The Dangers of Reality TV
Reality TV as we know it began back in 1992 when MTV first broadcast the Real World to a desert island to make a alive competition and who survived won the price. Most of these competitions, the person who wans sometimes wasn't the one who has more capacity, but someone who conquer the audience with charisma and beauty that make the public to vote and making that person a winner. One of the problems to watch theses shows is that young fans get addicts. Besides that the shows send a wrong and dangerous messages, molding young fans minds, also reinforcing the ideas of life as a competition and education isn't importante in life. The owners and producer of these shows should have better means of reality show with a educational messagens.
The addiction of young fans is forcing them to watch the show every day, also recording it. Further they discuss about it with friends and trying to decide who has the rigths to win the competition. Equally important is that the students or young fans are spending to much time on these shows and they should give these kind of attention to school and educational topics.I am a mother of two boys 15 and 9 years old and i can tell you by my own experience that my kids come back from school and they watcthed all this shows and i always argument with them that they should be much better if they expended that time reading a intersting book ou studing what they learned in school on that day, so i tell them to do their hw and they roush it to wacth the show, as a result, the hw get slope. It is kind of a sad situation because they are expending time on something that is not instructive.
The reality shows are molding the young fans mind, also making them believe that school and education is not important to be successful in life.In contrast, they believe that beauty, popularity is the secret to find the success and being famous, as a result we are raising many stupid people that don't have a cultural base to be somebody in life. For instance, I am from Brazil and in my country we have a reality show called BBB ( Big Brother Brasil), the show works exactly like here in America, men and women competing each other inside a house that they can't go out and they have no comunication with the out side world and the girl or guy who wins the price also has to take pictures for Playboy Magazine .Can you believe it!!
After watching many shows the young fans starting to see life as a competition, in addition some kids that belong in a team wants to be the best player in their own team. In fact, I know one friend of mine that has a son that plays in a soccer team, and he use to say to his playmates from the same team that he was better than them, as a result, the team started to repulse him and he was invited to leave the team because of his behavior.
In conclusion, I truly believe that the producers of these shows should make a reavaluation about it and changing the topics and messages to be more instructional and educational.
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ReplyDeleteI’m Evan from Prof. Cooper’s class. I really like what you said in your “Blog #7” but there are a few things that you may want to fix. I understand what you’re trying to say, and you say many important things to support your thesis: “Young fans getting addicted”. Yet you kind of stray away from that at the end. The educational ideas you have are very interesting and I agree with you. The one major thing is you start all you paragraphs with “Moreover”, “Furthermore”, “Additionally”… I understand why you’re doing it, but not all the places where you put it actually need it. Take them out and just start the sentence, allowing the reader to just jump in your idea and absorbed them into what you’re trying to say. All those introducing words make the blog a little choppy. If you don’t want to take them out completely maybe switch them around either in the beginning of the paragraphs or at the end. The statement about your own country I found fascinating, so maybe give more information about where you’re from, when where you there, and how that made you feel. When you talk about how people now a days have competition towards each other I understand a bit, but you may need to add a few sentences to elaborate on how the competition between what TV is giving and your friends son. Give more ideas and fact to back up you thesis. Lastly, check your words for grammar and spelling to make it all come together.
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DeleteI believe i made the changes that you mention. Can you check again and write me back, thank you!
Hello Lea, my name is Davon I am a student here at LaGuardia Community College; I have read your blog/essay, The Dangers of Reality TV. You demonstrate a clear and precise understanding of what the article presents. Your ideas are presented in your essay and have been integrated with your knowledge and personal experience on the topic of "The Dangers of Reality TV". Lea it was good that you opened your essay given your readers a brief history of where reality TV first began, which happens to be 20 years ago. You formed a structured essay grouping your thoughts together. Going back to your first few lines as a reader I was captured by your writing, you presented specific and accurate pieces of information. Your direction for your paragraphs when using timing is not needed in someplaces you can do without it. Overall your essay was presented well, you focused on a main topic, you made sure you had a beginning, middle and end. On another note you might want to read your essay for spelling, Pronouns and Verb Tense. EX: real world is a name of a television show so it would be capitalized Real World.
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