Sunday, 2 April 2017
My Presentation Paper 15
Paper: Mass Communication and Media Studies
Topic: Cinema and Society Issues for Humanity
Topic: Cinema and Society Issues for Humanity
My Presentation Paper 14
Paper: The African Literature
Topic: Modernization and Industrialization in the poems 'New York' and 'Once Upon a Time'
Topic: Modernization and Industrialization in the poems 'New York' and 'Once Upon a Time'
My presentation Paper 13
Paper: The New Literature
Topic: Corporate Exploitation in 'One Night @ the Call Center'
Topic: Corporate Exploitation in 'One Night @ the Call Center'
Saturday, 1 April 2017
The Impact Of Media On Our Attitudes.
Paper:
No:15 Mass Media and Communication
Topic
: The Impact Of Media On Our Attitudes
Year
: 2015’2017
The
Impact Of Media On Our Attitudes.
Preface:
The
mass media, since being invented, have experienced many improvements,
undergone numerous in variety from television, radio, newspaper to
the internet. People watch televisions every day, read newspapers
every hour, therefore, it goes without saying that mass media has the
capability to affect their mind. The mass media, including TV, radio,
newspaper play a very important role in our modern life. They have
changed our life very much. It is not disgusting to say that they
have a great influence in shaping people’s ideas, both for the
better and the worse. The mass media affects people’s fashion.
Simply take a glance at the way you dress right now, it was probably
something you have picked up over the internet or magazines. What we
are wearing may look similar to what famous actors or singers have
worn recently. And all of the things we often to is to imitate the
models appear every day in fashion shows.
What
is media?
Media
is a tool used to convey mass communication to a larger audience or
market. Up until the 20th century the main source of information
were TV, Radio, Magazine, Newspaper and lately the internet. These
mass media plays a big role in our life.
How it affects us:
How it affects us:
There
are still so many people that will insist that the images on TV and
works and picture in Newspaper are not responsible for the problems
of the society. The media is a good source of information and
entertainment. In this first section I will talk about how the media
affect our awareness, knowledge, attitude and behaviour. You will see
the people turn to media learn about Moral Values and interpersonal
relationship from the media.
A
medium give us an opinion of various cultures, religious and
believes. These help us to identify ourselves and others. It shows
that how people live, what they believe in and describe the society.
Most television viewer considers Arabs as terrorist because of the
way they are portrait in the news. Heavy usage of this image may
result in the cultivation of opinion. News that we get from certain
media contradict the real society. You have to actually understand
their religion and believe in order to make a statement about the
person or the society.
How
the media affect our attitude and behaviour:
The
media have a great effect on the society and in our life experience.
We sometimes try to apply these concepts to our everyday life.
Teenagers like to watch TV shows about Love, Fashion, Relationship,
violence, many other things. On the other hand older people watch
things about Food, Health, Exercises and news from the world. This
affect everyone behaviours at that particular time. Media can be a
great source of wisdom and knowledge but we should realize its
impact on our society, our family, our attitudes, our kids and our
self. The media have a great effect on our society and in our
attitudes, our kids and our self. The media have a great effect on
the society and in our life experience. We sometimes try to apply
these concepts to our daily life. Mass media as we know can give an
effect to our education, environment or may be family life. Sometimes
media can give a positive effect and sometimes it will give a
negative effect to our life.
Impact of mass media:
Impact of mass media:
In
the last 50 years the media influence has developed exponentially
with the advance of technology, first there was telegraph, then the
radio, the newspaper, magazine, television and now the internet. We
live in society that depends on information and communication to keep
moving in the right direction and do our daily activities like work,
entertainment, attitudes, healthcare, education, personal
relationships, travelling and anything else that we have to perform.
Media is the means of support to the people in the world which shapes
their attitude, opinion, and makes them to think before they start
doing a particular work. The most beautiful is it helps the people to
know about different religious, places, important things to do about
the past and the future. Media is well and good enough as long as its
valuable and influential information on society. The usage of media
would depend upon each individual to carry out the maximum of what is
good and moral to be performed out in the society.
Impact
on children:
Initially,
I want to speak about how media can give a big role to the children’s
life. Many children watch between two and four hours of television
per day. The presence of role models, how men and women, boys and
girls are presented in the media, powerfully affects boys and girls
their role in the world. In this case, media such as television has a
bad effect to the children. Some people complain that children
nowadays tend to be lazier and more violent. This is simply the
result of bad programmes shown on T.V all time, incontrollable
websites and even the carelessness of parents. To be free from their
children, some people allow the children to surf the webs, without
noticing that are plenty of disasters on Internet which the children
have experienced to deal with. We cannot blame the children about
what they do because actually they don’t know anything about it. In
this regard the parents have a big responsibility to guide their
children, and let them know about what program that they watch. The
parents must have a big role to guide their children; their attitudes
towards the media.
Impact
on youth:
How
do the media influence young people in today’s society? Our society
still seems confused about what to about young people. it seems to be
gripped with a fear of youth. We blame them for much of society’s
harms like crime,
damage, drugs, drinks, sex, and teenage pregnancy
the list goes on. But if these theories are true, where do these
rebellious attitudes come from? The obvious answer would be from the
upbringing of children, but in my opinion the media also plays a
Important role in the attitudes, behaviour and physical aspects of
youth today, in particularly that of young women. Media strongly
affects youth culture. The media executives are quick to defend their
role in youth violence and harassment while selling millions of
dollars in advertisements focused on youth. TV producers, network
executives, motion picture companies and others in media deny any
impact of their programs on the attitudes and actions of youth.
People, especially teenagers, always have an idol and they tend to
follow what their idols do and say no matter these things are good or
bad.
Impact
on young people:
Young
people are in a stage of life where they want to be accepted by their
peers, they want to be loved and be successful. The media creates the
ideal image of a beautiful men and women and tells them the
characteristics of a successful person. If there is a sport that is
getting a lot of attention by the media and gains popularity among
your friends and society, you will more likely want to practice the
sport and be cool with all your friends. The result is that you will
have fun with your friends and be healthier because of the exercise
you are doing.
Media
is one of the successful instruments to enrich our children, youth
and parents to become successful one. It shapes our attitudes towards
our better life. However a negative influence in teenagers is
the use of cigars by celebrity movie stars, the constant exposure of
sex images, the excessive images of violence and exposure to
thousands of junk food ads.
Also
more women are obsessive with losing weight even when they are not
overweight; there are many women that they want to look the super
models and thin celebrities, so they engage in eating disorder food
which leads to severe health issues and even death.
Conclusion:
In
short it’s my believe that we have absolutely no control over the
media. Firstly, the mass media is expanding our understanding about
environment. There are a number of environmental programs on
television every week provides numerous viewers with explanation of
what environment is and how important it is. Earth talk today program
is an example which enables us to expand our knowledge about hot
environmental issues by interviewing experts. Hardly have we watched
these informative news and we comprehend the reasons why we need to
protect the air, water and land on the earth.
Refrences:
Sunilpinto.wordpress.com/2012/08/...
Role
of the Media in the construction of public belief
Analysis of Themes, Symbols and Motifs in Waiting for the Barbarian:
Analysis of Themes, Symbols and Motifs in
Waiting for the Barbarian:
- Paper No: 14 African Literature
- Topic: Analysis Of Themes Symbols and Motifs in Waiting for the Barbarian.
Analysis
of themes symbols and Motifs in Waiting For The Barbarian
Preface
Waiting
for the Barbarians
is
a novel by South African writer
J.M.
Coetzee.
Story of the book is narrated in the First person by unnamed
magistrate of small colonial town that exist as the territorial
frontier of the empire. The Magistrate’s rather peaceful existence
comes to an end with the Empire’s declaration of a State of
emergency and with the Deployment of the 3rdBureau
Special force of the empire due to rumours that the area’s
residential people who called according to them ‘’
barbarians’’ by the colonists might be preparing to attack the
town so Sinister Colonel Joll
who
was like leader and so Third Bureau captures some Barbarians, then
they brings them back to town and they torture them, kills some of
them and then leaves for the capital in order to prepare a large
campaign.
Themes:
The
theme of a story is what the author is trying to convey, in other
words, the central idea of the story. Short stories often have just
one theme, whereas novels usually have multiple themes.
- Themes in waiting for the Barbarians.
Dream:
‘ From
horizon to horizon the earth is white with snow. It falls from sky in
which the source of light is diffuse and everywhere present, as
though the sun has dissolved into mist become an aura. In the dream I
pass the barracks gate, pass the bare flagpole. The square extends
before me. Blending at its edges into the luminous sky. Walls trees,
houses have dwindled lost their solidity, retired over the rim of the
world.’’ -The Magistrate’s dream
An exploration of an idea of barbarism:
When
we see or read poem by Cavafy we come to know about the poem that the
poem is explores the necessity of the “other”
to the function and exercise of imperial power. In it a town awaits
the arrival of the barbarians, and in its final lines the people are
not unsettled by the barbarians’ arrival, but another menace:
Because
night is here but the barbarians have not come.
And
some people arrived from the borders,
and
said that there are no longer any barbarians.
And
now what shall become of us without any barbarians?
Those
people were some kind of solution.
Coetzee
uses his great skill to underline the irony in these final lines. The
barbarians those menaces the towns are never seen, the “absurd
prisoners” brought back by the Third Bureau are abject and
ridiculous. We are never brought face to face with the enemy, who is
able to evade the Empire’s reach. The people’s need for the
barbarian is palpable. It culminates in the frenzied scene in which
the people step forward from the crowd to partake in the punishment
and humiliation of the barbarian men. The actual prisoners never do
correspond to the imagined menace, though this menace is real enough
by the novel’s end. Together the Empire and the people have created
a barbarian that is a real enough threat to the town’s survival,
but this enemy evades even Coetzee’s reach and can never be pinned
down.
Theme
of Colonialism: we can see theme of colonialism in this novel that
how the people of empire torture to the people who were the actually
owner of the land who were barbarians according to the Third bureau.
And so it becomes most important theme in this novel.
- Power:
We
can see the themes like Power in this novel because when we read the
novel we get sympathy with the people who were barbarians according
to other people who ruled over them the people were tortured and
killed by the empire’s people the third bureau were wants to ruled
over the people and they wants to control
The
Magistrate has power over the soldiers and civilians, and the Colonel
has power over the Magistrate, as with any hierarchy. In this story,
power is authority, maybe granted by a higher authority figure, but
also a subconscious power, like the girl has over the Magistrate.
- Torture
torture
was used on the “barbarians and also on the Magistrate. But
the Empire did not even know who was who where the frontier was
concerned. Colonel Joll interrogated the old man and his grandson in
the beginning of the book using torture. Then he captured barbarians
who were really just fishermen and nomads. He claims to have gained
useful information on the dangerous barbarians using these
techniques, and that the people he captured admitted to being
barbarians and gave up info on their people. The last group of
prisoners in the book, it was not even clear if these people were
barbarian. Or not?
Motifs
in the Novel:
What
is Motifs ?
The
literary device ‘motif’ is any element, subject, idea or concept
that is constantly present through the entire body of literature.
Using a motif refers to the repetition of a specific theme dominating
the literary work. Motifs are very noticeable and play a significant
role in defining the nature of the story, the course of events and
the very fabric of the literary piece.
This
novel is rich in symbol and meaning. Among them the movement of the
seasons, the time of nature, set in pointed opposition to the time of
human history. The novel begins in late summer, at a time of harvest
and bounty and ends at the verge of winter, and the end of
civilization as known by the town’s inhabitants. Even in the very
beginning the oblivion that threatens is introduced in a dream motif,
which anticipates the novels final pages as well as the barbarian
girl. in striking contrast to the Magistrates unsparing and wry
narrative, the dreams are the novel’s most stunning prose,
recreating with authenticity the language and sublime images of a
sleeping but lucid mind, and evoking both primal terror and pleasure
We
can see that in a recurring dream the Magistrate enters the town
square in winter, where a kneeling girl, her face obscured, is
working on a snow castle. Sitting with other children, they melt away
upon the Magistrates approach. Unable to see her or even imagine her
face, she is a living contrast to the stark white austerity of the
empty square.
It
is also in an empty square that the Magistrate first encounters the
kneeling barbarian girl, the north wind bringing with it the first
hint of winter. The dream motif weaves its way through the
Magistrates narrative. In it the snow blankets the familiar world
like a shroud, containing just the smallest hint of a latent
fertility. Struggling to glimpse the face beneath the hood he
encounters instead the face of an embryo or tiny whale, as white as
the snow itself.
We
can see when we read the novels that As the dream progresses he is
disturbed to find the fort or square the girl is building is empty of
life, only the girl, who he glimpses in a moment of clarity, relieves
the dream of its desolation. In his brief glimpse of her face her
eyes shine and she smiles. The dream sharpens in the next sequence
and he sees her clearly, a gold thread woven through her hair,
wearing a blue robe, the snow castle transformed into a clay oven.
The girl is baking live-giving bread, but the dream ends before the
Magistrate can accept or taste it, and his is never able to renter
the dream at this point. Instead, the final winter dream is a mere
collision with the girl, which echoes his collision with a woman in
the night; his clarity has already begun to fade. In the novel’s
final paragraph the dream and its insights have been wholly effaced
by the reality of winter, it is not a dream but real children,
building a snowman as they await their destiny, who have replaced the
girl and the enigma she represents.
- Symbols
Symbol
is an object that represents, stands for or suggests an idea, visual
image, belief or material entity. Symbols take the form of words,
sounds, gesture or visual images and are used to convey idea and
beliefs.
The
empire:
The
empires represent power that doesn't require that
Those
who serve it love others but merely perform duties.
Barbarians
Tribes:
According
to rumours barbarian tribes have been arming and the empire would have
to employ measures to prevent war.
Square:
the
square can be seen from the Magistrate’s window. And he can see
prisoners arriving from there
Third
Bureau:
The
third Bureau is described as an unsleeping guardian of the Empire
being an investigative agency.
So
there are many things by which we can say that this novel
is full of themes, and symbols.
REFERENCES:
Socio-scientific Issues in One Night@C.C.
Socio-scientific
Issues in One Night@C.C.
Name
: Hariyani Kishan.R
Paper
: 13 New Literature
Topic
: Socio –Scientific Issues In One Night @C.C.
Year
: 2015/2017
Submitted
To: SMT .S.B. Gardi Department Of English
M.K.
Bhavnagar University.
Email
Id: kishanhariyani1992@gmail.com
Preface
:
One night @ the call center’, Chetan Bhagat is a modern social fiction writer. He writes for common people and dark topics, modern life, education, information technology etc. His language is very lucid and easy to understand In this novel, Chetan Bhagat reveals harsh truths about call centres, a dark part which can’t be seen by any one else. Even we can relate our life to any character in the novel. The entire novel is divided into two parts. All characters live mechanized lives. The novelist describes family issue, problems of work place etc.
One night @ the call center’, Chetan Bhagat is a modern social fiction writer. He writes for common people and dark topics, modern life, education, information technology etc. His language is very lucid and easy to understand In this novel, Chetan Bhagat reveals harsh truths about call centres, a dark part which can’t be seen by any one else. Even we can relate our life to any character in the novel. The entire novel is divided into two parts. All characters live mechanized lives. The novelist describes family issue, problems of work place etc.
in a genuine and
interesting way. The second part of the novel deals with reformation
of all characters. Science Fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with
imaginary but more or less reasonable content such as future
settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens and
paranormal abilities. Exploring the consequences of scientific
innovations is one purpose of science fiction, making it “literature
of ideas Science Fiction is a largely based on writing rationally
about alternative possible worlds or futures.
- Social Issues:
He also tries to console herby sending her some money. Esha feels terribly betrayed and tries to suppress the mental pain by inflicting herself with physical pain by purposely cutting her skin.
Vroom is shocked to
learn that Bakshi has cheated him and Shyam by submitting their work
as his own. To add to his miseries, he over hear Esha telling the
other girls that she had slept with a designer toget a modelling
contract.
In this world of Cosmo
Culture ,everybody is involved in an extra marital relationship
Radhika, who loved her husband very much, is shocked to learn about
his dark side.
When Vroom calls up her
husband portraying as a radio jockey and asks him to dedicate roses
and a song to someone special, he chooses his girlfriend Payal over
his wife. Radhika who listens to this gets terribly upset as
herhusband has betrayed her.
Radhika is a very
faithful and innocent wife. She never ever complains to her husband
regarding the misbehaviour of her mother-in-law. She is very
responsible too.
So she does
house-hold activity during the day time and works at a call-centre
at night. Mr. Bakshi exploits likeany thing, he puts aside ethics and
all moral values just to grow up.
He forgets his
inner self too Western
Computers Troubleshooting Website, Project Details and user.
- Psychological Issues
Nowadays in the new
generation, hungry generation, dialects, genres, gathering places,
slang music, social class can be an important factor.
Today in India
youngster may keep unsocial hours, neglect his family obligations,
drink excessive cocktails and date each other with a casualness that
horrifies parents.
Everybody wants high
salary, fashionable life style. They are our country’s most
productive generation. Everybody is working for social recognition,
economical and even social status. People loss their culture and
beliefs when they enter call centre. Today everybody lives a material
life. Every character is from the common people of society. The
employees have no time for attending even cousin’s or neighbour’s
weddings all that was of importance to them is to
The Call Centre working at
such places with no sense of self worth but only money to goad you
along is naturally depressing and the employees get over their
frustration by visiting the dance floors in the malls:“Drinks,
dance floors, loud jarring gay music, drunken fights and a fight
means a party is totally rocking.”
They were shallow with
no emotions or in dept feeling for anything in life-leave alone
relationships. The boss was so manipulative on taking the credit for
software prepared by his employees.
Nowadays we are living
with luxurious life though we don’t get peace to listen our own
inner voice. This new generation is using advanced technology. Due to
this drastic change in life, people live a life in distance and under
disappointment, misery, tension etc.
- Inter Relationship Sentiments
Shortly after, Ganesh is
likewise shown to have feet of clay, when it is revealed that the
photograph which he has been using to secure a bride has been
retouched with an unflattering bald spot removed.
Military Uncle tries to
be nice to his son and grandson. But when he sends some pictures via
mail to his grandson, his son loses his cool and asks him to keep out
of his life. This leaves Military Uncle heartbroken.
- Supernatural influence
After enjoying for a while,
they leave for office Midway through the journey Vroom starts to feel
revolted after drinking alcohol and so they stop and venture out.
Vroom throws up and also
breaks the window-pane of a shop thus spreading an alarm. They rush
out of the place in fear While frequent, they face a life-threatening
situation when their Qualis crashes into a construction site hanging
over a net of iron construction rods.
As the rods began to
yield slowly, they started to panic. They are unable to call for help
as there is no mobile phone network at that place. In this situation,
Shyam's
Conclusion:
This paper has attempted to
express multiple perspectives on the circumspect changes in
technology using society as they affect in science fiction The secret
of success for Chetan Bhagat. He selects subject which a reader can
associate with socio scientific issues. His language is very lucid
and easy to understand.
In this novel, Chetan
Bhagat reveals harsh truth about call centres a dark part which can’t
be seen by anyone else. Even we can relate our life to any character
in the novel.The entire novel is divided into two parts. All
characters live mechanized lives. The novelist describes family
issue, problems of
Workplace etc in a
genuine and interesting way. The second part of the novel deals with
reformation of all characters. Chetan
Bhagat has
segmented with a mix of sentiment
exploitations, romance, religion, supernatural influence,
political conflict thoughts and family issue and technology and also
social message depicted in the novel.
Refrences:
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