Bill Moyers

In 1988 Bill Moyers ' THE POWER OF MYTH debuted on PBS. This six-part series of conversations with renowned scholar Joseph Campbell explored the enduring, universal themes expressed in mankind 's oldest stories and examined their relevance for the modern world. Far from being lifeless, timeworn tales, Campbell told viewers, the ancient myths remain "clues to the spiritual potentialities of human life." Eighteen years later, with FAITH & REASON, Moyers and his guests continue to mine those potentialities

Change is inevitable. Whether it be positive or negative, change is constantly happening. More than often change can take you from the known world and spit you into the unknown, where you return a changed person. While embarking on the journeys provoked by change, you are on a hero’s journeys. The hero’s journey was popularized by Joseph Campbell. When describing what prompts hero’s journeys, Joseph Campbell said, The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken

Two American Families was a documentary filmed over the course of twenty years. Hosted by Bill Moyers and published by PBS as a part of the PBS Frontline series, it focused on the financial ups and downs of two families living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ordinary families both, the Neumanns and the Stanleys faced financial trouble starting in 1992, when Tony Neumann and Claude Stanley had each recently lost their manufacturing jobs. The Neumanns (an African American family) and the Stanleys (a white

In the suggested viewing of the piece Bill Moyers Journal: Facing the Economic Fallout it addresses how the economic fallout led to U.S. taxpayers picking up the slack for private businesses that had been able to benefit for grossly huge profits, bonus, and buyouts during this devastating period in U.S. history, (Moyers). The lack of accountability in some of our nation’s most powerful institutions led us in what could have been a repeat of the great depression of the 1920’s. As stated in the video

In Two American Families, a documentary film which produced by Bill Moyers, it follows the two middle class families in Milwaukie, one black and one white, for over a decade as they struggle to achieve the “American Dream”. This documentary reveals the struggle of some American families who work hard and follow the social order in the society, but have fallen as a victim in a struggling economy to a series of policy decisions made. The hand of policy ineffectively steered the lives of the two families

The main point of the Thomas Frank’s interview with Bill Moyers is that there is an ideological force, Conservatives, who work on destroying and deregulating the federal government for the sake of profits. Thomas Frank supported his main point by providing many examples that show how conservative ideology purposely undermines the government. The first example, Frank used to support his point, is he explained how American society tends to forget the past. Under the Bush administration the budget surplus

Background and Investigation Introduction Company name: Masala Location: Llanelli, United Kingdom Masala is an Indian restaurant which provides authentic Indian and Bangladeshi dishes. Masala is located on 31 Westened Street in Llanelli which is on the outskirt of town of the town centre next to the local primary school. Masala can hold and cater for 100 people maximum at the same time. It is a 3 story building with 3 floors; only 2 floors are used to cater. Masala has also been refurbished

Struggle of Family and War Our family life was pretty good. My husband Anthony would go to work and the kids played. But that didn’t last for long. I had to pay taxes for things like sugar and documents and if that didn’t put me into debt then there was the tea act and that angered us all because we already paid tax and now tea! Even though it is way less of tax I could be a trick. We don 't even get Representation so why are we paying these taxes! Thankfully we have the Sons of Liberty to show

Structure of California’s Government Headed by the governor of the state, the state govt. of CA replicates the Federal govt. It has three branches that perform their assigned tasks and keep within the limits set by the constitution. These branches are: Legislature Executive Judiciary While this division has been created to give structure to the government and ensure its smooth and effective functioning, there is, more importantly, the need to keep the power of the branches in check and to make

Throughout time many crime programmes featured on T.V have changed through Media language (Iconography, editing, camerawork and music). The Bill, first created in 1984 featured a lot of Iconography. At the start of the title sequence the camera focuses