Serial Melodrama Analysis

Michelle Han Tran Professor Thibodaux ENG 1157 3 December 2015 White Chicks: Farce and Purposeful Revenge of the Whiteface Controversy? When many people hear of the Wayans Brothers movie White Chicks, they would inevitably picture the humorous scene where Terry Crews, being the physically huge, prideful jock he is, ironically does gestures and lip-syncs to “A Thousand Miles” on his car radio. Everyone around me adores this particular movie with a passion, often quoting lines and reminiscing their favorite scenes. Moreover, White Chicks is and will forever be intact on our comedy list to watch on a Netflix night.

In this week’s application project essay, I would like to compare an older television show that projected family life as it was in the 1930’s as compared to how family is viewed from a sociological viewpoint today. “The Walton’s” may not have been an idealistic portrait of family, but the series did portray family as it really was in that era, since it was based on the autobiographical writings of Earl Hamner, Jr.

It was so bad it actually made the Kardashian's oeuvre look like Emmy-winning material.”The women seem to always have some type of complication in their hands. The husbands let their wives do whatever they feel like engaging in, and the children are spoiled brats who have complete liberty. Occasionally, this type of scenario is not seen, however, especially when speaking about newest housewife and former model, Cynthia Baily. Cynthia is the only housewife on the series that has no obscure drama that involves futile, petty less girl fights. For the rest of the southern women, unfortunately, drama is their way of life.

Even though the show has been considered as “failed” it has been more successful due to the legacy that has been left for all the people watched it and have introduced other people to it. The sad fact is, is that the show failed due to the change of times and was destined to only be a show that was during the time of the 90’s. Many people followed this show and looked up too many of the characters as if they were people that they knew, or for that matter didn’t know and they wanted to know. One of the ways the show knew it was doomed was it knew that it was becoming outdated and showed no sign of any change soon, which would have led to a catastrophe. The show also started running out of material due to the change of the times as they knew that things would not be the same as they used to be during their golden era. They knew that once the change came that they would not be lasting much longer so they decided to pull the plug while they were still on top which was an idea that proved more so beneficial to the show for the

The Brady Bunch were the ideal families in the 1960's and 1970's, and in the 80's, it was Family Ties. When the 1990's approached us, television shows took on a whole new outlook on American Families. There were shows such as Full House, which was about a single father raising three daughters with the help of his brother-in-law and his best friend. Roseanne was also another show that showed the "dysfunctional" side of families. American Families keep changing, and they will continue to change in our future.

1. I wrote arguments in my persuasive and literary analysis to fulfill standard one. I used my research as evidence and combined that with my prior knowledge to make educated arguments to support my claims. I spent time going through information and analyzing the information to find sufficient evidence.

But there are a few things bthat I did not really care for int this show,but I don't really think that taking a different direction would have helped it.in the the beginning of the show it seemed kind forced like it was trying to like prove it was a modern show.like the two actors in the first scene,the two actors seemed so focused and I am aware that one of the actors,the male actor was supposed to be awkward and look uncomfortable because of the girl. But the girl just looked so forced at one point I thought it was in the script as a stage derection for her to seem overly pushed,but then I found and read the scrip online and that's when the show made more since to me. The first time I saw the show

From the get go, we're introduced to our group of actors, which consists of Paul (Samuel Davis), Karen (Gage Golightly), Jeff (Matthew Daddario), Marcy (Nadine Crocker) and Bert (an overly obnoxious Dustin Ingram). None of these performances captivated me enough to actually care about the characters, or any harm they may endure. Some of our characters deliver lines with little to no emotion, while others go drastically over the edge, appearing much too frenetic (Just wait until you hear Paul shout “What the fuck is going on!?”). This is just one of many things that took me out of the viewing experience. Let's be honest, though: I was being very giving by watching

Also, this show is a very sexist show, they always make reference to women being in the kitchen and that is all they’re good at for example, in one episode peter tells Louis that making sandwiches and babies are the only thing she is good for. This kind of behaviour shows to young children that women are no good for anything because that is how the men on this show treat the women. There’s also lots of coarse language towards women, for example Quagmire a neighbours always has many women over to his house for pleasurable reasons and you hear him call them names like whores, bitches, sluts and more this foul language towards women is another bad influence. Also peter has a teenage daughter Meg, everyone in the show is mean to her. This girl is treated very badly for example in an episode she had sexual intercourse with a guy and a little after that the guy Brandon, broke up with her, in another episode she has another boyfriend Luke and Louis, her mother stole

In the movie Zodiac, Robert Greysmith is on the trail of the Zodiac killer and has multiple suspects including Rick Marshall. Greysmith wishes to talk to Bob Vaughn, a hunched over, shadowy figure who invites him to his house on a stormy night. Greysmith is following a tip that Marshall had written posters for movies at the theatre; the handwriting on the poster is the closest match to the Zodiac’s so far. However, while trapped in his small kitchen, Vaughn reveals to Greysmith that he, himself drew the posters. Greysmith becomes visibly uncomfortable being in the house when Vaughn, who is coming to conclusions a bit too quickly, asks to follow him to the basements where he keeps his records. The tension quickly rises because basements are a rarity in California and it has been presumed that the Zodiac has a basement. It is the scenes in the basement and following after that gives the audience an intricate rush of emotions that metamorphosizes into dread.

Misery is a movie based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. The movie adaptation was directed by Rob Reiner and released on November 30, 1990. The movie is about a famous writer, Paul Sheldon who created the popular ‘Misery’ series. He finished the first drafts of all his books in the Silver Creek Lodge in Colorado. He just finished his new novel Fast Cars and is heading back to New York to get his manuscript printed when his car crashes in Colorado. Paul is pulled out of the wreckage by a woman named Annie Wilkes, who is his number one fan. She takes him back to her home and nurses him back to health. Annie’s obsession takes a dark turn when she discovers Paul kills off her favourite character from his ‘Misery’ novels. As Sheldon makes a plan to try and escape, Annie grows more controlling and violent as she forces the author to write a new book to suit her corrupt fantasies.

Along the interactive oral, the class mentioned about the narrator's obsession for describing facts full of details. To be honest I did not notice the first time I read the story. The group agreed that these are related to his disease. When he was describing facts with details he probably did not notice he was doing so. I can list a few examples of his compulsion, the old man’s eye, the heartbeat, and his own claim to

Firstly, All in the Family was a sitcom show first came out in 1971 and technically ended in 1979; however, the show was renamed to Archie Bunker’s Place and went on until 1983. All in the Family was about Archie Bunker, a blue collared worker and a prejudiced person, bickering with his family about events and issues of the day. All in the Family also had many spin-offs, including The Jeffersons. The Jeffersons was also a sitcom show that first came out in 1975 and ended a decade later; The Jeffersons was about the lives George and Louise Jefferson, a thriving African-American couple, and their relationships with other residents of their apartment. These shows were popular because they were extremely relatable sitcoms about recent cultural and social changes and issues in a way that not many other shows did. Finally, M*A*S*H, another sitcom, was first released in 1972 with a large group of writers and producers and ended in 1983. The show was about the staff of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital making their own fun and laughter during the Korean War. M*A*S*H was a popular show because it had a variety of funny, serious, and different moments that pushed limits of society’s expectations and

Initially, one could apply life experience, such as one becoming lost from their parent in a grocery store, or lost in the woods. Such a scenario is not foreign to many, for if one doesn’t experience it for themselves, they hear of it on the news, from family or friends of a child becoming lost. One such example would be mine. Our family are avid hunters, and when I was young my siblings and I pushed deer from a distance towards my parents so that they could dispatch the animal, providing meat for our family. As I walked through the woods I was separated from the others. Everything was quiet, and as I tentatively took each step forward in the direction instructed, began to feel quite lost. I called out for them and I called out to my parents,

As a russian female life has its simplicities along with its tedious complications. Life has treated me well as i now find myself in my elderly age looking at the many achievements and my greatest triumph my children. I found my childhood to be less than ordinary as it consisted of me being an only child and really not interacting with people the way others did. I always found it to be hard to socialize with people at my local school and in turn i didn't have many friends. But that didn't stop me from excelling and performing at a superior academic level. I worked very hard through grade school absorbing as much information as i could. All this hard work would prove to be worth it as i ended up valedictorian of my class lined up for a full