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    HOW TELEVISION AFFECTS ON CHILDREN Television was invented during the 1925 by a Scottish inventor John Baird. After fourteenth years, the American finally make an adaptation and starts to broadcasting their own around the country. Until today, TV is still being used for its function and making an influences on the people of this society. It is unavoidable that children are attract to the television more than adult because of the sound and animated pictures. However, as the future has advanced,…

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    Respect Elders Essay

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    Introduction: "Respect you elders." This statement may seem familiar to all of us, but is it really being followed these days? Every day as we flip through the television, we witness discrimination against the old and wise. Frequently on television sitcoms, we notice a false portrayal of old people as being boring and in poor health. The audience laughs as a teenager yells words at a grandmother whose hearing is failing or a grandfather having trouble finding his false teeth. I don't know about…

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    to but are. Sometimes parents do not have control over what their kids are watching. Plus it is seen and said that kids spend more time inside their homes consuming entertainment media than doing any other activity and some children even have a television in their bedroom. Also as reported by Anderson and coworkers in their surveys and other studies it was found that on any given Saturday, 60% of American kids are watching TV. Those percentages of children are the ones who imitate everything…

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    should monitor the number of hours their children watch reality tv. Watching reality tv creates the basis of delusions and dangerous stereotypes for the impressionable. When watching reality tv children start to believe what they are seeing on television is what can happen in real life, especially when the genre of the show is reality. Reality tv causes it to be a belief that “It’s in a girl’s nature to be catty and competitive” as shown in a study conducted by the Girl Scout Research…

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    It is commonly understood that the invention of TV was one of the most significant events in the 20th century.TV was essentially introduced to broadcast news and entertainment programs, But nowadays,it is argued that TV role as a medium to spread news and awareness and generally a companion to some people has declined significantly. This argue can be proven by analyzing the usability and functionality of TV against its most fierce rival,The internet. Looking first at the most attractive…

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    In the article “trouble with television” the aurther Robert MacNeil gives some reasons to why tv is hurting the society. Robert stated that “by the age of 20 a person would have watched at least 20,000 hours of television. You can also add at least 10,000 hours for every decade you have lived after the age of 20. He also states that a person spends more time watching tv then a college student spends working on a bachelor’s degree. A college student only spends 5000hours working on prodjects. In…

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    What is the one thing everybody is so obsessed, they made it into a “slang”? The thing that has something for literally young and old. But most importantly, the one thing that everybody loves? That's right, you guessed it, Netflix! It will soon be celebrating its 20 years since its release on August 29, 1997. Within those years, Reed Hastings, the creator of Netflix, has accomplished many things, such as, conquer the world. Well, almost. He somehow found a way to have Netflix in Australia,…

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    American movies and television shows are making either an implicit or explicit argument about American identity, this is what attracts Americans to watch the movie or show. Since Americans are a combination of many different cultures and a combination of living, or growing up in different parts of the United States that have different ways of living and interacting, everyone has a different opinion on American Identity. Television writers and producers use all these different opinions and…

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    In "Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor" by Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi it states that if you desire something enough you will end up doing it. They explain that "temptations that can disrupt their lives are often pure indulgences." That saying surprised me but I soon realized how true it is. They also backed that sentence up with examples of how "no one has to drink alcohol." They then go on talking about how TV is one of our biggest things that hold us back and make us less…

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    In "Vast Wasteland," Newton Minow gave a forewarning speech about television and the public interest. Minow is correct in his statement for these reasons: the influence of viewers, public interest, and the future impact of television. Television has a wide spread influence on everyone, especially children. Children are impacted so much by the things they have seen and watched on TV. They learn many things from TV, but their social skills and other learning abilities slow down. It numbs the…

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