Assignment 5-Elizabeth Ueland

Entertainment has drastically changed overtime throughout different cultures and countries. Thanfully, we currently watch movies like Gladiator instead of using gladiators as our source of entertainment. In perspective, entertainment has improved throughout time as far as being humane. Television shows and movies allow people to escape their lives and become captivated in a different world and invoke feelings or experiences they wouldn’t normally encounter. This escape from reality can be beneficial to the individual if they want to wind down or relax. On the other hand, today people are becoming over absorbed in television shows and distracted from reality or things of real importance. Do I want to listen to girls obsess over the next bachelor or talk about how much they loathe Chad or how she should have picked James? Absolutely not. Television shows are feeding people with lies and staged footage and people are eating it up. Not to look over the fact that there are a handful television shows that are entertaining and educational or not entirely toxic. A fine dosage of National Geographic or the Discovery Channel can be quite fascinating for an individual. But people are paying more attention to what car Kim Kardashian is buying next than say what is happening in Iraq. Overall, television is not going to be the downfall of our society, but attention should be shifted to things of greater importance. And the Bachelorette should be terminated. As soon as possible.