Watching television too much can show many actions from children. ... Parents and children can make watching television an activity (44). ... Attention span can be way shorter for children who watch television so much. ... While they are still young, set guidelines on how much television can be watched on television. ... Not watching too much television may also lead to a healthy lifestyle. ...

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Television plays a crucial role. In the average American household, the TV is on for seven hours and 40 minutes each day, and 40% of Americans report always or often watching television while eating dinner. ... Families who watch little or no television, on the other hand, often find that they have more time to spend with one another in more engaging and interactive activities. ... Excessive television watching harms reading skills both by displacing them from our daily lives and, according to some experts, by affecting the physical structure of the brain. ... This debate may not end up unless...

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My family spends countless hours watching television. Watching television as they wake up, as they eat and before they go to bed. ... Many attribute this problem to the violence children watch on television. ... As a child, I was left to be watched by the television. ... The siblings in the family have gotten to the point were they would rather watch television rather than be with the family. ...

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I decided to turn the television on for him so he could watch some of his favorite cartoons. ... I explained to her about the building on television being on fire. ... As we sat watching the television intensely, the news channel began showing replays of an airplane running into one of the World Trade Center's buildings. ... He was acting out what he had seen on the television. ... I turned the television off, and watched my two-year-old son react to the scenes that he had watched. ...

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Studies of younger viewers who daily watch cartoons, police shows, and murder dramas with heavy doses of violence further relate to the potency of TV (Buchanan). ... For many parents, realizing that their child spends more hours a week watching television than attending school, playing with other children, or in any other activity except sleep is enough to raise concern. General advice to families should include that there be no television sets in children's rooms where parents cannot see what shows their children are watching. ... Therefore, parents should choose programming carefully an...

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Throughout the history of television, the role of the housewife and mother has changed from a subservient woman to the more controlling, powerful, and dominant female portrayed in today's culture. In early television, the 1950's and 1960's, the housewife or mother was always seen as submissive towards the more assertive father or husband. ... The wife, Margaret in this case, in this television era was always obedient towards her husband. ... In the episode we watched during class, it becomes very perceptible to the viewer that Archie is in charge of the family and Edith is ju...

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Once we finished that, we watched television until our bedtime and then headed off to bed. Just like most children, we loved to watch television. ... Rescue 911 was one of those shows that we did not have any choice but to watch because my step mom and dad watched it everytime it aired. ... I had never been on television before. ... I was very disappointed to find the absence of a Television crew. ...

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When I was a young girl, my family and I would all cram around the television set to watch The Cosby Show every Thursday evening. ... The Cosby Show took over television for five years. Families across America were watching The Cosby Show. ... For me personally, everyone in my family watched The Cosby Show. ... Every time I watch this episode I laugh. ...

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Parents were no longer able to watch every step their daughter made. ... Television influences how people see the real world around them. Television increases sexism. ... On television everyone seems to be healthy and beautiful. ... When watching television there are many crimes and problems. ...

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This is not the case; American families seem to be enjoying the television a lot more than any other culture. Is watching television really a form of leisure? ... Most European families do not watch television for extended periods of time. ... As Witold Rybczynski (1991) states, "There was one eighteenth-century leisure activity, however, that probably demanded almost as much time as watching television, and that was reading" (p.187). ... They believe watching television will lead to laziness and is very unproductive towards the family. ...

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There was no television in his house; television did not come to Portugal until the 1960s. ... He could watch TV after his homework was done and until 10:00 PM. ... He found out about JFK through the television. ... He found out by Television though. ... Our family never watched or listened to religious programs. ...

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This essay relates to popular media in many different instances but in this case the best scenario to compare it to would have to be the television show The Cosby show. ... While not intentionally taking a stereotypical tone, the fact of the matter was that this show broke the barrier of the role of African Americans on television. ... The goal of the t-shirt is to attract a different audience to watch the show the Simpsons and of course make money. They feel that by making Bart, a black boy instead of his "normal" yellowish color that more African-Americans will be drawn into watching the ...

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Statistics Canada has shown that in nineteen-ninety eight and nineteen-ninety nine "The average Canadian still spends about twenty three hours a week watching television, and twenty hours a week listening to radio" (New Society 106). ... For example, men outnumber women two to one in television dramas. ... The reality we view on television is translated into real world situations as television is a primary agent of socialization when a child is young. Real families do not always follow the perfect ideals that television demands of them. ... The perfect reality shown on television is not a mirr...

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It seems as if Eduardo feared failure, especially since the media was watching which in turn meant that the world was watching. Had he taken Margarita out of the water she would have been disqualified from the race, thereby making him look like a failure as a coach, and maybe even as a father, in front of the rest of his family and the people watching on television. ...

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The dingy hospital of our small town did not provide the simple convenience of working lights let alone a television restricting any hope of him watching the game. ... I brought my laptop to his room the day of the big game and set up it up so he could watch his beloved sport one last time. ...

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"Two men walked into a bar. The third one ducked." Simple jokes are used by many to put themselves and others in better moods. For example, John Callahan is a quadriplegic who is confined to a wheel chair for the rest of his life. John is a political cartoonist, and makes a living through writin...

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I stepped through the door to my grandmother and grandfather's home without even a knock. My grandpa looked up from the television he was watching from his cozy comer chair. He had a head of snowy white hair gleaming in the room. Over his broad body hung a navy blue dress shirt and a fuzzy cardigan...

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We are seeing more and more of our sporting heroes with the increased allocation of television time for this subject, and the apparent consequence of this is that we are placing our sports men and women on an even greater, more elevated pedestal. ... As a result of all this, we have become a nation of watchers rather than doers. ... The closest we come to these now seemingly urban myths is through television shows such as "Getaway" and "The Great Outdoors," and thus, the outback is no longer an icon of national adoration and respect. ... We take interest in things that represent stability, su...

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If one of my brothers is watching a television show, and I want to change the channel I was not allowed to until the show is over. ... When my parents go to work, they leave my younger brothers in my care because they believe I can watch over them. ...

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I remember seeing a few weeks ago a television commercial that amazed me. ... The father was also running through the kitchen, with an untied necktie, rushing to grab his briefcase, and trying to put his watch on at the same time. After watching that commercial, I almost fell back in my seat in disbelief. ...

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Parents who don't get along and jobless, couch potato children who sit around all day watching sport on television, portray Australian family life in Muriel's Wedding. ... This film is definitely worth watching by all Australians. ...

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They could not watch television, play on the computer, play video games, dry their hair, use the stove, bake in the oven, turn on the dishwasher, wash clothes, or even open the refrigerator for fear that the cold air would escape and doom their food to rancidness. ...

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As I grew up watching fairy-tale romances, I was certain that I would one day find my prince charming and live happily ever after. ... Marriage is everywhere on television with programs ranging from "Joe Millionaire" to "Newlyweds." ...

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According to studies, the first few years of married couples are filled with happiness. Over the course of their lives, they start feeling less satisfied. They are most unhappy when their children are in diapers and adolescence. They only go back to their previous level of happiness when their ch...

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Both my grandfather and my mother said that there were no real limits on their T.V. watching except that they couldn't watch it during homework time. ... I was in school when it happened and we were told by a teacher to turn on our television sets to see the event because it was horrible, but it was history in the making. I remember watching the towers being crashed into, watching them just disappear and seeing how much damage and destruction was done. ... When I was young, my mother restricted our watching times to shorter periods of time so that we wouldn't be watching T.V. all ...

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