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    Television can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior in the developing children’s mind. Unfortunately‚ much of today’s television programming has a highly explicit violent content. Numerous studies has been conducted on the effect television violence has on children and adolescence‚ and all of it shows negative feedbacks. Children tend to develop emotional numbness to all the horror seen on the screen‚ and gradually accept violence as a norm and a way to solve

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    * You are the news director of a local television station. The city council has just voted to close city parks 3 days a week to save money. Meanwhile‚ a major celebrity has died. The park story has greater effect on your viewers‚ but the celebrity death will get bigger ratings? Which do you make your lead story and why? For some unknown reason‚ news has become more than a center of information. It has become the platform of entertainment. Ratings have increased when the news includes celebrity highlights

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    Rap Bad Influence

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    Rap music isn’t music‚some will say and have been saying for years hip hop and rap aren’t good for you.It’s just propaganda to promote violence‚drugs‚alcohol(etc…). According to Davey D‚ his article “Is Rap Actually Music or is it a Bad Influence” he states that “88% percent of the rap music that is currently on the top lists around the world contains violence. They glorify the acts of beating up another person‚ or even worse shooting them. Looking like someone who just got released from prison in

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    The television has become essential as food to most people in their everyday living. That means it has become a very influential effect on the people who watch television. Anything that is inappropriate shown on television would be copied by the people who watch it‚ and this could lead to unwanted violence act in them. In television‚ violent images are seen in films‚ commercials‚ sitcoms‚ cartoons‚ news broadcasts‚ and reality-based programs. More of these types of so-called-violent programs are

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    The Influence of American Television on Audiences On April 30‚ 1939‚ the first television broadcast was unveiled to the audiences of North America at the New York World’s Fair opening in Flushing Meadows‚ Queens. Feelings of awe and amazement were shared throughout the crowds. However‚ with the emergence of the Second World War in the very same year‚ real growth for the television was delayed and as a result did not truly begin until the early 1950s. At this point in time‚ the television became

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    Is School Bad for Children? Education has always been an intense topic of discussion among many cultures and different groups of people. For many years it was believed that without formal structured education‚ academic success couldn’t be achieved. Today that idea has been challenged and proved invalid by homeschooling‚ online classes and alternative learning of all sorts. In the article‚”School is Bad for Children‚” American author and educator John Holt talks about the failures and flaws

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    object that Barbie leads to unhealthy ways of living‚ but many young girls that play with a Barbie doll are shown to having a eating disorder as they grow up. Barbie dolls are bad influences because they lead to eating disorders‚ false hopes‚ and lowers self-esteem. Barbie dolls cause many eating disorders that cause young children to want to lose weight. Around 8 million people in the US have an eating disorder and 80% of those people are females and under the age of 20. Many of these people that have

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    Date: October 20‚ 2013 Television (The effect it has on children) Television has been around for approximately 75 years‚ according to Erin Monaghan. It has cause some negative impact on our young‚ youth of today. Children spend more time watching television than they spend on homework and family time. Too much TV time has cause children to be obesity‚ not able to make rational decisions in violent solutions and having sex at an such too early age. Children minds are like sponges

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    Television has been a fixture of American culture for more than 60 years.” (Minnesota Health Department‚ 2014) From black and white to color‚ from large box televisions to thin‚ to smart televisions‚ they have now. America’s televisions has changed and so have American’s relationship with television. Televisions‚ in an American culture‚ has informed and has entertained them through the years. Televisions has also impacted the health and the behavior of the American culture in the advertisements

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    Violence on Television Increased By Teens/Children: Submitted to Dr.Jill Clark By Bria Benford Core160‚Section-005 1/30/13 ABSTRACT Many American generations of teens and children have increased the violence in our society. Daily news have revealed violent acts and crimes of children and teenagers. It has been proven that the increase of violence from these teens and children are influenced by different aspects of media; music‚ TV shows‚ video games‚ cartoons and movies. These different

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