In the passage "The Dangers of
Reality TV." Timothy Sexton states that "The life is
nothing but the competition". Nowadays, people need more and more
stimulants in order to succeed in their lives. We are bored by routines of
our lives, such as job, home duties, and the same friends all the
time. In order to entertain our boring life, we watch the reality shows, that move
us to life of our dreams. However, In my opinion the TV shows send many
negative messages. The reality shows are stupefying and make people believe to fake
and exaggerated image of society.
First of all, the reality TV present
the fake image of the society. The audience of real TV are usually young
people, who are in the process of self- developing. The young generation takes
the information from the media without any verification. As an example I could bring
the show "Desperate Housewife", where people are rich and
spoiled. However the real image of society is different. The reality TV
promotes extremely exaggerated behaviors, that are overdrawn. The TV
producers want just to keep audiences excited. However, many times the TV
audiences think, that the lifestyle shown in that show is the standard
behavior. At work, school or in bars, we can see many people that discuss
issues from the shows. The young people find that very attractive. In my opinion,
that is dangerous. The teenagers can have difficulties to face the
problem of real life, which is completely different that TV show.
Another interesting issue is that TV
promotes just powerful people, with strong personality. The show producers make
us believe that "the competition is the key to success in the
market economy". In the shows, there are many participants but just one
winner, who is the most cunning or has the best appearance . The average or week
people are not attractive for TV. However, the real society is more diversified,
and usually not as perfect as participants of the show. We should remember that
the power and financial success are not the only
one attribute that make someone valuable.
Finally, I believe that the
majority of reality shows are stupefying, and promote entertaining people,
who are usually "empty". The most ridiculous TV show in
my opinion is “Jackass”, which try to amuse
TV audiences by showing self-mutilation. It doesn't have
any educational or ethical value, and brings us the lowest level of
entertainment. I am disappointed that in TV, there is fewer and fewer shows
that promote good, intelligent entertainment.
Personally, I stopped to watch TV
shows few years ago, because I don’t find them anymore funny. The shows create the fake image of the society,
displaying just exaggerated characters. In addition the TV shows
are stupefying. I am afraid that teenagers, who are growing up
on watching the real TV can have difficulties to become a part of the real
society, which is more diversified.
Hello. My name is Danielle. Im in an eng 220 class with prof. Rogers-Cooper. I think that for this assignment you had a lot of good points, ideas, and knowledge about this topic. You introduced the title and author very well in the beginning. I was once told that in writing sometimes less is more so giving your opinion briefly and a few facts to support your opinion can go a long way. Each paragraph should have one main idea with facts to support it. To catch small gramatical errors it helps to read your writing out loud when you are finished.
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