Elaine Benes

Our Souls at Night (Wheel Theory) What is love? That is the age old question that is almost impossible to define, people have been asking the question for a long time and still have not found a very good answer. Love, depending on the person you ask can be many different things, but there is one thing that we cannot deny, we all experience it at least once in our lives. Professor Ira Reiss from the University of Minnesota came up with her own theory of love that is broken down into four…

The Lady of Shallot Romanticism was a time in European history that was all about feelings and emotion rather than reason. This era was also considered to be a philosophical movement for people to become more emotionally self-aware to improve society. During the romanticism period, artists, authors, etc. took a different route, then how it was in the Neoclassical era. Artists chose to go in a more emotional, creative style for their creations. These artists also chose to display more…

1. The changing environment for business affects Google’s ability to communicate in this situation because the lines have become increasingly blurred. The internet provides businesses with platforms by which to communicate with customers in ways that were unheard of before so companies like Google have become more involved politically than they were before. The actions that Google took in this case in choosing to cooperate with the Chinese government might have communicated a politically charged…

Seinfeld. Seinfeld was an American sitcom that aired between 1989 to 1998, and was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. It also starred Jerry Seinfeld as himself and his friends notably Jason Alexander as George Constanza, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes, and finally Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer. The show had multiple recurring characters like Wayne Knight as Newman, (Kramer’s friend and nemesis to Jerry), Larry David as George Steinbrenner (Georges boss and owner of the New York…

Modern Family, Claire is a stay at home mom for most of the show before she inherits her dad’s business. The show even adds more into the stereotype by having the backstory of how she used to have a very good job but gave it up to raise her family. Elaine holds multiple jobs throughout the show. At one point she is a personal assistant to an elderly man, along with being an editor for two different magazines. This always plays right into the gender stereotype of a women. Although in Scandal,…

Jerry Seinfeld Jerry Seinfeld is a comedian, actor, writer, and director. He was born April 29th 1954 in Brooklyn New York. He grew up listening to his dad tell jokes he heard in WWII and repeated them amongst friends. While telling jokes he realized how much his friends and family enjoyed them. That’s when he first fell in love with comedy. After high school he went to college at Queens College, City University of New York. There he was in little productions and comedy skits. He graduated…

The nature of the humour and comedic styles of television situational comedies (sitcoms) has evolved from the start of TV to today largely due to censorship. Yet a consistent feature includes sitcoms reflecting how their writers and producers viewed their society at the time. Comparing and contrasting I Love Lucy (1951) with Seinfeld (1989) demonstrates that even as sitcoms evolve, they share the concepts of reflecting on the world around them, and the need for shows to make a profit. Both this…