PASSION BLOG (SLEEPING)

For this passion blog I decided to talk about how much I enjoy sleeping. The reason why I choose this is because when I do get the chance to sleep; its like ive never slept before. I'm currently a senior in high school, and the amount of stuff that we have to do throughout the day is really stressful. Such as, passing our classes and making sure that everything is completed and good to go for the next day. Also, the college research, financial aid package, and applying for scholarships as well just adds on to the stress. I am also in a capital one internship that I have to be committed to it 100% and make sure I attend all the meetings and work the internship assigns me to do... this distracts me from doing school work and college research. College is very expensive and I should be applying for the scholarships,but I'm so committed to capital one i don't have the time to spare to study for my SATs nor apply for these scholarships. I don't even have time for myself anymore or to spend time with my family or friends because throughout the weekend I'm really just catching up on my sleep.. and it feels so great to finally lay down and REST! I know that right now things are rough and stressful but I know when I'm walking across that stage in June all of my sleepless nights and hard work will be worth it.

CRR "class related response"

In class yesterday my group and I were all assigned an article to read and answer questions on. All of the articles that we had were based on the same topic. The topic was based on secrets that producers won't tell the public on what they were doing to reality TV. They explain how there is no script, but they have writers who craft plot lines twisting and tweaking footage to create conflict and shape a story out. Also, they explain about how cheap they are; they are always trying to get as much talent as possible while spending as little money as possible. They explain how they are the "masters" of manipulation. They often take different clips and edit them together to sound like one conversation, sometimes drastically changing the meaning. They also lie about how long the job will take them.

I feel like this is not good for society because were watching something that's basically fake when we’re thinking it’s real. At the same time, it shows how easily manipulated the public can be towards reality TV.  Now that I've read this article I know what to expect out of reality TV shows so, I most likely will stop watching them.  What confuses me about this topic is why do producers have to lie to us in the first place? I understand there can be a few edits of course, but why lie and switch stories around to have a conflict start? I feel like this fake conflict that they are trying to appeal to us is destroying society because it makes the public more aggressive than what they already are. Young kids killing each other, bullying etc…There is already a lot going on; we don’t need a reality TV show to make things worse than what it is.