Essays on Television Show

Introduction

Shark Tank is a reality television show, which entails entrepreneurship and investment. The program features some of the richest people in the world in matters regarding investment and businesses funding. It was first aired on August 9, 2009, on ABC. During the show, entrepreneurs are in some form of a contest to win the favor of the investors, who are referred to as ‘sharks’ in the show. After presenting their business ideas and products, the entrepreneurs hope that the investors would take an interest in the presentation and offer to invest in their companies. The program has been a ...

I watched an episode of the television show “FRIENDS”. This was the first time when I watched the show with the sound off and it was a good learning experience. Since it is a comedy show, it is really important for the actors to have the right body language to attract the viewers. I watched the episode in which some friends met for dinner on a Friday night. For the first two to three minutes, I found it very difficult to understand anything since I am not used to watching television shows with sound trend off. But after the ...

Social Action Theory

Anderson and Meyer (1988) use the following terminology to understand the social action theory: “For most of the history of research in mass communication, content has been seen as a silver bullet shot from a media gun to penetrate a hapless audience” (Anderson and Meyer 48). Media affects can be related to the social action theory by evaluating the negative effects of playing violent video games on children. A television show by CBS News further places emphasis on the role video games has on making children aggressive. The show clarifies that independent studies have proven that there is a ...

Analysis of the Showtime Series Shameless

Analysis of the Showtime Series Shameless Over the decades, there have been a lot of television shows that attempted to reveal the inner workings of American working-class families. Shows like All in the Family, Good Times, Roseanne, Malcolm in the Middle and many others have portrayed ordinary people (and mostly ordinary families) and their struggles just to get by. Virtually all of them have done this using comedic elements. A few years ago, a new series appeared on Showtime called Shameless. At first glance, Shameless appears to have a good deal in common with all of these other sitcoms ...

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Analysis3 Current Market Features..3 Marketing Summary..3

Competitive Advantage.3

Segmentation, Targeting & Positioning...4

Branding5

Potential Impact on Consumer Behavior..6

Growth Opportunities.7

Conclusion..8 References..9 Amazon Review & Strategy Analysis Current Market Factors Amazon is among a number of firms that emerged quickly during the 1990’s or 2000’s. Among the others that have done the same would include Google, Twitter and Facebook. Twenty years ago, Amazon and these other firms were in their infancy or did not exist. The veritable explosion of social media, mobile computing and internet technology in general has served as a vehicle to help those firms progress from their nascent stages to the ...

Daytime TV reality shows have become an important part of our society’s entertainment, legal and education system. They give us an impression of how exactly the real courtroom would look like and what we should expect in case we get embroiled in similar law suits. While some of the TV court shows are not real and involve fictitious characters such as judges, litigants, and court clerks, most of them like The People’s Court and Judge Judy involve real characters. The People’s Court TV Show, for example, has real parties who have instituted a civil case in ...

Introduction

The two robbery incidents discussed in this paper are recent and occurred within twenty-four hours of each other. The first incident is a gas station robbery which is part of a spree of similar robberies of gas stations and convenient stores. The latest incident occurred at Neenah in Winnebago County. The robber used a handgun to intimidate the gas station attender and wore a black ski mask. He was of medium build and a member of the African American community. The case is still open with police setting up a hotline for the public to reach them with tips. ...

In the article, "Why Game of Thrones is taking over the world," writer Charlotte Runcie considers the popularity of the HBO television series noting that it is one of most popular shows of all time and is broadcast in roughly 170 countries. The series, which is based on a series of books by George R R Martin, is packed abundantly with everything from poisonous murders to beheadings, fights and dragons. The appeal is intricate and intense among fans. The show is recognized as exploring the topic of power, weaving in the comic and harsh realities of what is means ...

Popular television shows often reproduce and have a connection to real life gender, class, relationships, political ideas, religious identities among other issues (Dines & Humez, 2003). One needs to be attentive to television shows for a better understanding of how they portray these issues. This paper is going to focus on the television show Strangers with Candy which is a Comedy Central comedy series, and how it encodes real life issues such as the ones above. Strangers with Candy boldly covers difficult subjects ranging from alcoholism to mentally retarded persons having an affinity of baked deserts. The three main issues ...

It needs to be reckoned that the television series, Prison Break, is surely one of the most famous programs ever aired in the history of television shows. Indeed, the immense popularity and critical acclaim of this show makes it a universal hit with its fan base transcending geographical boundaries and differences of cultures. A close scrutiny of the television show would provide an in-depth knowledge of the intricacies of portrayal and the thematic content of the program that have highly contributed to the show’s catapulting popularity and critical acclaim. There have been as many as four seasons of ...

Homer Jay Simpson is one of the most famous cartoon characters and very much liked by children and adults throughout the world. Children of every age are fans of Mr. Simpson and they can’t wait to see him on television. Homer Simpson is not a real life character, but a fictional cartoon character who appears in the series The Simpsons. On the television show, Homer and his wife Marge have three children: Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. As the family's provider, he works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Homer embodies several American working class stereotypes: he is crude, ...

Introduction:

The Media platform is a changing landscape. It has continuously evolved over the last few decades from print media to online platforms. Online media viewership has increased many-fold since the advent of easier access to the Internet and faster Internet speeds. People prefer accessing their favorite media content on the Internet since it gives them the option of watching their shows at their own choice of time. This rise in Internet usage for streaming video and audio content must have brought down the usage of one of the most frequently and widely used media platform in the past two ...

The CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) effect or the CSI syndrome is the phenomenon that shows that the media has been spreading serious concerns on the integrity of the criminal trials which are being influenced by the effects of popular television show – CSI (Dioso-Villa, 2009). It is basically the perception that the forensic science results are false as they do not match with the observations in the television show. This syndrome is the effect of the increase in the mass media. This effect started appearing in the year 2003 after the show became popular on the television. Another side effect ...

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ABSTRACT Obsessive compulsive behaviors is mental illness that affects people’s lives negatively. The symptoms of the disorder include obsessive behaviors especially when it comes to cleaning, arrangement of things and order of things. They are also very compulsive in a manner in which, they are unable to cope life with others (DSM-5). They tend to try and clean other people’s things or arrange them in a certain manner. Hands are frequently washed and cleaned especially after coming into contact with other people. The risk factors for ...

Questions:

1) Watch a television show of your choice that falls into one of the sub genres mentioned above in Notes.  Post the name of the show you watched in thread title. Analyze the program according to the criteria you read above in Module 2 notes.  I've included the pilot episode link for Hill Street Blues below, but feel free to choose any show you'd like. Most can be found on youtube.com and hulu.com. http://www.hulu.com/watch/325 I watched a television show in the sub-genre of police procedural called NCIS. The episode began with the cast interacting pleasantly with one another, until ...

[NOTE: Leave introduction blank] - Oprah Winfrey - The first point in Winfrey’s commencement address was that her message focuses on inspiration for anyone who has felt “inferior, disadvantaged, or screwed by life.” This point was explained when sharing her teenage years developing into a young adult in Tennessee. Based on those early years, she obviously felt inferior and screwed; yet she went on to do great things in life. - The second point presented the success of her television show along with the ups and downs of raising the bar. She shared the importance of ...

Reader’s Log

For the purposes of this analysis, I chose to look at a Wikipedia article for one of my favorite television shows, the British science fiction series Doctor Who. Naturally, for a Wikipedia article about a sci-fi show with a large fanbase and more than 50 years of history, the article itself is quite large with a great number of sources. Of the nearly 200 citations made on the Doctor Who Wikipedia page, many of them are links to awards the show has won, including Hugos, forum posts from Doctor Who fan forums such as “Outpost Gallifrey,” print and online publications such as the Radio ...

Television comedies come in all shapes and sizes; there are a wide variety of audiences to appeal to and draw in through the use of comedy on television (Mills 1). To that end, television comedies are found in different configurations, with distinguishing factors being the type of comedy, the length of the show, the way each show is filmed, etc. (Mills 33). From The Simpsons to The Office, there are thousands of different comedy shows that have been or are currently on the airwaves, but many of them have several defining attributes to them that set themselves apart from each ...

Abstract

Media channels promote TV violence aggressively to earn money. What was limited to imaginative stories on movies and television shows are now enacted in real life violence on TV. In the event of such promotion of violence, the influence of media violence on children as well as teenagers has become a topic of great discussion, especially when the number of crimes committed by teenagers is escalating around the world. There lies a conflict of opinion among people as regards the effect of media violence on teenagers with one group believing that violence is a natural streak inherent in some people and children ...

Thesis Statement:

Rick mercer changed the way of political comedy and made a difference not only in Ontario but all over Canada by his sharp political satires and shows. Rick mercer has an opinion about everything that is in news. By this paper, you will learn about Rick mercer, his life, career, and achievements. Rick mercer is a known political satirist, writer, television star, journalist and comedy legend of Canada. Rick is a real hero of Canadian television and has anchored several famous television shows of the Canadian television history. Rick mercer was born in middle cove, St. John’s, Canada on 17th ...

The 20-year run of the popular television show "Gunsmoke" first presented as a radio show in the 1950s first aired in September on CBS of 1955 running until the same month in 1975 and remains the longest-running dramatic TV series to date (TVland.com 2013) provided some of the most memorable characters in the early years of television. Among this much-loved adult Western are the top male and female characters - Marshal Matt Dillon and Saloonkeeper Miss Kitty. Oddly enough, for the era this show ran, both the Marshal and Miss Kitty proved strong characters with outer wrappings of gender-stereotyped behavior in ...

The primary effect of a breach in confidentiality in the healthcare field is a loss of trust in the patient-caregiver relationship (Erickson and Millar, 2005). Because trust between the patient and all medical caregivers including nurses is something that the medical profession wants to foster, there is an ethical duty for the caregiver to keep patient information confidential. In particular, there are several aspects of the patient-care giver relationship that are supported by the ethical duty to keep patient’s information confidential. First, the duty is upheld to allow patients to fully disclose information to medical personnel (Nathanson, 2000). With all ...

The expert of dark romanticism can be created to Edgar Allan Poe. There are authors that are part of this period. Just as historians have their opinions about the true cause of the Civil War; English lovers have their choice on who is the greatest. Majority would choose Edgar Allan Poe. He presented works of literature during his time that was considered weird, and bad. In today society, Poe is seen by countless as an expert of art for the dark side. A side that is today is considered Gothic. This paper will reflect over the poem ...

- What is media literacy? Discuss at least three ways consumers can become more media literate and the benefits or drawbacks of this. How would you describe your own media literacy and how has this helped or hindered you? Media literacy is the ability to have media access, comprehend the media and have an analytical approach to media’s content or message. It is about creating communication in several contexts (Potter, 2005). Being media literate means that we are able to make use of information or content shown through different medium and be able to analyze these data. ...

Al Franken was one of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, one of the longest running shows in television history; and one of the most socially relevant. Although it cannot match the more than 65 years that Meet the Press (which first aired on November 6, 1947) , part of the longevity of both shows can be attributed to is that they stay on top of relevant current events. There is a post circulating on Facebook that says, “I get my news from Comedy Central and my comedy from Fox News.” . Saturday Night Live was one of the main influences ...

Introduction

In a recent study conducted by British researchers over 11,000 kids born between the years 2000 and 2002, it has been found out that children who spent over three hours watching TV are likely to develop hostile behavior such as stealing, bullying or fighting. There are numerous studies and surveys conducted over the decades which have demonstrated how watching age-inappropriate programs on TV could result in disturbing behavioral pattern in children. A research result shows that by the time a child finishes elementary school, he must have watched at least 8,000 murders on TV if not more. By the ...

Entry One: When I Am Old, I Shall Wear Purple

The first thing I thought of when I considered the idea of aging issues was a poem by Jenny Joseph, who wrote Warning, the first lines of which are, “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/ With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me” (Sachteleben 2009). Joseph was born in 1932 in England composed this ode to being elderly in 1961. Although she grew up in a different generation, Joseph’s poem still resonates. In some ways, there is a certain freedom for the elderly. Many people spend their younger lives trying to do the right thing, ...

Television can be and has always been a powerful tool for social change. It provides a channel for the transfer of ideas and also acts as a source of entertainment. Politics and religion have been advanced quite successfully through the use of television and as technological advancements are made, so does television advance, with the developments now on 3D television and intelligent televisions, which offer the highest quality of viewer experience. Television is used for a wide range of purposes, from educative to informative. It however continues to be a source of entertainment for millions of viewers worldwide and offers an array of selection ...

The Jerry Springer Show is arguably one of the most favorable television programs in the United States of America. The serial television program runs family and interpersonal relationship feuds. The complainant contacts the television show host, Jerry Springer, who then arranges to get both the defendant and the plaintiff to the live audience show. The two parties proceed to table their dispute and each of them gives his or her side of the story. The scenes in most cases get as murky as the two engaging in physical fights that would consequently continue with neither the host nor the ...

Ideological Analysis traces its origin from the Marxist theory of Culture. It specifies the knowledge produced by the television related to cultural practices and relics on the audiences of television. These positions and knowledge’s of the cultural text which in this case is television provides and links the viewers with the class interests and economy of the television industry which again is a branch of larger cultural industry, comprising of radio, film industry, music industry and print media. Ideological analysis derives from the fact that all the cultural artifacts including the television shows are created for the precise audience ...

In Douglas Rushkoff’s article “Bart Simpson: Prince of Irreverence,” he refers to the FOX sitcom The Simpsons as “the closest thing in America to a national media literacy program.” (Graff et al, p. 241) Within this program, the Simpson family deconstructs memes and cultural landmarks of television at a breakneck pace, holding a lantern up to the way that media works and displaying it for all to see. The Simpsons educates its viewers to view media with a more critical eye due to its irreverence and ability to recognize and lampoon the structure and politics of the media industry. In this paper, ...

In Douglas Rushkoff’s article “Bart Simpson: Prince of Irreverence,” he refers to the FOX sitcom The Simpsons as “the closest thing in America to a national media literacy program.” (Graff et al, p. 241) Within this program, the Simpson family deconstructs memes and cultural landmarks of television at a breakneck pace, holding a lantern up to the way that media works and displaying it for all to see. Due to its irreverence and ability to recognize and lampoon the structure and politics of the media industry, The Simpsons educates its viewers to view media with a more critical eye. In this paper, ...