COMS 356 Final Exam Study Guide - Spring 2015 STUDY YOUR NOTES‚ BOOK CHAPTERS AND POWERPOINTS ON MOODLE. Chapter 6 - Jamming Media and Popular Culture: Analyzing Messages about Diverse Cultures • Define popular culture and understand its effects in the context of globalization. • What is culture jamming? • Why are IC scholars interested in popular culture representation? • Understand dominant‚ negotiated‚ and oppositional readings of pop culture texts. • What is encoding and decoding? • Understand
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Over the last decade‚ the issues around sexual diversities in the school community have increased. Although there has been raised awareness around the topic‚ pre-service teachers and current school educators continue to be inactive in their approaches to addressing sexual diversities in the classroom and broader school population. This shows that educators and pre-service teachers are not being provided with enough support and knowledge in this controversial area and therefore‚ it is critical to
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see Christ as a reflection in the mirror. According to Alice Walker‚ a womanist is a woman who loves herself and other women sexually and/or non- sexually. Being a womanist includes homosexuality‚ fluid sexuality. This is critical of heteronormativity. Womanist are strong black women. As I look at the picture of the “Female Christ”‚ I see it as the woman’s view of all the sacrifices they have had. I also see it as a woman being strong and enduring all the things she had to deal with
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Mr. Chris Bender College Writing 1 07/10/2012 Final Draft In her essay “Before and After: Class and Body Transformations‚” Julia Serano indicates how TV shows affect some peoples decisions. She takes on TV shows and documentaries and she marks down how they display shows of people crossing the normal social boundary and how these TV shows are degrading those people crossing. People all around the world of different cultures are all affected by the
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(1) I enjoyed seeing how the "Scent Vacation" commercial from Old Spice was made‚ specifically how they moved Isaiah Mustafa from location to location in one smooth shot. (2) Seeing this happen wasn’t surprising as much as it was interesting. Literal- The commercial used a wide variety of settings to depict the various scents available from Old Spice‚ often themed by location (e.g. "Figi Fresher"). Inferential- The choice of actor shows that attractive men use Old Spice‚ and the smell
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Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege‚ offers great insight into the varying arguments of traditional marriage‚ marriage equality‚ those who are against marriage‚ sexual relationships‚ gender‚ and domestic divisions of labor. These topics are relative in nature and‚ in most cases‚ overlap one another. To provide a thorough answer to Essay Questions No’s 1 and 3‚ I have taken the liberty to answer both questions in this one single paper; to illustrate the arguments pertaining
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Bibliography: vampire myth. London: Reaktion Books‚ 2008. Desire. Indiana University Press‚ 1994 - "Heteronormativity." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences‚ 2008. New York: Palgrave MacMillan‚ 2007. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota‚ 1993.
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“Queer”‚ once a slang for “odd” or “abnormal”‚ before it was attributed to lesbian and gay men as a homophobic insult‚ now portrays a spectrum of academic modalities and acknowledges the lives of thousands of fluid gendered peoples. Essentially‚ Queer Studies is the examination of issues pertaining to and intersectionality of gender‚ sexual orientation‚ gender identity‚ race‚ class‚ and ethnicity—revolving around ubiquitous structural and institutional inequality. Lisa Duggans in her article “Making
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One of the implications of abstinence-only sex education is that it is ineffective in its desired outcome and therefore puts young people in danger by not providing them with the appropriate knowledge to practice safe sex. According to an article by the Guttmacher Institute‚ ““Despite years of evaluation in this area‚ there is no evidence to date that abstinence-only education delays teen sexual activity” (Guttmacher‚ 2006). Abstinence-only education can be harmful because it doesn’t curtail sexual
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police officers were injured‚ but not on how many rioters were injured‚ even though the police used firehoses on the crowd (Ibid). This builds in the reader Truscott’s idea that the lives of heteronormative people‚ particularly those who uphold heteronormativity‚ are more important than the lives of gay
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