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Cinema Persuasiveness

G-1). While such anecdotal evidence certainly suggests that films affect how we behave, the empirical evidence on this subject is ...

Article on TV Violence

violence on television should either be eliminated altogether or at least reduced, and th television industry claims it is only im...

Media Mogul William S. Paley

in 1928, which ultimately led to the family buying majority control shares just one year later (Paley, William S.). Once th...

Children and the Impact of Television

products regardless of what purpose they served" (Trotter, 1992, p. 27). Targeting children leaves the door wide open to pl...

Essays on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Video, and TV

at a blackboard writing words. As soon as he completes the "d" in the last word the tape is over. The running time for the tape is...

Children and Media Violence

games and the computer, it rises up between 35 and 55 hours a week (Gentile et al., 2004; 1235). Through this much media exposure ...

Television Show Extreme Makeover from a Sociological Perspective

are lacking in confidence so they believe what the media offers them. The following paper examines one media television show, "Ext...

Mac Computer Marketing

B, 2004). The ad was strange, to say the least. It was drab, it was in black and white until the woman burst on to the screen and...

CDC Article Summary and Media Consideration of Product Placement

of showings is taken into consideration (Turcotte, 1995). The "cost per thousand" (CPM)viewers on product placement is generally c...

Relationships in the TV Series Friends

opening season episode was played more for laughs, as it involved Rachel, one of the group of friends, who had just escaped from h...

Cultural Impact of Television

reasons why Mill make this assertion at the close of his argument lie within the work itself. In chapter III, Mill puts worth two ...

Of Mice and Men, Take Two

mini-series The Stand, for which he won a SAG award, and he also received an Oscar in 1995 for Best Supporting Actor in the film F...

UK Law in Matters of Breach of Contract

The writer describes two legal cases (installation of a staircase that is not the one agreed upon and a satellite TV that does not...

A Plan for Branding an East Tennessee TV Station

as The Volunteers, or more commonly, Vols. People across the region take their college sports seriously; the area code for the Kn...

Storytelling and the 'Old Man' Archetype

or archetypes, tend to lend an instant type of history and emotional context for the character, it can be said. The hero, for exam...

Egypt and Media Accessibility

In five pages this paper examines Egypt in a consideration of the media's role with print, TV, radio, and the Internet each discus...

Employee Termination

work they do or is it just a means to bring home a paycheck? Another mistake many managers make when hiring for employment is in ...

Italian Americans Defined by Network Television Shows

intelligence as seen in the character of the Fonz. "When Arthur (Fonzie) Fonzarelli appeared on the screen in 1974, with his slick...

Case Study on Human Rights

Billy would certainly have a stronger case against the Daily Gossip; however, because freedom of the press protects the publicatio...

Pro Soccer from a Financial Perspective

(Wagman). This particular lawsuit has demonstrated how the ever increasing costs of running a soccer team - including the ...

3 Issues Regarding Popular Culture and the Media

basis for women to be perceived within the myriad literary components, the feminist critical theory serves to create a semblance o...

Actor Lou Ferrigno's Life and Career

In five pages this paper discusses Lou Ferrigno's life and career as an actor most notably in the TV series The Incredible Hulk. ...

Raising Children in America Today

200,000 violent acts on television alone" (Chatfield, 2002; p. 735). The study indicated that "Between the ages of two and 18, an ...

Television Programming for Children and How It Has Evolved

the Science Guy. It took three years for the FCC to realize that the original Childrens Television Act did not possess the force ...

'Mr. Television' Milton Berle

could readily relate. His approach to comedy was like his approach to life: if you cannot laugh, you cannot live. Indeed, Berles...

Powerful Radio and Television Advertising

contention presented above. These ads show how if you just buy Vehicle X you can have the excitement of the sea kayaker and the m...

Media Article Analysis/TV and Aggressiveness

revulsion to blood and gore that the researchers discuss as one of the desensitizing aspect of exposure to violence. Parents watch...

Family Guy, Analysis of Humor

for humor (Brent 17). The episode entitled "Chick Cancer" aired on November 26, 2006. Stewie, the precocious baby who speaks in th...

Deciphering TV Programming

over and become the person she would like to be (88888888888888 A "situation" comedy takes its humor from the situations in whic...

The Influence of Television on American Society

1977, p. 4). For children in particular, there is no activity that permits as much intake "while demanding so little outflow" (Win...