ReBoot

This thesis hypothesizes that the repeatedly negative portrayal of the Intelligence Community, its agents, and it’s employees by prime time television shows is eroding the public’s confidence and trust in the IC. This topic must begin with a basic discussion of how prime time programming portrays the Intelligence Community, its agenda and its employees. Following this discussion, existing literature within the scope of this paper’s thesis can be divided into two main categories: general…

The Last will be demolished yearning Waiting quietly, lungs full of air as cold as fresh ice, sending shivers down your spine. Opening blind eyes, your vision is full of a blinding room that is crystal white. Once again as if deva vu is occurring over and over again a maddening voice is stuck in your head ‘’You are very special and so very lucky. You are the chosen one of the government” as you have experienced death. Keep in mind next time that anticipated execution is against the United…

American citizens eclipses any other issue. Bill Clinton iconically discredited all the work George H. W. Bush did in the Middle East by simply saying, “it’s the economy, stupid” (Clinton). The American public immediately followed Clinton in his fight to reboot the American economy. Machiavelli argues, “A prince must have no other objective, no other thought, nor take up any profession but that of war, its methods and its discipline, for that is the only art expected of a ruler”(Machiavelli). To…

From the beginning of the twentieth century to 1920, the percentage of women in the workforce grew steadily from 18.3 percent to 21.4 percent . Women during this time made less than half of what men made, and most jobs were only available in the fields of domestic service and manufacturing. Nearly seventy years later, more than half of paid labor were working women and wages were 81% of what men made by 2010 . This short amount of time shows a great amount of improvement for women’s status…

fertility rites in The Wanting Seed restore a semblance of order to society, they are also mirrored by a burst of regeneration of fauna because ‘that blight had been man’s refusal to breed’. Inexplicably, Burgess’ bacchanals surprisingly and mysteriously reboot the infertile Earth (as God works in mysterious ways). Finally, the jaundiced agent of Tender in Survivor capitalizes on the comforting quality of prayer by publishing a sacrilegious Book of Very Common Prayer. Funnily enough, this book…

media is a struggle, from the high standard idea of trans people due to people like Caitlin Jenner, to bad transgender characters. In the previously mentioned study, transgender people were cast in a victim role 40% of the time. The Power Puff Girls reboot (2016) aired an episode titled Horn Sweet Horn, which received a lot of backlash for being inaccurate, exaggerated and transphobic. The story is about a unicorn named Donny, who people believe is just a pony. Donny is a metaphor for a…

FIVE DOLLAR DAY Wake up, hope for the best, work nine hour days, and still only make $2.25 per day. People were wrestling the economy, but one day the people woke up, hoping for the best, and continuing the same routine, when the origin of “five dollar day” transpired. On January 5, 1914, it was the rise of Henry Ford, when he announced a change that stunned the world. He revealed that Ford Motor Company was doubling its workers’ wages to five dollars a day. Reducing a workweek from six to…

Throughout history, the word entertainment has taken on many forms, ranging from plays, music, and screenplays. Today, we view entertainment as a way to escape the stress we experience in our day to day lives, whether it's shocking news report or a tv show we binge watch for hours. While entertainment may just be for amusement and enjoyment, it can also be a valuable source of information that keeps us updated with the current media. In the popular tv show 13 reasons why created by Brian Yorkey,…

English actor, Andy Serkis is best known for his portrayal as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings films Trilogy. His other notable works include The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Planet of the Apes reboot series (2011–17). Andy Serkis is married to actress Lorraine Ashbourne. He has three children from his marriage. His net worth is $28 million. He has received an Empire Award and two Saturn Awards in his career. Andrew Clement Serkis was born on April…

In the words of Sandy Flitterman-Lewis—she describes that “psychoanalysis has provided a useful way of discussing our relationship with the cinema” due to it’s similarities to the human tendency in dream to “relate ‘stories told in images’” and our movie watching experiences. To this analysis, she notes that the framework has it’s foundation called the “cinematic apparatus”. Which includes the conditions of the film projection, the film itself as a text and the “mental machinery of…