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US Public Schools and Prayer

or discourage prayer, or participate in such activities with students" (Uncle Sams Prayer Stick, 2003, p. 38). At what appeared to...

Article Review of Barbara A. Dennison's 'Television Viewing and Television in Bedroom Associated with Overweight Risk Among Low Income Preschool Children'

significantly to the problem. The allure of the silver screen, whether that screen be that of a television or a game pad, has tra...

Television Sitcoms and Their History

simpler times in American history, times where families were always intact and times when the biggest problem was deciding whether...

Relaxation Techniques

Reading a book is also a relaxation technique for many people. Often, people read before going to bed, allowing them time to unwi...

Australia's Reality Television

"Big Brother" of 12 percent, the show will be back in the lineup for the fall, along with a raft of other reality shows -- a fact ...

Aileen Wuornos and Court TV

at a standstill when abuse has occurred. There can certainly be no argument surrounding the fact that family dynamics -- which re...

Gender Representation in the Television Series Married with Children and The Cosby Show

dealt with it. But were the gender roles closer to the mark than other shows at the time? Perhaps. Clair Huxtable exampled the Af...

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...

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...

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 ...

Post-Modernism and Filmmaker David Lynch

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Media Access: National Security Versus Public Access To Government Function

(Killian, 2005; Henning, 2005b; Sapino Jeffreys, 2006). II. UNDERSTANDING THE LAW THROUGH COURT RULINGS The precedent-setting ca...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Issues of Authenticity/Internet & TV

informing the citizenry on what they need to know to be responsible as co-policymakers within a democratic framework.2 When news a...

Analysis of TV Issues

uncommon side effect of televisions assault on the senses, found particularly evident with teenagers. Television is responsible f...

TV Situation Comedies Home Improvement and Everybody Loves Raymond

love one another. They give each other things, and try to understand one another as best they can. The audience feels that they do...

Scholastic Achievement, Limited TV Viewing, and Structure

is done. People find spiritual renewal with such an approach. While most people will not want to give up all of their favorite pro...

TV Series on the Vietnam War Tour of Duty

but still protecting and serving in the community). Or they begin to "remember" world events as they are presented on television. ...

TV and Stereotyping

the entire clan is characterized as wealthy, stuffed shirts. This proves that not only are minorities the subject of stereotyping,...