One source of mass media is newsmaking, or deciding what issues are worth giving coverage to. Through the media the public learns about events, personalities, and issues and begin to form opinions. Therefore, through newsmaking the media decides what is news and begins exposing coverage to Americans. Agenda setting is another source that decides what will be decided on covered events or issues. It is the power to define society’s problems and set forth alternative solutions. Through agenda setting, the media can set the political agenda for the nation and force public officials to speak on covered topics, take positions, and respond to questions. Interpreting is a third source that has the media interpret the news for Americans.

They provide an angle on the story and tell Americans what to think about the issue at hand. Common angles are the good guy versus the bad guy, little guys versus the big guys, and appearance versus reality. In addition, the use of visuals allows Americans to make opinions based on facial expressions during close-ups. Socializing is a media power where the audiences to the political culture are influenced. Socialization is influenced not just through television, but also through paid advertisement. Corporations pay big bucks to promote themselves and good citizens and creating positive opinions of their image. Lastly, persuading is used in both paid advertising and news and entertainment programming to change the attitudes, opinions, and behaviors of Americans. A good deal of political commentary on television is used to persuade watchers to adopt the views of the commentators. As described with socialization, paid advertising is a useful tool in persuasion as it plants many opinions in the minds of Americans creating new opinions on issues and events. As mentioned in the text, persuasion is central to politics, and the media are key to persuasion.

The media has enough power to influence many Americans into forming opinions and changing them later on. It is uncanny how the media can manipulate news and create new values for Americans to adopt. Through television, radio, and other sources of communication, the media has created a matrix of information flow that Americans have grown addicted to have. Americans want to know what is going on around them and have a desire to know more about hot topics that the media covers. I wouldn’t say the media has too much power, but I am willing to say that the media uses its sources intelligently to get the story across.

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Both the film and the book are about a boy called Billy. In the film the boy is called Billy Elliot, he’s younger than Billy Casper (the boy in the book), being eleven whereas Casper is between the ages fourteen and fifteen. Both the film and the book are set in mining communities with members of each boy’s families working down the pits, in Elliot’s family it’s his dad and brother and in Casper’s his brother. However there is a difference. In the time the book was written, the 1960s, the mining industry was a thriving business, Billy Casper was expected to work down the pits, when he left school, and mining was the occupation of the majority of people who lived in South Yorkshire, during that period. At the time the film was directed, the 1990s, the mines were being closed down. Billy Elliot’s dad and brother spent most of the film on strike and County Durham would eventually become a non – mining community.

There are a lot of similarities between the film and the book. Both boys live in one parent families; in the film Billy Elliot’s mum has died and in the book Billy Casper’s dad has left home. Both families are quite poor and live in areas of housing which are overcrowded, and dirty. Both boys are passionate about something. In the film Billy Elliot has a passion for dancing. His talent and commitment to dancing enable him to get a scholarship to the royal London ballet school and live his dream. In the book Billy Casper’s passion is for his hawk Kes. Being a boy who no-one has any faith in, except for his English teacher, Billy surprises the reader by teaching himself how to rear and train his adopted ‘Kes’. However this book has no happy ending, when Billy fails to place a bet his brother Jud, unable to catch his younger sibling, breaks the neck of Kes leaving Billy broken hearted.

I think this is the main difference between the film and the book.
In the film there is a strong sense of love. Although it is very similar to the book, in many respects, Billy Elliot has one thing that Billy Casper lacks: support and love from his family. This sense of love is very clear in three parts of the movie. The first is when Billy’s dad sells his dead wife’s priceless jewellery to raise money for Billy to audition in London. The second is when Billy is leaving to go to London and his brother says he will miss him, although this might not seem like much this display of affection will have taken his brother a lot of courage to say. The third part is when Billy and his dad roll about in the hay before Billy goes to London.

The film has a very positive mood, the end of the film is my favourite part: When Billy’s dad and brother go to London to see swan lake. His brother is eager to get there, hurrying up escalators and dragging his dad along, his dad however walks transfixed by his surroundings. Once, Billy asked him, whether he dreamed of going to London and he replied “why would I? There are no coal mines in London” I think, while walking through London, his dad finally realises why his son dreamt of a new life.

In the book Billy Casper has no such love from his family. Neither his mother of brother take any interest in him both are too preoccupied by themselves. I think the killing of Kes shows this very clearly. Kes is Billy’s best friend, he was Billy’s only chance to escape a life down the pits the only positive thing in a life full of negativity. Jud didn’t take the time to think about what Kes meant to Billy, all that he cared about was his bet. The readers feel a very strong sense of pity for Billy, at the end. Billy has flashbacks of his heartbreaking past and it is clear that Billy won’t have the chance of a new life and things aren’t going to get better. I think Kes could be seen as a metaphor for all Billy’s hopes and dreams. A bird flying freely in the sky, to the reader, might represent Billy breaking free. Jud killed, not only a bird, but everything that made Billy different and special.

The main similarity between both boys is that they both have a passion and a talent. The main difference between both boys is that one’s talent gets recognised and he is able to have a better life and a happy ending and the other’s talent is stamped on, buried under: hurt, lack of care and neglect.

I enjoyed the film the most. I think this is because I like happy endings, however much of a cliche they are.

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Paragraphs for your classification essays may simply be formulated around the specific categories you have developed - your topic sentence for each paragraph will identify the category, the items in the category, and then all other sentences will support this information. Your first paragraph must still be an introduction that tells the reader what the paper is about and the final paragraph must still be a conclusion that summarizes the primary points from the paper; however, every paragraph in between will be a mini-paper of its own, describing a category and the items in it.

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The story of the Beatles began in 1956. During the early 50’s Liverpool was hit by the skiffle craze. Skiffle music was an improvised form of jazz and hillbilly sounds that was produced with rudimentary instruments such as guitars, washboard, jugs and packing case single string bass. All of the Beatles were influenced by this new form of music. Both John and Paul McCartney, born James Paul McCartney on June 18, 1942 in Liverpool, begged their families for guitars in order to pursue their musical careers. In 1956 John Lennon was playing at the Woolton Parish Church with his band, The Quarrymen. Paul was in the audience and was very impressed with Jon’s musical talent. After the show Paul played a couple of songs for John. Of his first encounter with John Paul states, “Quite a nice chap, but he did smell rather beery.” A week after Pete Sholton, a mutual friend, informed Paul that John was impressed with his playing and that it would be ok if he joined the group. Paul accepted the offer and played publicly with the group for the first time at the Conservative Club in Broadway. After the show Paul played a couple of songs that he had written to john. After this John began writing his own tunes and bouncing them off to Paul, beginning the greatest two-man songwriting partnership of this century.

While John and Paul’s family were somewhat opposed to their plans George Harrison, born February 24, 1943, was encouraged. His mother bought him a guitar after seeing drawings of guitars her son had made in his notebook. For George learning how to play the guitar was a slow and grueling process. His mother claims that sometimes he would sit up in his room and practice until his fingers bled. But George’s dedication paid off and in 1956 when he formed his own band called the Rebels. George and Paul took the same bus to school together and soon realized that they both were interested in music. They would even go to each others houses to play guitar. Soon afterward George was asked to join the band. Unfortunately, the band broke up shortly afterward.

In 1960 John, Paul, and George along with drummer Pete Best and bassist Stuart Sutcliff, a friend of John’s from art school, reformed the Quarrymen. They considered the names “Long John and the silver Beatles” and “The Silver Beatles” but finally decide on the Beatles. The name The Beatles came from a number of sources. It was the name of a motorcycle gang in the film “The wild One”. The spelling comes from a play on words by John and Stuart-the “a” makes it “beat” as in the type of music they played. “Beatles” is also a variation of the “crickets” which was Buddy Holly’s band and a musical influence to the Beatles.

In 1962 The Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, got them an audition for Decca Records on January 1, 1962. After several weeks Decca rejected the Beatles, even going as far as to say the now infamous comment, “Guitar groups are out”. After being rejected by EMI, Pye, and other small companies the producer of Parlophone, George Martin, decided to give The Beatles their big chance and they released their first single Love Me Do/PS I Love You. By that time the band had some major member changes. Sutcliff had died of a brain hemorrhage shortly after quitting the band so Paul took over bass guitar. And after George Martin told Epstein that drummer Pete Best was “not good” Ringo Starr, born Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940, of the group Rory and the Hurricanes, was recruited to take his place. The single did so well, peaking at #17 on the UK charts, that The Beatles recorded and released their first LP titled Please, Please Me, which later topped the charts at #1 for nearly eight months. After a string of number one singles the Beatles decided to conquer the US. Immediately after Christmas the single I Want to Hold your Hand and the LP Please, Please Me was released in the US and within a month it reached #1 and # 2 on the Billboard Charts. And on February 9 1964 the band appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, which was a major career move because it was viewed by millions of people. By the time they were nominated for a Grammy Beatlemania had officially swept America. They were so popular that they decided to venture into the world of movies. They began filming their first movie, A Hard Days Night, in March and were released worldwide in July. Both the movie and the single reached #1 on both countries. A month later their first tour began at Cow Palace in San Francisco.

Because A Hard Days Night was a major success the Beatles began filming their second film Help! on February 25, 1965 in the Bahamas, and was released along with the soundtrack nearly five months later. Like before both the movie and the soundtrack reached #1 in the UK and US. On September 25 of that year ABC premiered the Beatles Cartoon which was a huge hit. It seemed like the Beatles could do no wrong. Unfortunately, nearly a year later the band would be in the middle of a huge religious controversy.
On March 4, 1965, John, in an interview with London Evening Standard writer Maureen Cleave, stated that “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. Were more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first- rock-n-roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.” What John meant to say by that comment was that their fans believe that they’re bigger than Jesus, not the Beatles themselves. When the article appeared in a teen magazine nearly five months later the US was infuriated. “Beatle Burnings” were held in which people pubicaly incinerated Beatle posters, albums, and all other Beatle collectibles. Although he was notorious for not doing so, John later repeatedly apologized for the comment at a press conference in Chicago.

Right before the “Beatle Burnings” the Beatles were amidst another controversy when they released the LP Yesterday and Today with its “butcher cover” in which the band was pictured wearing butcher aprons with pieces of several baby dolls around them. These singles were later recalled, and re shot after major public outcry.

Even after those two controversies the Beatles could not go out in public without hordes of screaming women chasing after them. John stated the following in an interview, “The bigger we got, the more unreality we had to face. It was all just a bad joke to me.” In fact Beatlemania got so out of hand that the band began to fear for their lives. Their last concert ever was held in Candlestick Park in San Francisco after a firecracker went off and the band thought they were being shot at. Later on that year a rumor surface that threatened the future of the Beatles.

Rumors began to circulate that Paul was killed in a car crash and that the “Paul” that was in the band was an imposter. A couple of years later Fred LaBour wrote a very lengthy and detailed article in the Michigan Daily about the hidden clues on the band’s LP and songs that Paul is dead. Paul and the rest of the band have denied this ever happened.

On February 13, 1967 the Beatles hit a totally new artistic direction in both writing and recording when they released the US singles Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane. Another pivotal moment for the group happened after their trip on a “transcendental meditation” with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. This trip influenced the band greatly especially George and John. They even wrote some songs while in India and were later recorded at George’s home in Esher. Shortly after they set off to India the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, was found dead in his home. A couple of days later the band announced that they will manage themselves from then on.

The Beatles later formed a partnership called Beatles &Co on April 19 of that year. A year later the Apple Corps Ltd opened its doors to business to manage the works of George, Ringo, John, Paul and friends. The Apple Corps Ltd was first conceived by John and Paul as a type of vast international conglomerate of what they named “western communism”. Apple took control of all of the Beatles management concerns including Beatles limited, Subafilms, the Beatles Company, and Seltaeb Inc. Although originally opened in London Apple eventually branched out to several different countries. Apple was not as successful as everyone had hoped. Zapple Records was a new recording label from Apple. Unfortunately, it closed down after a year. Apple films didn’t do to well either, although it doesn’t compare to the failure of its so called electronics division. One of creator Alex Mardas’ ides was creating an artificial sun that would hang suspended over Savile Row, thus warming the entire neighborhood. Thankfully this or any of Alex’s inventions were ever commercially manufactured or marketed to the public. Regrettably, the Apple boutique, where a variety of Beatles memorabilia were sold including textured mesh seam free nylons, plastic guitars with their own carrying case, Flip Your Wig board game and even Beatles wigs, was shut down after losing huge amounts of money.
Although the business they created was deteriorating, the Beatles didn’t making successful records. The critically acclaimed Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, won four Grammy’s at the Grammy’s ceremony. The Beatles didn’t stop selling records either. After a string of #1 hits, the Beatles released Hey Jude which became a #1 hit in both the UK and the US and turned out to be their biggest hit ever.

In February of 1969 Allen Klein was named the Beatles business manager. Klein made the Beatles believe that Epstein had cheated the band out of millions of dollars prompting the band to terminate their relationship with NEMS, Epstein’s company. Paul tried to convince the rest of the band to use Eastman & Eastman as their legal consultants but it fell on deaf ears. On August 20, 1969 recording for Abbey Road began. This was the last recording session in which all the Beatles were present. This was the beginning of the end of the Beatles.

Throughout 1969 and 1970 Paul had been quoted in several magazines alluding to the breakup of the Beatles. On December 31, 1970 Paul filed a lawsuit against Beatles &Co to dissolve the partnership and sever ties with Alan Klein. The Beatles officially broke up.

Each of the Beatles has had a post-Beatle success. And even after they broke up the Beatles “empire” continued making money. EMI released several records of Beatles recordings, new and old, and Beatles collectibles are still sold today.

On December 8, 1980 the world lost John Lennon and the dream of a Beatles reunion. John Lennon was shot by a nameless assassin waiting outside his home with a .38-calibar Charter Arms revolver. John left behind his wife Yoko Ono and sons Sean Ono and Julian Lennon.

On November 29, 2001 after a long battle with cancer, George Harrison died at 1:30pm at a friend’s home with his family by his side.

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Cause and effect essay writing may be more complicated, they may evaluate what occurs when a train traveling at 75 mph comes across a 7-inch break in the tracks, or what happens when a bird becomes lost in a room full of windows and mirrors, and it may even be used to identify social observations that occur under different conditions. Specific objectives of the cause and effect essay is to identify which item is the cause - acting upon, and which item is the effect - acted upon.

Once these are identified, the cause and effect essay will include an introduction to the topic, supportive paragraphs, and a conclusion that sums up the primary points identified in the cause and effect essay. When you are finished, each paragraph should have a topic sentence - a sentence that defines the items in the paragraph, the grammar should be accurate as per your grade or education level, and your results should demonstrate skills in proper formatting. In such cases as your cause and effect essay requires research, it should use the most current information available.

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Always start your writing by determining what you need to write. Most teachers and instructors provide students with a rubric - if your teacher does not, try requesting one. As you start your research paper do this first - format your paper and insert the points of the rubric into the paper - in the body of the paper.

Next, find your research, remember that you can use research from many time frames; however, the most successful research will be that which is current or within the past five - ten years. Your research can be inserted as summaries and notes into your rough draft to allow ease of use when you begin the writing.

The final important aspect of your writing - proofread and then use your spelling and grammar checker to evaluate your work for errors. You can have a good college research paper; you simply need the practice in writing and the patience to learn the skills that make your written work successful and complete. Practice your writing by making summaries of the research you gather and evaluating how the other writers have presented their information. These skills will be the best methods for writing good college research papers.

Start your paper by formatting it to your class requirements. Doing this will help you start somewhere that is within your “control,” because your information for formatting is readily available. Many students spend enough time working with formatting that this aspect of the paper is “easy.” The next step should be to use the information from your course rubric or to determine “objectives” for your paper - for example, you may start by writing “Introduction, Body, Conclusion” followed by a short outline that includes the information that you may wish to put into those sections. It is also a good idea to start your good college term paper with a single sentence that defines what you will write about in the paper.

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Many students will struggle with writing personal statements not for what they must write, but in formatting it well enough to demonstrate professional language and success in communication skills. When you need to write your statement, start by simply writing out your goals and ideas. Formulate the ideas into single paragraphs using each point as a topic sentence. Write out your introduction to be both an introduction of you and your points. Additionally, use your conclusion to highlight the primary points.

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Many students will learn to write by reading information that is considered “short-burst” written works, which do not support the 5-paragraph informational designs. Students spending a lot of time online will be quick to try to place all five topic sentences into a single paragraph - similar to what is seen in online works; however, this would be wrong. Your first paragraph introduces your focus with a thesis sentence that is supported by the rest of the paper. This first paragraph is also your opportunity to embrace your reader and inspire them to keep reading to learn more.

Your three middle paragraphs are designed to support your thesis statement, and the final paragraph restates your primary points. The objective is to provide supportive evidence that either extends the information you have provided in your thesis statement, or your 5-paragraph goals to persuade your reader to agree with your point. For example, if you state that the rain makes your backyard muddy - you might write your first paragraph describing soil status during days of full sunshine, the second paragraph may state the changes observed during the rain, and the third may introduce the changes that occur after the rain. In the final paragraph, each defining point will be reintroduced to demonstrate the thesis statements primary points.

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According to Ana Veciana-Suarez, author of “Thank Heaven for Little Boys,” many traits of boys and girls are instinctive and we are born with them. The genetics we are born with may affect our physical abilities, but children learn to act in certain ways by watching people in society. For example, when young boys watch cartoons or certain male-orientated TV programs, they are influenced to act like the characters they see on TV. The characters on these shows are shown in a more aggressive or violent manner; therefore, the children act that way. The main characters in shows like Batman or Superman are portrayed as strong athletic heroes who influence young boy’s everyday actions.

In shows such as these, boys are often depicted as aggressive and destructive, therefore this shows boys that they should act competitively. Even as adolescents we are influenced by TV, movies, books, and music. For example the artist Eminem influence males to be violent, has homosexual references, and condemns women. At this young age, people are not mature enough to make their own decisions and they are easily influenced by society. People emulate what Eminem says in his lyrics about violence. For example in Columbine, the boys that killed innocent students got their ideas through certain movies and TV shows. This shows that teenagers are at a very vulnerable age and can be influence by society to act the way. Adolescents are more likely than adults to be influenced by society to act a certain way because they are easily influenced to mold to the person society projects as an ideal person.

In Veciana-Suarez argument, she claims that she raised her children equally but subconsciously she must have treated her children differently because of the way society influences parents to raise their children. When girls are young they are often given Barbies and baby dolls to play with. The girls are subjected to beautiful but fake looking toys and they become confused about what they should look like. “Since they are only given attractive, clean, and overly perfect toys they assume that they should look like their own dolls. Research shows that by 3 years old children have already begun to learn the figurative or metaphorical meanings of gender. . . . Children learn an underlying framework for understanding the nature of masculine and feminine that does not depend on the specific models having appeared in their environment”(Sapiro, 83) Typically, girls are less athletically-inclined than boys because of genetics. Therefore, parents often do not treat girls and boys in the same way when it comes to sports. Boys are taught to be more aggressive because it is expected that boys should be more athletic than girls. Girls also are encouraged to express their feelings and to cry openly. Boys often have feelings such as excitement and anger that are socialized to replace “inferior, feminine” feelings such as distress and fear. (Murnen, 361) Boys are therefore influenced to never cry and to not complain, but to “tough it out,” or “be a man.”

At a young age, children are also influenced to act a certain way by their peers. A child can get made fun of if he or she does things that are considered to be not typical of their gender. For example, a boy can be teased by his peers if he likes to play in the kitchen or play with dolls. Society influences children only to play with certain toys that are meant for their gender. Advertisements on TV show certain toys for each gender and show only girls or boys playing with them. For example, when I was little all the girls only played house or with dolls, and the boys only played sports or with trucks. It is not socially acceptable for girls to play with boy’s toys or boys to play with girl’s toys. Because of this influence of society girls and boys act the way they do.

Even in adulthood, especially in the work force, adults are expected to act as society requires them to. Men are still very dominant in high position jobs, because society automatically thinks that men can handle the job more than woman would be able to. Since our society values competition and individuals being successful on their own, women’s orientation towards caring for others and/or cooperatively building the community is considered (by the male dominated society) to be of lesser importance. These value differences are reflected in the gender roles established by our culture. (Crespi, 2) There are continual stereotypes projected onto women that they are not capable of what men are because that is the way the majority of people were raised to think. Therefore, men often get “better” jobs than women and have more opportunities in the work force because of the gender stereotypes they are commonly put into action in today’s society. For example, it is not considered socially acceptable often for a female to coach a men’s sports team at any level. This is a huge disadvantage because the woman might be a great coach, the players miss out on gaining experience, and she does not get the opportunity to coach and do her job just because she is female. Society judges your capabilities only on what gender you are which is very unfair. Often the “better” jobs offer more money and females are at a larger disadvantage based solely on their unavoidable principle of gender.

Even when people begin to date there are certain things expected by each gender because of societies influence. Men are often expected to pay for the date, drive on the date, ask the girl out, etc. There are also certain roles that woman have to play in the dating game. Even when people get married they are assuming certain roles according to their gender. Often men go to work during the day, and women stay at home to take care of the children. There is no biological trait that told men and woman to enforce these assumed roles in society. Society influences the couple to act in this way and they think this is what is expected of them.

We are born knowing which gender we are, but through further interactions we learn how society expects us to act. There is no way that we could have learned these things through biological influences; society has a much stronger influence on the way people act according to their gender. We are born with some instinct on how to act relative to our gender, but the way we are raised by our parents, how we interact with our peers, and the influences that the media has on us is what influences our gender identity.

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