Television: the Undiscovered Drug After a long‚ hard day of school and work‚ I trudge up the stairs to my apartment. As I approach the door‚ I can already hear the mumbles of the television. I open the door and am not surprised to see my sister on the couch‚ hand on remote‚ flipping through channels. I am now accustomed to this picture. My sister could be crowned couch potato queen. She watches television day and night--so much that my cousins and I now refer to her as the Human TV Guide. She knows
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Television has brain-washed the majority of our youth. The first thing I hear as I get home are TV mumbles. I open the door and to no surprise there is my younger brother in full motion on the coach‚ hand in remote‚ flipping through channels. My brother could not be any more of a coach potato. He watches TV all day and night. I refer to him as the human TV guide. So much endless television can dull our minds‚ take away time from completing important activities‚ and has exposed us to a world of violence
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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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Mihir Shah Ms. Oviatt AP English III: 4A 7 October 2014 Television: The Plug-In Drug Journal “Television: The Plug In Drug” was written by Marie Winn‚ and she describes how family life has been affected by the television set. Her central argument is that the American family has been destroyed by the television‚ and that family unity has been diminished overtime by this cultural addiction. Winn uses many different sources to back up her claims‚ and some are extremely effective‚ while others do
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become so addicted to television and other electronics that we would let them become one of the most important aspects of our lives? After reading the essay written by Marie Winn titled “The Plug-In Drug”‚ I believe that it might be true for a large majority of us. In this day and age‚ people become so addicted to their television‚ computer‚ or their video games that they neglect their other responsibilities or tend to forget about the more important things in life. Television has taken control of
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world but he also knew that he had to learn to read and write before he could run away and be free. Television: The Plug –In Drug is an essay written by Marie Winn. This essay is about the way that television changes families and in all actuality pushes families further apart. Ms. Winn talks about many situations where families are proven to be more interested to what is on the television screen then what is going on in their
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“Sex‚ drugs‚ and violence on American Television” Intro: Sex‚ drugs‚ and violence on American Television send out‚ more often than not‚ negative messages. It projects to our children that it is acceptable and glorified to behave in this manner. It is not appropriate when seemingly every time you turn on the television these acts or portrayals of these acts are occurring. Our youth’s minds are saturated with it and it has been detrimental to the perceptions and misconceptions of our children
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Coleman Professor Thoreson English 101 18 February 2012 Cell Phone: A Cordless Addiction Marie Winn wrote an amazing article “Television: The Plug-in Drug” in which she introduces the argument about television and its overwhelming affects on families. She opens the minds of readers with explaining that the casual entertainment television was intended for has now become a troublesome problem within families. Winn proposes that the problem lies within the seductive act of TV watching
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The book of C.G Jung “The Undiscovered Self” was written during the cold war concerning communism. He saw during this time the trend toward collectivism as the utmost threat to the individual self. He expresses grief over the adoption of mass mindedness‚ and encourages its psychic depreciation. Witnessing the physical and psychological destruction of war‚ Jung provides the reader his analytic interpretation of the incomparable loss of self in the intrusion of secular religion and social collectivism
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A Summary of “Television: The Plug-In Drug” by Marie Winn The family time that experts once believed the television would facilitate has backfired. It has been replaced with an everyday military regiment. Wake up‚ go to school‚ watch television‚ and go to bed. Parents have allowed the television to become the primary source for their children’s home life experience. Although this medium allows for peace within the home‚ the family dynamic suffers. Winn references the conflicts that family’s had
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