Essay: Television – Harmful to Children (Source: Introduction to Academic Writing) Over the past forty years‚ television sets have become standard pieces of equipment in most homes‚ and watching television has become a standard activity for most families. Children in our culture grow up watching television in the morning‚ in the afternoon‚ and often in the evening as well. Although there are many excellent programs for children‚ many people feel that television may not be good for children. In fact
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Young Children are Influenced by Negative TV Program Television is one of the most prevalent media influences in children’s lives. It becomes the important part of her or his everyday life. Television provides various programs‚ which are very attractive to watch‚ not only for adults‚ but also for the young children. Different programs on television provide relaxation‚ entertainment and education. On the other hand‚ television programs have done a lot of negative diverse too. It happens if the television
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previous research that was made by Murdock (1962) about the serial position effect. The expectation were that the letters at the beginning of the list will be remembered better that the letters in the middle of the list and that is because the participants will start to rehearse the letters they see at first and rehearsing the letters can move them from the short term memory to the long term memory to be recalled again when needed (primacy effect). And the other expectation was that the letters at the
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Relationship and human have been alongside together since people were born. There are various kinds of relationship such as friendship‚ family‚ even or love. Love is a type of relationship that is very common for people‚ especially for men and women. A marriage would be occurred when a couple love each other enough; in the opposite way‚ when they could not be together anymore‚ they divorce. Divorcing impacts many sides and that includes difficulty for children‚ legal effects‚ and relationship changing
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Nowadays most of families have at least one television in house. The main purposes of using TV are relaxation‚ reducing loneliness and educating children. We‚ however‚ have to consider both sides of watching television. Recent research studies point out/ indicate a few negative effects of television on children like overweight‚ sleep problems and sexuality information. First‚ spending a lot of hours on TV leads to be overweight‚ according to the American Medical association. There are three main
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her family (Boyette‚ 2013).. In September 2012‚ 15-year-old Audrie Pott was sexually assaulted by three boys‚ who later posted pictures of the attack online- leading to her suicide (Giammona‚ 2013); both of these suicides caused by cyber-bullying‚ which is common among teens. A study in Britain revealed that at least half of suicides among young people are associated with bullying ("Bullying Statistics"‚ 2009). Though social networking has many positive effects in society‚ it has more negative consequences
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intelligent than it is credited for. The effects of television on the brain are pure mind games‚ that renders it useless over a period of time. The idiot box‚ is not quite an idiot. On the contrary‚ it is far more intelligent than what it is attributed for. The debate whether television is a boon or bane is a forlorn one. The effects of television on the brain are no rocket science‚ that they cannot be understood. It is common knowledge that TV has negative effects on the brain and reduces its capacity
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Family Television A family is a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children‚ considered as a group‚ whether dwelling together or not. According to the reading‚ the diversity of each family and family members goes beyond differential matters. Where men dominate‚ women do not. More specifically‚ in a living room‚ the man would grip the remote control and pick the channels to watch according to his preference‚ whereas the woman would have to sort of nod her head in disapproval and
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English 101 November 26‚ 2012 When researching on the effects of television towards Americans‚ I found quite a few published studies‚ articles and books that were helpful in educating me on this epidemic. The average child will spend 1‚500 hours a year watching television and in those 1‚500 hours they will view an average of 200‚000 acts of violence by the time they graduated high school (Norman Herr‚ Ph.D.). By the time a person turns 18 years old they will have watched 3 years worth of
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Effects Of TV on Children "By the age of 18 a child will have watched 200‚000 acts of violence on TV‚ including 40‚000 murders" (Clark). What does this mean? Well‚ this means the television industry is showing an absurd amount of violence on TV. Television has been around for many years. In 1952‚ the first violent TV show aired on television and it was a hug success ("To much TV is harmful to kids"). Since then‚ the number of violent shows on television is increasing over the years. What makes
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