thing they do is turn on the television set. According to a survey done by Emory H. Woodard and Natalia Grindina‚ “on average‚ people are watching over 51 hours of television- that is five hours a day of TV on average for the last quarter of the year. Teenagers (12 to 17) spend 103 hours watching TV a month‚ whereas senior citizens (65 or older) spend 207 hours”(Media in the home) With the slumping economy‚ people are forced to stay at home to conserve resources. Although there are plenty of economical
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fall in love and they also die together.The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare illustrates how love comes with risk. In the beginning of the play‚ love starts to show its’ effect on the fate of Romeo and Juliet. When Juliet meets Romeo for the first time she tells her nurse to ¨Go ask his name if he be married my grave is like to be my wedding bed.¨(1.4.132-133) This shows how love is so strong and that she knows she´s risking death just to be with Romeo and live with him forever
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TV as a Shaper 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
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the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube‚ watching music videos? Parents‚ don ’t make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.”(qtd. in Alexis 247) .The connection between the desensitized youth of our nation and the American mass media is undeniable. American Children spend more than fifty-three hours a week watching TV or using video games‚ cellphones‚ and computers
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PAGE HOW DOES MEDIA AFFECT KIDS? Student: Supervisor: HOW DOES MEDIA AFFECT KIDS? There has been an on-going debate whether or not media influences a child’s behavior. There isn’t a doubt that the media has an impact on a child‚ but is it so influential that it can make a child do something that they would have never thought of doing until they see it on the television? According to Dr. Susan Villani (1999)‚ there is a significant amount of evidence linking behavioral effects of
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United States does not ensure deterrence or punishment and can cost up to 10 times more than life in prison because of the prolonged process of execution. If the United States can shorten the time a defendant spends on death row‚ then it will no longer cost more than life imprisonment without parole. This paper discusses life on death row‚ the cost of incarceration and the average length of time a convicted felon spends in death row‚ the definition of punishment along with how crime deterrence
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The TV Generation Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him‚ and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment‚ even if it is fifty years in the past. My generation is greatly influenced by the media‚ specifically television. Television becomes my reality by bringing into my life the happenings of the outside world.
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remote control there is no daut that nobody have TV in this days not only one in the house but one in each room. I agree that TV is a good resources to get information but not everything TV gives us is good. Today we are going to speak about the negative impact of TV on us specially children in our age and below. First the TV impact on our box I mean our brain ‚ the brain which is controlling all your body activities. The study shows that watching TV may hamper development of the pre- frontal cortex
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Analysis – how to develop a body paragraph (Remember that you should have at least three body paragraphs‚ and they should come directly after you introduce your reader to the show you plan to analyze). Follow this basic format for each body paragraph: 1) Point out a significant aspect of the show. Briefly describe it. (This could be your describing a character‚ a situation / scenario‚ or a combination of both‚ from the show.) 2) Explain how this (#1) relates to Waters’ critique. Does it fit what
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“Kid Kustomers” No matter where children are or what they are doing they’ll always find some sort of advertisements. It can be when their casually watching television‚ reading a magazine or just playing games on their computer. Advertisements are different forms of communication whose purpose is to make their product known to the public. Marketers aren’t partial to certain people; they target anyone and every age group‚ but recently there has been an upsurge of advertisements aimed towards children
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