Media Texts “All Media Texts Tell a Story” In most broadcast programs‚ language is primarily used to tell the story‚ whether it is to promote a product or gain a job promotion‚ to make one laugh or cry‚ to ask for forgiveness or convict a criminal‚ to get married or divorced‚ to convince our children to do one thing versus another. We don’t need to get stuck in any particular story. That’s where Cowen gets it wrong‚ or even right; He presents a list of types of stories that is mixed up and incomplete
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Barbie Doll Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy This girlchild was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy. Then in the magic of puberty‚ a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs. She was healthy‚ tested intelligent‚ possessed strong arms and back‚ abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity. She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs. She was advised to play
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Barbie Doll written by Marge Piercy in 1970 is a reflection of how women were supposed to act and look in the 70’s and before the 70’s. Women were always thought to be picture perfect‚ perfect weight‚ perfect height‚ stay in the kitchen and do everything she is told although this is the expectations of the 70’s and before‚ those are not the expectations of women today. Women today do what they want to basically if their religions allow. According to Marge Piercy’s poem‚ women should be perfect from
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Marge Saiser’s “The Story Part of It” conveys a message: the unspoken is more prevalent than the written. Instead of writing long stanzas on to try to bring up the same emotions‚ Saiser was selective in her word choice to allude to the impact of emotion‚ brought forth abstract concepts through imagery‚ and signaled the end of a man with an analogy. The combination of these three things reflects the theme of the poem‚ to have a powerful meaning it must be captured in few words. The phrase “the
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American popular culture has a tremendous effect on everyday people. It is a fact that they get most of their information about the world through American films and television shows whether they want them or not. The popular television series‚ ‘The Simpson’s’ can be seen as an example of an American popular culture that has radically affected not only America but the whole world. It has brought a representation of the American family across the world‚ and with it‚ expressed important issues and matters
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The Simpsons and lessons on environment The Simpsons is an animated television show‚ created by Matt Groening in 1987. The Simpsons shows a simple family in a small town in the middle of America‚ which is called Springfield. The Simpsons shows some environmental problems that might be caused by human activities. This show may make significant changes on some issues of culture and society through comedy. Ann Marie Todd the author‚ made claims about the environmental rhetoric of The Simpsons. When
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The Simpsons are one of the longest running and most popular television shows. This popularity exists because "the Simpsons [have] always operated on two levels. On one level appealing to children as a fast paced cartoon and then for the older audiences for its wit and [satire]" (Batscha). Satire is the common thread with binds all of The Simpsons episodes. The writers show the absurdity in ordinary everyday situations including religion‚ politics and other social issues. This has been the leading
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on a wishbone for Flanders to fail in some way‚ shape‚ or form. Give it a few days and wouldn’t you know it? Flanders fails with his shop and gets dangerously close to going bankrupt. Homer initially finds joy in this failure and has a good laugh. Give it a few more days and Homer all of a sudden has a guilty conscience and decides he is going to help his rival get the shop up and running again. It can be understanded why this is funny‚ however this would not work well in the real world. The
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cut them. This poem was written in 1969 a year in which many women liberation groups were forming and the breaking of womanly roles was taking place. The author used different tones throughout the poem to help readers understand it and show what Marge Piercy was trying to show us.
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Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust tells the story of people who have come to California in search of the American Dream. They travel west hoping to escape less than perfect lives and pursue success in Hollywood. The characters in this novel dream of a life of luxury‚ having lots of money‚ and living happily ever after. They eventually come to the realization that the seemingly picture perfect life that California represents is not as easy to attain as they once thought. The characters
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