Obesity is becoming a major issue in America. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 35 of Americans over the age of 20 are considered to be obese while another 33 are overweight, but not quite obese yet. These numbers have almost tripled in the last thirty years. It is very important that adults and children have a better understanding of what obesity is, how it can be dangerous and life threatening, and how it can be prevented. Obesity can not only affect your...

Without a doubt, violence practiced through video games remains a controversial, debated and vexing issue that anguishes the public today. Policymakers, educators and parents have largely criticized the "blood and gore" that is demonstrated graphically to them in these games. They fear that when it comes to solving social problems, users turn into desensitized brutes, exhibiting aggressive behavior towards others, all resulting from engaging themselves in hours of games like Mortal...

Media has become a powerful tool, which substantially influences the public opinion. The impact of media has a significant and dangerous effect among the audience, particularly on youth. In such cases, media has the power to influence the formation of the individual's identity, moral values and beliefs. In fact, media affects the entire society because today it is everywhere. However, government should only intervene in certain areas as a means of security purposes. As we now, modern media can...

There is abundance of literature explaining the crucial role of media in influencing the public opinion and thus the government policies. Agenda setting theory (McComb and Shaw 1972), parameter setting, indexing and Gate Keeping theory (Kurt Lewin, 1947) put forth some of the most important aspects of media influence. Moreover, the introduction of the new technology increased the potential of the media's impact. In the words of Piers Robinson, "it transformed the potential of the news...

What is animation. Wyatt defines animation is the image that is manipulated in frame by frame, and when moved quickly will produce the illusion of movement. Nowadays, animations have many type forms such as animated films, television series, live-action films, advertisements, corporate videos, video games and others. These had shown that the animation is not only stop in traditional areas of television animation and advertising but a step forward into areas such as web design, educational...

My topic for this study is How Media Can Play a Role for Better Understanding of the One Malaysia Concept Among Malaysians. I chose this topic because I would like to know how effectively media plays its role in order to make Malaysians understand what a "One Malaysia" is. This is very important because the people are encouraged to play their role towards nation building, also in order to achieve national unity among multi racial people in Malaysia. The "One Malaysia"...

Cornelissen (2008) defines internal communications as "communication with employees internally within the organization" (pg195) He also went further to state that the emergence of new inventions in technologies like internet blogs and emails has evolved into messages not just been restricted to the confine of the office, but have faded the boundaries between internal and external communications. This translates to the fact that employees can now distribute information about an...

In the world of Science and Technology, these days, 3D is getting popular. It has become popular since 3D movies are released such as Up, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Megamind, Toy Story, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollow and more. Everyone is excited about 3D because it is so much realistic, entertaining and high-definition. Besides 3D movies, there are 3D games, 3D animations, 3D images, 3D action figures and now, 3D television. Previously and now, everyone is watching 2D television....

A report of the literature shows that electronic books can be categorized into two groups: a hardware and software device used to read content and the content itself. Borchers (1999) gave a definition to an electronic book as a transportable device that can show a large amount of texts to the reader and allows them to direct to this information. Lemken (1999) gave an easier meaning of electronic book as a portable device that is used to show digital work. Since the arrival of computers,...

"Globalization can be thought of as worldwide integration in virtually every sphere" []  The evolution of Irish progression began in the late 1950s; from here we began to see the shift from agricultural to industrialization. This new trend was implemented largely by educated men in Ireland, seeking to embrace Global concepts. [] In other words the intellectual's looked upon the world as a place of progression, and was largely influenced to reshape Ireland in the...