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Applying Bias: Android vs. Apple

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Created by: Dahlia , Femka, Jason MUSIC: "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Works Cited “Green Android Logo Waving.” Pluspng , pluspng.com/png-23007.html. Hein, Buster. “Tim Cook Admits IPhone Is Too Damn Expensive.” Cult of Mac , Cult of Mac, 26 May 2016, www.cultofmac.com/429674/tim-cook-admits-iphone-is-too-damn-expensive/. Lee, Dami. “Apple Discontinues IPhone X and the Last IPhones with Headphone Jacks.” The Verge , The Verge, 12 Sept. 2018, www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17824594/apple-iphone-x-6s-se-discontinued-2018-event. Ssyncron.

Language and Bias in "Armor Of Light" Trailer

The trailer of "Armor of Light" a documentary produced by Fork Films, discusses about gun control in America and why people should be against it. The bias in this trailer, is saying that without guns we would not be able to protect ourseslves from harm, as the "only thing that's gonna stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun".  HOW IS LANGUAGE USED TO CONVEY EMOTION? The main ways language can be used to convey emotions in the trailer, is noting how a person says something, the tone of their voice and their action/reactions they give towards what they were saying. During the interview with the mother whose son passed away due to bullets from a gun, we notice that she stutters and stops when she says "but I never thought it would ever happen to us".  As she recalls the tragic event, the way she says this, how she says this and the actions she gives towards saying this-- such as stuttering, talking in a small, quiet voice and pausing fo