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Are Reality Shows shielding us from reality?

I cannot say that I am not guilty of watching reality television, I plead the fifth . I indulge in my guilty pleasures from time to time, shows such as “Basketball wives” and “Love and Hip-hop”. I admit that these …

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Is medicine healing our sicknesses or making us sicker?

When it comes to health, statistics are scary for us as Americans. Whether caused by prior lifestyle decisions or genetics, Americans are suffering from fatal illnesses every second of every day.  What boggles my mind is the fact that  people …

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Are television programs programming our youth to be socially impaired?

“Idiot box”, the well known nickname for the all-American television set. For many years people have been slandering television and the problems said to have come along with it. Violence, obesity, and explicit content are some of the most commonly …

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