Commercialization

The title of this article is “Contraindications in a Hip-Hop World: An Ethnographic Study of Black Women Hip-Hop Fans in Washington, DC.,” written by Tia L. Smith-Cooper. This article was published with UMI Microform in June 2002. In this article, Tia L. Smith-Cooper is scrutinizing the current (in 2002) problem of male rappers objectifying females and women still being content with this fact and continuing to be hip-hop fans. Not only does she attack male rappers, she also attacks female…

In Jon by George Saunders, the omnipresent corporate establishment forces an identity upon the characters, causing tension between their true and artificial selves. The protagonist Jon exists in a commercial community that uses teenagers as test dummies for its brands. Their world is prefabricated and they are taught via commercials for different trademarks, with slogans as their source of knowledge. The very militant and impersonal nature of the society throws the reader off balance, yet the…

When I think about genetically modified foods the immediate thoughts of lies, betrayal, and dangers come to mind. There are the lies that promote the production of these foods, there is the betrayal of our government and multiple agencies that are supposed to protect us as a people and keep us informed of whether there is safety in growing and eating these foods, and, at worse, the danger surrounding the consumption of these foods which correlates with the arising issues among the human populace…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors in which minority characters are portrayed in the media. By discussing the key themes that pertains to the Netflix show Orange is The New Black, this paper will analyze the topic of identity and allowing for its application on a larger context that houses within the Structuralism perspective. Identity is an umbrella term to classify the broad categories of race, gender, religion, sexuality, and family/subcultural groups – all of these things…

What would a world be like if the most basic human freedoms were stripped away from us? For example, what if the act of entering a romantic relationship with another human being was made impossible? Or perhaps reproduction becomes heavily regulated and any hopes of starting a regular family are shattered? Luckily, reality is free of dystopian-esque problems like these. The modern era has lead to advances far beyond computers and smartphones; Science has discovered ways to unlock the secrets of…

An Analysis In all of human history, no period has been as transformative in terms of political, economic, and social thought than the tumultuous 18th century. During this time, the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, known commonly by his pen name of ‘Voltaire’, wrote “Candide”. This satirical commentary on the state of affairs around the globe and within France itself has continued to incite debate and discussion on its true nature up to the present day. Two such viewpoints, outlined in “Jews…

INTRODUCTION “Media is the most powerful entity on earth. It has the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent. Media has the power to control the minds of the masses” (Malcom 2013). Marketing to children is a major social problem that has been substantially growing each year. Children are the ultimate prize, they are the new powerful consumer demographic. Children have a large buying power totaling forty billion dollars a year as well have the ability to influence a…

The importance of this paper aimed at exploring celebrity influence audience reception especially to adolescents. In addition to relations with family and peers, adolescents often form secondary attachments to figures they encounter in the popular media (Boon & Lomore, 2001). The idolization of celebrities simply is an unavoidable part of growing up for all adolescents. They lined their bedroom walls with celebrity’s posters, girls swooning over Jennifer Aniston’s stylish outfit and boys…

company, its culture, and the past experience of regulatory submission needs to be included in the final document. A strategy document is an organized combination of all the sides of the drug development from pre-IND to the NDA and up to product commercialization approved by several stakeholders. The document is an excel spreadsheet or a working “book,” it must capture and documented any changes to the…

The new leadership with a new perspective on amateur athletics began to look at the potential of television advertising and other markets made available through commercialization. This had an immediate financial effect on the Games. When the IOC President retired, the total operating budget for the games was approximately $2 million dollars. Over the next eight years, the new direction of the IOC was able to garner nearly…