According to the passage "The Dangers of Reality TV", Timothy Sexton states that there are three messages which are sent out from the reality television are dangerous and harmful to us. First of all, the most important key for people to be succeed in a capitalist economy is competition. Second key to success is the image value is greater than ability. Furthermore, reality TV makes people believe education is useless for people to be succeed in their future. Timothy Sexton also points out most of the messages are unsound, that means people will receive the messages under their awareness, especially the young fans of reality TV, they cannot analysis the messages which are received. Therefore, this is the main reason why it is so dangerous to people.
However, i do not agree that "education is completely unnecessary to fulfill the American dream" which is from the passage. It is because education is a way that can improve your knowledge, open your mind and provide a lot of useful information that you cannot learn without educated. It is true that big business abhors competition, because competition is a main factor that make our economy become developed. In the business world, competition is an motivation for those companies to keep growing and making improvement. But, if people do not educated, how they can improve themselves and fight for the others? For instance, my father opened a hair salon and there are some problems appear when he was running his business, he tried to find the ways to solve those problems but he did not educated that much, so he cannot have enough sources to fix it. As a result, to survive in the business world, only rely on your experience is not enough, it also depends on what you had learned in your study. Therefore, education is an necessary and important tool to make your dream come true.
Moreover, reality television always gives people hope but which is so unreal. By using the passage's example "you can just get on Fear Factor, eat bugs and walk away with a bucket of money", we can recognize that reality TV makes people think they can earn a lot of money without putting same amount of effort on it. But, how many people can really be the winner in the show and win a huge of money and become a multimillionaire? For example, one of my friends, she won ten million from the lottery, but she still study until she graduated from the college. It is because she knew that she could win was because the luck and the money will use up one day. Therefore, only education can become your property and last forever.
In conclusion, reality TV is perilous and people always easily be affected. Hence, people need to analysis the message before they receive it to avoid getting the incorrect message. Otherwise, they will get lose and going the wrong way in their future. Last but not least, education is a way that can fulfill your dream and achieve your goal.
1.i think your claim/thesis was somewhat confusing because you misunderstood the main point you used as your claim.
ReplyDelete2.your reasons connect to the topic well and are easy to understand one reason i liked when your writing about how experience is not the only thing you need to be successful education gives you the knowledge
3.your evidence was detailed and concrete as for example when you write about your fathers experience in his hair salon
4.the whole thing was easy to read..GOOD JOB!!
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ReplyDeleteI think your claim/thesis is very clear because a strong idea and you refer back to the reading.
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your reasons connect to the topic well and easy to understand. One reason i liked was everthing you was true fact and you related back to the reading.
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your evidence was detailed and concrete, as for example when you write about your example, both example were relating from the the passage which is a good thing.
Lastly, i would like to let you know that the whole easy to read. Great job