Bakieva Renata summary Chapter 3 summary Poverty and Welfare -Images that we have of the poor are bound up with our explanations for their poverty. -Most of the images of the poor and causes of poverty that have dominated U.S. history have focused in one way or another on alleged weaknesses among the poor themselves. -This focus on individual’s characteristics as the basis cause of the poverty. - Policymakers frame arguments in terms of who is deserving and who undeserving of governmental help
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going to explain how the representations of Australian Culture in TV are accurate. I have here with me three sources: The Castle‚ Kath & Kim and 48 shades. These all have a fairly accurate view on what it’s like in Australia (mostly Logan)‚ although some skits are a little far fetched. In each show they have their own kind of representation‚ The castle represents the racism‚ Kath and Kim represent the bogan image and “48 shades” shows us the wild side of it all. There are many things we could
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When you consider other types of television shows‚ like talk shows for example‚ the popularity of reality TV isn’t all that surprising. It seems that people simply enjoy watching other people perform various activities. Television networks realize this; therefore the number of reality shows has grown considerably in the last few years. Unfortunately‚ this type of programming has turned into something more than harmless entertainment. Reality television shows do not depict true reality because they are
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TV Shows and Real Life TV shows are probably the primary source of entertainment for the average American. Most of them run from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. with reruns starting at 5 p.m. We watch them because they give us something to do‚ a way to relax‚ something to help pass the time. We all watch different shows‚ some people like "Married...with Children"‚ some are repulsed with it‚ but like to watch "Home Improvement"‚ what draws particular crowds to certain shows? How do these shows portray the
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reference point for most of us‚ a type of shorthand that makes it easy to carry on a conversation. Columnist Ellen Goodman wrote that to those born since the baby boom of the late ‘40s‚ “All history begins with television.” We compare ourselves to those on TV; we change how we dress and cut our hair and talk based on the latest television trend. Viewers pick up catch phrases and turn them into side-splitting party parodies that in turn become part of our culture. For decades‚ almost ever since the inception
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The television and the shows it broadcasts are both very powerful modes of communication. With millions of people watching the messages and propaganda‚ one show on a single channel can reach an enormous amount of viewers. The television is like an amplifier of ideas and thoughts. It is not necessarily a specific station that gives out this thought‚ but the television shows that are seen by worldwide viewers. People can gravitate towards the ideas shown by the shows. Millions of people see it‚ therefore
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1970s‚ you’ll remember these TV shows: All in the Family‚ The Carol Burnett Show‚ Bob Newhart‚ Little House on the Prairie‚ The Waltons‚ Marcus Welby‚ MD‚ M*A*S*H‚ Happy Days‚ The Rockford Files‚ The Brady Bunch‚ The Mary Tyler Moore Show‚ Sanford and Son‚ Good Times‚ Dallas‚ The Jeffersons‚ Columbo‚ Hawaii Five-O‚ and Starsky and Hutch. Some say that the 1970s were the‚ “Golden Age of Television.” Unlike‚ most of today’s TV shows‚ during the 1970s‚ television shows were family oriented. They were
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Take me Out- The show you can surely live without Take me Out is back‚ ready to leave you as a disturbed and paralysed wreck. This series‚ the dating show silently guarantees you the worst experience of a lifetime which includes special features such as: a comical-looking yet wooden host‚ a range of presumptuous‚ “plastic” Barbie dolls that come in all shapes and sizes‚ and lastly‚ but by no means least‚ recently spray tanned‚ egotistical males‚ who most of which‚ narrowly pass as men. Take Me
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articles that I have read titled Incarceration & Social inequality by Becky Pettit‚ Bryan Sykes‚ and Bruce Western‚ made the statement that american prisons and jails have made a new group of social outcasts and oddballs that are bonded together because they share the same experience with incarceration‚ crime‚ poverty‚ racial minority‚ and low education. As an outcast group‚ those men and women in our penal institutions have little access to the social mobility that is more available to the mainstream
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Stranger Things is a Netflix Original tv show that follows the disappearance of a young boy and the story of how his friends and family try to find him. The show is set in the 1980s‚ in the fictional town of Hawkins‚ Indiana. His friends‚ Mike‚ Dustin and Lucas are helped by a young Telekinetic girl‚ Eleven‚ in their search for their missing friend‚ while Joyce‚ wills Mother‚ is also searching for him with the help of Chief Hopper. Meanwhile‚ Jonathan‚ Wills older brother‚ and Nancy‚ Mikes older
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