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...movies because you can do so much with your cell phones. You can talk on it, you can play games on it, you can watch TV on it, you can watch film clips on it, you can organize your life with it, you can text messages. Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. One force is very old - from nickelodeons to silent movies to talkies to cinemascope to cinerama to IMAX. The other venue is the gadgets that sort of anchor...
...first thing he learned was that people tend to react irrationally--rushing to the hospital before they have symptoms, for example, or staying home even when they are desperately ill. "The problem is that the more irrational the public's reactions to an outbreak, the harder it becomes to control and contain the disease," says Galea. Also, the harder the economy is hit: the Congressional Budget Office recently put the potential costs of a flu pandemic in the U.S. at $675 billion-half of it caused by fear and confusion...
...Gangsta rap is one of the most popular forms of hip-hop today. Songs in this specific genre are nothing but a negative externality on society’s well-being and improvement. Certainly, there are a few outlier groups that contain positive and proactive messages. However, these outliers tend to be out of the mainstream and thus harder to find. One could argue that hip-hop’s supporters may also be at fault—perhaps the market is simply providing fans with the material that they are most willing to purchase. Even if this is true...
...alienate the audience and complicate the script often obscure the basic storyline. Very rarely do the actors interact with each other, choosing instead to act for the audience. Weill and Brecht do write scenes of the opera intended to be addressed to the audience, but the LHO actors tend to do it all too often.While titled “The Threepenny Opera,” it might be more apt to call it a musical, as the work depends heavily on the spoken scenes in between songs. These interludes, which range from good (the first prison scene with Lucy...
Social roles are strongly defined in Indian society, says Krishnan, and people tend not to talk about sex. The social pressure remains intense for men to prove their masculinity and women their fertility. Indian women may be making more decisions about household buying or their children's education, but they remain sexually submissive, still marry early (average age: 17) and tend to defer to men about whether a condom will be used...