Nickelodeon Essays

  • Spongebab Company Essay

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    new television system called QUBE xx in Columbus. (1979–1984) The network's first logo had a mime looking into a Nickelodeon machine. The second logo had the word "Nickelodeon" in Pinwheel's logo font. The third logo was a silver pinball with the "Nickelodeon" title in multicolor. Nickelodeon's first popular series was “You Can’t Do That on Television”. (1984-1993) In 1994, Nickelodeon propelled The Big Help, which produced an extra program The Big Green Help in 2007. The purpose of the program is

  • Josh And Drake Character Analysis

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    How much of television is comprised of real life? By examining one show within its context, one can find the answer. Reality is reflected in the themes; rhetorical strategies; and audience, importance, and popularity. By examining the situational comedy series: Drake and Josh, a popular teen show from 2004, it is possible to see how reality shapes television. Drake and Josh is centered around two brothers in San Diego, California: Drake and Josh. Drake is portrayed as the suave, charming, bad boy

  • The Spongebob Squarepants Show

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    Most would agree that SpongeBob Squarepants is one of the best animated shows of all time. Since 1999, it has brought us countless laughs with hilarious characters, genius writing, plus 2 movies. But, there’s a fine line between SpongeBob eras. After The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie (2004), the show went through some obvious changes. These changes affected how the show would be viewed. From 1999 to 2004, known as The Golden Age of SpongeBob, thrived on TV. Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of the show

  • Mall of America Case Study

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    any given year. With the mall conveniently located next to the Minneapolis International airport along with its size makes this mall ideal in its ability to offer something for everyone. From the more than 400 individual retail shops to the Nickelodeon Universe theme park, formerly known as Camp Snoopy, which is in the center of the mall complete with a full size rollercoaster and Ferris Wheel. In addition to the retail opportunities, which include shopping, dining, and socializing in the many

  • Nickelodeon TV Show 'Drake And Josh'

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    Extract three is from an episode of the Nickelodeon TV show 'Drake and Josh', this particular TV show is aimed at male and female young people from age 8 to 13. It was first aired in 2004 and it only has male speakers within the extract. During this extract, Josh is working his usual job at the movie theatre, which his brother Jake is sitting in the foyer with his friend. A woman walk in that takes both of the brothers' interest because of her looks. For the most part, this extract outlines a stereotypical

  • Nickelodeon Cartoon Sheldon J. Plankton's Villains

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    A villain is a character with evil intentions. Villains are selfish and care for only themselves. In the Nickelodeon cartoon Sheldon J. Plankton plays the villain that never seems to get away with it. Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz is a fictional character from the tv show Phineas and Ferb. His daily inventions are destroyed by a platypus. Zim from the animated series Invader Zim seeks to infiltrate earth. These three characters play the villains in their cartoon. Plankton is owner of the Chum Bucket. Across

  • Entertainment Industry: American Vaudeville as Seen by Its Contemporaries

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    Vaudeville, Act Two: Nickelodeons With the entertainment business already booming with traveling circuses, wild west shows, burlesque, and vaudeville, just to name a few, it seemed like Americans already had an abundant amount to choose from. However, going into the 20th century, with the invention of early motion picture cameras, such as Thomas Edison's kinetograph, it seemed like only the beginning for the entertainment industry; new means of entertainment were bound to be founded. Americans wanted

  • Taran Swan's Characteristics Of An Effective Leader

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    effective leader, as she leads her team to start Nickelodeon Latin America. The qualities that Swan possess that impacts the team’s process, culture, and outcome are her skills of communicating effectively, demonstrating accountability, and engaging and inspiring. The impact Taran Swan has on her team’s process is through

  • Evolution Of The Movie Industry In The 1920's

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    introduced and film stability, involving action moving from one sequence into another, began to be used. In 1905 the first “nickelodeons” were introduced. Nickelodeons were the first type of indoor area dedicated to showing projected motion films. Usually set up in converted storefronts, these small, simple theaters charged five cents for admission, which is where the name nickelodeons came from. These

  • Spike TV Has Gotten So Annoying: Article Analysis

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    The world we live in has many problems, with no solutions. Some problems are more extreme than others. However, one problem in particular is a problem that many people face in their everyday lives. Commercials on the television cause problems on their own. When watching tv, the individual does not want to watch commercials. They pay the television company, whether it is Dish Network, DirecTV, Charter, or whoever their supplier is to watch shows, not commercials When the individual is sitting at home

  • The Ideological Ambiguity Within The Media

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    pessimistic values. Works Cited  Stuart Hall. “The Whites of Their Eyes.” Gender, Race and Class in Media. Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez. LA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 1995. 18-22.  Sarah Banet-Weiser. “Girls Rule! Gender, Feminism, and Nickelodeon.” Feminist Television Criticism. Charlotte Brunsdon and Lynn Spigel. 2nd Edition. NY: Open University Press, 2008. 191-210.

  • A Very Brief History of Cinematography

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    Ever since I was little, I have been around cameras, sets, and lights. Being a cinematographer, my dad was always working on a camera or using one to shoot something. I always found his job interesting and exciting, which led me to pick cinematography for this paper. I also love being able to be creative and come up with new ideas or different solutions, and cinematography would allow me to do this on a daily basis. Researching this career opened my eyes to the history, current technology, and future

  • Taran Swan Case Study

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    A Leader’s Power and Influence Taran Swan is faced with a leadership decision that will have a great bearing on her ability to run an exceptionally, newly established Nickelodeon Latin America (A) cable channel from her home in New York. Even though she built the most experienced, creative, and innovated team to construct this project from the ground up, she is now faced with a medical decision that will remove her presence from her team for quite some time during a critical stage of further and

  • Character Analysis Of Spongebob Squarepants

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    The show is cemented into Nickelodeon. Popularity has kept it alive for such a long time that the show is one of the defining features of the TV company. Spongebob has been running since 1999, making the show eighteen years old. Being around for this long and having over 200 episodes makes Spongebob very well known by the everyday person. Unfortunately, all the popularity turned this icon into Nickelodeon’s cash cow, being used to sell merchandise. McDonald’s and Nickelodeon have worked together to

  • Hollywood Entertainment History

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    Big screen, movies, motion picture, film or cinema are just some of the names you may call this beautiful creation that has evolved throughout the years. It seems since it first appeared to the public that viewers are drawn to it for many reasons but the outcome is the same. Movies bring imagination to life, bring people together and allow people to forget the problems or everyday life for even a few enjoyable moments. Movies also allow the audience to appreciate the latest and greatest technology

  • Kids Sitcoms Essay

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    thinks that her boyfriend cheated on her with them. This show is good for kids because it shows the importances between love and friendships. This show is also good for kids because it shows the importance of who to trust and who not to. In another Nickelodeon show called Every Witch Way, the main character Emma is a witch and goes to this school especially made for witches. Emma falls in love with this kid named Daniel. Emma's other jealous friends try to get rid of Daniel so that they can hang out

  • Lynn Spigel's Domesticating Patriarchy

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    Lynn Spigel explores the Domestication Economy of Television Viewing in Postwar America published in 1989. She used magazine advertisements as a source of historical evidence to examine the link between television and gender domestication (Spigel 337). Her essay is a “response to the conflation of labor and leisure time at home” (337). The public sphere was constructed as a space of productive labour while the home was seen as a site of relaxation and consumption (338). For men, television viewing

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Property of Films

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    In October 2009, following the news of Nickelodeon purchasing all of Mirage's rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property, it was announced that Nickelodeon would produce a new film through Paramount Pictures with an expected release date sometime in 2012.[4] In late May 2011, it was announced that Paramount and Nickelodeon had brought Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Bradley Fuller and Andrew Form on to produce the next film that will reboot the film series. Bay, Fuller, and Form

  • Spongebob Research Paper

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    divided the four year olds into three activity groups; they were playing with crayons, watching a slow paced cartoon like caillou, or a fast one like SpongeBob SquarePants. The SpongeBob kids tested the lowest in ability to focus and problem solving. Nickelodeon questioned the validity of the findings, criticizing the small size of the control group and pointing to the fact that SpongeBob is targeted at children aged six to eleven, not four. What older children may be able to handle, younger children

  • American Film A History Essay

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    In the book American Film a History Jon Lewis focused on the beginning of cinema, the effect war took on propaganda and the major controversy’s that occurred with famed celebrities. Despite its history, cinema is still growing today. The end of cinema is just retiring specific techniques and old technology because its main technology is improving constantly! Film has impacted us today but it started with something so simple. and cheap. For the first ten years of film existence the start of true