Running head: CHARMED: MY FAVORITE TV SHOW Charmed: My Favorite TV Show Tolby Markham Kaplan University LS 526-01: Academic and Professional Writing for Graduate Students CHARMED: MY FAVORITE TV SHOW Charmed: My Favorite TV Show Charmed‚ I’m sure! Are you? Charmed is the story of The Charmed Ones – the most powerful good witches the world has ever known‚ whose job is to protect the innocent and not blow their cover. When their grandmother‚ Grams‚ suffers a heart attack‚ Prue
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We live in an era where our sex and gender identity is defined not by how we wish‚ but how society has socially constructed it to be. It has built a binary‚ which means whatever is feminine is not masculine and whatever is masculine is not feminine (Foss et al. 16). From there an identity begins to build that is also based off of a master narrative‚ which instruct members of a culture to be certain types of people who live certain kinds of lives (Foss et al. 54). This is where traditional gender
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reflects the relations of production‚ and respresents the schematic representation of the Marxian base-superstructure model. The Marxian perspective of a higher class‚ owns the means of production‚ but in this type of modern day example‚ the interviewer is of the higher class that decides who can obtain the position. The class conflict reflects upon this scene and shows the base-superstructure model. "The ideas of the ruling class are in ever epoch the ruling ideas…The classes which as the mean of production
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Five respected theorists by the names of Talcott Parsons‚ Frantz Fanon‚ Herbert Marcuse‚ Carol Stabile‚ and Martha Gimenez‚ have based their theories‚ and furthermore critiqued other’s stances with modern capitalism. Parsons is concerned with how society is integrated and socialized. Fanon has a strong concern with how violence becomes a tool for political struggle. Marcuse is focused on the liberation and freedom of society. Stabile harshly critiques postmodernism and Feminism‚ as does Gimenez with
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Freaks and Geeks is a TV show that takes place in 1980 Michigan following the freaks and geeks of William McKinley High School. In the first episode “Pilot”‚ we follow Lindsay and Sam Weir‚ sister and brother who are both students of McKinley. Lindsay‚ who is struggling with her grandma’s death‚ quits being a mathlete to start hanging out with Daniel and his friends‚ the “freaks”. While Sam is being terrorized by his bully‚ Alan‚ and is desperate for his friends to stand up for him. We watch as Lindsay
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SWITCHED AT BIRTH I watched all episodes of season one Switched at Birth. The show is a one hour drama on ABC. It tells the lives of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. They find out through a high school experiment that they are not the biological children of the parents they grew up with. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother‚ while Daphne Vasquez‚ who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis
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Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding‚ first published in 1954‚ became a very successful novel over the years. In 2004‚ ABC first launched the hit TV show Lost. These two have extreme similarities between each other‚ and Lost would not exist without Lord of the Flies. The mix of intrigue‚ survival skills and critique on human nature has made both the show and the book such respectable hits over the years. The similarities between these two are more than coincidental‚ having almost the same beginnings
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even death. Violence in children TV shows like cartoons have become so rampant and is harmful. In the animation TV show‚ “teenage mutant ninja turtles”‚ that first air on December 1987‚ is one animation with an extreme level of violence. Use of swords‚ blood-shed and violent situation were so occasional in this cartoons‚ (johnson‚ 2014). Remorse‚ criticism and most definitely consequences are some qualities that characterize violence situation‚ however‚ in this show‚ there was no sign of remorse. Actually
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Sargent and David White. The show is based on a witch who married an ordinary mortal man‚ and compromises herself to lead the life of a typically normal suburban housewife. Bewitched hit a fantastic popularity‚ ending as the number two program in America on its debut season‚ and achieving the longest supernatural sitcom theme of the 1960s & 1970s. The program continues to be seen around the world on recorded media. The show was ranked as #50 on TV guides 50 greatest TV shows of all times. A young witch
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Racism In Crime-Drama TV Shows As Donald Trump once said‚ “ When Mexico sends its people‚ they’re not sending their best… They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some‚ I assume‚ are good people.” This is a clear example of how people are racist towards other ethnicities that they don’t belong to. People become racist due to a number of things‚ their environment‚ their upbringing‚ and even what they see in the media. The media plays a huge role in how people portray other
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