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  • Interesting Interactive Aspect Of The Internet
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    Television and The Internet Having already done my fair share of internet surfing, I was excited to finally have the opportunity to do a research paper that involved this vast and seemingly boundless electronic world. It is easy to passively interact with the rest of the world and scan effortlessly through millions of pages of information, some of which is useful, some of which simply takes up space; the problem that many researchers and interest groups face is making sense of the whole thing. W...
  • Televised Events The Wwf
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    Professional wrestling programs are among the most popular shows on television; they often represent six out of the ten top-rated cable shows each week. In addition to boosting ratings, the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF) increased emphasis on violence, raw language and sexual suggestion has made it controversial. Even though the televised events the WWF chooses to put on television may be disputed; the broadcasts should still be considered acceptable on television today. Although the WWF is ...
  • Image Media Stereotypes Of Minorities
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    My topic will address how minorities and women are misrepresented in the media and how they are stereotyped. I plan to show how minorities and women are depicted or stereotyped unfairly in the news, on television, and in general. In an article from USA Today magazine, it illustrated that if you have watched, listened to, and read media all your life, you probably have filed these images into your thinking process: African-Americans are mostly rap stars, professional athletes, drug addicts, welfa...
  • Ads And Childrens Television
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    Television is populated with images which are superficial and lack depth. Programs look more like ads and ads look more like programs. All this leads to a close circle of consumerism. The three excerpts relate to these unifying ideas thus the validity of their argument. "Surface is all; what you see is what you get. These images are proud of their standing as images. They suggest that the highest destiny of our time is to become cleansed of depth and specificity altogether". (1). We live in a wo...
  • Addicted To A Television Show
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    ... t, spelling new words with Big Bird, and singing the alphabet song with Ernie and Bert. Not only did Sesame Street help prepare me for school; it also encouraged me to participate while learning. My brother and I would take turns solving math problems or spelling new words. On the other hand, with new programs being created more often now than ever before, it is easier for children to become very attached to a certain show. Even though the program is aiding the child, it is also causing an a...
  • Television Program 60 Minutes
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    27 Years of Influential 60 Minutes Since 1968 America has been better enlightened than previously concerning current events and happenings around the world. A considerable factor for this occurrence is the television program 60 Minutes which debuted on the air in September of 1968. Many other television newsmagazine's have been produced since its creation, however none have possessed the longevity nor the influence of 60 Minutes. Infact, 60 Minutes, which is owned by CBS News, was the first regu...
  • Television And Its Impact On Violence
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    March 16, 2005 Reaction Paper Media & Adolescence Concern about children and violence through the media has a long history. The attention is divided between the two sides which view media as an insignificant problem or the opposite, a threat. Everyone, male or female, white or black, child or adult, are affected and influenced by the media. We learn from television each day, and without the slightest intent do we take after what we see. There is no doubt that children alter their ways of life du...
  • Context And Purpose Of The Chat Room
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    Barrett Rogers ANT 1013.005 Dr. Robert J. Hard March 29, 2005 Speech Community Contribution There is an infinite amount of chat rooms available on the internet and each one can be defined as its own speech community. I have chosen to analyze a chat room that is devoted to the hit Fox reality show, American Idol. The transcript used was from a chat session that occurred at 10: 00 PM on March 27, 2005. This online chat room seemed to be the source of a continuous flow of opinionated statements reg...
  • Gay Characters On Mainstream Television
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    'Roseanne and The Kiss " Jodi Terwilliger 2/12/97 Paper #1 Dr. Lawrence This past winter break, myself and one of my best friends were driving down one of the main roads in our home town of Elmira, New York. I happened to look up at a billboard that was on the side of the road, and saw a sign that read something like: "Be safe, be smart, be protected". I thought to myself (immediately) "well, that's a big improvement from a few years ago when condom ads weren't even allowed on television". Then ...
  • Debbie Allens Career
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    Debbie Allen Debbie Allen has become one of Americas brightest stars. She has spent a lifetime preparing to be famous. She lives her life by the philosophy that luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Actress, singer, dancer, director, producer Allen was born in Houston, Texas, on January 16, 1950, to a Pulitzer Prize-nominee for poetry, Vivian Allen, and a dentist, Andrew Allen. She is the third of four children (one sister and two brothers) in a family that includes Phylicia Rashad-Clare o...
  • Mtv Network Europe
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    ... t success in the United States as well as in foreign markets. The channel broadcasts to twenty-four countries in Europe in ten languages. On average it reaches about fifteen million homes. The channel has also had similar success in Latin America. There are twenty-four hour a day channels that broadcast in Spanish, English and Portuguese. Fox Family reached about six million home in seventeen countries. The Fox Family Network provides programming to fifty countries in fourteen languages (Thu...
  • Female Occupations On Television
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    Portrayal of Women in the Media Gender is the psychological characteristics and social categories that are created by human culture. Doing gender is the concept that humans express their gender when they interact with one another. Messages about how a male or female is supposed to act come from many different places. Schools, parents, and friends can influence a person. Another major factor that influences millions of impressionable females and males is television. Not only does the television t...
  • Introduction Of The Television Into The America
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    Televisions impact on society How many would believe the common television is a major building block of our present society Yes, the very T.V. in your bedroom is one of the many influences that built and is building our society at this very moment. Through its' many commercials, sitcoms, and movies, they lay thick layers of influences on the average individual. The introduction of the television into the America forever effected the society, and still effects the society at our present time. The...
  • Television Violence
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    Television Violence Society was changed forever through the invention of the television. We now have access to information across the globe and entertainment around the clock. At what point has the industry crossed the line in television entertainment Mentally or physically we all at some point or another want to be like the television personalities we see on a daily basis. No one is more influenced than the impressionable youths who are raised by the television rather than their parents. After ...
  • Television Show Beverly Hills 90210
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    Does Television Shows Reflect American Culture? There are many movies and television shows that reflect American culture. A show or movie must address some current societal problem or trend in order to truly reflect American life; murder, rape, racism, and, on a less serious note, parties, shopping, and sports are topics that deserve serious consideration by the public and the media. The show Beverly Hills 90210 attempts to be an accurate portrayal of the life of a typical well-off American teen...
  • Funny Show
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    Women in Television, and what can be said. Skinny, blond, ditzy, annoying, un-educated, easy, and considered a typical women. If you " re a women and you hear these words, does it make you think of who you are, or your mother or sisters? I think not... but I do think about the people I see on television and in magazines or in movies. What I want to know is who is writing the scripts for some of the television shows that I watch. I would like to hope that it's not women putting these stereotypes ...
  • Philo Taylor Farnsworth
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    Introduction "The instrument can teach, it can illuminate, it can even inspire. But only if human beings are willing to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it is just wires and lights in a box". Edward R. Murrow, NBC studios in NEW York on June 2, 1953. You use it all the time. It's a part of your every day life, but do you really have any idea who invented it Television is the center of the household. It will always be there. You cannot ignore it just as you cannot ignore a plague. Not many ponder...
  • Sex On Television Prime Time
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    Once upon a time in the Golden Age of television, networks deferred to their own in-house offices of standards, which kept profanity, questionable morals, and salacious behavior off the airwaves. Today's standard- free TV shows are obsessed with sex and it is very obvious to even the most casual viewer. This paper will discuss in depth, where all of this sex stuff started and how bad it's really gotten, on Network Television sitcoms. The following research study, sponsored by the Henry J. Kaiser...
  • Subject Of Crack
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    ARGUMENTATIVE PIECE: THE TELEVISION FIEND One would say that only American politicians habitually spout inane rubbish in an attempt to get people to like them, but the 'ever so talented's tars of Ally McBeal are skilled beyond reproach in this field. Much moronic writing has been seen on TV, not just by reliable witnesses. I will focus, however, on the actors that make up one of the most irritating casts in recorded history. One wonders about the fact that the best sitcom writers in the world ar...
  • Trend Of Current Political Debates On Television
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    Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business was published in 1985. Postman goes to great detail in his book about the development of public discourse (verbal and written communication) over the centuries. He explains how the development and evolution of communication over mankind's history has changed at critical points. These critical points include the development of the alphabet, the printing press invention, the progress of the telegraph and the cr...

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