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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 ...

Children and Media Violence

games and the computer, it rises up between 35 and 55 hours a week (Gentile et al., 2004; 1235). Through this much media exposure ...

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...

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...

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...

Post-Modernism and Filmmaker David Lynch

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

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...

Cablevision and The Cable TV Industry

If we isolate out industry consideration to the cable television companies that we can look this as a mature industry. In 1997 the...

Employee Termination

work they do or is it just a means to bring home a paycheck? Another mistake many managers make when hiring for employment is in ...

Italian Americans Defined by Network Television Shows

intelligence as seen in the character of the Fonz. "When Arthur (Fonzie) Fonzarelli appeared on the screen in 1974, with his slick...

Case Study on Human Rights

Billy would certainly have a stronger case against the Daily Gossip; however, because freedom of the press protects the publicatio...

Television Programming for Children and How It Has Evolved

the Science Guy. It took three years for the FCC to realize that the original Childrens Television Act did not possess the force ...

'Mr. Television' Milton Berle

could readily relate. His approach to comedy was like his approach to life: if you cannot laugh, you cannot live. Indeed, Berles...

Essays on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Video, and TV

at a blackboard writing words. As soon as he completes the "d" in the last word the tape is over. The running time for the tape is...

Overview of OCD

plans in place which have proven themselves useful for normalizing the behavior and thought patterns of OCD individuals. These tr...

Sex and Violence on Television

many viewers find objectionable. It has been described as "wall-to-wall violence scored to gratingly loud rock with the occasional...

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...

Oppenheim's Media Violence and Television

to conform to these, or to rebel against them. Thoman (2003) makes the point that the American Psychological Associations survey i...

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...

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...

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...

Media Studies and Theory

concepts and have produced new technologies and data largely based upon past theoretical research and evaluation. Unders...

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...

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...

Technological Determinism

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

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 ...