...The Unreal World – Jennifer L. Pozner Pozner's thesis: Reality TV tends to create a stereotype that desperate, beautiful, white women symbolize the average American woman who needs to be promiscuous and compliant or else she will never attract a man. I. Emotional Appeals A. Technique One—Diction a. Use of the word "hunky lunkhead"—implies capital punishment is a crime and more personal than we usually think (murder suggests a one-on-one kind of relationship). Evidence on pages 196–197—frequency (10 references) adds emphasis. b. Use of "masquerading" and "perfect 10s" when describing women on reality TV shows like The Bachelor has negative connotations. “Masquerading” refers to when women prance around trying to be something they are not in order to get a man. “Perfect 10s” relate to the idea that women have to have an amazing body and good looks in order to even be considered on a reality TV show. Evidence on pages 445-446. c. Use of the word “schadenfreude” uses whimsical and ridiculing language to express how the pleasure of other’s misfortune is a theme for reality TV shows. Evidence on pages 442-443. B. Technique Two—Tone d. Use of the description "hunky lunkhead"—utilizes a sardonic tone about how The Bachelor is a show where a large number of crazy women chase after a conceited, athletic, handsome man. Evidence on pages 443-445. e. Part of the sentence, “…Women of color are used to stroke classical racial...
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...Emotional Appeal in Jennifer Pozner’s “The Unreal World How many times have you seen a reality TV show that pans out the exact same way as others you have seen before? These shows claim to be unscripted yet almost always have similar characters that act the same way. This is because Reality TV executives cast people they know can be easily manipulated into entertaining television. By using diction and figurative language in “The Unreal World”, Jennifer Pozner arouses fury from the audience that helps prove reality TV forces an idea of unattainable beauty on women and creates hurtful gender and racial stereotypes. To elicit anger from the audience, Pozner uses diction to demonstrate how Reality TV gives women unachievable standards for beauty. Pozner explains how Reality TV has this idea of a “perfect ten” (445). The use of a numbered scale implies that women are constantly being judged on their looks. It also insinuates that women can achieve a perfect score on this scale even though perfection is unattainable. A scale implies that everyone is judged the same way; however, beauty can come in many different forms. Both of these implications are incredibly hurtful to the young women watching these shows because it puts an onus on external aspects of the human body rather than the internal. Shows exist that are completely devoted to finding flaws in women such as “Are you Hot?: The Search for America’s Sexiest People.” This show uses a laser “flaw finder” (446) to rate women...
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...Supertoys last all summer long Where do we draw the line? Is it okay to medicate feelings away? Who is responsible for the actions undertaken by autonomous systems? With the increasing development on genetic modification, autonomous machines and the knowledge about our brain and nervous system’s chemistry, things we see in science fiction movies are beginning to seem possible and this poses questions to ethicists and scientists. In the short story “Super toys last all summer long”, Brian Aldiss is questioning what is real and what makes something real, through a story about a woman struggling to love her son. Already in the start of the short story, where it says, "She had tried to love him"(p. 32, l. 19), Brian Aldiss shows us that there is something, which is not right in the relationship between the mother Monica and the son David. A mother’s love for her child is endless, therefore this makes us question whether David is Monica’s real child or not. Later on in the short story, Brian Aldiss alludes to the fact that David is not a normal boy. “He went with her without protest into the house, his dark head bobbing at the level of her waist. At the age of three, he showed no fear of the ultrasonic dryer in the kitchen.”(p. 32 l. 28-32). It is not normal for a three-year-old boy to do as his mother says without protest or not to be afraid of the ultrasonic dryer, which properly is big and noisy. Through the short story, more and more tells us that the communication between Monica...
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...Email: emanuschn@gmail.com Course: English 1000: Exposition and Argumentation Importance of Emotional Appeals in “In the Unreal World” The English novelist Arnold Bennet once said: “There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul”. He was right; emotion has a great impact on arguments. Jennifer Pozner proves the impact emotion can cause in “In the Unreal World”. In her article, Pozner explains that, by portraying harmful stereotypes, reality TV presents unreal messages about women, men and race and demeans the participants’ self-worth. She claims that reality TV only accepts promiscuous, unintelligent, white, skinny women. Women who don’t fit those criteria are modified to fit them, either by going through plastic surgery and haircuts or by being put in a certain role in the show. With diction, analogies, sarcasm and many examples, Pozner uses emotional appeals to persuade the reader that reality TV truly is unreal. With these techniques, she creates personal arguments that evokes anger from the reader. One way Pozner provokes anger is by using diction that equates women with animals to imply to the reader that reality shows do just that. When the author writes “[i]n this unreal world, women aren’t just stupid - they’re also catty and bitchy,” she uses “catty” and “bitchy” to explain that women are not only...
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...essay will discuss several of the core characteristics of fantasy literature, including the concepts of magic, otherworlds, good vs. evil, heroism, special character types and talking animals. These characteristics of literature are all identified in the two texts, Assassin’s Apprentice by Hobb and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. Fantasy, as a genre of literature, is a story or series of stories, which exhibits certain definable elements that make the plot unreal and challenge the reader to suspend disbelief. There are many of these unreal elements, which feature in the fantasy genre. These unreal elements vary from mythical beasts roaming an imagined world to Earth-like natural settings in which animals take on human characteristics. There are also clearly recognizable conventions of fantasy, such as toys coming to life, miniature humans, magical powers, and time-warp stories. A fantasy novel would usually encompass more than one of these unreal elements. However, a fantasy story needs to possess only one of these unreal features in order to be classified as a part of the fantasy genre. Put simply, a fantasy story is one with at least one element that cannot be found in the human world. Magic is the most basic element of fantasy; magic is what draws a reader to fantasy. Magic involves charms, spells or rituals used in order to produce a supernatural event. It's something that we humans are unable to perform, so we are intrigued by it. Both The Hobbit and Assassin’s Apprentice...
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...Flight to Pittsburgh In our society we have a lot of ideals of how you must be, how you should act and how you should look. These ideals often represent how we think a perfect man or perfect woman is. And it is difficult to live up to these ideals, often it is impossible but we are trying really hard anyway. In this story we see how it is to pursue such an ideal from a man, Hank’s point of view. We also see how destroying it can be when a person thinks the ideal is a reality and possible. Hank is a middle aged man, 52 years old, and married to Faye. He has a daughter, Julie with Faye. Julie is married with Russell, but she has just called and said that he has hit her. She specifically asks to see her father. This implies that Julie sees her father as the “Superman,” who will come and save her whenever she is in trouble. We also know that Julie and Russell lives in a house, there is a “replica of his own,” Hanks house. The fact that she is living in a house, which is an exact copy of her father’s supports this. Who builds a house there is an exact copy of one’s parents’? Most daughters and sons would build their own after what they find them most suitable. But she builds a house exactly like her father’s because she still looks up to him like a little girl would look up to her father. The house could also be a symbol of the father, in the way it surrounds her, like a hug, the comforting hug from a father you know always will be there for you. Another thing that supports this...
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...need for warming up from the chill of solitude by means known to people at all times. The artist pursues his art philosophical quest for worldly knowledge that had left its traces in many of his works. A line of composition literally ignites the painting's surface with the movement. The color of this work is "phosphorescent," and it create the different planes if the subtle color nature. The warm color of purple supports the hot color of Santa's figure and an exotic fish above Santa. This hot color may represent the so-called material universe, the world of the gross senses that can be observed in a sober state. The cold, arctic blue color represents the unknown, the world of a deep state of drunkenness where real is unreal and otherwise. The only hard reality is the self, which never changes in any state. And maybe that is why Jaisini favors the painting's main hero, Santa, to possess the vivacious color of fire. Jaisini chooses this color of fire to manifest the self and the cold cerulean, cobalt and ultramarine to renounce self as a mortal entity surrounded by the eternal unknown. While Santa drinks his feelings of frigid loneliness vanish. And so, he gets a company of some almost hallucinatory nature. A shark, a ghostly image, a profile of another prototypical drunk who is not accidentally situated in a horizontal position. An amalgam of the several female figures that consists of a woman in stockings, a nun, a big-breasted silhouette...
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...an introduction and the action starts in the beginning of the story. This story takes place during World War. People have to make their own decisions about morality and right and wrong, and this absolutely terrifies them. This is shown in "I Spy" through the characters, imagery, and setting in the story. The main character in "I Spy" is Charlie Stowe, a twelve year old boy living in England. Charlie is teased by boys at school about never having smoked a cigarette, so one night sneaks downstairs to his father's tobacconist shop to have one. Charlie knows he is doing wrong, throughout the story he has an overbearing fear of being caught. The other main character in the story is Charlie's father who owns the shop. He is described as an 'unreal wraith,' not loved by his son. But relationship with his mother is different, he loves her , because she is very kind and plays a big role in his life. The story-setting is set in a coastal town - due to the fact that the main character can hear the wind from the sea and the beating of the waves. The coastal town could be located around the eastern seashore in England, but it is not mentioned in this short-story. The short-story takes place in the First World War, so spotlights are continually sweeping across the sea looking for German boats, and across the skies looking for enemy dirigibles. The imagery in "I Spy" also helps show the central idea of fear. Throughout the story, light is represented as a danger of being caught, and each...
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...It is about a boy, Charlie Stowe, who has never smoked a cigarette and therefore he decides to break into his father’s tobacco shop to steal a pack of cigarettes. His father comes home and along with him are two men. Charlie hides in the shop and watches his father and the two men while they talk about something Charlie does not understand. When Charlie’s father and the two men leave the house, Charlie goes back to bed and realises that he and his father are very much alike. The story is told by an omniscient third-person narrator and Charlie Stowe is the main character. He is 12 years old, lives with his mother and father and attends County School. His relationship to his father is not very good and he is unreal to him: “but he did not love his father, his father was unreal to him, a wraith, pale, thin, indefinite…” The mother’s responsibility for Charlie’s childhood makes her much more important to him and he loves her. According to Charlie, she is nice towards everyone except the “Huns”. This expression, the “Huns”, was an English word for Germans during World War 1 and with the use of this and the word “Zeppelins” I believe the story takes place during the Great War Charlie’s father is a very unreliable man who does not give any attention to Charlie, and Charlie does not care about him until he sees him along with two men in the tobacco...
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...important influence on them. The most significant result of having fictional friends is developed imagination of the person. These imaginary companions have certain personalities and behaviors which are given by their creators. For example, some of them can be brave and courageous character, the others shy and weak. All of them have different names, different jobs, different interests and different gender. The researches suggest that children are more likely to have unreal friends with similar gender. Also, it is a fact that most of the children borrow names for their creations from the names of surrounding them people or from the cartoons they like. This phenomenon may show another important impact on children in developing language and communication skills because they get more linguistic practice during conversations with their imaginary friends than with friends in real life. In addition, it makes them to be more friendly and communicable with schoolmates in future. Talking and playing with unreal friends can practice good manners, vocabulary and topics for discussions. Children will be able to find games and activities to play with their real friends. Mostly, it can avoid detachment and shyness at school period. In conclusion, imaginary friends are the main part of children’s life. They can be accepted differently by surrounding people. Nevertheless, having this type of companions is good for...
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...by the committee members of UNESCO. As recorded by Shenfu (沈复), a resident of Suzhou during the Qianlong period, in volume two of his book Foushenliuji (浮生六記), showing the small in the large, the large in the small, real in the unreal and unreal in the real is a signature element of Chinese gardens. He believed that the construction of gardens is essentially the art of making good use of spaces. Employing this technique, gardens even of small areas can be of great beauty. In this report, I will focus on the principle of showing the small in the large in Keyuan. KeYuan in Dong Guan is one of the four “great gardens” of the Guangdong Province. It was built during the Qing dynasty by Zhang JingXiu (張敬修). The construction started in 1850 and was completed in 1858. Although Keyuan is not located in Suzhou, it has most of the typical features of Chinese gardens and is relatively comparable to the famous gardens in Suzhou. According to Professor Sun XiaoXiang (孙筱祥) in his book shanshuihuayüyuanlin (山水與園林), there are four ways in achieving the principle of showing the small in the large. First is to produce a sense of depth in the space. This can be achieved by separating the areas and the layering of scenery. The second is to show the real in the unreal. The third is to fiddle around with people’s perception and lead them to make associations. The last is to hide sceneries. The principle of showing the small in large is achieved in Keyuan by using various architectural techniques...
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...I do believe in afterlife. And I will tell you why in three stories. The first story is about our kids age. When we watch a lot of stories, when there are some unreal factors. You watch that, you do not think about that and you do believe. When you are older, you can see that lot of these thinks you were watch in TV are unreal. And you start more think about it. Where the dead people go, what is happened with their soul, etc. My second story is about my relationship between my grandparents. My grandfather was in a hospital for couple days. My grandmother with her daughter's family in their house. Early morning my grandmother woke up my aunt, that grandfather is outside and knocked on the window. My aunt lived on place, where were just her house, woods, plants and nothing around. Another houses was about 2 – 2,5miles far. Anyway, my aunt took her dogs and went check area around house. Nobody was there. After while my grandma again called her daughter. She said he is really there and want to go inside. But again nothing and nobody there. Next morning the hospital called, that my grandfather died. He died around the time, what my grandma saw him. And another and last story, is from my vacation last year in Galveston. Me and my husband took a Ghost tour. The guide of the tour told us, if somebody will unexpected die, their soul can stay here with us. These souls had in their life to take care about something, for them, important. Their soul will stay here until their mission will...
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...the couch they can pass hours and hours without moving even a finger watching TV. On the other hand, if they go to play outside it requires physical activity and a little bit of imagination; it can be too hot or too cold. Staying inside watching TV is not a hard option. Attention, imagination, or physical effort is not a requirement anymore if you they want to pass a good time. It is very simple, just stay home, lie on the couch and with a remote control in hand, hours and hours will pass without even noticing. Another negative point about TV watching is that it may cause children to have difficulty distinguishing between what is real and what is not. Movies and kids’ shows are full of fantasy worlds. Event adults’ shows are very unreal these days. Kids are like sponges and absorb very fast anything that happens around them. If television is a big influence in their lives, television now plays the role of a teacher of a parent. Kids believe things are as they see they happen. If they see it on TV and nobody is there to...
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...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 Got Talent”, one of the largest grossing reality based show, they offer opportunity...
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...Themes in “I Spy” (Class generated October 10th, 2014) If you are using these as ideas for your journal entry #2, please read them critically – they are peer responses and have not been checked by me for accuracy. You also must use original thought, so do not copy! Subject | What about it? | Evidence: | Illusion | The son’s illusion of his farther led to resentment until he saw the unseen side of his father | -calls dad “unreal” Does not love himAt the end he wants to say he loves him | Love | | | Family | Despite any conflicts that may have arisen in the past, there still exists an unbreakable bond between family members that ties them together. | “It was as if a familiar photograph had stepped from the frame to reproach him with neglect.” | Relationship | The relationship of him and his father is tense | “his father was unreal to him, a wraith, pale, thin, indefinite“…left even punishment to his mother”“There was a note unfamiliar to Charlie in the undecided voice.” | Secrets | | | Similarities | | | Awakening/maturity | | | Regret | Regret can make one love things not loved before. | -“But he did not love his father.”-“Oh God, don’t let me be caught.”-“To go down and tell him he loved him.” | Perspective | The perspective of the child is innocent/vanilla. He doesn’t understand everything, so he has biased thoughts about his father. (Child’s perspective) | “ Charlie had no doubt, but he did not love his father…”“His father held him tight...
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