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Essay Instructions: Friends and Family
Length: 600 words
Format: MLA format

Take a topic that relates to friends and family or just family or just friends and explore it through the use of three genres. For example, if your topic is about losing a family member and how it affects the family, you would use research from the online library plus a poem, an essay, and a play to explain your thesis.

Look at the three genres (literary works) and compare how each addresses the theme of family and friends.
When comparing, you will need to select specific criteria - use your text to assist you in making this decision. You should have roughly 4 items to compare. Use the Online Library to assist you with ideas by looking up these literary works and evaluating what others have written about this theme of family and friends.
The essay must have a thesis, a title, a Works Cited page, and an effective introduction and conclusion. Begin to insert in-text citations into the essay to assist in formatting the citations.

Essay Instructions: Friends have convinced you to manufacture your cookie recipe that they have enjoyed for years. You found a bakery and decided on intensive distribution using a four level customer marketing channel. Describe each level and the role it will play in the success of your business. Which channel member do you think is the most important, and why?

Essay Instructions: Title: Friends

Write about the TV Show "Friends,"

1-The writing should be thesis driven, argumentative not a descriptive.
2- Analytical and intepretive and from a Christian point of View
3- Footnotes
4- I personally loved the show, so I would like to see the writing from a positive point of view
5- also please discuss what some/other television show critiques have said about the show and their point of view

Essay Instructions: I want to discuss the five-page midterm paper that is due Wednesday, March 21. As mentioned before, you are to use your media literacy skills to deconstruct a television series or film, using the NAMLE criteria.

The Purpose of the paper is to Analyze (the medium) and Interpret (the culture) of a particular television show. This will relate to the Commercial Appeal and Ad Detectives except the medium is an entertainment television show.

The paper will be an essay, not unlike the essays we have been reading in the Reader. You will take a position and persuade us with your argument (Media Literacy), by using examples about the show such as how and when it was created, how long it ran or is running, the social implications of the characters and stories, etc. Compare and contrast it to similar shows from the past. How have certain sociological points of view changed over time? Look at TV shows over the last 50 years. Most important ??" be specific!

We been looking at different mediums in media from various essays found in the Reader. There are many ways to look at the medium and the message, and deconstructing an entertainment program is no different.

The presentations and short writing assignments have been “low stakes” writing. That is, I am more interested in the content then the presentation or writing style. However, the midterm paper and the final presentations are considered “high stakes”. Content and style will be counted for the final grade.

You should consider documenting your argument with footnotes that demonstrates that you have done research beyond simply watching the television show. For example, on the subject of Malcolm in the Middle, I stated that entertainment shows tend to avoid mentioning anything regarding money and that the reality created is that young people can afford a loft in Greenwich Village (Friends) and everyone lives in beautiful surroundings and never a care for money.

When in reality most people are thinking about how to get through the month or until the next paycheck. I would expand on that by writing about how blue-collar shows tend to be popular when economic times are good. I would document this with a little history of sit-coms from radio into television, and discuss past blue-collar programs such as The Honeymooners or Roseanne.

I would discuss how the characters are portrayed in a blue-collar comedy (crass, loud, perhaps lacking manners, but a big heart and good intentions), and again use examples from previous shows. Perhaps pull a quote from an essay that supports my argument.

Malcolm in the Middle is a “single-camera” show in which it is produced just like a film with one camera, as compared to the multi-camera sit-coms (The Big Bang Theory). I would compare Malcolm to other single camera shows in the past, such as The Andy Griffith Show. How has this technique changed? In Malcolm, we see fantasy sequences and breaking the “fourth wall” where Malcolm talks directly to the audience.