2016 Journal #10: “Watching TV Makes Your Smarter” In Steven Johnson’s essay Watching TV Makes You Smarter” (2005)‚ he suggests that the increasing complexity of TV shows can engage audiences’ brains‚ and help people think smarter. Citing multiple second-hand evidences‚ Johnson develops his ideas by comparing old and new TV shows‚ describing the confusion may caused by complex TV shows’ threads‚ and the positive effect of watching complex TV shows. By using examples from multiple TV shows‚ the author
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EFFECT OF WATCHING TELEVISION OF YOUNG CHILDREN Television has become the most popular daily media tool of everybody around the world nowadays. It has been modernized through many years by technology engineers. Many people have taken advantage of it because it gives them entertainment and great profits. In our textbook “Born to Talk” by Lloyd M. Hulit and Merle R. Howard‚ they clearly said that watching television is greatest damage to young children throughout their language development stage.
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violence causes children to be violent and the effects can last forever. The information can not be ignored. Violent television viewing does affect children. The effects have been seen in a number of cases. In New York‚ a 16-year-old boy broke into a cellar. When the police caught him and asked him why he was wearing gloves he replied that he had learned to not leave fingerprints from television programs. In Alabama‚ a nine-year-old boy received a bad report card from his teacher. He suggested
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EFFECTS OF TV ADVERTISING ON PRE-TEENAGERS INTRODUCTION: Advertising is one of the many ways of communication today. This communication has paved its way back from early 1980s. It is so popular that it has its effects on every other person right from a small child to an old person. However‚ in my thesis‚ I would like to focus the impacts of TV advertising on children (especially in the age group of 8-12‚ or what we call them as pre-teens). This topic is of interest to both: firms and consumers
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What are the affects of poor parenting: I always believed that you could see the effects of bad parenting‚ by studying the youth of today opposed to the youth of sixty years ago. The effects of bad parenting can be measured in many different ways. One of the things that we all forget about is "lead by example". What we as adults‚ teach our children‚ is what our future generations will be as people. Another way you can observe the results is by looking at our prisons and jails. How many of the
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Bad Effects of Electronic Gadgets Gadgets like portable games can have a negative impact on an individual’s health. Technology is an integral part of our day-to-day lives. People all over the world rely on it for things like communication‚ organization and employment. Not a day goes by when you don’t encounter someone talking on his cell phone‚ tapping away on a laptop or listening to an MP3 player. While this technology is impressive‚ there are certain drawbacks in areas like health‚ public safety
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Video Games: Creating Monsters or Not? “Stay alive at any cost! Find the key! Shoot the bad guys!” This is how one sixth-grader describes the way of playing video games. Such video games can seem like harmless fun‚ but what if the violence gets personal and addicts young teenagers‚ affecting their behavior and their view of reality? Some studies have shown that violent game players just do not leave it there on their game screens; they transfer the violent acts they get attached to‚ to the real
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Ryan E Curry Sr Ms Wright Eng 103 Mar 31 2013 Types of dogs There are over 150 types of dogs and they all provide a variety of services Dogs have been man’s best friend for centuries. Each dog has its own unique characteristics like size appearance‚ temperament health‚ grooming requirements‚ etc. . . .Each type of dogs have a history of origin and lineage. There are many groups of dogs that have served mankind for many years such as the herding‚ hound
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Summary of “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” Author Steven Johnson‚ of the article “Watching TV Makes You Smarter‚” argues the evolution of modern television programming has intellectually challenged audiences‚ rather than stifling complex thoughts—and more‚ that audiences are craving a more cognitively demanding‚ complex plot line. Johnson uses multiple examples of drama type shows and even draws positive conclusions from many of the reality shows that are so popular now. He focuses in on a few
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The Bad Effects of Video or Computer Gaming Submitted by: Kevin Richard G. Operiano Kevin Eric R. Siangco Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 1. Gaming Culture 4 2. Video Game Culture 5 3. Massive-multiplayer Online Gaming
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