people. It is cheap‚ appealing‚ and within the reach of almost everyone. In this way‚ TV has become an important mass media around the world. Sadly‚ this resource isn’t used in a way that people could get the best possible benefits from it. TV has also become one of the worlds most PREDOMINANT bad habits. The purpose of this essay is to persuade the reader that people shouldn’t watch too much TV because a lot of TV programs are not educational; it makes people waste time that could be used in more
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CHAPTER 2 Causes of Suicide among Teenagers According to the book “Filipino Children under Stress” written by author Maria Lourdes Arellano-Carandang‚ teenage suicides are often caused by mental problems‚ substance abuse‚ family history of suicide‚ and other stressors such as bullying and financial dilemma. As Dr. Philip Chua from a blog site of Noemi Lardizabal-Dado would say: “People usually attempt suicide to block unbearable emotional pain‚ which is caused by a wide
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Shannon Hill The Effectiveness of Juvenile Curfews. Curfew is a word that derived from the French word “courvrefeu”. The meaning of the word courvrefeu is “to cover fire”. Implicating that a curfew is a way to put something out or maybe to reduce something down. Going back in time‚ curfews have been around since the feudal era. A long ways ago‚ “a bell would ring to alert the villagers to put out their fires and go to bed for the night. William the Conqueror even used an 8:00 p.m. curfew
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Is TV bad for your children? Is TV actually bad for your child to watch? Americans watch TV up to seven hours a day that can affect our “social lives‚ ways of learning and entertaining ourselves‚ family relations‚ and lifestyles.” Kids spend more time watching TV then going out and doing anything productive or active. Do our children learn from TV or is it better to read a book? What kinds of violence are we letting our kids watch? What if they get influenced by it? These are all questions we
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ANALYSIS OF A TV SHOW Κέλυ Δήμα k.dima@cityu.gr COM 307
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of ‘university students’ in the TV show “University” During the twentieth century people used to pay attention on domestic and global politics and economy since the world was just steady after the wars‚ people from different country started to restructure their own rules and develop new societies. While after the twenty-first century‚ they tend to emphasize on the variety of lifestyle‚ which mostly focus on amusement and recreation‚ the increasing lifestyle TV programs and magazines emerge with
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Apple’s Glasses Free 3D Television Three-dimensional images are jumping out of movie theaters and into living rooms. Well what exactly is 3D TV? It adds the illusion of a third dimension‚ depth‚ to current TV and HDTV display technology‚ which is typically limited to only height and width. Sony‚ Panasonic‚ Mitsubishi‚ Samsung‚ LG‚ and Toshiba currently released these 3D televisions. Television is finally becoming real‚ and the viewer is “in” the experience. This new 3D generation is going to
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RUNNING HEAD: THE REALITY OF REALITY TV 1. THE REALITY OF REALITY TV Donna Napper ENG 122 Instructor Kissel 5/05/2013 REALITY 2. THE REALITY OF REALITY TV Even though reality television may seem real to some‚ there are several controversies surrounding the fact that it might actually be scripted. This is just one of the major misconceptions of reality television. Millions of people are addicted to watching reality television every single day. It is even being said
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Teen Pregnancy in the Media Three-quarters of a million teens between the ages of 15 and 19 become pregnant each year; eighty-two percent of those pregnancies are unplanned (“Peer Pressure Facts About Teenage Pregnancy” 1). Most teens that get pregnant do not have the education‚ money‚ or support system to raise a child‚ thus resulting in a poor life for the mother and the child (Wikipedia “Teenage Pregnancy” 3). Teenage pregnancy is a growing issue‚ especially in the United States‚ which is very
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how youth use tattooing and body piercing to express their way of thinking and how they feel. It also explores the various key reasons that lead to the decisions of youth to tattoo. Youth and tattoos is a growing trend in the US and parents of these teens that decide to have tattoos and piercings are concerned with their decisions. In this article Dr. Martin views tattoos in a positive way. This is shown in the last paragraph where he mentioned‚ “they (tattoos) can often be understood self-constructive
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