comedian‚ once said ‚ “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set‚ I go into the other room and read a book.” Groucho Marx was ‚ of course‚ part of the many who thought that television is not useful to human beings in any manner. However‚ Groucho Marx and many others are definitely wrong. By providing programs on education‚ entertainment‚ and news‚ television has challenged widely shared values of people like Groucho Marx who believed that television is useless and has no purpose
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Scene/Story: First scene is kids knocking over vases‚ destroying houseplants‚ throwing tantrums‚ etc in one family. “The joys of parenting? You must be kidding!” Ms Collin was so tired and frustrated‚ and she picked up the phone and complained to her best friend Ms Stone‚ who also has three kids. “Your kids are doing their homework?! Unbelievable! You must show me your secret!” Second scene is now in Ms Stone’s house‚ who was just enjoying her time of Yoga while Ms Collin walked in. “You’ve got
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Most parents I know worry about how much television their children are watching‚ but I see very little being done about actually cutting down their children’s television time. The average child watches three to four hours of T. V. a day and another two and a half hours more on the television watching movies or playing video games‚ for a total of six and a half hours of television a day. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics‚ a little more than half of our children have a T. V. in their
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programs. Is this what is really on television? Take a closer look. What is consistently in these programs? Violence‚ violence is what ’s on television. Objections may arise from this statement because of violent desensitization‚ but that does not change the fact that most shows contain violence. "In 1949‚ a mere 2% of American homes had television sets. This increased to 64% by 1955‚ 93% by the mid-60 ’s‚ and 98% today" (Hughes and Hasbrouck 3). With so many televisions in homes today and working parents;
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The Effects of Internet vs Television on Children Jennifer Lingler Alexis Vaughan ENGL 100: Composition and Research April 5‚ 2010 The internet and television play a major role in our lives. But what are the effects of these technologies on our society? One way to analyze the effects on our society is to focus on how internet and television affects children. In comparison‚ the effects of internet and television on children produce very similar results. Obesity is a global epidemic
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All about Reality Television – “Reel or Real” The Inception of Television: Television has always been a medium for educating‚ spreading awareness and mainly entertaining for over four decades now and will go on for decades to come. But the question faced today by the audience is whether television has lost its authenticity and innocence that it once had when it came to India. When television came into India in the early 1900s‚ the only broadcasted channel was doordarshan that showcased shows in
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Television: Electronic Enemy or Pixelated Pal? Is it possible for television to impact the way you enact with life? I believe that nothing on Earth can impact you unless you choose to make it impact you. Barbara Ehrenreich claims‚ “Only after many months of viewing did I begin to understand the force that has transformed the American people into root vegetables.” I strongly refute this claim. Television has many useful resources like cooking shows and the news‚ but it also has its “magnets” like
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The first essay was written to focus on negative criticism on television‚ “Television: The Plug-In Drug” by Marie Winn‚ was about the influence of television on family life and parent-child relationships. Author of children’s books‚ Marie Winn sees only a negative outcome with television and family. I did not like her article because I think that it’s good to watch TV. You are informed about your surroundings‚ you learn a lot of things and it doesn’t change family relationships. Winn says that
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“Television has too many advertisements during programmes” Is TV being ruined by adverts which have no relevance to the programme? Well throughout my piece of writing i am going to give my personal views and the views of others on why i think there are too many commercials now-a-days on television. When you watch a programme generally you do not want it to be interrupted by irrelevant information? Have you ever had a glance at what is going to be on next and the show says thirty minutes‚ but
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