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“Watching TV Makes You Smarter” In the article, “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” Steven Johnson claims that the progression of modern television series is making viewers smarter because of their complex plots and multi-threading techniques. I question Johnson’s statement because there is a difference between gaining knowledge and conditioning your brain by noticing techniques that are in television shows today. One gains knowledge by learning and being tested over different subject. Whereas,…

“If you must blink, do it now. Pay careful attention to everything you see and hear, no matter how unusual it may seem. And please be warned, if you fidget, if you look away, if you forget any part of what I tell you, even for an instant, then our hero will surely perish.” This is how the movie “Kubo and the Two Strings” begins. Kubo and the two strings is a stop motion animation movie and is Japanese animation and based on Japanese culture. . Kubo is a special boy who can make paper fold up…

TV is one of the most prevalent forms of media in today’s society giving young people incredible access to what is on the television. The access had been increasing in the last half decade since the standard of living has been going up. According to Eugene V. Beresin M.D. “In 1950, only 10% of American homes had a television. Today 99% of homes have televisions”. TVs are available in almost everyone home in the US and many children have a TV in their own bedroom. Despite the common idea that…

range from going to work or moving your place of residence. There is a set amount of work that we must do in order to make this transition from one realm to another. For example, a father might have to wake his kids up in the morning and send them off to school before he goes to work where he then changes his role to be a worker instead of a father. In order to transition from one realm to another, one must undergo what is considered “boundary work”. This can range from simply a change of…

Have you ever wondered what TV does to children? Or to be more specific, the effects that Reality TV have on children. I have always wondered why my mom wouldn’t let me watch certain shows or movies and now I have a clearer understanding of why. “The Impact of Reality Shows on Children” written by Kevin Bliss was posted on LiveStrong.com and has a message to parents about their children and reality TV. They don’t support it nor do they reject it, they more or less tell you how to handle the…

child's weight size and their accomplishments in school. I think it is important that we also look at parenting in order for a child to become overweight someone has to feed them food that causes them to exceed the calories for their age and height. I must agree with Nickelodeon that there is no possible way that you can watch a show for nine minutes and determine the impact it has on a child. In order to get an accurate study, they should redo the study. After reading the article by Rita Rubin,…

set and his whole life was a lie. The movie The Truman Show is an indirect satirical look at reality tv, making comments about the “controlled” reality these shows display, creating illogical scenarios, and mocks those who follow reality tv shows like a religion. The Truman Show, as mentioned previously, takes an indirect satirical look at reality tv and the various “realities” that revolve around tv culture.…

learning. A recent study said that, “kids who watched education and informative tv shows show better results in math, reading as compared the one that don’t watch television”. Some shows, for example, are Team Umizoomi it teaches numbers up to 100 and has adding and subtracting. Little Einsteins introduces classical…

Shoot outs day and night are common for cops, miraculous patient recoveries are everyday norms for doctors, buzzing courtrooms are part of a lawyer’s lifestyle and office romances are inevitable for receptionists, well, at least on TV. Many aspects of TV don’t depict real- life scenarios that happen in these job fields and many others, instead they show the exciting, romanticized, alluring and often skewed, concepts of the job. Cops don’t experience shoot outs every day, half their day or…

Racism still exist in minorities. According to John J. O’Connor in “What Are TV Ads Selling to Children”, the TV commercials from, 1968 are still very much with us, and segregation still lives in the oddest places. His essay talks about how children’s programming is being exploitative, and disservice in the society. He states “Things haven’t changed much in the television business of children’s merchandising, and some aspects of the scene are more appalling” (93). Rampant sexist stereotypes…