Find out the correct chronological sequence of the following: A. British…
2024
Find out the correct chronological sequence of the following:
A. British Broadcasting Corporation
B. Hip-Hop music
C. Hollywood
D. Hays Code
E. Chomsky's propaganda model
Answer: A. CADBE — Concept — A chronological-sequence item is settled entirely by the origin date of each listed entity — the moment it first came into being in the form named.…
- A.
CADBE
- B.
DBAEC
- C.
EDCAB
- D.
AEBCD
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Correct answer: A
Concept — A chronological-sequence item is settled entirely by the origin date of each listed entity — the moment it first came into being in the form named. The method is therefore fixed: attach an independent, sourced anchor date to every item on its own, then sort those anchors in ascending order. Cultural prominence, how familiar an item feels, and the order in which the items happen to be listed in the stem carry no weight at all.
Application — anchor each of the five media milestones to its own origin date.
Item | Origin milestone | Anchor date |
|---|---|---|
Hollywood | The first film studio opens in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles in 1911; by the mid-1910s the district is the production base of the American film industry. | 1911 |
British Broadcasting Corporation | The British Broadcasting Company, formed in 1922, is wound up and its work passes to the British Broadcasting Corporation, established under royal charter on 1 January 1927. | 1927 |
Hays Code | The Motion Picture Production Code is adopted by the studios under Will H. Hays; strict enforcement follows from 1934. | 1930 |
Hip-Hop music | The DJ-and-MC block-party culture takes shape in the Bronx, New York; 11 August 1973 is the date conventionally given for its birth. | 1973 |
Chomsky's propaganda model | Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky set out the five-filter model in Manufacturing Consent. | 1988 |
Sorting those anchors in ascending order:
1911 — the first film studio opens in the Hollywood district, the earliest anchor in the list; the district becomes the production base of the American film industry by the mid-1910s.
1927 — the British Broadcasting Corporation is established by royal charter, sixteen years after Hollywood and three years before the Hays Code is adopted.
1930 — the Hays Code, which regulates an already-established Hollywood, so it must follow it.
1973 — Hip-Hop music, more than four decades after the Code.
1988 — the propaganda model, the most recent of the five.
Cross-check against the other sequences offered:
DBAEC opens with the 1930 Hays Code and closes with Hollywood, so a 1930 regulation would come before the Hollywood film-production centre it was written to regulate, whose first studio opened in 1911.
EDCAB opens with the 1988 propaganda model, which is in fact the most recent of the five items.
AEBCD places the 1988 propaganda model second and leaves the 1930 Hays Code last, inverting both ends of the timeline.
Two anchors alone are enough to discard every alternative: Hollywood, whose first studio opened in 1911, is the earliest item and the propaganda model of 1988 is the latest, so only a sequence that begins with Hollywood and ends with the propaganda model can be chronological.
Result — the chronological order is Hollywood → British Broadcasting Corporation → Hays Code → Hip-Hop music → propaganda model, i.e. the sequence CADBE.