Real Television
Jodi Sealey
Humanities 341 Assignment 5-1
Dr. John DeSando
March 20, 2008
Real Television
Real television is invigorating to most viewers who look to real life as entertainment. People’s beliefs are that real life humor is far better than any plot, scene, script written, or anything that can be thought of by the human mind. Although actors can make the script come to life, nothing beats real life drama. “With people being fed up with drama and fictitious lifestyles, reality TV programmes focusing on ordinary people have become hugely popular “(Yau, 2007).
The popularity of reality TV show has grown not only in the United States, but across the world that has access to mass media. People enjoy the uncensored and unscripted footage of the contestants. This enjoyment of reality TV sparks viewers’ curiosity to want more and more of these reality TV shows. This enjoyment increases the popularity of reality TV shows, and more people watch and vote for their favorite contestant.
These favorite contestant gain celebrity status during their 15 minutes of fame and are noticed in the public eye as celebrities in their own invention of themselves. Omarosa on the Apprentice gain celebrity status on The Apprentice first season. Omarosa has returned for The Celebrity Apprentice.” Omarosa Manigault Stallworth, has established herself as one of the most recognizable reality stars on television. As one of The Donald's first season Apprentice contestants she captivated the country with her sassy no holds bar business savvy”(NBC ,2008).
Jennifer Hudson was voted off American Idol but, her popularity soared to celebrity status all because Jennifer was on a reality TV show.
The invigorating feeling that viewers get when watching reality TV is not matched to any other feeling in watching general television shows. These other shows are watched, but do not have the popularity of real TV footage that is captured on reality TV shows. People’s beliefs are that real life humor is far better than any plot, scene, script written, or anything that can be thought of by the human mind.
References
The Celebrity Apprentice (2008). NBC Universal Inc. Retrieved March 17, 2008 from http://www.nbc.com/The_Celebrity_Apprentice/
Yau, E. (2007,). Real-life drama on show. South China Moring Post section:
Youngpost 6. Retrieved March 17, 2008 from LexisNexis database
http://www.lexisnexis.com.olinkserver.franklin.edu/ .
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Celebrity Influences
Jodi Sealey
Humanities 341
Dr. John DeSando
March 13, 2008
Celebrity Influences
Plastic surgery that changes the body image of a celebrity, does it influence the way non-celebrities view beauty? Kelly Rowland, formerly of Destiny’s Child admitted she had breast implants. What message does that say to her admirers? If you do not like what God has given you alter that part of your body to your own creation of beauty. Or to the shape ourselves to celebrity cookie cutter mode society says this is what we should look like. “Kelly says she did it to simply feel more beautiful and to fit into more fashionable clothing” (People Magazine 2008). What ever happened to being grateful for good health instead of being so shallow in our skin that we must change ourselves to fit into celebrity ideal of beauty? According to Jessica Wienner, “We are addicted to quick fixes and it becomes dangerous when we use plastic surgery as a quick fix” (CNN 2008). In Kelly’s defense she does say it is a personal choice and to think about life altering decisions. (Pahwa 2008).
Ashley Tisdale of High School Musical had a nose job. Ashley says, she got her nose job for medical reasons,"Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing" (People Magazine, 2007). Why not just corrective surgery? Instead she changed the look of her nose completely.
Pamela Anderson went from an A cup to an EEE cup. She is an iconic celebrity sexual symbol in popular culture enhanced by plastic surgery.
Jeniffer Lopez, nose job, lip injection, and eye job, what plastic surgery has Jeniffer not had? Michael Jackson is totally plastic. Is this saying to our young people that if your nose or other body parts not quite perfect, we can change them to an image we identify with, maybe a celebrity image. Why else do we look at magazines, television, and advertisements and take the image to the hair dresser or to the very extreme, to the plastic surgeon, to get that celebrity cookie cutter look? Celebrities and their plastic surgery are portrayed in the media as if this is true beauty an everything else is just average. What is wrong with being average? God given breast size, an imperfect nose, slanted eyes, less full lips, and lower check bones. Everyone can not fit into a “Barbie” look of the plastic celebrity cookie cutter mode.
References
Anderson, B. (Reporter). (2008 March, 8). Show Biz Tonight with A.J. Hammer. CNN network Hollywood, California
Pahwa, K. (2008, March 7). Kelly Rowland surgery. Todays News section: Today’s Happenings. Retrieved March 9, 2008 from www.topnews.in/light/kelly-rowland-comes-clean-boob-job-27594
Salkin, K. (2007, December, 18) Ashley Tisdale: Nose surgery recovery “taking longer”. People Magazine 105
Jodi Sealey
Humanities 341
Dr. John DeSando
March 13, 2008
Celebrity Influences
Plastic surgery that changes the body image of a celebrity, does it influence the way non-celebrities view beauty? Kelly Rowland, formerly of Destiny’s Child admitted she had breast implants. What message does that say to her admirers? If you do not like what God has given you alter that part of your body to your own creation of beauty. Or to the shape ourselves to celebrity cookie cutter mode society says this is what we should look like. “Kelly says she did it to simply feel more beautiful and to fit into more fashionable clothing” (People Magazine 2008). What ever happened to being grateful for good health instead of being so shallow in our skin that we must change ourselves to fit into celebrity ideal of beauty? According to Jessica Wienner, “We are addicted to quick fixes and it becomes dangerous when we use plastic surgery as a quick fix” (CNN 2008). In Kelly’s defense she does say it is a personal choice and to think about life altering decisions. (Pahwa 2008).
Ashley Tisdale of High School Musical had a nose job. Ashley says, she got her nose job for medical reasons,"Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing" (People Magazine, 2007). Why not just corrective surgery? Instead she changed the look of her nose completely.
Pamela Anderson went from an A cup to an EEE cup. She is an iconic celebrity sexual symbol in popular culture enhanced by plastic surgery.
Jeniffer Lopez, nose job, lip injection, and eye job, what plastic surgery has Jeniffer not had? Michael Jackson is totally plastic. Is this saying to our young people that if your nose or other body parts not quite perfect, we can change them to an image we identify with, maybe a celebrity image. Why else do we look at magazines, television, and advertisements and take the image to the hair dresser or to the very extreme, to the plastic surgeon, to get that celebrity cookie cutter look? Celebrities and their plastic surgery are portrayed in the media as if this is true beauty an everything else is just average. What is wrong with being average? God given breast size, an imperfect nose, slanted eyes, less full lips, and lower check bones. Everyone can not fit into a “Barbie” look of the plastic celebrity cookie cutter mode.
References
Anderson, B. (Reporter). (2008 March, 8). Show Biz Tonight with A.J. Hammer. CNN network Hollywood, California
Pahwa, K. (2008, March 7). Kelly Rowland surgery. Todays News section: Today’s Happenings. Retrieved March 9, 2008 from www.topnews.in/light/kelly-rowland-comes-clean-boob-job-27594
Salkin, K. (2007, December, 18) Ashley Tisdale: Nose surgery recovery “taking longer”. People Magazine 105
Monday, March 3, 2008
Humn341 Sealey, J Assignment 3-2 Ritual Development
Rites are the actions we engage in to give life to beliefs. A ritual is a set of actions carrying certain symbolic values defined by a religion, community, or individuals. It may be performed regularly or on specific occasions, by individual or groups, in public or private. The purposes of rituals are varied; they could be religious obligations, family gathering, social bonding, etc. (Franklin University2008)
a. What is your understanding of the word "ritual?"
Ritual are the practices of society such as Christmas ,Thanksgiving, New year resolution, Fourth of July, and many more things we not only practice public but, personally and religiously.
b. What rituals do you observe in our society?
Memorial Day, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month. We Celebrate many holiday’s in society as a tribute to a person people or declaration.
c. What rituals do you observe in your family?
We have a family reunion (ritual) every year to celebrate our family, and to visit members we have not seen all year. Birthdays rituals are a big thing in our family. A celebration ritual to say we are thankful to God you were born.
d. Are there any rituals that you can identify that are prevalent today?
If so, what are they? Ohio State University football is a ritual, I believe most Ohioans indentify with. When fall come its football, fun and tailgating, an anticipation of a winning season. Especially since Ohio State won its first national championship since 1968 in 2003. (Hooley 2003). GO BUCKS! Red, White, & Boom is another ritual Columbus residents look forward to in the summer. It marks the middle of summer, and in our city’s we celebration of our country’s’ bicentennial.
e. What ritual would you like to develop for either our society or your family?
In my own family, I would like to develop a ritual a teen to adult ritual. Were all generation give the teenagers some advice on what to expected in adulthood and how to better prepare for adulthood.
Reference
Humanities 341(2008, March) Enrichment module 3.FranklinUniversity 2006.Retrieved
March 3, 2008 from www.franklin.edu./myfranklin
Hooley, B.,(2003,January 5) Buckeyes bask in glory. Profiles of Popular Culture (p287)
Browne, R. (Ed.), The University of Wisconsin Press.
a. What is your understanding of the word "ritual?"
Ritual are the practices of society such as Christmas ,Thanksgiving, New year resolution, Fourth of July, and many more things we not only practice public but, personally and religiously.
b. What rituals do you observe in our society?
Memorial Day, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month. We Celebrate many holiday’s in society as a tribute to a person people or declaration.
c. What rituals do you observe in your family?
We have a family reunion (ritual) every year to celebrate our family, and to visit members we have not seen all year. Birthdays rituals are a big thing in our family. A celebration ritual to say we are thankful to God you were born.
d. Are there any rituals that you can identify that are prevalent today?
If so, what are they? Ohio State University football is a ritual, I believe most Ohioans indentify with. When fall come its football, fun and tailgating, an anticipation of a winning season. Especially since Ohio State won its first national championship since 1968 in 2003. (Hooley 2003). GO BUCKS! Red, White, & Boom is another ritual Columbus residents look forward to in the summer. It marks the middle of summer, and in our city’s we celebration of our country’s’ bicentennial.
e. What ritual would you like to develop for either our society or your family?
In my own family, I would like to develop a ritual a teen to adult ritual. Were all generation give the teenagers some advice on what to expected in adulthood and how to better prepare for adulthood.
Reference
Humanities 341(2008, March) Enrichment module 3.FranklinUniversity 2006.Retrieved
March 3, 2008 from www.franklin.edu./myfranklin
Hooley, B.,(2003,January 5) Buckeyes bask in glory. Profiles of Popular Culture (p287)
Browne, R. (Ed.), The University of Wisconsin Press.
Humn341 Sealey, J Assignment 3-1 Weekly Written Analysis 3
Advertising
Advertising influences popular culture all around; advertising displays what new, popular, and of interest to consumers in society. For example Gloria Steinem in the article Sex, Lies and Advertising states that advertising was far from equal in the 70’s with ads only being advertised in women’s magazines things that only interest women and no regards to the articles content. Gloria debated for women and advertisers to talk to improve the quality of the advertisement to match the journalistic content of these women’s magazines. (Steinem, 2007 p.125).Advertisement whether is match’s the content of journalistic standards, it works. These ads draw your interest to a product, person, movie, magazine, television show, or internet site. Consumers see these ads and their interest are sparked.
Advertising is very competitive. The overwhelming responses advertisers receive when they flood the market with their ads are remarkable. Advertising is a major part of popular culture as anything, because it is the way that advertising is marketed, and the way that advertising has been marketed in the past.
The Myth of romance is portrayed in advertising all the time, with ads for romance novels to soap opera to butter ads. It is not as if the ad gives promise of romance, but the possibility of what could be. The Myth of Success is advertised through college ads to get rich quick schemes infomercials to show the possibility of success in society. The Myth of the American dream has been advertised from America being, “The land of opportunity” and “The Land of the free”. A multitude of ads promoting home ownership and to the dream car, and only in America can this be portrayed as easy as apple pie to obtain. The Myth of Good versus Evil lately is portrayed in the campaign ads for the nominees for presidency of the United States. The attack ads have become sort of a good versus evil campaign pitting one candidate vs. another. Most of the attack ads are focused on the candidate’s flaws or mistakes instead of the issues that face our country. Lately it is hard to tell the lesser of the two evils, according to the attack advertisements.
Advertisements are everywhere from Billboards, E-mail spam, telemarketers selling everything. (Advertising: The Soft And The Hard Sell, 2005 p.389). The overwhelming flood of advertisement on any product is what sells that product or person, to most all consumers.
Reference
Advertising: The soft and the hard sell (2005). Profiles of Popular Culture (p.389).The University of Wisconsin Press. Madison, Wisconsin
Steinem, G. (2007) Sex, Lies and Advertising. Common Culture (p.125).Pearson Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
Advertising influences popular culture all around; advertising displays what new, popular, and of interest to consumers in society. For example Gloria Steinem in the article Sex, Lies and Advertising states that advertising was far from equal in the 70’s with ads only being advertised in women’s magazines things that only interest women and no regards to the articles content. Gloria debated for women and advertisers to talk to improve the quality of the advertisement to match the journalistic content of these women’s magazines. (Steinem, 2007 p.125).Advertisement whether is match’s the content of journalistic standards, it works. These ads draw your interest to a product, person, movie, magazine, television show, or internet site. Consumers see these ads and their interest are sparked.
Advertising is very competitive. The overwhelming responses advertisers receive when they flood the market with their ads are remarkable. Advertising is a major part of popular culture as anything, because it is the way that advertising is marketed, and the way that advertising has been marketed in the past.
The Myth of romance is portrayed in advertising all the time, with ads for romance novels to soap opera to butter ads. It is not as if the ad gives promise of romance, but the possibility of what could be. The Myth of Success is advertised through college ads to get rich quick schemes infomercials to show the possibility of success in society. The Myth of the American dream has been advertised from America being, “The land of opportunity” and “The Land of the free”. A multitude of ads promoting home ownership and to the dream car, and only in America can this be portrayed as easy as apple pie to obtain. The Myth of Good versus Evil lately is portrayed in the campaign ads for the nominees for presidency of the United States. The attack ads have become sort of a good versus evil campaign pitting one candidate vs. another. Most of the attack ads are focused on the candidate’s flaws or mistakes instead of the issues that face our country. Lately it is hard to tell the lesser of the two evils, according to the attack advertisements.
Advertisements are everywhere from Billboards, E-mail spam, telemarketers selling everything. (Advertising: The Soft And The Hard Sell, 2005 p.389). The overwhelming flood of advertisement on any product is what sells that product or person, to most all consumers.
Reference
Advertising: The soft and the hard sell (2005). Profiles of Popular Culture (p.389).The University of Wisconsin Press. Madison, Wisconsin
Steinem, G. (2007) Sex, Lies and Advertising. Common Culture (p.125).Pearson Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
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