Many people around the world spend tireless hour staring at the TV screen every single day. TV is becoming like a drug, people are addicted to it! TV’s can expose to us the weather forecast, sports and global events. TV’s also can give quality entertainment, education programs and something to look forward to after a harsh day. Though there are advantages, there are also many more disadvantages to watching TV.…
The author’s main argument is to prove his point, based on research that television is harmful to children. The Research indicates, that children who watch too much TV leads to poor grades, long term academic failures, heath problems, teenage pregnancy and drugs. Despite the negative effects, developmental, physiological and psychological effects, children continue to be exposed to hours of television viewing.…
The main conclusion in this article is that TV really doesn’t make your life any better and to limit TV time with children and adolescents, or better yet, turn the TV off and go outside! The main assumptions underlying the author’s thinking is that TV causes health problems, lower grades, academic failure, negative attitudes towards school and teenage pregnancy.…
The estimated number of TV in homes is 109.6 million. (Parents Television Council, 1998) Many people know days always wonder whether television is bad. As well many have their views in which television is a learning tool or a bad influence for their children. There has been much research, which developed few issues between television and children coming from health issues to being use as a learning skill. As studies are developed there will always be health issues that will affect children that don’t have any physical activity as part of their daily routine. Others have discovered that sometimes watching too much TV can influence in how children’s attitudes and views can be affected. Children as they grow can retain many things which help them learn; as for example using television as a guide. There are many programs that are simply directed in children learning in order to have a better understanding of things. PBS is one of many shows that have been known to invest in children’s learning. Research shows both positive and negative influences on children and television. Television may have effects on children’s health, behavior, and learning regarding how they have activities with or consume television.…
The main purpose of the article “The Debilitating Effects of TV on Children” By Dr. John M Grohol, is that the more time children spend watching television, the more harmful it is. It is not only detrimental to a child’s education, but also socially and medically. Dr. Grohol believes that despite the negative effects television has on children, parents continue to allow children to watch way too much.…
I agree that television shows influences our behaviors even without our knowledge of it. Although television seems like a great thing to have, it has many drawbacks. Television can have negative impacts on people, especially kids. People learn new skills by observing, then utilizing it, such as when we were kids and learn to walk by seeing our family walking around or learning a new subject in school. Therefore, when watching television it may influence our fundamental social dispositions; no matter if it is good or bad. Almost ninety nice percent of households possess one television. Television is today’s source of news, stories, legends, and characters from previous centuries; the reason why it is so influential. However, only “0.7 percent is used for public service announcements and news”(Sex, violence, profanity...). The other 97.3 % consists of television shows with violence, crime, advertisements and mainstream blandness. Many studies and research has been done to demonstrate that heavy television viewing may lead to serious health consequences. Television is great for entertainment but has grown into a major problem.…
Television, the most popular used technology of modern life, has been considered as a good friend in many homes. Stay in front of the screen. Switch hour to hour for relaxation. Watch the motion pictures with unthinking mind. And have pleasure from that “good friend”. A large number of people thought it is a wonderful life to be in front of endless shows of TV. However, if a person once takes a look at what has brought to his life, he’ll realize that he is influenced by harmful states of mind and aggressive or violent behaviors due to watching television and its show.Many homes think that television is just one of their activities everyday. Therefore, time spent to watch the fun and pleasure from it helps them to get through the day.…
Television has become the most popular kind of media all over the world. Most people, who watch too much TV for different kinds of reasons, do not know nor care about the effects that may happen to them. Nowdays, the majority of people over the world spend more than five hours watching TV every day. Watching TV for long time is one of the most serious problems that affect the human body. Also, there is a significant impact on a person's eyes and health, which leads to huge sufferance. Spending much time watching TV causes immense problems and disadvantage for the human body such as obesity, brain damage and stress.…
People have become consumed by and subjected to the influence of television. Some reserch studies indicate that television is responsible for hampering the development of some areas of the brain that are in control of moral judgment and also attention. Negative aspect of television is that television may also affect relationship between families since it may not allow family members to spend quality time with each other. But, you can always connect TV time with quality time together. Moreover, some negative aspect is that television stop people from following other good habits like reading books and socializing.…
In these days, it is difficult to find the family who doesn’t have a television in their living room, bedroom and even study room. Television is widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images with sounds. It was available to be set in homes, businesses and institutions since 1920, particularly as a source of entertainment and news. As the other technologies develops, the television also have been had huge developments. Just a few decades ago, television showed the color with only black and white unlike the modern days that we can watch TV which reflects colorful beams. There is now even a television which is available in the Internet. Millions of people are influenced by what they see on television. The influence could be positive and negative. Some people could have the encouraging violence or moral apathy on television. Also, there are few programs which are not suitable for the children due to the limited scenes. The programs can cause the bad issue on society. However, I strongly agree that a television has lots of beneficial effects.…
Watching television is an experience shared by adults and children. It is cheap, appealing, and in the reach of the public. In this way, TV has become an important mass media around the world. TV isn’t used in a way that people could get the best benefits from. My purpose of this essay is to argue my case that people shouldn’t watch too much television because the content of some TV programs are not educational. It makes people waste time that could be used in more beneficial activities; and it negatively affects people’s mental development.…
Now, tv is becoming a invention get more function and make people's life become more convenient and comfortable. However, people must know what is influences positive and influences negative, what is good and not good for thier life. They must know and impale to make thier life better.…
The second consequences of watching too much television is children can be affected by unsuitable programs on television. Nowadays, the content of many television programs are not educational. Children can see scenes of violence, sex, drugs on television. So they will think that money can solve any problems, violence is the only way to stop arguments, wars is obviously... All these wrong concepts have already in children’s mind when they grow up. As a result, it leads to aggressive or negative behaviors.…
Kids spend more time watching television every day than on any other single activity, aside from sleeping. Since the first television sets appeared in homes, in mid-twentieth century, television has grown into a phenomenon found in almost every household. In the beginning, there were only three principal broadcast networks; today, there are hundreds of channels available. There is no doubt that television has an impact on all of us, especially on children, so that it came to be accompanied with criticisms and concerns. Children love watching cartoons and movies, but too much of it during developmental years can have a significant negative impact on them. To minimize the potential negative effects of television, parents should be control TV watching and substitute it with healthy activities.…
Television often causes the viewer to lose touch with reality and become completely passive and unaware. Like other addictions, television provides a pleasurable escape route from action and inaction.…