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    Exegesis 'The Truman Show'

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    based out of California featuring actor Jim Carey based on a real life television show about Truman Burbank’s life. The place that Truman lives is in fact a studio with over five thousand cameras capturing every minute of Truman’s life. Truman believes he is an ordinary man with an ordinary life and has no idea how he is exploited‚ but one day he realizes that a man named Christof (the creator) has been controlling his reality and life. The questions that came up while watching these movies were are

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    Assignment 7

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    Should sex and violence on television be restricted? Many believe that the explicit use of sex and violence on television has a drastic impact on the morals and teachings of our youth in today’s society. Children are placed in a difficult position‚ in today’s society‚ to fit in and be well liked and respected by their peers. They are at an early stage in their lives where nearly everything they see or hear will influence and shape them in one sense or another. As television costs have dropped substantially

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    Review on the Truman Show

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    Hollywood history. It remained my favourite movie ever since I heard of it. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey)‚ to his knowledge‚ is just a simple insurance agent who is bored of his life and an explorer by his dreams. But in reality‚ he is a star of “the Truman show”‚ a most popular television premiere which ran almost for 35 years all throughout the days and nights gathering millions of audience across the world. Everyone in this show is an actor with the exception of Truman. The main concept of this show

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    it is doing under wraps. Ironically‚ one of the voices that is being raised against it is none other than that of the ultimate media machine‚ Hollywood. While celebrities take on the tabloid photographers who follow them around‚ the movie and television industry is giving us depictions of venal reporters and scheming entertainment conglomerates‚ which pull no punches when it comes to revealing how amoral our culture industry has become. Recently‚ there have been two important examples of this

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    can be good for you. When watched in moderation‚ the shows provide us information we might have overlooked‚ they can actually make us smarter as they force us to pay close attention and make us use our minds to even the comedic shows provide a dark reality within their content‚ making it seem that watching TV can be good for us. TV shows‚ serious or comedic

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    Celebrity Privacy

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    Celebrity Privacy How do you feel about celebrities and their privacy? Can you imagine being watched by reporters everyday of your life? Once celebrities reach a certain level of fame‚ their private lives become the topic of discussion among their fans and foes. Privacy is not guaranteed among famous people due to them constantly being stalked by the paparazzi and their fans. I feel reporters and the paparazzi should respect celebrities right to privacy because at the end of the day they are

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    The Bees of Honey

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    Critical reaction to the series has been mixed‚ with some characterizing the show as "offensive‚" "outrageous‚" and "exploitative‚" and others calling it "must-see TV."[6][7] The A.V. Club called the first episode a "horror story posing as a reality television program‚"[8] with others worrying about potential child exploitation.[9] James Poniewozik mostly praised the show‚ but criticized the producers for "the way that the show seems to assume that those viewers will look at this family and the world

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    suicide

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    sjhvkcbskbvhjsbdbvsjv‚v jdsh.kgvs.kfb.shbbzs Scheduled to premiere March 7‚ The Contender features 16 boxers vying for $1 million. Mark Burnett‚ an accomplished producer in reality television with such hits as Survivor and The Apprentice‚ is the executive producer. Actor Sylvester Stallone and former boxing champ Sugar Ray Leonard will serve as hosts and boxing mentors. Turpin‚ who had a record of 13-1‚ including nine knockouts‚ worked at a restaurant cleaning seafood. According to NBC’s Contender

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    The television industry has been one of the most popular industries that Hollywood has used in order to entertain people since the mid 1920s. People use television as a way to escape their world‚ whether it is watching the newest drama‚ sitcom‚ or even reality television show. This popular industry has become increasingly popular in the 21st century‚ as nearly every household owns at least one television. The three major roles in the television industry‚ being production‚ distribution‚ and transmission

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    society‚ advertisement and competition MTV uses these 3 big strategies to lure more people and media to watch there television show daily‚ they bring in well-known names such as Justin timberlake to perform and entertain the audience and get more people to watch MTV. They also do a good job at making new celebrity’s perfect example would be snooki from jersey shore a well watched reality show in MTV‚ most people didn’t know who she was before the show started. . MTV has been using publicity in society

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