Voyager program

Apollo 13 was a research mission to the moon. Halfway through the mission, the space ship blew up. America thought the astronauts were doomed, but the people at mission control thought otherwise. They brought astronauts back home alive. They never did make it to the moon. Apollo 13 mission was a success for many reasons. The first reason is that they came back alive. After having half of there oxygen supply blown out into space and there being depleted fast, they pulled through. The reason for…

Shoot outs day and night are common for cops, miraculous patient recoveries are everyday norms for doctors, buzzing courtrooms are part of a lawyer’s lifestyle and office romances are inevitable for receptionists, well, at least on TV. Many aspects of TV don’t depict real- life scenarios that happen in these job fields and many others, instead they show the exciting, romanticized, alluring and often skewed, concepts of the job. Cops don’t experience shoot outs every day, half their day or…

criminal justice system. The perceived rise in acquittals can also plausibly by explained without any reference either to watching CSI or to view crime drama more generally. Tyler (2006), stated, “With an ever-increasing number of crime television programs in which forensic tests are used to solve a case in the course of a single episode. Many criminal justice officials have begun to worry that the public may believe that forensic evidence is easy to obtain, quick to test, and free of potential…

(Thompson, 2009, p. 1). However, critics from the EMS field had a different view on NBC’s new show. President Patrick Moore with an NAEMT drafted a letter to NBC’s chairman, Jeff Gaspin which stated, “I am sure that the intent of your television program is simply to entertain. However, the actual impact of the perception on EMS by the public is quite negative and could even result in individuals not seeking emergency medical services when needed (Thompson, 2009, p. 1). Other critics of the…

People do not realize how gullible they become while they are watching television: from being totally mesmerized on a reality TV show to being awestruck from watching the news. Technology has expanded throughout the years, that it has even gotten to the point where you can watch television on your phone. People are so attached to the media and television that they become so easy to convince that everything they see on TV or on social media believe is real or the truth. In the article, “Pictures…

Reality TV; noun; television programs in which real people are continuously filmed, designed to be entertaining rather than informative. The reality of reality television is that it is not meant to teach us, but rather entertain us. Just because you observe a person on the screen does not tell us that what they do is justified, or in fact reality, by any means. This is where there is a disconnect. For the large portion of the population watching reality TV daily, it is consuming us. With 57% of…

For most generations, television was innocent as a child. Tom and Jerry, The Looney Tunes, and Scooby-Doo were all a Saturday ritual. Although older generations experienced this, technology has grown tremendously since then and so has the ability for not so innocent content to be displayed on reality television. Children of the new generations are subject to The Kardashians and “Jersey Shore” where partying, glamour, and sexual content are all present. Reality television and its producers are…

In the book, Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell, the author is challenging our views of how people become successful. He is saying that to get to where you want to be you can’t rely solely on hard work or determination. It takes much more than that, something that many of us don’t get; opportunities. If you want to be successful, you need a series of opportunities that present themselves to you at the right time, to put you ahead of everyone else. He proves this idea in chapter…

Contemporary TV: This Is Us This Is Us is a new NBC show that premiered on the 20th of September of this year and International Business Times reporter, Caitlyn Hitt, summarizes the beginning of the first episode with, “It centers around five people — one couple, two siblings and a big wig trying to discover his roots [who all happen to be celebrating their 36th birthday]”(Hitt). This Is Us fits into Jason Mittell’s definition of “narrative complexity” through its unique use of operational…

The interviewee, named Jay Shen, is a software engineer with more than 2-year experiences of developing software application in Amazon.com, Inc. In his viewpoint, a successful software engineer should have learning passion, good communication and creativity. First, Jay mentions that the learning ability is obligatory for a successful software engineer because today is an age in which the technology is growing with a high speed. New algorithms, improved methods are introduced every day.…