Friend or Enemy? Television violence is a contributing factor to aggressive behavior in children. Recently focus has been placed on this issue‚ since the majority of violence occurs during prime time and in cartoons. "It’s not watching that’s bad for kids‚ it’s what they watch and how much." (Seplow 2) Parents must accept television into their home and explain the violence that is occurring. TV and TV violence are not new‚ we have been hearing about TV’s affects on children for quite some time
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I’m here to speak to you about the topic of ‘Whether or not television ruins children’. I’m sure we all know what a tv is and im pretty sure every household has at least one form of it. Ever since the television was invented‚ it has become one of our favourite pass-times. A lot of our daily routines are based around the tv. Mothers may iron clothes or cook while watching tv and sometimes many families eat in the living room and watch tv together. Although tv’s are considered as a positive and one
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Is hunting good‚ or is hunting bad? There can be many sides to this question. For some‚ hunting is a lifestyle‚ and others don’t want to see a gun. The next question would be‚ is hunting big game animals okay? Many people hunt deer‚ but is hunting a lion‚ or an elephant sane? With deer‚ you can use them for food. The only thing you can do with a lion is hang its head on your wall. Hunting is good unless it is an endangered or protected species. Hunting specific animals can ruin our ecosystem
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Paper Topic III: What’s So Bad About the Matrix? I believe that through living in a matrix or being a brain-in-a-vat‚ you are ultimately alienating yourself from the world and missing out on the true experience of life. In this paper I will argue that life is not only comprised of the mental state‚ but rather the combination of a physical and mental existence. There are three reasons that justify my stance on life and existence. The rejection of a matrix and the brain-in-a-vat scenario is simply
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Is TV bad for your children? Is TV actually bad for your child to watch? Americans watch TV up to seven hours a day that can affect our “social lives‚ ways of learning and entertaining ourselves‚ family relations‚ and lifestyles.” Kids spend more time watching TV then going out and doing anything productive or active. Do our children learn from TV or is it better to read a book? What kinds of violence are we letting our kids watch? What if they get influenced by it? These are all questions we
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Child Discipline Most people grew up being spanked and they turned out alright so it seems like a good way to teach children right and wrong. However‚ spanking can be very bad for a child’s development‚ it can teach them unwanted behavior and children shut down when they are being spanked. It can difficult to teach a child purely from spank‚ and there are other methods that parents can look into to teach a child. There is also evidence that shows that a child should not be physically punished and
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has been debate as to how television media affects our children. Many parents have been concerned since the beginning of television. Through extensive research over the last few decades‚ television has been thought to desensitize and have detrimental effects on our children‚ which inhibits them from developing feelings of security‚ compassion‚ diplomacy‚ and discernment. Television watching also promotes violence‚ unsafe sexual practices‚ and eating disorders in children. According to Muscari‚ the
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Children love to watch TV and prefer to stay “glued” to the TV screen all day‚ rather than playing outside. In the USA‚ 47% of children ages 2 to 18 years have a television set in their bedrooms. On a typical day‚ they spend on average of 5.5 hours using media‚ including television‚ computer games and the Internet (Kaiser Family Foundation‚ 2001). TV is the number one after-school activity for 6 to 17 years old. Although television is loved by children and has helped them a lot‚ it has influenced
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Television Violence and Its Effect on Children The children of today are surrounded by technology and entertainment that is full of violence. It is estimated that the average child watches from three to five hours of television a day! (Neilson 1993). Listening to music is also a time consuming pastime among children. With all of that exposure‚ one might pose the question‚ "How can seeing so much violence on television and video games and hearing about violence in in music affect a child’s behavior
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Is Divorce Always Bad For Children? To some‚ divorce may be a terrible thing for a child to have to endure. In some scenarios it is just better if the parents are separated. There is no better way to approach this subject than to talk from personal experience. I’ll explain how it feels to be a child in the middle of a divorce. My mother and father were together for seventeen years and they just recently decided to get a divorce. Under the circumstances I don’t feel bad they there are now separated
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