Andy Griffith

Good for him! Ron Howard - Ron Howard is the rarest of beasts: a child actor who grew up to have a successful career in show business without any problems with drugs or alcohol. In the early 1960s, Howard began appearing as Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show and quickly stole the hearts of all the little girls around the world (your mother included). In 1974, he landed the role of Richie Cunningham on the iconic sitcom Happy Days, leading to those little girls, now grown up, falling in…

In the early 1950s up until the late 1960s, television was a colorless form of entertainment that many traditional American families so eagerly enjoyed together. Picture this, a father and mother lovingly sitting next to each other while their rambunctious children lay sprawled out in front of a boxed television set with unquenched enthusiasm. This is the image of a traditional, nuclear family—the epicenter of American values and way of life according to the mainstream media of the time.…

The Princess Bride published in 1973, written by William Goldman, contains misogynistic views of women from Americans’ current view, but not necessarily through the eyes of men and women of the early 1970s. Despite the beginning of the women’s rights movement, the early 1970s was an extremely sexist time period compared to 2016. However, the 1970s, compared to previous decades, showed the beginning of women standing up for themselves and society changing for the better, slowly but surely. It is…

of the television. In fact, shelly and the narrator seem the closest due to the shows on the television and not due to the parents. For example, “After school we watched Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligan’s Island, and The Andy Griffith Show” (8). During this, the father and mother stopped communicating towards each other. The father moved out of the house and only came to talk with the family on Saturdays, around the television. With only the television keeping the family…

and I blame it on our two oldest sisters so they would get in trouble instead of us. We were laughing and joking about it". On sunday night my grandmother said she would go out with her sisters to the movie cinema theater to watch Don Knotts and Andy Griffith as well as go to the basketball and football game. Where they would go to have a good time and enjoy…

This semester in our community and regional planning class we learned about the general realities of planning. Our last and final assignment is to read and write a review and assessment of The Best-Laid Plans by Randal O' Tool and The Geography of Nowhere by James Kunstler. Both were books that had some good points and at times were a little bit dry and hard to get through, but I drudged through it to deliver this fantastic review and assessment. The Geography of Nowhere is a thirteen-chapter…

Another 1970s show that was popular and was the longest-running sitcom in the history of television was The Jeffersons. The Jefferson family owned a chain of dry-cleaning businesses. From the help of their business, the African American family was able to “move on up” to a fancy uptown apartment. (Garrison- The Evolution) This show changed the stereotype that most Americans had that all African Americans were poor. The show not only proved to Americans that African Americans can be successful,…

The book “Split” first talks about the difference between culture and class. When it comes to the electorate, typically the Democratic Party benefits from class issues and the Republican Party benefits from cultural issues. This is because of each party’s political position on the issues at hand. Democrats tend to focus more on giving back to the lower and lower middle class. Republicans do better when discussing family values and cultural issues. Culture has to do with values, morality, and…

It does not matter if you are a random nobody Joe Schmo, or Miley Cyrus; there are so many people in our society that struggle with their identity on a daily basis due to the stereotypes and standards set by the media. The music industry is a without a doubt a battlefield for artists. Not only do music artists have to compete with each other, but they often have to compete with themselves as well. You may be familiar with Miley Cyrus’ recent overnight transformation from cutesy Hannah Montana…

The media, as we see it, is a source that relays information to the public. Though this definition of the media sounds harmless, they have way more power than you think. Since they are our only source of receiving information from the public and other parts of the world, they have the power to shape the way you feel about certain subjects. One thing that has been exploding in the media is the police. Images of policemen created by the media shapes society’s outlook on police enforcement in the…