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TV News Stories, Memory, and Attention

In seven pages this research paper on cognitive psychology considers the impact of retaining news stories through TV 'teasers' wit...

Comparative Analysis of the Works of Ueda Akinari and Haruki Murakami

The works of Akinari and Murakami are contrasted and compared in 7 pages with the primary emphasis being on the alienation themes ...

The Effectiveness of Periodical and Television Advertising Evaluated

to report (Tellis and Weiss 20. That study, which was conducted by Kanetkar, et al, found no main effect, but instead an inverse r...

European and American Censorship

This paper examines how TV and movies are censored in a comparative analysis of Europe and America consisting of 5 pages. Ten sou...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

'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...

Cablevision and The Cable TV Industry

If we isolate out industry consideration to the cable television companies that we can look this as a mature industry. In 1997 the...

Pro Soccer from a Financial Perspective

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

TV Violence and Women

itself appear erotic to the male viewer (Marks, 2000). A report on prime-time broadcast network TV issued in 2002 by the National...

Popular Culture and the Influence of TV News

scientists, parents and educators are becoming more and more concerned about the influence television has on the lives of American...

Technological Determinism

of those who pursue technological determinism in its most extreme form believe that society is determined by technology -- that ne...

Overview of OCD

plans in place which have proven themselves useful for normalizing the behavior and thought patterns of OCD individuals. These tr...

Movie Theaters and People

(Fetto and Lach, 2000, p. 9). Geographically speaking, 74 percent of these attendees live in the Western United States as opposed...

Positive and Negative Impacts of TV News

2003). In more recent times we hear that many of the journalists today are liberals and as such are biased in how they present the...

Book and Television Production of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

In three pages this paper discusses the reception of the novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson in comparison ...

Sex and Violence on Television

many viewers find objectionable. It has been described as "wall-to-wall violence scored to gratingly loud rock with the occasional...

Lost Childhood in the 'Band Candy' Episode of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Television Series

characteristics that set them apart from other members of the animal world; one of the most prominent of these traits is that of r...