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Essays 211 - 240

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...

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 ...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

About Eugene Lee

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

Pitching a TV Series

and still garner high ratings. Lets try and invent a different sort of reality show. Devising the concept is the hardest part of ...

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," ...

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...

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...

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...

McDonald's and Current Marketing

visual media such as those forms listed above plus newspapers, magazines and MTV. The repetition reinforces the primary message, ...

Cinema Persuasiveness

G-1). While such anecdotal evidence certainly suggests that films affect how we behave, the empirical evidence on this subject is ...

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...

Article on TV Violence

violence on television should either be eliminated altogether or at least reduced, and th television industry claims it is only im...

US Children and Obesity

need to be more in tune to their childrens activities and their food choices. Obesity observes no geographic or socioeconom...

Industry Segmentation

with the values they attach to making purchases and the access or utility they have in relation to that market. Airlines If we lo...

The Influence of Cultural Developments on Visual Art, from the Mid-19th to the Mid-20th Century

early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...

Cultural Aspects of Game Shows

can be found to replace it. Observers not only see the individual advantage but enjoy the same type of participation they have che...

HBO's Series The Sopranos

the Mafia. It explores a wide range of topics such as mental health, gender, family dynamics, conflict, class, sexuality, and of c...

Societal Impact of the Media

then, after a time, actions follow (Waliszewksy and Smithouser, 2001). The human brain, they note, doesnt need that "garbage" (Wal...