The Real World

In the past centuries, reality TV shows has become one of the most common forms of entertainment in the many households. “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” is a popular reality TV show aired by TLC, featuring a “Toddlers and Tiaras” star Alana Thompson, who is well known as the ‘Honey Boo Boo Child’ by many, and her “redneck” family as they screen their daily life in rural Georgian. The show was thought to be one of the most controversial reality TV shows of all time and although the TV show series…

Are the scenarios that we perceive on reality television really a realistic display of most people’s reality? Often time’s people are being fooled into thinking that their lives can form to fit those of the actors seen on television, when in fact those people and their lives are only an act put on display for the enjoyment of others. The minds of many are being overtaken by false views of society due to hours spent in front of a television watching shows that are supposed to represent reality.…

television, their thinking process is slowed making linking concepts and imaginative thinking far from their reach. Their worldview is limited to a box that dictates them on an ambiguous sense of right and wrong while they should be able to see the world through macro lenses taking everything into their account. In short, television is a hypnotizing machine imprinting its way of thinking on the viewers whether they realize it or not. Dahl also proposes an alternative to keep the children…

Who would have thought of someone proposing like this in a live TV show? When it comes to proposals, men are surprising women in an instant. They don't announce or letting them know in advance. They can strike any time they want, because proposing is always the unexpected one. It can be at the mall, church, beach, playground or so, it doesn't matter at all. What really matters is that the love of one man could be good enough for a woman to get convinced in loving him as well. This is what…

watch him because Truman’s emotions and reactions are real the whole time and it made the audience feel a certain way when they watch Truman. With the show share a similarity with the movie Boyhood, about a boy name Madison and we as the audience watch Madison grow up from early childhood to arriving to college. Only thing between the two is that Boyhood is not a reality tv show that is live 24/7, and it is on a real set with the actors have real emotions and reactions. The Truman Show had paid…

Audience Analysis Junjie Liu Audience Analysis This paper is prepared for English 207, Online A Block, taught by Carla Bradley Introduction In this paper, I want to conduct audience analysis for three articles. For the scholarly writing, I choose an essay discussing about Academic Achievement of Indochinese family. For the pop culture, I want to discuss a TV reality show. For the choice writing, I’ve decided to choose an essay which talks about the…

collection. Caring for her aptly named menagerie gives her a sense of purpose in her life. “My glass collection takes up a good deal of time. Glass is something you have to take good care of.” (1176: pt. 2, ch 2). By immersing herself into a pretend world, Laura traps herself by her own…

task, and Ayn Rand, the author of Anthem, wrote a great novel. Everything from the storyline, to the word choice was carefully chosen. Although some ideas presented in this book are far fetched, there are still many ideas that tie Anthem to the real world. The most prominent connections to today are the similarities to some quotes and the Bible and some quotes to patriotic pieces (ex. National Anthem, Pledge of Allegiance). The quote I found most intriguing in the book Anthem was, “We are…

There are many different ways in which the CBS hit TV- show Survivor relates to both chapter 10 of our textbook, as well as the Emotional Intelligence book. The TV show illustrates the effects of throwing together a group of people who do not know each other, and forcing them to bond and hopefully win challenges and eventually win the grand prize of a million dollars. One of the most important aspects of Survivor, and life itself, is decision making. Decision making is evident in every episode…

and a slight pressure can make the “glass break so easily. No matter how careful you are” (Williams 19). Laura’s fascination in plants and animals becomes a world of adventure in her mind, a world of dreams, a world of disappointments. Laura’s love for rare glass specimens is also a love for herself, being that Laura is a rare specimen in a world of perfection that her mother has created. Laura’s memories of her childhood and previous encounter with Tom have been twisted into a bizarre fantasy,…