TV Addiction Marie Winn makes a convincing argument that watching too much television can be considered an addiction. Television has become a way of life for most families. Television viewing is so overwhelmingly prevalent nowadays that living without TV is often considered an extreme deprivation. TVs are everywhere‚ whether you are in a hospital‚ auto shop‚ or in the dentist’s office‚ there’s always a television by the waiting area. It’s a useful tool to help you from the boredom of waiting
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Is t.v. a drug? After a long‚ hard day of school‚ I trudge up the driveway to my house. As I approach the door‚ I can already hear the incoherent mumbles of the television. I open the door and am not surprised to see my sister on the couch‚ hand on remote‚ flipping through channels. I am now accustomed to this picture. My sister could be crowned queen of the couch potatoes. She watches television day and night‚ so much that my cousins and I now refer to her as the human T.V. Guide. She knows
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Reality TV vs. Real Life TV One of the main sources of news and entertainment is television. Every household has a television set in their home which the family consumes hours watching. Many reality TV shows are based on shallow and vague values. The growing trend in television now for our culture is “REALITY TV” (real life on TV). Just like the appeal to junk food or the internet reality TV has a dominant effect on our children and us as adults. There is real life and there is TV-life under influence
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“TV Isn’t Violent Enough” By Ashley Jo Helton Mr. Acorn English 1010 – 011 February 19‚ 2013 Outline Thesis statement: While Oppenheim’s argument makes sense logically‚ it does not make sense ethically. I. Oppenheim’s main problem with violence on television shows is the lack of realism. a. Most violent scenes on television could never happen as played out on screen. b. The author uses his medical background to explain this lack of realism. II. Realistic violence
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search * From internal search‚ knowing that it’s extremely hard to reach weight-loss goal on their own and even harder to maintain‚ thus need some medical help * From external search‚ most probably from commercial sources or health care providers‚ they become aware that the new FDA-approved weight-loss drug called ‘Metabical’ offers much less safety concern with “one pill a day” low-dose formulation & a comprehensive support program for healthy weight maintenance
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newsroom fluctuating throughout the day‚ some of which are moving from one position to another all within the same show‚ it can become very easy to get lost in the sea of different voices or lose control of such a large news team. Nick Edmonds‚ Annerberg TV news Who is in the newsroom? The number of jobs and people working in the newsroom vary depending on the media outlet. In smaller media outlets‚ at suburban weekly newspapers for example the newsroom will probably feature only a couple of journalists
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. Reality shows What Reality TV shows can be classified as a genre of TV shows presenting unscripted humorous dramatic or purportedly unscripted and upstaged matter in front of the audience. These reality TV shows usually feature ordinary people in unordinary situations. These reality shows also show celebrities that act as an aid in raising the TRPs of the shows. For many years‚ the television industry favored scripted television programs
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In her essay‚ "Tv Addiction‚" Marie Winn compares "television addiction" to other harmful habits‚ and tries to convince the reader that heavy television viewing is as harmful as drug and alcohol‚ and it should not be viewed differently than other serious addictions. In fact‚ the most important factor that backs up her argument is her simplified definition for the word "addiction‚" which is " a tendency to overindulge in some pleasurable activity. (608)" However‚ thinking logically‚ we could see
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TV PERSONALITIES For this project‚ I chose the television show House. In this particular episode‚ Dr. House and his team of doctors face the problem of diagnosing a man who came into the ER at the hospital after fainting. There are no clear symptoms that point to a single medical diagnosis. The second part of this episode deals with House and his best friend Wilson. Wilson is in a relationship with another doctor that House doesn’t particularly like and House is determined to get his fair
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