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- 661: Good News From Outer Space By
- ... in a Second Coming. The Reverend Jimmy-Don Gilray, a major character in the book, is convinced that God will send a messenger to arrive on earth on January 1, 2000 in a spaceship. Using television, the smooth preaching Gilray manages to herd the followers in like cattle by the thousands. The words roll off of his tongue like honey and his followers are easily convinced that the perilous times of ... something like "It doesn't matter if it's untrue, as long as it sells". The society in the book is full of trashy-cheesy news and so is what s on TV. The tabloid television shows in the book, contain what one may call hardcore trash-articles such as: Pittsburgh Millworker Eats Himself. Foxhole Fad Sweeps Midwest. Unarius Temple Firebombed. High School Valedictorian on Sex Rampage. Jehovah s Witnesses Torn ...
- 662: American Westerns (maverick, T
- ... race. What was happening out west during this time or reconstruction? Many Hollywood producers, during the twentieth century, have tried to recreate an old west on the big screen. One of these attempts was the television show, "Maverick". The show first aired in September of 1957, staring an unconventional hero who rather play tricks and win card games than fight with a brother who shared the same characteristics. All the men ... time of year." According to "Maverick's" Creator-A Cynical Approach", an article written by John P. Shanley, Roy Huggins, the show's producer, was convinced that Westerns would last as long as there is television.2 He stated, "Westerns will have their cycles just as they have had their cycles in the movies. I think the Western will last because it combines two of the most deep and persistent desires ...
- 663: An American Epidemic
- An American Epidemic In modern times, nobody who reads the newspapers or watches television can avoid the chilling fate that our country faces. School violence is a rapidly growing trend in America, and it seems to be there is nothing we can do to stop it. The offenders are ... It seems that you cannot attend a movie these days without having to prepare yourself for some degree of violence. Even family movies (those with a G or PG rating) are not immune to it. Television shows are nearly as bad, police dramas run nearly every night during prime time on major networks, exposing millions of young children to things they are not ready to see. The new wave of gangster ...
- 664: Personal Writing: You Need New Shingles On The Roof If You Want New Kitchen Cabinets
- ... New Kitchen Cabinets Bob Vila, the host of "Home Again," always makes his projects look so easy. Most people fail to realize why good ole' Bob is able to make things appear so easy on television. You see, Bob has a fifty man crew made up of world class carpenters hidden out of site behind the camera. These carpenters are the best and are armed to the teeth with Sears' best ... consequences that lay waiting for the poor and unsuspecting handyman. They are usually a great deal more involved than what you may have bargained for. Around September in 1995, my wife was watching Bob on television. He was installing a new set of kitchen cabinets in an old house. Well, she decided that I needed to do the same thing because it was a very simple and non time consuming project ...
- 665: Princess Diana
- ... in private they had separate bedrooms (Morton 124). They mutually decided to separate in December of 1992. Diana lived at Kensington Palace and Charles lived in Highgrove. In November of 1992 Diana gave a candid television interview about her unhappy private life within the Royal system. She confessed about her adultery during her marriage and her eating disorders. The Queen was not happy and felt Diana betrayed the monarch by this ... lose Diana. Princess Dianas funeral took place on Saturday, September 6, 1997. It was estimated 31 million people in Britain and two and a half billion people around the world watched the funeral on television. Her brother, Earl Spencer gave a tearful eulogy for Diana. His closed the eulogy by saying "Above all we give thanks for the life of a woman I am so proud to be able to ...
- 666: Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years of Movie Magic
- ... and spent much of his time alone, entertaining himself because he did not have many friends growing up. He lived life as if he was on the outside looking in. Much like a person watching television or a director directing a picture. Reading was also a part of Hitchcock's life from a young age. The novels Bleak House and Robinson Crusoe were two that stuck with him over the years ... like Dial "M" for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and North By Northwest (1959) were on the big screen and the Hitchcock name was everywhere. In 1955 the television program "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" was also released. The style and reputation that came with the Hitchcock name was visible in every movie, in every scene. North By Northwest to this point had gone where no ...
- 667: Back In My Day
- ... do stuff like that. In addition to hearing about how bread used to cost a nickel, that quote is what you hear it from the elders of most generations when talking about violence, especially on television in the present time; they say that the violence seen just did not seem to exist back then. However, when one thinks about it, violence that extreme has existed throughout the ages, whether it was ... to use their imagination to get the pictures and actions for themselves; in the present time, thanks to technology, people do not have to use their minds as much, only sit in front of a television set or a movie screen to get the same images. The same idea is also given in Roman epics as well. Take the Aeneid, for example, which is the supposed founding of the Roman Empire ...
- 668: Boxing - Should This Unjustifi
- ... laboratory subjects exposed to violent material on film tend to behave more aggressively than those who are not exposed to such material. As children are very impressionable, they tend to emulate whatever they see on television and watching boxing on television might encourage aggressive behavior among them. Some of these children may also regard boxers as their role models and grow up wanting to be boxers too. This is contradictory because as an article from 'Boxing ...
- 669: Technological Literacy
- ... VCR), computer, and now the global network of the internet have had the most profound effect on home entertainment, education, and workplace practice. The video cassette recorder (VCR) permanently changed the way viewers access broadcast television. No longer tied to network schedules, viewers now take for granted the flexibility of pre-programmed videotaping and delayed viewing. With close to 100% of Australian household TV and about 80% of VCR ownership, the ... literacy to accommodate multiple forms of textual, graphic, and symbolic languages. THE GLOBAL VILLAGE: DEMOCRATISING INFORMATION? Three decades ago, communications theorist Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase "the global village" in response to the advent of television which he considered to bring the diversity of global nations and communities together in a shrinking, electronically mediated global culture. Much like the telephone, TV promised immediate and instantaneous communication across time zones, national boundaries ...
- 670: Bangladesh
- ... shed for freedom) on a green field (fertile nature of country and Islam). About 35 daily newspapers in Bengali and nine English-language dailies are published in Bangladesh, mainly in Dhaka. Radio Bangladesh and Bangladesh Television are under government direction. About 4 million radio receivers, 480,000 television sets, and 206,000 telephones were in use in 1990. The National Anthem translated is: My Bengal of gold, I love you. Forever your skies, your air set my heart in tune As if it ...
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