Essays on Reality Television

Introduction

Shark Tank is a reality television show, which entails entrepreneurship and investment. The program features some of the richest people in the world in matters regarding investment and businesses funding. It was first aired on August 9, 2009, on ABC. During the show, entrepreneurs are in some form of a contest to win the favor of the investors, who are referred to as ‘sharks’ in the show. After presenting their business ideas and products, the entrepreneurs hope that the investors would take an interest in the presentation and offer to invest in their companies. The program has been a ...

There are many sorts of crimes that are plagues on societies around the world. However, some are more prominent than others. Indeed, there is rape, murder and drugs. The latter, along with two crime types that often accompany drug use or dealing on more than one level, shall be the focus of this brief report. Specifically, there will be a review of peer-reviewed journal articles that pertain to illegal drug use, prostitution and money laundering. The first two often feed to the other in that the money garnered from the illegal activities has to be “cleaned” so as to ...

Introduction

Perhaps one of the most influential forms of media proliferating nowadays is the television. Many households nowadays use television as a form of entertainment, due to the extensive range of programs that it can offer. For example, children and the youth can enjoy animations that are geared specifically to them, while older people can either enjoy drama or variety shows depending on their tastes and preferences. All in all, it can be said that television can provide a wide variety of shows from audiences from all over, thus contributing to its popularity among modern society. One of the shows ...

Autoenthography

When presenting one’s self as a presidential hopeful, everything from policies to speaking voice is important. It is possible, however, that in accordance with propriety, we have become too caught up with how candidates act, or how they speak, and are not concerned enough with what they want to do, or what they will actually do. In some cases we are not concerned enough with what they have already done, as well. In the cases of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, we find very good examples of this. Throughout their debates over the course of the presidential primaries, ...

22nd of April 2016

Globalization of information processes based on the latest technologies has changed many forms of human existence, but the biggest transformation has occurred in the structure and media system. The main source of information for most people have become electronic media and mainly - TV. All of them now propagate pop-culture. Popular culture has many scientific definitions. However, they all agree on one thing: pop-culture is a unity of widespread cultural elements in any society. Pop culture now includes music, film and animation, literature, the media (including comic books and the Internet), fashion, cooking, advertising, sports, tourism, and many other ...

Introduction

In the contemporary world the use of new media, and in particular social media, has become an essential need in the society. Social media include Web sites that allow social interaction such as social networking sites like MySpace, Twitter, Facebook; gaming sites such as Second Life and Club Penguin; video sites such as Vimeo and YouTube; and blogs. Such sites have provided a fertile ground for communication and entertainment especially for the teenagers and the young adults. According to the prevailing studies, 75 percent of the teenagers are in possession of cell phones, and 25 percent utilizes them on ...

Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games tells the tale of young tribute Katniss Everdeen, who is forced into a state-sanctioned spectator sport where she must kill her fellow teenagers for the entertainment of the authoritarian Capitol. The world of the book is given a bleak and stylized atmosphere, telling the story through Katniss' perspective in order to convey major themes of poverty, depression, alienation, and oppression, as well as a condemnation of both televised war and reality television.

The world of the book depicts a horribly oppressive, Orwellian government, sometime in the indeterminate future, on a continent known as Panem (presumably what is left of ...

Activity 17

It is indeed true that over the last decade, the variety of shows being aired on televisions have increased. One particular variety that has started to gain strong traction in the said industry is the reality TV show variety. These are basically television shows that exude a certain level of realism in them, which is their main selling point. Most people watch television in order to get entertained by fictitious storylines that may be either in the form of drama, comedy, and even romantic soap operas. What makes reality TV shows unique is that they are based on real and camera ...

Some parents prohibit their children to watch TV. They say it makes them dumber, or there is much cruelty in the world of television. However, I cannot agree with this point of view. There are many educational programs on modern tv. Besides, there are much more dangrers in the modern world around us than they show on tv. This essay is aimed at analyzing different opinions regarding this topic. In the essay I will claim that television can be useful. The essay I will divide into three parts: positive impact of television; counterarguments and the part devoted to analyzing ...

Essay

I agree with Johnson on the argument that watching television makes someone smarter. I agree with Johnson that people’s intelligence has improved by watching complex themes in the television. People today are better positioned than those of the ancient time are. Some of the current television shows are nutritional since they teach people to pay attention and make inferences as they interact with other people in the society. I disagree with the author’s comment that political events such as torture and racial profiling amount to social relationships. I disagree with the author’s claim that television ...

The Church of Latter-Day Saints-- sometimes called the “Mormon” church-- is an American sect of Christianity that became famous for its practice of plural marriage, or polygyny. Even today, certain sects of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (referred to hereafter as the LDS church or Mormon church) practice plural marriage, or, more specifically, polygyny: the plural marriage between one man and multiple wives (Land, Schippers). Before discussing the current Mormon policies on polygyny and plural marriage, however, it is important to understand the historical structure of polygyny in the Mormon church. Mormonism, as a religion, is quite a young one; ...

Reality television is a powerful way employed by the media to exploit human beings’ insatiable desire to escape their immediate realities and into other people’s lives, experiences or indeed other places. The plethora of such shows that have sprung up over the past few decades are all geared at pushing the extremes of the human curiosity, exploring new cultures, environments and just about any other aspect that the public can pay for. From the glamorous lives of the Kardashians to the impoverished rustic lives of Amazonian tribesmen, reality television shows explore other worlds, different from the mainstream. Unfortunately, however, ...

Drinking alcohol means different things to different people. For some, it is often a social activity associated with pleasure, leisure, and relaxation. It may also be a response to peer pressure, thus fulfilling the need to fit in and belong. Having too much alcohol or binge drinking is associated with serious and chronic illnesses as well as violent and reckless behaviors that compromise the health and safety of the drinker including the people around them. Although an increasing number of women also drink, there seem to be variances compared to men. This paper hypothesizes that alcohol has a differential impact on women’ ...

An agent of socialization is one which affects the individual and society as a whole. There are many agents of civilization seen today but a few are very important because of their profound impact on society. One of the most outstanding ones is the mass media. Mass media is very wide but narrowing down to television, we can attest to the fact that television has been a major form of popular culture that attracts millions of people across the globe. There are several programs that are aired on all television networks and many people choose programs depending on their likes and dislikes. ...

Reality shows have been known to tap into the deep seated cultural anxieties that usually are related to the fundamental issues of individual autonomy, privacy, security and survival. The behavioral pattern among individuals has changed due to the reality shows that they have watched. It has brought culture to its viewers and has been known to be a great insight into the human normal pattern of behavior practices. A collective mindset has greatly affected everyone who watches it more than they even realize it. The context below focuses on two-reality show. They are named as real world and Big brother. ...

INTRODUCTION

A lack of time is one of the most common problems people face in 21st century. The average people who have nine to five jobs piled on top of personal stress of life, is carried around on their shoulders all day. When they get home they want to be able to relax after work and be entertained. In today’s media driven society that means spending more time in front of the TV. Because of this, the entertainment industry has been more and more focused on the idea of producing TV shows that will claim their attention and keep ...

A generation of Americans called "baby boomers" (born midway of WWII era into the late 1950s) culturally influenced by television. According Henretta, "By the mid-1950s nearly every household in the country had a television"(691) thus, making way for advertising using the new medium creating and shaping American purchasing habits as no other medium before. In fact, "by 1950 Americans owned 7.3 million sets" (Henretta 796). Discourse in this academic investigation shows the decade of the 60s, the influence on the 87 percent of American homes owning at least one television set saw advertising and marketing, the Cold War, as ...

There is no doubt that technology is one of the strongest forces that have completely revolutionalized the modern world. It is clear that a day is approaching when the entire human race will be completely dependent on technology. In The Hunger Games, the author, Suzanne Collins portrays a world where almost everything runs on technology. She describes a high tech futuristic world with some technological features that are not even available in the world currently. Most of this technological advancement is mostly enjoyed by the upper class society who to a huge part uses it to oppress the poor. By using the narrative ...

Introduction

Rhetorical appeals of Aristotle have utilized by various writers and philosophers in presenting their work of interest to their audience. The rhetoric appeals (Logos, Ethos and Pathos) are commonly used because of their ability to appeal to targeted audience. Mark Grief in his work (The Reality of Reality Television) employs the Aristotle rhetoric to convince his audience on what he believed to be the reality behind the real television. The author gives an account of television history while ensuring a critical concern on the audience as the matter of address is something that the writer himself confirms to have discovered ...

ABSTRACT

Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games tells the tale of young tribute Katniss Everdeen, who is forced into a state-sanctioned spectator sport where she must kill her fellow teenagers for the entertainment of the authoritarian Capitol. In The Hunger Games, the character of Katniss Everdeen distinguishes herself from other female protagonists in children's fiction in many ways. These differences will be discussed at length, mostly through the lens of the treatment of romantic relationships with regards to the protagonist in children's fiction. Through analysis of the primary text and the surrounding scholarly literature, The Hunger Games is shown to be an ...

Recently, television has gained monumental changes in ratings as people now are glued to shows and spiels showing real people in real-life situations and not-faked scenarios. In some cases, these shows present the reality of life which is often hidden from the public like the life of the impoverished sector and flaws of the government. Others see people competing for a cash prize of over a million dollars while surviving on a deserted island, losing as much weight as possible, and even to outperform contenders in a race around the world while their lives as the competition began are recorded for the national ...

Post-feminism is a very complicated term in the sense that it encompasses contradictory and pluralistic discourse within our modern society. Both authors Portwood-Stacer and Arthurs focus on the relationship between feminism and consuming behaviors that are depicted through television. Portwood-Stacer argues reality makeover television both reflects and perpetuates the ideology that individualist consumption is an important means of feminine empowerment. (Portwood-Stacer 196) Both authors also agree on the fact that the physical appearances are often emphasized as an empowering device for women in the television shows and for audience viewing the show. According to The Oxford English Dictionary, Post Feminism ...

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Audience: Public Demographic: young adult viewers ages 18-29, education ranges from high school grad to postgraduate degree Background: Bear Mountain is one of the most beautifully offbeat locales that I have ever had the opportunity to visit. What with the wild proliferation of reality television programming highlighting more and more unique places, this is a no-brainer as far as instant success. What with the unusual shops, the unique town history, and some of the creative architecture featured in the town's homes, this will be a program that ...

This essay deals with two distinct topics. The first is whether so-called “reality television” in fact distorts reality, and if so whether the reality crime shows one sees on TV (both documentary-style and the fictional variety) are misleading in that what they portray is not a faithful reflection of the reality of actual crime statistics. In addition to perhaps misleading the viewing audience as a consequence of distorting reality, there is the possibility that such TV shows actually incite / encourage more crime, simply by being screened. The second topic is a definition and discussion of what are generally considered to be ...

Reality television has become one of the most popular genres of entertainment in American society over the past two decades. This genre of television, wherein groups of real people are followed with cameras in a documentary-style format takes many forms - often they are in the form of a game or competition that will eliminate contestants one by one until a winner is revealed. While the authenticity of the events in reality shows is often disputed, the impact of these shows cannot be overstated - millions of Americans watch reality shows on a regular basis, to the point where they are the highest ...

Why is it important to be objective when receiving feedback? How might you use feedback to revise your rough draft to make it as effective as possible?

1. When receiving feedback, it is very important to be as objective as possible. Most of the time, constructive criticism is extremely helpful but it is imperative to maintain your original ideas as they are just as important. Feedback can sometimes offer you fresh ideas – everyone has the ability to give different opinions and points of view: to encompass those as well as your own in your work is a fine line to ...