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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...

About Eugene Lee

short time, then "showed up, unannounced, at Carnegie Mellon University (then called Carnegie Tech) with just a sheaf of designs f...

Health Promotion/Childhood Obesity

14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...

Ethical Dilemmas within the Legal Framework: “The Jury”

hours each. The first disk is concerned with the description of the crime and the selection of the jury; the second covers the pro...

Deciphering TV Programming

over and become the person she would like to be (88888888888888 A "situation" comedy takes its humor from the situations in whic...

Media Article Analysis/TV and Aggressiveness

revulsion to blood and gore that the researchers discuss as one of the desensitizing aspect of exposure to violence. Parents watch...

Family Guy, Analysis of Humor

for humor (Brent 17). The episode entitled "Chick Cancer" aired on November 26, 2006. Stewie, the precocious baby who speaks in th...

The Influence of Television on American Society

1977, p. 4). For children in particular, there is no activity that permits as much intake "while demanding so little outflow" (Win...

Reitz’s Heimat and World War II

mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Changing Views of the Family, TV Programs

This paper pertains to the manner in which TV portrayals of the American family have changed over the last five decades. Also, t...

Drunk History and Substance Abuse Counseling

This essay pertains to "Drunk History," a TV show in which participants describe instances from history while inebriated. The writ...

Technological Determinism

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

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...

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...

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...

Score Analysis, "The Temptations"

This paper presents a summary and analysis of a scene in "The Temptations," which is a 1998 TV movie that focuses on the 1960s mus...

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...