Abraham Simpson

The Simpsons often parody many classic films. One film they parody is Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese. In this film the character Henry Hill narrates his life as a gangster. He goes through the reasons why he decided to become a gangster. He explains how being a gangster makes him feel like a somebody and how they offer him protection. The Mafia gives Henry Hill a place to call his own. The mafia becomes his family. The movie Goodfellas is based off of a book called Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi which

Introducing America’s New Family: The Bundy’s American television today has drastically changed from the first appearance of the television in the 1920s. Currently, television is nothing but sitcoms poking jokes at the disabled, the LGBT community adapting to the American family standard, and even late night television poking fun at our 2016 Presidential candidates.1950s television depicted America’s heterosexual, patriarchal society in which an “ideal and acceptable” family consisted of a generous

The Power of Satire in Babbitt and The Simpsons      Sinclair Lewis used his writing to promote the enrichment of American society by attacking the weaknesses he perceived in his era.  His most notable work, Babbitt, is a satire on the middle class lifestyle and attitude of the 1920s.  Lewis' satirical style and voice is comparable to the modern television series The Simpsons, written by Matt Groening.  Babbitt and The Simpsons contain numerous similarities in satirical writing, presentation

characters but there one cartoon that stinks in my mind. The Simpsons is a show that stereotype gays because the image of Waylon Smithers. Waylon Smithers is a regular character on the hit animated series, The Simpsons. Waylon is the assistant to C. Montgomery Burns, Homer Simpson's boss and the owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Waylon is typically referred to as Mr. Smithers, or simply Smithers by Mr. Burns. On the Simpsons, Waylon Smithers plays the role of the stereotypical gay male

Final Draft Stereotypes/ The Glass Castle Stereotype plays a big part in today’s society. In the Memoir “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls, others would easily misjudge Jeannette’s family just by their image and the way they lived their life. Although they lived the way they did the walls family had much potential and were very well educated in their own ways. People need to live by the quote “Never judge a book by its cover” because you never know who they are until you meet them. In todays

The Simpsons writers in the television show, “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish”, explains that there is corruption for those in power and it can be easy for those in power to become corrupt. The Simpsons writers support their explanation by providing examples of corruption in power. For examples, when the inspector is reviewing the power plant Mr. Burns leaves him alone in a room full of money hoping to bribe the inspector to give him a good review. This shows the people with

possibly tries to improve humanity through its criticism. In order to truly understand the comedy in satire, the reader needs to have some basic knowledge about the topic. Satire is present in all types of literature and even in movies or cartoons. The Simpsons, by Matt Groening is a long-running satirical cartoon about the adventures of a middle class family living in America. One reason for the show’s popular success is that it mocks famous figures, institutions of power, or human

that exist now bring forth that children’s TV-viewing time is increasing (Vaala & Hornik, 2014). For these reasons, coupled with the questions laid down in the paper, I watched one episode each of Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Simpsons. (What is there about each type of program that would appeal to preschoolers?) For the Dora the Explorer

Hornady Manufacturing. This company’s headquarters is based in my hometown Grand Island NE. This company was founded in the 1940’s by Joyce Hornady. Shortly after WWII, Joyce teamed up with a partner, Vernon Speer and began buying equipment to remanufacturing spent shells. Remanufacturing of spent shells is a process of taking already fired bullets and rebuilding them to be used again. The company was built from basically nothing to become currently one of the largest companies of ammunition

TV shows have come a long way over the last 50 years. Before the typical family involved a stay at home mom a working dad and two kids, boy and girl, but now working moms and stay at home dads same sex parents adopted children more than enough exes. Most families want to be the TV family that has everything that is perfect or not perfect but a perfect kids or parents. In the 1980s TV shows talked about the politics. In the 1990s a popular show came out called full house, this show put Mary-Kate