[pic] School of Radio & Television Arts BDC 979: Radio Production Winter 2011 Professor: Lori Beckstead ext. 6030 email: lbeckste@ryerson.ca Office Location: RCC 124 (enter via RCC 104) Office Hours: No specific office hours. I’m more than happy to set up a time to meet with you anytime…just email or call to set something up. Teaching Assistant: Kevin Konarczewski ext. 7525 email: kevkon@ryerson.ca [pic] About the Course Course Description from the Ryerson University
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the nation away from a foreign policy of neutrality. His plan was to secure the future in four different ways. This he called the four essential human freedoms. FDR’s speech communicates the message about the four essential freedoms on a universal level while Rockwell’s paintings of the same subject matter recasts those freedoms for a strictly American audience by appealing to familiar American scenes and sentimentality. During the time when president FDR gave this speech‚ WWII had begun and
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Radio Broadcasting is familiar to everyone. We are all familiar with the simple task of turning on the radio‚ tuning to our favorite station and listening to news‚ traffic reports‚ weather forecasts‚ music and other programs. Radio broadcasting is defined as using radio waves to send transmissions to a large audience‚ who will listen to the transmission through a radio. The definition of radio broadcasting can be expanded by examining radio waves‚ radio transmitters and receivers.
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The traditional concept of being an American is to be a citizen of the United States of America; however‚ I prefer the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of the word American‚ which is “a person born‚ raised‚ or living in the United States.” This definition more accurately captures the true idea behind what it is to be an American in a number of ways. The first is the fact that it does not include being a citizen‚ which pays heed to the origins of America where people were seeking out a new land
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African American culture African American culture in the United States includes the various cultural traditions of African ethnic groups. It is both part of and distinct from American culture. The U.S. Census Bureau defines African Americans as "people having origins in any of the Black race groups of Africa."[1] African American culture is indigenous to the descendants in the U.S. of survivors of the Middle Passage. It is rooted in Africa and is an amalgam of chiefly sub-Saharan African and
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slaves. Our nation today is called a democracy when millions of citizens never exercise their right to vote‚ a few hundred party leaders select our national political candidates‚ and only those who have million-dollar treasuries can run for political office with a reasonable chance of winning. Latin American military dictatorships are called democracies. South Vietnam with a single candidate for president during the Vietnam War was called a democracy. The word democracy comes from two Greek words: a
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Popular American Culture Paper Adrian Clegg SOC/105 Febuary 17‚ 22011 Dr. V. Nita Evans Popular American Culture Paper According to Merriam-Webster culture is “the customary beliefs‚ social forms‚ and material traits of a racial‚ religious‚ or social group” (2011). Popular culture is “the opposite of high cultural art forms‚ such as the opera‚ historic art‚ classical music‚ traditional theater or literature; popular culture includes many forms of cultural communication including newspapers
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“The Enormous Radio” John Cheever published in: The Enormous Radio and Other Stories. New York: Funk & Wagnalls‚ 1953. Jim and Irene Westcott were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income‚ endeavor‚ and respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college alumni bulletins. They were the parents of two young children‚ they had been married nine years‚ they lived on the twelfth floor of an apartment house near Sutton Place‚ they went to the theatre
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style and music were almost always considered dazzling‚ lush sounding‚ and brilliant. One could say he was a pioneer who broke substantial ground in classical music and laid a path for future musicians. Among the 1300 pieces he composed during his lifetime‚ a number of them were transcriptions of operas and violin caprices. Liszt was greatly motivated to make transcriptions in the first place because he wanted to expose the works of old masters to audiences that otherwise could never have heard their
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than when I was a kid. Today‚ McDonald’s is practically everywhere in the world and is a part of their cultures. The explanation of McDonald’s success can be derived from many things‚ but the ones that stand out are first their branding. They have been around for over sixty-five years and that certainly helps with branding. As of today‚ McDonald’s success in the public’s eye is that they have quality food at a low price that is given to the customer quickly with great service and clean facilities
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