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Sara Joyner Bristow/Hoffer English 111 01 March 2017 Grey’s Anatomy and its Reflection on Society. There are many television programs that surround the base of their ideas with very similar issues that are being dealt with in current society today. Popular culture has given way to a whole new world of negative televised social dilemmas dealing with several topics such as racism, religion, sexism, post-war mental traumas, terrorism, as well as the constant struggles with gender orientation. Thus opening the eyes of its viewers to much more than just watching their favorite television show. Giving the fans more to think about. Among the mounds of shows, one that has never failed to shed some light on each of these particular subjects is the hit television series: Grey’s Anatomy. With its first episode airing on March 27, 2005, this show has touched on every topical issue and fear in society all the while never failing to add in a few good medical practices with the typical spurs of …show more content…

She is introduced as the daughter of Ellis Grey, who becomes known as one of the most famous female surgeons of her time. Meredith grows up primarily in a hospital due to her mother's refusal to take any time off from her work for young Meredith and her father, whom her mother kicked out. In the beginning of the show, Ellis Grey becomes diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her health slowly starts to decline where she is unable to be a surgeon anymore. Meanwhile, Meredith is now a resident in Seattle Grace Hospital, where she will spend the next six years under the direction of her attendants all along the way meeting wonderful friends, patients, and the love of her life, who she hooked up with at the beginning of the series and who also happens to be the head of neurosurgery. Throughout every season that passes, each character introduced from the beginning will be faced with new and bold

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