... ; Surname, Forename 1 and Forename 2 Age in Months and Years Month of Birthday Gender Hair Colour Eye Colour Left/Right Handed Favourite Colour Average number of Hours TV Watched per week SATS Results etc In this project I am going to make up several Hypothesises that I will use the data from the Data Base to help ... I can say that my Hypothesis is not true and that I didn't really find any great significant change in the IQ Levels. Does the Average hours of TV Watched per week affect a persons Weight? The hypothesis of this Question that I want to use the data from the Mayfield High S...

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... television, did poorer on reading skills (MediaFamily.org). It's pretty simple, read a book and you will get better the more you read. Another interesting study showed that children who watch TV mainly for entertainment were less likely to spend time with books or other print media (MediaFamily.org). Reading fluency only comes with practice. Most children need frequent practice of reading ... not performing well academically, television watching may be a strong factor contributing to the problem"" (Karpowitz). In a national education study, students reported spending four times as many ...

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... not always allow it, and partly because I was interested in other things like being outdoors, coloring, and playing pretend. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed TV and never missed an episode of Zoobalie Zoo, but I loved playing games and stuff with my friends more. Playing pretend was the best game. I used ... usage I could have. At this age, it wasn't cool anymore to play silly games like "pretend." The new thing was 90210, a Beverly Hills teeny bop TV show in the 1990's. If I didn't know what the status of Brenda and Dylan's relationship was, then I wasn't cool enough. So, naturally, becaus...

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... to my parents for sheltering me from it and allowing me keep my innocence for as long as they could. I understand now, after viewing some of today's TV shows, my parent's reasons for not having television in our home and I believe it was a good decision on their part. Although growing up I was often ... unable to join in conversations my friends would have about various TV shows and movies, etc., I do not feel any more nave or gullible than anyone else and count it as a blessing that I was not exposed to ... from the moment I woke up to the radio music from my alarm I was exposed to m...

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... year in Dallas, a three-year old boy was killed when his seven year- old brother stiff armed him in the throat, copying a move he"d seen on TV (Fonda)." This probably isn't the first time a small child will be killed by a older kid practicing a wrestling move, and rest assured it won't be ... The wrestling industry has fought back by asking, "Where are the parents?" Both of the WWF's prime time shows and WCW's also, have a TV-14 rating, which means that parental discretion is advised. Vince McMahon, founder and CEO of World Wrestling Federation, responds to critics with this statement abo...

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... seemed like when it actually came down to it, it didn't bother you, you know? USMC sergeant and Viet Nam veteran (On Killing 251) In our TV shows, movies, and video entertainment every day kids see somebody shot, stabbed, raped, brutalized, degraded or murdered. Every day, "drilled- in, repeated over ... as AIDS itself is not the killer - it destroys your immune system and allows otherwise non-fatal diseases to kill you. In the same sense, TV violence itself doesn't kill you - it destroys your violence immune system and conditions you to derive pleasure from destruction (6). Role models ...

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... is everybody. School violence is a result of major factors in society today. Family problems, such as parents getting divorced or parents not always being at home; Media, such as movies, TV shows or news; and racism are threatening the safety and security of schools. According to a recent Press Release, The United States Departments of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services ... bigger? Parents have to pay more attention to the family, not only for kids but also society. TV shows are important programs, which kids watch almost everyday. Do you know how important the TV show in...

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... morning waking up next to my husband and that of course would be Rob. The weather would be a perfect 70 degrees, sunny maybe a little rain, just beautiful. I would watch a little TV and eat breakfast with my husband. Then I would sit around for as long as I would want too. As I sat at home and decide what I would want to do for the ... day I would play video games with my husband. We would have a nice sized house in Illinois. We have a TV in every room and also with those TV's of course video games, DVD's, VHS's, surround sound and etc. When we would decide to go out I would enjoy the r...

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... sing to you. Also you will be presented with a free meal pass for your next visit. If you are in the mood for sports, F.N. Huxley's has a 48" flat screen plasma TV on every wall. On the other hand, the atmosphere at Applebee's is not so great. There the wallpaper consists of sports pages cut out and duct taped to the walls ... back, screams profanity at you, and complains because you interrupted their came of strip poker. Don't even think about telling them you are having an anniversary. Also, the TV's are 12"a black and white TV's, and half the time all they get is white static. In the...

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... that beer ads communicate the message that drinking is a fun, harmless activity, free from any risks. Many teens start smoking with 12-13 years, just because the commercials shown on TV manipulated them. It is proofed that thousands of people on the whole world die every day from the consequences of drinking and smoking. Hundreds of teens get addicted of tobacco ... day by day and the industries continue making commercials on television just for their own profit. When was the last time you have watched TV? Flip through the channels and I guarantee that you will see some sort of violence...

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... radio report on the tragedy occurring, I fought back the tears that wanted to come. I raced in the door at my boyfriend's apartment to find no one home. I turned on the TV and my mouth dropped. Scene after scene I watch the horrible event unfold. The planes crashing into the buildings over and over again, the replaying of the first tower falling, the ... boyfriend's arms, I felt that I could begin to contemplate what was happening. I got up off of Chad's lap and went to the back porch to have a cigarette. The images on the TV were beginning to get to me. I noticed how the sky was still,...

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... , that is life. Society is filled with violence, crime and war. The media / news are proof of this. You can no longer turn the TV on and not see some act of violence. The movies and TV shows glorify the gun, they show it as the finishing touches to huge body built men saving the day once again. Video games, another good ... ...

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... , so I always heard stories about them from when they were in high school and how much they loved to play the game. Sports was something that was always on the TV in my house when I was growing up, so eventually I became interested and wanted to play myself. One sport in particular that I have learned to love and play is field hockey ... a group of people. Whether it be just shooting the ball around by self, or getting enough people together to play 4 on 4 or something. I love watching field hockey when it's on tv or watching my cousins games at the school. I think field hockey will alwa...

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... and again negotiations were on the table in February 2002, only this time the cast was asking for $1 million a show. To some this may seem like such a ridiculous amount for a TV show, but NBC faced either paying the actors their asking price or face dealing with taking away one of the most popular shows in American pop culture history. Why do ... because even when they are acting, they are not really acting? In numerous interviews that each person has given they all say that not only are they friends in the TV show, but they are friends off the set also. When NBC first aired the comedy ...

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... for 150000 guineas. Then it was 441000 American dollars. The population in the US was only 195,827,000 and pollution wasn't even a word or a thought in Anne's mind. Color TV gets everyone's attention and there were only 78 million passenger cars and 16 million trucks and buses registered. It was a good year for the Rices". But everything must have its ... . Finally in 1995 the book that set her career off is put into a movie with Tome Cruise, Brad Pitt, Anatino Banderases, and Christian Slater staring in Interview with a Vampire. The TV watching the verdict on October first as O.J. Simps...

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Imagine life without college sports. You can't, right? I mean without college sports there would be nothing to watch on TV. I am obviously exaggerating, but if there were no college sports a lot more people would be found at home watching TV instead of getting much needed exercise. Not only that, but without college sports, students miss the chance to socialize with new people. Plus ... ...

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... was suspended. Although at this time the shootings were very prevalent it was obvious prevention was not. At this point it seemed that almost every time you turned on the TV more kids had been shot and the students of America lived in fear. I myself was in high school when these shootings started. During my freshmen year I remember getting on the ... Columbine. On April 20, 1999 I went to school like it was any other day. I entered the main commons of my school and found every student starring at the big screen TV. There we saw kids running out of a high school and two snapshots of Eric...

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... from a high school curriculum in order to shelter students from profanity, is an attempt to do the impossible. Profanity is found everywhere. According to TV Guide, "Profanity is uttered once every six minutes on American primetime television," (TV). Students cannot escape uses of profanity. Students hear profanities on television, on radio, read them in magazines, and a majority use profanities themselves in casual ... ...

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... the extent that when I do have a deadline approaching, I do not get the project complete with an adequate time buffer in place. I go to the mall, or take a nap, or watch TV, with an indifference to what I really ought to be doing. Because of this, I am not using my down time to within anywhere of its potential. I feel tired and lethargic all ... . I now realize that if I want to continue in college, I will have to do a much better job of managing my time. I allow myself a few hours every day after classes to watch TV, or to take a nap. I then get down to work in the late afternoon, start...

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... get home. Therefore the student needs to plan a schedule that allows them time before work/practice to finish their assignments. Instead of going home from school and turning on the tv, students should go home, sit at their table or desk, and finish their homework, that way when they return home from work or practice they can feel free to relax ... sleep. This is pathetic because normally it is the student's own fault that he or she chose not to go to bed at a decent hour. Instead he or she watched tv or went out with friends, or procrastinated on an assignment that took the student hou...

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... back on the last couple of years of my life I realized that with growing up comes a lot of responsibilities and things that I would have never imagined as a young child. Watching TV I thought being a "teenager" would just be dealing with zits and who had which outfit or which boyfriend that week. But as I grew into my teen years I learned that ... TV doesn't always show what is really coming. From being faced with the pressure to drink and do a variety of drugs to a friend committing suicide growing into an adult was much ... ...

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... be if that was the only source for kids to see violence, but its not kids have all kinds of ways to see violent acts. When you turn on the TV almost half the stuff you see on there now involves violence. If that was to ever be taking care of, I wouldn't think there should be any reason for people to ... sell games like that, cause kids really wouldn't have any idea on what violence was. My grandma ounce told me that she didn't get a TV until her senior year in high school and it was then when she found out there is violence and crime out there. I end this paper with a question, "Has any...

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... has weapons of mass destruction, and where in the United States they can hit with them. Children have to grow up hearing and seeing these images like the ones on TV, and it is really sad. The biggest thing that gets me is that parents who are not watching what their children are doing and let television and video games raise ... them, I think that is where the big problem is today. Very simple things influence kids, and what they see on TV can have an affect on them. When a child sees something that is violent, or images that are disturbing and it should be the parents" responsibility t...

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... sick to my stomach. It was as if I could feel all of the emotions that were about to hit me. My eyes were glued to the TV for the next few nights. Seeing my self on TV was not a highlight of my life. I was so nervous as to what everyone I knew was going to say next time I saw them. My dance coach ... ...

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... habits lead to even worse grades," says my Uncle Eddie. He then went into more detail and said, "put your phone on silent, away from you, turn your tv off, and put on some soothing music on to keep yourself focused." What I just learned from my Uncle is that you cant get distracted if you don't have anything ... ...

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