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In 2015, Walt Disney plans to release a very classic fairy tale movie that no matter age you are will definitely know, ‘Cinderella’. In this time the movie comes as a live-action version that retells about a servant step-daughter who wins the Prince Charming’s heart. This ‘Cinderella’ is an upcoming American live action romantic fantasy movie which is directed by Kenneth Branagh. The movie is planned to be released on March 13, 2015. Also it will be accompanied by Walt Disney Animation Studios…

The civil rights movement played a crucial role in the emerging production practices and self- understanding of network information workers— the makers of news, documentary, and public affairs programming—during the 1950s. During the time, TV news was figuring out what it is going to be. Civil rights was important to TV because not only did it provideTV journalism with much needed vivid pictures and clear-cut stories, but more importantly, it also gave TV the opportunity to define itself,…

Chrystian Garcia Ms.Vaitekunas-Willis English IV 9 December 2015 Great Times in the Roaring Twenties The beautiful era of the 1920s has given people great memories and happiness. As the economy grew during the 1920s, dramatic, social,and political changes started to happen. The national wealth doubled during 1920 through 1929, so people moved to the cities from farms. Thanks to the nationwide advertising and the spread of common chain stores, people bought the same goods and listened to the…

Ebola: a word that for many triggers a somewhat distant memory back to 2014 when the whole world was up in arms about it spreading and becoming a pandemic. This incident of outbreak in West Africa shows how far we have come as a world, technologically and medically, but also how far we still have to go. The severity of the outbreak was completely avoidable, however due to the disregard of certain factors not usually associated with disease, such as cultural practices, it became an epidemic. In…

Screwball is a comedy film that became exclusive during the Great Depression. This film brought laughs and joy to those who watched it, at the time of the Great Depression. Screwball originated in the 1930s and became very popular in the early 1940s. During the time of the Great Depression the demand for social films skyrocketed. Screwball was a form of comedy that allow for victims of the Great Depression to escape from that troubling time. This form of comedy made it safe to discuss things…

As my generation has grown up, it has been a trend for movie makers to make the old superhero comics and films into new and improved superhero films. In all the films that I have seen advertised, on DVD, or in theaters, a man has been portrayed as the big and strong main character/superhero and the woman has been portrayed as the “damsel in distress.” Even on the posters for the movies the guy is made to look larger than the woman even if she has the privilege to be on the poster. Sexism is a…

Hollywood Reporter Marisa stated “It was was revealed that several of Grylls’ escapades of derring-do were enhanced or staged and that Grylls spent nights in motels while he was purportedly left alone to fend for himself on a deserted island” (Guthrie, 2012).…

in his fingers and creating a light bulb that burned for forty hours (Flatow 23). However, there is no evidence of the light bulb or records to prove the story factual. Despite no physical proof, Edison confirmed the papers’ stories (Miller 204). Hollywood blew the story further out of proportion and the tale was just accepted as fact. Even to this day, power companies still commemorate October 21, 1879 as a day that the impossible was made possible (Flatow 23). A less believable fable also…

the period of time during which a person or animal that has a disease or that might have a disease is kept away from others to prevent the disease from spreading ((n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.merian-webster.com/). In this movie a television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after the outbreak of a mysterious virus that turns humans into bloodthirsty killers (Quarantine- Cujo. (n.d.). Retrieved…

The exploitation of women in mass media is the use or portrayal of women in the mass media (such as television, film and advertising) to increase the appeal of media or a product to the detriment of, or without regard to, the interests of the women portrayed, or women in general. Feminists and other advocates of women's rights have criticized such exploitation. The most often criticized aspect of the use of women in mass media is sexual objectification. According to News 24, dismemberment can be…