It was 12:00am Sunday morning, or Saturday night, which ever one prefers, and I was wide-awake. As I set down, sipping my third cup of Pepsi from a mug that my roommate bought at a second season taping of Fox\'s American Idol, I brainstormed as to what I would write my research paper about. I found ...

It seems like everywhere you turn these days there is some beer or hard alcohol advertisement showing up in magazines or on television carrying promises of success and eternal happiness if you use their product. While flipping through several magazines I came upon a series of ads for Bacardi Rum....

At the end of the day, the typical American turns on the television when they get home and proceeds to flip through the channels until the sight of twenty guys standing around an attractive woman catches their eye. The guys are smiling ear to ear knowing they are going to have to out do the guys st...

TV in the 1950's Reflected/Created Culture How many hours per week do you spend watching television? The average American child or adolescent spends 22-28 hours per week watching TV, which is more than any other activity other than sleeping. Did you know that there are more television sets in...

Automobiles in the 1950's The purpose of this paper is to provide a clear picture of automobiles in the 1950's and the impact the automobile had on American society. The 1950's were a time of economic growth for America, where income exceeded car prices and vision was limited only ...

The end of World War I brought about new political and sociological changes in America. Even more affected was America's way of conducting business. With the emergence of new technology came the need to market it, which brought these changes forward. Items such as the toaster, refrigerator and...

Television influences the general media everyday. Shows and commercials range in influencing what people should eat for breakfast in the morning, to what they wear at night. Their goal is to show something in some attractive way so that it takes public interest. They do this by flashing pictures ...

\'Chance Meeting\' is a dry point etching print by Martin Lewis and was created in the early 1930\'s. The subjects are two figures, male and female, who have happened upon each other in the setting of a public sidewalk at the entrance of a storefront. It may be a dichotomy in terms to call the piece...

The decade of the 1920's was a time of tremendous economic change. The end of the First World War signaled and the beginning of a new era, and a decade that came to be known as "roaring". The retreat from progressivism during this time was evident in how the business world gained to...

The end of the Civil War until the beginning of the Twentieth Century was a time of rapid, all encompassing change for the United States. New methods of industry changed the nation into one that first resembled the modern United States. Big business and commerce became the primary influences for a ...

Drinking is a big problem that causes many teen-age deaths in the United States, however, many people still argue that the legal age for drinking should be reduced to eighteen. This issue has been brought up many times, but the law has not been changed since the change to twenty-one in 1980. States ...

Television is playing a big role in today's society. Technology is growing and expanding into the 21st century. Almost everybody in the United States watches television. People even plan some of their lives around it by tuning in to a show every week. Stuff that people see on television aff...

The birth of radio came through the emergence of two new technologies recording and sound reproduction. The ever changing invention patent distributions and company buy outs have made the broadcasting industry a variable battle field of knowledge. The following are some of the inventors...