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    music‚ video games‚ television‚ and theater‚ has caused the demise of society in many respects such as increased violence‚ increased sex and increased profanity. Violence‚ especially juvenile violence‚ has dramatically increased over the past few decades and I believe that this is a result of violence in movies‚ music‚ video games‚ and television. Because children tend to repeat and reenact what they see‚ and if violence is presented to them on a regular basis as it is on television‚ then they will mimic

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    Television Addiction

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    Addicted to Television The temptations that can disrupt human life are often caused by pure indulgences. That which we most desire may ultimately harm and destroy us. For example‚ no one has to drink alcohol. Realizing when a diversion has gotten out of control‚ such as alcohol‚ is one of the greatest challenges of life. These excessive cravings do not necessarily involve physical substances. Gambling can be compulsive‚ leading to great financial distress; sex can become obsessive‚ often altering

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    Nearly every household has access to television programming. With the variety of programs available children are exposed to many factors concerning choice. These choices can lead to a wide array of results depending on the type of content which is viewed. Positive programming can promote the learning of valuable skills and knowledge to enable success in life‚ while negative programming may have diverse opposite effects. The contents of television programming affect the health‚ behaviors and learned

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    literature Global TV Realities by John McMurria‚ Televisions New Engines by Michael Keane and Albert Moran‚ and The Mass Production of Celebrity by Graeme Turner as instruments to analyze the program. The three readings assist in the analysis of CBS’s The Amazing Race because the concepts and arguments presented by the authors within the readings offers insight into the production of The Amazing Race as well as the global distribution of The Amazing Race television format. In the first segment of this analysis

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    Children and Television COM/156 Children and Television It is proven that children who watch television shows such as SpongeBob Squarepants score an average of twelve points lower on their I.Q. tests. Study suggests that watching just nine minutes of programs such as those can cause short-term attention and learning problems in four-year-olds (Fox News‚ 2011). Parents have become accustom to convenience and the sheer quickness of everything. The TV becomes a cheap and easy babysitter

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    Television has Made our Lifes Better Nowadays‚ television is our main source of news and current events around the world. It is indefinably the most popular media in society today. By watching TV‚we are kept updated of the various events and dealings occurring around the world. It provides us with broadcasts of the news and weather stations and many more‚therefore helping us not to be dropped back from the world of information. People need to be aware of whats going on around them and to keep on

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    Television is part of the American culture. It benefits people in many ways. Many people use the television as a mayor part of information. Television is beneficial because it provides news‚ entertainment and education. News is the first beneficial aspect of television. For example‚ people today need to watch the news to keep track of what is happening with the war in Iraq. Also‚ news provides information on weather‚ crime and many other news that are occurring around the world. Another example

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    Television History In 1908 Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton‚ fellow of the Royal Society (UK)‚ published a letter in the scientific journal Nature in which he described how "distant electric vision" could be achieved by using a cathode ray tube (or "Braun" tube‚ after its inventor‚ Karl Braun) as both a transmitting and receiving device‚ apparently the first iteration of the electronic television method that would dominate the field until recently. He expanded on his vision in a speech given in

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    The Future of Television

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    The future of television In brief‚ television have 3 main development in the future‚3d tv‚ handheld tv and Quattron TV those development will change people lifestyle. Quattron‚ which invented by sharp and detruded in 2010. The lowest priced of a 40 inched quattron tv cost 1‚799. This technology using a fourth color sub pixel‚ to compare with the standard RGB color sub pixels‚ Quattron add yellow on it‚ sharp stressed that Quattron increases the range of displayable colors and the main feature

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    There is no doubt that television has found its way into the lives of the everyday‚ average American. Television has become our go-to. It’s our stress relief after a long day of work; it fills voids that our actual lives cannot; and it has become the framework of the world we know today. A popular‚ if not the most popular‚ type of television that has filled the hearts of its viewers would have to be Situation Comedy- or Sitcom. Sitcoms tend to involve lovable actors‚ playing even more lovable characters

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