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In a world where social normes are created and shared trough popular global media, it becomes crutial for adacemia to analise and understand the information that is shared trough those chanells. In this regard, TV shows have been a significant driving force behind a new age of global social values, as well as instrumental in perpatuating some old- not always positive- norms (??) This paper avaluates the major characteristics of characters portrayed in the TV show Game of Thrones in an effort to…

The beginning of 20th century was a time of discoveries of new technology, introducing a new lifestyle, and new ideas. During that time, there were new creations, such as cars, radio, and telegraph. Such inventions affected masses of people. Life started going faster because the communication was much easier. The first avant-garde movement was in art and it was called Cubism. Cubism started in 1907 and continued through 1915. Cubism came from France and Spain. Cubists did not depend on its…

What Is Wrong With Hands-on Jobs? In this article “The Case for Working With Your Hands” by the author Matthew B. Crawford, we look at why some people prefer manual labor. When we look on television we see shows such as “Dirty Jobs”, or even office type jobs aren’t as they are portrayed. The author wants to know what people get from working cushy office jobs. To Crawford it’s as if nothing was really accomplished. So why is he writing this article if he dislikes office jobs so much…

Objectives of the Study In this study titled ‘The Imagery on the Concept of Alienation in TV Chandran Films: A Semiological Enquiry’, a list of recurrent features –with even thematic continuities –even with porous, dissolving identity of his protagonists of various films, are put under scanner to delineate the commonness positioned by the ‘auteur’ in T V Chandran. The point on this occasion is not to choose between these opposing readings in various narrative texts, but to recognize how an…

Media has played a huge role in the life of a child by introducing the world in cartoons or picture books. The question to ask is how does the media influence gender stereotypes on developing children? One late afternoon, I decided to sit with my little cousin and watch a show she likes on YouTube. I then realized that the female characters were all dolled up, skinny, blonde, and with a full face of makeup. Meanwhile, the boys were all Caucasian and acting tough. Basically, the episode was about…

ghost infects modern technology, thus demonstrating that “modernity is not immune to the ghosts of national culture” (Boey 98). Boey then isolates key motifs that made the film successful and recognizable to a broad audience: “A videocassette, a television set, an ancient well and a woman with long black hair covering her face are what it takes to scare audiences around the world… After the advent of widespread computer viruses via high-tech systems like mobile phones and the internet,…

because it affects the way we talk and write. In the past Pop Culture is mainly influenced by younger people; now, it seems to affect all age groups. A large section of the population identifies themselves through popular culture as depicted on the television; their behavior is imitated by the ideas that the numerous TV shows present. This type of action is a bad influence on us as the people and to our society. People believe that just because it’s texting that it wouldn’t have a bad affect…

Racial Diversity in Television The lack of diversity in modern day television is almost criminal. With television stations pretending to have racial diversity they run into the wall of using racial stereotypes for comedy to entertain the masses. The lack thereof racial diversity in modern television has led to many awful things such as; stations claiming to be racially diverse but just end up making fun of cultures with outdated stereotypes, also many holly wood block busters have little to none…

Television has not only changed the world in a dramatic way but has also brought specific sexual concepts to the forefront of peoples minds. A specific example that is showcased throughout countless television series is the fixation on body image and the role that plays in a person’s sexual life. This is absolutely apparent in the HBO series Game of Thrones. According to _____the series now being “the most watched of any series in the pay cable networks for-decade history, attracting a whopping…

Philo T. Farnsworth by Megan Liddiard One of the most influential people of the 20th century was Philo T. Farnsworth. He is best known for the invention of television. Philo T. Farnsworth was born on August 19, 1906 on a farm near Beaver, Utah. The farm he lived on did not have electricity, so when his family moved to a home that was powered, he found electricity fascinating. "By the age of 13 he had won his first national contest, sponsored by Science and Invention magazine, for a thief-proof…