Thesis: The major shift in television shows compared to the past television shows, in the 1990's, emphasizes the negative standards and expectations we have created as a society. The definition of "cool" and "family" has completely changed for the worse, specifically VH1 television shows.
Outline:
The shift: It occur due to the newer television illustrating: explicitness, nudity, glorification of drugs, violence, and lack of morals
Past television shows: It emphasizes the necessity of having a working job, talking as a female, solving problems in a rational way, and depicting what a good life consists of when having good morals.
Quality: Of course there was a shift in the television shows we watch compared to now and the past. However, the culture of this generation and the next generation is greatly impacted negatively due to the adverse material we watch on television. The way how men treat women changed, the way how education is viewed is changed, the way how we handle altercation is now changed, the language we use talk to other people has changed, and the list continues due to the shift of television. The shift is very potent due to the fact millions of people watch, or used to watch, television some point of their life. Even children at very young age are infatuated with television. Therefore, this shift exists, but has significance to the way how our society is shaped.
Sources: I am going to list all of the television shows that an help further my claim. These television shows should be considered popular with everyone instead of obscure. The sources contains television shows in the pas and are currently running on air today.
Old school television shows
Full House
The Cosby Show
Family Matters
Home Improvement
George Lopez
Sister Sister
The Brady Bunch
Malcolm in the Middle
Andy Griffith Show
Married with Children
Everybody loves Raymond
https://www.tastekid.com/like/Full-House
New school television shows
Love and Hip Hop
Basketball Wives
I Love New York
For the Love of Ray J
South Park
American Dad
Family Guy
Futurama
Flavor of Love
The Real Housewives of Atlanta
Khalil, I'm looking forward to what you can produce with your topic, and I like your list you've included in the post. However, I find your thesis quite broad, with multiple implications resulting from a single shift. Picking one of the societal consequences and really bringing that point home will really strengthen both your thesis and your essay as a whole. Maybe you could focus on the change of a single TV channel, or a genre of TV shows. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteYOU ARE RIGHT! Do you think I could do the shift of cartoons and focus on TV shows like American Dad, family guy, Simpsons SpongeBob and south park, basically that genre, compared to old cartoons like Charlie brown, Rugrats, recess, Dexter laboratory, and Power puff girls?
DeleteThe Thesis seems to be broad, but I liked the overall idea. However, I wanted to see more explanation or outlines for your essay because it seems have less information on the aspects of "why" and "how" the shifts were made.
ReplyDeleteKhalil, I agree with your peer commenters that it would be very useful to narrow your approach. (Even if you narrow from older cartoon shows to newer cartoon shows, you still want to be examining a particular aspect of them, not just their entirety, which would be much too broad.)
ReplyDeleteThis being said, how might you find one singular focus? In your post you mentioned how there's been a shift about how women are treated, education, altercation, language, etc. You won't be able to tackle all of this -- and even if you did, the scope would be so broad that you wouldn't be able to generate any actual depth.
Instead, focus into one of these areas -- and then, most likely, focus onto a specific aspect about one of these areas. The process of narrowing helps so much because it lets you craft a more specific thesis and lends itself to getting more depth, not just vague breadth.
I hope this helps!