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Children, Violence, and TV

are disappointed if it doesnt. What kind of message does this send our children? According to Strasburger (1999, 103) it sends a...

Television and Book Fantasy

smart enough to know that their world is not the same as the story worlds to which they are introduced at an early age. Bruno Bet...

Obesity and Childhood

to play unsupervised or accompany them to a park. Immense social and economic changes have dictated shifts in how families ...

Quality Television on the Decline

quality programs to choose from. While there is the hit series Friends, for example, there are few other comedies that can compete...

An Analysis of the American Broadcasting Co.

(Hoovers, 2003). Today, ABC broadcasts through 225 primary affiliate stations across the United States, it owns 10 television st...

'Boob Tube' as a Justifiable Description of TV

of a television they will likely watch it. In addition, when people mindlessly watch television it is more likely the case that...

Space Exploration Benefits

In seven pages this paper discusses the U.S. space program in a consideration of such benefits as the national economy, Teflon®...

Real Life, TV Families and 'Looking for Work' by Gary Soto

In three pages this paper discusses how television families influence a child's images about his family and himself as Gary Soto's...

TV Situation Comedies and the Portrayal of Women

on society and human interactions. Even in family situations on evening sitcoms, the depiction of men and women and their roles ...

TV Station Manager Job

commercials featured models wearing bras over shirts. Things have changed drastically since those days. Station manager George Hul...

Robert Schuller, Storytelling, and the Evangelical Media

In five pages this research paper considers Schuller's storytelling in an analysis of communications theories and his television m...

Weight Loss Product TV Commercial

This paper consists of fifteen pages and examines a campaign to target a certain audience with a television commercial on a weight...

Young Children and TV's Benefits

children. Such television programs are important in that they "talk to kids" instead of talking down to them. There are many tha...

Barbara Walters' Life and Career

In five pages the life and work of this pioneering television journalist are discussed in terms of childhood, family, and status a...

Watching TV and Hazards for Children

This paper consists of five pages and examines what hazards watching television represent for children. Two sources are cited in ...

Overview of Documentary Television

to make it irrelevant whether or not the details are portrayed correctly. The distinction between narrative and fiction is that n...

1960s and 1990s on the Mass Media and Sex

In ten pages this paper discusses changing attitudes between the 1960s and 1990s regarding the portrayal of sex by the mass media ...

Television Situation Comedy Married With Children and Family Dysfunction

do. "With Ozzie and Harriet, everyone felt guilty," said Barbara Cadow, a psychologist at U.S.C. School of Medicine. "With these...

American Family Depiction in Television Situation Comedies of the 1950s and 1960s

In fourteen pages this paper discusses TV sitcoms during this time period and how they portrayed the American family with past and...

Television Situation Comedies and Family Love Relationships

once mentioning the word "pregnant" in the script. This changed to some extent in the 1960s, but not as much as one might have ex...

Saturday Morning Children's Cartoons and Gender Studies

In ten pages various examples of Saturday morning children's cartoon television and the commercials that advertised on them are th...

Review of the TV Series Touched By An Angel

In six pages and three parts this essay reviews the TV show Touched By An Angel in an overview of settings, plot, theme, and chara...

Communications Theory and TV Viewers' Habits

In twelve pages this research paper examines television viewing habits and why people watch what they do with various communicatio...

Argument Against TV Violence

This was further supported by research conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which concluded that, "Heavy exposure to t...

Pros and Cons of TV Violence II

universities. The conclusion is that violence on TV is more prevalent than most had imagined. Nearly 2,700 programs were analyze...

Violence in the Media and TV

In seven pages this essay condemns the increasing violence being shown on television and provides research study evidence regardin...

Effects of Violence in the Media

According to that particular definition, finding a body in a pool of blood would count while Kramer bumping into a door on the Sei...

Children and the Negative Impacts of Television

life experiences. Sitting in front of a TV does nothing for the physical self of the child -- there is no developing of coordinat...

Carroll O'Connor and Bill Cosby

In five pages these American television figures are contrasted and compared in terms of the premature deaths of their sons which l...

Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman in the Film Adaptation of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In five pages the television version of Miller's tragedy featuring Dustin Hoffman is compared with the original play that starred ...