that the dominant ideas of…
- Speech Codes by: glaringfacts
September 5, 2010, 18:17
Speech Code Theory explores the manner in which groups communicate based on societal, cultural, gender, occupational or other factors.
- Cultivation Theory and Law and Order by: glaringfacts
August 30, 2010, 23:43
Using Gerbner’s Cultivation Theory with the show Law and Order, we can understand how this exposure to violence in television can make the audience feel a…
- Knowing More and Increasing Prevention of HIV/AIDS in Canada by: glaringfacts
September 8, 2010, 21:03
when one acknowledges the effects of the HIV/AIDS virus, the individual will come to understand what HIV does to the human body.
- Systems Theory by: glaringfacts
- Category: Film Studies (5)
- Characteristic of Filmmaking by: glaringfacts
September 5, 2010, 05:50
This post examines the role a director plays alongside a screenwriter, as well as describing the characteristics of film content.
- Narratology and Story-making in Film by: glaringfacts
April 26, 2010, 15:30
This post examines the narratological aspect of filmmaking, through a description of tone, story, plot, and the classification of genres.
- Cinematography by: glaringfacts
August 10, 2010, 00:09
This post examines the role of the cinematographer as well as the characteristics of filmmaking, particularly the use of shots and lenses.
- Mise En Scène by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 14:10
Mise En Scène implies how the visual materials are staged, framed, and photographed. The frame’s aspect ratio: dimension of the screen’s height and width.
- What is Documentary Film? by: glaringfacts
July 18, 2010, 23:04
This post examines the original theorist of the documentary mode--John Grierson and how his ideas have shaped documentary styles today
- Characteristic of Filmmaking by: glaringfacts
- Category: Media Industries (9)
An analysis of the media as part of an international socio-cultural function in a global industry alongside several of those that influence them as well as…
- Media Advertising and Marketing by: glaringfacts
August 25, 2010, 20:42
Media products have dual markets, content for audiences and time for advertisers. We buy media products (a television show) but advertisers also buy them (they…
- From Flick to Flack by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 01:23
Corporate synergy, product placement, branding and cross promotion have found increased emphasis in media forms
- Advertising and the Audience by: glaringfacts
August 16, 2010, 14:09
Media are actively engaged in creating tastes and producing demand
- Media Marketing Strategies by: glaringfacts
August 28, 2010, 09:43
This article examines media marketing strategies, how the audience responds to media saturation, as well as media promotional strategies.
- Media Business Architecture by: glaringfacts
April 10, 2010, 13:50
This article reviews the types of media ownership (horizontal, vertical, cross-ownership, diagonal expansion) as well as the paradox of media ownership.
- Introduction to Media Industries by: glaringfacts
July 15, 2010, 07:59
Media are business organizations, they produce cultural texts as products, are constrained by larger industry structures and have internal processes of…
- Cultural Approaches to Economy and the Media by: glaringfacts
August 16, 2010, 02:02
This post illustrates the sort of divisions in political theory regarding mass media. Particularly, poliitcal economy versus cultural studies.
- Public Sphere & Political Economy of Media by: glaringfacts
May 1, 2010, 21:03
This post examines the role of the public in debate, the media in facilitating debate, and the construction of the public sphere.
- Approaches to Media Industries by: glaringfacts
May 2, 2010, 01:04
Analysis of the political structures that orient and govern the media is a critical step towards understanding the influence of politics, particularly class…
- Media Advertising and Marketing by: glaringfacts
- Category: Popular Culture (4)
- MAPL-MUSIC Regulations in the Canadian Industry by: glaringfacts
June 9, 2010, 21:52
This post explores the music regulations currently effecting the music industry in Canada, this regulation is known as MAPL.
- Theories of Popular Culture by: glaringfacts
August 27, 2010, 21:22
This post examines the cultural relationships between folk culture vs. popular culture and high culture vs. low culture.
- Cultural Theory and Postmodernism by: glaringfacts
August 30, 2010, 11:32
This post examines the cultural form that postmodernism takes, the influence of industrial culture
- Local Culture vs. Local Identity: Globalization by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 15:05
The prevailing debate regarding the effect of global popular culture industries (Globalization) on local cultures and local identities are significant today…
- MAPL-MUSIC Regulations in the Canadian Industry by: glaringfacts
- Category: Popular Literature (7)
- Popular Narrative Literature by: glaringfacts
April 10, 2010, 13:21
This is a list of the literature I read/watched for my popular narrative course.
- Popular Narrative Readings by: glaringfacts
August 14, 2010, 13:30
This post examines the literature I read during my course: Popular Narrative
- What is Facebook? by: glaringfacts
September 2, 2010, 15:15
Facebook has significant utilitarian and emotional functions. As a genre, Facebook provides an essential service that is important to many individuals.…
- The Frankfurt School by: glaringfacts
April 27, 2010, 15:34
Frankfurt’s school’s critique didn’t just suggest that mass media was an economic exploitation, there was an ideological exploitation going on. It…
- Fan, Fan Theory and Contemporary Culture by: glaringfacts
August 17, 2010, 15:03
Fans who ally themselves within their counterparts have adopted a different outlook on life, or a lifestyle that differs from the suburbanized constructs of…
- Ethnic Identities vs. Contemporary Popular Culture by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 00:08
Ethnic identities are interestingly and slowly being undermined by popular culture forms
- Subculture and Fandom by: glaringfacts
September 9, 2010, 09:37
This post examines what John Fiske beileved about fandom as well as de Carteau's theories of how the audience develops.
- Popular Narrative Literature by: glaringfacts
- Category: Research Methods (12)
- Research Perspectives by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 02:31
Perspectives in research approach are plentiful and one must be mindful of which perspective one belongs in order for accurate data interpretation.
- Principles of Research by: glaringfacts
April 14, 2010, 23:34
This post examines the principles of research, outlining both subjective and objective qualities/advantages of such research approaches.
- Univariate Statistics by: glaringfacts
August 22, 2010, 18:42
univariate refers to an expression, equation, function or polynomial of only one variable.
- How to Conduct Observational Research by: glaringfacts
August 12, 2010, 00:47
A combination of a first-person and a second-person account, which takes place in a naturalistic setting, of the actions and behaviours of a specific group of…
- Designing a Sampling Strategy by: glaringfacts
July 25, 2010, 18:10
This post explains how you design a sample, through some strategical methods your data can reflect accurately
- Interview and Focus Group Research by: glaringfacts
August 28, 2010, 22:12
This post provides guidelines in order to conduct interview and focus group research using discretion and protocols
- Historical Research and Policy Analysis by: glaringfacts
August 9, 2010, 11:57
This post examines two research approaches: historical and policy-directed analytical methods. When executed, both methods yield fascinating results.
- Content Analysis by: glaringfacts
July 17, 2010, 09:07
This post examines a research technique for the objective, systematic, and quantitative description of the manifest content of communication
- How To Conduct A Survey Research by: glaringfacts
July 14, 2010, 19:52
Broad-based, qualitative and/or quantitative research which collects data through pre-formulates question in a structured questionnaire to a representative…
- Organizational Culture Defined by: glaringfacts
May 1, 2010, 12:11
Have you ever come to terms with a time in your life where you were so heavily involved in a group, or culture, that you came to value its objectives, goals…
- Research Perspectives Summarized by: glaringfacts
August 22, 2010, 06:34
Three Perspectives Functionalist Goal: enhancing the function of the main concern --- multibake -> looking at productivity and profit of the company.…
- Descriptive and Bivariate Statistics by: glaringfacts
August 3, 2010, 21:37
This post outlines the characteristics of descriptive and bivariate statistical use, how to use them and what to avoid during its use.
- Research Perspectives by: glaringfacts
- Media Advertising and Marketing by: glaringfacts
- Category: English (3)
- Gwendolyn Brooks "First Fight, Then Fiddle" by: glaringfacts
August 20, 2010, 17:44
Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem, “First Fight. Then Fiddle.” suggests that music may be society’s equilibrium
- Writing an Academic Essay by: glaringfacts
June 9, 2010, 01:55
This post examines the academic writing styles, techniques, and strategies. This post outlines ways to prevent redundant mistakes when writing academic papers.
- Category: Essay Writing (2)
This category provides detailed information concerning proper essay writing techniques, methods, and strategies for deploying successful essays.
- Writing an Academic Essay by: glaringfacts
June 9, 2010, 01:55
This post examines the academic writing styles, techniques, and strategies. This post outlines ways to prevent redundant mistakes when writing academic papers.
- Using Clauses when Writing by: glaringfacts
June 9, 2010, 21:34
This post examines an integral component to effective writing -- clauses.
- Writing an Academic Essay by: glaringfacts
- Gwendolyn Brooks "First Fight, Then Fiddle" by: glaringfacts
- Category: Featured (14)
- Narrativization in Canadian Television - The Border by: glaringfacts
August 15, 2010, 13:49
The Border is a Canadian television series drama that describes current and controversial aspects of Canadian security, its functions, and the issues that have…
- Point of View in The Yellow Wallpaper by: glaringfacts
July 26, 2010, 18:43
Written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper introduces thematic concepts of longing, isolation and deprivation. Gilman combines several aspects…
- Early Recollections Therapy: An Advantage by: glaringfacts
August 27, 2010, 09:13
Early recollections provide a therapist an ability to predict a client’s life style in the future based on their earliest recollections.
- Autism and the Impact on Family: A Developmental Perspective by: glaringfacts
August 11, 2010, 12:34
The main issues discussed in this essay are primarily the ability of the family to cope with the problems of associated with autism.
- Sexual Harassment in Canada by: glaringfacts
August 5, 2010, 22:32
Sexual harassment is a complex combination of legal and psychological issues that have received unparalleled attention.
- Barbie Kills Fans by: glaringfacts
July 27, 2010, 19:07
These fans of Barbie that engage in textual poaching and show resistance are coming face-to-face with a monolith that wants to enact vengeance and solidify an…
- Cultural Theory and Postmodernism by: glaringfacts
August 30, 2010, 11:32
This post examines the cultural form that postmodernism takes, the influence of industrial culture
- Social Self and Socialization by: glaringfacts
August 17, 2010, 02:37
Socialization creates the social self, American pragmatists argue and that this continual revision of the social self forms an identity that only achieves…
- Cultivation Theory and Law and Order by: glaringfacts
August 30, 2010, 23:43
Using Gerbner’s Cultivation Theory with the show Law and Order, we can understand how this exposure to violence in television can make the audience feel a…
- Knowing More and Increasing Prevention of HIV/AIDS in Canada by: glaringfacts
September 8, 2010, 21:03
when one acknowledges the effects of the HIV/AIDS virus, the individual will come to understand what HIV does to the human body.
- Russian Music in the time of Socialist Realism by: glaringfacts
June 8, 2010, 16:57
Socialist realist policies have had a tremendous impact on the development of Russia’s musical history impacting several notable composers such as Shostakovic…
- Africa's Barriers towards Development by: glaringfacts
June 8, 2010, 18:06
political factors such as gross misconduct of expenses and aid leading to perpetual corruption destroys any chance of Africa’s every chance of development.…
- Writing an Academic Essay by: glaringfacts
June 9, 2010, 01:55
This post examines the academic writing styles, techniques, and strategies. This post outlines ways to prevent redundant mistakes when writing academic papers.
- Post-Fordism and Nike Inc—Sweatshop USA by: glaringfacts
June 15, 2010, 16:33
This essay will assert that Nike Inc.’s organizational culture coincides with post-fordist industrial change
- Narrativization in Canadian Television - The Border by: glaringfacts
- Category: Israel vs. Palestine (3)
This category examines the history and analyzes the present circumstances which led to and continue to perpetuate this Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Analysis of Israel-Palestinian Conflict Begins Here! by: glaringfacts
July 11, 2010, 16:54
Hello all, Here, today, I begin on a new journey--the Palestinian perspective on the current Israeli-Palestinian struggle. My opinion of this absurd…
- 14 Year Old Kid says, "Never Trust a Turk" by: glaringfacts
July 13, 2010, 14:14
This post examines the radical zionist perspective of a 14 year old, the prevailing mentality of most Zionist jews--Never Trust a Turk.
- Analyzing Israel's War Crimes by: glaringfacts
July 24, 2010, 14:12
Israel has been systematically involved with driving and blockading Palestinian right to approach their land the way they see fit, violations such as these…
- Analysis of Israel-Palestinian Conflict Begins Here! by: glaringfacts
- Category: Music (5)
- Music of the Modern Era by: glaringfacts
May 2, 2010, 09:45
This post reviews briefly the main aspects of modernist music.
- Pre-Islamic Arab Music by: glaringfacts
May 3, 2010, 07:37
A brief description of pre-islamic music is analyzed, particularly the influence of the Bedouin Nomads and the sedentary population of the pre-islamic era.
- Pre-Islamic Persian and Pre-Islamic Turkish Music by: glaringfacts
May 5, 2010, 22:53
This post briefly outlines the culture of Persian and Turkish music during the pre-islamic period--the Sassanians and the contributions of Turkey's Anatolia.
- Russian Music in the time of Socialist Realism by: glaringfacts
June 8, 2010, 16:57
Socialist realist policies have had a tremendous impact on the development of Russia’s musical history impacting several notable composers such as Shostakovic…
- Category: Middle Eastern (2)
- Pre-Islamic Arab Music by: glaringfacts
May 3, 2010, 07:37
A brief description of pre-islamic music is analyzed, particularly the influence of the Bedouin Nomads and the sedentary population of the pre-islamic era.
- Pre-Islamic Persian and Pre-Islamic Turkish Music by: glaringfacts
May 5, 2010, 22:53
This post briefly outlines the culture of Persian and Turkish music during the pre-islamic period--the Sassanians and the contributions of Turkey's Anatolia.
- Pre-Islamic Arab Music by: glaringfacts
- Category: Modern Music (3)
- Music of the Modern Era by: glaringfacts
May 2, 2010, 09:45
This post reviews briefly the main aspects of modernist music.
- Claude Debussy by: glaringfacts
May 5, 2010, 03:56
Debussy was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music.
- Russian Music in the time of Socialist Realism by: glaringfacts
June 8, 2010, 16:57
Socialist realist policies have had a tremendous impact on the development of Russia’s musical history impacting several notable composers such as Shostakovic…
- Music of the Modern Era by: glaringfacts
- Music of the Modern Era by: glaringfacts
- Category: Psychology (44)
- Introduction to Psychology by: glaringfacts
July 24, 2010, 05:45
Hey everyone who is in introduction to psychology, here are the notes that will help you succeed!
- Sexual Behavior by: glaringfacts
September 9, 2010, 22:09
This post examines the behavioural characteristics that accompany sex traits, genes, and the relationship of hormonal activity on sexual behavior.
- Introduction to Biological Psychology by: glaringfacts
April 14, 2010, 19:16
Biological psychology: The study of the physiological, evolutionary and developmental mechanisms of behavior and experience.
- Characteristics of Neurons, Part 1 by: glaringfacts
August 1, 2010, 08:32
This post examines the characteristics of neurons, their biological formation, as well as their capacities.
- Characteristics of Neurons, Part 2 by: glaringfacts
April 14, 2010, 19:48
This is the second part of the outline of the neuron, its functions, action potentials alongside the resting potential.
- Freud and Psychoanalysis by: glaringfacts
July 19, 2010, 03:09
Freud saw mental functioning as operating on three levels—unconscious, preconscious, and conscious.
- Introduction to Personality Theories by: glaringfacts
July 31, 2010, 20:25
This post is quite literally an introduction to personality, how to assess theories and how to analyze the stuff of the mind.
- Behavioral Analysis & Skinner by: glaringfacts
April 20, 2010, 00:09
Skinner believed that human behavior, like any other natural phenomena, is subject to the laws of science, and that psychologists should not attribute inner…
- Carl Jung: Analytical Psychology by: glaringfacts
August 13, 2010, 13:07
Carl Jung believed that people are extremely complex beings who possess a variety of opposing qualities, such as introversion and extraversion, masculinity and…
- Nature of Consciousness by: glaringfacts
August 21, 2010, 18:00
This post examines the different levels of consciousness, those occuring in lower levels and higher levels, the processes that represent those thoughts,…
- May & Existential Theory by: glaringfacts
August 23, 2010, 19:11
May took the view that modern people frequently run away both from making choices and from assuming responsibility.
- Maslow & Motivation by: glaringfacts
August 24, 2010, 19:23
Maslow's holistic-dynamic theory assumes that people are continually motivated by one or more needs, and that under the proper circumstances, they can reach a…
- Alfred Adler: Individual Psychology by: glaringfacts
April 24, 2010, 20:34
This post examines the nature of Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology through an analysis of the basic tenants of this psychotherapy
- Erich Fromm & Humanistic Psychoanalysis by: glaringfacts
July 29, 2010, 07:39
Erich Fromm's humanistic psychoanalysis looks at people from the perspective of psychology, history, and anthropology. Influenced by Freud and Horney, Fromm…
- Trait and Factor Theories & Cattell by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 15:54
Hans Eysenck and others have used factor analysis to identify traits, that is, relatively permanent dispositions of people. Whereas Eysenck extracted only…
- Karen Horney and Psychoanalytic Social Theory by: glaringfacts
September 8, 2010, 08:54
Karen Horney's psychoanalytic social theory, assumes that social and cultural conditions, especially during childhood, have a powerful effect on later…
- Sullivan & Interpersonal Theory by: glaringfacts
August 31, 2010, 13:07
Sullivan insisted that personality is shaped almost entirely by the relationships we have with other people.
- Sleep Deprivation by: glaringfacts
September 7, 2010, 20:47
This post examines the consequences of sleep deprivation, why it is important to sleep regularly, as well as our circadian rhythms. It describes the brain…
- Sleep Stages by: glaringfacts
August 25, 2010, 08:08
Stages of sleep correspond to massive electrophysiological changes that occur throughout the brain.
- Melanie Klein & Object Relations by: glaringfacts
August 7, 2010, 23:31
One approach to extending psychodynamic theory has been the object relations theories of Melanie Klein and others. Unlike Jung and Adler who came to reject…
- Behaviour-Making Theories by: glaringfacts
August 23, 2010, 06:44
This post examines the way in which behaviours are induced, modified, and the theories that explain them.
- Sleep Disorders by: glaringfacts
May 4, 2010, 23:21
Many people suffer from undiagnosed and untreated sleep disorders that leave them to struggle through the day feeling unmotivated and exhausted.
- Social Learning Theory & Rotter by: glaringfacts
September 6, 2010, 07:04
This theorist suggest that our expectations of future events are major determinants of performance.
- Post-Fordism and Nike Inc—Sweatshop USA by: glaringfacts
June 15, 2010, 16:33
This essay will assert that Nike Inc.’s organizational culture coincides with post-fordist industrial change
- Social Cognitive Theory - Bandura by: glaringfacts
July 14, 2010, 07:48
Bandura's social cognitive theory takes an agentic perspective, meaning that humans have some limited ability to control their lives. In contrast to Skinner,…
- Psychology of the Individual by: glaringfacts
July 16, 2010, 08:33
To Allport, the most important structures of personality are those that permit description of the individual in terms of individual characteristics, and he…
- Person-Centered Theory by: glaringfacts
July 30, 2010, 20:11
Rogers carefully crafted his person-centered theory of personality to meet his own demands for a structural model that could explain and predict outcomes of…
- Category: Biological Psychology (9)
- Sexual Behavior by: glaringfacts
September 9, 2010, 22:09
This post examines the behavioural characteristics that accompany sex traits, genes, and the relationship of hormonal activity on sexual behavior.
- Introduction to Biological Psychology by: glaringfacts
April 14, 2010, 19:16
Biological psychology: The study of the physiological, evolutionary and developmental mechanisms of behavior and experience.
- Characteristics of Neurons, Part 1 by: glaringfacts
August 1, 2010, 08:32
This post examines the characteristics of neurons, their biological formation, as well as their capacities.
- Characteristics of Neurons, Part 2 by: glaringfacts
April 14, 2010, 19:48
This is the second part of the outline of the neuron, its functions, action potentials alongside the resting potential.
- Exploring Human Development by: glaringfacts
July 28, 2010, 07:13
This post examines the overall basis of early childhood development in brief. It outlines the various points of views ranging from early experience vs. later…
- Sex and Hormones by: glaringfacts
April 29, 2010, 02:38
This post examines the effects of hormones on sexual development, sexual organs, and the ways in which behaviour is affected.
- Sleep Deprivation by: glaringfacts
September 7, 2010, 20:47
This post examines the consequences of sleep deprivation, why it is important to sleep regularly, as well as our circadian rhythms. It describes the brain…
- Sleep Stages by: glaringfacts
August 25, 2010, 08:08
Stages of sleep correspond to massive electrophysiological changes that occur throughout the brain.
- Sleep Disorders by: glaringfacts
May 4, 2010, 23:21
Many people suffer from undiagnosed and untreated sleep disorders that leave them to struggle through the day feeling unmotivated and exhausted.
- Sexual Behavior by: glaringfacts
- Category: Developmental Psychology (1)
- Exploring Human Development by: glaringfacts
July 28, 2010, 07:13
This post examines the overall basis of early childhood development in brief. It outlines the various points of views ranging from early experience vs. later…
- Exploring Human Development by: glaringfacts
- Category: Organizational Behaviour (16)
- Social Influence in Organizations by: glaringfacts
August 2, 2010, 08:56
This post gives a brief summary of the influence-tactics that social groups perform in organizations.
- Organizational Conflict, Origins and Resolution by: glaringfacts
April 21, 2010, 04:16
What is Conflict? Interpersonal conflict: the process that occurs when one person, group, or organizational subunit frustrates the goal attainment of…
- Leadership Styles & Organizational Influence by: glaringfacts
September 2, 2010, 02:15
In this post, an analysis of the qualities of leadership is outlined. Effective leaders arise in all sorts of environments, whether directed or undirected.…
- How People Obtain Power (Part 1) by: glaringfacts
July 15, 2010, 20:23
This post examines the nature of power in organizations, the kinds of power, how individuals obtain it and what factors need to be considered to become an…
- What is Communication (Part 1) by: glaringfacts
April 23, 2010, 22:30
This post examines the importance of effective communication, the kinds of organizational effects that encourage and discourage effective organizational…
- Groups, Issues and Characteristics of Effective Teamwork by: glaringfacts
April 24, 2010, 15:59
This post describes a summary on the kinds of methods that groups use to attract people, the phases in teamwork development, as well as the tactics they use to…
- What is Organizational Culture? by: glaringfacts
August 4, 2010, 22:05
Organizational culture seeks to understand the web of cultural norms, values, and beliefs.
- Decision Making by: glaringfacts
August 29, 2010, 23:24
The process of developing a commitment to some course of action. Decision making involves three aspects: choices, process, and resources.
- Organizational Strategies with Power (Part 2) by: glaringfacts
September 3, 2010, 03:58
This post examines the architecture of organizational power, the hierarchies, and the consequences of such organizational bureaucracy.
- Values, Attitudes and Work Behaviour by: glaringfacts
August 14, 2010, 01:18
This post examines the tendency of individuals to prefer certain states of affairs over others. Values have to do with what we consider good or bad
- What is Communication (Part 3) by: glaringfacts
August 6, 2010, 10:37
This post examines the differences in methods concerning organizational communication, particularly effective communication. It also outlines the basic…
- What is Communication (Part 2) by: glaringfacts
August 20, 2010, 05:37
This post examines the negative characteristics of organizational communication, the kinds of unsaid communication tactics as well as cross-cultural communicati…
- Workplace Canadianisms by: glaringfacts
August 15, 2010, 01:46
I work at a call center called NuCOMM International. This workplace is marked by rows and rows of endless paths and zigzags of ailes leading to cubicles that…
- Duality of the Workplace by: glaringfacts
August 26, 2010, 09:02
This workplace has a distinct dual nature. We are Canadians that handle American calls. It is pretty disturbing to know that Americans hope that we assimilate…
- Speaking to a Deranged American by: glaringfacts
May 13, 2010, 11:32
hen you speak to a deranged American, it is very nasally and they most often speak with broken English. This is not an assumption, it’s first hand experience.
- Post-Fordism and Nike Inc—Sweatshop USA by: glaringfacts
June 15, 2010, 16:33
This essay will assert that Nike Inc.’s organizational culture coincides with post-fordist industrial change
- Social Influence in Organizations by: glaringfacts
- Category: Personality Theories (16)
- Social Learning Theory & Rotter by: glaringfacts
September 6, 2010, 07:04
This theorist suggest that our expectations of future events are major determinants of performance.
- Freud and Psychoanalysis by: glaringfacts
July 19, 2010, 03:09
Freud saw mental functioning as operating on three levels—unconscious, preconscious, and conscious.
- Melanie Klein & Object Relations by: glaringfacts
August 7, 2010, 23:31
One approach to extending psychodynamic theory has been the object relations theories of Melanie Klein and others. Unlike Jung and Adler who came to reject…
- Introduction to Personality Theories by: glaringfacts
July 31, 2010, 20:25
This post is quite literally an introduction to personality, how to assess theories and how to analyze the stuff of the mind.
- Behavioral Analysis & Skinner by: glaringfacts
April 20, 2010, 00:09
Skinner believed that human behavior, like any other natural phenomena, is subject to the laws of science, and that psychologists should not attribute inner…
- Carl Jung: Analytical Psychology by: glaringfacts
August 13, 2010, 13:07
Carl Jung believed that people are extremely complex beings who possess a variety of opposing qualities, such as introversion and extraversion, masculinity and…
- May & Existential Theory by: glaringfacts
August 23, 2010, 19:11
May took the view that modern people frequently run away both from making choices and from assuming responsibility.
- Maslow & Motivation by: glaringfacts
August 24, 2010, 19:23
Maslow's holistic-dynamic theory assumes that people are continually motivated by one or more needs, and that under the proper circumstances, they can reach a…
- Alfred Adler: Individual Psychology by: glaringfacts
April 24, 2010, 20:34
This post examines the nature of Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology through an analysis of the basic tenants of this psychotherapy
- Erich Fromm & Humanistic Psychoanalysis by: glaringfacts
July 29, 2010, 07:39
Erich Fromm's humanistic psychoanalysis looks at people from the perspective of psychology, history, and anthropology. Influenced by Freud and Horney, Fromm…
- Trait and Factor Theories & Cattell by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 15:54
Hans Eysenck and others have used factor analysis to identify traits, that is, relatively permanent dispositions of people. Whereas Eysenck extracted only…
- Karen Horney and Psychoanalytic Social Theory by: glaringfacts
September 8, 2010, 08:54
Karen Horney's psychoanalytic social theory, assumes that social and cultural conditions, especially during childhood, have a powerful effect on later…
- Sullivan & Interpersonal Theory by: glaringfacts
August 31, 2010, 13:07
Sullivan insisted that personality is shaped almost entirely by the relationships we have with other people.
- Social Cognitive Theory - Bandura by: glaringfacts
July 14, 2010, 07:48
Bandura's social cognitive theory takes an agentic perspective, meaning that humans have some limited ability to control their lives. In contrast to Skinner,…
- Psychology of the Individual by: glaringfacts
July 16, 2010, 08:33
To Allport, the most important structures of personality are those that permit description of the individual in terms of individual characteristics, and he…
- Person-Centered Theory by: glaringfacts
July 30, 2010, 20:11
Rogers carefully crafted his person-centered theory of personality to meet his own demands for a structural model that could explain and predict outcomes of…
- Social Learning Theory & Rotter by: glaringfacts
- Introduction to Psychology by: glaringfacts
- Category: Science History (22)
- Methods and Beginnings of Science by: glaringfacts
April 19, 2008, 21:16
An Economic Perspective on Science and Technology - Methods Bernal’s Marxism, science and history Role of scientist in capitalist society, origins of…
- Medieval Science by: glaringfacts
April 24, 2008, 12:58
Introduction 10 centuries of history, end of the Classical period to end of the medieval period What happens to science in this long span of time? Greek…
- Medieval Science Part II by: glaringfacts
June 15, 2010, 16:33
This post examines the development of medieval science during the turbulent times of Feudalism. Furthermore, this post draws analysis on the relationship…
- The Scientific Revolution Part 1 by: glaringfacts
June 15, 2010, 16:33
The Scientific Revolution Part 1 Bernal treats economic and political factors as the sources of the scientific revolution, not the context Bernal…
- The Scientific Revolution in Context by: glaringfacts
May 7, 2008, 17:36
Introduction: Shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric planetary system By the end of the Scientific Revolution (early 18th century): Merging of…
- Part 3: The Industrial Revolution by: glaringfacts
July 29, 2008, 16:04
The Factory System Many steps between raw material and finished textile Cotton had to be ‘carded’, straightened out into fibers that could be…
- Science and Industry in the 18th and 19th Centuries by: glaringfacts
August 6, 2008, 00:47
Steam Engine and Thermodynamic Theory Thermodynamic theory and steam engines Vacuum and atmospheric pressure Christian Huygens & Denis Papin…
- Gasoline by: glaringfacts
August 6, 2008, 01:20
NOTE: This is an abbreviated lecture Mid-1800’s, oil was found in open ponds in parts of the US This oil was taken to chemists for analysis, commercial…
- Space Exploration by: glaringfacts
August 6, 2008, 01:30
Space Exploration Large rockets for space travel, predecessors in Germany during WWII Connections to literature and film, parallel with nuclear power Jules…
- State Sponsored Technological Development by: glaringfacts
August 6, 2008, 18:47
State Sponsored Technological Development State and private sector development of technology, privatization State involvement with legislation,…
- Science and Technology in the 19th Century by: glaringfacts
April 9, 2010, 15:33
Tracing the development of science through world war one and the industrial revolution as a turning point in human development
- Part 2: The Industrial Revolution by: glaringfacts
April 10, 2010, 21:40
The industrial revolution was characterized by a switch from craft work by agrarian communities to manufacturing using machinery by urban industry
- Science, Technology and Colonial Expansion by: glaringfacts
April 11, 2010, 06:47
Science, Technology and Colonial Expansion Science and technology, colonial expansion Capitalism, international trade and European expansion, new…
- 19th Century Popular Science by: glaringfacts
April 12, 2010, 01:42
This post examines the 19th century belief in a possibility of life on mars and the observations made by Schiaparelli.
- Part 1: The Industrial Revolution by: glaringfacts
April 12, 2010, 11:42
This post examines the precursors and the factors that lead to the development of the industrial revolution.
- Science and Technology in the 19th Century by: glaringfacts
April 12, 2010, 21:04
This post examines the development of the industrial empire which combined science and the natural world's resources resulting in a scientific revolution
- Commerce and Science in The Scientific Revolution by: glaringfacts
April 13, 2010, 05:54
This post examines the impact of european influences on the growth of science, what they attended to, and how they philosophized.
- The Scientific Revolution Part 2 by: glaringfacts
April 13, 2010, 20:23
This post examines the development of science, philosophical proponents of the scientific method and the revolutions in science.
- Greek Philosophy and Development of Chinese Science by: glaringfacts
April 14, 2010, 05:56
This post examines the development of Greek natural philosophy all the way to the development of Chinese science & philosophy.
- Agriculture, Metals, and Class Divisions by: glaringfacts
April 14, 2010, 10:28
This post examines the development of iron-related work, how society began to adopt class divisions, as well as the role of agriculture in production and…
- Mathematical Education and Industry by: glaringfacts
April 14, 2010, 19:16
In the early days of the industrial revolution, when technical knowledge was more important than abstract mathematical knowledge, this gave the English an…
- Dutch Hydraulic Engineering by: glaringfacts
April 15, 2010, 03:48
This post examines the methods the Dutch utilized to engineer and farm, how they adopted simple technological functions that enabled them to exceed.
- Methods and Beginnings of Science by: glaringfacts
- Category: Spirituality (1)
- Tao Te Ching - Chapter 1 by: Shelly
July 14, 2010, 03:12
I will analyze the nature of Chapter 1, how I've interpreted it and what you may or may not notice. It's a complex chapter filled with great wisdom.
- Category: Taoism (1)
- Tao Te Ching - Chapter 1 by: Shelly
July 14, 2010, 03:12
I will analyze the nature of Chapter 1, how I've interpreted it and what you may or may not notice. It's a complex chapter filled with great wisdom.
- Tao Te Ching - Chapter 1 by: Shelly
- Tao Te Ching - Chapter 1 by: Shelly
- Category: Staff Essays (35)
- The Digital Transition by: glaringfacts
August 13, 2010, 01:02
The Lincoln Report describes the challenges facing the broadcasting industry and the unsettling obstacles ahead.
- Northern and Aboriginal Broadcasting by: glaringfacts
August 8, 2010, 23:56
The Lincoln Report describes the importance of Northern and Aboriginal broadcasting.
- Historical Representations of Aboriginal People in the Canadian News Media by: glaringfacts
August 4, 2010, 09:47
Robert Harding uses critical discourse analysis on four selected moments of aboriginal-non-aboriginal relations as covered by newspapers at the time.
- CRTC New Media Hearing 2008-11 by: glaringfacts
August 5, 2010, 10:25
The discourse surrounding this new media hearing resonates closely with stakeholder interests rather than the public’s interest.
- Ethnic Identities vs. Contemporary Popular Culture by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 00:08
Ethnic identities are interestingly and slowly being undermined by popular culture forms
- Analysis of Gwendolyn Brook's Poem "First Fight, Then Fiddle" by: glaringfacts
September 6, 2010, 19:20
Careful reading of Gwendolyn Brooks’s First Fight. Then Fiddle indicates a meticulously arranged construct of society and universal arguments regarding war…
- Narrativization in Canadian Television - The Border by: glaringfacts
August 15, 2010, 13:49
The Border is a Canadian television series drama that describes current and controversial aspects of Canadian security, its functions, and the issues that have…
- Local Culture vs. Local Identity: Globalization by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 15:05
The prevailing debate regarding the effect of global popular culture industries (Globalization) on local cultures and local identities are significant today…
- Ownership by: glaringfacts
July 26, 2010, 06:28
Chapter 11: Maintaining a Single System – Ownership According to the Lincoln Report, ownership issues is a highly contentious subject matter. Essentially,…
- Henrik Ibsen & James Thurber Analyzed by: glaringfacts
July 13, 2010, 19:43
In Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll House” and James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” the primary interest lies in the representation of…
- Transparency and Accountability in Canadian Media Policy by: glaringfacts
August 26, 2010, 21:10
Raboy & Taras’s (2004) research is intent on describing the transparency and accountability of the Canadian policy system. They purport that the system is…
- Point of View in The Yellow Wallpaper by: glaringfacts
July 26, 2010, 18:43
Written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper introduces thematic concepts of longing, isolation and deprivation. Gilman combines several aspects…
- Early Recollections Therapy: An Advantage by: glaringfacts
August 27, 2010, 09:13
Early recollections provide a therapist an ability to predict a client’s life style in the future based on their earliest recollections.
- Beerfest (2006) Content Analysis by: glaringfacts
July 29, 2010, 19:53
Beerfest (2006) was one hour and fifty-six minutes in length and, according to the table, incidences of champagne, wine and beer altogether totaled one hour,…
- French Opera Styles Vs. Italian Opera Styles by: glaringfacts
August 10, 2010, 12:22
Italian and French operas are distinct. In order to illustrate, it will be valuable to review each separately. Italian opera is both an art of Italy and…
- Literature Review: Political Bias in Media by: glaringfacts
August 24, 2010, 07:14
The central focus of this literature review is the assessment of media bias. Media bias can significantly alter the scope of the political spectrum.
- Stuart Hall Encoding - Decoding Model by: glaringfacts
July 19, 2010, 03:09
Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding model is an imperative explanation outlining the intent of advertising strategists, such as Apple Inc. and their three…
- Autism and the Impact on Family: A Developmental Perspective by: glaringfacts
August 11, 2010, 12:34
The main issues discussed in this essay are primarily the ability of the family to cope with the problems of associated with autism.
- Sexual Harassment in Canada by: glaringfacts
August 5, 2010, 22:32
Sexual harassment is a complex combination of legal and psychological issues that have received unparalleled attention.
- Barbie Kills Fans by: glaringfacts
July 27, 2010, 19:07
These fans of Barbie that engage in textual poaching and show resistance are coming face-to-face with a monolith that wants to enact vengeance and solidify an…
- James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" by: glaringfacts
April 22, 2010, 03:33
James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” and Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” distinguish between…
- Copyright by: glaringfacts
July 28, 2010, 19:23
In this chapter, the Lincoln Report discusses the concept of copyright and the legal aspects of not adhering to the rules associated with copyright policies.
- Player Piano Prodigy: Analysis of Conlon Nancarrow and his Contributions by: glaringfacts
August 7, 2010, 11:08
Conlon Nancarrow is considered one of the most influential contemporary avant-garde composer and musician of the twentieth century through his infamous Studies…
- National Regulatory Authorities and the ITU by: glaringfacts
August 11, 2010, 00:31
National Regulation Authorities (NRAs) are regulatory bodies with the power to influence policies in telecommunication services.
- Social Self and Socialization by: glaringfacts
August 17, 2010, 02:37
Socialization creates the social self, American pragmatists argue and that this continual revision of the social self forms an identity that only achieves…
- Baroque Definitions by: glaringfacts
July 17, 2010, 21:33
Stile Concitato: Literally means “agitated style”, it is a way of portaying agitation, anger or war-like feelings and actions in the music. For example…
- Community, Local and Regional Broadcasting by: glaringfacts
May 1, 2010, 07:55
Chapter 9: The State of the System – Community, Local and Regional Broadcasting In this chapter, the Lincoln Report describes the difficulties and challenges…
- Internet Governance in the UK by: glaringfacts
May 4, 2010, 14:25
In order to effectively govern the Internet in the UK, it is important to reveal the following three myths regarding Internet governance. Firstly, internet…
- Last Night by Don McKellar by: glaringfacts
May 12, 2010, 16:30
Don McKellar’s Last Night brings to life the essence of Canada’s cultural values and identity. McKellar demonstrates unique approach that characterizes a…
- Cultivation Theory and Law and Order by: glaringfacts
August 30, 2010, 23:43
Using Gerbner’s Cultivation Theory with the show Law and Order, we can understand how this exposure to violence in television can make the audience feel a…
- Knowing More and Increasing Prevention of HIV/AIDS in Canada by: glaringfacts
September 8, 2010, 21:03
when one acknowledges the effects of the HIV/AIDS virus, the individual will come to understand what HIV does to the human body.
- Russian Music in the time of Socialist Realism by: glaringfacts
June 8, 2010, 16:57
Socialist realist policies have had a tremendous impact on the development of Russia’s musical history impacting several notable composers such as Shostakovic…
- Africa's Barriers towards Development by: glaringfacts
June 8, 2010, 18:06
political factors such as gross misconduct of expenses and aid leading to perpetual corruption destroys any chance of Africa’s every chance of development.…
- Post-Fordism and Nike Inc—Sweatshop USA by: glaringfacts
June 15, 2010, 16:33
This essay will assert that Nike Inc.’s organizational culture coincides with post-fordist industrial change
- Obsessive Love by: Shelly
July 14, 2010, 21:16
What is Obsessive Love? What are the Consequences? And a given example of a personal account of Obsessive Love.
- Category: Shelly's Essays (1)
Here are works written by Shelly
- Obsessive Love by: Shelly
July 14, 2010, 21:16
What is Obsessive Love? What are the Consequences? And a given example of a personal account of Obsessive Love.
- Obsessive Love by: Shelly
- Category: Sufi's Essays (34)
- Copyright by: glaringfacts
July 28, 2010, 19:23
In this chapter, the Lincoln Report discusses the concept of copyright and the legal aspects of not adhering to the rules associated with copyright policies.
- Ethnic Identities vs. Contemporary Popular Culture by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 00:08
Ethnic identities are interestingly and slowly being undermined by popular culture forms
- Post-Fordism and Nike Inc—Sweatshop USA by: glaringfacts
June 15, 2010, 16:33
This essay will assert that Nike Inc.’s organizational culture coincides with post-fordist industrial change
- Henrik Ibsen & James Thurber Analyzed by: glaringfacts
July 13, 2010, 19:43
In Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll House” and James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” the primary interest lies in the representation of…
- Local Culture vs. Local Identity: Globalization by: glaringfacts
July 12, 2010, 15:05
The prevailing debate regarding the effect of global popular culture industries (Globalization) on local cultures and local identities are significant today…
- Africa's Barriers towards Development by: glaringfacts
June 8, 2010, 18:06
political factors such as gross misconduct of expenses and aid leading to perpetual corruption destroys any chance of Africa’s every chance of development.…
- Russian Music in the time of Socialist Realism by: glaringfacts
June 8, 2010, 16:57
Socialist realist policies have had a tremendous impact on the development of Russia’s musical history impacting several notable composers such as Shostakovic…
- Knowing More and Increasing Prevention of HIV/AIDS in Canada by: glaringfacts
September 8, 2010, 21:03
when one acknowledges the effects of the HIV/AIDS virus, the individual will come to understand what HIV does to the human body.
- Cultivation Theory and Law and Order by: glaringfacts
August 30, 2010, 23:43
Using Gerbner’s Cultivation Theory with the show Law and Order, we can understand how this exposure to violence in television can make the audience feel a…
- Last Night by Don McKellar by: glaringfacts
May 12, 2010, 16:30
Don McKellar’s Last Night brings to life the essence of Canada’s cultural values and identity. McKellar demonstrates unique approach that characterizes a…
- Internet Governance in the UK by: glaringfacts
May 4, 2010, 14:25
In order to effectively govern the Internet in the UK, it is important to reveal the following three myths regarding Internet governance. Firstly, internet…
- Community, Local and Regional Broadcasting by: glaringfacts
May 1, 2010, 07:55
Chapter 9: The State of the System – Community, Local and Regional Broadcasting In this chapter, the Lincoln Report describes the difficulties and challenges…
- Baroque Definitions by: glaringfacts
July 17, 2010, 21:33
Stile Concitato: Literally means “agitated style”, it is a way of portaying agitation, anger or war-like feelings and actions in the music. For example…
- Social Self and Socialization by: glaringfacts
August 17, 2010, 02:37
Socialization creates the social self, American pragmatists argue and that this continual revision of the social self forms an identity that only achieves…
- National Regulatory Authorities and the ITU by: glaringfacts
August 11, 2010, 00:31
National Regulation Authorities (NRAs) are regulatory bodies with the power to influence policies in telecommunication services.
- Player Piano Prodigy: Analysis of Conlon Nancarrow and his Contributions by: glaringfacts
August 7, 2010, 11:08
Conlon Nancarrow is considered one of the most influential contemporary avant-garde composer and musician of the twentieth century through his infamous Studies…
- James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" by: glaringfacts
April 22, 2010, 03:33
James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” and Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” distinguish between…
- Barbie Kills Fans by: glaringfacts
July 27, 2010, 19:07
These fans of Barbie that engage in textual poaching and show resistance are coming face-to-face with a monolith that wants to enact vengeance and solidify an…
- Sexual Harassment in Canada by: glaringfacts
August 5, 2010, 22:32
Sexual harassment is a complex combination of legal and psychological issues that have received unparalleled attention.
- Autism and the Impact on Family: A Developmental Perspective by: glaringfacts
August 11, 2010, 12:34
The main issues discussed in this essay are primarily the ability of the family to cope with the problems of associated with autism.
- Stuart Hall Encoding - Decoding Model by: glaringfacts
July 19, 2010, 03:09
Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding model is an imperative explanation outlining the intent of advertising strategists, such as Apple Inc. and their three…
- Literature Review: Political Bias in Media by: glaringfacts
August 24, 2010, 07:14
The central focus of this literature review is the assessment of media bias. Media bias can significantly alter the scope of the political spectrum.
- French Opera Styles Vs. Italian Opera Styles by: glaringfacts
August 10, 2010, 12:22
Italian and French operas are distinct. In order to illustrate, it will be valuable to review each separately. Italian opera is both an art of Italy and…
- Beerfest (2006) Content Analysis by: glaringfacts
July 29, 2010, 19:53
Beerfest (2006) was one hour and fifty-six minutes in length and, according to the table, incidences of champagne, wine and beer altogether totaled one hour,…
- Early Recollections Therapy: An Advantage by: glaringfacts
August 27, 2010, 09:13
Early recollections provide a therapist an ability to predict a client’s life style in the future based on their earliest recollections.
- Point of View in The Yellow Wallpaper by: glaringfacts
July 26, 2010, 18:43
Written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper introduces thematic concepts of longing, isolation and deprivation. Gilman combines several aspects…
- Transparency and Accountability in Canadian Media Policy by: glaringfacts
August 26, 2010, 21:10
Raboy & Taras’s (2004) research is intent on describing the transparency and accountability of the Canadian policy system. They purport that the system is…
- Ownership by: glaringfacts
July 26, 2010, 06:28
Chapter 11: Maintaining a Single System – Ownership According to the Lincoln Report, ownership issues is a highly contentious subject matter. Essentially,…
- Narrativization in Canadian Television - The Border by: glaringfacts
August 15, 2010, 13:49
The Border is a Canadian television series drama that describes current and controversial aspects of Canadian security, its functions, and the issues that have…
- Analysis of Gwendolyn Brook's Poem "First Fight, Then Fiddle" by: glaringfacts
September 6, 2010, 19:20
Careful reading of Gwendolyn Brooks’s First Fight. Then Fiddle indicates a meticulously arranged construct of society and universal arguments regarding war…
- CRTC New Media Hearing 2008-11 by: glaringfacts
August 5, 2010, 10:25
The discourse surrounding this new media hearing resonates closely with stakeholder interests rather than the public’s interest.
- Historical Representations of Aboriginal People in the Canadian News Media by: glaringfacts
August 4, 2010, 09:47
Robert Harding uses critical discourse analysis on four selected moments of aboriginal-non-aboriginal relations as covered by newspapers at the time.
- Northern and Aboriginal Broadcasting by: glaringfacts
August 8, 2010, 23:56
The Lincoln Report describes the importance of Northern and Aboriginal broadcasting.
- The Digital Transition by: glaringfacts
August 13, 2010, 01:02
The Lincoln Report describes the challenges facing the broadcasting industry and the unsettling obstacles ahead.
- Copyright by: glaringfacts
- The Digital Transition by: glaringfacts
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- Sufi M by: glaringfacts
July 7, 2010, 23:05
I’m a York University alumni who finished studying Mass Communication. My primary specialty in communication studies is the use of environmental…
- Sufi M by: glaringfacts
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