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Entertainment Essays and Term Papers
Candide By VoltaireVoltaire's Candide is a novel which contains conceptual ideas and at the same time is also exaggerated. Voltaire offers sad themes disguised by jokes and witticism, and the story itself presents a distinctive outlook on life. The crucial contrast in the story deals with irrational ideas as taught ...
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Media And SocietyThe media has influenced people in society in many ways. One of those ways is mostly through television. Just sixty years ago the invention of the television was viewed with black and white ghost like figures on a screen so small hardly anyone could see them clearly. From reporting the news, and ...
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A Dependent GenerationThe computer has become one of the most important and influential luxuries of this generation. Young people use computers every day for school, work, and entertainment. They are the first generation to have become computer literate as early as the onset of adolescence. For most of their lives ...
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The Art Of Storytelling And FolktalesThe great art of storytelling has been around for generations
calling forth new listeners even at this present day. In everyday life,
through books, theaters, televisions, and spoken word, new and old stories
are told to a variety of people. The folktale, which has been a part of a
long oral ...
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The Rise Of Gladiatorial Combat In RomeGladiatorial contests (munera gladitoria), hold a central place in our
perception of Roman behavior. They were also a big influence on how Romans
themselves ordered their lives. Attending the games was one of the practices
that went with being a Roman. The Etruscans who introduced this type ...
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Gangsta Rap: CrimeThe cultural majority in America is up in arms over the rising levels of
violence and horrific images that have seeped into popular entertainment.
Movies, television, and music have always been controversial, but even they can
cross the line between poor taste and immorality. Entertainment ...
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27 Years Of Influential 60 MinutesSince 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
newsmagazines have been ...
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The Psychological Effects Of Gender Roles
�Let the boys be boys.� You�ve heard this phrase before. Often repeated by parents regarding their little boys. So what makes a boy, a boy? Rambo like characteristics? Muscles? Short hair? Wearing blue? Wearing T-shirts and jeans or playing with sporting equipment? Well last I ...
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Ben-HurEvery so often in cinema history there is a movie which supersedes
all those before it. Only a select few films actually advance the quality
of the overall cinematic world. is a movie which dared to do so.
Near the end of 1959 this film crashed on to the entire world. The budget
and subsequent ...
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The Simpsons - A Cartoon PortrCritics describe the series as "the most realistically surreal cartoon series ever." Former First Lady Barbara Bush commented in an interview that was published by People magazine (September, 1990) that the show was "the dumbest thing I've ever seen." In 1992, a group of parents in Greenwood, ...
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Trapped Inside The TVWhat is it that controls what is accepted and rejected within any society? Who decides what is right, and what is wrong, and what is an illusion? In Amusing Ourselves to death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show business, Neil Postman makes many arguments that the dominant medium of culture ...
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Violence And PornographyPornography -- Sex or Subordination?
In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged
by the rape, mutilation, and murder of over a dozen young,
beautiful girls. The man who committed these murders, Ted
Bundy, was later apprehended and executed. During his
detention in various ...
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Pro Wrestlinghas been on T.V. since the very beginning of Television with weekly shows and then moving to a Saturday morning show in 1974, when Vince McMahon bought the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from his father. In 1974, the WWF only had about five hundred thousand viewers where today it has over ...
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Unacknowledged GiftsDoes practice really make perfect? Can anyone reach the status of perfection? The answer is obvious; everyone makes mistakes. Trying to reach society's image of flawlessness, Americans endanger themselves everyday by taking drugs, starving themselves, and taking many other risks. If there were ...
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Radio - Making Waves In AmericaRadio: Making Waves in America
Radio-wave technology is one of the most important technologies used by man. It has forever changed the United States and the world, and will continue to do so in the future. Radio has been a communications medium, a recreational device, and many other things to us. ...
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Literature And Its Affect On Society
All throughout American history, literature has played an important role in the shaping of the nation's culture and ideology. Having an extremely influential past, literature indirectly affects the television world that has swept over the minds of the baby boomers and their offspring. In ...
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Pornography-- Sex or Subordination? In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged by the rape, mutilation, and murder of over a dozen young, beautiful girls. The man who committed these murders, Ted Bundy, was later apprehended and executed. During his detention in various penitentiaries, he ...
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Usage Of The InternetNielsen Media Research, which began studying Internet usage in
1994, reported that in 1995 40% of Americans over the age of 12 had
access to computers. (Nielsen Media Research, July 1996) 10% of
Americans over 16, were online at that time. In their most recent
survey, taken in December 1996 and ...
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Capitalism In Mass Media- E.W.
"Media are special because of the uniqueness of the product the business deals in. The commodity the media business sells is our most precious: news, opinion and ideas."
Capitalism and its values are nurtured within the mass media. Popular American films have carefully targeted particular ...
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Our World Or Brave New WorldAldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in the 1930�s. During this time the world was making its first steps in scientific and technological advances. These advances were seen not only as evidence of man�s progress but also as a tremendous hope for mankind. People began to become more and more ...
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