When TV blossomed into the major vehicle for sports‚ the bigwigs of those sports had two worries: that fans would stop attending games‚ leading to swaths of empty bleachers‚ and that people would prefer watching sports to playing them‚ making American children fat and slow. Yes‚ as a nation‚ Americans may be a couple pounds south of svelte‚ but it’s not sports television’s fault. People report that interest in sports is heightened by watching great athletes perform‚ and young people report
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Geoffrey Bawa was born in Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka)‚ the younger son of a wealthy Muslim lawyer and his Dutch Burger wife. After graduating‚ he studied English at Cambridge and Law in London. He had always preferred to be treated as a Ceylon-born European instead of a Ceylonese who had some European blood in his veins. Perhaps he came to the conclusion that he was more Asian than European‚ Bawa decided to return to Colombo in 1948. “Soon after he returned‚ he bought an abandoned rubber estate
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glance at a children’s television show gives you only a slight glimpse of the violence portrayed in today’s children TV shows. As Americans we are exposed to violence
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Personal TV: A Qualitative Study of Mobile TV Users Yanqing Cui1‚ Jan Chipchase2‚ and Younghee Jung2 1 Nokia Research Center Helsinki‚ Ruoholahti‚ 11-13 Itämerenkatu‚ Helsinki 00180‚ Finland 2 Nokia Design Tokyo‚ Shimomeguro 1-8-1 Meguro-ku‚ Tokyo 153-0064‚ Japan {yanqing.cui‚jan.chipchase‚younghee.jung}@nokia.com Abstract. This paper describes a qualitative user study of mobile phone TV usage undertaken during September 2005 and centered on the real world Mobile TV usage of paying subscribers
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Satisfaction Dimensions of LCD TVs in Comparison with the CRT TVs Sultan Kaygın Sel VESTEL Electronics‚ R&D Division‚ Turkey Middle East Technical University‚ Turkey sultan.kaygin@vestel.com.tr There is a great transition from CRT TV to flat panel TV usage. This transition has an effect on the preferences‚ expectations and satisfaction criteria of flat panel TV users. This research will inquire the satisfaction dimensions for CRT TVs and LCD TVs‚ as a common type of flat panel TV‚ and point out whether
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Eusteen-Em Kayle F. Barte January 20‚ 2014 Eng10 Michaela Atienza Omkara‚ Bollywood’s Othello When someone mentions Bollywood‚ the mind quickly thinks of a film where the plot is based on love triangles and romance which often ends happily ever after. This thought is accompanied with characters singing and dancing in authentic traditional costumes‚ like the sari (a costume for women)‚ in an attempt to highlight a situation or mood more. Watching Bollywood is like watching recorded cultural
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media research firm SNL Kagan (Stelter‚ 2011). Then it happened again in the third quarter‚ when 119‚000 people canceled subscriptions. Another study by consulting firm Parks Associates estimates some 900‚000 U.S. homes didn’t pay for TV and relied solely on Web TV last year and projects that number to grow this year (Lawton‚ 2009). What can someone expect when they forego cable? The first option is to see what’s available over the air. In most cases free over-the-air HDTV has slightly better
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brilliant plays‚ most of those plays have been made into movies. One such play that has been made into a movie is “Othello.” The play “Othello” is one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. It is about a black general in the Italian army‚ Othello‚ and what happened between him and his wife‚ Desdemona. The main villain in this play is Iago; who is a soldier under Othello’s command. Iago tells Othello numerous lies about Desdemona and Othello’s friend‚ and former right-hand man‚ Cassio. Shakespeare covers
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Tragedy and manipulation is present constantly throughout Othello by William Shakespeare. Othello is the story of a Moorish general who falls in love with a young woman named Desdemona‚ even though he has no experience with women. The director of the film‚ Oliver Parker‚ contrasts the ideas of appearance and reality. Through the film effects‚ the camera angles‚ and the colours of clothing Parker is able to convey many different messages. Green‚ yellow‚ white and black are colours that appear many
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grammatical mistakes‚ enhancing choice of vocabulary‚ and forming better sentence structure. On the other hand‚ watching television contributes benefits in communication that you’re not able to get from reading books. Accents and slangs can be picked up from TV programs which are very useful and convenient when socializing with people from different parts of continents. Reading books requires certain level of your language’s comprehension in order to have full understanding and imagination of an event happening
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