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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Crime Drama TV Show Comparison (Sherlock and Elementary) Since replacing radio as the most popular mass media‚ television has modernised lifes and revolutionised today’s society. BBC’s Sherlock and CBS’s Elementary are two popular television shows that are often compared and contrasted because of their heritage to the iconic stories of Sherlock Homes. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective‚ conceived by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. An analysis between these two adaptations‚ have revealed
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Escapism is the Wingfield’s best choice to stay sane in their purpose-ridden lives Escapism‚ or withdrawing from the pressures of the real world into a safer fantasy world. It comes in many forms‚ some rather subtle‚ and prevents us from doing what we need to do to improve the circumstances of our real lives. The concept of escapism is a strong theme in Tennessee Williams’s play The Glass Menagerie. Amanda‚ Laura‚ and Tom Wingfield all seek to escape the dull and depressing reality of their situation
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Medium of Music Tone is the medium of music and refers to the sound that travels through air and reaches the audience. It is produced by an instrument or by the voice and has 4 qualities: * Timbre * Pitch * Duration * Intensity Timbre (also called tone color or tone quality) is the distinctive quality of a tone. Pitch refers to the highness and lowness of a tone. The vibrations and sound-producing material determine the pitch of a tone : the slower the vibration‚ the slower
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around us is an extension of ourselves‚ or‚ in other words‚ any medium is an extension of a human body or mind or senses. For an instance‚ the hammer is an extension of a human’s arm‚ the wheel is an extension of a human’s leg‚ and the medium of a language helps us to put our thoughts and emotions into words. According to this‚ things around us would not be the medium unless it does its function. Like‚ an electric light itself is a medium without the message‚ pure information‚ unless we use it in a
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How reality shows affect our lives If a person takes a look at the TV guide‚ they will find that more than half of the shows that are on television right now are some form of reality show. It can be a show that simply follows the lives of people like “Keeping up with the Kardashians”‚ competition shows like “American Idol” or “Top Chef”‚ or shows that seek to help people with various issues such as “Intervention”‚ “Celebrity Rehab”‚ and “Hoarders”. The reason why shows such as these even exist
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New World Explore the ways in which Huxley explores the idea of escapism and pleasure. Support your answer with details from the novel. In the "old world" people had to deal with melancholy and abuse‚ and pleasure was received in different ways than in that of the new world. Huxley depicts this in his novel‚ Brave New World by establishing the idea of escapism and pleasure. He portrays some people as wanting to decamp from reality and explains that people in this utopian society get their pleasure
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“The medium is the message” McLuhan defines the medium as any extension of our body‚ senses or mind. Therefore‚ any instrument of change is a medium. The resulting change McLuhan refers to is often subtle and it is this change that is the message (McLuhan‚ 1994). At first glance‚ McLuhan’s
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has seen the series Breaking Bad‚ they know how difficult it can be to determine what side of the “Good vs. Evil” line that a character treads on. The main character Walter White treads that line like no other character on television ever has. In the show‚ Walter begins as a high school chemistry teacher and winds up a multi-millionaire‚ meth producer‚ and murderer‚ while still remaining a family man for a great majority of the series. A key component in analyzing which side of the line Walter is on
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In the book The Medium Is the Message Marshall McLuhan explains that though the medium is responsible for delivering the message to the audience‚ he argues that the medium acquires equal or more value than the message itself. Furthermore‚ the medium‚ through which the message of content is presented‚ holds accountability to the way the message is perceived. McLuhan makes it clear that the ‘message’ of his article is that man fails to notice that technologies (mediums) will have effects on culture
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