Posts Tagged ‘America’

Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis

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An updated and revised look at the truth behind America’s housing and mortgage bubbles In the summer of 2007, the subprime empire that Wall Street had built all came crashing down. On average, fifty lenders a month were going bust-and the people responsible for the crisis included not just unregulated loan brokers and con artists, but also investment bankers and home loan institutions traditionally perceived as completely trustworthy. Chain of Blame chronicles this incredible disaster, with a specific focus on the players who participated in such a fundamentally flawed fiasco. In it, authors Paul Muolo and Mathew Padilla reveal the truth behind how this crisis occurred, including what individuals and institutions were doing during this critical time, and who is ultimately responsible for what happened. Discusses the latest revelations in the housing and mortgage crisis, including the SEC’s charging of Angelo Mozilo Two well-regarde… More >> Read more…

What black entertainer has had the greatest influence on black society?

My 6th grader is completing a social science project titled, “Black Entertainers and Their Impact on Black America.”

Her poll questions are as follows:
Do you feel that black entertainers have an influence on black america?
How do black enterainers influence black america?
What black entertainer has had the greatest influence on black society? Why?

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The Civil War – A Film by Ken Burns

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Hailed as a film masterpiece and landmark in historical storytelling, Ken Burns’s epic documentary brings to life America’s most destructive– and defining–conflict. With digitally enhanced images and new stereo sound, here is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.Amazon.com
The most successful public-television miniseries in American history, the 11-hour Civil War didn’t just captivate a nation, reteaching to us our history in narrative terms; it actually also invented a new film language taken from its creator. When people describe documentaries using the “Ken Burns approach,” its style is understood: voice-over narrators reading letters and documents dramatically and stating the writer’s name at their conclusion, fresh live footage of places juxtaposed with still images (photographs, paintings, maps, prints), anecdotal in… More >> Read more…

Classic Television Show DVD Popularity On The Rise

In recent years, it has become a growing trend to buy and watch classic television shows on DVD for your family entertainment. The availability of some of the all-time favorite classic TV shows on DVD and video has become pervasive throughout the U.S. This allows families to not only catch up on the past seasons of the television shows that they might have missed, but to go back to the classics that we and our parents grew up watching. It is now easier than ever to find seasons of shows that were produced 30 or 40 years ago, right alongside the DVDs of the television shows that are currently on the air. America seems to have become infatuated with remembering the characters and situations produced during the early years of television. What are the reasons for the increased popularity of classic television shows?

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Lifestyle PR and the Obama Campaign

Environmentalists have used some very innovative media methods in major newspapers across the States and Canada to win over President Barack Obama to express their point about the Alberta’s oil sands. They have used romantic advertisements in the personals and compiled very cleverly worded messages in the ‘In Search Of’ sections to attract and draw public attention to the environmental issues in Canada.

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The Snow Ball Psychological Techniques of Mass Media Brain Washing Effect

My recent research on Freudâ??s theory of mind control shocked me, the techniques that are now used by advertising agencies, politicians and public relations for over 100 years to inject fear and pleasure as a psychological drug to create slave employees, increase massive traffic of consumerism in the world of so called democracy.

Mass Media Brain Washing Techniques

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