The media sends messages that reinforce cultural values. These values are perhaps most visible in celebrities and the roles that they adopt. Actors such as Jake Gyllenhaal and Scarlett Johansson have come to represent aspects of masculinity and femininity that have been adopted into mainstream culture in the last 10 years.
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The length of roots produced by each plant, or the number of ‘shoots’ branching from each root are two different sets of quantitative data. Quantitative data is usually defined as numerical information, generated or collected through measurements conducted by humans or mediated through devices .Alternatively, the information collected in the first example—that people in a given group have different hair texture that can be described and grouped by category—is what we usually call qualitative data.
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Hypothesize that overuse of synthetic, nitrogen-based fertilizers on agricultural plants, such as carrots, could reduce the size or density of the crop yield. A conventional farming audience, or an audience interested in sustainable farming might differently interpret this representation of the research differently than the scientific audience reading the scientific article covering the same research and data. The difference lies in the purpose for which the writer is interpreting the data and how she must represent what is at issue, given the conventions and expectations of the genre of scientific article, versus popular news coverage of scientific research.
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