The writer of a TV show, especially today, has a highway to communicate with the entire world. At a time where there were so few options for programming writers like Rod Serling basically had exclusive means to communicate to the world. Mr. Serling seemed to take that opportunity seriously and chose to provide more than just entertainment. He chose to entertain by leading the masses to a certain frame of mind, a place where we were able to notice the unimportance of some things and always the ever-present bigger picture. With over 200 produced teleplays over just 25 years, Rod Serling is definitely one of the most successful screenwriters in television history (Vahimagi).
However, it was Blair that truly started the media frenzy surrounding Prime Ministerial candidates around the general election. He used to his likeable personality and charismatic speeches to sway the public into voting for a local MP that they might know nothing about. Tony Blair made the public feel as if they were voting in a Prime Minister as opposed to a local
********* AP US History 11-10-11 1820-1860 DBQ From the years 1820 to 1860 americans sought to resolve their political disputes through compromise, but by the 60's this was no longer effective. What are the reasons for this change??? The United States was and is a fast growing country. We've all heard about the civil war, and how it changed the states through different freedoms and such. But what was it that set this country overboard?
to declare war in the summer of 1917 was America's aspirations to become a world power. Prior to this the US was a great power but that was mainly confined to the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific regions. By entering this war between all of the world's great powers, America would emerge as a major world power at the end of the war, that is the course after winning the war and stake its claim at the bargaining table. Also, entering in such a massive global war would spur the American economy and help it grow tremendously. And provide and massive industrial boom as American factories would pump out massive amounts of war supplies including machine guns, Army uniforms, and artillery pieces to name a few.
Winston Churchill’s speech styling makes the speech’s message enticing as well as informative. Churchill’s speeches were almost always given in private, then distributed throughout the nation, allowing him to make revisions to his transcript, most of the time even during his speech. He further refined the speech, and was extremely eloquent in the way he spoke. Alliteration is almost always present
America’s defenses were weaker and its position in certain international situations in greater jeopardy than he expected. He flooded Congress with request, held frequent and impressive press conferences, and proposed bold new national goals. Kennedy made an important innovation upon becoming president when he allowed press conferences to be televised live. He used these conferences and his personality, poise, and knowledge of government, to communicate directly with the public. None of his successors has felt it possible to abandon this practice though no one has done as well by
Success Through Success Ever pay attention to the manipulation of words used by presidents when giving a speech? Until reading “A Nation of Victims” by Reanna Brooks, and “Why JFK’s Inaugural Succeeded” by Thurston Clarke; the manipulation of words were subliminal. Brooks presents the audience with an analysis on President George W. Bush’s manner of speech. Brooks feels that despite his verbal blunders and linguistic stumbles, his words are purposely selected to hide certain issues and to negatively frame opposing view points. Also, Brooks says that Bush’s speeches are emotionally charged, “dependency-creating” and thus provoking fear amongst his listeners.
Martin Luther King Jr.”). This brought in a lot of media attention and it won a lot of sympathy from the public. This event was marked as the most important political issue in the early 1960’s. Dr. King also organized non-violent marches for voting, desegregation, labor rights, and other basic civil rights. Most of these rights were written into the United States Law. When Malcolm X was selected to become the leader of a mosque in Harlem in 1954, he rapidly expanded its membership (Hailey 100-105).
TV shows also brought uniform style to the people with most people dressing like the characters they saw from shows or commercials. Television lead to more conformity than any other factor in the 1950s. Sadly since the 1950s little has changed in America we are now more than ever a conformist society who fiends the popular media for all of our tastes whether it be music, fashion, political opinions. Rarely do I meet people who form their own opinions and don’t spit out stuff they heard on the radio and it all stems from the 1950s where America learned to be the same because of housing, television, and
The popular rise of baseball, boxing, and football were broadcasted over local radio stations to be heard at home. This gave America new generations of heroes. Babe Ruth, Carl Mays, and Hones Wagner were all major sport heroes of the time. Nickelodeon movie theatres, were made in the early 1900’s but were made famous in the 20’s with everyone’s new found free time since the allowed time to work each day was a max of 8 hours. So in the spare time they went to go see a silent film, which is a movie with no audio maybe an overlay of music, then it goes to a text screen you read the text that goes with the next clip then the video