O’KloclTuesday‚ September 30‚ 2014 Reading Response 4 Reality TV: Surprising Throwback to The Past In the reading "Reality TV: Surprising Throwback to The Past"‚ Patricia Cohen reports a woman whose name is Lisa Shannon‚ wants to find a kind man to be her husband by a dating TV show. The shows lets a twenty-five-year-old woman to marry a man‚ and if they stay married for a year‚ they would receive an one-million check. Critics figures this show a disgrace for the marriage‚ as obviously some may go
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Cloud‚ Dana. "The Irony Bribe and Reality Television: Investment and Detachment in the Bachelor." Critical Studies in Media Communication‚ vol. 27‚ no. 5‚ Dec. 2010‚ pp. 413-437. EBSCOhost Dana Cloud is a professor‚ author‚ and activist. At the University of Syracuse‚ she teaches communication studies. Cloud is most recognized for the phrase “rhetoric of therapy” in her book Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics: Rhetoric of Therapy. Not only is Cloud an author of several books
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conflict and emotion this experiment would turn out to be one of the most watched reality television shows of all time. In an interview in 2001 DR. Zimbaro said‚ “The study is now more in the popular consciousness than it has ever been before. Attributing part of the recent surge in interest to reality TV shows such as Survivor and Big Brother. It represents a forerunner of reality TV." The characters in some reality shows go through difficult situations and face many kinds of problems. As more conflicts
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Freaks and Geeks is a TV show that takes place in 1980 Michigan following the freaks and geeks of William McKinley High School. In the first episode “Pilot”‚ we follow Lindsay and Sam Weir‚ sister and brother who are both students of McKinley. Lindsay‚ who is struggling with her grandma’s death‚ quits being a mathlete to start hanging out with Daniel and his friends‚ the “freaks”. While Sam is being terrorized by his bully‚ Alan‚ and is desperate for his friends to stand up for him. We watch as Lindsay
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Should Reality Shows Have Regulations I feel that anything that can be watched by our children during Prime Time Hours should be regulated. I watched a show “Housewives of Atlanta” and I was outdone with the antics‚ of course I know that sometimes things get out of hand. It was chaotic‚ and it causes our young people to think that these actions are valid because they get mega bucks to do this. When these shows are developed‚ it’s with the hope that they will be successful‚ and the show will soar
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Manor House is a TV show about 12 people in real life‚ who choose to live in a manor house and live as a servants like the people in the Edwardian time period. These people choose to go three months away from their jobs and without all the luxuries of modern life. In Manor House there many servants‚ but there is also the family that runs and lives on the estate. This family on the show is the Olliff-Cooper family. Sir John is the Master of the House; it is his job to keep the estates up and running
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Shows like Keeping Up With the Kardashians‚ The Bachelor and The Real Housewives have been taking the country by storm with the unscripted‚ outrageously unpredictable stories of ordinary people from around the country.Americans spend 33% of their free time watching television and 67% of the shows are reality television(Reality Television:a Shocking Statistic).The average American watches five hours of television a day‚ that means they spend three and a half hours a day watching reality television
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eality television has become very popular over the past decade with shows such as "Survivor"‚ "Big Brother" and "The Apprentice" attracting big audiences and making a lot of money for broadcasters worldwide. A definition of reality television is quite difficult but at its most basic it means programmes that show things really taking place‚ rather than drama or comedy that follows a script. Typically reality TV involves a group of people who are not trained actors being filmed in unusual situations
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True crime documentaries and TV shows have grown in popular culture‚ but are more than entertainment; they have inspired the pursuit of many different careers. Television and movies are a major part of our everyday lives. Many of these movies and tv shows are influenced by real life situations giving them a natural and major influence on our behavior. There has always been study as to whether violence in movies and tv shows causes violent behavior in the younger generation. This has been shown
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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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