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What is Entertainment?

Entertainment as an academic subject spans media studies, cultural studies, economics, and communication courses. It invites students to examine how societies produce, consume, and assign value to leisure and spectacle. What makes it intellectually compelling is the tension between entertainment as a commercial industry and as a cultural force — one that shapes language, identity, and shared reality. The topic demands that students think critically about power, asking who controls the forms of entertainment available to audiences and what ideological work those forms perform.

The papers archived here reflect a genuinely wide range of approaches. Some take an industry or market analysis angle, examining companies and economic structures such as the cruise line industry or executive compensation for athletes and celebrities. Others pursue cultural and social analysis, investigating how television affects everyday speech, how a reality show like the Kardashians program relates to a real ethnic community, or how pub and nightclub hours produce social effects. Media technology and measurement also appear as frameworks, with papers addressing audience rating systems and the debate over whether entertainment belongs inside news broadcasting.

A strong essay on entertainment needs a focused thesis that commits to one dimension — economic, cultural, linguistic, or political — rather than treating the subject as a vague backdrop. Evidence carries the most weight when it is specific: industry data, close textual analysis, or documented social outcomes drawn from credible sources. The most common pitfall is conflating description with argument, summarizing what entertainment is rather than making a defensible claim about how or why it functions the way it does in a particular context.

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Tornadoes: formation, characteristics, and the Spencer tornado

¶ … tornadoes, including the basic background associated with tornadoes, and the specific example of the May 30, 1998 tornado that hit the tiny town of Spencer, North Dakota. Tornadoes differ from hurricanes because…

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Parenting styles and family dynamics in Parenthood

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Reading comprehension strategies for Cricket in Times Square

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetorical stance in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. is celebrated four decades after his death because he was an effective and persuasive civil rights advocate. A holiday marks the birthday of Doctor King because of what he accomplished…

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Quality and credibility of health information on consumer websites

Due to the Internet, the health care information that is being passed along to consumers is changing greatly. This can be good or bad, depending on who is being asked the question and how the healthcare information is…

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Octagon Sports Management's mission statement and competitive analysis

A discussion of Octagon Sports Management, a worldwide global leader in managing, representation, and marketing across multiple athletic and entertainment platforms. Octagon is reviewed in the context of its mission statement, outlook, and core competencies. Analytical tools utilized include Porter's Five Forces Model and the Boston Consulting Group Matrix of Market Share.

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Child soldiers in Sierra Leone's civil conflict and recruitment

This paper discusses the issue of child soldiers of the country of Sierra Leone. Rebel armies of that nation have taken to "recruiting" children as young as seven to their militia. These children are forced to murder and commit other atrocities at the behest of their superiors. They are also forced to become addicted to drugs so that they are more pliable.

The ethics of keeping animals in zoos for conservation

This essay examines the ethics of keeping animals in zoos. By tracing the history of zoos and animal welfare, it becomes clear that while zoos are necessary for protecting endangered species, common metrics for considering animal welfare are not sufficient. By considering abnormal behavior, freedom, and dignity alongside traditional metrics of animal welfare, zoos can continue their important work while ensuring that this work progresses in an ethical way.

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The distinction between biological and psychological love

There are two main types of love; sexual love and platonic love. I would call the first lust, and see it as a selfish love that is more focused on the using the person as a means to an end rather than as a means in him or herself. The second category seems to be to be stronger and involves loving the person for what he or she is. This seems to me to be the true love that withstands all sorts of vicissitudes and results in commitment. Love is generally seen as between man and woman but it need not be nor need it necessarily be secular. It can span the feeling between two friends, or between parent and child or between one partner and another. These are different kinds of love, but true love involves a feeling of genuine care and dedication to the other as well as of commitment to the other and enjoyment of the other for the other's own end.

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Restorative justice as a criminal justice system reform

For the criminal justice system to be changed, it seems to me that its very basics need to be altered, and I therefore lean towards the philosophy of Restorative justice. Restorative justice in effect states that the offender will grow not be crushed by his crime and will be induced to atone for, rather than commit more crimes. It also believes that a constructive dialogue will be fostered between offender and victim where, after atoning, the offender will be brought into, rather than shunned from the community. Furthermore, it believes that the victim will be most appropriately addressed by this system, rather than ignored as he is at the moment. The offense is seen for what it truly is – a hurt directed at another individual – rather than a hurt directed at an abstract government. By addressing it for what it truly is and atoning for that wrong, restitution sees justice better served than by aimless and destructive vindication. Nonetheless, critics claim the approach to be too sentimental and ‘pie in the sky' Pollyanna type of thinking. Criticisms include opinions that victims like to see revenge and that many offenders are resilient to feelings of compassion and atonement. The following essay leads us through a summary of the system and its criticisms concluding with suggesting some solutions. To me, it still seems that Restorative justice may be the best method for addressing some of the problems inherent in the Criminal justice system. The method needs to be equilibrated so that it is worked in conjunction with others, its points are made more specific so that they are understood, and the system is tapered to those who would most benefit from it, whilst the public receives ongoing and uninterrupted protection.

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