Essays

Longer-form essays on media, culture, society and self-development.
Feb 10
Utilizing Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding Model on Three iPod Advertisements

Stuart Hall's Encoding/Decoding: What iPod Ads Reveal

This essay will make the case for the utility of this model through an analysis of three Apple Inc.
9 min read
Feb 10
Technology and the Call Center: A Critical Perspective

Technology and the Call Center: A Critical Perspective

This essay will examine a call center organization called CallMedia to discuss the many impacts that technology can have on organization’s culture.
6 min read
Feb 10
Sonny's Blues and Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (James Baldwin & Joyce Carol Oates)

Sonny's Blues and Where Are You Going: Baldwin & Oates

Baldwin’s narrator and Oates’s June were successful in overcoming social menace while Sonny and Connie were placed put under submission by social menace.
8 min read
Feb 10
Social Self in Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell

Social Self in Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell

Social self and socialization comprise of an intrinsic bond absolutely inseparable in identity formation.
5 min read
Feb 10
Sexual Harassment: Consequences and How to Prevent It

Sexual Harassment: Consequences and How to Prevent It

Sexual harassment (SH) is a complex combination of legal and psychological issues that have received unparalleled attention in the last ten to fifteen years…
8 min read
Feb 10
Russian Music Under Socialist Realism: What Happened

Russian Music Under Socialist Realism: What Happened

In order to understand how this affected musicians, it will be critical to assess Stalin’s creed, socialist realism, and formalism alongside an analysis of…
9 min read
Feb 10
Post-Fordism and Nike: The Truth About Sweatshop USA

Post-Fordism and Nike: The Truth About Sweatshop USA

This essay will assert that Nike Inc.’s organizational culture coincides with post-fordist industrial change by arguing the fragmentation and the pluralism…
5 min read
Feb 10
Political Bias in Media: How It Shapes What You See

Political Bias in Media: How It Shapes What You See

The central focus of this literature review is the assessment of media bias. Media bias can significantly alter the scope of the political spectrum.
8 min read
Feb 10
Point of View in The Yellow Wallpaper: Why It Matters

Point of View in The Yellow Wallpaper: Why It Matters

Gilman’s constructs The Yellow Wallpaper through time and space separations depicting the interval between the initial beginnings towards the end.
5 min read
Feb 10
Conlon Nancarrow: The Remarkable Player Piano Prodigy

Conlon Nancarrow: The Remarkable Player Piano Prodigy

Conlon Nancarrow developed powerful rhythmic strategies, tempo proportions as well as metric synchronicity which resulted in an almost meta-analytic…
10 min read
Feb 10
Narrativization in Canadian TV: Spotlight on The Border

Narrativization in Canadian TV: Spotlight on The Border

The Border is a Canadian television series drama that describes current and controversial aspects of Canadian security, its functions, and the issues that…
5 min read
Feb 10
Africa and Barriers to its Development

Money, Hoes and Clothes: Freestyle in the Digital Era

This essay will describes the developments and transformations of the freestyle form, the technique of real-time experiential exchange, followed by YouTube…
27 min read