... of grade school age go home and do the exact same thing. Children watch television more times a day than adults do. The drama on television today has gotten out of hand. Every show on television has some type of drama or danger that kids today should not be too aware of. There is not a show on television or in the theaters, that ... infidelity and debauchery. Sitcoms and network dramas are further examples of television's increasing evocativeness. Two out of three network prime time shows depict some sort of sexual situation, according to a study released in February 1999, by the Henry ...

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... images to make themselves more sexually appealing. Television programs contain many sexual innuendos or sexual images, and there are no real restrictions curbing children viewing these programs. According to a recent study, three out of four hour-long programs on network television contain some sort of sexual content (Kaiser Family Foundation, 1996). However, children are not exposed to sexuality just by television ... , there are too many sexual encounters and situations for children to be viewing. Not all of the programs that deal with sexual situations are written just for humor or dra...

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... points toward a different cause of violence. "I come from a country ... that puts a lot of American movies on and has more graphic violence within its live drama on the BBC than anywhere else, and there is a lot less violence in the United Kingdom than there is here," says Stringer. "There are 200 million ... guns in America, and that has a lot to do with violence." On the other hand, a study was performed in Notel, Canada which pertained to a small rural town that did not have television until 1973. Before the town received its first taste of ... television a psychologist at the Univer...

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... and Unplanned Pregnancy was working along with MTV to help educate about teen pregnancy, safe sex, and relationships alongside airing the show 16 & Pregnant. To also support this there was a study of how the show impacted teenagers. The article "Reality Television Shows Reveal the Risks of Teen Pregnancy" talks about the ... study. There were clubs randomly assigned to either watch the episodes or not, after both groups were given a questionnaire about teen pregnancy and how they felt, whether they had watched the ... as normal teenagers just like most of us who got their selves into ...

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Artifact study What is the artifact? - Utility and an object (radio-entertainment) - Brown dark/light - Box shape - Wood, metal, plastic, fabric - Hand made/ machine made, assembly lines Who was the maker or ... created a vastly more powerful marketing tool than had existed before. What is the purpose of the artifact? -In the early 1920s, radio had been used mainly for entertainment, with music, drama and comedy filling the airwaves. Even the newspapers that opened radio stations didn't recognize radio's potential for news. Instead, they used radio to advertise their papers, airing news bull...

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