...Dave Chappelle Purpose: To inform the audience about the comedian Dave Chappelle. Thesis: In order to understand Dave Chappelle’s successful career, it is important to learn his childhood, early career, and present career. Organizational Pattern: Topical I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Dave Chappelle once said “The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears yours mark.” B. Relevance: Dave Chappelle is a timeless comedian who has proven himself year after year. His easy going and laid back personality draws crowds in. He has made himself relevant by using controversial topics such as politics, stereotypes, and current events. His fearless attitude brings him to greater heights in the comedy world. C. Credibility: As a kid watching Dave Chappelle with my cousins back in his prime years, we thought he was the funniest man on the planet. Even though his material was not the most appropriate, we still believed his style was pure genius. Through the years we continued to watch his stand-up and it seemed to never get old. Though my cousins and I do not see each other as often, it is always fun to reminisce through his classic jokes. D. Thesis: In order to understand Dave Chappelle’s successful career, it is important to learn his childhood, early career, and present career. E. Preview: Therefore, we will start off with his childhood and some family information, next, we will live through a time of his early...
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...Victoria Morgan English Composition 101-3716 Dr. Hernandez 11/24/2014 Rhetorical Analysis of Dave Chappelle’s Stand-up and Maida Galvez’s Research Paper Insufficient intake of healthful food and consequences is a topic of many academic and non-academic talks. Whether authors are writing to share information with readers, like a group of researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, or tell an amusing story, like Dave Chappelle in his standup routine, they make appeals to emotions, authority, or logic to persuade the audience. The choice of persuasive strategies depends on the author’s purpose and expectations of the intended audience. In the article, Race and Food Availability in an Inner-city Neighborhood, first published online in 15 October 2007, a group of researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine argues that the availability and price of quality foods in grocery stores varies from neighborhood to neighborhood. Conducting a walking survey of food options in East Harlem, NY, they came to conclusion that low-income areas, minority communities, are dominated by fast food restaurants and small stores offering limited selections of healthful foods, when Caucasian neighborhoods are located in close proximity to full-service restaurants and grocery stores offering wide selection of foods. Researchers believe that this food disparities have “implications for racial/ethnic differences in dietary quality, obesity and obesity-related disorders” (Galvez et al. 624). ...
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...is efficient and that studying and offering what people want leads to loyalty. 3. Yes. Meredith’s marketing information expertise transfer into other media and products for examples websites, television stations and cable programming BHG.com, Parents.com, DivineCaroline.com and FitnessMagazine.com. The magazine publisher transformed to the creator of content delivered to women whenever, wherever and however they want social networking. 4. Since the company is still heavily rooted in print, I believe that Meredith’s company future is going to lead to flat revenue, and having to have extensive marketing information systems. 5. My recommendations to Meredith’s executives would be to continue innovating, creating radio talk shows, and consumer blogs. I think it would be beneficial if their were contests with women creating videos discussing which Meredith Corporation brand they love and utilize most...
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...B. The Indian Mutyni The Indian Mutyni was a rebellion among native Indian soldiers who were against the British rule in India. The short story has therefore a historical meaning. The title of the whole story is symbolic cause of the army that Mr. Vello creates. Within the army there is a revolt and which is between Mr. Vellon and the boys. The text”The Indian Mutyni”, is a short story written by Will Self. The short story is about how a former student at Creighton Comprehensive School, Fein a talk show host, who action as a child led to his supply teacher committing suicide. It’s about how he feels great guilt. Guilt about how he treated Mr. Vello haunts him. The impression we as readers get of Fein, is that he was that kind of boy who was feared by all teachers. He knew that and he took advantage of it. In the first lesson with the class they were told to shut up by Mr. Vello, but class 4b didn’t follow that order. In class 4b, there were 3 minorities: There were “The Jews”, “The Gentiles” and “The Asians”. The ones who controlled the class, who had the power was the Gentiles and the Jews, who also called themselves “The Yids” and “The Yocks”, they fought about the power in the class. The Asians were different from the others. They were all first-generation immigrants. All the students except the Asians, was seen as the doomed dregs of the society. “Mr Vello saw the rest of us, immediately, for what we were: time-servers; time-wankers; boys full of nasty decadences. The...
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...conclusion that art was a very misunderstood attribute of life. Many people did not accept that art could represent an artists’ mood or surroundings. Throughout the chapter it explains that many paintings of streets, architecture, and ordinary people emerged around the 1900s. This new art form known as realism portrayed the everyday life of people in poverty and in urban America. This time was known as the beginning of the truth. Realism was much different from the European paintings. Realism focused on the life on the streets in America. Many American’s were disgruntled about the fact painters would paint images of society suffering and in misery. This misunderstanding lead to the hardships painters faced while contributing to art galleries and shows. Realism paintings were too much for some gallery owners and they banned the art from the gallery. Robert Henri and the eight changed this a few years later. Robert understood that society wasn’t accepting this new generation of paintings, so he opened a school for painters freely to their work. Once the school was open painters began freely painting and eventually contributed to the realism movement. Robert eventually took eight men under his wing and mentored them. Chapter 30 took realism to another realm. It focused on the fact of color and brushwork. Artists began to use color to express certain mood or meaning within their paintings. For example American Gothic, by Grant Wood. He demonstrated realism by painting a picture of his...
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...Ronald Tiffany GE217 WED6pm 10/7/2010 Choice Essay 1 Media Overload The media is involved in every aspect of life. Whether it is personal or just about the weather the media is there. What about these talk show filled with drama like they usually are but they always seem to catch people attention while flipping through channels on the T.V. I sit and wonder what would make these people put themselves out in the limelight and air out there dirty laundry. Then it comes to me that our society loves drama and sad to say most of the drama is other peoples suffering. Not only is it on these talk shows that we see this, it is also in our everyday local news coverage. The more and more we see this on T.V. the more we will see it in our own backyard. The media and the entertainment world have a big role in the way our society’s moral is changing for the worst. These games our children are playing have far too much violence and foul language. Take the game Grand Theft Auto, you shoot people, steal cars, and even pimp out women to earn more points so you can move up to be the biggest maddest thug on the planet. Yes they are rated for certain ages and they do warn you about the language and the violence but parents still buy them for their children because society as a whole doesn’t see a problem with it. That’s where the media and the entertainment world play a part in this whole cycle. So now when our future generation becomes parents themselves they will allow their kids...
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...The drama “Trying to find Chinatown” by David Henry Hwang, the short story “Brownies” by Z. Z. Parker and the poem “I, Too” by Langston Hughes all deal with stereotypes and how the characters in each work deal with them. While differently illustrated by each author, the theme is the same: overcoming the obstacle of stereotypes. In “Trying to find Chinatown”, the main character, Benjamin, is trying to find his roots and feel a sense of belonging. On his way he stops and talks to Ronnie a street musician of Asian descent to ask for directions. Interestingly, Ronnie greets Benjamin with less than stellar enthusiasm because he calls Ronnie’s instrument a fiddle instead of a violin. Ronnie blasts Benjamin with, “If this was a fiddle, I’d be sitting here with a cob pipe, stomping my cowboy boots and kicking up hay.” (page 1825). The anger evoked in this line is strong and little does Ronnie know that he and Benjamin share similar heritages. Benjamin is not only faced with dealing with an ignorant stereotypical slur but ironically so by the very heritage he has come to embrace and is looking to find solace in. Benjamin calls down Ronnie and tells him that “it’s very stereotypical to think that all Asian skin tones conform to a single hue”. (page 1827) Despite being told he doesn’t fit the mold of an Asian American, Benjamin goes on to find his place in Chinatown and “felt immediately…a world where all things were finally familiar” (page1829). Similarly, “Brownies” deals with...
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...Daily Show is the epitome of alternative journalism these qualities emerged in the shows October, 29th 2013 episode in particular. Geoffrey Baym states in his article “The Daily Show: Discursive Integration and the Reinvention of Political Journalism”, he believes The Daily Show is a prime form of alternative Journalism and the shows ability to function as both entertainment and news has brought on mass appeal of all generations. Drawing on live broadcast coverage of public statements and government proceedings, the content of The Daily Show resembles much of the mainstream news media. The show contains a few major content elements where within each; various aspects of alternative journalism emerge. One is the satire news update. The daily show advances beyond the style of “fake news” like other talk shows. The satire segment often focuses on national and global issues of significance left unquestioned. For example in The Daily Show’s October, 29th episode Stewart begins the program with a segment called “is that a good thing or bad thing”, within this segment he is able to critique the news by showing his audience live broadcast coverage from mainstream news organizations such as CNN. The parody asks us to consider just what a journalist’s job should consider. The Daily Show also violates normal journalistic convention in very necessary ways. This allows it to interrogate power over mainstream news. This is due to the fact that both mainstream news and The Daily Show may cover...
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...another $10,000. | The Main Problem / Task to solve/do is: | Come up with a marketing plan to sell the product and convince Brett to invest in their idea. | The three most promising alternatives are: | 1: Go to the trade shows in all of the target market areas and advertise their products | 2:Put his advertisement in the magazine | 3: Go to CDMV inc. and try to sell them the product | The three most important Evaluation Criteria are: | 1: The price of the boots which is $3.44-$3.60 with a minimum 5000-6000 units | 2: Where most of the vets are located ( 36.5% in Ontario, 22% Quebec, Alberta and BC 12.5%, rest of the provinces were less then 5%) | 3: Shoes for moos sold their shoes for about $39.95- $79.95 per shoe, most farmers leave hoof disease untreated, so the prices of the shoes might turn the farmers away, but only 5-15% of the herd gets hoof disease in the spring time. | My recommendation and its justification is the following: | My recommendation is to go to trade shows and go to CDMV inc. to sell their product. The order of shoes will cost $18,000- $20,640 for 5000-6000 shoes. The trade shows will cost him around $20,000 per year. For the first year they have a budget of $50,000, if Ted goes to the trade show and buys the 6000 shoes from the manufacturers, he still will have $9,360 left which he can use a portion of to go see CDMV inc. and pitch his...
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...In this response paper I will talk about the movie “Truman Show”. And some opinions and results which I got from it and the movies connection with popular culture First of all, I’ll start from the content of the movie. The main character is someone “who has been adopted by a company for the first time”, called Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), who lives in a giant jar which can be seen from the space (the only building can be seen from space after the The Great Wall) unaware of the World. Truman , who thinks that his little world is “real”, eventually starts to figure out that everything happens around him just about a repetition and everything around him is just about a fiction. However , escaping from his fictional world is not easy as he estimates. Soon, Truman gets forced to face his fears, to go an “unknown” from the world that he is safe inside in order to escape from his “fake world”. In the last scene, director of the Truman Show (Ed Harris) tries to trick Truman (and “of course” the audience).Directors says “ there is nothing better at the “outside”, even inside is better and safe.”. But Truman doesn’t prefer the prison that he is in and escape from it. When I came to my conclusions about the movie is trying to send a message to the audience. For example, in the Truman afraid from sea because he lost her father at sea. Symbolic meanings in any language of the sea means freedom. Truman is afraid of the sea because it is not free. Truman does not exceed the sea following...
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...Chapt 1 Assignment “The Cosby Show” Growing up in the 70's and 80's were very challenging. I came from a very traditional family, meaning both parents were in the home as well as all 7 of my siblings. My father worked hard and my mother stayed at home and raised us for a portion of that time. We often watched a lot of family oriented shows, “ Eight is Enough'', which was my mother's favorite.(I wonder why) Little House On The Prairie, The Jeffersons, etc. My personal favorite was the Cosby Show, although Little House on the Prairie was definitely in the running. One of the reasons I favor The Cosby Show is because it gave me hope. Growing up in the projects was not a joyful experience, although my parents did a great job with what they had. The Cosby Show depicted family in a very positive way. It provided an alternative to the stereotypical African American family. Unlike other black sitcoms such as “Good Times”, which always left you depressed after watching the show, “ The Jeffersons'', whose nanny was very loud and opinionated. The Huxtables were upper class people. Cliff Huxtable( Bill Cosby) was a doctor and his wife Claire( Phylicia Rashad) was a successful lawyer. The family structure was that of a nuclear unit or modern family. The gender roles of the parents were that of egalitarian. They were a two parent home with 5 children. They both balanced the responsibilities of supporting their children through work and quality time. The gender of the children were...
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...An over view of the Broadway Musical, up to and including Show Boat. Early 1900’s New York City and the operetta was becoming quite popular; a mix of music and drama, it’s influences stretched back as far as Greek theatre and other types of European opera. No doubt at the time it held some sort of retro appeal. In London a similar movement was taking place, more influenced by a vaudevillian styling, it was more comedic; designed specifically for soldiers on leave (the idea was to bolster morale, hence why theatres stayed open during the course of World War One) This style of musical comedy was also characterised by the incorporation of popular song and dance styles. Fast forward to 1920’s/1930’s and, much like the emigration of disco in the 90’s in reverse, these styles combined to form the precursor to the known Musical. The Term ‘Musical’ itself was used in generality to describe the form and, obviously, stuck. This emerging form featured the use of contemporary song styles, primarily Jazz and Rag-Time, Jerome Kern’s incorporation of syncopation and Jazz-like progression into many of his songs. Popular Dance element in any production and thusly, dance bands influenced the traditional pit orchestra; jazz elements again more prominent with the use of muted brass and Jazz style piano. The rising popularity of radio broadcasting was instrumental in the expanding appeal of the musical from 1920’s-40’s. Probably the most important development of this new form was...
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...Title of the thesis: From ‘The Cosby Show’ to ‘Blackish’: Cultural Analysis comparing gender roles. By: Dominique Hoskins Shorter University Statement of the problem: This study needs to be conducted because over past years throughout television, there have not been enough representations of wealthy African-American families being portrayed. Many shows like My Wife & Kids have tried to carry out with their own originality. So far none have been able to connect with audience in an influential way as The Cosby Show. Lit Review: Slide one: * Tannen (2010) mentions that both masculine and feminine conversational styles are equally valid; her use of the term genderlect reflects this idea. * Describing them as masculine and feminine styles presents them as two distinct cultural dialects rather than as inferior or superior ways of speaking also * Tannen (2010) identifies that each gender uses its own distinctive language codes to draw different inferences from the same message. Slide two: Studies using Genderlect Styles Purpose (importance) of the study: The purpose of this study will be to discover the progress of wealthy educated African-American families portrayed on television. The central concept being studied are the married couples from the 1980’s sitcom The Cosby Show and 2015’s Blackish. Using Genderlect Styles theory the researcher hopes to determine if gender roles have changed from the 1980’s to 2015 for wealthy educated African-American...
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...Sample essay Year 10 Philosophy What is the best way to relate to reality; control it or give up one’s desire to control it? I am going to argue that it is not necessary to give up one’s desire to control reality, but one must be realistic about how much of it one can actually control. I will focus especially on the lessons we can learn about this from the movie The Truman Show. At the outset, we need to distinguish between reality and imagination. Our brains have the remarkable ability not only to hold pictures of what has happened, but also to create pictures of what we think will happen, or could happen. This is our imagination. Without imagination, we would not be able to think sensibly about the future. Our imagination allows us to project ourselves into the future. But on the other hand, even though our imagination gives us a mental construction of the reality around us, it is not that actual reality itself. Let’s face it, there are thousands of things happening in the world around us that we do not know about and cannot imagine. Truman in The Truman Show has no idea what sort of machinations Christof is engineering to shape his life. All the people around Truman are acting. His so-called wife is an actress who is being paid to act as his wife. Truman, at first, cannot imagine this is true. He cannot imagine that Marlon is not ‘really’ his best friend, or that what Marlon says to him is actually being set up through an earpiece, with the words first being spoken...
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...Channel Analysis Radios have been around for more than 100 years now and it has played a big role in our modern society. Through radio, news, music and advertisements have thrived. However, as technology advanced time after time, the radio stations had many other stations to compete with. For this assignment, I chose KPWR 106 which is hip-hop station to examine and learn why this station is a successful one. I think there are two types of radio personalities: those that plan an actual show, and those that have no idea what they want to talk until the station starts. A planned show keeps the listeners tuned in and makes the listeners want to come back to it often. PWR 106 is seems unplanned but maintains the good hit playlist and engaging talks. There are several things to keep in mind, which I have learned from this assignment. The time frame was 10:30 to 11:30 in the morning on March 19th,2014. The station was called KPWR106 and it mainly played rap, hip-hop and R&B. The Format of the show kind of unique. The first 15 minutes, it played 2 music back to back and then one 30 second commercial and repeated once more. However after 15 minute mark, it had about 9 commercials non-stop 15 to 30 second playing time each. Following the unending commercials, 9 songs were played non-stop again, each one playing for about 3 minutes. So in total there were total of 18 commercials for about 11 minutes. They advertised auto insurance, school degree programs, loans, cars, sandwiches, chocolate...
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