The Andy Griffith Show

other. Readers notice though that the family is actually only together in front of the television. In fact, shelly and the narrator seem the closest due to the shows on the television and not due to the parents. For example, “After school we watched Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligan’s Island, and The Andy Griffith Show” (8). During this, the father and mother stopped communicating towards each other. The father moved out of the house and only came to talk with the family on…

Another 1970s show that was popular and was the longest-running sitcom in the history of television was The Jeffersons. The Jefferson family owned a chain of dry-cleaning businesses. From the help of their business, the African American family was able to “move on up” to a fancy uptown apartment. (Garrison- The Evolution) This show changed the stereotype that most Americans had that all African Americans were poor. The show not only proved to Americans that African Americans can be successful,…

This semester in our community and regional planning class we learned about the general realities of planning. Our last and final assignment is to read and write a review and assessment of The Best-Laid Plans by Randal O' Tool and The Geography of Nowhere by James Kunstler. Both were books that had some good points and at times were a little bit dry and hard to get through, but I drudged through it to deliver this fantastic review and assessment. The Geography of Nowhere is a thirteen-chapter…

The book “Split” first talks about the difference between culture and class. When it comes to the electorate, typically the Democratic Party benefits from class issues and the Republican Party benefits from cultural issues. This is because of each party’s political position on the issues at hand. Democrats tend to focus more on giving back to the lower and lower middle class. Republicans do better when discussing family values and cultural issues. Culture has to do with values, morality, and…

the other side as an extremely talented singer whose new look is more along the lines of “less is more” in clothing, quality lyrics, and even her hair. The fact that many, many singers and actors go through this intense identity crisis just goes to show they are just…

radio and the cost of owning the technology. Importantly, in the early years of television, wide spread use of animation in TV shows did not exist. By 1960 however, Hanna-Barbara, a television animation studio, began to gain notoriety in the growing media market. Hanna-Barbara’s most popular TV program was The Huckleberry Hound Show, which was a cartoon TV variety show hosted by Huckleberry Hound himself. Still, it was not until the premiere of The Flintstones that Hanna-Barbara gained wide…

This shows that the media has taken more of a race route to make it a bigger story, and the consequences are that the officer that had nothing to deal with the shooting gets a bad reputation. According to Valerie Callahan and Jared Rosenberger, African Americans…

Stereotypes of people of color and minority races have been around for many years, and have proved themselves to dominate the perception of people of color in everyday life. Films portray people of color as they are perceived by white Americans, not how they truly are, unique. Film has only dirtied the minority races’ image over time, though if the movies were not made by other Americans, they were more accurate to their race. Stereotypes of Asians have been around for a long time, ever since…

At this point, WIFI technology is very inexpensive, and found in many homes across the world. Although its original purpose, and the first one everyone thinks of, is its utility in connecting computers wirelessly to the internet, it also works quite well to network computers, allowing the computers in a home to share files, internet access, and printers. The ability to share a printer over a network is extremely helpful. Rather than having to maintain multiple printers, (which will work less…

Many people have heard the terms “Hillbilly” and “Redneck” and had laughed at jokes and stories about them or have just thought the jokes were just mean and not funny at all. The problem with any jokes about a group of people is that they are stereotyping that group without knowing what that group of people really is. Many stereotypes are made to put a whole group of people down by overgeneralize each person in that group. The stereotype of the ‘Hillbilly” and “Redneck” are referring to the…