Ally McBeal

BOOK REVIEW: GLASS HALF FULL, The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession, by Benjamin H. Barton Given the title of the Professor Benjamin H. Barton’s densely written, statistics laden, and challenging book addressing the history and future of the legal profession in the United States, one would suppose that lawyers would find the overall tenor of the book to be positive and encouraging. One would be wrong. For many lawyers, reading Barton’s book will be as disturbing as reading one’s own autopsy

     It is 8:30 Monday night and the whole family is in the living room watching the Fox network’s primetime hit “Ally McBeal”. Suddenly, just after the program resumes after a painstakingly long commercial break, you see a man and a woman lying in bed talking to each other after having a night of hot, passionate sex. You look down and see your ten year old son or daughter lying on the floor just staring at the TV, taking it all in. You begin channel surfing, and end up on

It is 8:30 Monday night and the whole family is in the living room watching the Fox network's primetime hit "Ally McBeal". Suddenly, just after the program resumes after a painstakingly long commercial break, you see a man and a woman lying in bed talking to each other after having a night of hot, passionate sex. You look down and see your ten year old son or daughter lying on the floor just staring at the TV, taking it all in. You begin channel surfing, and end up on channel 3, CBS. There is

| Behind every beautiful thing, there is some kind of pain -Bob Dylan 's CD 's There 's a good side to getting hurt a lot...after a while it just doesn 't bother you as much. You can try your hardest, you can do everything and say everything, but sometimes people just aren 't worth trying over anymore...they aren 't worth worrying about...it 's important to know when to let go of someone who only brings you down. I don 't know why your heart doesn 't do what your mind tells it to.

Censoring the Pages of Knowledge Imagine a world where you could not read or own any books. How would you feel if you had someone burn your house because you have books hidden within the walls? One of the most prevalent themes in Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 is the idea of censorship. In Bradbury's fictional world, owning books is illegal. A fireman's job is not putting out fires like one may assume. In Fahrenheit 451, a fireman has the job of starting fires. Firefighters start fires in

She was constantly submerged in ‘perfect’ individuals who strived for greatness and fame. When she first landed her first role on ‘Ally McBeal’ she decided to get a nutritionist. She began a healthy diet that ultimately led to her rapid deterioration. Portia would make slight alterations to her nutritionists diet plan, “Suzanne had set my calorie intake for optimum weight loss at 1400

Humans have a natural instinct to try to understand unfamiliar demographics based on information displayed to them via media outlets and other people; this instinct is called stereotyping. Stereotypes are "cognitive structures that contain the perceiver 's knowledge, beliefs, and expectations about human groups" (Green). Stereotypes have been proven to affect young adolescents. Media depicts African Americans in stereotypical ways that negatively affect self-esteem, therefore all media outlets should

Television and College Life After a long day of classes, I just like to lie down on the couch and relax while watching my favorite television show. Like me, this is how many college students end the day. After conducting a series of surveys and interviews, I realized that, even though we all like to watch our favorite shows, we prefer different shows and watch them at different times in different ways. My overall goal was to determine if there was any difference in television viewing

SOAP OPERA · I. INTRODUCTION 1. Origin/History The soap opera form first developed on American radio in the 1920s, and expanded into television starting in the 1940s, and is normally shown during the daytime, hence the alternative name, daytime serial. The first concerted effort to air continuing drama occurred in 1946 with the serial Faraway Hill. The term "soap opera" originated from the fact that when these serial dramas were aired on daytime radio, the commercials aired during the shows

Effects of Television on Our Society INTRODUCTION Plato once, prophetically, posed a question that hints at the very core of this project. In philosophizing on the issue of entertainment and its various, sometimes questionable, sources he asked his fellow citizens to consider the following “Shall we just carelessly allow our children to hear casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we