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Tupac Shakur Is Still Alive
1,422 wordsOn September 7, 1996, Tupac Amaru Shakur was riding in the passenger side of a black BMW driven by Marion Suge Knight, president of Death Row Records. Tupac and Suge had just finished watching Mike Tyson defeat Bruce Season at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tupac was standing up through the sunroof while the car was stopped at a traffic light. The Cadillac containing the gunmen passed an entourage of Tupac's allies, many of them bodyguards. Four unidentified men pulled alongside Suge's car,...
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1,561 words... get all the time. " Not only was radio initially disapproved of, the vaudeville community actually ordered its acts to stay off the air under penalty of contract cancellation. Musical, concert, and operatic managers also shunned radio fearing that "songs plugged too strongly over the air would lose their sales value, " Billboard reported on March 1, 1930. Eventually, however, both vaudeville and the rest of the industry came to recognize radio as a way of stimulating sales. By 1930, Billboar...
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Coca Cola Ronald Mcdonald
1,810 wordsAdvertising: An Inescapable, Yet Rude, Aspect of Today's Society Advertising is perhaps the most pervasive aspect of today's society. You cannot escape from it. Ads hold us captive as they are broadcast on television and radio, printed in newspapers and magazines and books, and half-minute-long ads are expanded into whole infomercials. Products and movies are plugged on talk shows. Billboards line every interstate and state route. And only a few years ago, Space Marketing, Inc. , developed a sys...
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Pop Art Eye Catching
1,693 wordsAmerican Pop Art was born of the newly found self-confidence with which American art had asserted itself. The subject matter which provided the initial impulse was the cultural concept of Americanism itself: the idea of progress, the media industry sensation, and the relative boom of stardom and cultural icons in Hollywood. The birth place of these new phenomena seems to have its roots in the city of New York, the so called cultural center of the USA. In the relative upheavals of the forties and...
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A Walk In The Woods Chapter 9
1,022 wordsBill Bryson the author of the short story A Walk in the Woods constructs the story in a certain way to try to get the reader to accept his attitudes and values about how dangerous and death defying Earl V. Shaffer and others are in attempting to travel the trail. He uses the techniques of emotive language, unusual language and use of first hand accounts in the short story A Walk in the Woods. The use of descriptive and humorous language, combined with conversational text has allowed Bryson to ex...
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Use Of Suggestive Words In Today Advertising
507 wordsAdvertising agencies use suggestive words in advertising campaigns in order to make consumers remember the product. Yet, what do these ads tell consumers about American culture? To answer this question I will be analyzing one specific billboard ad. The ad contradicts social norms. I want to find out what this ad says about American values in order to identify if this tactic is why some ad campaigns are extremely successful while others are not. During my morning commutes on Interstate 25, I ofte...
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Recording Artist R Amp
722 wordsMariah Carey was born and raised in New York by her mother. She began singing at the age of four. By the time she was in junior high, she had begun to write songs. After her high school graduation, she got her fist big break, singing backup for Brenda K. Starr, a break that led to her signing with Columbia Records. Mariah always knew that she would be a singing star. Mariah's father was black and Venezuelan. Her mother, the daughter of Irish immigrants, was an opera singer. Mariah took after her...
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Recording Industry Association Intellectual Property
1,401 words... for users to download an MP 3 (even an illegal one) and then decide to purchase an album is still there, but is probably reduced if all material is available for free on the Internet. Discussion While there are many debates about what is going on with copyright laws and technology, one thing is clear: change is inevitable. For better or worse, with every new technology, new regulations seem to appear. And, whether we agree with it or not, regulations are already in the works for digital musi...
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Music And History Of Dave Matthews
1,338 wordsDave Matthews, aided by his incredibly talented band-mates, created music that filled a spiritual void in his fans lives, replacing separatism with multicultural tolerance not usually advocated in todays society, using grass roots touring and advertising methods. Dave Matthews culturally diverse background helped him to develop a culturally tolerant mentality. Most of Dave Matthews tolerant outlook on society can be traced back to his exposure at a young age to various cultures and societies, wh...
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Television And Radio Visual Perception
1,417 wordsWhen we think about subliminal perception we usually think of a big publicity stunt for a company. What many people don't know is that subliminal perception can really be effective. Any person might say, "Naw, I can't fall for that I'm not stupid enough to fall into their trap. " For most other cases subliminal perception will attack a person in their sub-conscious state of mind. In one form or anther, subliminal perception takes many forms. It could be presented in an audio, visual, and in the ...
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Outdoor Advertising Marketing Campaign
2,895 wordsXYZ Conferences 1 Introduction What truly makes an ad campaign exceptional is dynamic creative advertising that not only looks good -- but also carries the message that your marketing plan has established and captures the attention of your target market. Equally important is the proper media placement of your advertising to make sure it hits the right sets of ears and / or eyes. CONSIDERATION LIST OF MEDIA/MARKETING VEHICLES For the advertising campaign of XYZ IT event to be held in Washington D...
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Federal Communications Commission Chancellor Media
5,003 wordsMedia do not simply present cultural products for consumption; they provide much of the stuff of every day life through which we construct meaning and organize our existence. Michael R. Real, Super Media DEFINING MOMENTS IN MASS MEDIA Newspapers. Media began with the written word... To date, the oldest existing written document dates back to 2200 B. C. By 500 B. C. Persia had developed a form of pony express and the Greeks had a telegraph system consisting of trumpets, drums, shouting, beacon fi...
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F Scott Fitzgerald T J Eckleburg
1,832 wordsMovie: Life, Like The Great Gatsby Brian Olson OLSON 1 Professor John Hughes ENC 1102 December 3, 1996 Imagine that you live in the nineteen twenties, and that you are a very wealthy man that lives by himself in a machine, on a lake and who throws parties every weekend. This is just the beginning of how to explain the way Jay Gatsby lived his life. This novel, by F. Scott, Fitzgerald is one that is very deep in thought. Fitzgerald releases little clues along the way of the novel that will be cry...
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Cable Operators Coaxial Cable
1,060 wordsSome cable television companies have been sending music across coaxial cable for years. But until recently, these were sent in an analog format using an FM frequency. Now companies are experimenting with sending CD-quality music in digital format across the same coaxial cable. In September 1991, International Cablecasting Technologies began selling a premium cable service, called Digital Music Express (DMX), to subscribers in 146 cable systems. DMX offered 30 channels of music programs, from cla...
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1,551 wordsEveryone remembers Michael Jacksons red leather jacket covered with zippers and the sexy style of Madonna. MTV, or music television, nationally publicizes these images and entertainers, and others like them. The station also promotes an idealized teen lifestyle, reflecting the images of these famous artists, that contrasts with the realities of the Generation X lifestyle. While some view the station as " illustrated radio" or an entertainment network for viewers pleasure, others more a...
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F Scott Fitzgerald T J Eckleburg
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Wall Street Journal Mp 3 Player
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Repeated Three Times Previously Mentioned
1,813 wordsMusic 265 -Phish Meghan Conley Music 265 - Rock Music Phish (featuring Trey Anastasio on guitar and vocals, John Fishman on drums and vocals, Jeff Holdsworth on guitar, and Page McConnell on keyboards and vocals), has often been referred to as the Grateful Dead of the 90 s and their fans have often been called the new generation of hippies. The band however, sees things differently. While the Dead's music has been known to fit easily into the Rock-n-Roll category of Rock music, its not that cut ...
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Advertising Billboard Article
322 wordsThrough much research I have found 3 advertisements for popular companies that range from well done to tasteless. Introduced first will be an ad that is done well and with taste. Then, an advertisement that seems to be done poorly and has a message that could be misunderstood by some people. Finally, a totally tasteless ad that has no right to be seen by anyone with manners. This first ad is from the Absolut Vodka company, although the product could be controversial, the actual content is simple...
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Federal Trade Commission Joseph Lieberman
1,990 wordsTitle: Industry Slow To Reform Marketing Violence To Kids. (cover story) Subject (s): VIOLENCE in mass media United States; SOUND recording industry United States; ADVERTISING &# 038; youth United States; UNITED States. Federal Trade Commission; LIEBERMAN, Joseph Political &# 038; social views Source: Billboard, 05 / 05 / 2001, Vol. 113 Issue 18, p 1, 2 p, 1 c Author (s): Holland, Bill Abstract: Looks at reaction to a follow-up study released by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) w...
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