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- 871: Who Is Most To Blame For Macbeth's Downfall?
- ... bad, and it was only helped to escape by the other contributors. I think too much violence through Macbeth's live desensitized him to the value of human life, (similar to modern day prime time television) and Macbeth's downfall was the price he was destined to pay.
- 872: The Soliloquies of Hamlet
- ... do (1342). With his newfound determination to avenge his father's murder, he vows, O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth (1342). There is no doubt that movies and television shows have replaced plays as main sources of entertainment. Unfortunately, modern entertainment sources rarely utilize important forms of discourse, such as the soliloquy. The soliloquy can be a powerful tool used to gain access into ...
- 873: Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet
- ... Luhrmann modernizes "Romeo and Juliet," through constant alterations of the props, which entice the audience into genuinely feeling the spirit of Shakespeare. First, the movie starts with an prologue masked as a news broadcast on television. This sets the scene of the play by illustrating the violence occurring between the two wealthy families, the Montagues and the Capulets. In Zeffirelli's film of "Romeo and Juliet," the prologue takes the form ...
- 874: Othello and King Lear: A comparison
- ... taste in clothes splashed across the glossy magazines. His views about everything under the sun, from the government to kitchen furniture, would probably appear regularly in the colour supplements. His face would be familiar on television talk shows, his voice well-known from radio broadcasts. There would be so much recorded evidence about his life and his opinions that it would not be hard to write about him. Shakespeare, however, lived ...
- 875: Broadcasting, Programming, and The Audience
- ... audience share of 566. That is more than the 500 soap viewers or splitting the 900 cops viewers with station B. Although Steiner's model is not too far off what happens in today's television landscape, it does have a couple of drawbacks that keeps it from being a true model. Steiner does not take into consideration that some audiences are more valuable to advertisers than others. Because advertisers want ...
- 876: "All I Know Is What I Read In The Papers" - Will Rogers
- ... Referendum of 1992 and the Quebec Referendum of 1995. During the National Referendum of 1992 over the Charlottetown Accord "three hours of free broadcast time was made available during prime time on every radio and television network that met the statutory criteria"(3) according to the Referendum Act. The act also states that "half (of the time) is allocated to the Yes' and half to the No' side"(4). This allotment ...
- 877: The Simpsons
- ... is a good parent who has to keep an eye on Homer and the rest of the family most of the time. Bart, their oldest son, is a poor student who enjoys comic books and television and hates girls. Lisa, the middle child of the family, is an excellent student and a nice person. She is almost the complete opposite of Bart except they both enjoy the violent cartoons of "Itchy ...
- 878: C-SPAN, the Cable TV channel
- ... now, pending the must-carry dispute, and, more importantly, the advent of the 'five-hundred channel universe'."6 In today's fast paced society, it is difficult to watch more than 30 minutes of traditional television news, and C-SPAN's uncut style is certainly different from anything we normally expect because it does not fit into an average news paradigm. People often complain when the government does things they don ...
- 879: The Advantage of Commercials
- ... it sounds costly, but in reality TV is one of the most cost-efficient media there is. Not only is cost an advantage of TV commercials, so are TV's impact credibility, selectivity, and flexibility. Television is powerful in may ways, mostly by having the ability to combine all major medial into one media called commercials. TV commercials are like direct mail because it comes directly to the consumer in his ...
- 880: Review Of Three Movies: Trainspotting, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Jurassic Park
- ... gets things off to an aggressive start. "Choose life," Renton insists in voice-over as store detectives chase after him for shoplifting. "Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a [beep] big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-income mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. . . . "But why would I ...
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