Reality Shows: Their Effect on American Teens Martha Wallace ENG 122: English Composition II Professor Kathy Conner August 8‚ 2011 Reality Shows: Their Effect on American Teens The values of our forefathers for America have disappeared. Each year more and more of American children are judging themselves based upon the lives portrayed in popular media. Certain media in the music industry portrays the life of getting rich fast and having a lot of girls. Movies depict a life of fast cars‚
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Teen pregnancy rates have been on a steady decline from 2009‚ and about six percent of this drop is accredited to the MTV reality show‚ 16 & Pregnant. MTV is an American television channel known for the airing of reality shows filled with controversial topics and dramatic scenes. 16 & Pregnant was first aired on the MTV channel in June of 2009. Created by Lauren Dolgen‚ 16 & Pregnant was the first show that strictly revealed the everyday lives of teen mothers. The reality show 16 & Pregnant has
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Teen Pregnancy Shows and Their Effect on Teens It is a joke to think that teenagers today have the mentality that they could be famous if they were to get pregnant. That is according to gossip magazines of course‚ but could there be truth to this statement? MTV has made it a popularity contest by showing shows like “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom”. MTV should know better‚ considering their primary audience is teens. MTV sells the TV show as a “cautionary tale” to discourage teens from getting
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Reality television is a massive hit in todays’ pop culture. Every Tuesday at ten o’clock on MTV‚ you will find up to three million viewers tuning in to watch the show Teen Mom‚ which is a spinoff of the reality show 16 and Pregnant that started in 2009. The girls on the show have volunteered themselves to put their lives on television and have people across the nation watch them struggle to survive as a teenager with a child right by their side. Today’s pop culture celebrates teen pregnancy by having
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Reality Tv And It’s Effect On Society Kenneth Nevling Professor Whitworth ENG 114: First draft- Reality TV 07 November‚ 2010 Reality TV and It’s Effect on Society A reality TV show stars a non-celebrity or a volunteer who wants to participate in the program. The core role is to see what their reactions in certain scenarios are‚ and how they face given situations. The audience feels like they have a connection with the show’s stars as they feel that they are real and normal people representing
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REALITY SHOWS: A BAD INFLUENCE In recent years we have seen how the reality shows have increasingly invaded our screens‚ and there is something that captivates people to the point that change their way of life and are carried away by this "fever". Most of the people who watch this kind of shows believe that all what they see is real so they begin to feel identify with them. The audience imitates they behaviors and most of the time it is negative. They turn violent‚ irritable and susceptible
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The effects of Reality TV Although reality TV is fascinating and full of drama‚ it still has an enormous effect on today’s youth. Throughout the years reality TV has become popular and it has attracted different age groups. But one group that reality TV attracts would be teens. Now I am not talking about all teens‚ but some teens do look at the actions of the television stars and think what they’re doing is “amazing”. When teenagers watch reality shows it opens their eyes to a lot of sex‚ vulgar
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Negative Effects of Reality Television I know for a fact that reality T.V shows are negative on teenagers. To start with‚ the shows for example jersey shore they do not emphasize education and responsibility. All they care for is partying drinking and smoking weed every single day. The characters in the show think its no big deal to show what they doing in daily basis on reality TV. They don’t care a bit for what kids might be learning from there shows. Teenager’s behaviors
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The teenage birth rate in the United States is the highest in the developed world‚ and the teenage abortion rate is also high.[11] In 2005 in the U.S.‚ the majority (57%) of teen pregnancies resulted in a live birth‚ 27% ended in an induced abortion‚ and 16% in a fetal loss.[20] The U.S. teenage pregnancy rate was at a high in the 1950s and has decreased since then‚ although there has been an increase in births out of wedlock.[21] The teenage pregnancy rate decreased significantly in the 1990s; this
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The popularity of reality TV shows continues to grow with every season since the first episode of "Survivor" aired in 2000. Every evening‚ millions of people sit in front of their television sets to watch the latest episode of "Big Brother‚" "Jersey Shore‚" or "Real Housewives." Although not a new genre‚ reality TV shows since "Survivor" have started a next generation of programming‚ but the negative effects of these shows may be greater than the actual enjoyment False Reality Because most viewers
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