Primetime Emmy Award

The video that I chose is from this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, which celebrates works of excellence in the television industry. It’s Viola Davis’ acceptance speech after she won the Emmy Award for Best Actress in a drama series. She became the first African-American women in the ceremony’s 67-year history to win in that category. She used this large platform as an opportunity to address the lack of diversity in the entertainment industry and what essentially stands in the way of women of color to be successful. I think she summed it up pretty clearly. “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.” There’s a large issue regarding race in the American television and film industries. The problem is not that people of different racial backgrounds can’t or wouldn’t want to work in these industries. They simply have less opportunity of work than the dominant white people. And if they find jobs and produce successful works in such a limited platform then their achievements simply don’t get recognized. This is basically how white privilege works in these…

She won Emmys, Medals, and even was in the Culinary Hall of Fame. She didn’t always make her food perfectly, she wanted the world to see her mistakes. It didn’t matter that she messed up on camera. Before her cooking came to fame, she was heading into a very different career. She only started cooking when she was 32. She fell in love with the French cuisine and went to school for it, and ended up becoming famous for it. With her cooking came many awards and honors. Her greatest is being the…

episode 13 and was written by 26 Black students from a tenth-grade English class at Jefferson High School. Most students at the school were unable to read, write, or comprehend at a high school level, with 44% reading at a third-grade level and very few students reading at a level much higher than that. Sargent said that the students, "who might have been stuck in the ghetto for the rest of their lives, loved Bewitched, and with just a little approval and motivation, came alive on the set.…

My favorite show has to be the Walking Dead. I started watching the Walking Dead in the middle of season one, no matter what Caleb says, I started watching it earlier than whatever he tells you. Anyway, the Walking Dead is my favorite show because it is obviously not real, but it seems to be. I live almost all the characters, even the evil ones, and it's full of great actors and actresses. The ZA (zombie apocalypse) started when an obviously dangerous virus started to spread. Neither the show…

An Emmy Award recognizes excellence in the television industry. It corresponds to the Grammy Award for music, the Academy Award, or the Oscar for film and the Tony Award for theatre. Winning all four is referred to as the grand slam or “EGOT” coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas who said his acronym originally stood for energy, growth, opportunity and talent. Only 12 people have achieved this. Directly off the Emmy website, The Emmy Awards were conceived in 1948 and its founding fathers…

Broader Sources of Knowledge In ancient times, people passed on survival experience to the next generation through oral method. Later, various ways such as making ropes, drawing pictures on walls, and characters emerged to record daily events. People record daily life in order to educate next generation so that the next generation of people can live a better life. With the advent of photographic film, the recording process becomes more and more lifelike and vivid. With the rapid development of…

Have you ever watched The Martin Show ? According to tv.com, "Martin is a sassy sitcom centering on a radio-and-television personality named Martin Payne". The Martin Show is one of the best sitcom because the humor was amazing and you could learn something. The Martin Show was on TV for five seasons. Some people can that The Martin Show is one of the best comedy shows of all-time. One of the many episodes that was on TV and that was good happen to be “Why Can’t We Be Friends”. This was a good…

As we look at popular animated television series that have been running for at least a decade and continue to run, the two that can get brought up are “American Dad!” and “Family Guy.” Both shows ultimately demonstrate core family values in the most comedic way but they are equally different and in point of the main characters both have several differences. As a contrast between the main character of “American Dad“, Stan Smith and of “Family Guy”, Peter Griffin, one is more disciplined and…

To begin, McMahon argument that The Simpsons can “educate on what it teaches” (215) in this episode of The Simpsons “Lisa on Ice” occurs with stereotypes on the show. For, example when the school bullies asked Bart “Nice PJs, Simpson. Did your mommy buy 'em for ya?” (Scully, 1994) and Bart’s response was “Of course she did. Who else would have?” (Scully, 1994) This conforms to the stereotype that mothers do most of the shopping in the house. That consist of buying clothes, food etc. According…

To become the president of Springfield it takes allot of responsibility, and integrity. The people of our country are counting on the Future president to take a step up and make Spring Field the best and safest environment. They are expecting that he or she will speak up upon them to help make changes for the best. This is why i present to you, Lisa Simpson - one of the most well know and trust worthy. At her young age she has proven to be brilliant and one of the most passionate about the…