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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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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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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12. Why do television programmes have theme tunes? (That is‚ the music conventionally played over the opening credits of a television programme.) Choose a television theme tune and discuss: • its expressive qualities (e.g. happy‚ sad‚ fast-paced‚ slow) • The cultural associations that it inspires. For example‚ what other kinds of music does it refer to? Is the theme tune what you would expect in relation to the genre of the programme? Theme music in general can be anything from the recognisable
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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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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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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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