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    Tv Is Not a Waste of Time

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    First‚ TV is a good source of information. It allows people to have different kinds of information in easy way. For example‚ people could watch different kinds of programs that let them know different kind of information in different fields such as health‚ education‚ technology and so on and so forth. Besides‚ television allows people to discover other unknown cultures‚ traditions‚ and religions. For example‚ through some documentary programmes people can discover the culture of the Iskimo community

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    television is a waste of time. Do you agree? Nowadays‚ television has become a major part of our lives. Almost every home has a television. In fact‚ even restaurants‚ grocery shop‚ clinics and also mamak stores have televisions as a way to attract customers. We are now a television nation but this is not something that we should be proud of because television is not a vital necessity in our lives. Furthermore‚ too much television is eating our life away. Watching television is a waste of time. When we

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    Reading Log: Where Football is King Part I: 9-54 The book Where Football is King by Christopher Walsh is about the history of arguably the greatest collegiate conference in all of sports; the SEC. At the beginning‚ it talks about how the SEC got started‚ the original teams‚ coaches and early memorable games. For instance‚ when Georgia Tech was still in the SEC‚ they beat Cumberland College 220-0. As time went on and football started to spread across the country‚ teams started to branch

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    Television‚ a Waste of Time And Money Television has become increasingly more popular through the years since it was first invented. In fact it is so popular that almost every home in America has one or more television sets. TV started when Edwin Belin‚ an English man‚ held the patent for the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and radar‚ which demonstrated a mechanical scanning device that was an early ancestor to modern television. With TV sets almost everywhere in sight

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    Studying history is a waste of time because it prevents us from focusing on the challenges of the present. People live in this present. They plan for and worry about the future. History‚ however‚ is the study of the past. Given all the demands that press in from living in the present and anticipating what is yet to come‚ the speaker concludes that studying history is a waste of time because it distracts us from current challenges. However‚ I do not agree with this opinion because history is essential

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    Homework is defiantly not a waste of time. We understand more of what we learned at school‚ it gives us a chance to show how responsible we are by working independently‚ and it teaches us how to become more organized. These are just some of the reasons why I think that homework is not a waste of time. But I’m sure that there are plenty more of why homework is a good thing. Studies shown homework can make you smarter and more successful in life. A wise man once said "were doing our homework to make

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    Net is a Waste of Time In William Gibson’s persuasive essay “The Net is a Waste of Time‚” he often uses figurative language to portrait his point of view and most of the time talks to the audience as a first person. He is trying to convince the reader that‚ in an inadvertent way the World Wide Web (The Net) is just wasting our time. The purpose of his essay is to make the reader re-think the fact that the net isn’t what everyone expects; instead of thinking that we are using our time productively

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    is a waste of time. When we watch television‚ we give it our visual and audio attention and there is very little we can do while watching television. We may enjoy a snack or two but that only ad up to the television does not allow us to do something else beneficial. A huge percentage of adolescents have started developing unhealthy habits in front of the television. Watching T.V. can really pack on the pounds when exercising is seldom and snacking is often. It has been proven that the more time a person

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    Sorayah Vuningoma Professor Scott English 101 Rough Draft College is a waste of time and money In Caroline Bird‚ “College is a waste of time and money‚” Bird discusses why college is not necessary for everyone. She states that many college students are in college not because they want to but because they have to. Bird came to realize that college students don’t feel needed. They are led to believe that getting a college degree is important because it’s a way of getting higher chance of

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    world‚ and it’s slowly damaging us. An author by the name of William Gibson wrote an article titled “The Net is a Waste of Time” published on July 14‚ 1996 in The New York Times; in the article William Gibson argues that soon the internet will be boring‚ used only for work and lack any form of fun or randomness. Williams argument is also hinted in the title “The Net is a Waste of Time”‚ he states the internet in 1996 was at a “test pattern” meaning that all the interesting things one could do in 1996

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