...Reality Shows Are reality shows completely real or not? According to the Free Online Dictionary, “reality show” is “a television show in which members of the public or celebrities are filmed living their everyday lives or undertaking specific challenges.” Nowadays, most TV programmes are reality shows in which different people show how they live their lives. In some cases, these programmes are created to show how great or how miserable people’s lives are, and so catch the viewers’ attention. This essay aims to discuss whether reality shows are more real than other programmes on TV or not. On the one hand, as the people in reality shows are not actors or actresses, viewers may identify with them. These shows are based on people’s real lives, so their aim is to show the problems or plans that these people have to face every day of their lives without acting it out. Most of these problems are problems that any person could have, so it is easier to the viewers to identify and continue watching reality shows. Moreover, viewers, by watching these shows, may find solutions to their own problems, which are similar to the ones on the reality show. On the other hand, even though reality shows are not scripted, the situations shown in these programmes are deliberated selected to make people watch them. Producers carefully select and sometimes create situations that may interest the viewers. As a consequence, viewers might find that people in reality shows have exciting lives and that...
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...Reality Shows In china In China, the reality talent television show Super Girl not only was an unprecedented hit in television history of the country and an economic miracle in the entertainment industry In 2005 up to 400 million viewers, nearly a third of the population of China sat to watch the grand finale of The Chinese version of American Idol Supergirl Idol. The winner Li Yuchan was chosen via text messages receiving 3.5 million votes. This was seen as a ground breaking moment in both the economic and cultural sectors of Chinese society. Reality TV can be defined as shows that film and follow ordinary people in artificial situations. They could either be at work or in a competition show. Reality shows only came to China in recent years but have since made its impact. With TV programs such as Super Girl and Boy, Dreams in China, Blind Dating shows, each one has attracted thousands of people to participate. Reality shows in China have generated a lot of revenue for not only companies but for the state. Reality TV is one of the fastest growing sectors. One example was Shanghai-based Dragon TV's four popular reality-style programmes, said to have a combined value of about $500m. These programmes had generated a further $1bn for other businesses in Shanghai, in a chain of value-adding that extended from the producer to advertising agents, telecom operators, mobile phone message service providers, entertainment industry design companies and broadband websites. Supergirl Idol...
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...TYPES OF REALITY SHOWS Reality shows aim on the emotional of the people and anything that strikes the emotions of a person become blockbuster.The rising popularity of the reality shows on television channels has added a new era to the production of TV programs. These shows try to give opportunities to the each and every one to showcase their talent in front of the world and give them a better future. The crazy for reality television hits when channel came up with the shows like Viva(channel V,India), a band of five young singers. When auditions were announced, young dreamers gathered in huge numbers to give their luck a try.Not only from India but also from various parts of asia. They cried when they failed which gave the audience a emotional attachment with the show.The audience lapped with the emotions thrown with open hands every show.The show was a big success and as well as inspiring for both the business minded people and also for the young dreamers waiting for the life turning point. Since then there has been no looking back as reality television is increasing audience as well as profit with number of days. With the registration for each reality show, the audience votes pouring in billions, all doubts over the acceptability of these shows by the audience subsided. Widely appreciated these shows have thrown a limelight to many talented people,who where every difficult to discover.The stage itself gives all its candidates a lot of glamour,name,fame and the confidence...
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...Reality TV shows on children “Boys and girls alone” is a reality show aired in England in 2009. The protagonists, twenty boys and girls aged 8-11, live alone in two villages (one for the boys and one for the girls) without parents, and have to cook, clean, manage money, etc.,by themselves. In the texts I have been given to read, I am presented to three points of view about the show, from: Andrew Mackenzie, Head of Factual Entertainment at Channel 4, and one of the responsible for the making of “Boys and Girls Alone”. Dr. Richard House, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy. Audrey Scott, the mother of one of the kids in the show. In the first one, A. Mackenzie defends the show from criticism and explains that the children were “carefully chosen and screened by experts” and that they lived in a “protected environment with around-the-clock security during production”. He also claims that parents were allowed to withdraw their child at any time.All in all, he can only see positivity about the show. In the second one, Dr. R. House criticizes the show, and calls it “prurient Lord of the Flies sensationalism”. He disapproves of the whole concept, and goes as far as saying the show is equal child cruelty. He also urges Channel 4 to reveal the identity of the “experts” who chose and screened the children before going to the show, so they can enter into a public dialog. He is very critical about the culture in general as well, which he means to be superficial celebrity-obsessed...
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... It can give people the opportunity to travel around the globe, expose them to new ideas that they might not have encountered from their community and also a chance to learn about different cultures. Pro-social messages from shows on television will give a positive impact on the behavior of today's youth. However, these youths are more likely to learn negative values from these television programs. Television has now become a debatable issue as some question its influences on the attitude and psychological development of today's youth. Nowadays, the world of television has been discovered by children at very young age. As we know, television is an effective educational tool. With programs showcasing wildlife, scientific theories etc, it helps these children to be broad-minded and also have a better understanding about the world around them. However, we have to remember and be aware that the television also is seem to posses more negative effects than positive ones. A day in a youth's life will generally be filled with activities such as playing with friends, reading, doing homework and being physically active but this can be easily replaced with the presence of television. This is detrimental to their physical and mental development because studies show that the first two to three years of a child's life is where he/she learns through observing, interacting, playing and also exploring new things. Thus if these children are glued and become addicted to these programs on television...
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... and for many that may be sitting down in the comfort of your own home and turning on the television to your favourite Reality TV show. There are many shows that feature the everyday lives of the average person such as Duck Dynasty, Cake Boss and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, just to name a few. However, we all know the better shows include lots of drama and unfortunately some violence. Those with violence may include some of the shows featured in the video article “Reality Show Violence Getting Too Real?” published by ABC News (Canning and Stuart). You will see four major reality TV shows featured in this article, which include Teen Mom, KUWTK spin off Kourtney and Khloe take New York, The Real Housewives’ of Jersey and the infamous Jersey Shore. If you were looking at this video in a functionalist perspective, you would see that the producers of these shows...
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...How is Reality TV Shows Influence Us? Reality TV shows have been capturing people’s attention since the late 20th century, it refers to television programs in which ordinary people are continuously filmed, designed to be entertaining rather than informative. (Oxford) reality shows getting more and more popular because of people get to experience things that they cannot or have not experienced in their lives, they also try to figure out what they would do in the situations that the characters are in.( Robert reid) Those shows have both positive and negative impact on viewers. People found that reality TV show are inspiring, encouraging and entertaining; on the other hand, it also generate some negative effects that they may not notice while they are watching, such as misleading, promoting immoral behavior and produce unreal expectation. These entertainments are more harmful than people expected. Reality TV shows inspire viewers, for example, “The Apprentice”. It is a reality game show hosted by Donald Trump, a winner will receive a prize of a one-year, and twenty-five hundred thousand dollars starting contract to run one of Trump’s companies. The show plays a role in emphasizing resources for self-help and self0empowerment. Through the show, viewers may learn skills or thoughts that will benefit them in the real world problem. In addition, Reality shows encouraging people to chase their dreams. There are a lot of talented people that is not yet be discovered, shows like “American...
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...brings along with it certain concerns linked to how people have embraced this form of communication. Reality shows are a type of Television shows which have gained continuous popularity over the years. Due to reality shows being linked to real life scenarios, they have grown popular among viewers who prefer them and willing to watch them as compared to other shows available on Television (Ford and Kosnik). Soap-opera, survival and wildlife documentary are just some of the popular reality shows aired on TV in recent years with each attracting its own audience but yet these shows are very unrealistic. Each Reality show will have a different effect on a viewer. Some People may like survival and wildlife commentary that tend to provide actual knowledge, while others like soap-operas. Soap Operas tend to attract more women than men. Some examples include Love and Hip Hop, The Real Housewives etc. These types of shows are more destructive to the family unit because they glamorize and over exaggerate family problems. Soap-opera’s mainly focus on creating shows that depict families and couples suffering from major disputes and stress. At home family problems should not be handled the way they are on tv(Wyatt and Bunton). While this may be overlooked by many people to be just a Television show, these reality shows have been identified to have a major effect on the viewer’s mind. Research shows that since Television began being viewed by large numbers of people in the 1960’s and 70’s the rate...
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...Tired of all these fake, staged, and just outright untrue reality TV shows? Are you disgusted by the deceit and lies? Are disappointed and betrayed, the words that describe how you feel after watching the latest episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians? This is a drawback that keeps most people away from tuning into these shows. My plan will demolish that common belief of reality tv. My idea will take a few steps but it will be worth it, I swear. First you have to get a really big bowl (like really big), buy 325.7million 3" x 5" Blank White Index Cards from Staples®(preferably blank white, but blue is also acceptable), get a list of each individuals name living in the United States (address and social security number as well), gather your...
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...Mass Marketing of Celebrity Chefs and Cooking Reality Shows Introduction A celebrity chef is a kitchen chef who has become famous and well known. Today celebrity chefs often become celebrities by presenting cooking advice and demonstrations via mass media, especially television (Wikipedia, 2011). Chefs and cooks are always in demand all over the world. They are responsible for menu planning, prepping food, cooking and presenting attractive meals. Cooks become chefs after many years of training. Receiving a formal culinary education, can help speed up the process. This prevents development of bad habits and learning proper techniques from the start. It also teaches time management and efficiency in working and meal planning. These traits are critical to maintain high quality service and food without too much time. While the job can be glamorous, chefs are not afraid to get down and dirty. Once a chef reaches the position of executive chef, they usually stay out of the kitchen and take on menu planning and running of the restaurant. An executive chef makes about $59,000 a year, but can earn a six figure income depending on a restaurants success (Top Culinary Arts Schools and Online Training Programs, 2011). Many chefs also act as consultants to magazines, TV Shows and other programs across the nation. The job can be very rewarding when a restaurant, catering service or bakery receives an excellent review in a newspaper, magazine, or star ranking. With the...
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...Information on silk route The Silk Route is a convenient name for the Trans Asia trade routes. At one point it was viewed as a road along which silk from China was brought to Turkey and sold to Europeans. That is an overly simplistic and not terribly realistic view. It was not a single road but a number of interconnecting Caravan Routes over which trade was conducted. Additionally Sericulture only dates back a few thousand years the Silk Route is much older. The Silk Road: Linking Europe and Asia Through Trade The Silk Road is the most well-known trading route of ancient Chinese civilization. Trade in silk grew under the Han Dynasty ( 202 BC - AD 220) in the first and second centuries AD The Silk Road (or Silk Routes) is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe. The term "Seidenstraße" (literally "Silk Road") was coined retrospectively by the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877 and has since found its way into general usage. It gets its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade, which began during the Han Dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE), and was the major reason for the connection of trade routes into an extensive trans-continental network. In recent years, both the maritime and overland Silk Routes are again being used, often closely following the ancient routes. The Silk Routes (collectively known as...
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...Society defines reality as the states of things as it actually occur (Turner, 2012), but what if it is constructed by people in this society to turn it the reality that people thought it was reality? Nowadays society has a very rough idea about what is reality and what is constructed society. They can only understand the captivation of the catchword “reality construction” when they understand which thoughts are meant to be replaced by it in the first place: reality so-called. Different background or places of people have different perception of reality. A understanding of reality will be different in western country as they will feel that having a tan skin is prettier by seeing an advertisement where the model have the tan skin. But in country such as Asian, society will prefer more on pinkish skin but not tan skin as tan skin will be known as a lower class of people. What influences the society is their brain. Our brain constructs the reality that we thought it is a reality. Brain is trapped in the darkness inside of your skull, and all it ever sees are electrical and chemical signals. For example, all the colors people see, and so on, that doesn’t really occur; that’s an interpretation by the brain (Eagleman, 2012). Even though nowadays society has done much research on constructed reality, yet the norm that already been planted on the people mind is hardly to be eliminated. From the advertisement that is provided, it shows that the woman is pinned under a man and another...
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...With the advent of World War II, many filmmakers all around the world choose to depict the reality rather than re-create it. Audiences were tired of movies with happy ending when the world was being becoming more corrupt by the second. They needed stories they could relate to. Every country had different ways of implementing the reality into their stories, but every realist filmmaker showed its audience something they could relate to. Some of the most prominent filmmakers from this movement were Jean Renoir from France and Vittoria de Sica from Italy. Even though their interpretation of realism differed in some aspects, their aim was to show the humanity in the most monstrous time humanity ever experienced. Jean Renoir was one of the most...
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...lives. The surrealism with both characters deals with their own ideas of who their wives murderer/abductor are. The obsession of the search creates surrealism distracting the characters from reality causing them to make up ideas of what happened. Irrational decisions like murder and burying their truths are made all while playing by their own rules to mask their thoughts. In Point Blank Walker is the one man show in his anti-hero protagonist role, out against the people who have done him wrong and stole from him. The start of Walkers madness is shown in the beginning of the film when he realizes his wife and friend were the ones who left him for dead. Walker sets out to find his failed assassin with no regards of who dies. He had set goals in mind, to bring justice to the man who shot him and to get his money back. First, his wife and her abductor die. Walker seemed to be untouched by this. This does not stop him. He is determined to retrieve what was once his. Like falling dominos Walker greets each villain one by one with a firm request for his ninety thousand dollars backed up with the threat of their lives. We see his demand for the money always fail, so Walker instinctively kills whomever it is telling him no. Walker is dealing with an array of emotions putting a fog on his reality in regards that perhaps the money is not worth the lives he takes. One may...
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...of the God. St. Anselm holds the belief that the fool “understand what he hears, and what he understands is in his understanding”, which implied the fool’s opinion: the God exists not in reality, but in the understanding of the eye of the beholder. In the next paragraph, St. Anselm takes an example of painting and states that painter will not understand that the painting exists until he performs it because the painter has the conception in the mind only; therefore, in the third paragraph, St. Anselm concluded that “than which nothing greater can be convinced, cannot exist in the understanding alone”. In other words, the greatest being, God, must exist because existing in the reality is better. In the last four paragraphs, St. Anselm elucidates a premise which is “an object is conceived” by “signifying it is conceived” or by “being understood”. Based on such premise, St. Anselm finds out the most unreasonable aspect of the fool’s theory is the fool should not concludes that God does not exist, because the fool does not understand the God. The second part of the Ontological Argument, Gaunilo’s criticism, uses a metaphor which is the lost island, to show his concept: the idea that the greatest being is so great that you should believe in its existence both in understanding and in reality is very ridiculous. The lost island,...
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