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an amazing transformation and really has become one of the wonders of the digital age. In the beginning, it was George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, that created this group as a way to add animated sequences to films. In 1979, he hired Ed Catmull “to head Lucasfilm’s Computer Division, a group charged with developing state-of-the-art computer technology for the…

Brandon Schneider Mod F Mr. Gorsky IDEA Hn 11/10/15 Successful Entrepreneurs: What Makes Them Special Robert L. Johnson born on April 8th, 1946, in Hickory, Missisippi, founded one of television’s biggest networks; BET (Black Entertainment Television). His spent his childhood in Freeport, Illinois. As a kid he learned from his father and mother’s work ethic were that education was the only way to succeed. He told the Black Collegian, “Going to college is a statement of your determination to get…

sidewalks, trading Silly Bandz with friends, and feeding my Webkinz. These trends represent a youth culture embracing community and childish fun. By accepting a trend, one shows they are keeping up with the times and seek to conform to a distinct social group. People that continue to support fads and trends propel the effects of…

Ed Sullivan and His Variety Show Ed Sullivan got to meet famous people all the time, he met the Jackson 5, Walt Disney, and Fidel Castro. He met them on his variety show where they performed or he interviewed them. If you wanted to be seen in front of thousands of people, you wanted to be on “The Ed Sullivan Show” because they had every type of talent on the show. “The Ed Sullivan Show” was popular ever since the first show. Ed Sullivan is best known for entertaining people through his variety…

ABC airs two women kissing on a “family show” causes an uproar for family morals! Sounds like a headline for a great newspaper article, but the backlash for this episode has caused a lot of angry parents questioning the “morals” of showing an openly gay couple kissing as well as the LGBT community arguing that they were “misrepresented” on the show. Sunday April 17th, 2016 ABC aired the fifth seasons of the popular TV show Once Upon A Time’s episode “Ruby Slippers”. The show’s creators had…

Advertisement are a massive chuck of our media today. Every platform for media you look at, whether it be newspapers or television, advertisements will be apart of it. Due to adverts being the funding for majority of media networks, a lot of the news corporations listen to companies demands. For instance, not writing bad press about the firms that are polluting our world, or…

Racism in News Media is one of the primary way to know the affairs of the world. People believes what they see on newspaper or television without judging if the -information is trustworthy or not. Sometimes the way a situation is presented on media is the exact opposite of the reality. The people in power do not let ordinary citizen know the truth. If the authentic news was provided, general people would think situations differently. In this century, media is a powerful way to spread…

view is predominant in America. Television is known to be the media’s most powerful medium for displaying content. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson used television in order to accomplish civil rights reform (Yolaf, 318). Past presidents have tried to push the same pieces of legislation to address civil rights yet have failed because they lacked public support. Johnson might have had the same fate as the other presidents if it weren’t for the unprecedented television coverage of African…

AMC, Food Network, WE TV, CBS, ABC, The CW, and PBS. Customers then pick two additional channel packages at no…

for money. The Bachelor is a romance based reality television program intended on giving single people the chance to find love- or more commonly, some mild celebrity. Reality television programs based on romance have been around since 1965 when The Dating Game first debuted (IMDb, 2011), but only really leaped in popularity in 2002 with the first season of the Bachelor. I chose to dissect the concept of ‘reality’ when it comes to the television show The…