Contestant

provides a feeling of everyone has equal opportunities to win no matter what job, talent, class, gender or race they are through doing same quizzes. As Holmes has argued about Fiske's explanation of games and rituals, games separate out winners from contestants as different, but rituals bringing different individuals in same levels and implying commonality (2008, p.93). In Mastermind, rituals fill in that idea by reducing individual's differences and make them compete at same starting line as…

The mass amounts of music competitions around the world is well known, yet “The Voice” and “American Idol” are the most popular televised versions of these competitions in the America. American Idol is very popular U.S. television program based on the idea of the British program, Pop Idol in which people who wish to be singers or entertainers perform in front of judges who select a group of the best. On The Voice, the strongest vocalists from across the country compete with each other, in teams…

game. Instead, I’m talking about gameshows, like Jeopardy or Legends of the Hidden Temple. It will feel like we are in the audience when we take a look at: mental game shows, physical game shows, and even combing the two together. If you’re the contestant on a gameshow that mostly involves mental challenges, that does not necessarily mean it is…

Owing to the fact that the contestants receive 15 minutes, the chefs focus on the overall delivery and taste of their food, not so much the detail. Also, they focus on the time they have and the implications of that time. For instance, taking in the restraint of time, they shouldn’t…

Pageant doesn’t sexualize women for the reason of having interviews on girl’s personalities, judging on confidence, and how the girls present themselves. The judges mostly look at the girl’s personality. At the beginning of the pageant, each contestant gives the judges a bio about themselves; with this, judges base their questions off of the contestant’s answers. According to Taylor Jobin, “Pageants mock women's intelligence by asking impossible questions” (Taylor Jobin). However, this is…

audience: “‘Welcome to What Would You Do?’, a game show where we introduce contestants to a scenario and ask them about what they would do. The three contestants do not know this, but this episode is a survey to determine the role reputation plays in the actions people take to help others. Often, people avoid certain scenarios because they think it will hurt their reputation, but maybe that isn’t always the case.” To the contestants: “Here is the scenario for you today folks: You spot a…

attention, love, but most importantly you. One after another they start to go. Leading you closer to your mate. This is how Prince Maxon Schreave and Princess Eadlyn Schreave felt. They both had to go through the pageant. There are thirty five contestants chosen from the factions. The Selection series relates to the Divergent series due to the factions. This pageant helps them to find their mate. But there is two sides to this pageant. A negative and a positive side. The Selection is a book…

top of having to look a certain way contestants decide that to make themselves look and feel beautiful enough to win a pageant that they must go in to starving their bodies. When starving bodies come into play, there is NOTHING good about it. Causes many health risks and can lead to fatal concerns. Self Development and…

This can be shown through the interactions between the two contestants on the show. Each contestant works independently and makes the decision to split or steal the final prize money. If both contestants choose to split the prize, then the prize is separated evenly. If only one contestant chooses to split the money, and the other chooses to steal the money, then the contestant who steal receives the entire prize. Lastly, if both contestants choose to steal the prize, then both will end up with…

tradition for many pageant-based families. Researchers have stated in several ways how beauty pageants affect young viewers and people that are contestants. Beauty pageants affect the contestants by robbing them of their childhood, making the child self-conscious, and creating a false standard of beauty. The Pageant world annihilates childhood for each contestant. It forces the child to grow up too fast and skip a part of life. These little girls become exposed to being a woman with all the…