Roswell by Melinda Metz

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Recommended: The role of propaganda in media

The preserving modern folk tale that is the invasion of aliens, is fully knotted within the cultural fear that one day in the near future, a threat of some unknown origin will be more powerful, more capable at warfare than we American’s can ever be. No mater the impossibility, it is a perceived end to the very short colonization of the North Americas. In 1947 a few miles from Roswell, NW, Mack Brazel found debris from an unidentified flying object scattered in a three-mile arc on his land. According to the myth told by the International UFO Museum Research Center in Roswell, NW, the metal had strange pictorial writings on the “I” beams and were purple in color. (IUFORMC NM Inc.) This tale is so widely told in Roswell, that there has been a whole industry developed there to preserve this ledged of the alien crash landing and the Military’s collection of the debris and cover-up of the visitors from outer space.
American is a land where the government, the corporations and the media capitalize on the simple fears of the public to complete their end goals. America is constantly at war, then when the war is over there is an economic downturn because of the lack of industry that supported the wars. As children we are taught there is a true undercurrent of jealously between us and every other country, including our allies. An example of one of these unfounded threats that is widely accepted is from our political and economic ally China. Because China lacks of resources, many American’s believe that there they have nefarious designs on our home front. This fear of a threat from some unknown place that is other is seen in TV shows like Roswell.
Roswell is a young adult television show written from a book series by Melinda Metz. The stor...

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...l change how we envision them and us. When Aliens are no longer popular and there isn’t a continued paradigm of fear, the integration of the different peoples will no longer be a hot topic and this need to write about the segregation of American society will no longer be necessary and this essay can be thrown out.

Works Cited

Ford, Dana. "Baby food makers in California court over lead warnings." CNN (2013).
IUFORMC NM Inc. International UFO Museum Research Center. 2010. 13 02 2014 .
Karl Albrecht, Ph.D. "The (Only) Five Basic Fears We All Live By." Psychology Today (2012).
Roswell. By Melinda Metz. Dir. Patrick R. Norris. Perf. Jason Behr, Katherine Heigl, Brendan Fehr, Emille De Ravin, Majandra Delfino, Nick Wechsler, Colin Hanks, Adam Rodriguez, William Sadler Shiri Appeleby. Prod. Barry Pullman John Heath. 1999.

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