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- Title
- Representations of values and myths: A narrative analysis of three television domestic situation comedies.
- Creator
- Seiser, Stacy Caryn., Florida Atlantic University, Smith, Voncile
- Abstract/Description
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One episode each of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Home Improvement, and Grace Under Fire was analyzed in attempt to understand how the episodes function of myth. Each of the domestic situation comedies, which consist of different types of families, present the myth of rite of passage. The episodes serve as a perceptual system; they rejuvenate a culture's reality; they appeal to our emotions; and they serve as exemplary models. The episodes were analyzed also to discern how different types of...
Show moreOne episode each of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Home Improvement, and Grace Under Fire was analyzed in attempt to understand how the episodes function of myth. Each of the domestic situation comedies, which consist of different types of families, present the myth of rite of passage. The episodes serve as a perceptual system; they rejuvenate a culture's reality; they appeal to our emotions; and they serve as exemplary models. The episodes were analyzed also to discern how different types of television families represent the values of rationality and emotionality. This analysis takes a narrative approach to consider the narrative probability and narrative fidelity of each episode. We see that another myth unfolds as the narratives project the belief that complicated life issues can be easily and successfully resolved so long as parents behave with reason and emotion.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15640
- Subject Headings
- Television comedies--History and criticism, Television programs--Reviews
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Coverage of the Middle East in three Cox newspapers in areas with different size Jewish populations.
- Creator
- Dickerson, Mark Allen., Florida Atlantic University, Smith, Voncile
- Abstract/Description
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Do newspapers consider their readership and its interests when choosing which news to print? The Palm Beach Post, the Austin American-Statesman and the Dayton Daily News--all owned by Cox Enterprises--serve metropolitan areas with widely varying Jewish populations. A content analysis--including story length, placement and use of graphic elements--of newspapers printed in March and July 1994 looks at whether coverage of the Middle East varies among the three newspapers.
- Date Issued
- 1997
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15450
- Subject Headings
- Reporters and reporting, Newspapers--Objectivity, Mass media--Audiences, Content analysis (Communication), Middle East--In mass media
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Rhetoric and Humanism of Cicero and Its Impact on the Humanists of the Early Italian Renaissance.
- Creator
- Shaw, James G., Smith, Voncile, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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Marcus Tullius Cicero exerted a major influence on rhetoric: intellectual writings, oratory, and education in the Early Italian Renaissance. Cicero's humanism expressed a fellowship with society and included justice, reasoning, moral and social duties to the community. It eventually replaced traditional learning and established a pattern of classical studies that was to continue for centuries. The Early Italian Renaissance was basically a cultural, literary and scholarly movement that...
Show moreMarcus Tullius Cicero exerted a major influence on rhetoric: intellectual writings, oratory, and education in the Early Italian Renaissance. Cicero's humanism expressed a fellowship with society and included justice, reasoning, moral and social duties to the community. It eventually replaced traditional learning and established a pattern of classical studies that was to continue for centuries. The Early Italian Renaissance was basically a cultural, literary and scholarly movement that represented an important and new phase in the study and interpretation of the history of classical antiquity and played a unique role in Western cultural history. This paper explores the extent to which contemporary authors have identified the similarities and differences between Cicero's humanism and the humanism of the Early Italian Renaissance. The author suggests areas requiring further research.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000962
- Subject Headings
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Criticism and interpretation, Humanism, Rhetoric, Ancient, Renaissance--Italy, Italy--Intellectual life--1268-1559
- Format
- Document (PDF)