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    true considering the enormous advances that have been made in the television industry, since Philo Farnsworth first demonstrated it to the public in 1927. In 1945 it was estimated that there were less than 10,000 television sets in American households, which later rose to 52 million sets in 1960. Nowadays 96.7 percent of Americans have a television in their household, and the average American watches 5 hours of TV a day. Television has swiftly changed American culture in extreme ways, along…

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    greatest exposures being to music, television, and internet (2.6 [SD [= 2.2], 2.3 [SD = 1.51], and 2.3 hr [SD = 2.1] each day, respectively). They were exposed to an average of 1.2 hr (SD – 1.5) of non-electronic media each day, including 0.6 hr (SD = 1.1) of exposure to books and 0.6 hr (SD – 0.7) to that of magazines/newspapers” (726). The participants who were examined in the test experience more media hours each day which consist of listening to music, watching television , and surfing…

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    Television is a system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education. It is a device that receives a vision and voice signals and reproduces them on a screen. Television has presented in our life long time before. People have different ways to enjoy their televisions; therefore, their television viewing habits totally are not the same. Indeed, television 's primary purpose is entertainment…

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    between exposure to mass media (most often television) and beliefs about the world (attitudes, and sometimes behaviors). It is one of the most frequently encountered and often discussed theories within the field of media effects”. (Gerbner & Gross, 1976) “Cultivation is a sociocultural theory regarding the role of television in shaping viewers’ perceptions, beliefs, attitudes, and values”. Cultivation theory examines the long-term effects of television. "The primary…

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    believed modern technology from telegraph to television, makes discourse broken, disconnected, and sensationalized. Neil Postman wrote the book in 1980s, the golden age of television, he didn’t foresee the rising new communication technology—the Internet, will create a whole new discourse. Internet amplifying the weakness…

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    many youths have television in their rooms which could give children a greater opportunity to view programs without parental supervision. Researchers show that young children could copy aggressive and dangerous acts on TV in their play with peers. Before the age of 4, children are unable to know the difference between fact and fantasy and may view violence as normal. Media Violence does affect youth violence; if…

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    Camera Obscura Essay

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    According to the history of cameras, the first camera ever developed was called camera obscura later developed into daguerreotypes, calotypes, dry plates, film, and digital cameras. An Arab person named Ibn al-Haytham was the first ever person who created the camera. He published his Book of Optics in 1021 AD. He produced the first pinhole camera after observing how light travelled through a window shutter. He realized that smaller holes would create sharper images. He is also credited with…

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    Everyone had that one show you watched or remember watching all the time, these shows catch young children’s attention with their highly stylistic visuals, loveable characters, or respectable morals that you could take into adulthood; sometimes all three. While most people watched shows like SpongeBob, or Ed, Edd, and Eddy, the show I most remember watching was more adult oriented, all possible jokes aside the show that affected my childhood the most was Seinfeld. Seinfeld was an American sitcom…

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    Essay On Stand Up Comedy

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    Continuing that tradition, most modern stand-up comedians use television or motion pictures, Social Media, Websites, Blogs to reach a level of success and recognition unattainable in the comedy-club circuit alone. Today stand-up comedy is also redefining nightlife by adding more fun in it and making it happening. It…

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    Ray Bradbury was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author, best known for his novel “Fahrenheit 451”. In the book Fahrenheit 451, books are considered so dangerous a force in society they are banned, and literacy is a crime. For, Ray Bradbury the premise was fictional, but the animating belief in the power of reading was entirely real. "Reading is the most important thing in the world," he once said. "To live as a civilized human being, you've got to have something…

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