Here's the fix: Do some research!
1. Go here
2. Sign in (username and password are both neistm)
3. Click on "My Products Page"
3. Type your topic (Santa Claus, Jersey Shore, humor, hoarding etc.) in the search box
4. Click on "Full Text" right underneath the search box.
5. Click the magnifying glass to search
Once you find your article, you can integrate what the author is saying into your own essay, showing that you aren't the only person with this idea. You can also tear down people you disagree with. In any case, adding actual research to your essay will beef it up and make it more credible.
For example, when I looked up "reality tv" I found this article:
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Cheryl Dellasega, a professor at Pennsylvania State University, links the abundance of reality TV "mean girls" who benefit from bad behavior to a real-world rise in relational aggression (bullying) among teen and adolescent girls. Jon KraszewsM, assistant professor of broadcasting and film at Seton Hall University, thinks MTV's The Real World uses casting, editing, and production choices to construct a reality- and support a particular ideology - for its authence.
Reality TV aims for coarseness and shock Value. Viewers get a glimpse at the lowest aspects of human behavior: greed, cruelty, promiscuity, betrayal, rudeness, and deceit beyond imagination. There's little that's actually real in manufactured, highly edited gamedocs, docusoaps, and reality sitcoms. But for entertainment, you can suspend your disbelief and imagine your friends or yourself acting like the characters from a particular show.
The brains and experiences of younger viewers aren't developed enough to process many of the prefabricated settings and situations posed by reality TV. Older teens have an easier time dismissing the antics of the actors as fiction. But do you get away scot-free? Or does the descent into depravity linger in your perceptions andinteractions with the real world?
Cheryl Dellasega, a professor at Pennsylvania State University, links the abundance of reality TV "mean girls" who benefit from bad behavior to a real-world rise in relational aggression (bullying) among teen and adolescent girls. Laurie Ouellete and Susan Murray, editors of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture, state in the introduction that reality TV "encourages viewers to test out their own notions of the real, the ordinary, and the intimate against the representation before them." This includes spying on others, accepting being watched by surveillance cameras as we go about our business, and posting homemade reality episodes on the Internet.
Jon KraszewsM, assistant professor of broadcasting and film at Seton Hall University, thinks MTV's The RealWorld uses casting, editing, and production choices to construct a reality- and support a particular ideology - for its authence. President of Media Research Center Brent Bozell claims that MTV's reality show lineup promotes sexual liberation, experimentation, and adopting new sexual identities. The programming pushes distorted sexuality on teens and kids as young as 12, most of whom don't want to ask an adult for the straight scoop.
The negative effects of reality TV go beyond emotional and psychological. If you're like most teens, you spend an average of 23 hours per week watching television. This has relationship, physical, and academic consequences. When you're watching the tube, you're disengaged from family and friends. Every hour spent idly watching as a couch potato increases your risk of obesity by 2 percent, further distancing you from the idealized stereotypes depicted in reality TV. And watching more than one or two hours of television daily lowers your academic achievement, particularly in reading.
Copyright Review and Herald Publishing Association Apr 2011
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