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people across the globe. Yet, The Simpsons did not start out with popularity and acceptance. With the first airing of The Simpsons in 1989 by the FOX network, the show was immediately criticized and mocked, it was put down and judged all over the country. It has taken a few years of exposure for many of the governmental, spiritual, and educational institutions to accept the sitcom. As of today, many people believe that there is an ethical and…

technology in particular transformed people’s lives: the television. Less than a century ago, people lived without the use of this revolutionary technological item. Now the vast majority of households in America has one if not numerous televisions. People own televisions for a variety of purposes. Some people watch college sporting events, teenagers may drown out the voice of their mom, and others watch news programs. Even though the television serves a multitude of different functions, these…

the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. Game of Thrones has earned its fame not only as the most pirated TV show in the world (Sweney, 2014), but also won 38 Emmy awards setting a new Emmy primetime record in the history of television (Ledbetter, 2016). The record-setting viewer ratings of the TV show estimate around 23 million per episode (as of season 6), which solidifies Game of Thrones as the last consensus TV show to capture the “collective American imagination”…

wide-spread scale. With sources ranging from the earliest form of publicized word to the current reality of active pictures and dramatic screenplay, society has been infused with an environment of news broadcast. Unfortunately, since the creation of television journalism, the overall goal has shifted from knowledgeable reports to pure entertainment. A platform once used to inform the audience of significant and impacting events has transformed into a network’s obsession with maintaining the…

The Golden Age of Radio lasted roughly around 1930 through 1940. That time was when the medium of commercial broadcast radio grew into the fabric of daily life in the United States. One time they provided news and entertainment to a country struggling with economic depression and war and much of the programming heard by listeners was controlled by advertising agencies which included the shows hired the talent and staff. Sometimes they draw performers directly from the old vaudeville theatre…

Have you ever thought of how much time you spend in front of a screen and how much we use technology in our society today? The great obsession with technology that many characters in the novel experience, compares to the current obsessions that transpires in our world today. A big danger of technology that is portrayed in the book is that broadcasters emote their news in a way that makes people believe whatever they say, and studies have proven that this is exhibited in our society as well.…

Texas State College in Denton, Texas. While in college, two of his friends Wade Lee Moore and Dick Penner wrote the song “The Ooby Dooby”. The band would play at clubs, events, and even ended up appearing on a television show on Saturday afternoons. They were doing so well that the television network, KMID, gave them their own thirty-minute show on Friday nights. The band moved in together and renamed themselves “The Teen Kings” after playing a wide variety of Rock and Roll tunes. A local…

meanings such as technological and cultural processes. How often do you look at your article of clothing and/or other objects that you use in your day to day life, and see that it is made in a country other than US? This is why the US is considered a lazy country to many other countries. We put every other country through the labor just so we can buy it for cheap and sell it for more on US territory, while the people who worked their behinds off get paid way lower than what we consider minimum…

since I had traveled their once before with my mother and grandmother. When I had gone here before (in middle school), I had loved the country, and so even though we were only going to be in Germany for five days, I was most excited for this part of the trip. Since my original trip here was so long ago, I didn’t remember a whole lot of detail about the country. However, I did remember all the colorful buildings, the presence of castles, the fact that much of the younger generation could speak a…

go away. As he remained in charge, he became more convinced that he was the ultimate ruler. Again, if you did not agree with his views you were made to go away, whether it was an exile, prison, or death. Biological His father immigrated to this country, and he was born out of wedlock. This man was educated and had a degree to be a lawyer before he became interested in ruling this nation. He is recognized for establishing one of the world 's longest-running dictatorships, and he was a…