Addictive or Not Addictive? That Is The Question Marie Winn‚ author of “TV Addiction” states that‚ “television viewing‚ for those vulnerable to addiction‚ is more like drinking or taking drugs- once you start it’s hard to stop” (609). Winn strongly believes that television is so addicting that it can and will ruin people’s lives. The meaning of addiction according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is the compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (such as heroin‚ nicotine‚ alcohol)
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Millions of years before animals lived on land; there were trees on the Earth. But today trees are in serious danger. Everybody knows that trees produce oxygen that we breathe and take carbon dioxide that we exhale that is why trees called the lungs of our world. As man cannot live without lungs‚ so and world cannot exist without trees. Factories‚ power stations and cars emit tons of smoke into the air. This smoke contains sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. These substances mix with water vapor
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TV Addiction It’s in the house of everyone. Some people having more than one‚ each in every room‚ even in the bathrooms. Television. From watching your favorite TV series‚ or those reality shows‚ the news or of course movies‚ TV has become a must have in a home. The average person until the age of 18 will have watched about 24000 hours of TV. In that time a person could’ve finished 2 years of university‚ could’ve studied 1 or 2 languages‚ speaking both of them almost fluently‚ or could’ve read
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TV Ads The effect of TV ad‚ or any other form of advertising‚ can and has been measured on a variety of criteria. Advertising recall‚ massage comprehension‚ product awareness and knowledge. Attitude toward and intentions to buy the advertised product are some of the more frequently used commercial and product related measures of advertising effectiveness.’ TV ads tell us a lot about ourselves. For example‚ commercials tend to appear on the radio‚ football game where a lot of people are watching
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abusers to reach people that do not want to be reached and it opens many of us up to identity theft and malware viruses. The internet is an extremely risky device that many of the common users take for granted due to the lack of knowledge of its dangers. With the great power that the internet provides comes great responsibility that its users must also provide. Just like many other things‚ there are people who lack such responsibility and use the internet with bad intentions. Influencing Violence
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The Dangers of Marijuana There are many life threatening‚ as well as psychological‚ dangers due to the use of marijuana. Life threatening dangers include lung cancer‚ trouble breathing‚ a weakened immune system‚ asthma‚ poor driving ability‚ increased heart rate‚ high blood pressure‚ and reproduction problems. Effects marijuana has on the brain include poor short term memory‚ a short attention span‚ schizophrenia‚ and addiction withdrawal. These dangers are associated with the prolonged use of marijuana
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substitutes daily. (relevance) IV. Overall‚ recent studies have shown that sugar substitutes are no better for your body then real sugar and can cause potential health problems (Thesis) V. Today we will investigate these products and the real dangers that could potentially lie inside those bright little packages (Preview) Transition: So lets jump right into this bitter debate about sweeteners Body I. The market contains a plethora of sugar-free products for diabetics: sugar-free puddings
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children daily television show was a half hour program when I was growing up. Now‚ children can watch television up to 24 hours per day. A study done by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Children’s Digital Media Centers (2003) statistical findings show that 43 percent children under the age of two watch TV every day. By the age of two‚ 74 percent of all infants and toddlers have watched TV. On average children under six spend two hours per day in front of the TV screen. About the same amount
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and doctors are debating whether or not this is an appropriate device for safe technology. Studies and other sources have shown that cell phones can affect human health‚ psychological functions‚ and safety. Therefore‚ cell phones pose a definite danger to the society. Cell phones emit radiofrequency energy‚ a form of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation‚ which can be absorbed by tissues closest to where the phone is held‚ according to the National Cancer Institute (1). Although there is
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TV AS A CULPRIT Our minds are rotting away and we might not know it. This is due to a destructive invention‚ a culprit known as television. Though television has kept families in their homes with countless hours of entertainment‚ it has also ended up destroying family ritual‚ affecting academic performance‚ and promoting sex and violence. One effect of television in our current time is the destruction of family ritual. Once upon a time‚ so we have been told‚ families talked with each other
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