Entertainment Essay

the past 28 years. Each time they release a new console, they make improvements or changes to keep up with current technology. Most of the consoles they have released have been well-received, but one of them was a complete flop. The Nintendo Entertainment System, or the NES, was the first console Nintendo released. It had 8-bit graphics and used cartridges to play games. The console was released in North America in February, 1986. The NES cost $90 for the basic set and $100 for the NES and…

Today is known as the golden age of visual media, which has increased the accessibility of advertisements, and subsequently created a greater influence on society. Televised advertisements usually appear as commercials. Commercials are the quickest way to influence and effectively install a perceived necessity through an emotional appeal. A quintessential example of commercials that convey emotions is political commercials. Since the dawn of television, politicians have taken advantage of visual…

“Our Children are Watching…” The upcoming presidential election is an election unlike any other. The first candidate without any military or governmental experience, Donald J. Trump, is the Republican nominee. While the Democratic nominee is the first woman ever nominated— Hillary R. Clinton. Despite the lack of ads in this election compared to previous years, the rhetorical strategies still focus on discrediting the other opponent. Hillary Clinton’s advertisements are no exception. Hillary…

The mythical Donald Trump is a knotty character, he trades on several mythologies involving success, power, a man of “action”, authenticity (tells it as it is as “he’s one of us”) and the American greatness and destiny. Analysis on media texts is necessary for the audience to gain a better understanding of the power media texts produce meanings. We need textual analysis to identify how different elements of media texts form together to produce meaning and also how ‘common sense’ meanings are…

I remember when Donald Trump first announced his political run for office. He built his campaign on the slogan: We’re going to Make America Great Again, “reinforced” by his bold claim of “building a wall”. When Trump got down into the weeds with Megyn Kelly during the first Fox News Republican debate, I sensed Donald Trump was a proud and arrogant man. I went on my own campaign against him; making phone calls, writing emails, calling news agencies and talk shows, posting madly to Facebook —…

Randy Mario Poffo, better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler and color commentator best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling . He is regarded as one of the greatest pro wrestlers in history. Savage won 20 championships during his 32-year career. He held six world championships between the WWF and WCW, having won the WWF Championship twice and the WCW World Heavyweight Championship four times. He…

The year is 1983 and in the middle of the night in a cold New Mexico desert around 10-20 semi loader trucks are coming in one after another carrying boxes. Their destination was a hole that was dug up by construction workers. The workers crushed and threw out these boxes in the hole all while trying to make as little noise as possible. What could they be throwing out that they needed to stay quiet about? Could it be secret information about the government? Plans for a secret weapon? Evidence…

The young Johnson rose up seeing his father battling it in the sport of professional wrestling. Initially, he never thought of taking wrestling as a profession as he was into Football and used to play football for his University team. He wouldn’t have dropped that idea of becoming a footballer until a back injury forced him to quit his plans. Thus, he decided to take up Wrestling. Johnson switched to wrestling and made debut in the WWF against the mighty Brooklyn Brawler. Soon after, he started…

With the second biggest event of the WWE year, Summerslam, right around the corner, also comes one of the biggest and quite possible most important matches in the history of the event, Undertake vs Brock Lesnar. With that being said, there have been many showdowns at the annual blockbuster event that have had a similar big fight feel and have gone down in history as some of the best matches (and rivalries) of all time. So here are the top 10 Summerslam matches of all time 10 Brock Lesnar vs John…

Aubrey Drake Graham, better known as Drake, is a world renowned rapper from Toronto, Canada. He is known for his Grammy winning music, his work on the television show Degrassi, and for his involvement with the communities in Canada and the NBA. Today, the ninety million dollar star is caught in the middle of a horrific murder case of his long time friend and OVO label affiliate, Fif, real name, Anthony Soares. Although the Fif’s death appears as a violent murder on an unexpecting pedestrian,…