Anti feminism campaign - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Why did John McCain pick Sarah Palin for VP? correct answer: - Palin was young, an outsider Republican - Mayor and Governor of Alaska - Balanced family and work What did the McCain campaign not consider when selecting Palin in regard to gender? correct answer: - Motherhood (Has 5 children, mostly young) - Bristol Palin (Teen pregnancy, not married) - Women have to prove that they are qualified for the job What made Palin stick out? correct answer: - Member of the NRA and Feminists f...

According to lecture, how did Western media globalization affect the island of Fiji? - TV arrived at Fiji in 1995. Prior to 1995, there was 3% of eating disorders in girls ages 15-19. In 2007, there was 15% of eating disorders in girls ages 15-19, 62% of girls dieting and 74% and girls feeling "too big or fat". According to lecture, in what ways is sexualized violence in the media relevant? - Images in the media repeatedly reinforce the idea that sexualized violence against women is both s...

Antisemitism hostility to or prejudice against Jews. For the Nazis, this amounted to declaring them a racial group, not just a religious group. They were also viewed as a movement that the Germans didn't want. Anything that was seen as bad in the present time was blamed on the Jews -modern art -feminism -urban poverty -communism Lebensraum Literally means living space. The belief that Germany needed to expand the nation state in order to grow. This meant that they would expand to E...

US History II CLEP Questions and Answers Graded A Where did Tammany Hall (political machine) get most of its support? poor immigrants and ethnic communities in the inner cities. they promised them help in return for votes. European Musical Influence+African=a 1890s New Orleans originated musical genre... Jazz Tet Offensive failed attacks by the Vietcong guerillas and North Vietnamese, but it simultaneously ended US hopes for an early end to the Vietnam War What even triggered the Tru...

"Let one hundred flowers bloom" - ANSWER-Chairman Mao Zedong's "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend". This slogan was used during the period of approximately six weeks in the summer of 1957 when the Chinese intelligentsia were invited to criticize the political system then obtaining in Communist China. It is sometimes suggested that the initiative was a deliberate attempt to flush out dissidents by encouraging them to show themselves as critical of the regi...

Ultimate AP World History Exam Review Mohandas K. Gandhi - led indian campaign for home rule focused on nonviolence Amritsar - city in N. India, British officers ordered masssacre of peaceful protestors in 1919. Muhammad Ali Jinnah - lawyer who became head of muslm league, wanted india to be devided into muslim and hindu regions Bal Gangadhar Tilak - founder of hindu nationalism. Helped lay groundwork for independence movement in India Sun Yatsen - Leader of revolution that ended ...

Feminism -the belief that women should possess the same political and economic rights as men Equal Pay Act -made it illegal for employers to pay female workers less than men for the same job Betty Friedan -American Feminist, writer of The Feminine Mystique, cofounded NOW National Organization of Women -Feminist political group formed in 1967 to promote legislative change. Lobbied for the Equal Right Amendment (and failed). Gloria Steinem -founder and original publisher of Ms. magazine, and...

Chapter 3 - The Evolution of Promoting and Advertising Brands TRUE/FALSE 1. A capitalistic system, ensures the emergence of advertising. ANS: F DIF: Easy REF: p. 77 OBJ: 3-1 TYP: Knowledge 2. Advertising is essential to the competition for resources in a capitalistic system because it is a critically important tool that informs and persuades consumers about their choices. ANS: T DIF: Moderate REF: p. 77 OBJ: 3-1 TYP: Comprehension 3. The Industrial Revolution led to mass production of adv...

Chapter 3 - The History of Advertising and Brand Promotion TRUE/FALSE 1. When the Western world turned to capitalism as the foundation of an economic system, the foundation was also laid for advertising. ANS: T DIF: Easy REF: p. 81 OBJ: 3-1 NAT: AACSB Communication | CB&C Model Promotion TYP: Knowledge 2. Advertising is a source of information and persuasive ideas regarding a society’s products and services, but it is no longer essential to the competition for resources in a capitalistic...

information age, Microsoft, Internet - ANSWER Following WWII, the rise of International Business Machines (IBM) symbolized yet another momentous transformation, to the fast-paced "information age," when the storing, organizing, and processing of data became an industry in its own right. By the century's end the rapid emergence of Microsoft Corporation and the phenomenal growth of the Internet heralded an explosive communications revolution. Americans now rocketed down the "information superh...