FORL212-2 Due: 8th October‚ 2009 Effects of Western culture on teenagers Led by wealthy Western countries‚ the mass media‚ the fashion industry and the education curriculum‚ the perception of beauty is increasingly being defined by Western parameters due to reasons such as globalization‚ free trade and high technology. The inundation of Western culture is undeniable as it has effects that are both unconsciously beneficial and detrimental in our daily lives. Teenagers‚ who engage in surfing the World
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Video Games: Creating Monsters or Not? “Stay alive at any cost! Find the key! Shoot the bad guys!” This is how one sixth-grader describes the way of playing video games. Such video games can seem like harmless fun‚ but what if the violence gets personal and addicts young teenagers‚ affecting their behavior and their view of reality? Some studies have shown that violent game players just do not leave it there on their game screens; they transfer the violent acts they get attached to‚ to the real
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Josh Frint Lawrence ENG 1113 26 September 2012 Essay #1 Smartphones Impact on Todays students Today‚ smartphones are in the hands of almost every student. It has become so common that young children are starting to ask their parents for one. Although nobody can deny the ability to find and use information fast on a smartphone‚ many people feel students should not have one. These smartphones are effecting verbal communication‚ writing skills‚ as well as increasing laziness in our students.
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on TV. Children under age eight cannot tell the difference between reality and fantasy‚ making them more vulnerable to learning from and adopting as reality the violence they see on TV(American Academy of Pediatrics). Indeed these enormous amount of hours watching TV when at home leads to changes not only in eating habits and health‚ but also on one’s psychology and eventually the impact on the social life. Watching too much TV can affect you eating habits. When kids get back from school‚ when
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Harmful Effects of Watching Television In a recent cartoon‚ one character said to another‚ “When you think of the awesome power of television to educate‚ aren’t you glad it doesn’t?” It’s true that television has the power to educate and to entertain‚ but unfortunately‚ these benefits are outweighed by the harm it does to dedicated viewers. Television is harmful because it creates passivity‚ discourages communication and presents a false picture of reality. Television causes
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The Social Networking Effect on Teenagers The social networks are to people today what the TV was to people 20-30 something years ago. Human dependence on computers and the internet has come to the point that if the social networks ceased to work‚ relations and social connections would falter more so in teens than in adults. Teenagers have taken to social networking to do their everyday tasks and activities like interacting with friends and family‚ socializing and entertainment. While this sounds
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Negative Effects of Computers in Classrooms By Jessy Norman Computers and other related technologies have become an enormous part of our daily lives. They have altered our sense of people‚ space‚ and time. From our living rooms‚ we can now talk to people‚ and watch ev ents unfold in far-off places. Shopping‚ banking‚ and game playing are just a few of the other daily activities that have also changed. So many aspects of the ways we communicate and handle information have been altered by technological
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Dancehall Music is a popular genre of Jamaican music. It is composed of ‘riddims’‚ fast upbeat rhythms than the traditional reggae music. Dancehall music has become a symbol of explicit sexual imagery and violence. Despite the positive effects Dancehall music might have on our young people‚ it has become more a pathway for moral degradation with our young people. Dancehall lyrics are found to be crude as it promotes sexual behaviors‚ sexual imagery and violence. It is expected that the youth of society
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The Impact of too much Watching Television Shows on Teenagers “Media ’s the most powerful entity on earth" (Malcolm X). Media is capable to control facts. It influences anyone ’s point of view. There are different types of media like print media‚ new age media and electronic media etc. electronic and new age mediums are famously used by teens these days. Tablets‚ iPods‚ laptops‚ iPhones are some latest gadgets that teenagers use but television is one medium that teens cannot eradicate on their
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Communication is one of the most important things for us to live in this world wherein people express different views‚ opinions and viewpoints about the current issues in our lives (Thompson‚ 1967). It is important because of the fact that there are billions of people living in this world and it is very impossible for us to communicate with others simultaneously. And for that reason‚ different modes of communication are invented and innovated. One of
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