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Marisol Barbosa
February 9, 2009


Urban The Cosby show

It was one of my favorite TV show and still is. This show was about upper middle class African American family living in Brooklyn, New York. The Cosby show is a very good American family comedy. The show follows the everyday trails of Dr. Cliff Huxtable and his family. Which include his wife Claire whose a lawyer and his five kids. The kids cover all age groups and the show confront many diffrent issues the kids go through like dating, death of a pet, playing sports for school and many others. Even though it confront some tricky subjects the show is always funny and shows how funny kids can be. They were good kids and good students. The kids did not represent of any kind of a gang member or drug dealer. Bill Cosby is also fantastic as Cliff and the way he works and talks to the kids is hillarious. It showed people and the tv industry that black people didn't need to be shown as poor and working class to make a good program. There was one opisode that show of Theo having problem with his math teacher that he thought the teacher did not like him. However, the only thing the teacher wanted from him was to study hard and do his best because she belive in him.


Suburban Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Another favorite TV show. Will Smith as a street smart teenager from a tough neighborhood at West Philadelphia who was sent by his mother to live with his wealthy realtives in a Bel Air mansion. His life style was like a rapper eventhough he was living in the mansion. Carlton prepy cousin is a firmly conservative Republican. Two oppisite guys that lived in diffrent live style, one represent street smart (Will), and Carlston a prepy high class guy. Will Smith and his cousin Carlton were attending at Bel Air prep high school. All the boys went to school with button up shirts with a tie, casual pants and shoes. The girls wearing short skirt, button up shirt with a vest and shoes with white socks. I don't remember any problems that the boys may have in school. Hilary, the olderst cousin. spoiled and lack of intelligent that always depended on Geoffrey. Hilary self centered airhead and obsessed with shopping and money. Ashley the youngest cousin was always control by his father so she didn't become anything like a regular teenage girls. Spending time with will Ashley will act rebelliously as she gets older. Ashley lies and drops out of her private school and goes into a public school.

Rural: School Ties

Take place in a rural community in the 1950's. A jewish teenager is recruited by england prep school to play thier struggling football team he is accepted until his religious beliefs are revealed. This film have seemed strain and obvious that if you are Jewish and grew up in the 1950's, you'll relate to it very well. Especially the part about having to violate the Jewish holidays in order to play on the team. A conflict that still arises for Jewish students today.