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With a timeless ability to charm and limitless reach over the population, I Love Lucy retains America’s infatuation in its entertainment value and cultural critique even extending half a century later. With the show’s 1950s setting and outward adherence to some of the patriarchal ideology, contemporary perspectives reveal the unalienable legitimacy to the accusations of it reinforcing patriarchal norms and being degrading to women, although it did encourage bicultural living. But as this is a…

Once they made the shift to television, they casted black actors Alvin Childress and Spencer Williams. The show only last 3 years due to the NAACP push to have the show removed because of the racist representation of black people the show represented I Love Lucy was another exception to the narrative. It was CBS most popular viewed showed the majority of the years it was on air (Kirschen 735l. Desi Arnaz who was originally from Cuba came to America after marrying American actress, Lucille Ball. …

“He sees people with curiosity, compassion, grace, and excitement; hears the voices of teenagers…” These are the words of Shailene Woodley, a well known actress who starred in many movies, including “The Fault In Our Stars”, a movie based on John Green’s number one New York Best seller’s book, The Fault In our Stars. John Green was born on August 24, 1977 and is still alive today at age 39. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the son of Mike and Sydney Green. Soon after he was born,…

greatly impacted our society for decades now. From the air of I Love Lucy to our current Modern Family, the shows have influenced our American society. The perspectives taken into consideration are the following: cultural, historical and psychological. These lenses will debut the manner in which our country has been influenced by television sitcoms since the fifties until recent years. In the year 1951, on CBS the sitcom named I Love Lucy aired and took the world by storm.…

pre-feminist era, television audiences were offered a large dose of sitcoms; Ranging from main characters being women, to racist middle-aged men. While all these sitcoms are strikingly different, they do share the aspect of all relating to society. I love Lucy was an American sitcom that was on the air from October 15th, 1951 to May 6th 1957. This sitcom focuses on the life of ambitious Lucy Ricardo, who lives in New York alongside her husband Ricky Ricardo. Ricky tries to succeed in show…

The first stanza of Angelou’s phenomenal woman talks about how women who are pretty on the outside wonder why Angelou is so confident, because she is not as pretty as them, or does not have as nice of a body like they do. She tells these women that it’s true she is not thin like a model but the beauty that she portrays is deep within and these women just can…

has a theme unrelated to racial segregation. The poem as a whole is a beautiful testimony to the power of love. In it, the reader can follow a movement from the time before love’s arrival, to the moment at which it enters a human life, and finally to the effects it then has on that life(beamingnotes). We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our…

The word 'Authenticity ' happens to have multiple meanings and be seen in many different perspectives. Authenticity is the concept of being truthful, and genuine about something. The poem "Still I Rise ' by Maya Angelou, is an authentic poem. The poet speaks real, genuine facts about how blacks were seen, and treated back in the day. Although, it may seem she is speaking upon herself that is not the case when she wrote this poem. The first section of the poem, Maya states "You write me down in…

English II class has read many non-fiction texts. The first text that showed the importance of family was I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. In this book, Maya Angelou explains her life and how racism has affected her and helped her to fight for African-American rights. The importance of family is expressed when her grandmother says, “You children is the most ungrateful things I ever did see. You think your momma and poppa went to all the trouble to send you these nice play…

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiography writing by Maya Angelou. In this book she is narrating her life from when she was around 3 years old to when she is 17. Throughout the whole book Marg was trying to understand everything that was going on around her. Marg’s view on life is forced to change because of the challenges that she faces. In the beginning of the story we were introduced to a naïve yet also aware Marg. She was naïve to certain things…