We have all been there; you are sitting at home, bored and decide to pick up the remote. What kind of show do I want to watch? you think to yourself. There are countless types of television categories. Are you in the mood to laugh? To cry? To get so sucked into the plot that the next thing you know you have finished a twelve episode season in one sitting? There are lots of television genres, and the most popular are comedy, drama, and science fiction. The comedy genre has one goal in mind--to make
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Television Comparables One of the first comparable television shows is the Dr. Oz Show. Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon, hosts the show and discusses health and wellness concerns from his viewers. The show airs on FOX at 11:00am and has been airing since 2009, has released almost 600 episodes and airs in over 118 countries (PR Newswire). This show averages around 3.4 million viewers for every episode, which is just behind the third most watched Dr. Phil, which averages around 3.8 million viewers
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Television Nowadays many people all over the world spent most of their free time watching television; but since its appearance, television has brought to man many advantages as well as disadvantages. First, television plays an important role in our daily activities: it keeps us informed of all current affairs in the world. Events through television are more vivid than those through books and magazines. Second, television helps us enrich our spiritual lives
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Facts, fiction and coding When we turn on the TV, we immediately decode what sort of program we are watching. If we watch “Paradise Hotel”, we expect a reality show and everything we associate with the genre. We expect drama, fighting, sex, betrayal and so forth. If we turn on the News, we expect to be fed with factual information about the happenings in the world. If we see a film, we also have certain expectations. When we see a romance film, we expect love. When we see an action film, we
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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
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Reality TV Rough Draft 1 Everyone in America is aware of what reality television is all about whether or not they will admit to watching it. The disease known as reality t.v. is often associated with being a guilty pleasure. American Reality Television has become the norm for entertainment and shows that involve finding love or established love create a false image of life, make viewers insecure about their own lives, as well as discourage right to privacy. Most people look for a companion in
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Introduction to Rain Gauge We all love to watch television! How far it is true that we all pay attention to the news, particularly, the weather forecast! Do we? Nah, the moment we hear the words weather forecast, our finger presses the remote button to change the programme; don’t you agree with me? It is true that we are interested to watch our favourite shows, movie, music, etc., but skip other important information. Generally, weather forecasts are given importance only during adverse conditions
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cancer, and many infections and even organ damage. III. According to the Los Angeles Times article of plastic surgery, even they can agree that the cheapest alternative to plastic surgery could easily be exercise. A. If the media would include real reality showing more celebrity’s embracing their natural looks more people would not feel the need to compete with them. B. Plastic surgery should only be considered for age twenty four and
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After years of watching pointless television series and amateur movies that were not even worth the movies ticket price, I settled on the popular T.V series “Jersey Shore”. I understand that this is one of the ridiculous shows that have ever been aired but for some reason, I became very interested in it. The plot of this show is to capture the supposedly exciting lives of 8 members of the sun tan and hair gel squad, also known as the people of New Jersey. The camera crews captured countless fights
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Pokémon Go a new game that came out for mobile phones, has enraptured today’s society with collecting all the little digital creatures. In “Pokémon Go See the World in Its Splendor” the author Amy Butcher uses her persuasive style to convince the readers that have negative sentiment towards the game to give the game a try. Her style is well supported by a plethora of personal experiences and emotional attitude to the game. However, her persuasion falls flat in the absence of logistical statistics
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