Black‚ Zaqueri Emily Skaftun English 101 06 April‚ 2011 Analysis of Marie Winn ’s‚ "Televison: The Plug-In Drug" In the current world‚ many families have more than one television. It has become a necessity as food‚ clothing and shelter. In Marie Winn ’s essay‚ she describes the effects of television on young children and the family environments at home. Television is one of the most dominating factors that diverts from family time and family relationships. It also has a strong impact
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For this assignment‚ I have chosen the classic novel by Kate DiCamillo‚ written in the year 2000‚ Because of Winn-Dixie. This book is a Newbery Honor winning book as well as a New York Times best seller‚ among many other awards. It has been made into a movie and is a classic in these modern times. This is a story about a young girl and the dog she adopts. Finding out what is important in life as she goes through trials and tribulations‚ acceptance‚ love‚ understanding‚ loss‚ and how to let go. She
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effect in both different and similar ways. TV: The Plug-In Drug‚ by Marie Winn‚ is about televisions “taking over” quality family time. Winn uses pathos by talking to different types of people who come from different types of families; this way you get to hear from other people how the television is taking away from precious memory making. Trying to touch each of our emotional sides‚ although you might not start crying‚ Winn is able to talk to people and get information about families and the time
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top 500 cooperation’s based on their gross revenue. One of such companies is Winn-Dixie Stores. Winn-Dixie was founded in 1914 from a general store in Idaho by William Davis. Before Winn-Dixie became what it is known as today‚ it was widely known as Winn-Lovett. Winn-Lovett began to offer larger selections of food at lower prices‚ in order to compete with the growing number of cash only grocery stores. The number of Winn-Lovett stores expanded to 73 stores by 1939‚ and at that time was owned by Davis’
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Winn-Dixie Summary The main character is opal‚ a 10 year old girl with a caring mind. Opal longs to make new friends and see her mother again. She discovers that you can’t hold on to something you love forever you have to let go eventually and also to not judge people by their past but what they are doing now. It all started when opal went to a grocery store and came home with a dog. it occurred when‚ she saw a dog running around at the grocery store. The manager was eager to call the pound
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From the person who invented the television and brought to the society nowadays‚ it has been a very important device which people can obtain all kinds of information through the mass media. In general‚ television was meant to bring people up-to-date events from all around the world. It changed the way of people’s living for over half a century. Undeniably‚ the invention of the television is making people to understand the world better. From news and weather report to music and travel‚ or even
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Ife Bandele Writing 101 March 12‚ 2014 Defending TV In her essay “Television addiction‚” Marie Winn considers TV to be very addictive. She compares watching TV to taking drugs. She also never mentions any of its benefits. Television is one of the most important inventions of our time‚ and it certainly had benefited mankind. Watching TV causes no chemical substance addiction. Still‚ Winn thinks that‚ the level of addiction from excessive television viewing is comparable to drug and alcohol
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Peter Oiler/Winn-Dixie Peter Oiler’s termination from his job by the Winn-Dixie Corporation was an outright and blatant violation of his employee rights. No company or organization is allowed to discriminate against an individual on the basis of sexual orientation and they are most certainly not allowed to discriminate against an employee due to the way he/she decides to dress. This decision would be akin to firing a woman truck driver for wearing a flannel shirt and a pair of jeans while off-duty;
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actually controlling the amount of time you spent watching it or if you were sucked into the television set and had a temporary spell on you. The only thing about this story is whether this writer based it all on facts or a matter of opinion? Marie Winn makes it sound as if everyone that watches television becomes "addicted" to it like people become addicted to drugs or alcohol. I myself am not one of those people that become "addicted" to watching a show. Watching television for about more than 30
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