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Coursework About The Social Networks by Neal Gabler

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Step #1: Read “The Social Networks” by Neal Gabler from pages 240 to page 243 of your book the “Signs of Life in the USA” 9th edition by author’s Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon.
Step #2: After reading Gabler's, "The Social Networks", discuss a television show that you have watched that seems to follow the same idea of being a "wish fulfillment" for its audience. You could focus on the same type of wish fulfillment of friendships that Gabler discussed, or you could identify some other type of wish fulfillment.
•The most fruitful types of shows you could discuss are the 30-minute situation comedies (sit-coms) that tend to offer characters who are, on the surface, realistic, but then tend to be unrealistic when you scratch that surface - just as Gabler discussed with the show “Friends”.
•For instance, you could discuss the way Modern Family seems to be a generally realistic depiction of an upper-middle class American family on the surface, but beneath that surface it fulfills the desires of its audience to experience a family that is aware of each member's faults and/or differences and loves them and stays connected to them anyway. Or you could discuss the way “Fresh Off the Boat” shows a generally realistic depiction of an Asian-American immigrant family, but beneath that surface it fulfills the desires of an audience to experience a family that holds on to its ethnic heritage with little to no backlash from the racist or xenophobic elements of the society in which they live. Feel free to discuss either of those examples, or even better, choose one on your own from another TV show in the United States.
Step #3: Be sure to discuss what wish the show seems to be fulfilling and give at least two examples from the show by describing something that happened in any of the episodes.
Notes from me to the writer…
• The assignment must be done in Times New Roman Font Size 12 with 1 inch margins all around.
• The ISBN for the book of “Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers”. Ninth Edition is ISBN 1-3190-5663-6
• I did include image files with screenshots of the pages that include “The Social Networks” by Neal Gabler from pages 240 to page 243
Thank you for your time.

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One of the shows that highlight the concept of wish fulfillment is The Big Bang Theory. For the years it has run it has featured mainly four brilliant minds who are perfect friends. They eat together, have almost the same interests in comic books, live together or at least near each other. They also go to great lengths to accommodate their friends because they care about them very much. I.e., Leonard shoulders the burden of driving Sheldon to the destination of his choosing because ‘he does not know how to drive.'
Additionally, there are several scenes in which Sheldon poses intellectual questions to his friends when they are eating together. They also discuss complex concepts of engineering, astronomy, etc. They have even featured Stephen Hawkins one of th...
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