Gossip

... also might influence more people wanting to become her friend. It gives Cherry a good profile and a higher social status. However, if the gossip were of a different kind, for example, if Andrea had told Betty that she heard Cherry had started to pick up smoking and takes drugs ... , the outcome would be totally opposite. Andrea, Betty and everyone who partakes in spreading the gossip would have a negative impression on Cherry. Cherry would be viewed as a girl that has gone bad, people lose respect towards her and avoid her ... what it is about. In fact, the way society views it, news is...

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... in order to educate and place ourselves in the world and to make sense of our beings and universe (Haviland/Gordon 1). Knowing that, we should consider talking about people or gossip our link between a primate past and the world of modern anthropology, not idle chatter. "Apes and monkeys, humanity's closest kin, differ from other animals in the intensity of their relationships ... enhance social structure and perpetuate the status quo, but it can also be used by individuals to bring about more or less fundamental and lasting changes (Besnier 546-7)." Gossip, with all its functions, is d...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... television drama. He asserts, "television is presumed to have the imprinter of 'culture.' Yet it can indeed seek to represent life" (Bigsby). Teen-dramas such as Gossip Girl are exceptional examples of how even though television is fictional, it can make a pretty clear statement about the world. Despite being exceptional avenues of illustrating social issues, television dramas ... intoxicated and lose inhibitions, they are more likely to engage in risky sexual activity. Sex is rampant on the show, and unfortunately is glamorized just like similar teen dramas. Yet Gossip Girl does n...

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... but how can it when it also can cause so much hurt. Norris feels that gossip can strengthen communal bonds, therefore allowing people to use this as a way to communicate with each other. Kathleen Norris finds that gossip is a helpful thing; it gives her material on which to write and express her belief ... creating very small stories about people she knows and connecting them together to create a larger story built around the theme of gossip. Norris tries to make her readers understand how gossip takes various forms; it could be bad or good, even therapeutic. At one point she uses theol...

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• Grade Level: High School

... can sit her comrade down and mention gossiping damages relationships. After all that is mentioned in Proverbs: "A perverse person stirs up conflict and a gossip separates close friends" (Proverbs 16: 28). As one can see there is an action and a consequence; this is spotted throughout Proverbs. With that ... is wrong, there are ways to prevent gossiping and stop strife. To begin with, there is the long way around to stop rumors; "a gossip goes around spreading rumors while a wise man tries to quiet them" (Proverbs 11:13). This proverb is trying to demonstrate the difference between a ... ...

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... , often it can hurt. An example of this would be when an employee who gossips about a fellow employee. By doing this, he loses credibility with his employer and fellow employees. Gossip is extensive in the newspaper industry. A person could say that magazines like the National Enquirer and the Star, who specialize in gossiping, are doing the greatest good for the greatest ... the conversation around by saying something nice about the person being talked about. Alternatively, we could walk away and not be a part of the problem by sticking around to listen. Gossip is wrong and we should up...

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... many different places and in many different ways. When you are a teenager and in high school is when you get the hang of how to gossip. For example, if something bad happens to you, or to someone that you know, you can bet that the entire class will know about it in no time flat. Girls, ... especially high school girls, are the biggest gossips. They gossip about everything and anything, like other girls, guys, and even what people did the night before. People of all ages love to ... gossip, because it makes them feel better about themselves. It seems like the older you get the more gos...

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Television Gossip Do you consider yourself a television junkie? Television talk show hosts today pick a wide range of topics they think viewers will be interested in and want to watch everyday and eventually ... each host has their own style. There is no college degree that will make you be able to be a talk show host, but I do think you must be able to gossip and be ready to think outside the box. Topics of talk shows usually are appealing and meant to grab the viewer's attention. Ricki Lake, for example, uses topics that viewer ... ...

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... that our writing instructor is a "Lesbian Communist"? This simple rumor probably came from a disgruntled student who misunderstood a simple statement. A lot of times nasty gossip is started simply from a misunderstood statement or a secret that is not so secret anymore. Secrets are supposed to be kept secret, yet they almost always seem ... is to show that you know her secrets. But on the other side of the coin the reason a boy is less likely to scavenge for gossip and distribute his findings is that he has much less to gain by it. A boy's main access to status is less a matter of ... t...

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• Grade Level: High School