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    Welcome to Episode 1‚ I’m going to take you through 1997 to 2003. Netflix was founded in 1997 in Scotts Valley‚ California by Reed Hastings and his co-worker Marc Randolph. The idea of Netflix came to Hastings when he was forced to pay $40 in overdue fines after returning Apollo 13 well past its due date. They launched Netflix website on August 29‚ with only 30 employees and 925 works available for rent and brought a more traditional‚ online movie rental. (4$ per rental plus $2 in postage) In 1999

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    on technology‚ that including television which is a form of way that help us know what is going on in the world. Television has provided us a format of news and entertainment through video. Not only is television a system for news‚ but it’s also used for presidential debates. Television used in presidential debates is a positive concept because the citizens are able to get involved‚ and they are able to witness which candidate is best for them to choose. Television is a good way to help one get educated

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    Children‚ Television‚ and Violence Children‚ Television‚ and Violence TV violence may influence children more than most people are aware of. The amount of violence on TV is an important topic in today¡¯s society. One of the reasons it should be so important to all of us is because almost everyone in America today has a television set‚ and because of it¡¯s availability‚ children are viewing disturbing images everyday from the comfort of their own homes. Television is all about ratings. To keep

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    The impact of a television on children In today society‚ every American house have at least one television. Television can be both a valuable asset as well as a negative influence for children of all ages. There is always an on-going debate whether the television influences the children. But there isn’t a doubt that the television has an impact on a children. According to a study of American Psychological Association shows that television viewing has led to shortened attention spans in children

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    Television and Presidential Elections Television has been influential in many aspects of modern society‚ but how has it impacted presidential elections? Today‚ many people get their news from television programs including almost everything about elections. Every four years‚ millions of Americans watch the presidential debates live on the television and listen to analysts’ interpretations of every move each candidate makes. Americans are far more informed about who they are voting for‚ but could

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    Television and Today’s Youth Television and Today’s Youth In today’s world‚ violent and sexy television is seen as normal‚ everyday programming. Parents constantly have to monitor what their children are viewing. What happens when the television hurting your children isn’t the programming? What happens when the media doing the damage is actually the commercials spliced between those carefully chosen shows? Surely‚ parents cannot watch everything! In the average year‚ the advertising industry

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    Have you ever viewed the news every day for drawn out stretch of time? Do you see how you feel in the wake of viewing the news? Ordinarily individuals turn out to be significantly more stressed and negative over the world in the wake of viewing the news. It is assessed that there are seven or eight negative stories in proportion to a few positive stories. On the off chance that you consider the purpose behind this‚ it bodes well. People are significantly more pulled in to stunning dramatization

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    That 70’s Show is an American sitcom that ran from 1998-2006. It takes place in 1976-1980 Wisconsin and centers around a group of highschool kids and ends a couple years after their graduation. In a way‚ the show proves that no matter what the decade‚ kids behave the same way and have mostly the same stereotypes. There are many characters who have either ethnic or gender stereotypes pinned to them through their language or how they act. The first example is also the main love interest of the show

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    others make you feel good and others feel good because they are being helped. Helping others can help you learn more about yourself and even put you on a path to your future career. Helping others doesn’t mean donating thousands of dollars as charity. You can start up volunteering at a local homeless shelter. Practise random acts of kindness everyday. This could be as small as an act as helping an elderly person carry groceries to their caror giving somebody th right way of driving. The more you do

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    What is the trouble with television? In MacNeil’s article‚ “The Trouble with Television‚” he states that television discourages concentration. MacNeil wrote this article around thirty years ago‚ so one may ask of the article’s validity today. The claim that television discourages concentration still contains its prior validity today. The variety of different shows becomes somewhat of a narcotic (280‚ 1‚ 1). People constantly have a guide through the many wonders of this world in 30

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