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Game Shows And The American Dream
Quan 1 Jun Quan
Dr. Joanne Hall
English 1
November 29, 2016
Game Shows and the American Dream
The American Dream, while well known by American–born residents and international students
and/or immigrants alike, has become harder and harder to define as decades pass. In spite of
becoming more ambiguous, the American Dream is still an accessible fantasy to both American
citizens and those who want to become citizens. It is a major reason why international students
choose to pursue education and careers in America, and why families choose to start new lives here.
Nowadays, televised media, specifically reality television and game shows, are some of the most
influential factors in shaping how the American dream is perceived; they shift Americans' ... Show
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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, which cynically depicts the American Dream and highlights
some truths that still apply–for example, the false equation of wealth to happiness and satisfaction,
as well as the illusion of equal opportunity. Analyzing The Great Gatsby is useful in clarifying
essential traits of the American Dream, which we can later use in our evaluation contemporary
articulations of it. The novel is about Jay Gatsby, a man who has risen to wealth and is well–known
for his extravagant parties. Though the novel, published in 1925, took place before modern media
and advertising, it still depicts characters that have fallen for what Diane Kendall, in "Framing
Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption," calls a "socially constructed reality that is
not necessarily an accurate reflection of the United States." The "socially constructed reality" in
which the cast of The Great Gatsby lives–geographically, New York in the 1920's–is characterized
by an obsession with wealth and success despite an immense poverty gap that was steadily
widening. Though often referred to as the "gilded age" in American history, the 20's
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Chris Hardwick, King Of The Nerds
The line between television and the Internet seems to be growing more and more blurred as
networks and producers learn to adapt to using online media to grow and capture new audiences. A
recent article, "Chris Hardwick, King of the Nerds Is Expanding His Empire" by Lorne Manly in the
New York Times features a profile of entertainer Chris Hardwick, who is described as the "model of
an entertainment brand for a multiscreen generation" (Manly, par. 5). As a fan of both Chris
Hardwick and of geek culture, I found this article to be a fascinating profile of how savvy use of
media can allow performers to reach a much wider audience than television alone.
Manly's profile article discusses how Hardwick has transitioned from a television personality to a
celebrity across multiple forms of media, while continuing to expand into new television ventures.
Chris Hardwick went from an obscure MTV game show host and stand–up comedian to a likeable
and trusted face of geek culture. He achieves this appeal by keeping true to his roots and interests
and adapting to new forms of communication to boost his popularity. After several failed attempts at
acting, Hardwick decided to pursue his interest in technology, science fiction, television, comic
books and video games through blogging and podcasting, and found that fans related to his likeable
approach and genuine enthusiasm for all things nerdy.
Hardwick, like his fan base, is very Internet savvy and literate in online culture, and he
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Similarities Between The Hunger Games And The Truman Show
To begin this brief explanation of contrast between these pieces of literature/media I need to begin
with the main connection between the two. The greatest main theme both of these pieces hold is that
of control over people, knowledge, and the media. The main premise of both indicates this for
instance Hunger Games is about how a collective government controls the people through fear and
the media and enforces this by creating a gladiator battle between the districts for all to watch. In the
Truman Show we have the same collective force controlling our main characters world but in the
form of a reality tv show director. In both pieces as the entire situation unfolds it is used as
entertainment for the masses. The large similarities between ... Show more content on
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First we start with Truman while not being the most interesting person overall the situation he's
placed in makes him a perfect character to dissect and discuss. The main trait show is his drive to
become an adventurer to travel past the confines of the world he's trapped inside. I completely agree
with his view on his fake world even though it is much safer and ideally perfect I feel as though the
freedom of choice of what happens around you outweighs any feeling of security such a place could
provide. This is proven by how he reacts after realizing his world is fake after this event his main
goal becomes escaping his fake reality. Last we take a look at Katniss from the Hunger Games her
main traits I find are a little cliche for the genre of book she resides in ,but nonetheless she has traits
to identify. The largest trait portrayed throughout the book is that of tenacity and unrelenting mettle.
This is shown time and time again through the book for example she first shows this tenacity when
its explained how in the past after her mother became catatonic after her father's death she had to
assume the role of caregiver and even through all the adversity she faced she persevered. The drive
of hers is best shown in the games as her will to live and bring home prosperity to her family and
district allows her never fall into the state of despair and continue on no matter how gruesome the
games became. With me
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Persuasive Essay On The Tonight Show
Review: The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
There are a lot of different shows on television today. If you are a fan of late night television like I
am, you have a wide variety of shows to choose from. There is one show that has gone to the front
of the pack in late night entertainment; The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Although The Tonight
Show has been popular for many years, the addition of Jimmy Fallon in February of 2014 has
brought the show to a new level. None of the late night competitors are as well rounded or appeal to
such a broad audience. After a number of years viewing and comparing various shows, there is no
doubt that The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon is the best show in late night television. Jimmy
Fallon began his career as a comedian before becoming a regular cast member on Saturday Night
Live in 1998 (Biography par. 4). After leaving the show in 2004, he appeared in several movies
before entering into the late night lineup in 2009 with his show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (par.
6–7). In February of 2014 he replaced Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show (par. 9). Jimmy
Fallon had big shoes to fill since he was following great entertainers like Johnny Carson and Jay
Leno. The Tonight Show hosts must be entertaining and funny ... Show more content on
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A lot of his experience comes from being on Saturday Night Live. He has been doing stand–up
comedy for many years. He knows how to keep his audience laughing from the moment he enters
the studio until he signs off for the night. His humor is not just funny jokes. It also includes a nightly
monolog that pokes fun at public figures and current events. In addition, he always has a new game
or segment that is unique and funny. He often has unscripted exchanges with his announcer,
Higgins. It's difficult to keep a straight face while watching this show. If laughing is the best
medicine, I prescribe watching this show five days a
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Big Brother And Popular Culture
Big Brother and Popular Culture critical essay Attitudes, beliefs and ethic codes are visible parts of
the national culture. Through an examination of the Big Brother Reality Game show and media
reaction to events within the show one can gain an understanding of the national culture where the
show was broadcast. Television game shows are not new to the air waves the broadcast of truth or
consequences in 1941, the television game show has evolved into today's reality television game
show.
After a successful franchise in Europe and the United States, Big Brother is a reality game show
franchise that was created by John de Mol is launched in Canada. It was first aired in the
Netherlands and then was syndicated internationally. With over 300 ... Show more content on
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Video is available via the live internet feeds that allows viewers to watch cast members 24 hours a
day. Although this has increased the voyeuristic nature of the television show it was necessary
because in the original European format of the show it was the views who vote out houseguest that
were nominated for eviction. This puts pressure on the guest because the live feeds, the interaction
with the guest and the lack of interaction can affect their success on the show. In the North American
format house guest to vote each other out, but fans still have their input. Fan favorites tend to be
what is called underdogs, they are the people viewed as most likely not to win in a competition. In
Big Brother U.S the Underdog who when outnumbered saved himself was Ian Terry, he also went
on to win his season.
Producers try to cast people with large personalities as this creates the most drama and they are
interesting to watch. In Canada, it appears that they are also trying to encompass diversity. The
houseguest varies in education levels, sexual orientation, race and gender. Eric Hoyt points out that
the show does not go for the standardization of culture, but that the set and rules are formatted and
adapted to suit local tastes. An example is Big Brother Argentina did not like the class separation of
the show and found it in bad
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Late Night Show Satire
Just a few years ago, late night shows were a way for celebrities to promote their new movie, TV
series, or music. The host would just conduct light–hearted interviews and harmless, interactive
games. Jimmy Kimmel has had guests read hate tweets; James Corden has sang karaoke while
driving guest stars; Jimmy Fallon has competed in lip sync battles against guests; SNL has invited
guests to temporarily replace Pandora. Now, instead of simple comedy, some hosts are injecting
political commentary in their news updates and monologues. Over the last year, late night television
ratings have shifted. Fiery shows like "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" and "The Late Show with
Stephen Colbert" have seen an influx of viewers; whereas the apolitical "Tonight Show with Jimmy
Fallon" has begun to decline. TV preferences, show content, and social dynamics have transitioned
to be more political, demonstrating that our society is becoming more "tribal," more group oriented.
Last year, pre–Trump, Jimmy Fallon had the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
For one, Donald Trump is not their president" (Lang). Retorts like these have earned Noah and
Colbert nine hundred–forty thousand and 3.31 million viewers, respectively (Welch). The people
that watch this political satire may find that it is enjoyable, even therapeutic, to laugh at the
(ridiculous) news. The desire to watch someone with the same opinions as us has encouraged
comedians to alter their content. Furthermore, they have become more overt in their beliefs because
of the viewers. If viewers did not want to see someone bashing Trump, they would not tune in. But
people choose to watch. They want to see someone make fun of Trump. They want to laugh at the
comedians' sarcastic comments. They want to know how the hosts feel about the current events. This
trend of like–mindedness has not only shifted TV ratings, it has also changed the dynamic of our
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Achievement of the American Dream of an African American...
The Huxtable family in The Cosby Show represents the overarching achievement of the American
dream through an African American family. According to Marvin Riggs's 1992 documentary Color
Adjustment there were two types of images of African Americans in the media. On one hand, the
news showed the social and racial tensions that enveloped the post–civil rights era. On the other
hand, primetime television depicted social harmony among the races–an image that most Americans
understood as inaccurate. In the 1980s, most African Americans lived below the poverty line and
primetime television hesitated to present that challenged ideology of the American Dream to the
viewing public. Henry Louis Gates Jr. argues, in Color Adjustment, that the Black urban sitcoms
demonstrated both the greatest potential for representing Black life in television's history and also
the greatest failure. Residing comfortably in a Brooklyn brownstone, the Huxtables embodied a
nuclear and solid family resolving everyday issues of urban life, showing that African Americans
could move beyond the stereotypical realm of crooks and servants. The world of the Huxtable
family created an aspirational fantasy for minorities groups. The "I'm With The In Crowd" episode
succeeds in creating this sense of hope for African Americans by idealizing the Huxtable family
through the use of costume and set design, while perpetuating certain African American stereotypes
through acting methods and the non–diegetic laughter of
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Ellen Degeneres Accomplishments
Strong. Funny. Inspirational. These are only a few words out of many that describe Ellen
DeGeneres. Ellen's early years were turbulent, but she turned the bad into good with her incredible
work ethic. Even through the tough traumatic incident with her inspiration she still prevailed to
become the person we know and love today. She is extremely successful in the work that she does
making her the finest in her line of work, and her accomplishments show that she is an enormous
inspiration to anyone of any age. Despite her rough early years, Ellen DeGeneres, has overcome the
odds to inspire her fans daily and has become the most entertaining comedian and talk show host of
today.
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Ellen's inspirations helped her in being the first female on the tonight show with Johnny Carson.
Ellen's first TV show was the Open House. She plays the character Margo Van Meter, a real estate
firm secretary in L.A. Ellen finds her place though in another sitcom called, These Friends of Mine.
In this TV show Ellen plays a bookstore employee named Ellen Morgan. Due to the success of the
TV show, Ellen earns four "Outstanding Lead Actress" nominations, a writing Emmy win, and three
Golden Globe nods in its five–year run ("Ellen DeGeneres"). On April 14, 1997, Ellen comes out on
the cover of Time making her the first openly gay TV star. Since the news of Ellen being gay was
released, a record of 42 million people listened to Ellen's "comes out" show. Although with her great
success, religious groups protested the show. ABC cancelled Ellen in 1998. In 2001, after the
cancellation of her show, Ellen made a new show called, The Ellen Show. Although reviewers
praised the show, it did not get a large audience. After the disappointments, DeGeneres's
professional life hit one distinctly positive note, setting the stage for what some have described as
her career's second act. Soon after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, DeGeneres hosted the
prime time Emmy Awards; due to the tragedy the program was twice delayed ("Ellen DeGeneres").
For the next year, Ellen started showing up more and more on TV. She
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Narrative Essay On Basketball Injury
I had always assumed that my legs were strong and that I had decent muscle control, however, this
thought was proven wrong at the beginning of my junior year in high school due to a detrimental
injury. It was the first game of fall league for basketball, and within the first five minutes I had
succumbed to an injury. Tearing my ACL and Meniscus has taught me to continue improving on my
strength, not let this one injury keep me down, and to keep a positive mindset.
Believing that my knee was strong and that it had a great deal of muscle control, I did not think to
continuously strengthen it. I relied on the strength my knee had, which inevitably, turned out to be a
massive mistake. By tearing the ligament that held my knee together, I was not able to walk on my
own for at least two months, I missed out on many events my junior year that kept me busy and
made me happy. Some of the events I missed out on were playing in basketball games, doing color
guard at football games, competing at state for marching band, and competing at show choir
competitions. Tearing my ACL and Meniscus not only taught me to not rely on my morals, but it
also taught me to not let this setback keep me down.
It is easily said that my junior year of high school was my least favorite year due to my injury. While
I watched my friends compete and my teammates play, I was seriously debating about whether or
not to return back to basketball, show choir, and color guard. I thought that I would not be
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Sociological Analysis Of The Regular Show By Jg Quintel
The Regular Show is an American surreal/paranormal comedic cartoon created by JG Quintel. It
follows the lives of seven employees who work at a local Public Park simply known as "Park"
(titled as a proper noun) in an unnamed part of the United States of America. Together, they
maintain and manage the park as a public local attraction. In doing so, seemingly normal days
somehow always end up with a Twilight Zone–esque paranormal twist, with bits of surreal and
situational humor overlaying it to keep it kid–friendly. The show itself is very simple in its premise,
though like any television series, it has undertones of basic sociological concepts and dynamics. The
seven main characters all contrast very differently in their personalities, while all still sharing similar
morals and beliefs, as well as having similar interests and goals. As such, these characters create a
perfect setting for sociological concepts to play out through their interactions and conflicts with
subtlety. Spanning 8 seasons long, and with 20 – 36 episodes per season, each episode is typically
only about 11 minutes long (save the final episode and ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
He is best friends with Rigby, a short, brown 22 year old Raccoon who is equally lazy and into
slacking off and having fun instead. They work with fellow Park groundskeepers Skips, an
immortal, wise, and responsible old Yeti, Muscle man, an overweight, unhygienic, but friendly
green–colored human, and Hi–Five Ghost, Muscle Man's outgoing and sociable best friend. They're
employed by Benson, a short–tempered but hard–working Park manager, who is in turned managed
by Pops, the kind–hearted and old–fashioned son of the Park's owner, Maellard. All of these
characters share similar interests and experiences together. As such, it sets up a premise for very
interesting interactions between the
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A Feminist Perspective : Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto Feminist Perspective
When dealing with a feminist perspective there are many elements that deal with this technique. One
of the topics I will be talking about that deal with this is Grand Theft Auto V published by Rockstar
Games. Grand Theft Auto V displays women in various types of situations in which they are
presented as sex figures and are not respected by male characters in the game. Using this game, I
will use the critique method by analyzing hegemony and its principles. Specifically talking about
gender stereotypes, masculinity, and heteronormativity. The game advertises sexist oppression
through the restricted decisions it gives players, overly sexualizes female characters, how this effects
men who play this and how they treat women. and other content that involves advertising and talk
shows that demonstrate women as sexual objects.
Grand Theft Auto V is an action–adventure video game. It was released on September 2013 for both
PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and then later available in 2014 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The
game is set within the fictional state of San Andreas, which is taken of the concept of Southern
California. The game is also a single–player story which tells a story between three criminals who
commit heists against a government agency. The open world in the game is to let playsers travel
around San Adreas' countryside and the city of Los Santos which is based off Los Angeles. When
playing the game, you are able to control the
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Similarities Between Truman Show And Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle in 2008 and Truman Show directed by Peter Wier in
1998 are two films that feature audiences present within the film as well as viewers watching the
film. Whilst Slumdog Millionaire features the game show audience, the Truman Show is strictly a
reality television show and its intention is to emphasize real–life interactions. Both sets of audiences
are manipulated by the media. Interestingly, at the end of each film all audiences are reminded of the
media control, yet only in the Truman Show do the viewers overcome the media manipulation. In
this essay we will analyze key film elements in these two films which will enable us to understand
the importance of the media in manipulating the audience. A third
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The Appeal of Television Chat Shows Essay
The Appeal of Television Chat Shows
Chat shows are a very popular and successful modern day television program. Why? It is probably
because as humans we are naturally nosey and curious about the lifestyles of others, especially those
of the rich and famous. It is this common characteristic that makes the neighbors peep through the
curtains to see what the Jones' are up to next, the reason that village gossip spreads so quickly and
the cause of the growing number of reality television programs. Whether we admit or not, many
have a fascination with those in the public eye. We want to know about their secret to success, the
skeletons in their closet and if they really are human like the rest of us. ... Show more content on
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Some are run in the more conventional way of just the basic interview for example Parkinson, but
others are shown in a more entertaining approach, for example The Kumars at No. 42 and this is due
to their target audience. The target audience is who the programme is aimed at and huge factor when
considering the target audience is a scheduling time. For example Graham Norton is on weekdays at
10 o'clock and this is a great scheduling time for his audience. It is a good time after the 9 o'clock
watershed as Graham Norton attracts a young adult audience due to his adult humour and the guests
he has on his show whereas Parkinson is on Saturday evening at around 10.30. This programme is
probably aimed more towards older adults, as his style of interviewing is very traditional. Older
adults are more likely to be in at this time and will want to watch something before they go to bed
whereas a younger audience will watch more television on weekdays, as they will have work the
next day.
Parkinson is a very popular chat show and has been running for many years.
As Parkinson has been in show business for many years, he is now a celebrity himself and has made
his fame through interviewing other famous people. We can tell this from the shows
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Butterfly Circus Essay
Recently I watched the short film Butterfly Circus by Joshua Weigel and I was very pleased. Prior to
watching the movie, only having read the title I immediately thought this was going to be a cartoon
for a young child. As I watched the first scene I shortly realized this was not the case. Weigel
introduces a familiar face Nick Vujicic, The Limbless man, a main character in this short film. The
film is about the famous showman going to a small circus sideshow and finding the "magnificent"
limbless man in a time of anguish while being bullied by the audience and other members of the
"freak show". After the limbless man's encounter with the showman he is forced to gain hope
against anything negative he has ever believed.
This movie opens with the setting in the depression era. A fleet of old cars traveling down a dirt road
passing families as they watch the car caravan with sorrowful eyes. Inside the fleet of old cars is the
company of the renowned Butterfly Circus on their way to the next town to lift the spirits of their
audiences. As they pass a sign for a carnival sideshow, the little boy asks the driver if they can go.
The driver answers reluctantly so the little boy ask Mr. Mendez, the famous showman, and he says,
"why not". Among the carousel, the fortune teller, and the games they find the show that everyone
has come to see. There sits a small tent that is known as "the best freak show in town". In this
company of "freaks" there is the Bearded lady, Siamese Twins, Fat
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Designing A Reality Game Show That Goes By The Title Of...
OVERVIEW OF THE BUSINESS
The objective of the business is to produce a reality game show that goes by the title of
QUICKWITT. This game show would include participants from Universities and Colleges. The
show would be based on one minute mind games that would judge the participants level of aptitude.
The participants with the best score would be declared as the winners and would also be awarded
with prices and gift vouches. Secondly, the best participants chosen from each university would
compete in the grand finale of the QUICKWITT. We anticipate positive response from the youth and
plan to cover around 50 colleges and universities from Lahore, Pakistan.
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MARKET ANALYSIS
Prime objective of producing this show successfully is to stay fully aware of the marketing trends
and the regular information about the industry and its history. It is pivotal to understand and analyze
the industrial impact in the particular industry as the show is related to entertainment industry.
Around 20 different game shows were analyzed to determine the fate of ours, as the above–
mentioned game shows were similar in sketch. Two of popular programs were SPRITE FUNDA and
LIVING ON THE EDGE, these shows have successfully targeted the youth but they somewhat
failed to capitalize the market in the growth terms. We believe that our execution would go as
planned and we can successfully fill the vacuum in the industry.
TARGET MARKET:
QUICKWITT will be targeting the youth industry by focusing on colleges and universities in the
initial time periods. The age would fall between 16 and 28 years old. In our initial stage we would
be targeting the youth from Lahore, the data collected by our team suggests that we would have to
shuffle between 28,000 individuals. However, we would be setting up arrangements for 3 to 400
students as audience from the participating institution. The target market of Lahore is flexible and
elastic, as it comprises the majority of youth population of the country.
Description of Venture
The objective is to provide optimum experience of a Television based game show for college and
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A Unified Standard For Classification Of Reality Tv...
Nowadays, reality TV programmes appear on the television screen with varied types and mixed
styles. It is difficult to find out a unified standard for classification of reality TV programmes' types.
In western countries, the most frequently mentioned types of reality TV programme by different
scholars are infotainment, docu–soap, lifestyle, reality gameshows, talent competitions, relationship
reality TV shows, etc. According to these different classifications and from differences of diverse
shows' content and formats, reality TV can be divided into following eight types: Outdoors
"Survivor"–style This type is always one of the major types of reality TV. CBS's Survivor is the
most typical programme. There were 16 participators from different social backgrounds,
occupations. They were taken to a remote isolated location and given the most primitive tools to live
in this environment about one month. The whole precess used elimination system. The final survivor
will win 1 million dollars. The main feature is that participates will be arranged in a harsh
environment and complete hard tasks with the help of limited conditions. After continuous
eliminations, determine the winner. Experience of situation This type's programmes arrange
participators into a sealing environment and recode their state of living and changes of interpersonal
relationships. Participators' daily life, especially individual privacy, will be exposed in front of
audiences. During the process of
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What Is Charles Van Doren's Life
The Quiz Show Questions Krisel Escobilla 1. Charles Van Doren's life completely turned upside
down when he started to appear in the game show "21." Some of the effects were positive, but there
were also some negative sides that comes with it. One of the positive effects of the game show in
Charles' life was the recognition from people that he longed to have. Despite his achievements in the
past, he was only known to be the son of Mark Van Doren––who is very famous during the time,
and not as somebody who achieved something by himself. Joining the show was a great opportunity
for him to prove something, however, the attention and recognition that he receive from the people
sometimes got out of hand to the point that his privacy got afflicted. Some of his "fans" even
harassed him, which he did not see coming at the beginning when he decides to partake in the lies of
the show. Another effect of the show was a luxurious life for Charles. His salary before when he was
an instructor only comes to about eighty–six dollars a week, but when he started appearing on the
show, he got over thousands of dollars as price, which boosted his confidence and ego. Before, he
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The illusion engraved in their minds is that deceiving the public regarding the game show's
mechanics will bring more money to them and also benefit the public by means of entertainment–––
a win–win situation for both parties. They believed that what they are doing is not a matter of life
and death, and that it does not hurt the people in any kind of way so there's nothing to worry about
doing a "little wrong." In reality though, these people only cared about themselves and not the
welfare of their audience, so doing something despicable did not bother them at
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Why Did Charles Van Doren Break The Law?
Free cheese is always available in mouse traps." –unknown (Inspirational). This quote demonstrates
how people can be tempted to do something they know is wrong by offering something they want or
need. Charles Van Doren should have been accountable for his actions because he did wrong and the
only right thing to do was admit to his wrongdoing. Van Doren did not break the law because it was
television and television is for entertainment. Charles Van Doren was manipulated by the producers
with the promise of a large amount of money.
"No legacy is as rich as honesty."– Shakespeare (Honesty). Charles Van Doren wanted to make a
name of his own. He had been living in the shadow of his father Mark Van Doren. Mark Van Doren
was a famous novelist, critic, and poet (Mark). He also taught at Columbia College for nearly four
decades. Charles Van Doren, many other contestants, and the producers at NBC lied. They all lied
about getting the answers prior to the airing of the episode. The producers would rehearse with the
contestants days before the show, going over the questions they would be asked and the answers of
those questions. They even went to the extent of coaching them how to appear as they were
struggling with the question. The contestants were coached to bite their lip and to dab the sweat
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Some good and some bad. The Quiz Show scandals are prime examples of the bad half of television.
"Every man has their price." (Who). This quote turned out to be true when numerous contestants
agreed to have the answers given to them to insure that they would win the game and continue to
another episode. Charles Van Doren and every other contestant involved in the scandals should have
been accountable for their actions. They should have been accountable even though they did not
break any laws. No scandal would have happened if the producers didn't ride the contestants with
promises of large amounts of
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The use of Radio as a Sound Device in Friday Night Lights
"The use of Radio as a Sound Device in Friday Night Lights" One of the most widely noted sound
elements of the football film, Friday Night Lights, amongst fans and critics is its frequent use of the
Texas–based band, Explosions in the Sky. But I believe there is a more interesting sound element
that is just as prominent in the overall soundscape of the film, and that is the use of radio in the film.
Radio takes on the form of two identities in this film: a radio talk show as well as live game
commentary. Because it is eventually revealed to the audience that both the live game commentator
and radio talk show host are the same person, and that both are broadcast as radio content, it is
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I only mention my specific experience because I do not wish to make a broad generalization.
First I would like to identify who the film includes on its radio broadcasts. There are essentially two
types of people featured on the broadcast: the radio talk show host and his co–commentator and his
callers. The first use of radio in the film is that of a radio talk show, hosted by "Slam and Sammy,"
that focuses primarily on the Permian Panthers' football team. Also featured on the show are callers
that are most likely from the local community surrounding the support of the Panthers. It is not
made clear until halfway through the film at the start of a football game that Slam and Sammy are
also the commentators for the football games and that the games are broadcast, most likely on the
same radio station. We are made aware of this fact around fifty minutes into the film when we hear,
"You're back with mojo radio. It is Slam and Sammy." In trying to detect the difference between the
announcers, the voice we hear the most seems to be the main host, while the other voice (it is
slightly unclear who is Slam and who is Sammy) seems to be more of a color commentator that
allows the lead announcer to do most of the talking.
Also, it is worth noting that the radio announcers do not become visually actualized in the film apart
from very brief moments viewing them in the press box at the games. Otherwise the audience
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The University Of Tennessee Ads The Ads Are 30 Seconds
The University of Tennessee ads the ads are 30 seconds long, the first ads start off with students
heading to class and the big city of Tennessee. The ads show a group of girls talking in a dorm room,
student hanging out on the lawn building good friendship with their fellow student. A clip shows a
University of Tennessee game seems their team won a game, everyone is wearing orange and white.
A group of boys heading to the old building seems like it their dorm room. There is a young girl in
the lab, she mostly working on a project. The last clip shows student hanging out after hours in the
city.
The second ads start off with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville "Big Orange UT Big Ideas"
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The university help student reach their goal by discover their talents, leaderships, drive through their
goal, have spirit in themselves, volunteer and have pride. One of the ads illustrations that they have
a good science by having a young female student in lab which she seems excited to do with she
loves.
While attending University of Tennessee students build friendship with their fellow students.
Student become friends with all different type of ethnicity. Which in the ads there are more female
have interactions then the male from the young lady talking in the dorm and young lady talking at
the table. The male has a few interactions with each other but closer to the end there were more
male. Students building friendship to the end even after they graduate. The university also build
relationship with the community.
The university get involved with the community by working with the with the youth. University
believe the youth is the future by getting involved tell the young children that University of
Tennessee is for them. The school can pass the torch to them by doing that can help the university
thrive. Also, students getting involved can provide that they care about their community. The
students show some leadership with the youth in community. They show that no child is left behind,
everyone is welcome to University of Tennessee. Volunteer give pride in their school. The students
can discover what is new around them
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Reality Shows Is A Positive Influence Of Reality Shows
"Let's go the shows almost on" was what my younger cousin said to my brother as they both rushed
in to watch Pequeños Gigantes a reality TV game show about kids. Reality TV over the years has
garnered a rather negative reputation over the years due to shows like the Jersey Shore encouraging
bad behavior. While there are some reality TV shows are a negative influence, most reality TV
shows have a more positive influence on audiences of various ages.
Many reality TV shows often thought as good or bad for viewers; however, there are many shows
that are simply good for sitting down and watching. A good genre that often is good for just
enjoying are game shows. Many Game shows are simply about competing and having fun while
having a chance to win a prize. A well–known game show is Wheel of Fortune. The entire premise
behind Wheel of Fortune is luck and skill. While there is a competitive part to it, it is a bit more
pushed back due to the structure of the game. In Wheel of Fortune the contestant uses letters to fill
in the phrase or word while using the wheel to decide if they get money or lose a turn. All of this is
done in a way that encourage smart choices while not ridiculing failures. This a stark contrast
compared to the few shows that garner the negative reputation that reality TV is occasionally labeled
with. The shows that are often ridiculed are shows like the Jersey Shore or the Bachelor where
unkind behavior is encouraged or, the show focuses on ridiculing a
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Who Is Oprah Winfrey's Formula For Success?
Oprah Winfrey's mass influence in worldwide culture is simply undeniable. Her success is
legendary, and her shows, books and productions are household names across the world. With all of
these accomplishments you would think that she's got a pretty good handle on the formula for
success. She was quoted saying, "Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." On the
surface this may seem like a good equation for success, however after dissecting it, I have found
some problems with its validity so far as life experience has taught me. Luck tends to be a mystical
topic. The very nature of luck is unpredictable. Some people have it in certain situations, and others
don't. So far as I have seen in my life 'luck' is pretty blind in who it chooses. So it would seem to me
that creating a formula such as: "preparation+opportunity=luck", isn't the whole story. When Oprah
mentions luck in this quote, it seems as if she is really attempting to describe a formula for success.
In my opinion she greatly over–simplifies the process of becoming successful. There are many
factors involved in success, not just two, and from my experience luck simply isn't one of them.
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Preparation is key for any endeavor. Without proper preparation, being given opportunities doesn't
really matter. Likewise, without opportunities, preparation is simply just busywork. I can think of
many times where I have had great ideas and a plan, but no matter how hard I tried, no opportunities
presented themselves to me. So I was stuck with a lot of preparation but no opportunity. There have
also been times, where an opportunity came about but I wasn't prepared to handle it, so I missed out
on something that could have otherwise been very beneficial. Preparation and opportunity are very
critical to success, however I think there is one factor that Oprah is
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Does Ignorance Equal Bliss?
Does Ignorance Equal Bliss?
In my opinion, Ignorance isn't Bliss because it does not make people happy .There's nothing good
about living a life where you are ignorant to the things around you. People are living empty lives
and they don't even know the purpose of it. Ignorant people don't know the world around them, they
don't know what makes them happy or sad, they don't know and don't care about it. Ignorance is not
a key to happiness and it can never be blissful, which is shown in The Matrix, F451, The Truman
Show.
At first, In the movie the Matrix, Neo was living a normal life and didn't know that this world is a
program generated by the machines to keep people in control. This virtual world is called The
Matrix. Neo could keep living in the virtual world made by machines, but instead, he chose to find
out the truth. He decided not to be ignorant, he wanted to know what's really happening around him.
Ignorance doesn't mean Bliss to Neo because he decided to take the red pill instead of the blue pill
that Morpheus offered to him, he wanted to accept the truth and get the knowledge of what's
happening around the world.When Morpheus showed him the truth and the reality, at first he
couldn't believe that it's the truth, he thought that it wasn't real. Even tho the truth was very bad, Neo
still decided to accept it over being ignorant. In the Matrix ignorance is not blissful. I completely
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According to the article written by Lisa Earle McLeod, "People need two things to be happy ––
purpose and pleasure." Ignorance doesn't make people happy and ignorant people are lacking
happiness and purpose in their life. Ignorant people can't be happy because "Happiness doesn't come
to you, you have to create it", they can't create the happiness because they are living an empty,
careless and miserable
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Television: A Vast Wasteland Essay
The Cosby Show was the pinnacle of American television. Based on an affluent African–American
family in Brooklyn, New York, The Cosby Show demonstrated how to effectively raise a family.
The sitcom starred Phylicia Rashad as Clair Huxtable, a confident, assertive, and eloquent attorney.
Alongside Rashad was Bill Cosby as Cliff Huxtable, an eccentric and whimsical obstetrician.
Together, Clair and Cliff reared five children in the midst of several complex obstacles. When faced
with Sondra's decision not to go to law school, Denise's decision to discontinue her education,
Theo's satisfaction with mediocre grades, and Vanessa's rebellious behavior, the Huxtables never
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On these shows, participants are thrown in volatile situations and are expected to compete with each
for a monetary prize (Delisle 43). There may be several reality show genres but they tend to follow
the same formula: The shows seek extremes–contestants courting seeming danger, hostile to their
competitors; strangers thrown together in situations sure to exacerbate their antagonisms; celebrities
revealing their weaknesses, and actual families exposing their neuroses and addictions. Outrageous
action has become the norm for what is called 'Reality TV.' (Cummings and Gordon 37) Though
these reality shows are entertaining, they give viewers a false sense of reality. Reality shows portray
competition as the sole way to achieve success. After viewing this mercenary behavior on a daily
basis, viewers will inevitably develop an unhealthy need to succeed in all that they do. Since reality
shows progressively eliminate the losers and glorify the winner(s), viewers will begin to base their
self–worth on winning. In addition to praising winners, reality shows also fail to demonstrate the
importance of working hard without a monetary reward. By failing to acknowledge the importance
of a strong work ethic, reality shows do not encourage viewers to reach their full potential. Reality
shows also cause viewers to become narcissistic. According to a study done by Psychology Today,
habitually watching reality
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Hunger Games meets Reality
Telling a story that is set in the future gives authors the chance to depict present day issues in a
different light. They usually choose to exaggerate them so readers can see how their society might
look in the future, especially if they ignore issues that can grow and become problems. In the case of
The Hunger Games (HG), the author, Suzanne Collins, explores issues like the huge inequality of
wealth and how the power of television can influence our lives. She does this by portraying the HG
as an extreme reality game show where teenagers fight to the death. By highlighting some important
connections between our worlds, the author shows us that we may be headed to a place very similar
to HG universe. These connections are about how tensions are created by the inequality between
rich and poor on television, how an external force like the audience drives ratings higher, and how
producers do not care about the message they are sending, as long as the audience watches the show.
Both reality TV game shows and the HG bring people from different socio–economic backgrounds
together to intensify tensions. In shows such as "The House that roared," the producers "cast for
conflict to force drama" in reality TV game shows. This friction is usually artificially created
because people in the real world might attempt to get along in some way. In shows such as Big
Brother, participants are forced to live together, creating tensions that are not proportional to the real
world. This
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Similarities Between Hunger Games And The Truman Show
Hunger Games and The Truman show are entirely two different stories but represents pretty much
identical themes. Hunger Games is a novel based on dystopian world. While "The Truman Show" is
based on dystopia and utopia both. Hunger Games is a games of life and death in which they take
two tributes a girl and a boy from each district every year. And put them in the terrible game of
between life and death.
Truman Burbank works at an insurance living a peaceful life on Seaheavens Island. Truman is also a
star of a popular live show but he is unaware. He believes he exists in a normal life like others. But,
actually in world where he lives revolves around him. Katniss Everdeen main character from the
Hunger Games is a girl who lives in the seam, District 12 and, illegally hunts in the forest to feed
her family after the death of his father in a mine explosion. She sacrificed her life for her beloved
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Katniss and the other tributes in the arena are aware of it. But, Truman doesn't even have any idea.
Both reality shows are broadcast in the entire nation. The people of Panem are forced to watch
Hunger Games if someone denies to watch it capitol kills them. But in The Truman Show people
loves to watch Truman show. In Hunger Games tributes have no other choice except to kill others
while hiding your emotions and avoiding the deaths in order to escape the game
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Scripture Of Telling The Truth-Classical Game Show
Scripture
To tell the truth– classical game show that made its debut on television in 1956. Three contestants
claim to be a person with an unusual distinction or occupation. One of the three is sworn to tell the
truth, while the other two are imposters. All three are questioned by 4 panelists to discover who is
telling the truth and who is being deceptive.
The show creates a considerable amount of doubt in the minds of the panelists, and some of the
contestants are so convincing they can fool 4 panelists of judges who are supposed to be shrewd and
experience with interacting with people.
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I can imagine that Thomas looked over at Peter and said, "Why should I believe anything that you
have to say about Jesus? The last time his name came up, you were the one who said that you did
not even know who he was. You weren't telling the truth then, so how do I know that you are telling
the truth now?" He could have looked around the room and said something similar to all of the other
disciples. All of them had deserted Jesus. None of them stood by his side at the critical hour. Maybe
Thomas did not believe what they said because he had no confidence in their
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Popular Game Show In The 1930's
In the 1920s, radio was king of the new entertainment world, but by the 1930s television became the
new ruler. The invention of television brought a whole new type of culture into the United States
and beyond. Television had redefined leisure, bringing what once were typically radio shows to new
life. In the late 1940s, news stations such as NBC and CBS sought to turn over their programs to be
part of the largely profitable new medium. As popularity quickly rose, where in six years the number
of television sets in the US jumped from a mere 6,000 to a staggering 12 million by 1951, the
networks attempted to keep up by offering new material. Here enters the ever popular game show.
The first game show in the US was called The $64,000 Question
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The Master Path to Our Destiny in the Hunger Games
In a general apprehension path is defined as the route or course along which something travels or
moves. In the concept of human being it involves to follow our destiny. The concept of path raise
much debate mostly about whether our path is deciding by us or someone else. Many christian argue
that their path is already written before they even born, but in my point of view we are the only
master of our path because of our power to choose and decide.
In my point of view our path is deciding by us because we are able to take our own decision. For
example when I was much younger I decided by myself to get involve in sport activity. It only
happens because I choose and because I wanted to that let think that obviously I chose my path and
the route that I want to follow. In the "Hunger games" Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her
younger sister place in the Hunger Game. The fact that the game's organizer let her volunteer mean
to me she chooses her path which was participated in the hunger game. Everything that follow was
just the result of her choice. In that same way the power I have to choose to play sport would have
consequence such meet new people, travel to new, and do thing which will follow with
consequences.
Some religious and societal beliefs push us through the idea that our path is not in our hand. They
state that we are always influenced by external cause, and the limitation of our life choice. For
example in the Truman Show Truman has a path already
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How Is Truman Trying To Get His Identity
"The best place on earth Seahaven voted planets top town." This newspaper headline helps to
control Truman because they are saying he needs to stay in Seahaven because its the best place.
"Who needs Europe!" They don't want Truman to leave and go to Europe so they put that there to
control him from leaving or wanting to leave. "Crackdown on homeless Seahaven Islands City
Fathers say "Enough is Enough!" They do this to control Truman because he said his father looked
like a homeless man and they are trying to justify Truman seeing them drag his father onto the bus
to get rid of him. 2. When you are young you are trying to find your identity by trying new things
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They had lots of different camera angles and one was from a trash can so that the audience could see
him in the morning, another was from his ring so they could see him at all times, another one was
from the back seat of his car so they could watch him while he drives, another was on an
advertisement board so they could watch him on his way to work, another was on posts outside his
house so they could see him anytime he was home, another was on a bookshelf so they could see
what he did and who he talked to, there are a lot more but those are just some of them. Some camera
angles with Christof are when Truman is bigger than him for once and this is to show more emotion,
we also see Christof looking over the whole dome from the moon and this shows that he can always
see everything, also we see him when he is leaving the room and walking through the metal detector
and the guards are wearing Truman shirts that say "Love him, protect him" this could mean either
love Christof or Truman and protect either Christof or Truman. They chose the angles for Truman
because the whole world was watching him, they at least needed to have some good angles of his
every action. They chose the angles for Christof so that we could see how they operated everyday
and how they fixed any
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Different Types Of Economics Within The Game Show Industry
The business that I have chosen for this project is TV Game Shows. Over the next few pages, I will
show different types of economics within the game show industry.
Cash prizes are paid by the show, and the money comes from the producers, who are paid by the
advertisers/network. There can be a couple of "safeguards" that make this a little easier for the
shows:
– They can have an insurance policy to protect them from huge losses. For example, the insurance
company says, we 've studied the odds of your game, and we 'll sell you a policy for $200,000 up
front, that pays out full prize money any time someone wins $100,000 or more during this season of
the show. Obviously this is all about a smart insurance company who has studied the gameplay and
sorted out the odds of how many players will win big, but the point is that the show doesn 't have to
worry about it. They can let the insurance company work it out, and the show then has a nice fixed–
cost expense they can reliably drop into their production budget and not think about it.
– For really big prizes ($1,000,000), shows may pay similar to a lottery, where the money is in a
fund that pays over x amount of years, or the winner can take a reduced lump sum immediately. For
example, if you were to win $1 million on a show, they might tell you (after the show is done
taping) "okay! We can give you $50,000 a year for the next 20 years, or we can pay you $450,000
lump–sum right now and that 's all you get."
And of course,
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The As An Organisation And The Bfi Top 100 Tv Programmes...
1a) The BFI as an organisation and the BFI Top 100 TV Programmes. What are the BFI's core
values and mission? How are these reflected in the TV 100 canon? What might this suggest about
the ways in which television is valued more widely?
The BFI top 100 television programme have four core values which are inspirational, responsive,
approachable and provocative. The list also values other stuff these are the main four points they
value the production value, the acting talent, and it is critically acclaimed. In the annual report from
2011 it states each one of the values and what it means of that value for inspirational it says,
"We aim to inspire and motivate people, to have a direct effect on stimulating them to take action,
whether they are audience members or filmmakers, to seek out and understand more of film culture,
to be inspired to contribute to our film culture both through dialogue and the production of a wide
variety of new work."
The value of inspirational is that the show should inspire the audiences of the world of film and the
film jobs. This is shown in on the show on the BFi which is Doctor Who (BBC, 1963–present). For
the value responsive it states about it;
"We aim to be quick to react to and understand the changing nature of film culture and the changing
needs of our audiences and filmmakers, embracing these changes in new ways of working in a fast
changing media world, ensuring that we stay at the international leading edge of thinking about film
culture,
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Talk Shows
TALK SHOWS The television talk show is, on the face of it, a rather strange institution. We pay
people to talk for us. Like the soap opera, the talk show is an invention of twentieth century
broadcasting. It takes a very old form of communication, conversation, and transforms it into a low
cost but highly popular form of information and entertainment through the institutions, practices and
technologies of television.
The talk show did not originate over night, at one time, or in one place. It developed out of forty
years of television practice and antecedent talk traditions from radio, Chatauqua, vaudeville and
popular theater. In defining the talk show it is useful to distinguish between "television talk"
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Successful talk show hosts like Mike Wallace, Johnny Carson, and Barbara Walters bridge
generations of viewers. The longevity of these "super stars" increases their impact on the forms and
formats of television talk with which they are associated.
Television talk shows originally emerged out of two central traditions: news and entertainment.
Over time hybrid forms developed that mixed news, public affairs, and entertainment. These hybrid
forms occupy a middle ground position between news and entertainment, though their hosts (Phil
Donahue, Oprah Winfrey, and Geraldo Rivera, for example) often got their training in journalism.
Approximately a third of the major talk show hosts listed at the end of the essay came out of news.
The other two thirds came from entertainment (comedy in particular).
Within the journalistic tradition, the names Edward R. Murrow, Mike Wallace, Ted Koppel and Bill
Moyers stand out. News talk hosts like Murrow, Koppel, and Moyers do not have bands, sidekicks,
or a studio audience. Their roles as talk show hosts are extensions of their roles as reporters and
news commentators. Their shows appear in evening when more adult and older aged viewers are
watching. The morning host teams that mix "happy talk" and information also generally come from
the news background. This format was pioneered by NBC's Sylvester "Pat" Weaver and host Dave
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Why Do Tv Shows Movies And Video Games Show Too Much Violence
The reason as to why I am writing this composition is to inform you and notify you about TV
shows, movies and video games and justify to you this question," is it (TV shows, movies and video
games) promoting and showing too much violence". Firstly, to make everything I will say logical
and understandable, I will break it down into segments and divisions. Inshallah, what I hope to
achieve from this composition is for you to understand just what you and your family are receiving
from these three categories of entertainment. I shall begin with the TV shows and the movies (since
the movies points are really similar to the TV shows, I will combine the two) by talking a little bit
about them and then moving on to answering the part of the question that goes with them.
It is a shocking reality that everyone you see today knows what a TV is, whether they come from the
most destitute society there is or from the most prosperous of them. They all know what a TV is.
The term TV is the short form used for the word television, and it is an electronics device that
receives a visual and audible signal and plays it to the viewer, and a show is a spectacle or display of
something, typically an impressive one. As for the movie, well it is scarcely different for it is a story
or an event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a theatre or on television;
a motion picture. Now back to the question mentioned near the beginning. For clarification, this
question does not have
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Thinking Outside The Box Analysis
In the last 20 years technology took an important role in our lives and more in the lives of our kids,
even in on grownups. Video are an important tool in our lives that if we use it in a right way could
help us to improve our intelligence. Base on the articles of "Watching TV Makes You Smarter" by
Steven Johnson and "Thinking Outside the Box" by Dana Stevens. I will present my point of view.
In the article by Johnson "Watching TV Makes You Smarter", he describes how much tv improved
from the '70s. In today's tv we need to be able to pay attention to multiple details on the show, since
the narrative is more complicated and realistic to our everyday life. Johnson writes "They have
gained in realism. The real world doesn't come in nicely packaged...and we are better off with
entertainment like the Sopranos that reflects our fallen state with all its ethical ambiguity". Life is
complicated and ambiguous and from that point of view we can get smarter or learn that there is a
different behavior in our world. For example, we can see human being are not only sweet and
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My middle son is autistic and in his early years I wasn't with the idea of video games, but later on
when he was older I saw how he cope with them and how he grew. One of the games he likes to
play is Civilization, this games teach him how civilizations evolved, history, science, wars, allies
and building societies . Video games not only teach him knowledge even help him with
socialization, since autistic kids are no good with it. There are some games that you can play with
other people on the other side making easier to interact. There are all kinds of games that you can
learn or help you to cope with your life. Video games are another way to grow or educate, but of
course, like everything we should use it to
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The Ethicality Of Game Shows
Despite the controversy created by the game show Twenty–One for being rigged, I believe it is not a
matter of ethics but rather a matter of "what you don't know wont hurt you." It is not unreasonable
for networks to want to produce a show that is exciting for its audience. In a world where ratings
mean everything, you have to have a show worth watching, something that keeps people interested.
I understand lying is wrong and it was definitely unfair to the losers of the show but I really don't
understand why it was such a big deal. Of course this is because I live in a different time. My
generation of TV is filled with lies, but lies sell! One really good example of this is shows like Long
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However I believe the line must be drawn somewhere. Game shows are all fun and games, but when
it comes to sports, that's a different story. I believe more so now than in other eras, that sports has a
far more massive following than game shows or really any other broadcasts. Sports teams can often
define a person and bring people together, kind of like collective intelligence does for gamers.
Sports have been around before TV so it would be unlikely that cheating would enhance audiences
viewing experience because it is something people have always enjoyed and is exciting all on its
own. Of course there has been controversies with players talking performance enhancing drugs
which I believe is a form of cheating but it is different in that, it is not the network, network
executives, or even the team that is looked down on, but the player himself. The connection people
have with their teams of choice could arguably be the strongest connection to media for many fans
alike. Sports are often the most viewed broadcasts of all time and not just in America but in other
countries as well. Not to say that it isn't possible for sports to be faked but, to find out they are,
would be an outrage that would surpass the Game Show controversy in the 1950's by miles. In
conclusion, everything on televisions should be taken with a grain of salt, not everything you see is
real and should never be assumed to be true. The media will do whatever it takes to keep people
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Review Of ' The Classic Game Show ' A Bit Of Bully '
Blog 1 – Microgaming brings players 'a bit of bully' Back in the 1990s British TV was dominated
not by reality shows and talent show competitions, but by family friendly game shows instead. The
classic game show may not be as prominent as it once was, but they still deliver fond memories of
how TV used to be. When you think about classic game shows that offered wall–to–wall fun,
Bullseye immediately springs to mind. The darts based show may not have had all the credentials of
a smash hit upon initial release, but as time passed it would become a national treasure. Given that
nostalgia is a theme of choice in 2015, an online slots version of Bullseye was bound to arrive
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When a game show is as fun as Bullseye, you can be sure that the online slots version is going to be
just as entertaining. Available on both desktop and mobile devices, by the looks of things
Microgaming is onto to a real winner with this title. Making it instantly recognisable in the eyes of
players, this is an adaptation that certainly doesn't short change players when it comes to original
imagery. Replicating the contestant experience almost exactly, when you play Bullseye you will
really feel like you are participating in the show. 180! The framework of Bullseye will be
immediately recognisable to those who have played Microgaming titles before. You are almost
assured of action through the thrilling 3–row, 5–reel, 243 ways to win setup, with reels feature
plenty of recognisable Bullseye imagery. Speedboats, cars, and caravans can all be seen on the reels
as they spin, but it is the famous darts symbol that players need to keep a special eye out for. Acting
as the wild symbol for Bullseye, when found on reels one and five it triggers a bonus round that
brings Bully into play. The famous animated bull is the show's prized mascot and he hosts the slot
variation's bonus round. Offering up major prizes including a massive 15x multiplier, players can
step up to the oche and throw darts all in the name of securing a big win. In keeping with the theme,
should you locate three of more scatter symbols, you will be handed a whole selection of
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Informative Essay: The Most Popular Video Game Shows In...
Today's game shows have come a long way in the past centuries. They have become more and more
popular and entertaining. Some like, "The Price is Right" when it first started in 1956 and has been
on since 1972 after being revamped. The show is watched by millions every day and you spin a
giant wheel at the end to get into the showcase showdown where you have a chance to win a boat,
car, or vacation. After watching the movie Idiocracy, I was deeply reminded of how dumb down
game shows have become. As Luke Wilson played by Joe Bauers, came crashing into Fritos home,
played by Dax Shepard. Frito is watching a Game show called, "Ow! My Balls!" staring Hormel
Chavez. The show has everything you need to feel entertained in 2505. The star of the show ... Show
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Like, "Hole in the Wall" shown in 2008 by the FOX network. Originally a Japanese TV show where
you have to fit the shape of the wall coming towards you. If you do not fit through the wall and
complete the challenge, you are pushed into the water and lose. Another popular TV program in
America is a show called "Wipeout". This show plays a small roll in inflicting pain onto the
contestants while the commentators say humorous things and mock or insult the contestants as they
get smacked in the face or bent upside–down and backward into the water. As funny as the show is,
the player with the fastest time in the course is declared the "champion" and wins $50,000 dollars.
Fear Factor is another attempt to humiliate people into doing things they normally would never do,
all contestants are pit against each other for prize money of about $50,000 dollars. The catch is
doing stuff you would never do in real life because of the "fear" side of things. Eating bugs to
bobbing for hidden rings in cows blood. The show will make you cringe in disgust. So, do I think
the movie Idiocracy is becoming an American Documentary? Well, when other peoples pain is
involved and humiliation to entertain me as I am taking a crap on my new TV Toilet. Then yes, I
would say we have become an idiocy civilization. I do not see our civilization ever stopping to laugh
at other peoples misfortunes. As long as there is a cash prize and the ratings are through the roof,
television companies will continue to prove that we are living in a current state of
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How Does Writing Change Over Time
Writing has changed a lot over the years. The hot topics fade and new ones replace them. From early
America to 1870 there was not many changes in the topics because there was not as many people as
there are now. There was only three considerable changes to writing styles and topics. The writing
styles and topics over the years have changed from myths, to God, and finally to individualism.
Writing started off as myths. There are four functions of a myth. The myth must include all of
creation, day to day function of the world, support customs/rituals, and how to deal with trials and
tribulations. An example of a myth is The World On The Turtle's Back. That myth was written by
the Iroquois and was about how the world was created. Their myths were generally communicated
orally. The myth talked about a heaven where the gods lived. One became curious and fell into the
underworld. The woman ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
This was in play when the Puritans came over and settled in America. They tried to be godly and
always do the correct thing. An example of this type of writing is The Crucible. The Crucible is a
play written about a true event. These godly people did not like witches. They thought that witches
were possessed by the devil so they killed them. They thought they were doing the right thing, but
some people took advantage of it. Those girls were ungodly, but everyone thought they were godly.
The Puritans thought that children were innocent (they never lied). That is not the case and these
ungodly children took advantage and twisted these people's minds. Some people were godly and did
the right thing but most people were not, even though that is what they thought they were doing.
Those people thought that they were ridding Salem of the devil and allowing God back in but what
they were really doing was pushing God out and opening the door for the devil. When the Puritans
arrived in America, they changed the style and topic of writing to
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  • 1. Game Shows And The American Dream Quan 1 Jun Quan Dr. Joanne Hall English 1 November 29, 2016 Game Shows and the American Dream The American Dream, while well known by American–born residents and international students and/or immigrants alike, has become harder and harder to define as decades pass. In spite of becoming more ambiguous, the American Dream is still an accessible fantasy to both American citizens and those who want to become citizens. It is a major reason why international students choose to pursue education and careers in America, and why families choose to start new lives here. Nowadays, televised media, specifically reality television and game shows, are some of the most influential factors in shaping how the American dream is perceived; they shift Americans' ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, which cynically depicts the American Dream and highlights some truths that still apply–for example, the false equation of wealth to happiness and satisfaction, as well as the illusion of equal opportunity. Analyzing The Great Gatsby is useful in clarifying essential traits of the American Dream, which we can later use in our evaluation contemporary articulations of it. The novel is about Jay Gatsby, a man who has risen to wealth and is well–known for his extravagant parties. Though the novel, published in 1925, took place before modern media and advertising, it still depicts characters that have fallen for what Diane Kendall, in "Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption," calls a "socially constructed reality that is not necessarily an accurate reflection of the United States." The "socially constructed reality" in which the cast of The Great Gatsby lives–geographically, New York in the 1920's–is characterized by an obsession with wealth and success despite an immense poverty gap that was steadily widening. Though often referred to as the "gilded age" in American history, the 20's ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 3. Chris Hardwick, King Of The Nerds The line between television and the Internet seems to be growing more and more blurred as networks and producers learn to adapt to using online media to grow and capture new audiences. A recent article, "Chris Hardwick, King of the Nerds Is Expanding His Empire" by Lorne Manly in the New York Times features a profile of entertainer Chris Hardwick, who is described as the "model of an entertainment brand for a multiscreen generation" (Manly, par. 5). As a fan of both Chris Hardwick and of geek culture, I found this article to be a fascinating profile of how savvy use of media can allow performers to reach a much wider audience than television alone. Manly's profile article discusses how Hardwick has transitioned from a television personality to a celebrity across multiple forms of media, while continuing to expand into new television ventures. Chris Hardwick went from an obscure MTV game show host and stand–up comedian to a likeable and trusted face of geek culture. He achieves this appeal by keeping true to his roots and interests and adapting to new forms of communication to boost his popularity. After several failed attempts at acting, Hardwick decided to pursue his interest in technology, science fiction, television, comic books and video games through blogging and podcasting, and found that fans related to his likeable approach and genuine enthusiasm for all things nerdy. Hardwick, like his fan base, is very Internet savvy and literate in online culture, and he ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 5. Similarities Between The Hunger Games And The Truman Show To begin this brief explanation of contrast between these pieces of literature/media I need to begin with the main connection between the two. The greatest main theme both of these pieces hold is that of control over people, knowledge, and the media. The main premise of both indicates this for instance Hunger Games is about how a collective government controls the people through fear and the media and enforces this by creating a gladiator battle between the districts for all to watch. In the Truman Show we have the same collective force controlling our main characters world but in the form of a reality tv show director. In both pieces as the entire situation unfolds it is used as entertainment for the masses. The large similarities between ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... First we start with Truman while not being the most interesting person overall the situation he's placed in makes him a perfect character to dissect and discuss. The main trait show is his drive to become an adventurer to travel past the confines of the world he's trapped inside. I completely agree with his view on his fake world even though it is much safer and ideally perfect I feel as though the freedom of choice of what happens around you outweighs any feeling of security such a place could provide. This is proven by how he reacts after realizing his world is fake after this event his main goal becomes escaping his fake reality. Last we take a look at Katniss from the Hunger Games her main traits I find are a little cliche for the genre of book she resides in ,but nonetheless she has traits to identify. The largest trait portrayed throughout the book is that of tenacity and unrelenting mettle. This is shown time and time again through the book for example she first shows this tenacity when its explained how in the past after her mother became catatonic after her father's death she had to assume the role of caregiver and even through all the adversity she faced she persevered. The drive of hers is best shown in the games as her will to live and bring home prosperity to her family and district allows her never fall into the state of despair and continue on no matter how gruesome the games became. With me ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 7. Persuasive Essay On The Tonight Show Review: The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon There are a lot of different shows on television today. If you are a fan of late night television like I am, you have a wide variety of shows to choose from. There is one show that has gone to the front of the pack in late night entertainment; The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Although The Tonight Show has been popular for many years, the addition of Jimmy Fallon in February of 2014 has brought the show to a new level. None of the late night competitors are as well rounded or appeal to such a broad audience. After a number of years viewing and comparing various shows, there is no doubt that The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon is the best show in late night television. Jimmy Fallon began his career as a comedian before becoming a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live in 1998 (Biography par. 4). After leaving the show in 2004, he appeared in several movies before entering into the late night lineup in 2009 with his show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (par. 6–7). In February of 2014 he replaced Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show (par. 9). Jimmy Fallon had big shoes to fill since he was following great entertainers like Johnny Carson and Jay Leno. The Tonight Show hosts must be entertaining and funny ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... A lot of his experience comes from being on Saturday Night Live. He has been doing stand–up comedy for many years. He knows how to keep his audience laughing from the moment he enters the studio until he signs off for the night. His humor is not just funny jokes. It also includes a nightly monolog that pokes fun at public figures and current events. In addition, he always has a new game or segment that is unique and funny. He often has unscripted exchanges with his announcer, Higgins. It's difficult to keep a straight face while watching this show. If laughing is the best medicine, I prescribe watching this show five days a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 9. Big Brother And Popular Culture Big Brother and Popular Culture critical essay Attitudes, beliefs and ethic codes are visible parts of the national culture. Through an examination of the Big Brother Reality Game show and media reaction to events within the show one can gain an understanding of the national culture where the show was broadcast. Television game shows are not new to the air waves the broadcast of truth or consequences in 1941, the television game show has evolved into today's reality television game show. After a successful franchise in Europe and the United States, Big Brother is a reality game show franchise that was created by John de Mol is launched in Canada. It was first aired in the Netherlands and then was syndicated internationally. With over 300 ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Video is available via the live internet feeds that allows viewers to watch cast members 24 hours a day. Although this has increased the voyeuristic nature of the television show it was necessary because in the original European format of the show it was the views who vote out houseguest that were nominated for eviction. This puts pressure on the guest because the live feeds, the interaction with the guest and the lack of interaction can affect their success on the show. In the North American format house guest to vote each other out, but fans still have their input. Fan favorites tend to be what is called underdogs, they are the people viewed as most likely not to win in a competition. In Big Brother U.S the Underdog who when outnumbered saved himself was Ian Terry, he also went on to win his season. Producers try to cast people with large personalities as this creates the most drama and they are interesting to watch. In Canada, it appears that they are also trying to encompass diversity. The houseguest varies in education levels, sexual orientation, race and gender. Eric Hoyt points out that the show does not go for the standardization of culture, but that the set and rules are formatted and adapted to suit local tastes. An example is Big Brother Argentina did not like the class separation of the show and found it in bad ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 11. Late Night Show Satire Just a few years ago, late night shows were a way for celebrities to promote their new movie, TV series, or music. The host would just conduct light–hearted interviews and harmless, interactive games. Jimmy Kimmel has had guests read hate tweets; James Corden has sang karaoke while driving guest stars; Jimmy Fallon has competed in lip sync battles against guests; SNL has invited guests to temporarily replace Pandora. Now, instead of simple comedy, some hosts are injecting political commentary in their news updates and monologues. Over the last year, late night television ratings have shifted. Fiery shows like "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" and "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" have seen an influx of viewers; whereas the apolitical "Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" has begun to decline. TV preferences, show content, and social dynamics have transitioned to be more political, demonstrating that our society is becoming more "tribal," more group oriented. Last year, pre–Trump, Jimmy Fallon had the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... For one, Donald Trump is not their president" (Lang). Retorts like these have earned Noah and Colbert nine hundred–forty thousand and 3.31 million viewers, respectively (Welch). The people that watch this political satire may find that it is enjoyable, even therapeutic, to laugh at the (ridiculous) news. The desire to watch someone with the same opinions as us has encouraged comedians to alter their content. Furthermore, they have become more overt in their beliefs because of the viewers. If viewers did not want to see someone bashing Trump, they would not tune in. But people choose to watch. They want to see someone make fun of Trump. They want to laugh at the comedians' sarcastic comments. They want to know how the hosts feel about the current events. This trend of like–mindedness has not only shifted TV ratings, it has also changed the dynamic of our ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 13. Achievement of the American Dream of an African American... The Huxtable family in The Cosby Show represents the overarching achievement of the American dream through an African American family. According to Marvin Riggs's 1992 documentary Color Adjustment there were two types of images of African Americans in the media. On one hand, the news showed the social and racial tensions that enveloped the post–civil rights era. On the other hand, primetime television depicted social harmony among the races–an image that most Americans understood as inaccurate. In the 1980s, most African Americans lived below the poverty line and primetime television hesitated to present that challenged ideology of the American Dream to the viewing public. Henry Louis Gates Jr. argues, in Color Adjustment, that the Black urban sitcoms demonstrated both the greatest potential for representing Black life in television's history and also the greatest failure. Residing comfortably in a Brooklyn brownstone, the Huxtables embodied a nuclear and solid family resolving everyday issues of urban life, showing that African Americans could move beyond the stereotypical realm of crooks and servants. The world of the Huxtable family created an aspirational fantasy for minorities groups. The "I'm With The In Crowd" episode succeeds in creating this sense of hope for African Americans by idealizing the Huxtable family through the use of costume and set design, while perpetuating certain African American stereotypes through acting methods and the non–diegetic laughter of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 15. Ellen Degeneres Accomplishments Strong. Funny. Inspirational. These are only a few words out of many that describe Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen's early years were turbulent, but she turned the bad into good with her incredible work ethic. Even through the tough traumatic incident with her inspiration she still prevailed to become the person we know and love today. She is extremely successful in the work that she does making her the finest in her line of work, and her accomplishments show that she is an enormous inspiration to anyone of any age. Despite her rough early years, Ellen DeGeneres, has overcome the odds to inspire her fans daily and has become the most entertaining comedian and talk show host of today. Although her life was filled with hardship, Ellen DeGeneres was a ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Ellen's inspirations helped her in being the first female on the tonight show with Johnny Carson. Ellen's first TV show was the Open House. She plays the character Margo Van Meter, a real estate firm secretary in L.A. Ellen finds her place though in another sitcom called, These Friends of Mine. In this TV show Ellen plays a bookstore employee named Ellen Morgan. Due to the success of the TV show, Ellen earns four "Outstanding Lead Actress" nominations, a writing Emmy win, and three Golden Globe nods in its five–year run ("Ellen DeGeneres"). On April 14, 1997, Ellen comes out on the cover of Time making her the first openly gay TV star. Since the news of Ellen being gay was released, a record of 42 million people listened to Ellen's "comes out" show. Although with her great success, religious groups protested the show. ABC cancelled Ellen in 1998. In 2001, after the cancellation of her show, Ellen made a new show called, The Ellen Show. Although reviewers praised the show, it did not get a large audience. After the disappointments, DeGeneres's professional life hit one distinctly positive note, setting the stage for what some have described as her career's second act. Soon after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, DeGeneres hosted the prime time Emmy Awards; due to the tragedy the program was twice delayed ("Ellen DeGeneres"). For the next year, Ellen started showing up more and more on TV. She ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 17. Narrative Essay On Basketball Injury I had always assumed that my legs were strong and that I had decent muscle control, however, this thought was proven wrong at the beginning of my junior year in high school due to a detrimental injury. It was the first game of fall league for basketball, and within the first five minutes I had succumbed to an injury. Tearing my ACL and Meniscus has taught me to continue improving on my strength, not let this one injury keep me down, and to keep a positive mindset. Believing that my knee was strong and that it had a great deal of muscle control, I did not think to continuously strengthen it. I relied on the strength my knee had, which inevitably, turned out to be a massive mistake. By tearing the ligament that held my knee together, I was not able to walk on my own for at least two months, I missed out on many events my junior year that kept me busy and made me happy. Some of the events I missed out on were playing in basketball games, doing color guard at football games, competing at state for marching band, and competing at show choir competitions. Tearing my ACL and Meniscus not only taught me to not rely on my morals, but it also taught me to not let this setback keep me down. It is easily said that my junior year of high school was my least favorite year due to my injury. While I watched my friends compete and my teammates play, I was seriously debating about whether or not to return back to basketball, show choir, and color guard. I thought that I would not be ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 19. Sociological Analysis Of The Regular Show By Jg Quintel The Regular Show is an American surreal/paranormal comedic cartoon created by JG Quintel. It follows the lives of seven employees who work at a local Public Park simply known as "Park" (titled as a proper noun) in an unnamed part of the United States of America. Together, they maintain and manage the park as a public local attraction. In doing so, seemingly normal days somehow always end up with a Twilight Zone–esque paranormal twist, with bits of surreal and situational humor overlaying it to keep it kid–friendly. The show itself is very simple in its premise, though like any television series, it has undertones of basic sociological concepts and dynamics. The seven main characters all contrast very differently in their personalities, while all still sharing similar morals and beliefs, as well as having similar interests and goals. As such, these characters create a perfect setting for sociological concepts to play out through their interactions and conflicts with subtlety. Spanning 8 seasons long, and with 20 – 36 episodes per season, each episode is typically only about 11 minutes long (save the final episode and ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... He is best friends with Rigby, a short, brown 22 year old Raccoon who is equally lazy and into slacking off and having fun instead. They work with fellow Park groundskeepers Skips, an immortal, wise, and responsible old Yeti, Muscle man, an overweight, unhygienic, but friendly green–colored human, and Hi–Five Ghost, Muscle Man's outgoing and sociable best friend. They're employed by Benson, a short–tempered but hard–working Park manager, who is in turned managed by Pops, the kind–hearted and old–fashioned son of the Park's owner, Maellard. All of these characters share similar interests and experiences together. As such, it sets up a premise for very interesting interactions between the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 21. A Feminist Perspective : Grand Theft Auto V Grand Theft Auto Feminist Perspective When dealing with a feminist perspective there are many elements that deal with this technique. One of the topics I will be talking about that deal with this is Grand Theft Auto V published by Rockstar Games. Grand Theft Auto V displays women in various types of situations in which they are presented as sex figures and are not respected by male characters in the game. Using this game, I will use the critique method by analyzing hegemony and its principles. Specifically talking about gender stereotypes, masculinity, and heteronormativity. The game advertises sexist oppression through the restricted decisions it gives players, overly sexualizes female characters, how this effects men who play this and how they treat women. and other content that involves advertising and talk shows that demonstrate women as sexual objects. Grand Theft Auto V is an action–adventure video game. It was released on September 2013 for both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and then later available in 2014 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game is set within the fictional state of San Andreas, which is taken of the concept of Southern California. The game is also a single–player story which tells a story between three criminals who commit heists against a government agency. The open world in the game is to let playsers travel around San Adreas' countryside and the city of Los Santos which is based off Los Angeles. When playing the game, you are able to control the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 23. Similarities Between Truman Show And Slumdog Millionaire Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle in 2008 and Truman Show directed by Peter Wier in 1998 are two films that feature audiences present within the film as well as viewers watching the film. Whilst Slumdog Millionaire features the game show audience, the Truman Show is strictly a reality television show and its intention is to emphasize real–life interactions. Both sets of audiences are manipulated by the media. Interestingly, at the end of each film all audiences are reminded of the media control, yet only in the Truman Show do the viewers overcome the media manipulation. In this essay we will analyze key film elements in these two films which will enable us to understand the importance of the media in manipulating the audience. A third ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 25. The Appeal of Television Chat Shows Essay The Appeal of Television Chat Shows Chat shows are a very popular and successful modern day television program. Why? It is probably because as humans we are naturally nosey and curious about the lifestyles of others, especially those of the rich and famous. It is this common characteristic that makes the neighbors peep through the curtains to see what the Jones' are up to next, the reason that village gossip spreads so quickly and the cause of the growing number of reality television programs. Whether we admit or not, many have a fascination with those in the public eye. We want to know about their secret to success, the skeletons in their closet and if they really are human like the rest of us. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Some are run in the more conventional way of just the basic interview for example Parkinson, but others are shown in a more entertaining approach, for example The Kumars at No. 42 and this is due to their target audience. The target audience is who the programme is aimed at and huge factor when considering the target audience is a scheduling time. For example Graham Norton is on weekdays at 10 o'clock and this is a great scheduling time for his audience. It is a good time after the 9 o'clock watershed as Graham Norton attracts a young adult audience due to his adult humour and the guests he has on his show whereas Parkinson is on Saturday evening at around 10.30. This programme is probably aimed more towards older adults, as his style of interviewing is very traditional. Older adults are more likely to be in at this time and will want to watch something before they go to bed whereas a younger audience will watch more television on weekdays, as they will have work the next day. Parkinson is a very popular chat show and has been running for many years. As Parkinson has been in show business for many years, he is now a celebrity himself and has made his fame through interviewing other famous people. We can tell this from the shows ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 27. Butterfly Circus Essay Recently I watched the short film Butterfly Circus by Joshua Weigel and I was very pleased. Prior to watching the movie, only having read the title I immediately thought this was going to be a cartoon for a young child. As I watched the first scene I shortly realized this was not the case. Weigel introduces a familiar face Nick Vujicic, The Limbless man, a main character in this short film. The film is about the famous showman going to a small circus sideshow and finding the "magnificent" limbless man in a time of anguish while being bullied by the audience and other members of the "freak show". After the limbless man's encounter with the showman he is forced to gain hope against anything negative he has ever believed. This movie opens with the setting in the depression era. A fleet of old cars traveling down a dirt road passing families as they watch the car caravan with sorrowful eyes. Inside the fleet of old cars is the company of the renowned Butterfly Circus on their way to the next town to lift the spirits of their audiences. As they pass a sign for a carnival sideshow, the little boy asks the driver if they can go. The driver answers reluctantly so the little boy ask Mr. Mendez, the famous showman, and he says, "why not". Among the carousel, the fortune teller, and the games they find the show that everyone has come to see. There sits a small tent that is known as "the best freak show in town". In this company of "freaks" there is the Bearded lady, Siamese Twins, Fat ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 29. Designing A Reality Game Show That Goes By The Title Of... OVERVIEW OF THE BUSINESS The objective of the business is to produce a reality game show that goes by the title of QUICKWITT. This game show would include participants from Universities and Colleges. The show would be based on one minute mind games that would judge the participants level of aptitude. The participants with the best score would be declared as the winners and would also be awarded with prices and gift vouches. Secondly, the best participants chosen from each university would compete in the grand finale of the QUICKWITT. We anticipate positive response from the youth and plan to cover around 50 colleges and universities from Lahore, Pakistan. The participant completing the task in the minimum time period would be declared ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... MARKET ANALYSIS Prime objective of producing this show successfully is to stay fully aware of the marketing trends and the regular information about the industry and its history. It is pivotal to understand and analyze the industrial impact in the particular industry as the show is related to entertainment industry. Around 20 different game shows were analyzed to determine the fate of ours, as the above– mentioned game shows were similar in sketch. Two of popular programs were SPRITE FUNDA and LIVING ON THE EDGE, these shows have successfully targeted the youth but they somewhat failed to capitalize the market in the growth terms. We believe that our execution would go as planned and we can successfully fill the vacuum in the industry. TARGET MARKET: QUICKWITT will be targeting the youth industry by focusing on colleges and universities in the initial time periods. The age would fall between 16 and 28 years old. In our initial stage we would be targeting the youth from Lahore, the data collected by our team suggests that we would have to shuffle between 28,000 individuals. However, we would be setting up arrangements for 3 to 400 students as audience from the participating institution. The target market of Lahore is flexible and elastic, as it comprises the majority of youth population of the country. Description of Venture The objective is to provide optimum experience of a Television based game show for college and ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 31. A Unified Standard For Classification Of Reality Tv... Nowadays, reality TV programmes appear on the television screen with varied types and mixed styles. It is difficult to find out a unified standard for classification of reality TV programmes' types. In western countries, the most frequently mentioned types of reality TV programme by different scholars are infotainment, docu–soap, lifestyle, reality gameshows, talent competitions, relationship reality TV shows, etc. According to these different classifications and from differences of diverse shows' content and formats, reality TV can be divided into following eight types: Outdoors "Survivor"–style This type is always one of the major types of reality TV. CBS's Survivor is the most typical programme. There were 16 participators from different social backgrounds, occupations. They were taken to a remote isolated location and given the most primitive tools to live in this environment about one month. The whole precess used elimination system. The final survivor will win 1 million dollars. The main feature is that participates will be arranged in a harsh environment and complete hard tasks with the help of limited conditions. After continuous eliminations, determine the winner. Experience of situation This type's programmes arrange participators into a sealing environment and recode their state of living and changes of interpersonal relationships. Participators' daily life, especially individual privacy, will be exposed in front of audiences. During the process of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 33. What Is Charles Van Doren's Life The Quiz Show Questions Krisel Escobilla 1. Charles Van Doren's life completely turned upside down when he started to appear in the game show "21." Some of the effects were positive, but there were also some negative sides that comes with it. One of the positive effects of the game show in Charles' life was the recognition from people that he longed to have. Despite his achievements in the past, he was only known to be the son of Mark Van Doren––who is very famous during the time, and not as somebody who achieved something by himself. Joining the show was a great opportunity for him to prove something, however, the attention and recognition that he receive from the people sometimes got out of hand to the point that his privacy got afflicted. Some of his "fans" even harassed him, which he did not see coming at the beginning when he decides to partake in the lies of the show. Another effect of the show was a luxurious life for Charles. His salary before when he was an instructor only comes to about eighty–six dollars a week, but when he started appearing on the show, he got over thousands of dollars as price, which boosted his confidence and ego. Before, he did not want to be called a "professor" but when people started to regard him as ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The illusion engraved in their minds is that deceiving the public regarding the game show's mechanics will bring more money to them and also benefit the public by means of entertainment––– a win–win situation for both parties. They believed that what they are doing is not a matter of life and death, and that it does not hurt the people in any kind of way so there's nothing to worry about doing a "little wrong." In reality though, these people only cared about themselves and not the welfare of their audience, so doing something despicable did not bother them at ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 35. Why Did Charles Van Doren Break The Law? Free cheese is always available in mouse traps." –unknown (Inspirational). This quote demonstrates how people can be tempted to do something they know is wrong by offering something they want or need. Charles Van Doren should have been accountable for his actions because he did wrong and the only right thing to do was admit to his wrongdoing. Van Doren did not break the law because it was television and television is for entertainment. Charles Van Doren was manipulated by the producers with the promise of a large amount of money. "No legacy is as rich as honesty."– Shakespeare (Honesty). Charles Van Doren wanted to make a name of his own. He had been living in the shadow of his father Mark Van Doren. Mark Van Doren was a famous novelist, critic, and poet (Mark). He also taught at Columbia College for nearly four decades. Charles Van Doren, many other contestants, and the producers at NBC lied. They all lied about getting the answers prior to the airing of the episode. The producers would rehearse with the contestants days before the show, going over the questions they would be asked and the answers of those questions. They even went to the extent of coaching them how to appear as they were struggling with the question. The contestants were coached to bite their lip and to dab the sweat beads on ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Some good and some bad. The Quiz Show scandals are prime examples of the bad half of television. "Every man has their price." (Who). This quote turned out to be true when numerous contestants agreed to have the answers given to them to insure that they would win the game and continue to another episode. Charles Van Doren and every other contestant involved in the scandals should have been accountable for their actions. They should have been accountable even though they did not break any laws. No scandal would have happened if the producers didn't ride the contestants with promises of large amounts of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 37. The use of Radio as a Sound Device in Friday Night Lights "The use of Radio as a Sound Device in Friday Night Lights" One of the most widely noted sound elements of the football film, Friday Night Lights, amongst fans and critics is its frequent use of the Texas–based band, Explosions in the Sky. But I believe there is a more interesting sound element that is just as prominent in the overall soundscape of the film, and that is the use of radio in the film. Radio takes on the form of two identities in this film: a radio talk show as well as live game commentary. Because it is eventually revealed to the audience that both the live game commentator and radio talk show host are the same person, and that both are broadcast as radio content, it is acceptable to group these two factors into the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... I only mention my specific experience because I do not wish to make a broad generalization. First I would like to identify who the film includes on its radio broadcasts. There are essentially two types of people featured on the broadcast: the radio talk show host and his co–commentator and his callers. The first use of radio in the film is that of a radio talk show, hosted by "Slam and Sammy," that focuses primarily on the Permian Panthers' football team. Also featured on the show are callers that are most likely from the local community surrounding the support of the Panthers. It is not made clear until halfway through the film at the start of a football game that Slam and Sammy are also the commentators for the football games and that the games are broadcast, most likely on the same radio station. We are made aware of this fact around fifty minutes into the film when we hear, "You're back with mojo radio. It is Slam and Sammy." In trying to detect the difference between the announcers, the voice we hear the most seems to be the main host, while the other voice (it is slightly unclear who is Slam and who is Sammy) seems to be more of a color commentator that allows the lead announcer to do most of the talking. Also, it is worth noting that the radio announcers do not become visually actualized in the film apart from very brief moments viewing them in the press box at the games. Otherwise the audience ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 39. The University Of Tennessee Ads The Ads Are 30 Seconds The University of Tennessee ads the ads are 30 seconds long, the first ads start off with students heading to class and the big city of Tennessee. The ads show a group of girls talking in a dorm room, student hanging out on the lawn building good friendship with their fellow student. A clip shows a University of Tennessee game seems their team won a game, everyone is wearing orange and white. A group of boys heading to the old building seems like it their dorm room. There is a young girl in the lab, she mostly working on a project. The last clip shows student hanging out after hours in the city. The second ads start off with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville "Big Orange UT Big Ideas" with a professor in class at a broad teaching. This ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The university help student reach their goal by discover their talents, leaderships, drive through their goal, have spirit in themselves, volunteer and have pride. One of the ads illustrations that they have a good science by having a young female student in lab which she seems excited to do with she loves. While attending University of Tennessee students build friendship with their fellow students. Student become friends with all different type of ethnicity. Which in the ads there are more female have interactions then the male from the young lady talking in the dorm and young lady talking at the table. The male has a few interactions with each other but closer to the end there were more male. Students building friendship to the end even after they graduate. The university also build relationship with the community. The university get involved with the community by working with the with the youth. University believe the youth is the future by getting involved tell the young children that University of Tennessee is for them. The school can pass the torch to them by doing that can help the university thrive. Also, students getting involved can provide that they care about their community. The students show some leadership with the youth in community. They show that no child is left behind, everyone is welcome to University of Tennessee. Volunteer give pride in their school. The students can discover what is new around them ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 41. Reality Shows Is A Positive Influence Of Reality Shows "Let's go the shows almost on" was what my younger cousin said to my brother as they both rushed in to watch Pequeños Gigantes a reality TV game show about kids. Reality TV over the years has garnered a rather negative reputation over the years due to shows like the Jersey Shore encouraging bad behavior. While there are some reality TV shows are a negative influence, most reality TV shows have a more positive influence on audiences of various ages. Many reality TV shows often thought as good or bad for viewers; however, there are many shows that are simply good for sitting down and watching. A good genre that often is good for just enjoying are game shows. Many Game shows are simply about competing and having fun while having a chance to win a prize. A well–known game show is Wheel of Fortune. The entire premise behind Wheel of Fortune is luck and skill. While there is a competitive part to it, it is a bit more pushed back due to the structure of the game. In Wheel of Fortune the contestant uses letters to fill in the phrase or word while using the wheel to decide if they get money or lose a turn. All of this is done in a way that encourage smart choices while not ridiculing failures. This a stark contrast compared to the few shows that garner the negative reputation that reality TV is occasionally labeled with. The shows that are often ridiculed are shows like the Jersey Shore or the Bachelor where unkind behavior is encouraged or, the show focuses on ridiculing a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 43. Who Is Oprah Winfrey's Formula For Success? Oprah Winfrey's mass influence in worldwide culture is simply undeniable. Her success is legendary, and her shows, books and productions are household names across the world. With all of these accomplishments you would think that she's got a pretty good handle on the formula for success. She was quoted saying, "Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." On the surface this may seem like a good equation for success, however after dissecting it, I have found some problems with its validity so far as life experience has taught me. Luck tends to be a mystical topic. The very nature of luck is unpredictable. Some people have it in certain situations, and others don't. So far as I have seen in my life 'luck' is pretty blind in who it chooses. So it would seem to me that creating a formula such as: "preparation+opportunity=luck", isn't the whole story. When Oprah mentions luck in this quote, it seems as if she is really attempting to describe a formula for success. In my opinion she greatly over–simplifies the process of becoming successful. There are many factors involved in success, not just two, and from my experience luck simply isn't one of them. However, I don't think she was completely wrong in stating the importance ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Preparation is key for any endeavor. Without proper preparation, being given opportunities doesn't really matter. Likewise, without opportunities, preparation is simply just busywork. I can think of many times where I have had great ideas and a plan, but no matter how hard I tried, no opportunities presented themselves to me. So I was stuck with a lot of preparation but no opportunity. There have also been times, where an opportunity came about but I wasn't prepared to handle it, so I missed out on something that could have otherwise been very beneficial. Preparation and opportunity are very critical to success, however I think there is one factor that Oprah is ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 45. Does Ignorance Equal Bliss? Does Ignorance Equal Bliss? In my opinion, Ignorance isn't Bliss because it does not make people happy .There's nothing good about living a life where you are ignorant to the things around you. People are living empty lives and they don't even know the purpose of it. Ignorant people don't know the world around them, they don't know what makes them happy or sad, they don't know and don't care about it. Ignorance is not a key to happiness and it can never be blissful, which is shown in The Matrix, F451, The Truman Show. At first, In the movie the Matrix, Neo was living a normal life and didn't know that this world is a program generated by the machines to keep people in control. This virtual world is called The Matrix. Neo could keep living in the virtual world made by machines, but instead, he chose to find out the truth. He decided not to be ignorant, he wanted to know what's really happening around him. Ignorance doesn't mean Bliss to Neo because he decided to take the red pill instead of the blue pill that Morpheus offered to him, he wanted to accept the truth and get the knowledge of what's happening around the world.When Morpheus showed him the truth and the reality, at first he couldn't believe that it's the truth, he thought that it wasn't real. Even tho the truth was very bad, Neo still decided to accept it over being ignorant. In the Matrix ignorance is not blissful. I completely support Neo and his decision to find the truth and ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... According to the article written by Lisa Earle McLeod, "People need two things to be happy –– purpose and pleasure." Ignorance doesn't make people happy and ignorant people are lacking happiness and purpose in their life. Ignorant people can't be happy because "Happiness doesn't come to you, you have to create it", they can't create the happiness because they are living an empty, careless and miserable ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 47. Television: A Vast Wasteland Essay The Cosby Show was the pinnacle of American television. Based on an affluent African–American family in Brooklyn, New York, The Cosby Show demonstrated how to effectively raise a family. The sitcom starred Phylicia Rashad as Clair Huxtable, a confident, assertive, and eloquent attorney. Alongside Rashad was Bill Cosby as Cliff Huxtable, an eccentric and whimsical obstetrician. Together, Clair and Cliff reared five children in the midst of several complex obstacles. When faced with Sondra's decision not to go to law school, Denise's decision to discontinue her education, Theo's satisfaction with mediocre grades, and Vanessa's rebellious behavior, the Huxtables never ceased to use humor and discipline to convey strong moral principles. The ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... On these shows, participants are thrown in volatile situations and are expected to compete with each for a monetary prize (Delisle 43). There may be several reality show genres but they tend to follow the same formula: The shows seek extremes–contestants courting seeming danger, hostile to their competitors; strangers thrown together in situations sure to exacerbate their antagonisms; celebrities revealing their weaknesses, and actual families exposing their neuroses and addictions. Outrageous action has become the norm for what is called 'Reality TV.' (Cummings and Gordon 37) Though these reality shows are entertaining, they give viewers a false sense of reality. Reality shows portray competition as the sole way to achieve success. After viewing this mercenary behavior on a daily basis, viewers will inevitably develop an unhealthy need to succeed in all that they do. Since reality shows progressively eliminate the losers and glorify the winner(s), viewers will begin to base their self–worth on winning. In addition to praising winners, reality shows also fail to demonstrate the importance of working hard without a monetary reward. By failing to acknowledge the importance of a strong work ethic, reality shows do not encourage viewers to reach their full potential. Reality shows also cause viewers to become narcissistic. According to a study done by Psychology Today, habitually watching reality ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 49. Hunger Games meets Reality Telling a story that is set in the future gives authors the chance to depict present day issues in a different light. They usually choose to exaggerate them so readers can see how their society might look in the future, especially if they ignore issues that can grow and become problems. In the case of The Hunger Games (HG), the author, Suzanne Collins, explores issues like the huge inequality of wealth and how the power of television can influence our lives. She does this by portraying the HG as an extreme reality game show where teenagers fight to the death. By highlighting some important connections between our worlds, the author shows us that we may be headed to a place very similar to HG universe. These connections are about how tensions are created by the inequality between rich and poor on television, how an external force like the audience drives ratings higher, and how producers do not care about the message they are sending, as long as the audience watches the show. Both reality TV game shows and the HG bring people from different socio–economic backgrounds together to intensify tensions. In shows such as "The House that roared," the producers "cast for conflict to force drama" in reality TV game shows. This friction is usually artificially created because people in the real world might attempt to get along in some way. In shows such as Big Brother, participants are forced to live together, creating tensions that are not proportional to the real world. This ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 51. Similarities Between Hunger Games And The Truman Show Hunger Games and The Truman show are entirely two different stories but represents pretty much identical themes. Hunger Games is a novel based on dystopian world. While "The Truman Show" is based on dystopia and utopia both. Hunger Games is a games of life and death in which they take two tributes a girl and a boy from each district every year. And put them in the terrible game of between life and death. Truman Burbank works at an insurance living a peaceful life on Seaheavens Island. Truman is also a star of a popular live show but he is unaware. He believes he exists in a normal life like others. But, actually in world where he lives revolves around him. Katniss Everdeen main character from the Hunger Games is a girl who lives in the seam, District 12 and, illegally hunts in the forest to feed her family after the death of his father in a mine explosion. She sacrificed her life for her beloved younger sister by volunteering in the reaping to save her sister. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Katniss and the other tributes in the arena are aware of it. But, Truman doesn't even have any idea. Both reality shows are broadcast in the entire nation. The people of Panem are forced to watch Hunger Games if someone denies to watch it capitol kills them. But in The Truman Show people loves to watch Truman show. In Hunger Games tributes have no other choice except to kill others while hiding your emotions and avoiding the deaths in order to escape the game ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 53. Scripture Of Telling The Truth-Classical Game Show Scripture To tell the truth– classical game show that made its debut on television in 1956. Three contestants claim to be a person with an unusual distinction or occupation. One of the three is sworn to tell the truth, while the other two are imposters. All three are questioned by 4 panelists to discover who is telling the truth and who is being deceptive. The show creates a considerable amount of doubt in the minds of the panelists, and some of the contestants are so convincing they can fool 4 panelists of judges who are supposed to be shrewd and experience with interacting with people. Doubt–Webster–to be uncertain about (something): to believe that (something) may not be true or is unlikely, to have no confidence in (someone or something). ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... I can imagine that Thomas looked over at Peter and said, "Why should I believe anything that you have to say about Jesus? The last time his name came up, you were the one who said that you did not even know who he was. You weren't telling the truth then, so how do I know that you are telling the truth now?" He could have looked around the room and said something similar to all of the other disciples. All of them had deserted Jesus. None of them stood by his side at the critical hour. Maybe Thomas did not believe what they said because he had no confidence in their ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 55. Popular Game Show In The 1930's In the 1920s, radio was king of the new entertainment world, but by the 1930s television became the new ruler. The invention of television brought a whole new type of culture into the United States and beyond. Television had redefined leisure, bringing what once were typically radio shows to new life. In the late 1940s, news stations such as NBC and CBS sought to turn over their programs to be part of the largely profitable new medium. As popularity quickly rose, where in six years the number of television sets in the US jumped from a mere 6,000 to a staggering 12 million by 1951, the networks attempted to keep up by offering new material. Here enters the ever popular game show. The first game show in the US was called The $64,000 Question ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 57. The Master Path to Our Destiny in the Hunger Games In a general apprehension path is defined as the route or course along which something travels or moves. In the concept of human being it involves to follow our destiny. The concept of path raise much debate mostly about whether our path is deciding by us or someone else. Many christian argue that their path is already written before they even born, but in my point of view we are the only master of our path because of our power to choose and decide. In my point of view our path is deciding by us because we are able to take our own decision. For example when I was much younger I decided by myself to get involve in sport activity. It only happens because I choose and because I wanted to that let think that obviously I chose my path and the route that I want to follow. In the "Hunger games" Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister place in the Hunger Game. The fact that the game's organizer let her volunteer mean to me she chooses her path which was participated in the hunger game. Everything that follow was just the result of her choice. In that same way the power I have to choose to play sport would have consequence such meet new people, travel to new, and do thing which will follow with consequences. Some religious and societal beliefs push us through the idea that our path is not in our hand. They state that we are always influenced by external cause, and the limitation of our life choice. For example in the Truman Show Truman has a path already ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 59. How Is Truman Trying To Get His Identity "The best place on earth Seahaven voted planets top town." This newspaper headline helps to control Truman because they are saying he needs to stay in Seahaven because its the best place. "Who needs Europe!" They don't want Truman to leave and go to Europe so they put that there to control him from leaving or wanting to leave. "Crackdown on homeless Seahaven Islands City Fathers say "Enough is Enough!" They do this to control Truman because he said his father looked like a homeless man and they are trying to justify Truman seeing them drag his father onto the bus to get rid of him. 2. When you are young you are trying to find your identity by trying new things and trying to experience life. Media influences a lot of choices because it could ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... They had lots of different camera angles and one was from a trash can so that the audience could see him in the morning, another was from his ring so they could see him at all times, another one was from the back seat of his car so they could watch him while he drives, another was on an advertisement board so they could watch him on his way to work, another was on posts outside his house so they could see him anytime he was home, another was on a bookshelf so they could see what he did and who he talked to, there are a lot more but those are just some of them. Some camera angles with Christof are when Truman is bigger than him for once and this is to show more emotion, we also see Christof looking over the whole dome from the moon and this shows that he can always see everything, also we see him when he is leaving the room and walking through the metal detector and the guards are wearing Truman shirts that say "Love him, protect him" this could mean either love Christof or Truman and protect either Christof or Truman. They chose the angles for Truman because the whole world was watching him, they at least needed to have some good angles of his every action. They chose the angles for Christof so that we could see how they operated everyday and how they fixed any ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 61. Different Types Of Economics Within The Game Show Industry The business that I have chosen for this project is TV Game Shows. Over the next few pages, I will show different types of economics within the game show industry. Cash prizes are paid by the show, and the money comes from the producers, who are paid by the advertisers/network. There can be a couple of "safeguards" that make this a little easier for the shows: – They can have an insurance policy to protect them from huge losses. For example, the insurance company says, we 've studied the odds of your game, and we 'll sell you a policy for $200,000 up front, that pays out full prize money any time someone wins $100,000 or more during this season of the show. Obviously this is all about a smart insurance company who has studied the gameplay and sorted out the odds of how many players will win big, but the point is that the show doesn 't have to worry about it. They can let the insurance company work it out, and the show then has a nice fixed– cost expense they can reliably drop into their production budget and not think about it. – For really big prizes ($1,000,000), shows may pay similar to a lottery, where the money is in a fund that pays over x amount of years, or the winner can take a reduced lump sum immediately. For example, if you were to win $1 million on a show, they might tell you (after the show is done taping) "okay! We can give you $50,000 a year for the next 20 years, or we can pay you $450,000 lump–sum right now and that 's all you get." And of course, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 63. The As An Organisation And The Bfi Top 100 Tv Programmes... 1a) The BFI as an organisation and the BFI Top 100 TV Programmes. What are the BFI's core values and mission? How are these reflected in the TV 100 canon? What might this suggest about the ways in which television is valued more widely? The BFI top 100 television programme have four core values which are inspirational, responsive, approachable and provocative. The list also values other stuff these are the main four points they value the production value, the acting talent, and it is critically acclaimed. In the annual report from 2011 it states each one of the values and what it means of that value for inspirational it says, "We aim to inspire and motivate people, to have a direct effect on stimulating them to take action, whether they are audience members or filmmakers, to seek out and understand more of film culture, to be inspired to contribute to our film culture both through dialogue and the production of a wide variety of new work." The value of inspirational is that the show should inspire the audiences of the world of film and the film jobs. This is shown in on the show on the BFi which is Doctor Who (BBC, 1963–present). For the value responsive it states about it; "We aim to be quick to react to and understand the changing nature of film culture and the changing needs of our audiences and filmmakers, embracing these changes in new ways of working in a fast changing media world, ensuring that we stay at the international leading edge of thinking about film culture, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 65. Talk Shows TALK SHOWS The television talk show is, on the face of it, a rather strange institution. We pay people to talk for us. Like the soap opera, the talk show is an invention of twentieth century broadcasting. It takes a very old form of communication, conversation, and transforms it into a low cost but highly popular form of information and entertainment through the institutions, practices and technologies of television. The talk show did not originate over night, at one time, or in one place. It developed out of forty years of television practice and antecedent talk traditions from radio, Chatauqua, vaudeville and popular theater. In defining the talk show it is useful to distinguish between "television talk" (unscripted presentational ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Successful talk show hosts like Mike Wallace, Johnny Carson, and Barbara Walters bridge generations of viewers. The longevity of these "super stars" increases their impact on the forms and formats of television talk with which they are associated. Television talk shows originally emerged out of two central traditions: news and entertainment. Over time hybrid forms developed that mixed news, public affairs, and entertainment. These hybrid forms occupy a middle ground position between news and entertainment, though their hosts (Phil Donahue, Oprah Winfrey, and Geraldo Rivera, for example) often got their training in journalism. Approximately a third of the major talk show hosts listed at the end of the essay came out of news. The other two thirds came from entertainment (comedy in particular). Within the journalistic tradition, the names Edward R. Murrow, Mike Wallace, Ted Koppel and Bill Moyers stand out. News talk hosts like Murrow, Koppel, and Moyers do not have bands, sidekicks, or a studio audience. Their roles as talk show hosts are extensions of their roles as reporters and news commentators. Their shows appear in evening when more adult and older aged viewers are watching. The morning host teams that mix "happy talk" and information also generally come from the news background. This format was pioneered by NBC's Sylvester "Pat" Weaver and host Dave ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 67. Why Do Tv Shows Movies And Video Games Show Too Much Violence The reason as to why I am writing this composition is to inform you and notify you about TV shows, movies and video games and justify to you this question," is it (TV shows, movies and video games) promoting and showing too much violence". Firstly, to make everything I will say logical and understandable, I will break it down into segments and divisions. Inshallah, what I hope to achieve from this composition is for you to understand just what you and your family are receiving from these three categories of entertainment. I shall begin with the TV shows and the movies (since the movies points are really similar to the TV shows, I will combine the two) by talking a little bit about them and then moving on to answering the part of the question that goes with them. It is a shocking reality that everyone you see today knows what a TV is, whether they come from the most destitute society there is or from the most prosperous of them. They all know what a TV is. The term TV is the short form used for the word television, and it is an electronics device that receives a visual and audible signal and plays it to the viewer, and a show is a spectacle or display of something, typically an impressive one. As for the movie, well it is scarcely different for it is a story or an event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a theatre or on television; a motion picture. Now back to the question mentioned near the beginning. For clarification, this question does not have ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 69. Thinking Outside The Box Analysis In the last 20 years technology took an important role in our lives and more in the lives of our kids, even in on grownups. Video are an important tool in our lives that if we use it in a right way could help us to improve our intelligence. Base on the articles of "Watching TV Makes You Smarter" by Steven Johnson and "Thinking Outside the Box" by Dana Stevens. I will present my point of view. In the article by Johnson "Watching TV Makes You Smarter", he describes how much tv improved from the '70s. In today's tv we need to be able to pay attention to multiple details on the show, since the narrative is more complicated and realistic to our everyday life. Johnson writes "They have gained in realism. The real world doesn't come in nicely packaged...and we are better off with entertainment like the Sopranos that reflects our fallen state with all its ethical ambiguity". Life is complicated and ambiguous and from that point of view we can get smarter or learn that there is a different behavior in our world. For example, we can see human being are not only sweet and loving, they are ambitious selfish, manipulated creatures and seeing this side, we can ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... My middle son is autistic and in his early years I wasn't with the idea of video games, but later on when he was older I saw how he cope with them and how he grew. One of the games he likes to play is Civilization, this games teach him how civilizations evolved, history, science, wars, allies and building societies . Video games not only teach him knowledge even help him with socialization, since autistic kids are no good with it. There are some games that you can play with other people on the other side making easier to interact. There are all kinds of games that you can learn or help you to cope with your life. Video games are another way to grow or educate, but of course, like everything we should use it to ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 71. The Ethicality Of Game Shows Despite the controversy created by the game show Twenty–One for being rigged, I believe it is not a matter of ethics but rather a matter of "what you don't know wont hurt you." It is not unreasonable for networks to want to produce a show that is exciting for its audience. In a world where ratings mean everything, you have to have a show worth watching, something that keeps people interested. I understand lying is wrong and it was definitely unfair to the losers of the show but I really don't understand why it was such a big deal. Of course this is because I live in a different time. My generation of TV is filled with lies, but lies sell! One really good example of this is shows like Long Island Medium, it's clearly fake but there are tons ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... However I believe the line must be drawn somewhere. Game shows are all fun and games, but when it comes to sports, that's a different story. I believe more so now than in other eras, that sports has a far more massive following than game shows or really any other broadcasts. Sports teams can often define a person and bring people together, kind of like collective intelligence does for gamers. Sports have been around before TV so it would be unlikely that cheating would enhance audiences viewing experience because it is something people have always enjoyed and is exciting all on its own. Of course there has been controversies with players talking performance enhancing drugs which I believe is a form of cheating but it is different in that, it is not the network, network executives, or even the team that is looked down on, but the player himself. The connection people have with their teams of choice could arguably be the strongest connection to media for many fans alike. Sports are often the most viewed broadcasts of all time and not just in America but in other countries as well. Not to say that it isn't possible for sports to be faked but, to find out they are, would be an outrage that would surpass the Game Show controversy in the 1950's by miles. In conclusion, everything on televisions should be taken with a grain of salt, not everything you see is real and should never be assumed to be true. The media will do whatever it takes to keep people ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 73. Review Of ' The Classic Game Show ' A Bit Of Bully ' Blog 1 – Microgaming brings players 'a bit of bully' Back in the 1990s British TV was dominated not by reality shows and talent show competitions, but by family friendly game shows instead. The classic game show may not be as prominent as it once was, but they still deliver fond memories of how TV used to be. When you think about classic game shows that offered wall–to–wall fun, Bullseye immediately springs to mind. The darts based show may not have had all the credentials of a smash hit upon initial release, but as time passed it would become a national treasure. Given that nostalgia is a theme of choice in 2015, an online slots version of Bullseye was bound to arrive sooner or later. On December 1st Microgaming delivered what many had ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... When a game show is as fun as Bullseye, you can be sure that the online slots version is going to be just as entertaining. Available on both desktop and mobile devices, by the looks of things Microgaming is onto to a real winner with this title. Making it instantly recognisable in the eyes of players, this is an adaptation that certainly doesn't short change players when it comes to original imagery. Replicating the contestant experience almost exactly, when you play Bullseye you will really feel like you are participating in the show. 180! The framework of Bullseye will be immediately recognisable to those who have played Microgaming titles before. You are almost assured of action through the thrilling 3–row, 5–reel, 243 ways to win setup, with reels feature plenty of recognisable Bullseye imagery. Speedboats, cars, and caravans can all be seen on the reels as they spin, but it is the famous darts symbol that players need to keep a special eye out for. Acting as the wild symbol for Bullseye, when found on reels one and five it triggers a bonus round that brings Bully into play. The famous animated bull is the show's prized mascot and he hosts the slot variation's bonus round. Offering up major prizes including a massive 15x multiplier, players can step up to the oche and throw darts all in the name of securing a big win. In keeping with the theme, should you locate three of more scatter symbols, you will be handed a whole selection of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 75. Informative Essay: The Most Popular Video Game Shows In... Today's game shows have come a long way in the past centuries. They have become more and more popular and entertaining. Some like, "The Price is Right" when it first started in 1956 and has been on since 1972 after being revamped. The show is watched by millions every day and you spin a giant wheel at the end to get into the showcase showdown where you have a chance to win a boat, car, or vacation. After watching the movie Idiocracy, I was deeply reminded of how dumb down game shows have become. As Luke Wilson played by Joe Bauers, came crashing into Fritos home, played by Dax Shepard. Frito is watching a Game show called, "Ow! My Balls!" staring Hormel Chavez. The show has everything you need to feel entertained in 2505. The star of the show ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Like, "Hole in the Wall" shown in 2008 by the FOX network. Originally a Japanese TV show where you have to fit the shape of the wall coming towards you. If you do not fit through the wall and complete the challenge, you are pushed into the water and lose. Another popular TV program in America is a show called "Wipeout". This show plays a small roll in inflicting pain onto the contestants while the commentators say humorous things and mock or insult the contestants as they get smacked in the face or bent upside–down and backward into the water. As funny as the show is, the player with the fastest time in the course is declared the "champion" and wins $50,000 dollars. Fear Factor is another attempt to humiliate people into doing things they normally would never do, all contestants are pit against each other for prize money of about $50,000 dollars. The catch is doing stuff you would never do in real life because of the "fear" side of things. Eating bugs to bobbing for hidden rings in cows blood. The show will make you cringe in disgust. So, do I think the movie Idiocracy is becoming an American Documentary? Well, when other peoples pain is involved and humiliation to entertain me as I am taking a crap on my new TV Toilet. Then yes, I would say we have become an idiocy civilization. I do not see our civilization ever stopping to laugh at other peoples misfortunes. As long as there is a cash prize and the ratings are through the roof, television companies will continue to prove that we are living in a current state of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 77. How Does Writing Change Over Time Writing has changed a lot over the years. The hot topics fade and new ones replace them. From early America to 1870 there was not many changes in the topics because there was not as many people as there are now. There was only three considerable changes to writing styles and topics. The writing styles and topics over the years have changed from myths, to God, and finally to individualism. Writing started off as myths. There are four functions of a myth. The myth must include all of creation, day to day function of the world, support customs/rituals, and how to deal with trials and tribulations. An example of a myth is The World On The Turtle's Back. That myth was written by the Iroquois and was about how the world was created. Their myths were generally communicated orally. The myth talked about a heaven where the gods lived. One became curious and fell into the underworld. The woman ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... This was in play when the Puritans came over and settled in America. They tried to be godly and always do the correct thing. An example of this type of writing is The Crucible. The Crucible is a play written about a true event. These godly people did not like witches. They thought that witches were possessed by the devil so they killed them. They thought they were doing the right thing, but some people took advantage of it. Those girls were ungodly, but everyone thought they were godly. The Puritans thought that children were innocent (they never lied). That is not the case and these ungodly children took advantage and twisted these people's minds. Some people were godly and did the right thing but most people were not, even though that is what they thought they were doing. Those people thought that they were ridding Salem of the devil and allowing God back in but what they were really doing was pushing God out and opening the door for the devil. When the Puritans arrived in America, they changed the style and topic of writing to ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...