The Reality of Reality Television Jacqueline Knudsen ENG122: English Composition II Jenna Fussell February 2‚ 2013 The Reality of Reality Television Have you ever set there watching your favorite reality television show and wondered what effects it could have on you‚ your family or your friends? Truth is most people do not think about the effects television shows can have before watching them or allowing their children to watch them. This
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Why Teachers Should be Paid More Jenni Malone How many of you believe teachers should be paid more? In my opinion they should be getting paid twice as much as their current income. Teachers are like a power source. They teach students everything they need to know to be prepared for their futures; they even go out of their way to make sure that students understand the lesson. For those of you that believe that teachers don’t deserve to be paid more‚ you obviously don’t understand
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Should Cars be More Efficient? SCI207: Dependence of Man on the Environment 04/21/2013 Should Cars be More Efficient? “Should we own vehicles that are more fuel efficient” is a question that a lot of people are asking now. And the answer is yes‚ we should own vehicles that are more fuel efficient to help our environment but there are also reasons why we are unable to own fuel efficient vehicles. This paper will be explaining both sides of this argument about whether we should own more fuel
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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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A Campus More Colorful Than Reality: Beware That College Brochure by Deena Prichep warns students to look deeper into a colleges demographics. In 2000 Diallo Shabazz‚ a student of the University of Wisconsin‚ was told that he was featured on the front of the admissions booklet. He was excited until he realized that he photographed at a football game he did not attend. Later he found that the admissions department had taken a picture of him and Photoshopped his head into a crowd of students. The university
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we have to tax. More importantly‚ what would be the basis for the amount of tax? In my opinion‚ personal income should be the basis for the amount of tax to be paid. Therefore‚ the rich should pay more taxes than others. Why should the rich pay more taxes? They should pay more taxes because it is their obligation as the members of the upper classes to fund society. In most societies‚
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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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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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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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Will the Space Elevator ever be a reality? Tim Engstrom The Cost of Space The cost of shipping payloads into space is currently thousands of dollars per kilogram[1]. Rockets are used for this job‚ subjecting the cargo to severe changeable g-forces‚ generating extreme pollution. The cost of launching a satellite by rocket is typically between $50 million and $400 million dollars[2]. Geosynchronous orbits at 35‚786 km are significantly more expensive to achieve than Low Earth orbits at less than
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