Debra Quintero Eng 101 QG 14Sep2010 “Tired of Reality TV‚ but Still Tuning In” Carter‚ Bill. "Tired of Reality TV‚ but Still Tuning In." New York Times 13 Sept. 2010:B4(L). Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Web. 14 Sept. 2010. In Bill Carter’s article “Tired of Reality TV‚ but Still Tuning In” he discusses how television viewers claim to be tired of reality shows but this summer’s TV ratings seem to show the opposite. His thesis statement “…What viewers say they want and what they
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Reality television is not harmful to its viewers and can be beneficial. It is a good source of entertainment. Reality television has become a major part of what people are watching on television today. People are drawn to these shows to escape everyday stresses. It has become so popular because it plays off of people’s emotions and imagination. Sitcoms usually portray perfect families who can solve any problem in thirty minutes. Reality shows show real people and how they react to different situations
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Brainwash: Why reality TV is bad for women”. Project Brainwash focuses on how reality TV shows are maintaining stereotypes that society has created for women. Although many of us believe reality TV is just mindless fun‚ Pozner points out that many of the shows are portraying women badly and making them conform to society’s beliefs of what a woman should be like. Pozner began the topic by explaining the rise in reality TV shows over the past years. The rise is caused by the fact that reality shows are
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Getting Real With Reality TV POC PGS. 291-294 In the article “Getting Real With Reality TV” published in the 5th edition of Perspectives on Contemporary Issues‚ author Cynthia M. Frisby argues that the reason that reality TV stays so popular is because of the audiences media gratification from social comparisons in the mass media. According to CBS‚ the same element of being human that encourages people to gossip about the lives of their friends‚ family‚ and even total strangers is what fosters
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Maud Newton’s “America’s Ancestry Craze” discusses genealogy and how it is used to find out information about your ancestors. Newton shares her experience while having access to centuries of public records online and how discovering some of these records‚ should be done with caution. The idea of someone using these online websites‚ to find out who they are as a person‚ is only some of the many ideas newton goes over in her essay. Newton also goes into much detail on genes and how they‚ including
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In this new era of science and technology‚ we have incorporated technology into our everyday lives. In fact‚ we can’t live without electrical appliances that we call our necessities. Modern gadgets like television and computer provides various advantages‚ such as greater access to information and more compelling presentation of that information. The proliferation of these gadgets can influence lives in both positive and negative aspects. There are many advantages of modern gadgets such as:- 1.
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NOV 25 History Reformation and the witch craze Why during the scientific revolution when people were more rational that the witch hunts occur? Factors occurring that encourage the witch-hunts. Most important was the reformation (1520-1650). Shattered what was left of medieval Christian unity. With this fracturing ended attempts to bring unity through purges and excommunication. Breakdown of broad communities and more of a narrow community. Us vs them‚ protestant vs Christianity. Enemies
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‘saved more Englishman’s lives‚ and minds‚ than all the doctors in the Empire’ (LeBor). However‚ this is a common misconception in the history of gin: in 18th Century England‚ a Gin Craze took over. The Gin Craze was a brief stint in English history when the poor drank excessive amounts of gin (“18th Century Gin Craze”). This period defined the time when the government exploited the poor by domesticating gin production. In doing so‚ gin became affordable to everyone‚ and the government profited from
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The Reality of Virtual RealityMelissa JessINF1034/15/2013 Instructor Mark Cohen THE REALITY OF VIRTUAL REALITYVirtual reality used to be a thing of the future‚ well the future is now. Virtual reality is an environment created through the use of computers. It can be either a real world environment or a fantasy world. Most of the virtual reality is depicted through the visual sense‚ however there are some that use the other senses to help create more of a feeling that you are in the virtual world
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It seems that almost every TV channels has their own reality TV show. It’s crazy what they do on those shows‚ most of the episodes on Jersey Shore the cast drinks so much that they black out or Chef Ramsey cusses out one of the contestant’s family because they didn’t cook the fish properly. The negative aspects exceed the positive one vastly. According to Google the definition of a reality TV show is “a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations”
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