Essays on Characterizations

There are a number of different characterizations shown on TV. Many are easily recognizable due to their popularity. The following classifies some of more popular characterizations on television. FEMALE-These characters can be broken down into Antagonists and Protagonists. The female Antagonists can be further sorted into the following categories (1) the Femme Fatale (Katherine Pierce Vampire Diaries) who uses sex to manipulate people into giving her what she wants, she is usually portrayed as being cold and unfeeling (2) The Over-Controlling Mother (Norma Bates in Bates Hotel) this is the type of mother who cannot let go of her ...

Oppositional Defiant Disorder is currently listed as a diagnosis for children or adolescents, with set symptom lists and diagnostic models for clinicians. However, this disease has undergone a wide array of changes to symptomology, diagnostic criteria, etiology, treatment, and theory. From the emergence of the disease in 1968 as a subtopic, through a specific diagnostic code and classification of its own, the evolution of this once-ignored disease has been rapid yet undertaken with a great deal of conscientious effort by those who develop the manuals and standards the entire mental health community follows. Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is a diagnosis of a mental health disease, ...

Perception

According to the U.S. Department of Justice (2011), many Arab Americans are Christian and not Muslim contrary to popular belief. However, perception continues to exist that most of the Arabs in the United States are Muslim. This is because Arab-speaking countries are often predominantly Muslim. For example, there is a perception that all native Arab speakers are Muslim. Bell (2012) defines Arab-Americans as immigrants from Arab-speaking countries of North Africa and the Middle East. Arab-speaking countries consist of Arab League members and range from Iraq in the east to Morocco in the west. It is important to note that people ...

For those with the eyes to look far past the Presidency, now in the hands of an African-American man, there is still an impending crisis within the U.S.; that is, an existing movement that continues to use Blaxploitation films as a means to accurately portray representative characterizations of African Americans. Although we are now well into the 21st century, this has been an on-going problem that was first put to society’s attention by Ossie Davis. "Cotton Comes to Harlem" is one such movie that achieved legendary status, when it was released in 1970. By some, it is even considered a ‘ ...

The human inclination to seek explanations for the strange and unusual is as old as human civilization. The supernatural has always provided a convenient rationale for forces that are beyond human control and understanding. War, disease and other natural phenomena are misfortunes that have been ascribed to the influence of witchcraft, of a force directed by a malevolent intelligence bent on subverting the harmony of a godly universe. Patriarchal European society has historically assigned witchcraft a decidedly feminine cast, an image that was formalized during the Middle Ages by the church and in print. The result was centuries of gender-based persecution, torture and violent ...