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Marshall McLuhan: A Man With A Message, 2002.
This paper investigates some of the different theories put forward by communications guru, Marshall McLuhan.
1,040 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses the social repercussions felt as a result of the mass media. The author examines the life and contribution to how the media is viewed by Canadian Marshall McLuhan. Some of the different areas examined are how language is used to express ideas, which individuals receive them and the mode of technology that occurs between the two. The author examines two different aspects of media, the languages of speech and the written word and how their impact is felt differently in society. The author also examines McLuhan's view on how new technology in this field impacted society, especially the individual. This paper demonstrates how McLuhan's different theories tied together and how in his opinion, it is the different modes of technology who have really come to influence how the media and its role in influencing society.
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"When a new technology is introduced to a society, new ratios will develop throughout and cultural perception will change. This is where one begins to see the basis of McLuhan thought, the impact on the individual of the technology of the media. When most individuals receive a message they are aware of the content, and the content only. Few recognize how important it is to be aware of how something is said. The attitudes conveyed throughout the message, the meanings that lie beneath the surface, are more important as they shape how the actual content is perceived. These two schools of thought made up the whole of popular thinking. At least, that is the way it was until McLuhan. With one sentence McLuhan introduced a whole new point of view. That sentence was: ?The medium is the message?. McLuhan contended that what was truly important was the technology that was used, not the content or the way that the content was presented."
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Marshall McLuhan and the Media, 2006.
This paper examines the views and opinions of author Marshall McLuhan regarding the modern media and its impact on humanity.
1,553 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper analyzes the predictions and views of media guru Marshall McLuhan, who argued that all forms of media exert a compelling influence on humanity and society and not necessarily for the benefit of man. In one of his more well-known books, "The Medium is the Massage," McLuhan contends that people consume both medium and message as a total experience. The writer of this paper details the rapidly advancing technologies of the 21st century while examining their impact on humanity and society. This paper discusses the views of McLuhan, one of the founders of media ecology, who voiced his concerns that the media, especially television, brought the brutalities of war into our living rooms, while making the viewer numb to the negative happenings of the world. The author had many strong opinions regarding modern forms of media and communication, such as the telephone. McLuhan was concerned that phones made it possible for people to talk with one another without actually being together. This paper also delves into the various predictions and concerns McLuhan had regarding the emergence of electronic media, in which the author often stated that man's dependence on electronic forms of media would eventually spell the end of humanity as it it now known.
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"Of more concern, technology continues to expand the gap between the haves and have-nots. According to the International Telecommunication Union, 90 percent of Internet users come from industrialized countries and only 25 percent of people in developing countries have Internet access. A computer in Bangladesh costs eight years the country's annual salary. Similarly, in the United States, for example, technology, especially the Internet, is a class issue. Compare the number of the technology budget and wired PCs and laptops in the suburbs to that of the inner-cities and other poorer areas of the country. Information is power, and the power is located in similar pockets as the money."
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Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, 2002.
A look at the ongoing validity of the theories of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan.
3,400 words (approx. 13.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 124.95
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This paper focuses on the theories of Innis and McLuhan and how they remain valid with regard to the likely impact of current mass media upon culture and consciousness in Canada. The work of both men, in their emphasis on the past and on some of the universals of the human condition, encourage a view of contemporary reality in a linear or even cyclical context that may be lost, in effect, when drawing too firm a mental line between the Modern and the post-Modern.
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Marshal McLuhan, 2002.
Examines the effect of McLuhan's ideas on Canada's Asian heritage and popular culture
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 115.95
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This paper examines the theories of Marshal McLuhan. Its content is focused on Asian influences on Canadian culture and the manner in which they reflect and illuminate McLuhan's theories.
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McLuhan: "The Medium is the Message", 2002.
This paper examines Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message".
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 62.95
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It begins with a brief synopsis of this article. Then it applies this theoretical paradigm to diverse issues in mass communications study. This approach demonstrates the continuing vitality of McLuhan's theoretical musings.
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The Medium is the Message, 2002.
An analysis of Marshall McLuhan's essay "The Medium is the Message".
1,612 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This essay deals with issues raised by Marshall McLuhan?s famous dictum: ?The medium is the message". The paper offers an analysis of Marshall McLuhan?s various essays investigating how this dictum applies and is supported or contradicted by the content therein. It also attempts to accommodate for modern technological trends such as the internet and takes into account the importance of other general media theories.
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"Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) once wrote that he would never become an academic. Though he was learning in spite of his professors, he would eventually become Professor of English, in spite of himself. In a famous quote that is well related to his investigation of media, McLuhan says, ?I don?t explain, I explore?. His explorations of media and their significance in our daily existence took him through James Joyce, the symbolist poets, Ezra Pound; back to antiquity and the myth of Narcissus, and forward to the mythic structure of modern Western culture dominated by electric technology."
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Java Messaging Service: Messaging Middleware Business, 2002.
This paper describes the use of the Java programming language in middleware component development.
995 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper examines how middleware enhances many critical aspects of a distributed enterprise system as seen in application, web, and messaging servers. It illustrates the strengths of Java Messaging Services (JMS) and the advances as a result of this technology.
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"Enterprise systems were previously built on a two-tiered, client-server model wherein clients required direct access to a limited resource, which was customarily made available through a centralized server. Direct client interaction with these low-level services tended to be problematic in that any changes to ?server-side? code often caused clients to stop functioning correctly. "
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Ong and McLuhan, 2004.
This paper discusses Marshall McLuhan's book "Understanding Media: The Extension of Man."
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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The paper examines Marshall McLuhan's book "Understanding Media: The Extension of Man," and his concept of "The medium is the message" in terms of Ong's theories of orality and oral cultures.
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"Ong's theories of orality make the claim that since oral cultures have no fixed texts, they organize and transmit information in unique ways and the basis or oral thought is memory. Orality relies on the oral visual world. Ong believed that Words come into being through time and exist only so long as they are going out of existence; when I pronounce "reflect," by the time I get to the flect, the re is gone and necessarily and irretrievably gone."
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Cavell on the Spatial McLuhan, 2002.
Analyzes Richard Cavell's essay ?McLuhan and Spatial Communication? about early communication theorist, Marshall McLuhan.
2,436 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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Richard Cavell tackles one of the all-time greats of communication theory in his article on ?McLuhan and Spatial Communication.? The paper explains that Marshall McLuhan was one of the great prophets (some would say charlatans) of early communication theory. For a long time he was one of one of the only celebrities of the field and toured wildly to give his opinions on the subject. They were certainly opinions worth hearing, for he had some remarkably new and insightful things to say about media, communication, and the way in which technology affects human development. The paper shows, however, that within the scope of his own lifetime, he went from spokesman to outcast and academia widely turned against him. Before his death his saw the school he had founded shut down and his work widely discredited. Since the rise of the Internet, however, the development of other, new forms of entertainment and media, McLuhanism has enjoyed something of an academic comeback. It is with this background in mind that the paper approaches Cavell?s work on McLuhan, for much of his essay deals with presenting an explanation for McLuhan?s disenfranchisement from and eventual re-adoption by the academic community. According to Cavell?s central thesis, McLuhan?s anomalous position and his lasting durability within the field of communications theory both spring from his ?elaboration of a spatial model of communication... based on the notion of acoustic space... situated within the spatial bias of postmodernist thought.?
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"Cavell?s failure to bring up the way in which McLuhan?s theories on space have been substantiated through current technological advances is an important one. Cavell explains in great length the way that McLuhan?s theories draw from the history of technological development to explain the development of various forms of consciousness and space. Yet in explaining McLuhan?s continued relevance, he somehow fails to take the logical step and relate McLuhan?s dynamic space to what is today commonly called ?cyberspace.? Many theorists of the digital revolution look to McLuhan as one of the greatest prophets and thinkers of the Internet Revolution, having discussed its many complications and impacts years before it even existed. Paul Levinson explains that it is the Internet, not TV, that best fulfills the role of the media in creating the acoustic space described by McLuhan."
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The Message of Computers, 2005.
A comparison of perspectives on the message of computers as media.
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This paper addresses the topic of the message of commuters as a media. The paper examines the different perspectives of Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman on the message of computer media. The paper presents the arguments of both thinkers and argues in favour of McLuhan.
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"The Message of Computers Marshall McLuhan was one of the most influential thinkers in the field of communications. His most influential theory was that, "The medium is the message"(McLuhan 7). What exactly does McLuhan mean when he says, "The medium is the message"? When explaining this statement McLuhan says, This is merely to say that the personal and the social consequences of any medium-that is, of any extension of ourselves-result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology (McLuhan 7). What this means is that the particular medium is saying a lot about our society."
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The Iron Curtain Speech and The Marshall Plan, 2007.
A comparison of Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech and George Marshall's Marshall Plan.
1,012 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes Winston Churchill's famous 1946 speech referring to Russia's power and the Iron Curtain. The paper then goes on to analyze the Marshall Plan of 1947, in which George Marshall's primary intent (on behalf of Harry Truman) was economic in nature with the focus being on the restructuring and rebuilding of Europe by means of financial aid and assistance. The paper compares and contrasts the intent and outcome of the two speeches.
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Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech, 1946
The Marshall Plan, 1947
Analysis and Contrast
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"Many analysts have viewed the Iron Curtain speech of Winston Churchill during post war era as an evident form of warmongering. He made assumptions and pre-conclusive statements about a cold war that might happen between the US and its allies against communist Russia and it did. Even at the time when he was no longer the Prime minister of the UK, Churchill is still being revered by nations as an influential figure in the post war era. His thoughts and presumptions were in his accustomed ruthless statement of reality. The "Iron Curtain" speech gave Stalin a pretext for mobilizing the Soviet people against their former allies (Vladislov Suvok, Inside Kremlin's Cold War). Churchill's statements in the Iron Curtain speech speaks of his influence among nations and must have preceded policies integrated in US' Marshall Plan in accordance to the containment of Russian power and Communism in Europe. Analyzing both circumstances, should there have been no Iron Curtain Speech lay the possibility that Russian people would still be induced to the idea that the US and other European countries, beyond the borders of communist ideology would still be considered an ally of Russia. And that the US with its initial reluctance to believe the conclusion of Churchill might still consider other means in resolving issues of power containment of Russia in Europe."
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McLuhan on Media, 2002.
This paper discusses the book "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man" by Marshall McLuhan.
1,219 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper looks at the four major concepts presented by McLuhan-- the idea that the medium is the message, the nature of different messages, different social orders that are linked to their system of communication and how the development of a new technology will lead to a change in each society. The paper analyzes these theories and concludes that technology has a great effect on the social order.
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"The idea that the medium is the message is offered first. McLuhan says that it is characteristic of all media that "the 'content' of any medium is always another medium" (8), meaning that the content of writing is speech, the content of the written word is print, and so on. Media are defined as extensions of man, allowing human senses to reach beyond their normal range. McLuhan finds that "the formative power in the media are the media themselves" (21), and because of this, he finds that technological media are staples or natural resources. Certain staples become for a society a social bond."
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The Marshall Plan and Greece, 2007.
A discussion of the Marshall Plan and its impact on Greece.
1,706 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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This paper discusses the Marshall plan and its results in post-World War II Greece. The writer explores the career of George Marshall, and the Marshall Plans impact on Europe in general and Greece in particular. The paper gives a brief history of post war Greece, including its civil war, and why the Marshall Plan was initially ineffective. The author concludes that the funds channeled to Greece through the Marshall Plan helped the nation enter into a period of economic prosperity.
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Introduction
The Plan in Greece
Conclusion
References
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"The initial efforts of the postwar reconstruction called the Marshall Plan actually provided very little benefit to the nation of Greece. Part of that may be attributed to the fact that Greece had a major Civil War between 1946 and 1949 therefore the world's attention for post war reconstruction following World War II turned to other nations. "
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John Marshall, 2006.
A study of the life, work and influence of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall.
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 52.95
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This paper examines former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Marshall. The paper discusses Marshall's many career accomplishments, including army officer, lawyer, delegate, foreign minister, congressman and Secretary of State. The paper also details Marshall's appointment to the Supreme Court bench by President John Adams and his many watershed rulings, such as "Marbury vs. Madison", "McCulloch vs. Maryland" and "Dartmouth College vs. Woodward". The paper then investigates Marshall's contributions to federalism and the opposition he encountered from U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. The paper concludes that Marshall was truly one of the nation's founding fathers, with wide-reaching, long-lasting influence on American political life.
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"Born the son of Thomas Marshall, a successful planter in the newly formed frontier county of Fauquier, John Marshall received a limited education. His formal education consisted of a year spent at the school of Reverend Archibold Campbell and as a student under a Scottish tutor. He read the works of Horace and Livy, as well as the traditional classics. During the outbreak of the war for independence, Marshall served many different posts. In this time period of his life, he gained the gentlemanly qualities necessary for a career politician. Near the end of the war, Marshall continued his education at William and Mary where he studied law briefly. He was granted a law license in 1780. From this point on, Marshall embarked on a storied political career. His ambition and loyalty eventually carried him to the top of the judicial branch of government."
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Donald Marshall and Aboriginal Fishing Rights, 2002.
Looks at the Supreme Court case where Canadian Aboriginal David Marshall won the right to fish under his rights as Mi'kmaq.
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In 1996 Donald Marshall was convicted of fishing illegally. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court successfully on the basis of Marshall's Treaty Rights as a Mi'kmaq. This discussion outlines the facts surrounding the Marshall case, the Supreme Court decision on appeal and the case's role as a precedent. It outlines the implications of the Marshall case for Constitutional Law and Treaty rights across Canada.
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