The Glaring Facts

Knowing More and Increasing Prevention of HIV/AIDS in Canada

glaringfacts — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:03:40 +0000

when one acknowledges the effects of the HIV/AIDS virus, the individual will come to understand what HIV does to the human body.

Karen Horney and Psychoanalytic Social Theory

glaringfacts — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:54:34 +0000

Karen Horney's psychoanalytic social theory, assumes that social and cultural conditions, especially during childhood, have a powerful effect on later personality.

Sleep Deprivation

glaringfacts — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:47:46 +0000

This post examines the consequences of sleep deprivation, why it is important to sleep regularly, as well as our circadian rhythms. It describes the brain functions that are/aren't active during sleep.

Standpoint Theory

glaringfacts — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:57:06 +0000

Standpoint provides a well-structured framework for understanding how social groups affect our life.

Analysis of Gwendolyn Brook's Poem "First Fight, Then Fiddle"

glaringfacts — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:20:09 +0000

Careful reading of Gwendolyn Brooks’s First Fight. Then Fiddle indicates a meticulously arranged construct of society and universal arguments regarding war and peace.

Social Learning Theory & Rotter

glaringfacts — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:04:43 +0000

Rotter's interactionist theory is based on five basic hypotheses. First, it assumes that humans interact with their meaningful environments: that is, human behavior stems from the interaction of environmental and personal factors (Rotter). Second, human personality is learned, which suggests it can be changed or modified as long as people are capable of learning. Third, personality has a basic unity, suggesting that personality has some basic stability. Fourth, motivation is goal directed, and fifth, people are capable of anticipating events, and thus they are capable of changing their environments and their personalities.

Speech Codes

glaringfacts — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:17:58 +0000

Speech Code Theory explores the manner in which groups communicate based on societal, cultural, gender, occupational or other factors.

Characteristic of Filmmaking

glaringfacts — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:50:36 +0000

This post examines the role a director plays alongside a screenwriter, as well as describing the characteristics of film content.

Gerbner & Cultivation Theory

glaringfacts — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:32:56 +0000

Gerbner’s cultivation theory says that television has become the main source of storytelling in today's society. According to Gerbner, the over-consumption of television is creating an identical and fearful populace.---Over half of primetime television contains depictions of violence.

Canadian Television: An Introduction

glaringfacts — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:02:09 +0000

Introduction Canadians were watching American TV before Canadian TV existed Other American media perceived as “not as dangerous” as television To address concerns the government created the Massey Commission (Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters, and Sciences) Said American TV served commercial interests, not our “national needs” Canadian TV was to be [...]