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Essays 181 - 210
interact with each other, and tend to ignore larger structures such as national governments and economies ("Theoretical Perspectiv...
of the African American community in the nation (The Professor). From the opposite perspective another author, in quoting ones com...
is, they might not be so eager to seem "cool" by carrying guns. But television doesnt show what its really like, perhaps because i...
to violence and to increase such adverse societal phenomenon as drug use and drinking. Those that support censorship of American ...
the ten greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, when Farnsworth died he held 300 U.S. and foreign patents. This articl...
which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...
then while watching there may be scenes that are not appropriate. There are ratings at the beginning of most shows so that parents...
with more knowledge than they may have had in the past. On the other hand, as they say, too much knowledge can be dangerous. Physi...
the presidency, and is doing well in the polls, there is a sense that diversity is a reality. In fact, the ticket to the white hou...
found that Internet technology is very often an inexpensive and profitable way to advertise their products and services. Many com...
As mentioned above, the product in question is a plasma television. At first blush, it would seem as though marketing such a produ...
concerning race, gender and social strata. Genre seems to be most important of tall and determines the basic hierarchical structur...
not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...
first introduced to America in the episode entitled "Meet the Bunkers" that CBS originally aired on Tuesday, January 12, 1971 at 9...
with the Stars and Homeland Security USA. The commercials themselves were for companies and products like Kay Jewelers, McDonald...
researcher that suggests that these differences relate as much to socioeconomics as they do to biology. She emphasizes that the i...
content that may be objectionable. As an example, this particular writer/researcher has a daughter who is 11 years old. The tele...
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...
are even changing the way we communicate with one another (through e-mail and instant messaging) as well as doing business (via e-...
innocuous concept as plugging a manufacturers product, for the advertising industry has become a well-versed and slick operation a...
is how science fiction portrays this futuristic idea. Indeed, the extent to which films and books have expounded upon the potenti...
can be explained by the growing acceptance in our culture of anything that is off color, illegal, or even immoral. The type of gl...
about how he/she appears to others and later on, the child develops a sense of sexual identity) Young adulthood/intimacy v ...
The service will be promoted through a strategic alliance with a television channel that has the same target market; such as Natio...
In five pages this paper hypothetically examines whether or not there is a connection between watching television during dinner ti...
2009). One very different thing to emerge was MTV. People by that time were used to situation comedy and drama, but music was gear...
emotional ties to the characters on the television. One assumption made is that the social surrogacy hypothesis is valid. One wr...
censor themselves, from including offensive material? What is okay to air in the name of comedy? To some extent, The Family Guy cr...
complete ban of courtroom photography and radio broadcasting. It was some fifteen years later that the ban was to also include th...
willing to "deflate our most over-inflated pieties" and delight in the "demolition of our most hallowed institutions" (Turner 50)....