November 26‚ 2012 When researching on the effects of television towards Americans‚ I found quite a few published studies‚ articles and books that were helpful in educating me on this epidemic. The average child will spend 1‚500 hours a year watching television and in those 1‚500 hours they will view an average of 200‚000 acts of violence by the time they graduated high school (Norman Herr‚ Ph.D.). By the time a person turns 18 years old they will have watched 3 years worth of television. Television
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IBM 3 ideas to build one smarter planet 1. Instrument the world’s system (INSTRUMENTED):- i) By making the world’s system instrumented I.B.M. means that now they have the ability to measure‚ sense and see the exact condition of everything ii) They believe that everything will get instrumented ranging from supply chains‚ health care networks‚ cities to natural systems like rivers 2. Interconnect them (INTERCONNECTED) i) Interconnected means connecting people
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Good morning respected judge‚ my honorable opponent and members of the audience. Today‚ we are indeed honoured and privileged to stand before you to present our views on the motion of the house ‘’Reality Television Does More Harm Than Good.’’ First‚ let me introduce my team. I am Komalah Selvamuthu Raja and am the first speaker. I will define the key terms of the motion and set the boundaries for my team’s debate. My second‚ third and fourth speakers will strengthen our arguments by presenting various
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Does Advertising really make you spend more? A standard claim is that people who watch less t.v. spend less on things they don’t want. But I started to wonder if that’s really true. How influenced are we by advertising? Do we buy things because we see them repeatedly on t.v. or would we buy these things to make us feel good? I bought a new vehicle without seeing one single commercial‚ I decided I wanted a new car‚ and I just went shopping for one. It’s pretty clear that advertising works on
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Nowadays most of families have at least one television in house. The main purposes of using TV are relaxation‚ reducing loneliness and educating children. We‚ however‚ have to consider both sides of watching television. Recent research studies point out/ indicate a few negative effects of television on children like overweight‚ sleep problems and sexuality information. First‚ spending a lot of hours on TV leads to be overweight‚ according to the American Medical association. There are three main
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Stereotypes in Children ’s Television: "The Proud Family" "The Proud Family" is a children ’s program that runs daily on The Disney Channel and on Saturday mornings on ABC Kids. It is a TV-G rated program. The show is about an African-American family with the last name Proud. There is a mom‚ dad‚ three kids‚ and a grandmother. The main character of the show is the oldest daughter named Penny Proud who is probably in junior high. Also‚ some of Penny ’s friends are in the show. All of the characters
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advances in the electronic industry have made watching television a prominent source of entertainment. With present day technology being far more advanced than it used to be‚ advances like HD televisions and DVR’s have turned watching television into a luxury. Television has become an affordable and easily accessible luxury that many parents and their children turn to for entertainment‚ which unfortunately can have major consequences. In children‚ watching television can cause poor grades‚ behavior
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Are you a personal fan of TV crime dramas or are you just disturbed by them? The past couple of months and/or in the past year tv crime drama have been becoming more popular. Whether people enjoy them or there’s been a case of boredom and there’s nothing to watch. Either way the viewers of tv crime drama have increased from the last couple of years. A crime drama is a type drama show‚ which has its primary focus or heroes‚ people whose main job or occupation is to investigate‚ punish or commit crimes-
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A powerful tool‚ but to what end? The Internet is the gateway to a seemingly limitless amount of information. This however‚ is where many people have differing perspectives on the Internet. In Nicholas Carr’s article‚ “Does the Internet Make You Dumber”‚ and Steven Johnson’s article‚ “The Genius of the Tinkerer”‚ these men share their perspective on the Internet. The authors believe that the Internet is a source for lots of information‚ but they differ in that Carr believes that the distractions
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“Born First‚ Born Smarter?” Is an article about how the genetics and birth order of any said family affect intelligence. The two main contributors of the study are Robert Zajonc and Gregory Markus. Zajonc and Markus believed that birth order does‚ in fact‚ relate to intelligence. Their main questions were how and why the majority of first-born children typically test better and are smarter than their later-born siblings. Zajonc and Markus tested their theory by comparing it to the data of studies
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