SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Prime Time TV and the Images of Gays

Essays 241 - 270

HBO's Series The Sopranos

the Mafia. It explores a wide range of topics such as mental health, gender, family dynamics, conflict, class, sexuality, and of c...

The Boys Scouts in Litigation

they affirmed their intention to found a Christian nation under God.1 Historian Frank Lambert refers to these men as the "Puritan ...

Societal Impact of the Media

then, after a time, actions follow (Waliszewksy and Smithouser, 2001). The human brain, they note, doesnt need that "garbage" (Wal...

Drag Queens, Gays, and the Popularity of Marilyn Monroe

play dumb. However, she was not dumb and was essentially victimized by the media, something she was not strong enough to deal with...

US Same Sex Marriage History

was viewed in the modern era as not so much a disease but was seen as lack of upbringing and evil intent. Gay relationships were s...

1960s' Television and the Star Trek Series

was signed by some of the greatest names in science fiction, such as Poul Anderson, Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon (1966: St...

Film Marketing by Genre

the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...

Cat's Perspectives on Either Hunting Birds are Watching TV

and be a potato with them. Dogs crave the attention and approval of their humans, while we cats could truly care less what people...

Feminist and Marxist Perspectives on Pop Culture

material conditions and may be equated with historical materialism ("Exploration," 1992). They emphasize the economic value of wo...

US Children and Obesity

need to be more in tune to their childrens activities and their food choices. Obesity observes no geographic or socioeconom...

Industry Segmentation

with the values they attach to making purchases and the access or utility they have in relation to that market. Airlines If we lo...

Policy of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and Gays in the Military

a "dont ask, dont tell" policy. This policy, however, is in reality short sited. The military must open its eyes and look to oth...

Defense of Same Sex Marriages

establish a legal precedent in 1967 which declared bans on interracial marriages as unconstitutional that states were forced to re...

'Uniforms in the Closet' by Jennifer Egan

This means that they are obliged to live a totally celibate life while serving, or participate in a loose "underground network" of...

A Research Proposal of Strategies to Help African Americans Obtain Equal Opportunity

is retained and that African Americans are able to live in the world in peace. Yet, historically, peace is not always something th...

Symbolic Interactionism Article Evaluated

boy. That said, there is a lot one can glean from the essay from the fact that gender roles may indeed be socially constructed to ...

Sociological Issues in "Will & Grace"

the culture, which means that sociologically we are still not ready to look at gay men and lesbians as people first; instead, ``we...

In Favor of Gay Marriage

and cultures claim that marriage is about creating a committed union for the sake of creating children, many people today get marr...

Contemporary Productions and How They Have Influenced the Themes of Sophocles' Oedipus the King

to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

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...

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...

Post-Modernism and Filmmaker David Lynch

of modernism, with particular emphasis upon modernisms elitist social, political and economic structure of upper and lower classif...

Issues Through Liberal and Conservative Lenses

liberal origins, the conservative had developed their own distinctive view of Social Security, which can be summed up in a single ...

Reality TV/Why We Watch

lives. Ralph Rosnow, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Temple University, comments, "If people arent talking about other people,...

Substance Abuse Counseling For Diverse Populations

and Practice, 2001). As this author said, "Cultural competency emphasizes the idea of effectively operating in different cultural ...

Dialect on Television - "The Sopranos"

accident but by necessity-of course, I mean biological, not logical, necessity. Thus UG can be taken as expressing the essence of ...

Guide to Postproduction for TV and Film by Clark and Spohr

the reader with step by step information, charts, and other information that takes the reader through the entire process from star...

Nietzsche's Ideas about God and Society

God, and that it is not something that is external or intrinsic to man. In other words, morality does not come from a force outsid...

Review Journal Articles About NYC Department Of Education

health of the children. This is absolutely tragic. Asthma is obviously a problem of significant concern in this area but physicia...

Analysis of "The Burning Bed"

be defined only in relation to the men in their lives, not as themselves. That is, they are somebodys wife and somebodys mother, n...