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    Freshman Composition I Is Reality TV Really The Reality? In the world we live in today‚ television is one of the most popular technological advancements. Television catches the eyes of many viewers with captivating program series of shows such as game shows‚ dramas‚ cartoons‚ scary shows‚ comedies‚ sitcoms as well as reality shows. Among many American teenagers we commonly find the same interest in the reality shows such as 16 and Pregnant‚ Jersey Shore‚ The Challenge: Rivals‚ The Hills‚ Keeping

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    Reality TV Shouldn’t be a Reality By Saydra Schmitz When you turn on a television today‚ reality TV litters the media. This is what our generation idolizes. But is it appropriate? Is this what we should be watching? When I see adults making immature and stupid decisions‚ I can only say‚ “No”. So I purpose that we ban the brain-melting reality TV material. Most reality TV shows‚ like “Jersey Shore”‚ is just a brain-numbing wreck that most children‚ teens‚ and even adults get

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    contribute to being more confident‚ which will lead to an individual taking on their goals head on. Also‚ both Leslie Bell’s‚ “Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom‚” and Daniel Gilbert’s‚ “Immune to Reality‚” offer insight on the matter of pursuit of happiness. Each individual has their own way of knowing when they are happy and only they will know when the feeling is reached. When self-esteem is dependent on competence‚ individuals invest a great

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    The Reality of the Truth

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    What exactly is the truth? Is it reality‚ sincerity‚ integrity? Is it accuracy and honesty? How can we tell the difference between the truth and lies? Why does the media have the power to decide for us what is true? As Oscar Wilde once said ’The truth is rarely pure and never simple’. This statement sums up the difficulties of telling the truth‚ and this is furthermore shown in Rob Sitch et al’s Frontline‚ Lies by Michael Leunig and the poem Nothing to Report by May Herschel Clarke. The television

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    The Death of Reality and the Reality of Death Death is never easy. Afterall it is the only sure thing anyone will ever do. Yet how one dies is determined by how they live. One who lives their life to the fullest will be content and open to death‚ while one whose life has been empty will fear it; but what if the difference between full and empty was not so easily differentiated? What if reality and falsehood were the same? This idea is contemplated in both Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and

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    The Reality of Freedom or The Reality of Manipulation: Jean-Paul Sartre and Sigmund Freud are two highly influential thinkers of the 20th century whose philosophies overlapped and opposed one another. Sartre was a pioneer and key figure in the school of existentialist philosophy. He argues that all humans are inherently free. Sartre means by this bold claim that we are all free to make our decisions‚ but our actions determine our characters‚ habits‚ and values. There are no universal human

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    world or aspects of the world and reality‚ it is usually perceived and taken as the truth. It might seem easier to believe that the world is as it appears but there is more to the world then what is seen through immediate experiences‚ details that are left out that ensure certainty. This is why within the essay I will be discussing why it is not justified to believe that the world is as it appears. I will bring up this contradiction between appearance and reality using the reading and finding of philosophers

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    Deceit of Reality

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    The Deceit of Reality When it comes to reality TV‚ "reality" becomes a problem‚ a story created by producers and editors. The media exploits people who grope for airtime‚ who will do anything for their five minutes of fame‚ and are willing to bare their souls‚ or their bodies‚ for that matter‚ on national television. Neal Gabler wrote a piece on "Grieving for the Camera" which discusses the problems with the news today. According to Gabler‚ when people are in a state of grief‚ they are vulnerable

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    introduced to us in the last century: media. As mankind developed many ways to overcome the vicious webs of control throughout the history‚ the only thing that can stand up against media’s manipulative behaviors is the intriguing nature of men. Media has severe control mechanisms on people‚ and it can be easily said that media is the biggest influence on our lives today. Imitated and therefore stereotyped lives have gained importance. The machines and media have done this hand in hand. By developing

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    Augmented Reality

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    Opening page Index Index 1 Introduction 2 Definition: What exactly is augmented reality? 2 How does it work? 3 Evaluation of the current market 4 Future applications 4 Augmented reality as a product: The Google glasses 4 Risks and challenges 4 Introduction We are living in a full-connected world where most homes are connected to a high-speed Internet connection‚ where the Internet follows us on our smartphones‚ our tablets‚ our laptop‚ a world where you can access any information

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