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    ne Andes puts it, “Lucy is ultimately UNRULEABLE! …No she does not break the rules to make a feminist statement…But in her own rebellious way, she proves that women can break the molds within which their world tries to cast them...” (2007, para. 3). Therefore, even if people may not think that it is intentional, watching Lucy try to break free from her homemaker life, could definitely impact the viewers. Yes, Lucy is usually put back into her place, but occasionally she does get what she wants, and

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    I love Lucy: Lucy Ball

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    “If you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived.” (“If you've never failed, you've never lived”-video) This video and short statement entails that life is about taking risks and learning from one’s mistakes. Without life’s mistakes, people wouldn’t have the motivation to become better. Failure is a part of life. Failure allows the term, “When you fall, you get back up” come into play, allowing individuals to realize that it is a natural part of life to lose at something; one must simply get back up and

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    What are audience of this text persuaded to believe, think, or do and how is this persuasion accomplished? I love Lucy is one of the most popular and legendary television shows from the 50 's with a large audience. As well as it has played an important role on the basic element of the sitcom genre. The fame of this comedy show is for the skills of the actors like Lucille Ball (Lucy) and Ricky Ricardo. This show is about the daily life of marriage. Through this show the audience can relate to middle-class

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    Analysis Of I Love Lucy

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    Rewinding back to the 1950’s, I Love Lucy was one of the most popular sitcoms on television. There were two main characters and they happen to be married. The husband’s name was Ricky and the wife’s name is Lucy. Ricky is a talented singer and part of a band. On the other hand, his wife strives to be famous and share her talents with the world. Her husband claims that she has no talent and she would be better off staying at home to be a housewife. Throughout the show, Lucy finds herself getting into

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    Analysis Of I Love Lucy

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    The I Love Lucy Show was broadcasted in the 1950s based in New York, it was a family based show that featured a loving, yet comical couple Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, later in the series they became parents to Ricky Ricardo Jr. The show also included Fred and Ethel Mertz who were the neighbors, friends and also the landlords of Lucy and Ricardo.The couple joined them on different episodes as supporting characters adding to the storyline. I Love Lucy was the first influential and also successful sitcom

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    It also allowed for I Love Lucy to make jokes about the look of television such as in the classic season one episode “Lucy Does a TV Commercial.” Lucy, up to her classic antics, puts herself in the Ricardos TV set to which Ricky sarcastically remarks while watching, “Yes, it’s amazing how clear the picture is.” The show often poked fun at the struggles of how television looked. Their quick go-to being having one of the characters adjust the television set while the other three pointed out what was

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    On Monday, January 19, 1953, I Love Lucy made history. It was the night Americas favorite Hollywood couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz gave birth to their second child. But, it was also the night Americas favorite fictional couple, Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, were giving birth to their first on the CBS hit, I Love Lucy. The show, already living in its reign as the number one show on American television, managed to receive forty-four million views on the episode, “Lucy Goes to the Hospital,” making it

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    “Lucy, you've got some 'splaining to do!” If you are anything like me, you can hear Ricky Ricardo's iconic voice and as you express this most quotable line, you are impersonating Mr. Ricky Ricardo. I Love Lucy is one of the most legendary and most famous situation comedies of all time, maintaining its ability to appeal audience even half a century later. The television show follows the life of Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball), a goofy woman of the house in the 1950s as she attempts to break into show

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    I Love Lucy Gender Roles

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    In my opinion, “I Love Lucy” does depict a typical representation of gender in the 1950’s but not an accurate representation of gender in America today. In the 1950’s, stereotypical gender roles were socially expected and encouraged. The women would be tending to the home and children, the men would be tending to their careers. However, the 1950’s was not as conformist as it was often portrayed. In the television sitcom ‘ I Love Lucy ‘, actress Lucille “Lucy” Ball, would often reinforce these traditional

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    1. I Love Lucy, the show, is about the life of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. Lucy is like a housewife in the 1950s in New York City. It is a comedy where it is about the daily life of a marriage. Where the couple are of different origins since her husband Ricky is Cuban and Lucy from US. The show inspires in a comic and different way since the difference between cultures is mixed as well as the role of man and woman. Lucy plays the role of a housewife where he longs to have a business or a race his ambitious

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