Superhero television programs

Every writer uses their own toolbox of skills to construct their writing in reflection of their lives. Antwone Fisher uses figurative language such as personification, metaphor, and onomatopoeia as tools in his book, Finding Fish, to create a solid picture in the reader’s mind of how he perceived his life. He creates a tone of wonderment to show the good times of his life in these examples. Fisher describes an image of his childhood as: “...the icy bare branches looked like they were holding…

Have you ever cried over something because it’s over? Think about it, many people spend enormous amount of their time crying over things because they lost something or it's not there anymore, but do people ever think about smiling because it happened? Frequently, people you talk to nowadays will complain about relationships ending, TV shows ending, friendships denouement, but not one person will say I’m happy because it was once mine. As Dr. Seuss once said, “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile…

So, within the television series we are discussing now, we see Grace as the typical “fake wife.” Before we jump to any conclusions, I don’t mean she is a fake person and is full of plastic surgery; no, what I mean is she puts on a persona to get by. She wears fake eyelashes…

The Formative Years and Teen Magazines Even before television and other modern day technologies, the media, in many shapes and forms, have been ever present in society. Whether it is newspapers, magazines, radio shows, or advertisements, the media have played a large role in determining society’s viewpoint and understanding of many issues. More recently there have been much controversy over the idea of female beauty standards and the effect the media have on them, particularly magazines that…

There are no heavy people on TV, but if you look around, they are everywhere. Houses are huge on TV—not in real life. There are no gum-spotted sidewalks or weedy verges on the television. If you believed the ads on television, you'd own at least a dozen cars. And I have never seen places like what they show on TV, that are pristine and empty—instead they are overrun with crowds trying to "get away from it all" in RVs complete with satellite dishes…

society. To illustrate how the influence the current media has in creating awareness about our diverse society, the paper below will look at an episode of the television series known as “ Modern Family” and focus on how it represents gender and other elements of identity such as race, culture, class, sexuality, and age. Modern family is a television show with a comedic…

Today, I am interviewing my very close friend Nathan Hayes (male, 14). He is struggling with a slow disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). We both do competitive fighting and he travels with me and the competition team at Focus Martial Arts & Fitness. He first found out he was going blind when he was 10 years old. He just said “Oh, just another obstacle.” and continued living a normal life. He Made a ‘Bucket List’ where he wrote a list of things he wanted to do and see before he goes blind,…

Most people have heard of Pretty Little Liars before, and if not, a brief summary of the book is a girl disappears and then her friends start getting text messages from somebody named A, that threatens to tell all of their secrets basically. But a book that people probably don’t recognize as much is Ali’s Pretty Little Lies, is the prequel to Pretty Little Liars. It’s about what happened before Alison Dilaurentis(girl who disappears) was murdered in the first PLL book. Ali’s Pretty Little…

I still don't really know a lot about women's history because it was never something they taught when I was in school. And they still don't do a very good job of teaching it in school. So those kinds of things always fascinate me because I love history. {pause} So with this mini-series, how many episodes are you planning? wp-1474256234630.pngRight now, we're thinking about ten episodes. That's the number we have in mind. It is scripted, and there will be actors. It's not a documentary. We are…

When you look at movies they depict what people want to see. Some want to see tear jerker movies, or what some would call “girly movies. Some want to watch movies that have strong women roles likes, “Charlies Angels”. Some want to watch horror movies like, “Texas Change Saw Massacre”. Now the majority of people want to watch movies with guns, fast cars, sexy women or sexy men and violence. Within these type of movies there is always drugs or sex involved. When you get to these type of movies…