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The Golden Girls The Golden Girls aired on NBC for seven season, 1985-1992. The 80’s into the early nineties was a time in television that played to the growing over 50+ age group with shows like Matlock, Columbo and Murder She Wrote all receiving high ratings from all generations of viewers. This show however, was different and so successful due to the complex issues and character development that encompassed its 108 episodes. Three women, Dorothy, Blanche, and Rose are housemates after…

I have made it my duty to know if a show will be garbage before or after it comes out. There have been many TV shows that I have loved, but have failed due to the studio taking a huge deuce on it because of timing, bad advertising, bad writing and bad planning. One example of such a great show is the sci-fi western Firefly. It holds a special place in my heart because it was so different, and it blended old timey western elements with futuristic space opera themes. It was cancelled after 13…

When people think of the word catfish, the first thing that probably comes to mind is a fish with barbells that dwells at the bottom of murky waters. On MTV, a Catfish is someone who uses social media to create a fake online persona, in hopes of pursuing a romantic relationship. The reality show Catfish itself is actually based on the 2010 film Catfish, involving a man and a woman who develop a romantic relationship via Facebook. When they finally met in person, the young man Nev, soon realizes…

Selective Critique of “Television: The Plug-In Drug” With television’s debut over half a century ago, the first generation of viewers anticipated the new device to radically change family life. In the essay “Television the Plug-In Drug,” Marie Winn asserts that it has, and maintains that the contemporary cultural addiction to television is one of the main contributing factors to the deterioration of meaningful relationships within the family and communication skills in general (438-46). Winn…

THE cache memory is a quick and small and, in layman's terms, it is basically a middleman between the processor and main memory. Caches are used so that you do not have to go all the way back to the main memory if you do not have to. Think about it, this process is not something that is new to us. We used this exact same method in junior high and high school, comparatively lockers are main memory and cache memory is a book bag. Instead of always having to go to a locker after every class a…

While most go about their lives not realizing how they are acting upon certain situations or what they are viewing on television, revolves around human nature and our ability to control it. According to Mimi Avins in her article, “The Bachelor: Silly, Sexist, and to Many, Irresistible,” she shares to us about her curiosity and addiction as well as others to the demeaning TV show “The Bachelor”. As Avins was never intrigued by the stupidity and unscripted reality shows, for her well-mannered…

Not many people look beyond the statement that “T.V. is an idiot box” but writer Steven Johnson does and in result he makes you second guess your own opinion. Steven Johnson’s article Watching T.V. Makes you Smarter first appeared in the New York Times Magazine in 2005 it was an excerpt from his book Everything Bad is Good for You. In this article Johnson aims to convince his audience that certain video games, violent television dramas, and juvenile sitcoms can be beneficial to the human brain…

The Martian Andy Weir The Martian is a book that follows the journey of Mark Watney, an astronaut apart of the “Ares 3 mission”. The Ares program was a program by NASA which brought mankind onto Mars. Both Ares 1 and 2 resulting successfully, Ares 1 sent astronauts who returned heroes into space. Unfortunately Ares 3 resulted in a death. At least that’s what everyone thought at first… When a sandstorm of 175km/h winds (25km/h faster than the missions equipment was able to handle) formed the…

Origins The Voyager program began in the 1965 with Gary Flandro’s discovery of a rare planetary alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune that would occur in 1977. This alignment occurs only once every 175 years. The Grand Tour as the program was called had launch windows between 1976 and 1980. The original idea of the Grand Tour was to send four probes to ultimately visit every planet in our outer solar system. In 1971 funding for the Grand Tour program was canceled in the 1973 NASA…

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