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“hidden life” of your object “from all sorts of personal, philosophical, scientific, and historic angles” (Szilagyi) among others and to ultimately make an overall point about your object. Titlehttp://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/family-watching-television-together-royalty-free-image/503847027?esource=SEO_GIS_CDN_Redirect What My Blanket Means To Me Blankets can mean many different things depending on the culture. In Native American culture blankets can represent different deities or even…

Every weekend people flock to the movies for a chance to see Hollywood's latest creations and nearly every month the list is filled with large blockbusters, series, and reboots of old classics. With such a large variety to choose from movies are forced into a fierce competition with one another for audience viewership, those that are not backed with big names must play their hands carefully and distinguish themselves from the rest of the options. One of the easiest and most prevalent method is…

Swiper no swiping, Swiper no swiping! This common phrase was used by the popular trickster character, Swiper, from the television show Dora. Trickster characters are a universal type of character and appear in many stories from all over the world. All of the trickster stories in the world have similar elements, including helpfulness of a trickster, the use of brain over brawn, and the cleverness of the character. Helpfulness of the trickster is an element found in all trickster tales. For…

been found to contribute to aggressive behavior in students. A study stated that children like to watch anime because it is fun, and has humor and violence. Most of the students would learn and imitate from their observation through watching those programs. If they would ever feel intimidated, they would hit, attack, or kick the person. (Omar, 2011) However, many have also said that anime and manga has show good effects on them. A poll’s result states that 58.44% of the respondents said that…

If you want your children to have nightmares for the rest of their lives, Teletubbies is the show to do it. It was produced in 1997 and the target audience was pre-school age children. Portrayed as a quad of playful beings that laugh and play at the delight of children, the Teletubbies take over the screen with their frighteningly fixed smiles and incoherent gibberish. It is said that this is quite popular with young children, but it was the opposite in my home. Saturday morning cartoons are…

Children Are the Future In society today, we have children on tvs, ipads, laptops, ipods, and you name it. They are like a magnet for technology. There is so much to offer on ipads or laptops such as, war games, car racing games, shooting games, etc. There is always a negative and positive to everything, so can technology affect children? The children are the future and they must be the ones to be raised to become a young, responsible citizen. Children are like sponges. Everything they hear…

How to Talk Back to Your Television Set, once said, “All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?” With the growth in popularity of television over the years, the question of whether the content viewers are absorbing is beneficial or detrimental remains. While television programs such as documentaries other educational programs can benefit a viewer by providing them with additional knowledge, an over exposure of non-educational programs can causes detrimental…

Title Television is a universal idea, for decades it has brought family, friends, and all sorts of relationships to come together. However, television can vary from country to country. What may be popular in one part of the world, might not even be aired on another. America and Britain are usually paired with one another when discussing ideas about the world, because they contain so many similarities. Throughout the course of my time here, I have discovered, although that is not the case when it…

I’m incredibly tired of seeing myself bastardized and killed on TV. As an avid connoisseur of pop culture and popular television, the practice queerbaiting the audience and/or killing minority characters is a distressing trend that contributes to the continuing prejudice against LGBTQ people across the United States and around the world. Pop culture influences the citizens (and leaders) of our nation, who then vote and promote policy, which shapes the future citizenry, who then vote...and the…

that arose in the television industry in the 1970s. As television became more and more popular in America, it became harder for news stations to compete with the entertainment aspect of television. The news was supposed to be the conveyor of reality and the truth. But, as Howard Beale stated, "Television is not the truth...[it] is a goddamn amusement park."1 Television is a center of entertainment, and for viewers it is a means of escaping reality. For the owners of the television networks, it…