This article states the dangers of reality TV. Reality television reinforces several unsound messages which are molding the minds of young fans. Reality television shows are sending dangerous messages to people. The message that reality television are sending out to the people are the importance of compettion, the value of image over ability and the obsoleescence of education. The author believe that competition is the key to success in a capitalist economy however it also sends the message that the key to success is image rather than ability.
One of the message that reality TV sends out is the importance of competition. I believe that competition is the key to success in a capitalist economy, on the other hand reality tv shows reinforce the idea that life is nothing but just a competition. The second messages was that the key to success is image rather than ability. It means that the image of the person is more important than the substance. In the world of reality television people think that the message it is sending out is the good, but it lead people to believe that having a certain image will get you rich when in reality it will not. A lot of people just wants to believe that and they dont want to open their mind to see the truth for example in the article of the Allergartion of the Cave prisioners believe in shadows or sounds that they were hearing or seeing but they didnt want to see the reality that was outside the cave. It is becuase most of the people dont want to open their mind and give themselves a chance to explore new things and see the beautiful things that are around them, such as the opportunity for a higher education.
The last and probably the single most dangerous message is that these shows send that education is completely unnecessary to fulfill the American dream. In this case many people are believing that you could make more money with out getting a college education and that you dont need to go to school and face the difficulties of learning something new when you can just get rich quick and fulfill the american dream that way. This is why many people don't find a good job because they dont have a college degree and now a days every company is asking for the experience and which is your last year in school. Sometimes when company or businesss sees that you dont have any experience they dont offer you the position. I think that continuing your education is an important step that you as a person have to follow and finish so you could have the opportunity to have a good job or open your own business. With a college degree you would have the experience that you need to suceed in your business if not you are going to ended up closing your company or business. This is why these TV shows dont have the right to be sending out this kind of message to people about that education is completely unnecessary in life.
Reality tv shows are sending the wrong message to people. People have to see and believe in what is good for them and not to let anybody to tell them in what they have to believe in. Only we have the power to decide and believe in what we want. The makers of reality tv shows are insidiously suggesting that they are replicating society when in fact they are not. Reality TV is a bad influence with these dangerous message that are being sent out to the community.
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ReplyDeleteHello my name is Aaron and today i will be commenting on your blog assignment. First i would like to say that your paper moved me on reality television, and you had very strong arguments on why reality TV is so bad to society such as diminishing the educational system and future drop out rates increasing. When i started reading your paper the introduction was very scattered. When you do an introduction you want provide a general argument and capture the readers attention, but here you just seem to state facts. You need to make the intro more clear such as first defining why reality television is harmful and then following a system of steps addressing your points. When you start talking about competition you need to relate it to how its dangerous because competition can also be good for economic stability so tie it to the thesis. Your opinion comes into play when you start using quotations which need to be addressed in your paper. I would keep the second idea on image on society because you show clearly how it corrupts our minds and souls. Finally leading onto your third idea about education and the American directly ties to your thesis, but you want to condense it and make your point clear and as i said quotations would be helpful. The conclusion is very well written and you make a direct connection to the thesis statement. You have many grammatical errors, but you still make your point clear you just need to work on formulating it more correctly and add quotations.
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Pam and i am a student in Prof Rogers-Coopers Eng 220 class. I read your blog about reality TV and i read the assignment that you had to follow regarding the CATW. You did a good job of following the guidelines. You gave three claims as to why reality TV is dangerous, and you supported each claim with at least one piece of evidence. I was unable to read the article that you are referring to. Your writing did not give me good clarity as to what the article was actually about besides that it was against reality TV.What was it that the writer was so against? I think that you should give an example of that in your opening paragraph. The claims that you used as to why others should view reality TV as being harmful were the importance of competition, image over ability, no education needed. You did give at least one piece of evidence for each like i mentioned before but you did not make a strong argument for importance of competition, your evidence for image over ability i took that as image being what the person actually looks like considering that this is based on reality TV i don't understand why you gave the example of the prisoners. So i suggest you go back and clarify that with giving some stronger examples. Your final claim of no education, you emphasized on that significantly. You made good points as to why having an education is so important. We both know the importance considering we are both students. Your ending i believe should be stronger. As i read it i thought to myself " don't people sign up to do reality TV willingly ?" So is your argument with the editing or reality TV as an entirety ? I would recommend you work on that. All in all i enjoyed your writing and you had important things to say, you did a good job in tying everything together creating a beginning, middle and a end. If you will like to write back to me please feel free to do so.
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