Meek AP Lit

While social opinions rarely correlate with private enterprise, the entertainment industry is the one area where it is imperative for corporations to have a core message that is being conveyed to the audience. This is as true for the comics of the mid-1900s as it is for TV shows consumed by mesmerized kids and adolescence today. The issue with this concept is that there are often external factors that complicated the validity and bias of these messages, including thematic popularity, audience, current events, political or social climate, and contrasting values. These companies are usually only focused on what sells or how they can influence their audience to accept their own values. Oftentimes, the entertainment industries is used as a platform of propaganda for the government or interest groups, not just in the obvious sense of commercials, but in subconscious or metaphorical representations of actual current issues, in the form of products that are geared towards young children whose...

Seasonal tourists arrive punctually every skiing season in intimate gaggles, on small chartered flights, and pass through the expansive one-roomed lodge that constitutes the airport for the small mountain town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Outside, they usually load unchristened patent leather suitcases into the back of Ron Wilson’s car. The first thing most people usually notice about Ron Wilson is his bushy handlebar mustache, which is a shocking dash of black compared to the cropped salt-and-pepper of his crown. His fair, leathery skin hinted that he lived and worked in cold, thin air all his life, and the rough jeans, woolen and tasteless shirts, and leather hats Ron wore made him the mirror image of other local cowboy relics who preserved the “western feel” of the midwestern town.   Ron Wilson is the antithesis of fidgety. Some describe him using stoic, settled, or assured. Every move he makes is done with straightforward purpose, and so it is not unusual for him to be standin...