This account is for my weekly Intro to Mass Media assignments. Feel free to answer the question from my latest post, you would be helping me out quite a bit
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Question: Because this upcoming New Year's Eve is the beginning of a new decade, do you feel this will influence people and their resolutions? Will people make grander resolutions, or actually try to work on them?
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Title: New Year's Eve Marks The End of an Era
Summary: The column talks about New Year's Eve. There are many times where we want situations to end: bad relationships, embarassing moments, etc. However, there's one day where everyone wants it to end
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Summary: Then make that your resolution to work on. Want to start a new hobby? There's your resolution. New Year's Eve the end of a year, but also the end of the old (in a sense)
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Title: Drug Use Is Out In The Open
Summary: This column talks about pharmacies. More than half the people in America are on some sort of medication. This could be somewhat alarming when thought about, since this would include all ages: kids, teens,
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Summary: to portray the people in ads as having perfect lives who always feel good. This can influence people to thinking that there is something truly wrong with them if they're not like this. However, as we all know, our lives are never perfect
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Question: Has the internet given rise to the thought that we should not celebrate Christopher Columbus as a person, and that we should change Columbus Day?
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Title: Replace Columbus Day with "Game Day"
Summary: This column talks about Christopher Columbus and his national holiday. As most Americans are aware, Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who we celebrate to be the first people to
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Summary: that Columbus doesn't deserve a holiday named after him, and that we should replace it. The column argues that we should rename Columbus Day into "Game Day", in honor of the all the sports being played in America.
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Title: America's Greatest Art Form is Baseball
Summary: This column talks about America's greatest pastime, baseball. It argues that baseball is America's greatest art form, or rather America's greatest cultural offer. For instance, think about how
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Summary: wordless communications between people on the field (think catchers doing those hand jesters to communicate with their pitcher), or a fastball striking a player may have been an accident, but was actually revenge in a ongoing feud between
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Summary: is that they can be found pretty much anywhere, since there are so many.
Question: Have you ever been to a diner before? If you have, how does media portray diners in comparison to real life diners?
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Title: Diners Dish Out Happiness
Summary: This column talks about the American diner. The diner is a staple of American Culture, being a community center of sorts with all the locals going to eat cheap costing food while being around people of their
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Summary: community. The column talks about some of the common sights of a diner: local ads being displayed, a waitress greeting you at the door, or a waitress chatting up some costumers behind the counter. And one of the best thing about diners
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