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    Reality TV Why is Reality Television (TV) so popular? What is it about shows in which they take normal people like you and me and put them on TV and expose every aspects of there lives. The personal‚ emotional‚ and physical characteristics of these people’s lives are broadcasted for millions of people to watch‚ as they compete to win a large sum of money. But in every show there are only one winner and the rest of the people going home usually empty handed. What is it that people find so entertaining

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    Is Reality TV Even Real? How frequently do you watch reality television? Most people might say they watch Reality TV‚ episode after episode after episode. Obsessed with it maybe. How do you view Reality TV‚ funny‚ emotional or experiencing? The article "Getting Real with Reality"‚ by Cynthia Frisby is about American viewers get to be interested with reality TV‚ from dating shows to amusements appears and even ability appears. Frisby clarifies further why reality television impacts the picture on

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    Reality TV Reinforces Demeaning Social Stereotypes By Dara Andriani We can’t deny that television shows make a huge impact towards our society‚ our culture‚ and how we interact with other people surrounding us. There are many things that we can learn from watching television shows like ‘The Voice’‚ ‘American Idol’‚ ‘The Biggest Loser’‚ and so on. Shows like that really give you an idea about how all of us as a person can accomplish anything‚ but then how about those TV shows such as MTV’s ‘Jersey

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    REALITY STARS VS HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS When most people watch reality shows they talk about how immature they are. How they don’t have more aspirations but to continue doing series of reality shows. How they just think about that doing immature things like drinking too much‚ partying all the time‚ and fighting with others for no reason to be the center of attention. Well most teens in high school think people like this are people they should look up to‚ and think that it is a way they should be

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    Virtual Reality (VR) has been omnipresent throughout modern literature‚ film‚ etc‚ and Ernest Cline’s novel‚ Ready Player One‚ epitomizes the controversial nature of VR. The story explores the successes of‚ Mr. James Halliday‚ one of the greatest games creators of

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    Over the years‚ hundreds of reality shows have been created as television networks advances‚ the popularity of reality TV increase. Many people like that reality TV shows were about real people with real life situations. In this article‚ “Getting Real With Reality TV‚” by Cynthia M Frisby‚ the associate professor of advertising at the University Of Missouri School Of Journalism Across Cultures. Wrote this article in 2003 and it appeared in the September 2004 issues of USA Today magazine. Frisby begins

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    television is not reality‚ it is just a mere spectacle. REALITY SHOWS The reality television phenomenon did not come to our television screens suddenly. It has been developing for almost sixty years. The start of including ordinary people in television began with a show called “Candid camera” in 1948‚ and since then the idea of documenting different people and their lives grew bigger and bigger. The actual start of reality television‚ which became the matrix for all future reality shows‚ dates back

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    Reality TV vs. Real Life TV One of the main sources of news and entertainment is television. Every household has a television set in their home which the family consumes hours watching. Many reality TV shows are based on shallow and vague values. The growing trend in television now for our culture is “REALITY TV” (real life on TV). Just like the appeal to junk food or the internet reality TV has a dominant effect on our children and us as adults. There is real life and there is TV-life under influence

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    The Paradox of Reality TV A comment on the article: “Television: Why Reality TV Is Good For Us” For the last decade‚ reality TV has become increasingly popular. Not just popular‚ as in commonly well accepted and generally appreciated‚ but amazingly popular – a cultural revolution. The article “Television: Why Reality TV Is Good For Us” describes the phenomenon as the reason for the creation of attractive cults lead by spiritual leaders in shape of heartbroken singles‚ horny studs and failed actors

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    it. Among those questions we should be enlightened by the fact reality and the truth of the world around us. Plato in his ‘Allegory of the Cave’ contends that the world of the senses is a world of delusion; and a correct philosopher must see through this illusion to the truth. Socrates stated when defending his right to theorize‚ that an unexamined life is not worth living‚ stating the position of trying to gain a true concept of reality and the world around oneself. This significant theoretical belief

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