Archie Bunker's Place Essays

  • Entertaining Politics

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    We see politics everywhere, we are bombarded in our everyday lives with politics. Politics start at home with hierarchies of the house, then follow us to the office or place of employment, our communities, governments, and even world politics. Truly there is no getting away from it, even our entertainment is filled with politics. We see it all the time in movies like Forrest Gump, or series like Bomb Girls, sitcoms such as All in the Family, Roseanne and countless others; even the music to our

  • Audience Cared About Norman Lear's All in the Family

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    families, neighborhoods, local hangouts, anywhere Americans would congregate. All in the Family, broadcast live in front of a studio audience from January 1971 through April 1979, revolved around the life of main character Archie Bunker, played by actor Carroll O’Conner. Archie was a white, working class, Irish-American living in Queens, New York. He is a WWII veteran, is politically conservative, very opinionated and extremely outspoken. Bothered by the changes he sees occurring in... ... middle

  • Analysis of Televsion Show I Dream of Jeannie

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    to make somet... ... middle of paper ... ...ision. Although Jeannie doesn’t quite show the wit and cunning of a Samantha in Bewitched, and Tony Nelson doesn’t seem to be quite the oaf that Bewitched’s Darrin, the roles of each hold an important place in television sitcom history. The key takeaway of this analysis is that even a role full of feminine stereotypes on television can result in the exact opposite of what it may seem to show. Jeannie showed that a woman can be second-rate to a man figuratively

  • Harrison Ford

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    Harrison Ford Harrison Ford was born to the proud parents of Dorothy Nidelman and Christopher Ford on Wednesday, July 13, 1942. His birth came almost six months after their marriage on February 3, 1942. Days later, he was named Harrison Ford in honor of his maternal grandfather. Most of his young life, he preferred that people call him by his grandfathers name, Harry. He had a brother named Terence. Terence and Harrison, or Terry and Harry, as they were better known, grew up in Chicago and attended