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    role of television

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    Television‚ TV‚ the tube. All these words are one thing that consumes people’s lives. Many inventions have come about in order to allow us to watch all our must see shows. Everything from TiVo to Netflix allows us to watch movies and shows we otherwise would have missed in our busy lives. It transports us to a different world for a few minutes or hours. The role of Television is that it allows everyday people to be transported to different worlds thus forgetting‚ if just for a couple minutes

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    Most parents I know worry about how much television their children are watching‚ but I see very little being done about actually cutting down their children’s television time. The average child watches three to four hours of T. V. a day and another two and a half hours more on the television watching movies or playing video games‚ for a total of six and a half hours of television a day. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics‚ a little more than half of our children have a T. V. in their

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    Robert Herrick’s poem‚ "To the Virgins to make much of Time‚" focuses upon the idea of carpe diem. The poem stresses the idea of marriage while love and flesh are still young‚ or one may suffer in their later years alone and loveless. Herrick believes this gift of virginity to be a great waste if not given while it is still desirable. Virginity is a gift for the simple reason that it can only be given once to one person‚ which he believes should be the husband. Therefore‚ he says to go out and find

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    Television is just another part of technology keeping us from viewing the world and living our lives as we should. Instead of coming out of our house and taking on any challenge the world might have for us‚ we easily give up to our laziness‚ which quickly makes us grab the bag of chips‚ the soda‚ and sit down. Even though I am one of the many people who just loves to have the remote by their side‚ I strongly believe that television is nothing but detrimental to our society. Watching television

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    appeal‚ but brings more emphasis and expression to their writing. There are many different arguments that could be used the highlight the meaning in poetry. In Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress‚” and Roberts Herrick’s “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time” the writer reflects his faultiness by using scare tactics‚ band wagon appeals‚ and hasty generalizations. Scare tactics are used in poetry to manipulate people into believing the message by arousing fear and alarm in their mind. They do this by

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    Dustin‚ in reference to your question‚ I believe that the state and school districts do place too much emphasis on testing. I feel like all teachers teach is the test‚ which results in students lacking in the areas of cognition‚ metacognition‚ and foundational skills. Nowadays‚ students rarely have time to get familiar with their thought process and why they think the way that they do. This is due to so much paperwork‚ multiple tests‚ and testing strategies being shoved down their throats. Students

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    Television...Then and Now

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    Televisions have been the portal to entertainment and information for centuries. The television was once considered something that was pure science fiction‚ but was brought to reality by a number of inventors and scientist. The TV has evolved in many ways since its existence‚ from bringing you entertainment and news‚ to now allowing you to play today’s hottest video game consoles‚ searching the world wide web and enjoying a movie in a theater. The visual graphics have changed from poor black and

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    Reality Television

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    Reality television has strong influence and damaging effects on our society. But let’s face it‚ we feed on the drama. We love to absorb another life other than our own. Along with it comes the misconception of reality which distorts how one believes they have to behave to gain fame or attention. Reality television is bad for culture because it only elevates money‚ beauty‚ and fame above other qualities by promoting inappropriate behavior such as bullying‚ casual sex‚ alcohol abuse and bad language

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    Influence of Television

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    Muslims today and which should otherwise be an outstanding characteristic and feature of all Muslims‚ whether married or un-married. Television is such an evil that if our society only understood its reality‚ then they would find no excuse to watch. Its spiritual harm is that it takes away the hayaa and shame of our men‚ women and children. The content of most television programmes is nothing but immodesty and indecency‚ which invites nothing but immodesty and indecency – into our homes‚ into our lives

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    In many ways‚ Television has proved to be one of the worst inventions of modern times. All too often‚ Television is harmful because of the shows it broadcasts and the way it is used in the home Television‚ the most popular used technology of modern life‚ has been considered as a good friend in many homes. Stay in front of the screen. Switch hour to hour for relaxation. Watch the motion pictures with unthinking mind. And have pleasure from that “good friend”. A large number of people thought it is

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