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    “The Cosby Show” (1984-1992) was a situational comedy that followed the Huxtable family. The Huxtables were a middle class african american family made up by the parents Cliff and Clair and their children Sondra‚ Denise‚ Theodore‚ Vanessa‚ and Rudy. Throughout it’s eight year run‚ “The Cosby Show” made a big impact. “The Cosby Show” has been significant to media history due to the fact that it showed what major racial issues were happening when the show was on the air‚ revolutionized race in situational

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    The Cosby Show is a television family sitcom that aired from 1984 to 1992. The comedy focuses on an African American family that lives in Brooklyn‚ New York. The show portrays the ideal family; a married mother and father that have very successful jobs raising their five kids. The impact on this highly accredited sitcom demonstrates the need for family‚ work ethics‚ and Christian values. The show focuses on a family unit. The father Cliff Huxtable is married to Claire Huxtable. They have 4 daughters

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    CWV-101 Professor Carleton The Cosby Show This assignment proved to be a very difficult one for me‚ for the very fact that I just don’t watch a lot of television at all. I don’t find much of anything at all that is entertaining to me. So many of the sit coms today have such a dysfunctional portrayal of families and I find that many of them down right degrade and show nothing but disrespect for the father’s especially. Nonetheless I chose to use “The Cosby Show” as my program of choice because

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    Television Media Analysis: The Cosby Show Today’s society depends heavily on mass media for information‚ communication‚ and entertainment. The average person wakes up in the morning‚ watches news and weather on television‚ and makes plans for the day based on information they receive through their mass media sources. Many times there is little thought given to the actual reliability of these media sources. Media literacy can help audiences gain important perspectives regarding which media sources

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    Family Values with the Cosby Show Growing up in the mid 1980’s I can remember watching the Cosby Show. My family and I fell in love with the Huxtable family. The show was funny‚ witty‚ and dealt with serious issues at some times. It was also the first show that portrayed a black family living a successful middle class life style. The show’s concepts were very unusual to me‚ because around that time we thought America dealt with majority Caucasian problems and shows. Growing up in a dysfunctional

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    behavior. There is not much difference between the two‚ but I do believe that they complement each other. As a result there was also a television show that stated morals and values challenges in the main characters such as The Cosby Show. The show gave viewers great examples on values and morals teaching me lesson as me and my family would watch the show once a week night together. When raising a child‚ one is taught values by their families what’s right or wrong and morals is taught from a social

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    sitcoms that portrayed black males’ were shows like‚ “Amos and Andy” “Good Times”‚ “The Bill Cosby Show”‚ and “The Wayans Bros”. The reason why sitcoms are so eminent to the African American society was because this was the only portrayal of blacks society ever knew. It was the role that black men played

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    While the family in Father Knows Best(1950s) has resemblance to the Cosby Show(1980s)‚ about a focus on the families in each sit com. However; the way the two-interoperated life is not the same. The two sit coms have many similarities and differences‚ which took place in two different time periods as well. In comparison‚ the family in Father Knows Best is very comparable to the family in the Cosby Show due to the way the families acted towards one another. For instance‚ the families offer a very

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    The Cosby Show One of the most activities that we are doing in our lives is making comparison even without notice it that. For instant‚ making comparisons between things‚ peoples‚ players‚ teachers‚ movies‚ TV shows…Etc. Have you ever asked someone you know (parent‚ brother‚ sister‚ friend) to make comparison between what was he watching of TV show in the past and what is he watching right now. However today we are going to introduce two different TV shows (Leave it to Beaver; The Cosby Show) that

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    On September 20‚ 1984 a show aired that changed the way we view gender roles on television. Television still perpetuates traditional gender stereotypes and in reflecting them TV reinforces them by presenting them as the norm (Chandler‚ 1). The Cosby Show‚ challenged the typical gender stereotyping of television‚ daring to go against the dominant social values of its time period. In its challenge of the dominant social view‚ the show redefined the portrayal of male and female roles in television

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