The other face of public television: censoring the American dream

2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (05) ◽  
pp. 40-2606-40-2606
Keyword(s):  
American Dream ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Television

scholarly journals Televisão pública e direitos humanos. Uma análise da programação da TV Brasil e seu papel na difusão e na promoção do debate afirmativo sobre a Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos.

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Waldelio Pinheiro Do Nascimento Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Television ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

A mídia hegemônica relega ao segundo plano o diálogo com as ações afirmativas, minorias identitárias e direitos humanos. Por outro lado, a televisão pública desponta como ambiente propício para promover a valorização e o respeito à diversidade. Nos últimos anos, a TV Brasil produziu e veiculou programas voltados à temática, alguns dos quais são objetos de análise deste estudo, cujo intuito é analisar o papel da tevê pública na formação cidadã em direitos humanos.La televisión pública y los derechos humanos: Un anlisis de la programación de TV Brasil y su papel en la difusión y promoción del debate afirmativo en la Declaración Universal de Derechos Hu manosResumen: Los medios de comunicación relegan a un segundo plano el diálogo con la acción afirmativa, las minorías de identidad y los derechos humanos. Por otra parte, la televisión pública se está convirtiendo en el medio propicio para promover la apreciación y el respeto por la diversidad. En los últimos años, la TV Brasil produjo y transmitió programas destinados a tema, algunos de los cuales son objeto de análisis de este estudio, cuyo objetivo es analizar el papel de la televisión pública en la formación de la ciudadanía e los derechos humanos.Palabras clave: Derechos Humanos; Televisión Pública; Ciudadanía; Diversidad; Minorías.Public television and human rights: An analysis of the programming of TV Brazil and its acting in the dissemination and promotion of affirmative discussion on the Universal Declaration of Hu man RightsAbstract: The mainstream media relegates to the background the dialogue with affirmative action, identity minorities and human rights. On the other hand, public television is emerging as environment conducive to promoting the appreciation and respect for diversity. In recent years, the TV Brazil produced and aired programs aimed issue, some of which are objects of analysis of this study, which aims to analyze the acting of public TV in civic education on human rights.Keywords: Human Rights; Public Television; Citizenship; Diversity; Minorities.

scholarly journals Hedonism in George Saunder’s The Semplica-Girl Diaries.

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 92-103
Author(s):  
Karunsagar Kanda ◽  
Dr. P. Rajendra Karmarkar
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The Other ◽  
Story Writer

George Saunders is an American short story writer. His writings include moral sting and stints of realism. This article is an analysis of one of his famous stories The Semplica-Girl Diaries. The story is a fine example of hedonism which means favouring pleasure and avoiding pain. This article speculates the idea of hedonism in the characters of this story and brings forth the theme of moral myopia. Hedonistic treadmill was at multiple times was being operated by those characters who try to own pleasure in spite of biting bullets. The other elements like American dream and consumerism have been analysed through the lens of narrator.

scholarly journals The Situation of National and Regional Public Television in Spain

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Arriaza Ibarra
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Television ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Public Broadcaster ◽  
The Government

Abstract Spain’s Public National Television (TVE) faces the uncertainty of defining its role as the main public broadcaster at a moment when neither the economic situation of the country nor the waning satisfaction with the citizens with TVE, make things any easier. Furthermore, the government announcement of TVE’s withdrawal of advertising in 2009 was widely commented, as there has never been any license fee in support of Spanish public media. On the other hand, the economic crisis that Spain is going through has posed the issue on the need of cutting down governmental expenditures on the desk of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Will these also include TVE, as it has happened with public regional media? Will Spanish citizens admit the importance of improving TVE now that two gigantic commercial media groups, Mediaset and Planeta, dominate the audiovisual landscape?

The American Dream Revisited: Is It What You Want or Why You Want It That Matters?

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles S. Carver ◽  
Eryn Baird
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The Other ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Predictive Role

Previous research found that aspirations to financial success related inversely to self-actualization and that aspirations to community involvement related positively to self-actualization. We argue that diverse reasons can underlie both of these aspirations, leading to more complex predictions. In a sample of 246 participants, we assessed both self-determining and controlling reasons for each class of aspiration, along with endorsements of the aspirations themselves. Initial regression analyses replicated the earlier findings. Subsequent analyses found that endorsement of self-determining reasons for either class of aspiration related positively to self-actualization and that endorsement of controlling reasons for either class of aspiration related inversely to self-actualization. In the analysis involving community involvement, the aspiration itself no longer retained predictive power after the other variables were taken into account. In the analysis involving financial success, however, the aspiration retained an independent predictive role.

scholarly journals The Quest for Success and Power in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Novel The Beautiful and Damned

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Ala Eddin Sadeq
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Will

This study aims at investigating the concepts of success and power, as depicted by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Beautiful and Damned (2009). Cultural change motivates individuals to work harder to achieve success, which in turn makes them influential. The study reveals that the concepts of success and power are controversial, as their means vary from one theorist to another.  Waldo Emerson, for example, believes that success is connected to happiness.  He, therefore, lists down features that characterize successful people. To succeed, one must learn to follow their desires, an argument that is expounded by the ideology of the American Dream.  Friedrich Nietzsche, however, explains that individuals are motivated to lead due to the fact that power brings about the superman. To achieve the status of the superman, Nietzsche believes that individuals develop the will to power and are able to influence others (Nietzsche, 1968). Fitzgerald, on the other hand, makes it clear that power leads to liberty. The novel provides a deep analysis of the quest for power and success. The main characters are Gloria, Joseph, and Anthony who helps to demonstrate the quest for success and power. Richard Caramel is also a character whose role explains the pursuit of true happiness. He is depicted as powerful because he influences the society through his writings. He has a strong determination to be a writer, which motivates him to work hard and to seek further success. 

scholarly journals Absurdism in Atirikta Yatra by K. S. Yatri and The American Dream by Edward Albee

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
Tika Data Subedi
Keyword(s):  
American Dream ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Edward Albee ◽  
The Status

The purpose of this work is to study Edward Albee and K. S. Yatri’s approach regarding the status of respective societies of America and Nepal with absurd drama following their agenda. K. S. Yatri and Edward Albee seemed to be influenced by the absurdist mode of drama which concerns much about the modern existence of social human beings. Albee follows absurdist traces in the dramatization of uncertainty, alienation and the question of freedom in The American Dream. His characters do not have fixed identities, and they suffer from their individual problems. The notion of the characters and their activities too are uncertain. In the same way, the ambiguity of existence, whether the characters really are or not, is a problem for the characters in Atirikta Yatra. The characters are based on illusions, and the line between the reality and fantasy is missing. Alienation of the human being from the self and the other is existential theme that K. S. Yatri deals with in Atirikta Yatra. Alienation in the play is caused by the lack of communication, and as a result, the isolated self is entrapped in Yatri’s characters due to their own condition. Freedom becomes a confusing question in his works as it makes the characters anxious while choosing one option among various others on their own, and it renders the characters responsible for their free choices. Though, two texts belong to divergent space however both show how absurdism has affected individuals and society everywhere at present.

scholarly journals National Fantasies, Exclusion, and the Many Houses on Mango Street

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna L. Perez
Keyword(s):  
American Dream ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

This article argues that understanding what the house in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street symbolizes is foundational to contextualizing the radical possibilities that Cisneros enacts in her work. Unlike most critics who read “the house” as referencing the title of the text, I argue that the novel is full of houses, notably the house located on Mango Street that narrator Esperanza Cordero longs to escape from, and the house away from Mango Street that she longs to one day have. By reading these two houses through Homi Bhabha's notion of the “unhomely” and Gaston Bachelard's notion of “felicitous space”, we can better understand a critique of the house in light of its resonance with the American Dream on the one hand, and a reconfiguration of that symbolism through a feminist intervention on the other.

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