In “Thinking Outside the Idiot Box”‚ Dana Stevens complains that in his glowing praise of more complex television‚ he completely ignores the sixteen minutes of commercials that make up any one hour program. But though she seems caustic toward this‚ I argue that even the commercials
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boob tube‚ the idiot box‚ as well as many other nicknames‚ has been around for almost a hundred years. Ever since cable TV became popular in the 1950’s‚ there has always been a worry that people watch too much TV. Most people believe that with exorbitant exposure to the popular media both dumbs us down as well as makes us more likely to tolerate acts of violence. Dana Stevens’ “Thinking Outside the Idiot Box” argues that television does not make you smarter‚ directly contrasting Steven Johnsons article
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Dana Stevens’ essay‚ “Thinking outside the Idiot Box”‚ was first published in Slate on March 25‚ 2005‚ is a counter argument to “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” an article written my Steven Johnson that says watching complicated TV shows make you smarter when in reality you’re just watching complicated TV shows. She mainly disagrees with Johnson’s opinion that figuring out the complicated plots of the TV shows sharpens one’s cognitive skills. In her view‚ those entangled plots not only compel one
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Thinking “Outside The Box” There are always those people who stand out against others because of their beliefs‚ styles‚ and mindset among other things. These are the people in our society who are deemed adjectives such as weird‚ outrageous‚ unique‚ or even crazy. But it is always these “outside-the-box” mind states of people that put them in a above and beyond category‚ and many of these people go on to achieve great things because they think above and have strong beliefs and ideals that
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Thinking Outside The Box We live in the age of new technologies‚ in an age of rapid progress and every successful employer seeks to meet all the requirements of the present time namely control and improve the quality of services‚ to reduce execution time and be the best in the business‚ despite not less intelligent competitors. 1. What external factors were affecting UPS’s HR practices? How did UPS respond to these trends? Workers of the UPS has a responsible attitude towards the quality of
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Thinking beyond the norm is sometimes referred to as thinking "outside the box"‚ but for those that are typically logical or strategical thinkers‚ where do you start to become a creative thinking? What value does this ability bring you and others around you? Creative thinking‚ the ability to have fresh alternatives‚ have new possibilities‚ formulate new approaches to getting things done‚ and open one’s self to new information that doesn’t support your existing assumptions about the way people should
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“Thinking Outside the Idiot Box” by Dana Stevens is a direct response to Steven Johnson’s article “Watching TV Makes You Smarter.” Johnson’s article claimed that today’s television is actually making viewers smarter due to plots being more complex. Dana Stevens on the other hand did not agree on this theory. She believes that television is neither a poison nor a salutary tonic. Will watching more TV make you smarter? Most likely no‚ today’s television programs aren’t interested in making their audience
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NURSES ON THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX In the Clinical Set-Up: As a staff nurse‚ thinking outside of the box may not be as usual or as routinely as we do every shift‚ like doing endorsements or administering medications. On the floor‚ not every issue‚ challenges and patient’s problem requiring nursing intervention necessitate out of the box thinking. We incorporate the nursing process‚ with adequate knowledge‚ nursing skills and attitude learned from getting the degree and through our mere experience
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Advantages of thinking outside of the box As a leader‚ one of your key roles is to anticipate and make change in order to ensure that your organisation continues to achieve sustained success. If a an organisation is performing well‚ it is tempting for leaders to fall into the trap of believing that if something is not broken‚ it does need fixing. Yet in truth‚ leaders need to be able to continually innovate so they their organisation and they personally achieve success. Innovation requires leaders
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referred to as the idiot box by one of my colleagues‚ offers have made them stagnant and‚ for a lack of better words‚ irresponsible. Another thing which I want to point out is the character alterations that we can see from our pupils. Some TV shows which portray beauty as the showcase of jewelry‚ elegant clothes and make up which in some ways change pupils’ perspective. Mostly‚ from the simple girls that they were‚ they turned to fancy the same when they should be thinking of how to improve the
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