Assignment 1: Madison Conradis Katie Kingfield Reality or Hunger For Fame Reality Television: Consequences of Reality T.V on Society Reality television has become increasingly more popular and appears to be taking over the entertainment business. Psychologist Lawrence Rubin seems to think it all goes back to Aristotle and “The notion of being drawn to drama and tragedy” (Kinon‚ 2009). The viewer receives a false sense of “real life” and disconnects from their own “real life” by diving
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things they see. When it comes to censorship‚ another topic that comes up is human rights and freedom of speech and such. Like everything else though‚ there are loop holes and ways to get around things like that‚ not completely but enough to do more good than harm. People need to
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“Closeness Is Not Related to Distance” is an advertising slogan‚ seen at the Blackberry Store at the Hartsfield International Airport. From a subjective viewpoint‚ has the Internet and other technologies added to our sense of connectedness and well being in our families and communities? The Internet was lauded as the technology that was going to connect the world together with the ability to communicate and work with people of like minds who may live around the corner or across the world. When
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Read the text. TV or no TV? That is the question. Bess TV is an important issue for us‚ because over three quarters of British teenagers have a TV in their bedroom (pretty antisocial if you ask me!)‚ and they watch TV for an average of 14 hours a week. In the USA‚ it’s over 20 hours a week. In my research for this debate‚ I’ve discovered some amazing facts. For example‚ 57% of programmes contain what is called ‘psychologically harmful’ violence. That means‚ according to the experts
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believe that the United States should allow legal immigrants from all over the world because they bring many benefits to it. Immigrants are a positive influence on United States of America. Immigrants have been the start of this great nation. So why argue now that allowing foreign people into America is dangerous? Some people might argue that legal immigration is the cause of overpopulation. This is not true at all because immigrants make merely half of America ’s population (mruthydotcom). Out
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Is sport really good for us? Sport has become our communal activity‚ our environment of mutual support. Sportsmen focus on challenging themselves. They liberate themselves from the presence of external competition. Humanity has always been fascinated by physical beauty. The aerobics revolution has been replaced by ashtanga and other forms of yoga that combine physical fitness with spirituality. The rise of interest in yoga is a turn to the combination of physical and spiritual health. Sport is
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Out of many TV shows‚ there is a considerable number of reality TV shows‚ for example‚ Sirasa Super Star‚ Shakthi Grandmaster‚ Sirasa Lakshapathi‚ etc. All these reality shows influence real life both positively and negatively. Reality TV shows have become an essential part of entertainments‚ too. Reality TV shows create opportunities to innocent and talented people to compete against others‚ but they are sometimes time-wasting and can be addictive. Reality TV shows give an opportunity
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Dear Mike Hum The article “Is Abu Ghraib the military version of reality TV?” is unpleasant to read. It tries to give the reader‚ the vision that US soldiers in this period are not responsible for their actions on torturing of other peoples (Iraqis) but rather the orders in chief. The soldiers act was because of hypothetical imperative and not by their own desires. This is total disagreeable. The most categorical imperative act is when your own life is at risk and to save it you must commit things
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To begin with‚ Nick Serpe’s article‚ “Reality Pawns: The New Money TV‚” criticizes reality TV‚ which targets the lower class‚ and broadcasts the show so people can use it as a form of entertainment. Serpe describes‚ “Tom is going to repo her car‚ but if she can answer three of five trivia question right‚ the car will be hers‚” (Serpe 268). By this statement‚ it demonstrates that the‚ trivia question‚ determines if a person will get their own property back. This means that these games are not really
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Here is a question that comes to mind‚ but is it ever really thought about? Does television make people smarter? According to Steven Johnson’s “watching TV makes you smarter” he states‚ “The relationship between the explicit violence and the post 9/11 terrorist attack anxiety is not the only element of 24 that would have been unthinkable on prime time network twenty years ago”(278). Personally I don’t believe that television makes you gain knowledge. I have never heard of anyone stating that until
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