...2012 Dexter POL 128 Media Exercise Assignment “Dexter” is an American dark satire that goes against many of the social ideologies of standard American society through presenting a paradoxical perspective of a justified serial killer. In this way, the show reinforces its defiance through the absence of the traditional American family and the lack of trust in the judicial system, all while contradictorily supporting the aspect of fitting in among society. The series “Dexter” follows a man with a meticulously crafted life. By day, he is a blood splatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro police department. By night, he takes on an entirely different persona: serial killer. However, he is not your average serial killer. He follows a very strict moral code, taught to him by his late foster father Harry, and only kills other serial killers. Season one, episode one, also known as the pilot episode titled “Dexter”, starts off with Dexter stalking and killing his first victim of the series, where it is learned that his victim had killed three young boys previously. Through a series of flashbacks with his late father Harry, it is discovered that at a young age, Dexter had psychopathic tendencies, which Harry was unable to control. Afterwards, his foster sister, Debra, a vice squad officer, pulls him into her world when a series of hookers are being murdered around Miami. The murders involve the victim being chopped into pieces with all of their blood drained, and Dexter is strangely...
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...Dexter Morgan who is in his early 30’s is a blood spatter analyst from Miami Metro police department. He sticks to a very strict code that was taught to him by his own father who knew Dexter would be a killer since he was a child. The code his father would teach him was a guide that taught him to only kill other killers. This code would prevent him from getting caught while in the process of killing his victims. Even though Dexter only kills bad people, he also takes pleasure in killing and doing his very own ritual that he executes on all his victims. Dexter has no emotions and doesn’t know how to show emotion. Dexter’s father also taught him how to disguise his true self from the rest of society so that on the outside he seems like a normal...
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...Michael C. Hall -- an actor that plays the lead character of Dexter Morgan in the Showtime series of Dexter. Dexter Morgan was born in 1971 ("Dexter Morgan (Character)" n.d.). At the age of 3, Morgan witnessed the violent murder of his mother Laura Moser, in a shipping container. With the untimely demise of his mother, Morgan and his brother Brian Moser were left in the container for days, unable to escape the carnage. His brother being older than himself was shipped to a mental facility while Morgan was adopted by the local police officer, Harry Morgan that was investigating his case and the first person to find him at the scene of his mother’s murder. Becoming aware of the patterns that emerge behaviourally from the young Morgan, Harry...
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...The opening sequence foreshadows many of Dexter’s murderous rituals, but provides several points of identification and reliability for viewers during his morning routine. This contrast in images and scenes of Dexter in his apartment versus in the outside world symbolizes a yin and yang-like quality as there is an obvious split between the good and bad balance within Dexter and his mind (The Yin & Yang of Good & Evil). Though, just as with yin and yang, people change and things then become different, altogether change is a good thing for Dexter because it symbolizes something life (The Yin & Yang of Good & Evil). A life that he would not be able to have unless he knew how to balance the yin and yang, the good and evil within his mind. Dexter...
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...two graduates from Edinburgh. They meet at their graduation party and decide to sleep together at Emma’s room on 15th July 1988 also known as St. Swithin’s Day. Nothing actually happens and they decide to stay close friends. They are living separate lives but decide to meet every year on St. Swithin’s Day. Emma has been in love with Dexter for many years but Dexter is a playboy who doesn’t care about relations. He prefers the wild life with as many beautiful girls as possible. He respects Emma as the best girl he’s ever known, but just his best friend. Every chapter in this book describe their meetings once a year around that same date. First you can read all about the things they have encountered during that year until the moment they meet again. Emma is struggling a little bit with finding her way in life. She can’t really decide what to do with her degree. She wants to be an actress but in particular a play writer, but she can’t manage to fulfill her dream. She is shy and she lacks the motivation to take the necessary steps. She thinks a lot about Dexter and she writes him huge letter in which she describes almost everything she does. Dexter decided to travel a bit more before searching for a career. He visits Rome for example where he teaches English to young Italian girls. He still feels that life is one big game and he hits on every beautiful girls he spots. He is a genuine playboy with the looks of a dinky school boy. His letters to Emma are quite different. The answers...
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...The cast recreates the great "debate" between Edward Murrow, and Joseph McCarthy. Murrow was a television news broadcaster and McCarthy was A U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin. In the 1950s, McCarthy had publicly called for the removal in government offices, the career field, and basically society, of all citizens who had ever been a or associated with the communist party, even though it was not illegal. McCarthy used the power of his position to attack all those he disagreed with by hiding his attack under the appearance of patriotism. Murrow, as a TV news broadcaster, fought against McCarthy’s techniques and successfully challenged and eventually discredited the senator on his show. Murrow first defends Milo Radulovich, a man from Dexter Michigan, who is facing removal from the Air Force because of his sister's political leanings and because his father reading a newspaper. Murrow attacks McCarthy on one of his shows. A very public issue stems when McCarthy responds by accusing Murrow of being a communist. The film is outlined by Murrow’s speech to the Radio and Television News Directors Association in 1958, in which Murrow harshly cautions his audience not to waste the potential of TV to inform and educate...
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...Professor Trout Dexter Green, Judy Jones, and the Ideal: A Love Triangle F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” examines romantic ideals, following the relationship of Dexter Green and Judy Jones from adolescence to adulthood. Dexter and Judy’s mutual idealizations of one another bring them together at first, but ultimately, the unpredictable waxing and waning of these idealizations keep them apart as time goes on. Eventually, Judy becomes the absolute standard of beauty and desirability for Dexter even after he has married another woman and moved on with his life, and while Judy’s idealizations of Dexter are much more sporadic and seemingly-fickle, they are no less intense. When these waves of idealization intersect briefly, Dexter and Judy seem to be truly in love, but when the waves fade or run against each other, only disappointment and bitterness remain. Dexter first meets Judy on the golf course where he works as a caddy. When she arrives for lessons, her beauty and sense of entitlement are fascinating for Dexter, who is compelled to quit his job rather than carry her clubs. While his feelings for her have yet to take romantic shape, Judy immediately compels Dexter to act drastically (and perhaps irrationally), giving up his position as a respected caddy in a seemingly irrational act of defiance. This development is particularly extreme considering Dexter and Judy do not know each other at all at this point in the story. The narrator tells that Dexter was “dictated to...
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...Black Population Rene Madore State University of New York at Utica/Rome Black Population Spector’s discussion of the Black population begins with four pictures of significance that preserve, defend, and reestablish health within their community. Figure 11-1(Spector, 2013, p. 265) shows a picture of a classic Haitian meal, which has all the necessary components of a healthy meal for maintaining health. Figure 11-2 (Spector, 2013, p. 265) shows a beaded necklace that is worn for health protection. Figure 11-3 (Spector, 2013, p. 265) shows a desiccated garden snake, as well as the powder obtained from grinding it. This powder is mixed with water to be applied to skin rashes and insect bites. Finally, figure 11-4 (Spector, 2013, p. 265) shows the grave of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King. King fought for the nonviolent resolution of prejudice. Box 11-1 (Spector, 2013, p. 269) notes the significant events in the Black population for civil rights. These events are noteworthy in the discussion of health and illness of the Black community, as the abolishment of slavery did not stop the segregation of the races. Hotels, schools, bathrooms, modes of transportation, and drinking fountains were separated by the races. In 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel, an establishment that formerly was only accessible to the Caucasian race. He had just spoken the day before about a peaceful resolution between the races....
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