TV Guide Essays

  • Tv Guide Situation Analysis

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    years, TV Guide has been the grand dame of entertainment publishing. Known for its deep listings and astute coverage of the industry, the magazine has been a fixture in millions of American homes longer than the remote control. TV Guide magazine is one of the most popular weekly magazines in the country. From behind-the-scenes looks at broadcast, cable and syndicated shows and their stars and characters; to sneak peaks at television's most intriguing plotlines, and the hottest new DVDs -- TV Guide

  • The TV Guide is Dead

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    A while back, I wrote about the death of “TV Time.” This concept was simple—people were spending less time watching TV while sitting on their couches, slave to some arbitrary schedule. Perhaps the article should have been named, “The TV Guide is Dead.” Oh well. Regardless, it got the point across. Less people were watching according to schedule. They wanted to watch when they wanted to watch. The premise was based on data from a Nielsen report, State of the Media: Consumer Usage Report (2011) which

  • The Emergence and Popularity of Reality TV

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    1. Introduction The emergence and soon popularity of reality TV in some degree demonstrates the huge market of selling “real experience” through exposing “realities” of privacy, relationship between players, etc. (Deery 2004 in TV program area.). However, reality TV may not be intrinsically “real” though almost all involved players are unprofessional actors and programs are usually highly inscribed. Players are actually selected carefully (e.g. audition or interviews) and constrained by various signed

  • Barnsley Venue Guide

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    Music and Arts Guide The following document features a variety of different venues in Barnsley, which are good for live bands or DJs. This should be of use to any unsigned band wishing to get gigs in the area. Some places might pay to have a band, others don’t. It all depends on the quality/ size of the venue and how well known you are as a band or DJ. This is Butterfield’s Bar on Market Hill, Barnsley. Tel: 01226 733854. It’s a trendy town centre bar, which serves a good range of food every

  • A White Kid’s Guide to the Soup Kitchens of San Francisco

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    A White Kid’s Guide to the Soup Kitchens of San Francisco “Ten cents a cigarette... “Three for a quarter... “Dollar a pack.” This is Linus’ cadence: Linus is making some money, hawking cigarettes up and down the line of folks waiting for a table. We are in one of the longest lines in town—two blocks long, longer than the line for sushi at the No-nayami on Church Street, longer than the kosher line for the Marrakesh on O’Farrell. St. Anthony’s doesn’t take reservations. Instead, you take

  • Subnetting

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    (standard HDLC), you will need one subnet for the circuit, or "wire" (both ends of the serial connection will be in the same subnet). If you are planning on implementing Frame Relay, SMDS, X.25 etc, read the Router Products Configuration and Reference Guides for assistance in configuring. A subnet mask is defined for each IP address. The subnet mask identifies which portion of the 4 octets is used to identify the data link, with the remaining bits identifying the node. If you want no subnetting, use these

  • My Idea of a good life

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    good for you. My parents always there to support me. Support is very important for your life no matter your 5 years old or 60 years old. They have been there to support and guide me, whether it is badminton, school or any other problems. So it’s very important to have parents, and most important, parents that supports and guides me. Then you grow up and gets older. You start in school and get a lot of friends hopefully. I see the school as a important thing for your life, why that is the way to build

  • The Doctrine of the Lord's Supper

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    Calvin's or Zwingli's view of Lord's Supper. We will not define it nor will we discuss how often we should participate in it. In this paper we assume that the Lord's Supper for many Christians does not implicate the eschatological concept (which guides the Church and its believers to the Heavenly Kingdom) and has became something static and local. The Lord's Supper is always talked about by its meaning in the past, not its future. It has been forgotten (as the Second Vatican Council says) that “The

  • Justice and Morality in Plato's Republic

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    Introduction This essay discusses and clarifies a concept that is central to Plato's argument in the Republic — an argument in favour of the transcendent value of justice as a human good; that justice informs and guides moral conduct. Plato's argument implies that justice and morality are intimately interconnected, because the excellence and goodness of human life — the best way for a person to live — is intimately dependent upon and closely interwoven with those 'things that we find desirable

  • The Most Important Element of Style

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    The Most Important Element of Style I've collected numerous ideas from both Joseph William's book Style Toward Clarity and Grace and William Strunk and E.B. White's The Elements of Style. These books serve as reference guides to writers seeking guidance in improving their writing skills. I feel the text format of any writing is the most important element of style. The text layout in regards to style deals with font, size and contrast. The font makes the text. You are able to change the

  • What I Expect From a University Education

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    contemplate my realization. I began to ask myself, "Now that I'm in college, what type of education do I expect from SOU in terms of a higher education?" My thoughts eventually focused on three main points: professors should present themselves as equal guides and learners, rather than simply dictating information to passive learners; students should have the ability to learn in an unprejudiced environment; and the university should provide opportunities for ind...

  • Tragedies While Climbing Mount Everest Are Caused by Human Error

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    mountain, it is easy for climbers to make subtle decisions that may have grave consequences later on the hike. The climb in May 1996 provides a good example of an accumulation of such mistakes. The most obvious lapse in judgement appeared when the guides of the Adventure Consultants and Mountain Madness expeditions, Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, respectively, did not force climbers who had not reached the summit to turn around at the designated time. Fischer passed a few of his clients while descending

  • Free Things They Carried Essays: The Girl Next Door

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    the Virgin Mary, a sign of purity. The men in the perimeter are attracted to her, because they see her as a sex object. They view her as a daily source of survival. In the beginning of the story, Mark Fossie guides Mary Anne around by the arm, but after a while, Mary Anne begins to guide herself. Slowly, she becomes curious about the equipment and the war. She begins to adapt to life in Vietnam by eating with her hands, and using the phrases she hears from the soldiers. She becomes less concerned

  • Use of Imagery in A Doll's House

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    Use of Imagery in A Doll's House Imagery symbolically guides the process of self-emancipation for Nora, the protagonist of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. Objects like the macaroons, the lamp, the Christmas tree, and costumes represent the movement towards freedom of a woman who was a victim of society. Ibsen painted Nora as a youthful and lovely creature who was brought through life treated as a plaything by both her father and then her husband, Torvald. She must break society's unwritten laws

  • Left Behind Book Series

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    Bible prophecies. But Left Behind is much more than a series of books. It is a multi-media franchise that includes not only the original novels (which should total twelve to fourteen) but also two motion pictures, over twenty children’s books, study guides, dramatized and unabridged audio books, and graphic novels—with more on the way! Also attached to the franchise are a number of non-fiction works in which the authors explain their views of Bible prophecy in a straightforward manner rather than using

  • Dante's Divine Comedy - Good and Evil in The Inferno

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    mankind's current position. And his exits from Hell gives hope to all those "who enter here" and stray from the Narrow Path. As Dante went through Hell, so must mankind, however, just as Dante had Virgil as his guide, so mankind now has reason and Faith to guide him. Reason and Faith are not guides that will demand to be followed. Neither are they very loud in voicing their opinions. For this reason, mankind is now lost in that same "Dark Wood of Error" in which Dante found himself at the beginning

  • Bless Me Ultima

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    God, he communicates with the dead, the dead ask him for blessings. Just who is this Tony? Tony is only a seven year boy who lives in small town of El Puerto. But he is no ordinary boy, he is the hero of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me Ultima. The novel guides you through Tony’s life. From childhood to adulthood. It tells you about the experiences Tony has in life. The difficult tasks he has to overcome. Tony being only seven years old has to go through a lot. Tony begins his story in the beginning. He

  • The Seriousness of in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors

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    translation by 1562-63, and was similarly taught (Miola 22). Plautus and Terence texts served the schools not as entertainment, but as teaching tools for literature and both oral Latin and vernacular languages. Schoolmasters even used prepared study guides to the plays in their instruction: The academic approbation of Roman comedy in the Renaissance was largely a linguistic, rhetorical, and didactic enterprize: commentators provided lexical and metrical information, expository paraphrase, grammatical

  • Essay On The Character Of Athena In Homer's Odyssey

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    only a god but could also take the form of any object or person that you chose.  Athena, the daughter of Zeus, has this ability.  Of all the characters in the Odyssey, the most interesting to me is Athena.  In my opinion, she guides the main characters of the Odyssey in the right direction.  She kind of looks over their  shoulders and serves as a guardian angel.         Athena makes Telemachos go to Pylos and Sparta.  

  • Nora’s Smart Choice in Ibsen's A Doll's House

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    Furthermore, she must shed her doll's dresses and educate herself before she could carry out any duties towards her precious children. A mother's presence and love is so priceless and unique in that not only does it provide us comfort, but it also guides us along the rough road of life. Because Nora's father and her husband had wronged her so greatly, she is completely secluded from the society and thus possesses no experiences at all. This is well exposed by Christine's remark of "...since [Nora