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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Change at BERG TV

order to support the growth and the ongoing pursuance of the goal, to support and train disabled people in media production. In or...

Morris/Hunting Ape and Human Zoo

hunters, they had to cooperate. In addition to cooperative hunting behaviors, this also led to the development of eating as a soci...

Television and Film Production

growth spurt following the war and, at that time, the relationship between the film and television industries was one of antagonis...

Narrative Complexity in Popular Entertainment: Does TV Make Us Smarter?

opens his argument with the claim that the majority of todays popular television shows utilize a form of narrative complexity that...

Strategic Initiatives in Digital Media: Apple Computers, Inc.

that can do no wrong. Once a distant second in the home computer market that was facing irrelevancy as big-box companies like Dell...

Film and Television

godfather, Sirius Black. The fourth effort, the Goblet of Fire, concentrated more on the Triwizard Tournament and less on the gath...

Three Dimensional Television - Bringing the Technology to Market

the technology supporting televisions emerge, with plasma, LCD the LEDs or being developed. The problems faced by 3-D television m...

The Consumer Culture and the Media

radio are very powerful media and have the ability to shape consumer attitudes. This paper identifies three trends that have arise...

Friends Not Parents

who appeared on TV screens years ago. This paper considers the parenting styles of todays characters as opposed to those found on ...

Zoos Have No Reason to Exist

lives are miserable. Studies have shown that animals in zoos "can suffer physically, mentally and emotionally. For this reason, ca...

Essay: TV Bad for You

The Reasons Television is Not Good for You Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises...

No TV in Court

United States seeing that might think they were watching a scripted drama rather than an actual court case. The media have been r...

Glued to the Tube

a moment of quiet for themselves" (Winn 6). The answer seems obvious when its put like that, and Winn argues that it is the desire...

Stigmatizing Mr. Spock

rarely a week goes by that it doesnt fire its weapons, which means that as First Officer, Mr. Spock is frequently responsible for ...

What Literature Does

is: Platos account of how Socrates defended himself. When he is condemned to death in spire of his eloquence, he accepts it with d...

Comparative Analysis of Seeing a Movie in a Movie Theater versus Watching a Movie on a Television Set

do not have to move when watching a film on television and the light from the images makes direct contact with the eye lens, corne...

Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek

characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...

Gypsy, Etc.

("Gypsy"). Similarly, insight is gained into Roses character when she begins a tentative romance with Herbie. In their duet "Sma...

News vs. Entertainment

as news, 1998). The third point is that the "shift toward showmanship the next generation of journalists" means that these people ...

Marketing Questions

buy in small packages to be used in specific locations. * They may be interested in "refill" packaging. * They are likely to buy s...

Argument: Television Violence Does Not Harm Children

the media" (Fowles, 2001). Why is TV a stand-in for the other problems, and what are those problems? The reason TV makes such a g...

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...