The Simpsons
.... many of the
humorous aspects. For example a spill of nuclear waste would not be very
amusing in a show with real people.
The show has the assumption that it is OK if your family argues all the
time. It shows this by the little arguments that the family constantly gets
into. It also shows that it's pointless to try to be good all the time. One
example is when they're eating at home they use no table manners whatsoever and
when they go to church they try to be like normal families. There are times in
the show when they step away from comedy and give a meaningful message about
family values, or friendship, etc..
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The Success Of Michael Crichton's Novels In The Media Industry
.... a boom in the entertainment
industry. Whether it is his top grossing movies or his top rated television
shows like E.R. which took a leading twenty prime-time Emmy nominations last
year including best drama (Carter 23).
Crichton's latest movie Congo, which had a great opening weekend, was
one of his successes. This movie was based on a book that Crichton wrote in the
early 80's, long before he became the entertainment powerhouse that he is now.
Chrichton's novels seem to be written for big screen translations (Brom 14).
Publishers say that they can't recall a time since Jaws and The Exorcist, two
decades ago, when movies gave .....
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Westerns
.... body that
may turn one screw hour after hour. Storylines variety was endless for the
west's story tellers. Any story could be written and placed as a western. The
love interest, hated villian and old enemy all fit in a western. If a writer did
not want to take the time to develop an enemy, one was readily available in the
native americans. The wests stories can be varied by switching points of view as
seen by the outlaw martyrs view, lonely marshall and wandering cow hands view.
The appeal of the wests settlement to writers will forever be strong.
It's impact on the movie industry alone has been tremendous as witnessed by the
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Communication Between Men And Women: They Can't Be The Same
.... female forms of communication to a
more masculine form of communication. Once they change, the men who they come
into contact with change the way they communicate as well, or they face serious
consequences. This demonstrates the fact that men and women are bound to
communicate differently. In the movie, Thelma and Louise react violently to men
who communicate directly to them after they have changed their form of
communication. These violent reactions are a result of the men breaking the
cultural ideal that men and women are bound to communicate differently. At the
beginning of the movie Thelma and Louise, Thelma and Lou .....
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To Be Shakespeare, Or Not To Be Shakespeare, That Is The Question
.... in the scene with the guards, and most noticeably in the scene with
Laertes and Ophelia, before he leaves for France. This same scene demonstrates
how the camera enables the characters to switch from one setting to the next, as
when Laertes, Ophelia, and Polonius are taken from outside to the church. This,
in turn, helps Branaugh set the scene for Ophelia and Polonius, in which,
Ophelia confesses everything to her father, perhaps only because she is in a
confession booth. Filming also allows for clarification of what is being said
through silent plays. During characters' dialogue, the scene switches to
actions of the past, pr .....
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Tracking TV Programs
.... as they begin to lose the younger viewers and start focusing on more
mature audiences. The content becomes more violent and sexually explicit. The
comedy also follows this pattern and becomes more adult oriented, such as HBO's
"Def Comedy Jam". This is also the time of night that those famous infomercials
begin airing. The reason for this is that these are the cheapest time slots to
buy and broadcast on. These hour long commercials usually end out the viewing
day.
In conclusion, it is apparent that television programs are devised to target
specific groups of viewers. The networks set aside the early evening for
c .....
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Hamlet Revenge
.... He was nosy and arrogant, and he did not
trust his children. He was killed by Young Hamlet while he was eves
dropping on a conversation between Hamlet and his mother. "How now! A
rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!" King Hamlet was the King of Denmark, and
Hamlet's father. He had killed King Fortinbras, only to be killed by his
brother, Claudius."My offense is rank, it smells to heaven; A brother's
murderą" Each of these events effected the sons of the deceased in the
same way, it enraged them.
Every one of the three eldest sons had one thing in common, they all
wanted revenge for a slaughtered father. In the time in which th .....
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Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
.... a stat card on the back of the box he was sold in that described his
various skills and attributes. I used to always cut these stat cards from the
back of the boxes, and tape them onto large sheets; which I hung on my bedroom
wall. Along with the action figures, I also had Transformer books and
Transformer bedsheets. I couldn't get enough of the Transformers. I saw about
every episode, and I knew about everything there was to know about them.
The Transformers were intelligent robots with the ability to transform
from a robot shape to some other shape. The very first Transformers were the
Autobots and the Decepticons. The .....
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Movie: Tucker - Preston Tucker
.... not have enough money, so he issued 4 million shares to raise
his money. Besides, retooling for a model change could cost $20 million and
since his car was a new brand, Tucker was lack of support of the big firms, so
he needed a lot of money to advertise his car. Second, Tucker's company had to
produce 100 cars as the outputs every day so that he could make a balance. He
also needed money to employ dealers and he needed 800 dealers in his company.
Third, he did not have enough resources to make his cars. He only had 200 tons
of steel and this was barely enough for 200 cars. He needed more steel. He also
had to spend $16 million to .....
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TV Shows And Real Life
.... something and everyone else making fun of him when he
fails miserably. Al is someone you can hardly call a father to his kids, he's
doesn't take care of them and he does absolutely nothing father-like for them or
with them. Al is constantly complaining about his marriage, he says that if he
was sober that night, none of this would have happened. He calls his children
accidents and the only good memory he has, is of him being a great high school
football player, which he would take to the next level had all his dreams not
been crushed by Peg. The only living thing Al really likes on the show is his
dog, Buck, to which he can .....
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TV Violence
.... As a result of the petiton, many stations
voluntarily refused to air the controversial kids show. This case shows the
power that people can have over the CRTC. Unfortunately, the parents were not
able to entirely shield their children from the Power Rangers TV show. Many US
broadcasters, available on cable, continued to air the show.
Another study that supports this belief that TV violence causes children
to act more violently is an experiment conducted by Leonard Eron and his
collegues. In these studies, Leonard Eron and his collegues studied childern
for a number of years and measuread peer ratings obtained from each child .....
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TV Violence: Impossible To Get Rid Of Violence On Television
.... shows went up 150% and in
fictional shows they went up 39%. The overall violence went up 41%.
What about the V-chip? The chip that would block out violence
and sex on TV. But is that offending people's freedom of speech? Who would
choose to use the V-chip? The government can't force people to use it, so how
could they re-enforce its use?
In conclusion, I think it is almost impossible to erase violence
by ridding the world of TV violence. There's too much violence and banning
violence off TV is not the answer to solve our problems.
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