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.…
However, the television caused as well some negative impact on human life. Since watching a TV is so attractive, people read less books or even do not read them at all, spend less time on fresh air, and communicate with other people in person rarely. But neither television can fully substitute normal bidirectional communication nor it can replace book reading, and for sure it cannot anyhow replace spending time outdoors. So, the television may negatively influence mental, social, and physical health of a nation.…
Is T.V. the root of all our family problems? In Television: The Plug-In Drug, the author Marie Winn believes just that. She argues that television was beneficial in bringing the family together back when it first came out, but now that every family has an average of two television sets, everyone watches it in a separate room, not connecting with their kin during pivotal moments like dinner or holidays. Instead of laughing, singing, and eating together, families sit in peace, away from each other mentally, and sometimes physically. Parents enjoy the quietness of a couple without children and don’t take proper care of their offspring through communicational stimulation, and children mind their own business, quietly soaking up the information that television hands to them.…
In today 's modern culture, television has played a big role throughout people 's every day lives. We depend on TV for entertainment, news, education, culture, weather, sports, and so much more. Without the TV, our social interaction percentage would be low; because of the lack of topics. People these days, talk about TV shows, movies, and more, and without it, a lot of people would be anti social. While television is often criticized for isolating people, it can also bring them together. For example, Super…
In this short story, Sedaris describes Mr. Tomkey as someone who “did not believe in television,” which seemed very unusual. However, his relationship with his family seemed friendly; they would have lengthy conversations, tell jokes, and have a great family bonding session at the dinner table, compared to everyone just staring at a television screen. Television can be used positively as a group activity, but it’s the idea of more people using technology as a mean to not interact with others on a personal level. Thus, technology has an impact on how family members interact.…
The introduction of television to society is one of the most significant social events in the twentieth century. The first advertisements for the television pictured a family gathered around the set with “Sis on Mom’s lap, Buddy perched on the arm of Dad’s chair, Dad with his arm around Mom’s shoulder” (Winn 352). Today, ninety percent of American households possess a television and the average American home has more television sets than people. The average daily viewing time per adult in the United States is 4.5 hours, making television the most important leisure activity among Americans (Bruni and Stanca).…
“The Golden Age of Television” brought many changes to America (Bhattacharyya). Modern America is not like America was in the 1940s and early 1950s, and one reason is because of television. Musical shows, children’s shows, movies, news, and so much more are on TV. Television doesn’t only entertain us, but it helps us in so many ways. We can learn from TV. Different educational channels are created to help us learn (Cochrane). TV is a way for us to get information, too, just like books and the Internet. Lastly, television can also affect people and their lives. Before TV, there was more interaction between people (www.printmoment.com). Today, there is not as much interaction and communication between people. As you can see, television helped shape modern America by helping people learn, affecting people’s lives, and brining new ways to broadcast information to Americans.…
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.…
The positive aspects of watching television include that you have something to talk to your friends and relatives about. There are certain programs which are more popular than others if you watch them you feel included and that you have something in common with the people around you. Television can also help to foster a sense of national identity, since a significant proportion of the population will be exposed to the same kind of news programs and television shows, so that people feel that they belong to a wider community. Plus, television can also be very informative and educational, opening people’s eyes up to the world outside. Also educational TV programs provide priceless information that not only educate but also opens up your mind and eyes. Most of these programs teach and educate people on subjects that you may otherwise will never know and are never taught in schools.…
The family time that experts once believed the television would facilitate has backfired. It has been replaced with an everyday military regiment. Wake up, go to school, watch television, and go to bed. Parents have allowed the television to become the primary source for their children’s home life experience. Although this medium allows for peace within the home, the family dynamic suffers. Winn references the conflicts that family’s had to deal with, prior to the multi-television home, is an essential part in family life (233). The home has become another form of a care taking institution rather than an accumulation of memory making experiences that can and will follow the children into their adulthood.…
I would make the above facts comprehensible to the readers by some illustrations. Television, for instant, is gift of technology. But television has some negative influence on a person’s life. Television makes viewers passive. TV discourages communication. Families watching TV do very little talking except for brief exchanges during commercials. In this way TV weakens relationships by reducing opportunities for communication. Worst of all TV presents a false picture of reality that leaves viewers frustrated because they do not have the beauty or wealth of the characters on TV. The material possessions on TV shows and commercials contribute to the false image of reality. From their modest apartments, many viewers daily tune in to the upper- middle -class world that TV glorifies. When a person watches TV his mind goes into a hypnotic trance. In other words, TV makes us lose touch with reality.…
Television is a good means of communication. Through television we get to know every incidents happing in the world in just on click. Thanks to the service known as cable. Because of TV we are able to know different cultures around the world without traveling the country. As being a citizen of developing country and a family member of middle class I would have hardly traveled to 5 or 6 countries. On that travel too I wouldn’t have had a chance to know about that particular country’s cultures, norms and values as the stay would be of 15-20 days in one country. But because of TV now we can know everything. Not just knowing the country’s culture but also share market, the people’s life, different species of flora and fauna and every thing that the world has offered us. For me it hasn’t isolate people rather it has bridged a gap between me and he world. By knowing the other country I am more excited in making friends of that country.…
Initially, the introduction of the television into the daily lives of families did play a role in creating a stronger sense of unification in how it strengthened the ties between families and brought them closer together by generating shared points of interest and discussion and by keeping families together spatially.…
Television has been introduced to almost every country in the world, reaching a large number of viewers on every continent. About 600 million people saw the first person walk on the moon, and a billion people watched the twentieth Olympic Games. Television has in many ways promoted understanding and cooperation among people. It does this by showing educational and cultural programs.…
The television has become one item of a family's existence to such an extent that, now it cannot be brushed aside at this stage. It is a part of every home whether it is in an urban locality or the rural.…