Trinh Pham Winter 2013 Instructor: Cooper J Assignment #1 Date: January 11th‚ 2013 “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” In “Watching TV makes you smarter‚” Steven Johnson makes clear his thesis statement to us that television programming today makes increasingly complex cognitive demands of viewers‚ and enhances people’s cognitive facilities. He uses the images telling us what the intellectual effect of television viewing. First‚ based on his theory called “The Sleeper Curve”‚ he talks about reality
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the USA‚ 47% of children ages 2 to 18 years have a television set in their bedrooms. On a typical day‚ they spend on average of 5.5 hours using media‚ including television‚ computer games and the Internet (Kaiser Family Foundation‚ 2001). TV is the number one after-school activity for 6 to 17 years old. Although television is loved by children and has helped them a lot‚ it has influenced them in a negative way. Over the past decade television has become a big part of a child’s routine. Even though
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Running Head: WATCHING A MOVIE AT HOME OR IN A THEATER Watching a Movie At Home or In a Theater Qumisien Hennings Everest University Online Composition I-119 The new move Twilight is coming soon and I am faced with a decision‚ should I wait until it comes on television? Or should I pay to see it when it comes out? Although both sounds like reasonable choices‚ but watching the movies at home on television is better than watching the movie at the theater. The reason is because you do not have
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Michaela Dramis Keith Durkin Introduction to Sociology 27 April 2013 The Television Television is one of the biggest sources of entertainment we use today. From gossip‚ news‚ sports‚ or other relatable topics‚ it has provided avid watchers with something to look forward to watch every day. An American farmer by the name of Philo Farnsworth broke through the barrier of this invention by putting all the pieces together from other inventers with the same idea. These people include‚ Paul Nipkow
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Television should be prohibit to children Television as a media tool is popular around the world. With its popularity across all age groups comes the question of whether or not children should be prohibited from watching television. I believe that children should not be allowed to watch television for extended periods of time because it has many negative side effects. I will explain the three major negative effects—that is bad for children’s health like causing obesity‚ myopia and waste time in
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Student: Roxanne Chen Student number: s1001218 Course: Composition II Instructor: Dr. Tseng Due Date: 03/11/2013 TV Watching or No TV Watching for Children‚ Which One is Better? Nowadays there are many experts and parents have discussed whether it is good for children to watch TV‚ some of them approve of keeping children away from TV because of the inappropriate information or the harm to kids’ eyes‚ however‚ others prefer to let the children watch TV as long as their parents accompany them
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The Television Habit Marie Winn classifies television watching as an addictive and destructive behavior‚ drawing similarities between it and the abuse of drugs and alcohol. On the surface‚ this claim seems justifiable and arguments can be made in its favor. However it is Winn’s equating television with drugs and alcohol that is ultimately the downfall of her argument‚ demonstrating a misapplication of the term “addiction” and all of its conditions to television watching. First‚
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Tara J. Williams Instructor: Donna Thompson Date: October 20‚ 2013 Television (The effect it has on children) Television has been around for approximately 75 years‚ according to Erin Monaghan. It has cause some negative impact on our young‚ youth of today. Children spend more time watching television than they spend on homework and family time. Too much TV time has cause children to be obesity‚ not able to make rational decisions in violent solutions and having sex at an such
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lucy Eng1020 02-10-14 Should Children Watch Television? In United States‚ “Children watch 4 hours of television every day‚ 28 hours a week and‚ sometimes‚ 10 hours on Saturdays and Sundays. Before their 18th birthday‚ children may view 25‚000 hours of television” (Ni Chang 85). Nowadays‚ technology has been developed and used in different ways. Many children spend a large amount of time on IPad‚ smart phone‚ and computer. Clearly‚ television has played an important role in most of the younger
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African Americans have been victims of racism on television shows from ever since they started to show on television shows to today. When we see African Americans on television‚ they are portrayed as stupid comedians‚ murderers‚ poor‚ and uneducated. According to J. Fred MacDonald‚ the author of Black and White TV: African Americans in Television since 1948‚ “Television has been inhospitable to blacks who were not middle class and/or pejoratively stereotyped. Less visible‚ for instance‚ have been
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