Children and TV Professor: Dr. Germain Course Title: ENG090035VA016-1116-001 (Writing Fundamentals) 08/22/2011 Children and TV Watching Every child loves to spend countless hours in front of the TV watching cartoons‚ and various TV programs. What a lot of parents don’t realize is that although watching TV keeps a child occupied and quiet‚ long periods of TV watching can be harmful to the child in three major ways I would like to discuss. Children that spend hours in front of a TV are
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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Television has destroyed communication among friends and family. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. While TV has been blamed for many of society’s failings‚ especially as a time consumer for the masses‚ it might also be the source of many of our ideas and information. Arguably‚ the ideas and information may be suspect in terms of quality and value but TV has probably become a major focal point in most homes throughout
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Standard pieces of equipment in most homes‚ watching television has become a standard activity for most families. Although there are many excellent programs‚ many people think television is one of the worst inventions of modern times. All too often‚ television is harmful because of the shows it broadcasts‚ the effect it has on people‚ and the way it is used in homes. First‚ heavy TV viewing leads to poor school performance. Most television broadcasters show a variety of programs 24 hours a day‚
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willing to wait for things than those who watched the nonviolent programs" (162). While reading this article‚ it clearly states that children shouldn’t be watching violent shows at such a young age. "Just by limiting the number of hours children watch television will probably reduce the amount of aggression they see" (163). If parents did just that children would become less violent and more likely to be less aggressive as well. Parents need to be limiting what their children are watching. Kids today are
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Television is a system for reproducing on a screen visual image transmitted by a radio signal. T.V short for television is popular among many people around the world. It is a means of communication. No‚ I don’t believe that television has any contribution on isolating people. The excerpt says “At first‚ television watching was a communal affair; …………..proudly invite the neighbors in to view the marvelous box”. I completely disagree with this line. For me communal affairs are those activities
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Does Television Violence Have an Adverse Effect on Children? Most people read statistics like "Before the average American child leaves elementary school‚ he or she will have witnessed more than 8‚000 murders on television" ( "Does T.V. Kill?" )‚ and worry about the negative effect viewing violence on television will have on their children. Research into the effects of childhood exposure to violent television programming shows that there is cause for concern. Watching violence on television
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INTRODUCTION GEO Television Network is part of Pakistan’s largest media conglomerate‚ Jang Group of Companies. GEO has witnessed unprecedented success and has indisputably dominated Pakistani media for the last 9 years. Mir Ibrahim Rahman known as "MIR" is the CEO of GEO TV. He is the elder son of Pakistan’s most powerful person and media tycoon‚ Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman. He is one of the youngest CEOs to head a channel. GEO takes pride in providing the information‚ news‚ entertainment through its
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the serious issues of our time as nothing more than fodder for entertainment. Television is the biggest culprit‚ and those of us who grew up on television have been damaged in ways that are now so universally common that they go unnoticed. Neil Postman’ s examination of this problem in his 1985 book‚ Amusing Ourselves to Death‚ is a dire warning of the consequences of living in a culture dominated by television‚ and while over 20 years have passed since this book was written‚ the introduction
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The detrimental effect television has on our youth. After a long‚ hard day of school and work‚ I walk up the stairs to my apartment. As I approach the door‚ I can already hear the television. I open the door and am not surprised to see my brother on the couch‚ hand on remote‚ flipping through channels. My brother could be crowned couch potato king. He watches television day and night so much that my cousins and I now refer to him as the Human TV Guide. He knows what’s on at a specific time on a
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Stay Tuned: The Exploitation Of Children In Television Advertisements Across America in the homes of the rich‚ the not-so-rich‚ and in poverty-stricken homes and tenements‚ as well as in schools and businesses‚ sits advertisers ’ mass marketing tool‚ the television‚ usurping freedoms from children and their parents and changing American culture. Virtually an entire nation has surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling. Advertisers‚ within the constraints of the law‚ use their thirty-second
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