UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE MORGAN ZINTEC COLLEGE NAME : NZOMBE BRUCE COLLEGE NO : 40/131/11 SUBJECT : THEORY OF EDUCATION LECTURER : MR MUPONDI DUE DATE : NOVEMBER 2013 QUESTION: What is socialization? How can schools, mass media and the peer group socialize the child? Children are socialized in different ways as they grow. They learn and adopt ways of life from different sources like the schools, clubs, and peers to name just a few. Here the
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THE SNEAKY WORLD OF ADVERTISING: PREYING ON OUR YOUTH The Sneaky World of Advertising: Preying on our Youth Liberty University Abstract Advertisers spend billions of dollars annually to promote their products. They are constantly researching the best stratagies to make their marketing dollars as effective as possible. The latest strategies advertisers have begun to use include targeting children in various ways. The biggest group they are currently targeting are the grade school age kids
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as a general anaesthetic for children, people with very poor health, and by vets. Effects from the drug are a lot like the effects of PCP. Users call the high they get from Special K "K Hole”. K Hole is described as visual distortions and users lose track of time, sense, and identity. While in the K Hole, people usually can’t move, they just stay seated or lying down during the experience. Because of these effects, it is used as a date-rape drug. Also, many people get serious injuries and disregard
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Promotion part is what will get the consumer’s attention, whether its through newspaper flyers, radio, TV, physical signs/banners, and now social media. The more information that can be put out in the public eyes, the more appeal it’s going to gain. The bigger and brighter the promotion, the more attention it’s going to get. But I think sometimes businesses promote their products a little too much and that becomes a turn off. So research consisting of watching the consumers response is also important
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Fact Summary By 2003, Rupert Murdoch and his team had built an impressive global sports regime within News Corp., while transforming the industry with innovative strategies, implementation, and technologies. Murdoch had used FOX's acquisition of the National Football League (NFL) rights in 1993 to launch an attack on the entrenched Big Three broadcasters--CBS, ABC, and NBC. On the cable side of the business, FOX had identified a gap in the market where unbranded and ungrouped regional sports networks
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When Children See Too Much While violence is not new to the human race, it is an increasing problem in modern society. With greater access to firearms and explosives, the scope and efficiency of violent behavior has had serious consequences. We need only look at the recent school shootings and the escalating rate of youth homicides among urban adolescents to appreciate the extent of this ominous trend. While the causes of youth violence are multifaceted and include such variables as poverty,
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Technology’s Effects on Modern Life Modern technology improved many things such as schools, kids can now easily learn things through the aid of computers and internet; Science and medicine, scientist with the aid of new technology can now eradicate many diseases, and illnesses; Communication, social networking and blogging has improved quite a lot people all around the world can communicate with each other via Facebook, Twitter, Myspace etc.; Businesses, companies have become more profitable due
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Wii was still selling well, but Nintendo executives saw its broader reach as a living room hub limited because it required the Wii to monopolize the family's TV when it was in use. The wireless controller can function separately from the television, so a person can continue playing a game on the GamePad when someone else is using the TV. It only works within close proximity to the console, so the controller isn't meant to be a portable device outside the home. To push the idea of making the
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Lancaster University Management School Working Paper 2005/004 New issues in attendance demand: The case of the English football league Simmons, Rob and Forrest, David The Department of Economics Lancaster University Management School Lancaster LA1 4YX UK ©Simmons Rob and Forrest David All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission, provided that full acknowledgement is given. The LUMS Working Papers series can be accessed at
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homes across the world. “IT'S difficult to imagine a time before radio. From families gathered around huge radio sets in 1930s lounge rooms, to the blast from a car radio tuned into rock stations 40 years later, the ''wireless'' has had a profound effect on our lives.” (Thom, 2007) Radio is enjoyed by millions of people everyday, it’s hard to tell which demographic works best. The best way for me to refer to Radio is in my own professional role in the industry. I currently work as the Program Director
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