Watching Television Makes You Smarter Essay

Watching TV : Worthy or not Worthy? In the article” Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” the author Steven Johnson argues over the past decade that TV programs have changed its scheme from single complex narrative plots of “masses want dumb things” (Johnson, 278). to multi threat or “cognitive demanding” (Johnson,278). which basically means passing from boring and difficult programs to challenging issues which the audience would find it interest and importantly to use their brain to solve them.…

eccentricity?" (Maciac) Today's television bolsters the idea that individuals who are viewed as "smart" are lesser class citizens. Children's shows on Disney Channel portray an inaccurate view of intellectuals to viewers causing school children to look down on being intelligent and thus not working in school. These shows, such as Suite Life on Deck, Wizards of Waverly Place, Jesse, and Bunk'd all portray intellectuals in a negative light. Popular Disney television shows aimed at children…

least three times previously, with the most recent conversation being last week. We were sitting on the couch watching television, after getting home from work. My daughter is playing with her toys right in front of us when my husband asks me if I’m nervous about getting deployed. I say, “No, I’m not nervous. Why? Are you nervous about me being deployed?” He responds, “No. I just know you will be worried about Adrianna.” I respond back, “I’ll miss her, but I won’t be worried. She’ll be in good…

that technology such as cell phones, tablets, television, and video games are unnecessary advancements that waste one’s time and vegetate the brain. Younger generations are constantly connected to the virtual world and appreciate all new technologies. Many would not be able to last a day without their precious smart devices. These stances on modern technology constitute controversies of its effect on human intellect. In Everything Bad is Good for You, Steven Johnson discusses how popular culture…

didn’t rise to fame because they had catchy phrases like ‘It’s T-Shirt Time’ and ‘Gym. Tan. Laundry’. In the zeitgeist of today’s television you don’t need to possess even a sliver of acting talent, as long as you can appeal to the audience, documentary reality shows like The Jersey Shore, wife swap, and Made will gladly take you. Ever since my young days watching early reality shows on MTV like Made and The Real World I’ve always been skeptical of the content reality shows display, so when…

Vonnegut’s constant reference government controlled Television, and radios which were the tools of the trade for leveling out the differences in intelligence. Unlike her husband Hazel did not have an ear piece, she had “perfectly average intelligence” therefore her constantly watching television was quite enough to keep her thinking too hard at bay. It is not coincidence that mass media also puts emphasis on the same three…

On this particular show, there was a murder-taking place with no clue at all, on who committed the crime. They had recovered some D&A, but there were no past data to make a match on a suspect. The detectives had someone in question on who it might be but no evidence to hold him to the crime. Out of nowhere, one of the detectives on the case was talking to the man in question and somehow saw up his nose a dot of blood no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence. He then grabbed a q-tip…

Daniel Seizer Schmidt English 10HP, Period 4 22 October 2015 A simple online search of the latest news headlines gives you a long list of demoralizing phrases: shark attacks, displaced refugees, brutal beatings, police chases, foreign shootings, war, and many more. Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian novel written in 1953, was based on predictions of the future made by author Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 is a rendering of how society would look if things continued in the same manner as they had. The…

stability, gender constancy, flexible gender stereotypes, and adolescence. Another part of gender development is through Social Learning Theory. As discussed in lecture, Social Learning Theory is when kids learn different behaviors by imitating and watching other people and then being punished or rewarded for what they learned (Fritz 2017). Through each of these phases, children are slowly learning concepts about themselves and gaining…

The television shows of teenagers nowadays is such a broad spectrum ranging from anime to reality tv. Some shows are usually watched by both genders, like The Walking Dead and American Horror Story. Since I am a girl and enjoy watching drama I would assume that not that many guys watch drama. In these shows the most obvious example I can think about playing into gender roles would be anime. There are some animes that express all of the girls as having big boobs and long hair who are very skinny.…