The Plug In Drug By Marie Winn Essay
According to Marie Winn in “The Plug-In Drug”, television has many negative effects on our society today. In her essay she emphasis that television today is controlling the everyday aspect of life. She inference that television has ruined family rituals, the communication and it's seen as equivocal. She acknowledged that there is a problem with our society and the way that television influence us. Been said, I'm able to say that I agree with Winn on the subject of television having negative effects on society. Modern technology, we see all the time from new television, to computers, to mobile phones, and the list goes on. However, these things have something in common it seems like technology have taken over peoples' mind ever since they
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We now have the power to communicate with families by text, phone call, or video chat. However, can you really express your feeling face-to-face or be physically there. For example, in Winn,”The Plug-On-Drugs" she say, "But more obviously damaging to family relationships is the elimination of opportunities to talk and converse, or to argue, to air grievances between parents and children and brothers and sisters. Families frequently use television to avoid confronting their problems, problems that will not go away if they are ignored but will only fester and become less easily resolvable as time goes on." This claim is arguable because television viewing may lead to less interaction with their children, and can cost the lost of never knowing feelings and issues important to one’s child. The problem with television is that “the television experience is instrumental in preventing viewers from recognizing its dulling effects, much as a mind-altering drug might do.” A parent must not be oblivious and must be aware of the impact television has on one’s child. He must be ready to take immediate actions such as ensuring family bonding and game times, and talking while eating around the kitchen table to prevent the loss of family identity. If a parent can recognize the ill-effects of television and takes action to stop the harm being done, family life will greatly
We now have the power to communicate with families by text, phone call, or video chat. However, can you really express your feeling face-to-face or be physically there. For example, in Winn,”The Plug-On-Drugs" she say, "But more obviously damaging to family relationships is the elimination of opportunities to talk and converse, or to argue, to air grievances between parents and children and brothers and sisters. Families frequently use television to avoid confronting their problems, problems that will not go away if they are ignored but will only fester and become less easily resolvable as time goes on." This claim is arguable because television viewing may lead to less interaction with their children, and can cost the lost of never knowing feelings and issues important to one’s child. The problem with television is that “the television experience is instrumental in preventing viewers from recognizing its dulling effects, much as a mind-altering drug might do.” A parent must not be oblivious and must be aware of the impact television has on one’s child. He must be ready to take immediate actions such as ensuring family bonding and game times, and talking while eating around the kitchen table to prevent the loss of family identity. If a parent can recognize the ill-effects of television and takes action to stop the harm being done, family life will greatly