Futurama Essays

  • Comparison Between The Simpsons and Futurama

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    Comparison Between The Simpsons and Futurama The word genre can be used to describe several things such as books, films and television programmes. It means the theme of the book, e.t.c. and in the case of a film or programme means either horror, thriller, comedy, romantic. It is important that a programme or film makes clear what genre it is. For example, a horror should make you cower in fear and a thriller should keep you on the edge of your seat. In the case of a comedy, which I have

  • Essay On Satire In Thomas More's Utopia

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    satirical portrayal of an ideal state. Thomas More’s work of fiction Utopia indirectly comments on the societal failings of Tudor England through the satirical discourse between Raphael and More. Episode “Space Pilot 3000” of Matt Groening’s sitcom Futurama offers a mordant criticism of American society entering the 21st century through the retrofuturistic portrayal of an advanced Utopian future. Thus, the satirical portrayal of Utopia serves as a manifestation of the composer’s concerns regarding human

  • Comparison Essay On Futurama Fry

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    with text that spreads rapidly through various social media accounts. Memes are also very powerful and can affect a person, or event either good or bad. According to memgenerator.net, Futurama Fry is the second most popular. Part one: The history and origin The meme Futurama Fry comes from a cartoon show called Futurama. This picture that creates the meme stars Fry a character from the show with a half-lidded expression on his face. Fry was discovered searching for Leela’s another character on the

  • Character Analysis Of Futurama

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    Futurama is an American animated science fiction comedy series. The series follows the adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century. He is taken in by his sole descendant, an elderly and addled scientist who owns a small cargo delivery service. Among the other crew members are Capt

  • Analysis Of Family Guy, Futurama, And South Park

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    remove from the possible knowledge to attain. Shows like Family Guy, Futurama, and South Park are some of the many shows that people decree as pointless, a joke, a waste of time, or idiotic. To the unknowing eye theses shows are indeed nothing more than a joke or entertain, but if one were to take a closer look into the shows it is possible to see that jokes, storylines, and characters represent a bigger picture. Family Guy, Futurama, and South Park are some of those shows that use satire to

  • World Fair Essay

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    The Great World Fair. Many people seem to forget all of the fun stress reliving events that still seemed to happen during the Great Depression. For example the 1939 world’s fair this was held In New York City. Many people ask what the world’s fair is and why was it so special? A world’s fair is where many international countries brought life changing inventions, displays, and activities for people to watch and enjoy. During 1939 many other problems and events were going on including the depression

  • Streamlining

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    Streamlining Ukrainian State Theater: Foyer - Norman Bel Geddes, Horizons Norman Bel Geddes was a Broadway stage designer turned industrial designer. During much of his life, his ideas stretched beyond the vision of most people. He encountered a lot of apprehension toward his innovative ideas, many of which never left the drawing board. Yet, Geddes' notions of "Streamlining" are important to understanding public life. Steven Heller and Louise Fili (1995) write, "[Streamlining] was at once the

  • Walt Disney and Jet-Age City Planning

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    Walt Disney and Jet-Age City Planning Image borrowed from Waltopia. When is a planned community too planned? Some of the exhibits displayed at the 1939 World's Fair such as Democracity and Futurama influenced many American community planners. The Levittown and Greenbelt projects followed the same guidelines of community that the 1939 World's Fair introduced. These are two of the more well known Garden City projects that took many families away from big cities and brought them to the peace

  • Al Gore's Credible Argument on Global Warming

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    documentaries made in history.” Needless to say, Al Gore does an amazing job in presenting to his audience a topic that tends to be overlooked. He grabs the attention of the youth, which can be difficult, by incorporating the short clip from the show “Futurama”.He presents to us charts and data on his findings like the level of increasing carbon dioxide, which is alarming, and its affect over the next years. Although Al Gore can be misinterpreted as making global warming a political issue as a result of

  • Research Paper On Batman

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    Alongside the excellent characterization of Batman, and the various characters in the film. I love how the movie uses flashbacks in a story, the characters usually remember an event while at the location of where it happened. These events usually happen before their eyes and they are always an important integral to the plot of the film. Adding to the list of excellent things about this film are the voice cast. This movie opted to not use any of the cast from the animated series and I did not mind

  • Persuasive Essay On Drones

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    There are many different types of drones, with them comes various names that show exactly what the drones priority is. Assault drones, spy drones, UAV’s etc. The reason drones are becoming much more popular and used now is due to its cheap pricing of fuel, its efficiency in its ability to complete a set task. But using drones to deliver mail may be another story. The issue between these new ideas by the Australia Post is a simple low key fact that people are afraid of the drones because of its usage

  • Argumentative Essay On Driverless Cars

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    The prospect of autonomous driving continues to be one of the interesting topics of conversation in the general public for quite some time now. A normal busy day with our roads and cities full of self-driving cars/vehicles may still seem impossibly futuristic for many. But this scenario though appears to be an exclusive part of a science fiction film, is not that distant in the future if we go by the developments taking place in this field. This topic, however, engenders some pertinent questions:

  • My Role Model In The Simpsons: Matt Groening

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    although Groening is only one man, getting where he is today undoubtedly took some hard work and most definitely had to overcome some grim times or road blocks. Even withThe Simpsons, 'his comic strip 'Life In Hell’ in which he draws himself and futurama Groening still comes out on top. One of these roadblocks was an episode from the Simpsons ‘A Street Car Named Marge’ Karma Waltonen says Waltonen K. (2009) “New Orleans residents were highly offended by the

  • The Hottest Places In Hell In Dante's Inferno

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    Dante Alighieri once said, “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” The same person who said this quote wrote the epic poem called the Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy is separated into three parts, Inferno being the first. The Inferno is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante going through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. This story is centered around seven deadly sins, telling the story of how man’s true nature

  • Hannibal: The Book by by Thomas Harris and NBC Series

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    NBC’s Hannibal’s first episode, Aperitif aired on April 4th, 2013 to 4.36 million viewers. The show is based on the acclaimed crime, horror, and drama books by Thomas Harris. The NBC series stands as a reboot for the cinematic Hannibal franchise, which became popular after the success of the 1991 cinematic adaption of Silence of the Lambs in which Anthony Hopkins famously portrayed the character of Hannibal Lecter, although the first Hannibal film was actually the 1986 film Manhunter, an adaption

  • Animation in the 1920s

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    Animation in the 1920’s As the science of technology rose into entertainment, not even Hollywood could compete with the new stars of animation. The first broadcast ever was in 1928 and the technology used for the broadcasts consisted of a turntable, which was solely used to be the base for the Felix the Cat figurine and propped him up for the shoot; studio lights, which helped transmit the picture and they also needed to be constant; an actor was needed and had to be impervious to heat, cheap, and

  • Japanese Animation

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    This essay discusses the differences and similarities between American and Japanese Animation. Both of them have very diverse beginnings, development, and results that can be looked at from the standpoint of the performance levels of the Youth in those different cultures. After comparing both it is very obvious that Japanese Animation is higher in most categories but this essay is to answer the question of, “How is Japanese Animation more complex in terms of storylines, character development, and

  • The Consequences of Spanking

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    Spanking is commonly associated with parents attempting to correct behavior in a child; ultimately often out of frustration and/or anger with the child’s behavior. In the heat of the moment, most parents do not associate the long term psychosocial or behavioral effects the act of spanking can have on a child. The dangers of these effects derived from how children think and behave show us that spanking is not an effective form of discipline. Spanking teaches the child that violence is a socially accepted

  • Informative Essay On Self Driving Cars

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    everyday lives. A brief description of their history, how they work, and finally answer the question, will self-driving cars ever be adopted widely by the American public? The idea of a self-driving vehicle became widespread to the public after GM’s Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair according to Wired.com (2012), the exhibit GM NavLab 5 was equipped with a portable computer, a windshield-mounted camera, a GPS receiver, and other supplementary equipment. The longest drive without human intervention

  • Late-Night Network Analysis: Adult Swim On The Green

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    Since its launch in 2001, Adult Swim has thrived and enjoyed massive success. Adult Swim is a late night offshoot of cartoon network that runs from 8 pm to 6 am, owned by a Time Warner Company. Adult Swim enjoys massive financial and high viewer success because of its target audience. While other late-night networks broadly target the adult audience, Adult Swim has taken on a different set of adults. It concentrates mainly on the loving teen generation of adults, primarily between the ages of 18-34