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    apparent in the 1998 film ‘The Truman Show.’ In which the main protagonist‚ Truman Burbank‚ has lived his entire life as the star of a reality television show. The show is displayed to a worldwide audience‚ twenty four hours and seven days a week. From the moment of his birth‚ he is unaware that his reality‚ the world around him‚ is merely an extravagant set; his coworkers‚ mother‚ wife and friends are all played by actors and his life is controlled by the director of the show ‘Christof.’ Plato’s “Allegory

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    The Truman show. The ideas of Plato’s Allegory of the cave and The Truman show describe different views of life. In the Plato’s allegory‚ every person is a prisoner. they live in a world of shadows. what they think is true is not real.the Prisoners believe that their lives in the cave are what is real.The prisoner who escaped first comes back to explain to the other prisoners about the real world. They cannot believe him because they have never seen anything but the cave. Truman and Plato’s work

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    Girl killed in massive pileup on icy Ohio highway By Joe Wessels | Reuters – 22 hrs ago · CINCINNATI (Reuters) - A 12-year-old girl was killed on Monday and dozens of people injured in a 76-vehicle pileup on an icy Ohio highway‚ one of three major crashes that clogged roadways across the state‚ authorities said. Sixty cars and 16 tractor trailers slammed into one another on Interstate 275 near Cincinnati just after 11:35 a.m.‚ Hamilton County Sheriff’s spokesman Jim Knapp said. "Eighteen years

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    recently this concept has been revisited in the movie “The Truman Show.” It’s incredible that an idea from two thousand years ago can still have mankind interested. Prisoners chained at the neck‚ unable to move their heads. They have been there their entire lives‚ reality consists of darkness‚ shadows and sounds from the fire at the end of the cave. One day a man comes in and takes a prisoner from the cave to show him the outside world‚ which

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    mind-set. In my opinion‚ seeking reality means choosing perception and giving up prejudice instead of what we can accept. The film called The Truman show‚ which stars Jim Carrey‚ tells the story of a man to the whole world. This man lived in a fake place which is made by a famous director. Everyone in his world knows that everything is false except Truman. He is the only person who has real emotion and he treats himself as the one part of the world‚ and believes

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    Television Media Analysis: The Cosby Show Today’s society depends heavily on mass media for information‚ communication‚ and entertainment. The average person wakes up in the morning‚ watches news and weather on television‚ and makes plans for the day based on information they receive through their mass media sources. Many times there is little thought given to the actual reliability of these media sources. Media literacy can help audiences gain important perspectives regarding which media sources

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    reality show was introduced. A good entrance and the audiences love it. From a reality show of singing‚ acting‚ modelling ‚sports‚ magic‚ and etc to even parenting‚ audiences from all walks of life enjoys it. Reality show is well understood as a television programme that feature real people doing real things. Some can be hilarious‚ some can even make the audiences cry and some can make the audience go wild . Reality shows are very well accepted all over the world. Thousands of reality shows have already

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    the so-called reality television series Big Brother and its subsequent imitations. The Truman Show depicts this same “shangri-la” - a seemingly perfect community that is in reality‚ a contrived social experiment or in this case a form of entertainment. This main theme in The Truman Show is based on a disturbing characteristic our contemporary society. Everywhere we look‚ today‚ we see powerful shapers of media‚ including entertainment companies‚ news organizations‚ corporations and political groups

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    Mass Media and Its Influence Spoken‚ written‚ or broadcast communication whose medium may include television‚ radio‚ advertising‚ movies‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ books‚ cell phones and the Internet becomes a mass media that affects our society’s perception of ourselves and others and influences the structures of our society as well as the reactions of the individual. Americans perceive the political‚ economic‚ class‚ educational‚ and other structures of American society because of‚ by‚ and through

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    Influence of Visual Media Influence of Visual Media Decades have gone by and in that time culture and visual entertainment media has change tremendously. The interrelationship between culture and visual entertainment media has had an impact on both film and television. Television and film have more violence and more inappropriate words but also captures examples of everyday concerns and provides positive feedback. Since the 1950s the primary source of entertainment

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