...Both Jay Wadhwa and I wrote about American Idol, and its influence on today’s music scene. Although I agree with many of his points, I think his focus was far too narrow, and omitted the show’s impact on the music industry as a whole. While he makes many fair points, I think he needed to shift his thesis to center more on the music itself. Jay spends most of the essay focusing on the charitable work that the show has done. He mentions Simon Cowell helping to donate over $200 million to homelessness and poverty. Jay makes note of how powerful and influential Cowell and the show’s creator, Sam Fuller, have become. He even mentions how American Idol as a show helped aid New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina disaster. These points are all accurate, and indeed important. However, the only thing Jay says regarding the music industry is that its reputation is boosted when its celebrities do charitable things. He neglects to include how the music scene and the musicians themselves are affected, and how the way we view music has been affected. In the first body paragraph, I feel that he spends far too much time describing Sam Fuller. While certainly relevant to American Idol, Fuller’s influence is more relevant to the entertainment industry and comes more from his wealth than his musical background. Facts such as which celebrities he manages are mostly irrelevant. Instead, he should have spent more time on describing how Simon (as well as Randy and Paula, the other two judges) have...
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...The Voice and American Idol are two of many popular entertainment tv series. Audiences have only increased for each series as they continue to climb up the popularity ladder. However, despite their massive steps toward stardom each show has their own level of popularity. The Voice may be seen as more entertaining than American Idol, but every “perfect” thing has it’s flaws. American Idol has statistically been proven to be the best compared to The Voice due to the fact that the main focus is the contestants and their celebrity production rate. The Voice may have much more popular judges than it’s counterpart, but that may be their downfall. For the most part The Voice’s audience members merely watch the show because their favorite artist(s) are the judges, where as, American Idol’s judges are known but not to the extent as The Voice’s judges. “...the four celebrity “coaches” on the show...
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...Wholesome, effective and productive thought is blocked by biased obstacles which are manifest in a worship of four idols. Sir Frances Bacon argued that human folly arose from a virtual enslavement of the mind to intellectual idolatry. The four idols are: 1• class: "Idols of the Tribe" --“have their foundation in human nature itself” 2• “ Idols of the Cave" -- “common errors” of the individual’s nature 3• “ Idols of the Marketplace" -- “arise from consort, intercourse, commerce” 4• “ Idols of the Theater" -- “dogmatic belief” in sensory illusions ________________________________________ discussion | Bacon's words | return to Bacon | restatement | conclusion ________________________________________ metaphorically speaking these preconceived attitudes are engendered from experiences of the: Tribe --– ethnicity “a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of all things.” “measure of the individual” takes mistaken priority over “the measure of the universe.” familial values, sanguinary obligations, common character flaws: “shared …human nature.” Cave ––– egocentricity “everyone has a cave or den of his own, which refracts and discolors the light of nature.” character education “authority of whom he esteems and admires.” “the spirit of a man” … “full of perturbations, and governed as it were by chance” personal perspective narrows and ignores the wider “common world” ; troglodyte (cave dweller) individual hubris, specific character flaws, lack...
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...American Idols Corrupting Our Nation’s Youth September 19, 2013 ENGL 101 B12 Abstract I believe that the entertainment industry, all the idols are corrupting our nation’s youth. T.V helps to portray and idolize what the media wants the world to see. The T.V along with the media portrays how the youth should look, dress, and act; it has slowly conquered the minds of the youth. It also has taken effect in the lives of adults, mind controlling and programing the world to be a certain way. This has taken a toll on our communities and it has become harder to raise our children. Every magazine, T.V show, or music that we tune into is always about sex money and drugs. The media emphasizes how all three things are what are most important in this world and this is what will make you happy. T.V has corrupted the way our youth acts, dresses, and thinks. The main idea of all these advertisements on T.V do is promote doing drugs, being sexual, dressing promiscuously due to idolizing and even demonic oppression. This is a very serious issue that although we may feel is out of our control can be handled. There are numerous ways that the media affects the youth’s daily lives; it puts more pressure for them to be a certain way to fit in. Youth start prioritizing and practicing disgusting habits such as doing drugs, being sexual and dressing promiscuously because that is the way their idols are. If you take a look at just some of the images provided you can see that this is what our youth...
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...Tainted Idols In today’s society the use of drugs to enhance one’s performance is becoming a common trend in professional sports. These drugs help athletes to compete at a higher level. Not only do these professional athletes break many records and win trophies, they are making more money than ones who choose not to use performance enhancing drugs. Since salaries have increased in professional sports, so has the use of these drugs. While performance enhancing drugs were apparent in the past, they have become increasingly evident in the modern era, tainting the integrity of professional sports. The use of performance enhancing drugs has been around for many years. In World War II these drugs were given to German soldiers to increase their strength and aggressiveness (Edwards, 2006). However, these drugs became evident in the 1960 Olympic Games after a Dutch cyclist died. In 1963, a ban was placed on a list of prohibited drugs by the International Olympic Committee to prevent performance enhancing drugs from being used in sports. This list of prohibited drugs has grown substantially since (King, 2009). Even though there is growing evidence of serious health risk that come along with the use of performance enhancing drugs, they are still being produced and used at a rapid rate. Others would argue that use of performance enhancing drugs dates back thousands of years. There are stories of athletes ingesting ground horse hooves and sheep testicles for ancient Olympic Games to gain...
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...My Idol If people say about music industry, K-Pop will be the big one that go viral and worldwide. They also have huge fans based in Korea and international. It’s the reason why i found a cute girl with short hair through her first music album since then, 9 years, she still be my idol and my inspiration. Stephanie Hwang (Korean name: Hwang Mi-young credited under the stage name Tiffany, is an American vocalist and performing artist, dynamic in South Korea. She is an individual from Girls' Generation and TaeTiSeo as a primary vocalist in both gatherings. Her birthday is on August first, 1989. She prepared for a long time and seven months before her singing introduction in 2007. She was conceived in San Francisco, California, and experienced childhood in Diamond Bar, California, as the most youthful of three kin. She was born in the same hospital as her prior kindred Girls' Generation, Jessica. She additionally talks English and Korean fluently. She tried out at the SM Entertainment Starlight Casting System and joined the organization on October 2004 in Los Angeles, California. She prepared for a long time and 7 months before appearing. She went to South Pointe Middle School and Diamond Bar High School, she then exchanged to Korea Foreign Kent High School in Seoul and moved on from that point at age 18. Her height is 163 cm and her weight is 51 kg. Other languages that she can speak are Chinese (Basic), Japanese (Basic), Spanish (Basic). Watching films and listening to music are...
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...Computers: The Perfect Idols More often than not in today’s world you will tend to use computers. Directly or indirectly they have been increasing their influence on our lives from their invention in the 50’s, until the current state of their presence in every aspect of our lives. What before was done on paper, today is done on the same paper, a computer, a copy, and a form to input the data into the computer. The paperless revolution has turned sour. The very purpose of the computer as a business machine -- to reduce clutter, to organize data better and faster, and mostly to reduce the paperwork -- has been abandoned for a system dictated to us by the needs of our computers. This is only one way that computers are being misused in our society. Think for example of the regular answer you would get if you call up any bureaucratic agency, such as a bank or a government agency, with any problem. The first response would probably involve something like: “Our computer doesn’t show that record”, or “The computer doesn’t say you did so and so.” That is also probably as far as you will get to solving that problem. The computer is the perfect cover-up for the clerk on the other end of the phone line. If the computer says so, how can anyone argue? The computer shows no record of such and such a paper, and therefore it must not exist, and that is the end. The clerk need not involve himself/herself in though as to why the record is not in the computer, or how it got out of the computer...
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...Hinduism unlike other religions, there was no one who neither started nor predicted the religion would become one. It is known as “the religion of the Indians”. The beginning of Hinduism goes back to the Vedic period. Some say that Hindu practices was already shown to Indus culture during the third millennium BCE. Hinduism is not only a religion with countless gods, but Hinduism idols got several natures and hold several forms. There are three important idols that the Hindu has Shiva, Vishnu, and Devi. As of today in Hinduism, one of the three is acknowledge being the greatest (Gardner, 435). In my paper I am going go to write about the sculpture of Shiva and a sculpture of Vishnu. The sculptures were seen in the Norton Simon Museum. To begin with, who is known as the destroyer? Shiva is known as the...
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...productions we have chosen to write about his X Factor franchise, Got Talent franchise and Pop Idol as this is the show to which he rose to fame and from this he got the idea to start his own shows. These programmes are all casting programmes. Millions of people on average watch these shows. On average ten million viewers watch X Factor UK each week, although this number is decreasing. Also when Ashleigh and Pudsey won Britain’s Got Talent in May 2012, an average of nineteen million people tuned into see the dancing dog. The shows are watched by both male and female and also the shows do not target any specific age group. Pop Idol first appeared on our screens in 2001. Simon was a judge on the first series. After surprising Simon Fuller the show producer, Simon then travelled to America to appear as a judge on the American version of Pop Idol. Pete Waterman a fellow judge on Pop Idol was furious when Michelle McManus won series two of Pop Idol in 2003. Pete believed Michelle did not look like a pop star even though she had an amazing voice. Many people watching this show would have been influenced by this as they would then feel that they could not follow their dream as they may not have been as small in sized like other pop stars. Simon did not agree with Pete though as he was behind Michelle from the beginning and was more interested in her voice and not her appearance. Simon quit Pop Idol...
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...Classify Similarities between the Hunger Games and American Idol In recent years, more people have become are enthusiastic to reality television show. American Idol is a popular reality television show, but there is irrationality in reality television show. Suzanne Collins, author, who wrote the Hunger Games, claims that she was influenced by reality show. Therefore, American Idol and the Hunger Games have similarities to claims in society such as survival game with only one winner, audience care, and media has been brainstormed people’s perspective. First, survival game has only one winner. In the Hunger Games, people kill others to survive. The game is for surviving, and the person who wins the game can be a rich person. It means only one can live well, but others should sacrifice for only one. Also, in American Idol, people compete against each other to win the competition. Winner can be a famous person, so this status enables to be him/her a singer, but others aren’t recognize by audience. Secondly, contestants have to have the audience care. In the Hunger Game, less audience care is directly connected to death because audience gives their food and supplies. Attractive to audience will give participate more support to win the Hunger Games easily. American Idol also needs audience care. In competition, contestants have to judged by their own skills, but attraction is more than their skills because if the audience likes contestants regardless of their skill, contestant...
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...Motivation of Success Research Paper By: Reinaldo Cabrera University of Phoenix Comp and Communication II Motivation for Success Determination, motivation and having goals are all different emotions and feelings that we all use to achieve more than the other. No matter the person you are or the family you have we are all different and use certain effects that takes place in our lives as positives or negative. NBA players are no different. They have goals, are determined to achieve them and use life challenges as motivation. Neither is better than each other but they use their life styles from their childhood as motivation to do better, to be better. Isn't that our goal in life, try to find a way to do better for you, your friends and family? We are born to want more, to live more and to be more than the last. NBA players all have different reason and paths to where they are now but they are no different than the next. Some players lived difficult lives and some have them planned out, but both paths have a major impact on how they will play in the NBA. Motivation has a way of pushing people to do more than they are capable of. For example Lebron James, a very talented NBA player, uses his difficult childhood as the foundation for his motivation. He never lived an easy life, whether...
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...talented. I don’t know one country artist who has ever been accused of lip singing. What was your childhood like? I was born `and raised on a farm “I had a very happy childhood full of the wonderful simple things that children love to do”, “Growing up in the country, I enjoyed things like playing on dirt roads,climbing trees, catching little woodland creatures and of course, singing” Did you graduate from college? “I graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State Univeristy in Oklahoma with a bachelors in mass communications, American idol even helped me check off one course requirement , I’ve obviously done enough with television there was my internship right there !” weeks later she took home 4 academy country music awards, Including Top New female vocalist and single of the year, ”Jesus Take The Wheel” What are you best known for? “I don’t exactly know what people know me for but I would think most know me for my American Idol fourth season winning and going on to win multiple grammy and academy of country music awards.” What’s it like winning big at the CMA’s ? “God has blessed be with so many wonderful things in my life ,and I will spend my entire life trying to figure out why, if you had told me a few years ago I would have been nominated with the people that I have been nominated with I would have called you completely...
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...My biggest idol For me, an idol is not just an idol, it’s a hero. A person you can look up to and think, wauw, I want to be just like him/her when I grow up. And there is only one person I can think of. My idol is my grandpa. He was, is and will always be my hero. My grandfather was an admirable old man. His high bridge of the nose, broad forehead is just two things I will always remember, or that the lovely smile on his face, that no matter what always could but a smile on my face. In an age of 19 he was a soldier in the Danish army doing the World War II, he fought for his country against the German army. I remember him talking about it, he didn’t like it, but when talked, it was kind of scary to hear some of the thing he had gone through. After the army he decided to settle down with his dearest love, my grandma. They found a farm outside Thisted and they brought to kinds into the world, my dad and aunt. When I was a little girl, my grandpa was my hero. I was a hundred percent sure of that he could do anything in the world, and he could. He make me stop crying when I fell down from a tree, he taught me how to braid, he taught me to ride a bike like I said, he could do anything in the world. I grew up and he was still my hero. When I was upset with my parents he was always the first one I called. He always knew what to said to make the whole situation better, how to make me feel better. But he got old too of cause and in august 2010 he passed...
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...| CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR BUS273C | OUR EVERYDAY IDOL | Contents Page 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Theories that Apply to the Way Viewers Form their Perception i. Selective Perception ii. Consumer Learning iii. Classical Conditioning 4. Impact of Reality Programs on Various Industries i. Food Industry ii. Home Improvement Industry iii. Entertainment Industry iv. Health Industry 5. Involvement Level and Interactivity that affect Viewers Perception v. High Involvement Level vi. Low Involvement Level 6. Conclusion 7. Appendices 8. Reference List 1. Executive Summary This report discusses about the impact of Reality TV shows on viewers. Firstly, the theories that apply to the way in which viewers form their perceptions are discussed. Three different types of theories namely selective perception, consumer learning and classical conditioning will be examined and how they relate to the forming of a viewer’s perception of a Reality TV Show. Secondly, the report also discusses how these programs impact the viewer’s purchasing decisions. Information from four industries was used to evaluate and explained the impact of Reality TV on consumer purchases. Lastly, involvement theory was used to evaluate the impact of involvement to the perception of the consumers/viewers. High-level and low-level involvement consumers/viewers are used in deriving...
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...American Idol of Literature The final judging in the American Idol of Literature competition took place in my mind between the three best written pieces of work in “Making Literature Matter”. The three pieces were “A Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, and even though it is not a story or play, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. Although the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was the best written thing in the text book, I don’t believe it could legitimately win in an “American Idol” type of competition because it wasn’t actually a story. He wrote that letter better than anything I have seen written to this day minus all of the Harry Potter books as I am very partial to them. He was in the heart of where the country needed to reform the most and no one was willing to help him make it happen. He had sincere guts and the faith required to help make the human rights movement work. All he was doing was answering the question “what are you doing here?” and he did it very successfully and effectively over thirteen pages. My favorite quote of his letter to the congressmen was; As in so many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us. We had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community. (Jr.) It was right after he...
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