This study was a thematic analysis that attempted to understand what messages television commercials send to the viewing audience concerning appropriate gender roles. Specifically, this study examined the Super Bowl ...

This research examines the role of parenting magazines and popular texts about motherhood in the social construction of the “mommy wars,” or the cultural tug-of-war between women who work for pay and women who stay home ...

Set when AIDS was the scourge of New York City the film adaptation of Rent follows the lives of eight characters struggling to live their lives in the early 1990s; four of whom are HIV positive or have AIDS. This research ...

This study examines the effects of political bias on students‟ willingness to speak out. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann‟s Spiral of Silence theory is used to test this. Convenience sampling is used in order to gain an undergraduate ...

In 2008, a nearly 200 year U.S. historical precedent was overturned when Barack Obama was named the “first Black president.” Although Obama is of mixed heritage, he adopted an almost singularly Black identity and has ...

Every interpersonal communication event is unique because the information being self disclosed within each dialogue an individual has with others is distinctive. This preliminary study explores the difference between ...

In June 1990, Newsweek coined the term “mommy wars” to describe the cultural tug-of-war between women who work outside the home and women who stay home to care for children. Historical and contemporary literature on ...