Reality Shows: Fake or Real?

Reality Shows:fake or real? That's what I ask myself when reality shows are beaming on my t.v screen.Even though the people say that everything is real and it's taped at that moment and there were no double takes.Most shows that I watch are reality t.v. My mom always tells me that "it's fake and a waist of time.Nothing is real in reality t.v". But I disagree sometimes because the situations that happen in the shows are real and the situations are real and people go through it. For a couple of weeks now a lot of drama has come along with the stars of TLC's Jon and Kate plus 8. If you have never heard of it its about two parents taking care of their eight children under that age of ten. They have two sets of sextuplets.Cameras document their lives and catch every bit fight, laughs,kids crying etc. This show is one of the highest raising t.v shows on that program.For a while now the parents of eight children have taken the cover of magazines and have been that main focus on the news. There have been speculations that Jon, the father has been having an affair with a young teacher and Kate, the mom has been having an affair with her bodyguard.I think that this show is not fake.The show is mainly based on the kids and their life raising their children and there daily struggles.Lets face it, its not easy raising eight kids.How do you fake something like that. On the other hand MTV's highest rating show The Hills is a show that I watch once a week. I believe that this show is fake in certain situations.You can tell that certain things are fake.The stuff that happens on the show had different situations then stuff in the tabloids.So, I think that certain reality shows are fake and some are real.

Mariotto di Bigio

When I was browsing through google to get pictures for a school project, a interesting picture caught my eye.The painting is called The Visitation by Mariotto di Bigio. He was a oil painter in the Renaissance. The reason why this painting caught my eye is because just the way the people are positioned.Both women are wearing long pieces of cloth and their faces are very close.The woman on the right seems to be poor and the woman the the left seems to be wealthy. During the Renaissance people relied on the church for guidance. The way he painted this was in a way as though you were right there.The lack of details and angles give you a bettter understanding of the paintin and the time period. For instance the arc behind them has such detailed work.Its almost hard to belive that this painting was made from a oil painter.Another instant that I had was also the way they dressed but the backround is mostly landscape. You can tell that in this time it was not in this century.Wikipedia said that Bigios paintings "bear the imprint a sence of volume in space and perspective". I agree. This painting was Mariottos masterpiece that will show its amazing detailed and landscape. There is just something about it that amazes me.

Technology takes over the world

What would you be doing right now if you weren't sitting in front of a computer screen right now? You might be playing outside with friends enjoying the fresh air. For some kids/teens in the 50s that was what their life on a day to day basis. They didn't have the many privileges as us teen have today. The thing close to a computer was type writer and look at us now.We have nice computers with a decent size screen and we can blast music whenever we want, and now we can take our computers where ever we go with the laptops.When technology first started entering society people were amazed that they just wanted more. Today, "technology" is our life basicaly.You see kids with nice and cool cell phones, like the sidkick and the latest "have now" cellphone is the blackberry. Every where you turn you see some kind of new invention. You see people walking in the streets with an ipod.Technology get new a fresher new inventions every year. People have no idea how incredible the new technology is.But, then I also think how it takes over our life. It takes away our knowlege. People cant think for themselves at times.Lets face it. You cant live with them, you cant live without it.Whenever a new invention come out everyone is eager to have it. Ill admit that if I forget my cell phone at home or my ipod I feel like my day is ruinedbecause I dont know what to do.Its an addiction that there is no treatment for it.Even if you try and stay away from the new "must haves" there will always be something new presented to the world.So has tecnology taken over the world? Or is it just a phase that society will never get rid of.But I will admit that tecnology has helped us out in our everyday lives.Like,if we didnt have no transportation how would life still be like.We would still be using horse and buggie around. In a way im thankful for the inventions that have been presented in our world but I do feel it might be going over board.

A Teen Pregnancy..Gone Wrong

Almost every high school student nowadays are thinking about having sex with their boyfriend/girlfriend. Unprotected sex can lead to diseases such as Aids. The main thing that can lead to sex is getting pregnant. There are one million teen pregnancies each year, starting from ages 13-17.This is the highest rate of teen pregnancies.You hear a lot about teen pregnancies and how it affects their lives, their partners lives and their future. Also, there are young teen age girls who want to have babies.On the Tyra Banks show she had young teens and them getting pregnant and who want to get pregnant. That CRAZY. But one story about one teenage girl brought me to tears. In 2006, a 17 year old senior in high school and her boyfriend were having sex and unfortunatly she got pregnant. Now heres the weird part. She kept it a secrect from her family and her boyfriend.The only person who knew was her best friend. This girl was a heavy set , so now one susspected anything. Nine months later she went into labor.Without waking her parents up she took towels, went to the basement and gave birth. When your in the situation your body cant control whats happening. After she gave birth she wrap the baby in a towle. At this point, a first time mom would cry be happy and just enjoy motherhood. But, thats not what she was thinking. Next to her was a knife that she took from the kitchen and stabbed the infant child more than 130 times.Ater that she placed the deceased body in a garbage pale.Afterwards she called her friend and told her what had happend and what she's done. Her friend was so disterbed and disgusted at her friend that she called the police. The killer mother got arrested for first degree murder and is now serving her time in prison. I still cant belive that this had happend. I'll confess it was pretty hard to write what had happend.Just thinking about it gives me a knot in my stomach. A reporter said that some pregnate girls dont know what to do and dont want to face motherhood so they give up on them or kill. I think it is so important to have safe sex. Something like that can change your life completly. Actions lead to consiquenceses and we should take thos actions and deal with it respocibly. This is a topic that every high school in America should know about.