As we speak, I am procrastinating and being distracted by the most addicting invention known to man. No matter how hard I try to keep my train of thought, my mind wonders to something more entertaining like football, “The Man Show”, or tonight’s movie, “8 Mile”. It doesn’t matter how much this paper I have to write has top priority tonight, inevitably I will be drawn to the wonderful, infamous, and ever so distracting world of television. I am drawn to the bright box that lights up my room like a mosquito is drawn to the bright bug zapper that lights up the back yard. It is said that the average American watches close to 38 hours of television a week, and since the television is typically put in every room of every residence, it poses as the world’s most addicting distraction ever invented.

It’s Sunday night, and I have plenty of homework to do because teachers know that we students have three nights to do the work. Well, it just so happens that I turn into John Belushi for a weekend and blow off all school work till the last minute. Of course, ESPN knows this and they decide

that they will pick the time which I am most easily distracted to play the best football game of the week: Sunday night. After returning to my room from downstairs, unsuccessful at studying because the game is on a screen in the lobby the size of Noah’s Ark, I attempt to finish my work. This attempt is soon blown out of the water when my roommate asks, “Do you mind if I turn the game on?” Naturally I comply as long as he keeps it down. Not ten minutes have passed and I have pushed the dreaded books aside and I am giving high-fives to my roommate because my favorite team has kicked a 50 yard field goal to win the game. Needless to say, my homework was not completed.

Well, thanks to Philo T. Farnsworth, whose concept of television was completed in 1927, that homework was put off until the next morning before class. Although not everyone in America has the lack of self control that I do, I know that a huge amount of people have gone through that same experience or are still going through it. The reason why television might be as addicting to an American as an altar boy is to a Priest is because kids have been growing up on televis

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Photo Shoot”, Distracting Addiction, Philo Farnsworth, Noah’s Ark, John Belushi, drawn bright,