Reality Show These days just about anything can be the topic of a reality (6) ………………….. People get married, live with strangers on an island, eat strange foods, and do some very (7) ………………….. things- all for the chance to win (8) ………………….. or become famous. One of the most (9) ………………….. reality shows is Pop Idol. This television series began in England in (10) …………………... Since then, Pop Idol has been imitated with versions in over thirty (11) …………………... Each week, contestants sing a (12) ………………….. song in front of several judges. Then TV viewers at home (13) ………………….. to choose their favorite singers.
Another reality TV hit is the show Big Brother. A group of nine volunteers, all
(14) ………………….. , moved into a house together and were filmed twenty-four hours a day for a hundred days. The nine people lived together, ate together, and shared bedrooms, while people at home watched it all on TV. The show started in the Netherlands in (15) …………………… Soon, other countries started their own versions of Big Brother and the show became internationally popular.

In the play "sorry wrong number"which part of the story can you find heightened tension and suspense?

In this excerpt from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift, which important issue does the writer deal with using a satirical tone? some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. but i am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. and as to the young labourers, they are now in almost as hopeful a condition. they cannot get work, and consequently pine away from want of nourishment, to a degree, that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it, and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come. a. old, sickly people cannot be hired as laborers because they don't have the physical stamina required for the job. b. old, sickly people and young laborers are useless to the nation because they cannot be productive citizens. c. the economy of the nation is burdened by the poor, the old, and the sickly who survive on charity and handouts. d. the living conditions of the poor and their lack of employment opportunities are serious concerns for the nation. reset next

Have you ever contributed to “social media outrage” (using your social media accounts to boost the anger about a contemporary issue by forwarding it, liking it, etc.) without stopping to think who might’ve originated the message or what the originator’s motives might’ve been? provide example.