...television shows just could not contend with the ones that had emerged previously in history. This is because in the early years of production were the television shows that set the precedents for what television is today. One of the most well-known shows that changed the future of television for centuries to come happened to be one of the very first’s sitcoms to air on television, “I Love Lucy”. This popular television show emerged in the fifties and set the stone for what comedy should be. This show was clever and original at the same time for all of the ridiculousness that took place. Many shows that have followed were surprisingly big hits but none could leave an impact like “I Love Lucy”. This is because it “is legitimately the most influential in TV history, pioneering so many innovations and normalizing so many others that it would be easy to write an appreciation of simply, say, the show’s accidental invention of the TV rerun.”(VanDerWerff) Audiences of all ages are attracted to humorous shows and like Will Rogers said, “We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.”(BrainyQuote) I Love Lucy planted the seed for future television sitcoms by being the first show to show women as scatter-brains yet extremely clever, men as loud and confused characters, and friends that were dupes and accomplices which was captured and used by many television...
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...Every child loves and needs its mother. During the upbringing a child doesn’t know much, but the mother teaches him. For a child the world is more different than for an adult. The child experiences the behavior of the parents in a far other way, sometimes the child misinterprets events, and sometimes it just simplifies events and doesn’t know the seriousness of the situation. In this short story “A Gift for My Mother”, written by Viv McDade and published in 2011, the main character is a 10 year old little girl, who sees that her parents having some problems, therefore she tries to help them on her own way. The Story is told by a first person narrator, who’s a little 10 year old girl. It is through her point of view the story is told. The girl’s name is Lucy; she goes to school and loves to do her homework with her father. We know what she feels and what she thinks, but we just see and understand everything as she understands and not as the other persons in the story. She thinks that her father is better in teaching then her teacher Mrs. Emmerson. This is also shown in the text; “He’s very good at explaining things and never makes you feel nervous or stupid. My mother thinks his job at the garage isn’t much, but he is a far better teacher then Mrs. Emmerson.” (Page 1 line 24-26). As it is shown in this quote, Lucy is aware, that her parents have problems since Lucy knows what her mother thinks of the job her father is doing. It is obvious for the reader that Lucy doesn’t understand...
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...what happiness is to them. If you ask people how they would define happiness, you would probably get a lot of different answers. Some would say that happiness to them would be money, some would say love, and some would say family and friends. If you look the word up in the dictionary, you will find the synonyms; pleasure, joys, delight etc., even not the dictionary has a good explanation of the word. It's the same about love, most people know what love is, but would never could define it. In this assignment I will analyze and interpret Jane Roger's short story "my mother and her sister". To put my interpretation into perspective, will I Include a discussion of the extract from Sarah Stickney's book, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", from 1839, and Gustav Klimt's painting, "The kiss" from 1907-08. A: Lucy and the narrator is the main characters in this story. The story is about a mother, Lucy, and her sister Dorothy. When Dorothy dies, her sister moves in with her niece temporary. People react very different when someone close dies, sometimes they just close themselves into a box, and doesn't talk about it, this is, according to the narrator, how Lucy deals with her sisters' death. But considering how Lucy behaves, changing her habits, she does not do the things she used to do, for example cooking;" (...) roast lamb with Brussels and carrots from the garden", can you tell that she is affected by it. Aunt Lucy's life was so to speech, boring, particularly if you compare...
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...TELEVISION PORTRAYALS OF HOUSEWIVES IN THE 1950s VERSUS TODAY: I Love Lucy vs. Desperate Housewives The 1950s housewife was the epitome of a woman. She had poise and grace and cared for her family more than having a career. She had a smile on her face, dinner on the table, and her child always used please and thank you. At least on TV. Fast forward 50 years and much has changed in our history and the way that women are portrayed on television. With women no longer expected to give up their careers in order to raise a family, working moms are represented more with each passing decade. Two television shows that can be examined to explore the difference in television’s portrayal of housewives are I Love Lucy from the 1950s and Desperate Housewives from the 2000s. While the shows premiered more than a half a century apart, there are many similarities in the shows. And that’s not on accident. After World War II ended, men came home and families started growing and prospering, able to buy things they had to go without during the rough wartimes. With servicemen home and the baby boom well underway, women were expected to reclaim their dominance over the home, while their husband’s reclaimed dominance over them.1 Housewives were to be seen more than heard, all while keeping a smiling on their face. No one talked about their problems, because they didn’t really have any. The white picket fence was always perfect and no one ever raised their voice or drank too much, at least on the...
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... who has just lost her mother. We never hear that is a woman, but I assume she is because she is feeling guilty in connection with aunt Lucy. Her approach on happiness with a happy marriage, seems to be feminine. A man wouldn’t care that much about serving a food. Lucy is the sister of the narrator’s mother. Luce is 75 years old. Lucy was married for 49 years but now she is a widow and she is a mother for five children. All her life she used to be a home mom, who made homemade jam, knitted for the children and always made homemade dishes for the family, waited a daddy who came home from work. The narrator’s mother was different from her sister, she learned her children to live them life with free view on life: “We learned from our mother that nothing is more important than your freedom, and that familiarity breeds contempt” (line 13-14).Lucy after her sister’s funeral stays with the narrator. Now Lucy has become elder and her view in life completely changed, she do the same things every day, she doesn’t like to talk, eat healthy food, to go out: “She doesn’t like the rain and refuses to go out, even shops.” (line 36-37). The narrator things that owe to Lucy because she and her brother Tim spent most of the summer holidays at her house with her boring children. But they didn’t had other chose to spend holidays somewhere else. Therefore she want to do the best for her aunt, tries to talk to her but Lucy looks like ignoring her: “But she’s self-contained and silent, she’s...
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...written by Jane Rogers in 1996. The short story takes place at the narrator’s house which is where the reader is introduced to Lucy. She has been staying with narrator since her mother died. In the short story we meet a first person narrator and as the reader follows the main character, her thoughts, memories and knowledge: “I haven’t cried at all, I don’t know why“ (p. 2, l. 24). The setting is gloomy: “It’s rained since Lucy came. My house is terribly quiet” (p. 2, l. 27). The weather could be a symbol of their relationship and the silence a symbol of their personalities when they are in each others' presence. Their relationship is very tense, strange and it is very difficult for them to talk in the beginning. Something changes throughout the short story. It is as if the atmosphere lightens up as soon as the rain stops. This is when the narrator finally lets her guard down and tries to interact with Lucy - she tries to impress her. While cooking her not so homemade food the start talking and they both open up and finally feel like the understand each other. The first section of the short story is a description of the narrator’s past. It’s here where the narrator introduces us to her childhood and relationship to her unconventional and free-spirited mother. She tells us about her mother’s sister Lucy, who is a traditional mother and the narrator’s rock. Lucy has always represented the security and motherhood. You get the sense that the narrator learned a lot of things from her...
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...Module 1 Score Card: The theme of Across the Universe is love and hate. We watch Max and Jude create a loving relationship as friends and also Jude and Lucy create a loving relationship as romantic partners. The plot of this movie is a kid named Jude moves to the United States and ends up making friends with this kid named Max. Max decides to quit school so they end up moving to New York. This Film follows there journey in New York, which include living with a girl named Sadie who wants to become a singer, Jude becoming an artist, and Lucy becoming an advocate in stopping the war. The emotional effect is this movie is love, because you see these people falling in love and that makes you want to fall in love, but you also see the war going on and that makes you sad. This movie has a lot of truth in human nature. It shows that war is really going to happen no matter how hard you try and stop it, and that can be sad, but it also shows that you should not give up. This movie shows an amazing example of complexity in human relationships. No matter how much Jude and Lucy love each other they cannot get their relationship to work out even if they want to, it is a complex situation. It shows the social problems that were happening back during that time. The war was happening and people were dying to save their country. Max was a prime example of loss of innocence. Since he dropped out of college so he was picked to go to war, so he went from being a carefree kid to and an adult in possible...
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...Characterization of Lucy Cooke The sin bin or Lucy’s heart is about a girl named Lucy Cooke, she is in her teens, and she is one of the best students at her school “last year I came in second in the year” (page 36, line 11). The reader is told in the beginning of the story that she has detention because she punched another girl at school whose name was Penny Jones. The reason she hit that girl, was because her best friend, Bethan, asked her to do so, even though Lucy did not entirely understand why, she still did it. Lucy seems like a proud girl, and she loves the fact that she is so good at her studies but as the story goes on, it becomes more and more clear to the reader that she is not exactly strong-willed since she lets Bethan control her like she does. But this unreasonable behavior could be because Lucy does not want to be left out at school; maybe she believes that the friends are worth so much more than her studies that she “needs” those friends. When you are reading this story, you automatically think that Lucy seems like this reserved, brainy and shy type of girl, that nobody really likes. When Lucy were about to hit Penny, she hesitated, no doubt about that, what could Lucy’s feelings be toward Penny? Maybe she likes Penny because Lucy knows that they are the same type of person, they are both smart, and love to go to school, the only difference is that Lucy cares way more about being popular, and Penny does not. I think that Lucy’s relationship to her mother, is...
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...Why do humans always become disappointed when their favorite novels become films? It is because adaptations of films tend to sway from the truth of the novels. The same common belief may be illustrated in both the film and the novel, but major alterations are made in the film to make it more exciting, attention grasping, and addicting. Dracula by Bram Stoker is just another novel made into the film Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Francis Ford Coppola. Distinct changes take place from the novel on paper to the film on the screen. The characters of Dracula, Lucy, and Mina tend to share some of the same characteristics in both the film and novel, but the movie changes aspects of the characters to be more sensational and dramatic. Just as the characters are changed and reshaped, the plot has tweaks of its own. The novel and the film have similarities, but the differences are clearly visible. Count Dracula is portrayed as animal and beast-like in both Dracula and Bram Stoker’s Dracula; he also displays aspects of humanity. Within Dracula, Count Dracula survives by quenching his thirst for blood. He is driven by this yearning for blood and nothing seems to get in his way. He has the attributes of a lion in search of its prey and feeding off of it; he cannot control it, nor does he want to stop. Killing does not disturb him in the least, and he is in search of power. He displays the characteristics of a beast through his continual vicious, grueling slaughtering of his prey- humans. He feels...
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...think that they can do that, but they do not understand the world of an adult, which is much more complicated. That is exactly what ‘‘A Gift for My Mother’’ written by Viv McDade in 2011 is about. A short story that is about a girl who tries to help her poor family in the best way she can, despite her very young age. The daughter Lucy is the main character, but she is also the narrator, which means that the story is told by a first-person narrator. This means that we only see the events from her perspective, but it also gives an insight on her feelings and thoughts. Lucy is a 10 year old girl who has a big love for the nature. We see that, when she is out picking flowers for her mom. She describes how each and every flower looks like. ‘‘The leaves of the msasa trees were shiny, and the sun made it look as if there were diamonds on the big granite shoulders.’’ (p. 2 ll. 46-47) Her fascination of the nature is pure and unspoiled. She is very good at spelling and is in fact one of the best in her class. We see that, when Lucy tells her father about how she was the only one that could spell the word illiterate on p. 1 l. 19 Although Lucy is only a little girl, she really cares about making her parents happy. She picks flowers for her mom, thinking that it will enlighten her mood. She understands that her parents’ needs money and she thinks that she can solve the problem by selling some bouquets that she made, so she can give the money to her mother. Lucy has a very good relationship...
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...remembered as the lovable, crazy, and accident-susceptible Lucy Rigardo, as presented in her television show. Lucille’s father died in 1915, when she was barely four years old, after he contracted typhoid fever (Peter). Henceforth, her mother took several jobs and was always busy, and Lucille and her brother had to be brought up by their grandparents. Lucille joined a drama school in New York and later found a modelling job where she worked for Hattie Carnegie. In 1933, she was selected to become a “Goldwyn Gal” and appeared in the movie “Roman Scandals” in the same year (Peter). After that, Lucille secured a contract with RKO Radio Picture and played several minor roles, encompassing one in “Top Hat” in 1935. Ultimately, she obtained starring roles in the B-pictures and sometimes...
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...During the movie, Sam’s cognitive development was the reason why people believed Lucy didn’t belong with her father. Sam had so much love for Lucy, but he had the intellectual capacity of a seven-year-old child. Because of his disability, his daughter wanted to stop learning; she didn’t want to be smarter than her father. Sam read the same Dr. Seuss book every night to Lucy because those words he actually memorized, not realizing that Lucy wanted to read much bigger books that had more difficult words. Although Sam memorized the Dr. Seuss book after reading it so many times, he struggled with remembering how to make coffee. Sam had to verbalize how to make the coffee and point to items, as well. It is said that people with autism display a...
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...It is not to be had for love or money It is common to say that money is not everything, but for the 10 year-old Lucy from Viv McDade’s short story “A Gift for My Mother” money causes her parents’ unhappiness, and they mean everything to her. Lucy lives in South Africa with her mom and dad who she really values. Lucy is constantly a witness to her parents’ financial discussions, which the short story underlines from the first page: “How much is there this week?” asked my mother, and she gave a little laugh. “As much as I’ve earned, that’s how much.” “What you’ve earned isn’t enough for us to live on.” (p. 1, ll. 31-34) They manage just to scratch a living, and it affects their marriage so they only dare to tiptoe around each other: “He took a deep breath...” and “My mother’s voice was tired and small when she answered him.” (p. 1, ll. 28-29) It seems as an old topic of discussion which has followed them for many years and slowly ruins their marriage. Lucy is just like other children: She wants the best for her parents, and she will do anything to make them happy. One day Lucy finds out that her mother turns happy when she receives a bunch of flowers, so Lucy conceives the idea of collecting some wild flowers so she can earn money to give to her mother. Lucy describes every flower she picks in details, and the wild flowers underlines her innocence and unspoiled mind. Lucy finds a wooden peach box where she puts tins of water and collects different kinds of daisies. Afterwards...
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...Bram Stoker’s Dracula is set in the Victorian Era, a time where a woman’s body and the rights to it were not her own, they were either her husband’s or father’s, or the government’s. This time period was one of sexual oppression, especially for women. Women were either both pure and innocent or a wife and a mother, if not, she was considered a whore and scorned by society. Those who did partake in pre-marital sex were left unable to be married due to their lack of purity and the shame it would cause the male to be seen with them. The idea that male sexual pleasure was worth more than female sexual pleasure as it is necessary for reproduction, and female pleasure is not, was a common thought in the Victorian age. This statement shows that this was a very patriarchal one, where men were in control. It was also a time where men began to fear female sexuality; however these feelings were often contrasted with feelings of desire. The fear of female sexuality was created through the idea, that if women gained power of their sexuality, they would also gain control of the men. So in order to prevent this from occurring, female sexuality had to remain oppressed. Bram Stoker was married to Florence Balcombe; however this has never stopped the rumours of his sexuality. As Stoker was around the same time as, and friends with, Oscar Wilde, who was imprisoned for being a homosexual, it is thought that Stoker’s wife may have been a cover up so that he would not be imprisoned also. His novel...
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...behaviour of a person based on their gender. These societal terms dominate the women of the novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker, due to a patriarchal society. Women are confined in a space in which their roles and duties are limited to men and specifically, their husbands. These beliefs are portrayed through the two protagonists, Lucy Waterna and Mina Harker as they live their lives according to assigned gender roles. The novel Dracula demonstrates socially constructed terms that decrease the value of women compared to men through Mina’s submissiveness to her husband, Lisa’s desires as a wife, and the ideology that only true women are pure. Mina writes a letter to Lucy, in which she says, “I want to keep up with Jonathan’s studies, and I have been practicing shorthand very assiduously. When we are married I will be able to be useful to Jonathan” (Stoker 79). In this context, Mina finds it necessary to learn a complex method of writing with abbreviations and symbols so she can...
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