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    broadcast in Nashville. She was the first African American women to anchor a newscast in Nashville. In 1984 she was a host on “A.M. Chicago” a local T.V. talk show. In 1985 the show got renamed “ The Oprah Winfrey Show”. Winfrey is also an actress. She…

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    Truman is better off making the choice to leave the constructed reality because he deserves a life just like any other human being. Christof taking Truman when he was a baby and putting him in this constructed reality was cruel and out of his decision. At the end when Christof was trying to persuade Truman to stay at his constructed reality he made it seem as a utopia place when in reality it isn’t because his whole life was a lie. Christof would have done anything to keep Truman in that…

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    Truman Show is a dystopia because of the morally wrong intentions and the control over a person’s life. How would you feel if you lived thirty years in a fake life? This is a reality for one man. Truman is living in a tv show surrounded by actors. He is the only one left in the dark about his fake life. Truman has a wife and a normal job. He has a best friend and dreams for the future. Truman is an ordinary man, the only difference is his life has been broadcasted since he was born. This show is…

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    right or is it wrong? Jon Stewart, a moderate comedian, delivers cable news The Daily Show with witty dialogue to charm people. His job is amusing the audience rather than informing them. Not to mention, today’s Comedy Central program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart carries a broader perspective of how the audience should understand society. With this in mind, many divergent audiences enjoy watching The Daily Show more than any other cable news in television. Stewart delivers a clear, brief…

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    pamphlets to come see their, shows while there dressed in costume. You can’t help but wonder what their show is about. Whether you like plays and musicals, I’m sure at one point in your life you will see one or hear a song from one. The 1940’s and the 1950’s were a golden age for Broadway. (Gordon, John Steele) The industry was booming. Television wasn’t popular yet, so everybody’s form of entertainment was either on the radio or musicals. Everyone would go to shows. New Yorkers didn’t…

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    Hydrangea is a short film that shows the contrast between a perfect life on TV and what actually happens when the cameras are off. Sometimes when we watch a TV show or even a commercial, it can be easy to forget that the people acting on screen aren't the people we're seeing. With every situation fabricated and every reaction scripted and the actors given chance after chance to react perfectly, the audience can see a presentation of reality that simply isn't true. Each actor has a life outside…

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    Like The Matrix, Inception, or The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley, The Truman show causes people to question their own existence in ways that can only be understood through liberal use of therapists and commercial sex workers. The reason for this is that every single shot is framed to give the audience the feeling that what they see before them is real. Most of the shots are given through static hidden cameras complete with the distortions that those cameras would bring. Peter Biziou, the…

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    Marlon if this whole life is a big lie and Marlon says “I’ve known you since we were kids...I would never lie to you, Truman”. Even though Marlon feels bad about lying to Truman, he wants to follow the rules and keep his job on the reality tv show. This shows that Marlon is only at stage four in Kohlberg’s stages of moral development because he is maintaining social order with Christoph by following his rules in keeping Truman from knowing the truth. Due to lie, Marlon’s motive to maintain…

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    person’s skin to create color. White is seen as “the absence of color,” which says that being able to produce melanin is normal and is something everyone should be able to do. Because whites lack this basic capability, they consciously or unconsciously show aggression and hatred towards melanin-rich individuals. They started to associate having melanin producing capabilities with also having negative characteristics (Welsing 4-5; ch. 1). Welsing argues that whites have created a system in which…

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    job and kind wife until he starts to suspect that his life is a fake. The town Seahaven is a extremely big hollywood studio, which can be seen from space, where the world’s most famous reality show is recorded, The Truman Show is broadcasted to the entire world all the time. The main character of the show is Truman, who doesn’t know that his life is fake and everybody else are actors, even his parents and wife. Truman was adopted by the film company right after he was born, they raised him in…

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