Violence on TV. What has the world come to these days? I often seem like everywhere one looks. Violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets‚ back alleys‚ school‚ and even at home. The last of these is major source of violence. In many people’s living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television‚ and the children who view it are often pulled into its realistic world of violence scenes with sometimes devastating results. The truth about television
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Perhaps one of my new favorite TV show is called‚ Glee. It’s about a group of rejects in high school joining an afterschool club that sings and attempts to win another championship‚ which has not been achieved for more than a decade. Glee club is taught by a Spanish teacher named Will Schuester who graduated from the same high school and also won the only Glee club’s national trophy. I personally find the entire series jaw dropping because there’s so much talent packed into one show that many have
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child growing up watching television wasn’t something we would watch to keep up with someone’s personal life or their family’s life but we seem to be drawn to theses shows. Now days it seems like more than half the shows on television are reality shows and the days of watching sitcoms and movies are almost long gone. What kind of values are theses shows putting out there if any? So in this paper I will talk about what is a reality show‚ are they real‚ why we seem to be watching more of theses shows
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Cherry Terrero- Ortiz TV Brain It is safe to say that just about everyone has watched television at least once in their life. There is an equal amount of informative things as there are uninformative. To say that television makes you less intelligent is ridiculous and untrue. If your overall intelligence can be so easily affected by a 45 minute show then you should really question how smart you really are. Although I agree with Dana Stevens point about the show 24 and its false representation
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that came out with the idea of television (TV) is difficult to be acknowledged. While the issue of its inventor is still being greatly disputed‚ the number of TV channels competing in the market has been rapidly increasing. Recalling the scarcity of choice the public faced a few years back‚ the world has advanced by giving the society an advantage to escape from the hassle of their lives through its engaging source of entertainment. Recently‚ reality TV shows have caused a shift to the showbiz industry
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disagree? If child want to do well in school‚ parents should limit the hours of watching TV programs or movies. There has long been an intense discussion over whether or not parents‚ in order to improve their children’s performance at school‚ should limit the hours of watching TV programs or movies. Now parents in ever increasing number are trying to reduce children’s recreational time and even to forbid them to watch any TV programs‚ considering that things like this is a waste of time and only do
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counts for the strongest television channels in the market. Their success‚ unlike their effect on the viewer‚ is in arguable. Salman Rushdie‚ in his article‚ Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality argues that reality television is a deterioration of mass entertainment‚ whereas in James Poniewozik’s Television‚ Why Reality TV is Good for us‚ reality television is viewed in a more positive light. Although both articles deal with the issue of reality television shows‚ they take different
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Addictive or Not Addictive? That Is The Question Marie Winn‚ author of “TV Addiction” states that‚ “television viewing‚ for those vulnerable to addiction‚ is more like drinking or taking drugs- once you start it’s hard to stop” (609). Winn strongly believes that television is so addicting that it can and will ruin people’s lives. The meaning of addiction according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is the compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (such as heroin‚ nicotine‚ alcohol)
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we watch a group of people live together in a house (big brother)‚ or watch them build the house (the Block)‚ reality television exposes that little peeping tom is all of us. Reality TV satisfies that instinct of perving into others lives‚ and the reality of reality television is that as humans we enjoy this. Reality TV is not much different from normal programs‚ like any program‚ reality television has the essentials‚ it has a mix of characters‚ it puts those characters in situation‚ and the result
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Reality TV vs. Real Life TV One of the main sources of news and entertainment is television. Every household has a television set in their home which the family consumes hours watching. Many reality TV shows are based on shallow and vague values. The growing trend in television now for our culture is “REALITY TV” (real life on TV). Just like the appeal to junk food or the internet reality TV has a dominant effect on our children and us as adults. There is real life and there is TV-life under influence
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