Escaping Reality

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    Too Much Tv Can Be Harmful

    Too Much TV Can Be Harmful Watching hours of television is a powerful factor that is harming the minds and behaviors of children living in today’s world. That is why parents need to take action and be more in control of the programs their children’s watch so they can grow up to be happy and healthy children. Watching television can be fun and entertaining for only a few hours, but children in today’s world watch an “average of 17 hours a week” (Lawrence). The worst part is, instead of watching

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    Jersey Shore

    Jersey Shore Jersey Shore is a reality television show aired on MTV weekly for viewers to watch and enjoy. It is never the same episode over and over. The reality tv show has 8 young adults living in a beach house together and spending every night bouncing from nightclub to nightclub, partying like its 1999, bringing more excitment and you never know what will happen on the next episode. While also given a job at the shore shack, which they must work at to remain in the house. They all have different

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    Immersive Multimedia

    Virtual Chemistry Lab * Formula D Interactive recently developed a Virtual Chemistry Lab, as a safe, low cost alternative to the standard chemistry laboratory in schools. The heart of the system is a so called object recognition table. * The interactive platform consists of a 50″ High Definition rear projected screen prepped with lots of computing power. Sophisticated pattern recognition technology allows users to navigate content information by placing physical cards onto the table’s glass surface

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    Week8Assignment3

    In my opinion, I do agree that child behavior has worsened and is worse than it was 10 years ago. Western society approved the ‘raise a child – not a temper, voice or hand’ policy. In the late 80’s and early 90’s, schools were stopped from using corporal punishment. Not long after laws became strict on parental rights, newer laws were passed that outlawed hitting and spanking. I think that after all of these new laws were passed, it made parent’s hesitant to punish their children. There are

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    Reality television has become very popular over the past decade with shows such as "Jersey Shore” and “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” attracting big audiences and making a lot of money for broadcasters worldwide. Typically reality TV involves a group of people who are not trained actors being filmed in unusual situations over a period of time. Documentaries that explore aspects of society are a grey area, with some closer to news reporting and others blurring into reality TV because they set up

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    Compare and Contrast the Egyptian and the Mesopotamian Visions of Life and Death

    Terry Buzzard Jr. Cindy J. Nix English 1302.417 September 2, 2013 The Controversy: “All My Babies’ Mamas” and Reality TV “All My Babies’ Mamas” was set to be yet another reality television program in what appears to be a never ending “I am going to make one even more shocking then the last” line of shows. Reality shows such as these draw the attention of various audiences depending on their nature and amount of drama in which it entails. These types of programs can range from something as

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    Foursquare Research

    PowerPoint Purpose The partnership hopes to engage viewers long after they turn off the television, close their laptops and stop watching Bravo’s TV shows. How they do it Bravo would start creating on-air TV promotions telling viewers how to play the Bravo-enhanced features of Foursquare. Bravo will begin offering Foursquare players “badges” and special prizes when viewers visit more than 500 Bravo locations. The locations will be picked by Bravo to correspond with select Bravo shows

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    Media and American Culture

    Week Nine Assignment: Final Michael McIntyre HUM/176 Week Nine Assignment Part 1 Final If I were a news director of a local television station I would decide to make the story about the city parks being closed three days a week my lead story over the celebrity’s death. The reason behind why I would choose this one instead of the death of a celebrity. The city parks being closed three days each week will impact the locals

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    Whats This for

    learn how to fight in space. Ender decides to go. When he gets there he finds out that it is very tough. He ends up killing 2 kids and breaking count less numbers of bones in the 4 years that he is there. While he is there he plays a virtual reality game. When he beats the game the computer makes up a place called the end of the world. There are some very disturbing things here. Eventually Ender graduates battle school (2 years earlier that anybody has ever graduated, he's a genius.) He then

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    Reality Shows

    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

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