Central America: Media Systems
Geographically, Central America includes parts of Mexico, i.e., the southern part of the Tehuantepec Isthmus, but traditionally it is composed...
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Chile: Media System
Chile is a country of over 16 million people, lying along the southwest coast of South America. Becoming independent from...
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Edith Turner
As one of the most important proponents of humanistic approaches to anthropology, Edith Turner has influenced how anthropologists think about...
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Edward Burnett Tylor
Edward B. Tylor, founder of the study and curriculum of anthropology, is considered to be the first cultural evolutionist anthropologist...
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Miguel De Unamuno
Spanish novelist and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno is best known for his conception of the “tragic sense of life,” but...
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Uniformitarianism
Uniformitarianism is among the primary doctrines in the science of geology. It states that all processes that can be seen...
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United Nations and Anthropology
When the United States decided to reverse the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, it did not act unilaterally. It turned to...
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Universals in Cultures
The universals in culture, which is part of the academic field known as the humanities, cannot be defined in a...
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Universals in Language
The term language universal refers to those features or properties of language that are common to all languages. The notion...
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Untouchables
The term untouchable is an English translation for the Indian terms antyaja and achhoot and refers to individuals and groups...
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UR (Tall el-Muqayyar)
Located in modern southern Iraq, the ancient site of Ur (Arabic: Tall el-Muqayyar) grew from a modest agricultural village to...
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Closing Arguments Techniques
This article explores the intricate realm of closing arguments techniques within the U.S. criminal justice process, delving into their historical...
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Jury Nullification in Criminal Trials
This article delves into the nuanced concept of jury nullification within the context of the U.S. criminal justice process. Commencing...
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Post-Trial Motions
This article delves into the nuanced realm of post-trial motions within the United States criminal justice process. Beginning with an...
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Media Coverage of Criminal Trials
This article delves into the intricate relationship between media coverage and the criminal justice process in the United States. Beginning...
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Principles of Criminal Sentencing
This article explores the foundational principles that underpin the process of criminal sentencing within the United States’ intricate criminal justice...
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Types of Sentences
This article examines the diverse landscape of types of sentences within the US criminal justice process, offering an in-depth exploration...
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The Role of Sentencing Guidelines
This article explores the pivotal role of sentencing guidelines in the United States’ criminal justice process, meticulously tracing their historical...
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Mandatory Minimum Sentences
This article explores the multifaceted impact of mandatory minimum sentences on the criminal justice process within the United States. Beginning...
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The Sentencing Hearing Process
This comprehensive article explores the intricacies of the sentencing hearing process within the United States criminal justice process. Beginning with...
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Factors Influencing Sentencing Decisions
This article delves into the multifaceted realm of sentencing decisions within the U.S. criminal justice process, investigating the intricate interplay...
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Healthy Diet for January 10 – Fit for Cold Weather ⋆ Healthy Diet ⋆ Lifestyle
Cold weather is no excuse to skip fitness routines and nestle in by the TV. A shift of seasons simply...
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Healthy Diet for January 11 – Say OK to Oats ⋆ Healthy Diet ⋆ Lifestyle
What’s for breakfast on this cold, winter morning? How about instant oatmeal, crunchy oat cereal, or an oat bran muffin?...
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Healthy Diet for January 12 – Hunger Strikes? Snack Smart ⋆ Healthy Diet ⋆ Lifestyle
Will you (or did you) enjoy a snack today? Fine, if you snack smart. Snack for the health of it....
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Healthy Diet for January 13 – Valued Customer ⋆ Healthy Diet ⋆ Lifestyle
Shopping for value? Value isn’t necessarily “supersized” or how much your food dollar buys. True value is the quality and...
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Healthy Diet for January 14 – The “Write” Way to Eat Smart ⋆ Healthy Diet ⋆ Lifestyle
A bite here, a nibble there, a sip here, another taste there. How much did you eat today? Want to...
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Healthy Diet for January 15 – Easy as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ⋆ Healthy Diet ⋆ Lifestyle
Life’s hectic! How can you be assured of eating enough food and variety for good nutrition, but not too much?...
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Healthy Diet for January 16 – Eye on Size ⋆ Healthy Diet ⋆ Lifestyle
How much is a food-group serving? It’s not necessarily a helping, a plateful, a small garnish, or the entire contents...
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Healthy Diet for January 17 – Cho-LESS-terol ⋆ Healthy Diet ⋆ Lifestyle
Do you know your vital signs for heart health: your cholesterol levels and your blood pressure? For total cholesterol level,...
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Healthy Diet for January 18 – All Dried Up ⋆ Healthy Diet ⋆ Lifestyle
Need an easy way to get your “five to nine a day” for fruits and vegetables? Reach for dried fruit....
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Healthy Diet for January 19 – Passport to Health—Eating Chinese Style ⋆ Healthy Diet ⋆ Lifestyle
Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy Lunar New Year! Whether you eat out or in, enjoy Asian flavors and foods today,...
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Sound Bites
A sound bite is a portion of recorded human speech that is presented as part of a broadcast news report....
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Stereotypes
Stereotypes are gross generalizations about people. A stereotype is a category-based cognitive response whose affective counterpart is prejudice and whose...
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Synchronization of the News
“Synchronization” means the selection and presentation of news to favor a medium’s marked editorial policy or stance. “Synchronized” news, then,...
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Tabloid Press
Tabloid means compact size. In reference to the press it describes smaller sized newspapers. Yet in contemporary journalism the term...
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Tabloidization
“Tabloidization” is a vaguely defined term that since the 1980s has been used to describe stylistic and content changes in...
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Television
Since the advent of the post-World War II era, television has functioned as the quintessential mass medium. Television’s status as...
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Truth and Media Content
Truth is a slippery concept, and philosophers since Aristotle have battled over its meaning. The most intuitive and widely adopted...
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Violence as Media Content
Most of what we know about violence in the media has explored violence on television. While some studies of television...
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Africa: Media Systems
This article concentrates on media systems in countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. The SubSaharan media system was born in the colonial...
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Totem Poles
The tall, elaborately carved and painted totem pole represents the most famous and well-known type of Northwest Coast art. Images...
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Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Considered one of the most influential historians of the 20th century, Arnold J. Toynbee and his interpretations of the world’s...
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Transnationalism
Transnationalism is the idea that flows of transstate migrants and their symbolic and material accoutrements are bi- or multidirectional and...
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Treeshrews
A group of mammals belonging to the order Scandentia, and included in a single family, the Tupaiidae. They are endemic...
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Tropical Rain Forests
About one third of the world’s forests are tropical rain forests. They are the most ancient, diverse, complex, and productive...
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