PESTEL Political- The theatre is subsidized by the public purse in the form of local authorities and the arts council (Arts council‚ 2010). However‚ funding is under continual pressure after cuts made to the arts budget by the coalition government (Mintel‚ 2012). This has been evident since 2008 where the arts council of England stopped funding of the theatre meaning it is only supported by Winchester City Council‚ Hampshire city council‚ sponsors and friends of Theatre Royal Winchester (Burn‚
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Is TV bad for your children? Is TV actually bad for your child to watch? Americans watch TV up to seven hours a day that can affect our “social lives‚ ways of learning and entertaining ourselves‚ family relations‚ and lifestyles.” Kids spend more time watching TV then going out and doing anything productive or active. Do our children learn from TV or is it better to read a book? What kinds of violence are we letting our kids watch? What if they get influenced by it? These are all questions we
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Reality TV Society is so addicted to reality television that it has become an issue. People are not aware of the dangers that reality television can inflict on the human mind and because of this people are becoming socially unproductive. According to Herskovits‚ ethnocentrism is “to view your own way of life superior to all others.” This explains the behavior and reactions of the reality stars‚ but what we don’t realize is that‚ one can be ethnocentric when they watch this and judge. Reality TV shows
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Neil Postman ’s Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in The Age Of Show Business. Chapter 8 Pages 114-117. There is an evangelical preacher on television that goes by the name of Reverend Terry. She appears to be in her early fifties‚ and features a coiffure of which it has been said that it cannot be mussed‚ only broken. Reverend Terry is energetic and folksy‚ and uses a style of preaching modeled on early Miltion Berle. When her audiences are shown in reaction shots‚ they are almost
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Plays‚ as a special form of art which has an old history‚ are still active on the stage nowadays. However‚ the ways to display the stories on the stage tends to be not creative. Usually‚ one stage and many actors who collaborate with each other to demonstrate the story and the theme of it. However‚ among all of the shows I have ever watched‚ the “Character Man” can be considered as the most special and insightful play I have ever seen. I am so touching by this show in two perspectives. The first
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A new study shows that children who spend more time watching television spend less time interacting with their family and playing creatively. Children watch television more than any other activity. Researchers from University of Texas at Austin and Harvard Children’s Hospital wanted to understand whether and how this affects children’s health and behavior. Dr. Elizabeth Vandewater and her colleagues surveyed 2‚900 children ages 12 and under around the United States and analyzed all of the children’s
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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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Food TV vs. Home Cook Meals Americans today tend to believe that the cooking channel will enhance their possibility to become great cooks. According to both food writers‚ Michael Pollan and Frank Bruni‚ Americans’ lack indolence when it comes to food associated references. In one hand‚ food writer‚ Michael Pollan‚ believes that Americans’ are basically “cheap and lazy‚” and want everything in their hands prepared and ready to be eaten. On the other hand‚ food writer‚ Frank Bruni‚ believes that food
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character torturing another character. Can violence on cartoons make a kid or a young adult to do some kind of violent act? Yes‚ in Ohio a five year-old boy set his house on fire that killed his little sister. The boy said he developed the idea by watching the cartoon Beavis and Butthead (Josephson‚ 1995). Other example of a child performing a violent act was a six year-old Jeremy Nezworski imitated an act of hanging himself like a ghost after he watch the act on the cartoon The Scooby Doo Show‚ and
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Movie vs. Play Most parts of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚"� the movie‚ met my expectations. Many of the characters were well fitted to their part. Calista Flockheart was a great choice for an actress to portray Helena and her jealousy towards the beautiful Hermia. She played Helen’s part just as I had imagined. Hermia‚ on the other hand‚ was not as well casted‚ in my opinion‚ because I expected Hermia to have long‚ straight hair not curly and short. Someone like Gwyneth Paltrow might’ve been more
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