The Breaking Bad Series

The TV show Tyrant has been met with critical backlash since its inception. Airing on the channel FX, it has been hailed as one of the most racist TV shows currently running. The premise of the show is that the main character, Bassam Al-Fayeed, is enjoying his comfortable life in California where he works as a physician. This is contrasted with Bassam at age 16, when he escaped the fictional country Abuddin under a self-imposed exile. His family is comprised of the dictatorial rulers and Bassam could not tolerate the oppressive lifestyle any longer. However, after 20 years away Bassam decides to go back to Abuddin alongside his wife and children to attend his nephew's wedding. He is thrown back into the brutality of the nation, and when his

We wanted to know how the television show Duck Dynasty became such a big part of popular culture especially in the field of merchandising. We looked through web articles about how the Robertson’s family created an empire, what visual merchandising is and its effects on Duck Dynasty merchandising, the politics they have encountered so far, and the stereotypes they have revised and created. We found that visual merchandising is one of the reasons the Robertson is so successful, and that politics don’t faze them; for they follow the Lord in all things. We also found that the stereotype of the country boy has turned to redneck and that beards is no longer just a symbol of masculinity but one of success thanks to the Robertson family and ZZ Top. Based on the findings we are able to say that none of these stereotypes are changing any time soon, or that the Duck Dynasty television show and its merchandising are going to stop making huge profits for a very long time in the future.

The environment around Walter has led to a tremendous change in his personality. The first time that Walter heard about the meth business was when he saw “a news report showing a large amount of money recovered from one of Hank's drug busts”. The money makes him take the “previous offer to go on a ride-along as Hank and his partner Steven Gomez raid a known meth lab”( Pilot (Breaking Bad)). In Albuquerque, there are many crimes happening in the shadows that not many people know about them. Most crimes are done because of greed or revenge, but for Walter it began because of worrying. He wanted to make sure that his family would have enough money to live on because he didn’t want them to continue struggling with the cost of his chemotherapy after he’s gone.

For this paper, I have chosen to analyze the sitcom That 70s Show. This show follows the lives of a group of teenage friends: Jackie, Donna, Hyde, Kelso, Eric, and Fez. The show addresses many social issues of the 1970s, including: Sexism, sexual attitudes, drug use, and the recession. It also highlights many of the inventions and developments of the entertainment industry, such as the remote control and Star Wars.

A meth cook hero? After a middle class, high school chemistry teacher gets knowledge of his death, he turns to his knowledge of chemistry to climb the ranks of the Albuquerque, NM Crystal Meth syndicate and become a master Meth cook. After a ride along with his brother, a Drug Enforcement Administration Agent, and learning of all the money to be made, Walter White chose to try his luck. Breaking Bad, a television series on AMC, is a strange twist on American family drama in that it adds the element of crime. Breaking Bad fits under the Crime-Drama genre because it features an average family’s struggles, entangled into the husband’s secret life of criminal activity.

In the first season, it is easy for viewers to sympathize with Walter. He seems like an average man with bad luck, just trying to make his life less miserable for himself and for his family. Though most viewers seem to still root for Walt throughout the show, we recognize his transformation to violent and selfish. The first man he murders, meth distributor Krazy 8, was an act of self-defense but the act was a turning point in Walt's character. Not only did the murder show that Walt is capable of killing, but from his behavior afterwards he seemed virtually unaffected.

Kat Graham is ready to move on from The Vampire Diaries. After eight seasons on the CW show as witch Bonnie Bennett, the actress revealed that she will make her big exit in 2017.

Unique - being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else. To be different is something every individual wishes for. This drive to be unique pushes us to boundaries that we would have never seen and to experience we might’ve never been able to be a part of. The drive to unique helps us achieve our ambitions. But the consequences of achieving our ambitions are graver than we previously thought. Walter White, the main character from Breaking Bad, goes from a mediocre high school chemistry teacher to an international meth manufacturer all in the course of five years. At the very beginning of his tumultuous journey, he finds out he has developed lung cancer. He is

The typical episode of the critically acclaimed, indie-darling, sitcom 30 Rock focuses on the lives of the writers, producers, executives and love interests of those involved in the production of a fictional sketch comedy television show called TGS with Tracy Jordan. 30 Rock is widely known as a show that deals with race, gender and class issues from multiple, humorous perspectives. Yet watching Season Five, Episode Twenty, a viewer could grow uncomfortable at the racial generalizations. The episode is entitled “Queen of Jordan” and is intended to parody the Real Housewives franchise of reality television. The episode was shot and aired as if it were a Bravo network reality show, entirely separate from 30 Rock, although it features the

To pay for his bills and take care of his family’s financial needs after he dies, he starts cooking meth with Jessie. Walt undergoes a dramatic change is season 1; he goes from a meek high school teacher to cooking meth for Tuco and going by the alter ego name Heisenberg. He kills multiple people to keep his business thriving and by the end of the season, the

Buffy the Vampire Slayer hush is one of the unique episodes from the series because instead of having dialogue theres more musical cues. Theres an unpleasant evil presence its claimed to be “The Gentlemen” it has almost everyones voice in the town. One of the character named Giles find that the only way for this creature can be stopped is if a woman screams. But the group has to fight the monster voiceless which is Ironic because its the only way it can be stopped so no one else looses their voice. In the story we can see how Buffy Summer seems to be taking the leader role throughout the series. For example in the particular episode we can see how Buffy always seems to have full control of what she really wants to do. One scene really stood

When it comes to shows on television today, many of the series that air aren't anything to go crazy over, yet this definitely isn't the case for creator Vince Gilligan's, “Breaking Bad.” “Breaking Bad” follows the life of Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston), an ordinary high school chemistry teacher. With a loving wife and teenage son at home, over time, Walter has formed an exceedingly mundane routine for his life. After soon discovering that he had been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, Walter decided to take extreme measures in order to secure his family financially: he would descend into a world so dark and so utterly twisted, that it would eventually consume him. Walter White became Heisenberg; the greatest drug lord the

When Jesse finds out that Walter manipulated him in order to help heighten his power, he teams up with Hank Schrader (Walter’s brother-in-law who’s in the DEA) in order to bring Walt down. When Walt is discovered, he escapes and relocates to New Hampshire. Close to a year later, Walt returns to Albuquerque in order to say goodbye one last time and to save Jesse from his terrible fate as a slave to make meth for the rival drug dealers the Nazis, as he is the only one, besides Walt, who can make almost pure meth. The final minutes of the series start with Walter saying goodbye to his wife, telling her the truth as to why he continued in the drug trade. “I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really…I was alive” (Genius). Walt then helps Jesse escape by killing his captives; they both then part ways after the bloodbath is over. Jesse then drives away

Power vs. subservience as a theme in Breaking Bad reoccurs throughout the series. Some instances include how Jesse is treated throughout the series; the viewers question whether Walt really thinks of Jesse as an equal partner, or if Gus thinks of Jesse as a worthy adversary. Considering how many problems they have, do Walt and/or Gus think of Jesse as his “dog”, or does he think of Jesse as a capable person? A connection of this reoccurring behavior can be compared to The Trial, how K was treated “like a dog.” There is an episode in Breaking Bad called “Kafkaesque,” where different themes come together between Breaking Bad and The Trial.

I agree that the lecture's representation of the differences between literature and popular writing is harsh. To me, literature deals with moral issues and life's dilemma, and this is shown through the popular movie the Titanic. Although on the surface it may seem like a piece of popular writing, but it shows characteristics of literature as well. The Titanic has an original plot, realistic characters, and like most pieces of literature, does not have a happy ending.