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    Survivor or The Amazing Race? Reality television is well known for its exhibition in unscripted dramatic and often humorous events that portrays real life people as opposed to professional actors. Reality television is mostly associated with the years after 2000. Television’s popular, long-running reality series Survivor, and The Amazing Race both have similar goals and outcomes, despite their themes, challenges, and ingenuity. Survivor is far more entertaining than The Amazing Race with its use of

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    The Amazing Race is a popular show where pairs of family members or friends race around the world to compete for a million dollars. Blake Mycoskie along with his sister were one of the lucky pairs that were chosen to complete challenges in over thirteen different cities every day for three weeks. Blake started off on the show to compete for the million dollar prize, but that is not what ended up happening. Blake and his sister lost the million dollars; however, Blake found something worth more than

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    Nowadays, there is a wide selection of reality shows, which audiences can pick and watch. The reason why there are so many different types of reality shows is due to the expansion of the broadcasting industry and the need to ingratiate the taste of the public. Although most people will agree the term reality shows is used to identify shows that have arisen since the 21st century, the appearance of reality television shows actually emerged earlier than everyone thought. For example, Allen Funt’s Candid

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    Survivor is a game show about becoming a true survivor. In the show competitors are divided up into two or three tribes using each other to try to stay in the game. Every three days there is a immunity challenge when the tribes have to do challenges trying to win so that they don't get eliminated and exiled off of the island. Occasionally there are reward challenges that gives the survivors benefits in the game. Eventually they merge into one tribe and compete individually against each other. You

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    I just want to start off by saying that I really enjoyed watching survivor this year. The show is unscripted and completely in the wild. This means there are very limited cultural influences of the contestants and we, as viewers, get to see firsthand the actions and the thoughts of the contestants. Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes, and survivor provides a prime real-life example for us to do this. I just want to get it out there now that I think Keith should've

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    their lives” (Tarshish 15). The oil spilt from ships is toxic to the penguins. If people are not fast enough penguins could lose their lives. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “Saving Penguins, One Sweater At A Time” have many similarities and differences such as conflict and the solution to helping the penguins. One similarity between “The Amazing Penguin Race” and “Saving Penguins, One Sweater At A Time” is the conflict. In both stories people are trying to save penguins that have been harmed. An example

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    In the perils of what is a prosperous and incredible journey for the development and advancements of the human race, we are pushed back by the evil actions of some individuals who believe their objections to society outweigh the necessary benevolence. Stretching to the early years of Ancient China, highly regarded to be far surpassing the standards of the era, The Zhou, Qin, and Han dynasties all demonstrated the need for a death penalty to expunge the evil from their land. Established in the Roman

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    document everything. In “The Age of Miracles” by Karen Thompson Walker, the world was ending, and the human race decided to log all of human history onto a disk and sends it into space to preserve the existence of humanity. A very special team was put together to pic out what to include in the

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    movie tells the untold story of there important role in the space race between the United States and Russia. The film also highlights and brings to light race relations in America during the 1960s. In the film there are important characters, themes, and scenes that capture its true meaning and message. The movie highlights the strong will and amazing talents of Katherine Johnson. Johnson's story of overcoming obstacles and amazing life accomplishments is empowering and one that everyone should hear

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    Mixed Races In America

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    been doing for the past 200 years. Having mixed races is good for the country because Ohio can teach other states to stop being prejudice to mixed people. This town can change history because in America, racism levels have not gone down since the 1990’s they have actually gone a quite a bit. Even when Abraham Lincoln removed enslaving people did not like to make mixed races in their family, but the Keiser’s and that is what makes their family amazing. If this town can have an effect on the country

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