Answer each 10 questions , 2 paragraphs each ! Please use supporting details !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE HAVE THIS DONE BY 7am 10/30/2019 eastern time.

1. What is a stereotype? What are the factors that tend to shape what groups get stereotyped and how they are stereotyped? How were fears and anxieties over certain stereotypes reflected in state and federal laws? Citing specific characters, describe how people of West African origin tended to be represented as extreme opposites in movies made during the Studio Era. 2. What forms of communication encouraged people in medieval Europe to see themselves as part of a divinely ordained “Great Chain of Being”? In what ways did the invention and widespread use of printing from movable type possibly contribute the erosion of this hierarchical social structure? 3. What did the Sun’s seven-article series purporting to tell of the ''Great Astronomical Discoveries, lately made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope" entail? Specifically, what was Richard Locke satirizing in this serialized story? 4. What about radio programming in the 1930s and 1940s might lead one to conclude that commercial broadcasting constituted a “conspiracy of silence” regarding all those aspects of the individual and social life that do not contribute to the objectives of the advertiser? Cite several specific programs and formulas to support your answer. 5. What’s the basic storyline of Amos ‘n’ Andy? What made this serial so enrapturing? How did the principal characters and their predicaments possibly serve to legitimate racial discrimination and segregation? 6. Describe the titular character and basic storyline of The Romance of Helen Trent? According to a study by social psychologist Herta Herzog, what did listeners find appealing about such serial dramas? What are the limitations of this kind of research? 7. Describe the long running radio show The Romance of Helen Trent. What did listeners find so appealing about Helen Trent and other such serial dramas? 8. Describe the circumstances surrounding the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. Who reported the story? What conditions were reported? What was the result of the report? 9. Describe The March of Time. What was its format and who produced it? What was its most controversial presentation? 10. Explain why ABC-TV, in 2001, cancelled Bill Maher's late-night show Politically Incorrect.