Mean Girls Or Big Brother

Today, Film and Television are among the most internationally supported commodities. Financially, their contributions are enormous: both industries are responsible for the circulation of billions of dollars each year. Since their respective explosions into the new media markets during the mid-twentieth century, film and television have produced consistently growing numbers of viewers and critics alike. Sparking debate over the nature of their viewing, film and television are now being questioned in social, political, and moral arenas for their potential impact on an audience. Critics claim that watching films or television is a passive activity in which the viewer becomes subconsciously

Watching television is such a common part of contemporary society, that most Americans adopted it as a part of their daily routine and watch television for at least an hour a day. Stanley Crouch, a poet, music and cultural critic, writes: “Whenever people pretentiously and proudly announce, “I don’t watch television,” they should follow it up with “I don’t look at America either”” (Masciotra 79). Television has become a part of many people’s lives. When the mass population watches the same television shows, movies, etc. they can all relate to each other, and thus unite them as an American. We look to TV shows to see how other people like us act on-screen. Aaron Morales, the author of American Mashup: A Popular Culture Reader states: “We watch movies, visit websites, and scour online profiles, all in an effort to glean from a variety of sources those traits that we feel best suit how we identify ourselves” (Morales 65). Movie characters can change the personalities and point of views in our society. Movies can inspire and motivate a society to change its social norms. For example, The Harry Potter Series is a well-known book that is popularized over the years through television advertisements. The reason Harry Potter is special is because he is like everyone else, but he is dealing with different problems. People can relate to the aspect of the characters and

Nearly everybody has thought about writing as a career or a hobby, and it’s simple when you really put the time into it because these skills, like creativity are easy improving skills. Most successful journalists have great creativity and writing skills, especially in the current age when journalists are actually writing award-winning novels, like John Sandford, my father’s favorite author and more famously Mark Twain.

The realities and practicalities of the world present steady suggestions that run through different movies with respect to ethical decisions. Just as business concentrates on efficient ethical decisions models to strike a balance between making profits, satisfying customers, and achieving stakeholder’s needs, movie directors continue to identify the right combinations of ethical decisions that main characters have to follow through their actions and scripts to foster ethical conduct. Ethical decisions made have causes and effects, consequences, framed in context of how a movie with different scripts can achieve its highest-priority themes and guarantee positive ratings. A 2012 film, The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross and 2014 film, Divergent, directed by Neil Burger presents two ideal films focusing on the ethical decisions made by the main characters. This essay aims at identifying the causes and effects of ethical decisions made by the main characters, the impacts of these decisions, how these decisions affect the society.

Mean Girls is a comedy directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. Cady Heron is the new girl in town who moved from Africa. She instantly makes friends with two teenagers that are nice (Damian and Janis) whom, are considered in the "out crowd." After she meets the Plastics (three rude and popular girls), consisting of Regina the leader, Gretchen (Regina’s follower), Karen is considering one of the dumbest people you will meet. They let her in their group, where Cady falls for Regina’s ex-boyfriend, Aaron Samuels. When Regina finds this out, she wants revenge. However, Cady, Janis and Damian plan together to get back at Regina and take her down from the head plastic. While planning revenge, Cady

Often, the things people consider to be valuable have the ability to influence them. For instance, one who values their family is likely to base important life decisions on the impact they would have on his or her relatives. People who value money are known to engage in risky behaviors, such as gambling, in hopes of making a profit. The books we read can have this same power. Books that have value, or merit, are not only able to entertain but also leave the reader thinking about the issues the book discusses long after they've set it down. These pieces of literature leave a lasting impression on their audience for both their artistic storytelling and the impacting message they leave behind. Barbara Kingsolver's novel, The Poisonwood Bible displays

Parts can also be left out of the movie, such as Harry Potter for example, the producers cannot always get all of the information from the book into the

Fictional television shows were created to entertain the public. For some television is an escape from reality were someone’s imagination can get the best of them. For others, it’s just a fictional program that has no effect in their lives, or so they think. Watching fictional television can manipulate the mind into believing that something is good. For example, the TV show Dexter tell the story of a man who is a killer but the audience wants to see him succeed. Dexter Morgan shows viewers that murder can sometimes be justified because he only killing those who truly deserved it which keeps killers off the streets in the society.

In our world of advanced technology, we love to watch movies more than we love to read. Sitting in front of a flat-screen TV while eating popcorn and drinking soda would sound much more appealing than reading a book by the fire at night while drinking a frappucino from Starbucks. Now, producers and directors would take successful and famous stories and adapt it into a movie. Sometimes, they would succeed, with examples being the Harry Potter series, which received mainly positive reviews from both critics and the audience. However, most of the time these people would unknowingly butcher the book based movie by taking out many important characters and events, with good examples being The Lightning Thief and Eragon. Then another example of a

Jeff Davis, writer of Criminal Minds, and MTV’s Teen Wolf goes by the motto “Always be learning” (Cardillo). Well, this sure does show in the series Teen Wolf. The Writers went beyond expectations and based on their views, all of their hard work has payed off. Teen Wolf is an excellent series, in which you are always learning more along the way. What has really made this series amazing is its outstanding script, excellent actors, and fascinating secret reality and plot line.

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice tells the story of the agonizing romance between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. In eighteenth century class-conscious England, wealthy families married for money and a stable reputation. Many critics argue that people no longer marry for money but instead for love. However, sugar mommies, daddies, and babies are more prevalent in the twenty-first century than is publicly shown. Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl, originally chick literature turned major drama television series, portrays the romantic struggles of Manhattan’s East Side upper class. Despite being set in the twenty-first century, Gossip Girl is arguably a more dramatic, high-quality adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

There are many ways that we as people teach others moral lessons to help guide us to make decent decisions throughout life. Rosenstand (2013) states, “Stories that are told to teach a moral lesson are called didactic stories.” Didactic stories are found in all forms of media. They come in short stories, books, magazines, television shows, and movies. Jacobs (2017) suggests that films utilize explicit content as, “perhaps some sort of “moral of the story” or socio-political attitude that the filmmaker is expressing directly through the mouths and actions of the characters.”

Understanding why we consume certain media correlates to the ability to understand our own moral outlook. To revisit my own moral outlook, including my best plan derived from the Satisfactory Moral Theory, I follow tenants of Cultural Relativism, Ethical Egoism, Utilitarianism, and Virtue Ethics. All things considered, it can be said that I lean towards the proper treatment of others, choosing the most favorable outcome, and acting upon my own self-interest. However, if that is true, why is it that I indulge myself in media that create situations that are in clear opposition of my moral outlook? Alix Spiegel, a writer for NPR, explains “Over the past couple of decades, psychologists have documented many different ways that our minds fail to

Throughout history there have good guys and bad guys, cowboys and indians, police and criminals. This philosophy is common and is very infrequently strayed upon. The lessons learned throughout the past eight weeks have provided additional insight towards this philosophy no longer being a foregone conclusion This has not gone unnoticed and various writers are leveraging the emotional vulnerability of a more accepting society to exploit these changes in crafting media outputs. People have begun rooting for the bad guy, hoping for their escape, while straying against predetermined conclusion and general conformation. Critically acclaimed movies, actors and actresses attribute to this mindset with brilliant creativity, performance, and craftsmanship. Writers have caused audiences to become so intrigued with fantasy that characters crafted with various anomalies are no longer considered outcasts. Artists are changing the way media is

In the book People Meet Nature, Knut Rasmussen, a Danish explorer, tells the story of his meeting with an Eskimo named Sealdog. Throughout the time they spent together Sealdog told Knut multiple stories, all of which contained morals. However, one of the stories stood out to Knut, due to its lack of a larger lesson. When he asked Sealdog for the meaning behind the story, Sealdog mentioned that not all stories needed to have morals to be meaningful. Sometimes stories can be told for the sake of humor or enjoyment (Isberg, 2007). Often people feel the need to attribute a greater significance to everything and disregard what they perceive as useless. In this paper, I will be looking at whether or not there is a requirement in society for art and literature to be useful. The utility of diverse art forms stems from an individual’s unique perspective which many differ from the societal conceptions and the need one has to express one’s opinions.