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• The new nation: 1690-1799
• The 19th century : the pioneering spirit abounds
• The 20th century : growth and tragedies define America
• The 21st century : 2000-2009
• Stretching the list of 100 : ten notable additional moments.

From the launching of America's first newspaper to YouTube's latest phone-videoed crime, the media has always been guilty of indulging America's obsession with controversy. This encyclopedia covers 100 events in world history from the 17th century to the present-moments that alone were major and minor, but ones that exploded in the public eye when the media stepped in. Topics covered include yellow journalism, the War of the Worlds radio broadcast, the Kennedy-Nixon debates, JFK's assassination, the Pentagon papers, and Hurricane Katrina. These are events that changed the way the media is used-not just as a tool for spreading knowledge, but as a way of shaping and influencing the opinions and reactions of America's citizens. Thanks to the media's representations of these events, history has been changed forever. From classified military plans that leaked out to the public to the first televised presidential debates to the current military tortures caught on tape, 100 Media Moments That Changed America will demonstrate not only an ever-evolving system of news reporting, but also the ways in which historical events have ignited the media to mold news in a way that resonates with America's public. This must-have reference work is ideal for journalism and history majors, as well as for interested general readers. Chapters are in chronological order, beginning with the 17th century. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction, followed by media event entries from that decade. Each entry explains the moment, and then delivers specific details regarding how the media covered the event, America's response to the coverage, and how the media changed history.
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Perhaps one of the most ridiculous phenomena of recent years is Bernard Goldberg's right-wing and unforgivably successful 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. The vast majority of his targets are no different from the picks of any hyperventilating fan of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly: feminists, academics, media moguls, newspaper columnists, liberals, and a few obscure cartoonists and painters. But it's thin on the right wing politicos, their media and corporate echochamber who have landed us in the mess we're in. Best-selling author Jack Huberman provides us with an entertaining and informative bestiary of the real crooks, liars and cheats who are screwing up America. These are not just the people making asses of themselves or getting more media attention than they deserve. Huberman restores the likes of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, James A. Baker III, Gary Bauer Brent Bozell, Ann Coulter, Karen Hughes, Karl Rove, Leo Strauss and Ralph Reed to their rightful place in the national hall of shame, along with such oozing pustules of cultural putrefaction as the Olson Twins, Mel Gibson, William Bennett, Katie Couric, Matt Drudge, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Phil, Dr. Laura, Oprah Winfrey, Teletubbies, the Simpson sisters, and God.
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• Current Content Myth
• 1: Violence in the media does not affect me, but others are at high risk. Myth
• 2: The media are not responsible for the negative effects of their violent messages. Myth
• 3: Children are especially vulnerable to risks of effects from exposure to media violence. Myth
• 4: There is too much violence in the media. Myth
• 5: Violence in the media reflects violence in society. Myth
• 6: The media are only responding to market desires. Myth
• 7: Vioence is an essential element in all fiction. Myth
• 8: Reducing the amount of violence in the media will solve the problem. Myth
• 9: The First Amendment protects the media from restrictions on violence. Myth
• 10: Rating systems and V-chip will help solve the problem. Myth
• 11: There is nothing I can do to make an effect on reducing the problem. Prognosis for Improvement References Index.
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The 11 Myths of Media Violence challenges many of our commonly held beliefs and assumptions about the relationship between media and violence. Illustrated with examples such as common opinions about the amount of violence on television and the effects on children, the author provides an in-depth review of how governments, journalists and researchers are part of the problem and raises important questions that place the reader at the heart of the conflict.
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• Current Content Myth
• 1: Violence in the media does not affect me, but others are at high risk. Myth
• 2: The media are not responsible for the negative effects of their violent messages. Myth
• 3: Children are especially vulnerable to risks of effects from exposure to media violence. Myth
• 4: There is too much violence in the media. Myth
• 5: Violence in the media reflects violence in society. Myth
• 6: The media are only responding to market desires. Myth
• 7: Vioence is an essential element in all fiction. Myth
• 8: Reducing the amount of violence in the media will solve the problem. Myth
• 9: The First Amendment protects the media from restrictions on violence. Myth
• 10: Rating systems and V-chip will help solve the problem. Myth
• 11: There is nothing I can do to make an effect on reducing the problem. Prognosis for Improvement References Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

"The 11 Myths of Media Violence" challenges many of our commonly held beliefs and assumptions about the relationship between media and violence. Illustrated with examples such as common opinions about the amount of violence on television and the effects on children, the author provides an in-depth review of how governments, journalists and researchers are part of the problem and raises important questions that place the reader at the heart of the conflict.
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• TABLE OF CONTENTS;
• CHAPTER I; INTRODUCTION; ON THE EASTERN VS. WESTERN CARIBBEANCREOLES DIVIDE; OBVIATION AND/OR OBVIATIVEEFFECTS CROSS-LINGUISTICALLY; ROMANIAN UNIVERSAL AND EPISTEMICFREE CHOICE ITEMS; CARDINAL-NOUN CONSTRUCTIONSARE PARTITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS; ON SCRAMBLING AND DIFFERENTIAL OBJECTMARKING WITH A FOCUS ON GERMANAND ROMANIAN (WITH A FOCUSON INDEFINITE DIRECT OBJECTS); ON THE CURRENT USE OF ROMANIAN TERMSDENOTING PHYSICAL DEFECTS; MAPPING CITATION PRACTICESIN ACADEMIC WRITING; PHONOLOGICAL FEATURESOF MULTICULTURAL LONDON ENGLISH; ARGUMENTATION IN NEWSPAPER ARTICLES.

• THE ACQUISITION OF SCALAR IMPLICATURESIN CHILD ROMANIANEVENT CONFLATION IN CHILD ROMANIAN; MODAL MEANINGS IN EARLY CHILD ENGLISH; INTERFACES IN ENGLISHAS A SECOND LANGUAGE;
• CHAPTER II; INTRODUCTION; TRANSLATING MODERN TEXTS; CROSSING THE BRIDGE; "PUNDERING" OVER PUNSIN THE TRANSLATION OF MICHEL FABER'STHE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE; MULTITUDES OF MEANING, COMPENSATIONAND TRANSLATION LOSSIN P.G. WODEHOUSE'S RIGHT HO, JEEVES; FEATURES OF CONTEXTUALIZATIONIN THE DICTIONARY OF THE ROMANIANLANGUAGE PROJECT;
• CHAPTER III; INTRODUCTION.

• THE SATANIC VERSES, MULTICULTURALISM, AND THE MULTIPLICITY OF PERSPECTIVESIN BRITISH LITERATURE AT THE ENDOF THE 1980STHE OUTSTRIPING AND THE FORESHORTENINGAS LITERARY POSSIBILITIESOF CONTEXTUALIZATION; INSCRIBING SPACE AND IDENTITYWITHIN PRIMARY NEXUSES; VISIONS OF COMMUNITYIN THOMAS PYNCHON'S VINELAND; SITUATING THE BLACK SELF; BLACK BRITISHNESS IN DIRAN ADEBAYO'SSOME KIND OF BLACK; NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVESIN KATHRYN STOCKETT'S THE HELP; TOTALITARIANISM IN AND BEYOND CONTEXTWITH ORWELL AND IONESCO; CIRCASSIAN MINORITY; CONTEXT, MEANING AND IMAGEIN THE MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATEDMANUSCRIPTS.

• THE MEANING OF MAGIC REVELATIONAT KING ARTHUR'S COURTLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX.

The present volume includes a selection of twenty-nine papers by academics, and senior and junior researchers who came together within the framework of the 11th Conference on British and American Studies. Structured into three sections, the contributions included here display a wide array of topics and methodologies illustrating a variety of scholarly pursuits and approaches. These, in their turn, reflect the issues which constitute the complex nature of language and culture, and their mutual relationship. The authors' interests encompass aspects related to the structural and rhetorical organi.

This book represents a selection of papers presented by academics and researchers at the 12th Conference on British and American Studies. They are grouped in two main theme clusters, corresponding to the two chapters of the book: Languages in Contact and Languages in Use and Multidisciplinarity and Multiculturalism in Literary Studies. In the first section, language is described, in turn, as subject to influence by other language systems, as an object of learning and acquisition, and as an instrument enabling users to bridge between cultures, disciplinary domains, and people. The second part of the volume is mainly concerned with such notions as hybridity, tolerance, identity, subversion and deconstruction, as reflected in classical and contemporary Anglo-American literary texts.
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This volume brings together a selection of papers in linguistics presented at the 13th edition of the Conference on British and American Studies. Structured into three chapters, the studies included here are illustrative for the different perspectives, methodologies, and research traditions in the investigation of language-related phenomena. The first chapter, "Language Change and Cross-Linguistic Analysis", is mainly concerned with the external and internal catalysts for language change, and with a number of morphosyntactic and semantic particularities of Romanian, set in contrast with other languages. Aspects related to first or second language learning and language as an instrument of thought form the content of the second chapter, "Language Acquisition, Teaching and Processing". The focus of the final chapter, "Pragmatics, Translation, and the Negotiation of Meaning", is language as an instrument of power and (self-)communication.
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This volume brings together a selection of papers in linguistics presented at the 13th edition of the Conference on British and American Studies. Structured into three chapters, the studies included here are illustrative for the different perspectives, methodologies, and research traditions in the investigation of language-related phenomena. The first chapter, "Language Change and Cross-Linguistic Analysis", is mainly concerned with the external and internal catalysts for language change, and with a number of morphosyntactic and semantic particularities of Romanian, set in contrast with other languages. Aspects related to first or second language learning and language as an instrument of thought form the content of the second chapter, "Language Acquisition, Teaching and Processing". The focus of the final chapter, "Pragmatics, Translation, and the Negotiation of Meaning", is language as an instrument of power and (self-)communication.
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