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Entertainment

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Entertainment Summary
2,190 words, approx. 7 pages
Entertainment is a ubiquitous phenomenon that has been transformed extensively by science and technology. To some extent that transformation has ethical dimensions that merit more consideration than they usually receive. There is evidence that human...
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Entertainment Summary
1,525 words, approx. 5 pages
Outer space is big business for the entertainment world. The earliest record of a work of science fiction, written to fuel the imagination and entertain the public, was the Greek satirist Lucian's Vera historia (True history), penned around C.E....
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Entertainment Information
1,186 words, approx. 4 pages
Entertainment is an event, performance, product, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the "audience" may be only one person). The audience may participate in the...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Entertaining
11/28/1990: 1,089 words, approx. 4 pages
If you're not baking cookies for the kids at Christmas, you may be entertaining on a larger scale. And, naturally, there are many authors hoping to help you fill this void. This is a genre that often attracts celebrities, but in the case...
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The Washington Post
Entertainment
09/09/2001: 911 words, approx. 3 pages
"ART AFTER HOURS," 6-9 p.m. Sundays. The Sandy Spring National Bank of Maryland sponsors weekly entertainment at Strathmore. This week, Cabaret Night with Pat Wolfe and Company. Strathmore Hall Arts Center, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. Free. 301-530-0540 or www.strathmore.org. AIRMEN OF NOTE,...
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MSN Shopping
Entertaining 101
5/30/2007: 1,413 words, approx. 5 pages
I have some friends who entertain at the drop of a hat. (“Hey, I found some fresh morels at the market today and I bought way too many – are you free for dinner tonight?”) Frankly, it always takes a great deal more than loose...
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On Top Magazine
Gay Entertainment Report
1/29/2008: 294 words, approx. 1 pages
BBC America's Torchwood returns for season two with characters that are neither gay, straight or bisexual. The sci-fi Doctor Who spin-off set in a techno-future prefers to call its characters omnisexual. While season one left gay fans with little to cheer about, this year begins...
 


Criticism and Essays
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 88%
A Change in Perception: The Evolution of Entertainment, 1920-1962
2,518 words, approx. 8 pages
As American life and culture evolved during the twentieth century, the makers of American movies and television shows changed their subjects and how they are portrayed. By examining the portrayal of women's roles, fashion and clothing, and the home in the films "Way Down East," "The Grapes of Wrath," and "The Salt of the Earth," as well as the television show "Leave it to Beaver," one can see deeper, symbolic, and more purposeful meanings behind everyday images.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Entertainment: Poison or Panacea
382 words, approx. 1 pages
Examines the effect of popular entertainments on society and considers if it poisons the masses. Maintains that entertainment is a form of art.
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Essay Grade: 81%
Our Destruction: Entertainment
478 words, approx. 2 pages
While we look to entertainment as a source of fun and leisure, it is actually a source of escape that serves to ruin our society. Entertainment brainwashes our youth into believing in an imaginary world, and it prevents them from obtaining the knowledge of their predecessors. And entertainment is ruining our quality of life, leaving our mental capacities wide open to useless, garbage material.


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