Reality Programs Essay

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Research Paper on Reality Programs Personally, I do not waste my time watching “reality TV shows”. I think that they are a waste of everyone’s time. Some people may think otherwise, and that is their own opinion. Reality programs are highly artificial and actually bear very little resemblance to real life. Now I know that there are a lot of good looking people out there, but why does someone who looks like a super model have to have a lead role in one of these “reality programs”? I understand that some reality programs are real such as; “American Idol”, “America’s Got Talent”, “So You Think You Can Dance”. Shows such as those are real in my eyes. Shows like “Jersey Shore”, “The Real World”, “The Bachelor”, or “The Bachelorette”, are all frauds. They just want to blow their money in order to become rich and famous, or audition for the parts to obtain the fame they seek. In the reality programs that are a part of the television world, there are loads of edits and staged work that the “actors” do in order for them to get the attention they crave. I believe that reality programs like “Jersey Shore” target adolescents so that they – the adolescents- could try to be just like them. I graduated high school in 2008, which is a year before “Jersey Shore” started to air, though as time passed and the show hit a high in television views, the people I would associate myself with, would use some slang words. Even though some of the words they used are real words, the Jersey Shore cast would change the meaning of the words entirely. The definition of the slang words that they used were bizarre in a way. For example the words; “smush” which means to have sex, or “grenade” describes an ugly girl who with a hot friend, and “female backpack” which means a girl is hovering around a man, and that being a female backpack often happens because a girl does not me trust her boyfriend,
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