4. Gherao. Gherao in Hindi means to surround. Workers may gherao the members of management by blocking their exits and forcing them to stay inside their cabins just like prisoners. The main object of gherao is to inflict physical and mental torture to the person being gheraoed and hence this weapon disturbs the industrial peace to a great extent. Gheraos have been criticised on both legal and moral grounds. Legally gheraos amount to imposing wrongful restraints on the freedom of some persons to
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Violence in the Media and how it Affects Society The effect of media is profound and far-reaching. All over the world‚ the media influences our values and intrudes upon our deep-seated ideologies and beliefs. Indeed the media has been a powerful force in influencing people’s perceptions‚ and more importantly‚ their behavior as well. Business‚ politicians‚ and showbiz personalities pay huge sums of money to media firms in order create an image or change an existing one. Politics in particular
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The media reflects current social inequalities and allows them to continue by making them a normality. People who use the media see these stereotypes on a daily basis and take them as fact. Some people don’t even realize that these are stereotypes‚ and so they repeat them to friends and the stereotypes spread. Stereotypes are ideas about a certain group of people that tend to be bad or derogatory. Now that media is an everyday part of most people’s lives‚ these stereotypes are encouraged by major
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FIFTY YEARS OF LANGUAGE PLANNING FOR MODERN HINDI The Official Language of India 1. ABSTRACT Hindi - according to the 1991 Census of India‚ is the mother tongue of 233‚432‚285 persons (22% of the entire Indian population)‚ and is spoken as a language (which includes 47 or so mother tongues cobbled up under it) by 337‚272‚114 persons (42.22% of the entire Indian population). It is also used as a second language by another 6.16% of the population‚ and as a third language by yet another 2.60% by
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Media bias is an unavoidable aspect of any information spreading source or program. Much like the saying “history is written by the victors” (Winston Churchill)‚ any information provided to the general public should be expected to be affected by the personal bias of the ones reporting the information. While it may be hard to spot an example of media bias‚ it is definitely there even if it is not meant to come on as a bias. Whether it is the placement of articles in the local newspaper‚ the scandalous
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Mass Media’s Influence on Americas’ Youth Does mass media influence children and teenagers more than their friends and family? That’s the question mainstream America is asking. America’s youth today is faced with an issue that adolescents in past decades never experienced. Young people today are flooded with media such as television‚ music‚ movies‚ magazines‚ newspapers‚ internet‚ and more. Media is overly accessible and virtually impossible to hide from in a world now dependent on it. The main
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Shauna Buttivant Mrs. Mazzacca English February 23 2013 The Media in Our World The media plays the role in our world of telling people what to do. How to act‚ what to wear‚ what clubs to join‚ what to eat‚ what hair products to use‚ what pencil to use. They even tell us who to date or what toilet paper to use. We‚ the viewers‚ listen to anything the media says‚ if the media said that a "brand new" razor is much better than the razor that was "new" two weeks ago‚ we would toss out our
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How to Improve the Stereotypes In the Media? Nearly half of girls ages 13-17 wish they were as skinny as the models they see in advertising and on TV (Yorio). A great majority of people are accepting of those stereotypes and the images shown on TV. The women are extremely thin with long hair‚ smooth skin and white teeth (Yorio). Because the media portrays women in this way‚ it colors the world’s perception of how women should appear and decreases most women’s self-esteem. Gender stereotypes are
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Social Media in the Workplace Social media is transforming the way people share information and connect. Facebook‚ Twitter and LinkedIn‚ are changing the way we intermingle‚ and many organizations are struggling with the change. Some companies are even trying to avoid social media all together. Some companies block social media sites in the workplace and even expect employees to avoid it at home. Social media‚ is used correctly can allow employers to benefit from it. However‚ if it is not used correctly
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In today’s society‚ photoshop is extensively used by the media in order to adjust photos of models and celebrities. Many of these images are presented in publications geared to the youth. As a result‚ the standard for what is socially acceptable in terms of weight and attractiveness is altered‚ especially in the likes of women. In teen-oriented publications‚ such images should not be legal because it alters realistic expectations‚ it instills negative body image and it leads to insecurity. Photoshopped
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