The television was invented by J.L. ... Many studies showed that children who watched the most learned the most. ... What I mean by this is I incorporated ideas that I watched on television into my essays. ... Television programs comes handy during this period as all I have to do is take a few plot from the shows that I watched, put them together and just rushing to finish it all up in the time limit. ... I will tell myself that I'll have to finish reading the chapter before watching the corresponding video. ...

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Susie Kroll talks about herself watching the show and that if she were a young girl she would never want to get pregnant after watching the girls and how their lives are; but the girls are also turned into celebrities they have agents, photo shoots, big glamorous weddings. ... In her article, "Reality Television Gives a Realistic Image of Teen Pregnancy" she talks about watching the show with her daughter. ... Amy Benfer talks about sitting on the couch with her daughter, and watching the adoption episode and how emotional it made them. ... There were clubs randomly assigned to eithe...

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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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Imagine if you were never again allowed to watch what you wanted on television. ... Some people find very different things entertaining on television, one person might enjoy watching war movies or bloody action movies, while another person likes watching romantic movies. ... If censorship continues on television, soon, people will have no choice what to watch on television. ... People would be having their privacy rights infringed upon, no one wants someone telling them what to watch, they should have the choice to watch what they or their children watch in their own time. ... If censorship on...

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Children begin watching television at a vary early age, sometimes as early as six months, and are eager viewers by the time that they are two or three years old. ... I have grown up watching TV for as long as I can remember, like almost any one of us in this room. ... If children watch violence when there young there more likey to commit crimes when there adults. 6. ... The only cost is your time to watch what the program rating is before the program starts. ... There are no other soulutions except monitoring everything your child is watching and that is not possible....

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In recent studies, it shows that television consumption averages twenty-five hours per week for two through five year-olds, while six through eleven year-olds watch twenty-two hours per week, and twelve through seventeen year-olds watch twenty-three hours.2 Newton Minnow, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission states the following: "By the time most Americans are eighteen years old, they have spent more time in front of the television set than they have spent in school, and far more than they have spent talking with their teachers, their friends, or even their parents."3 ...

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Ever since my younger days, I've always been an avid television watcher. ... Years ago I constantly denied any effects that television has had on me. ... When I was younger, my television preferences were mainly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Ghostbusters. ... My next main preference in television was sports. Any sport that was on I would watch. ...

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One of the most time consuming activities is watching television. ... Children see violence everyday in their cartoons, but what about shows that they watch in which people star. ... After watching the show, a child may become bored because the reality of the television show is more interesting. ... In one documented case, a Californian boy that was seven years old watched a movie one night. ... Watching cartoons on television may not make him grow up to be a cold-blooded murderer, but the total impact of witnessing repeated acts of violence may slowly cause our society to become more and ...

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It is almost impossible to watch television and not at least catch a glimpse of a reality television show. This recent trend of reality television has gotten millions of Americans watching every night of the week, most of the viewers watch multiple shows throughout the week. ... This last problem especially applies to children who are watching these television shows, because they do not yet have a firm set of beliefs and morals and can be easily swayed into using the values they learn on television as their own. ... Every night millions of Americans tune in on their television sets to watch...

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Because some television shows promote harmful habits, watching television shows prevents involvement in more productive activities, and television creating a rift between people, the television set is demolishing the world in which we live. ... Also, too many Americans are watching television rather than getting involved in more productive activities. ... It is not surprising to see a family sitting down to dinner these days and watching the television instead of talking to one another. ... Furthermore viewers are also watching how certain races are being portrayed on television and they beg...

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Because some television shows promote harmful habits, watching television shows prevents involvement in more productive activities, and television creating a rift between people, the television set is demolishing the world in which we live. ... Also, too many Americans are watching television rather than getting involved in more productive activities. ... It is not surprising to see a family sitting down to dinner these days and watching the television instead of talking to one another. ... Furthermore viewers are also watching how certain races are being portrayed on television and they beg...

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Many children end up watching television well before they've began school and even infants and toddlers watch up to 2 hours of TV a day1. ... Violence on television also hinders children's sleep. ... Such behavior can lead to an increase in the amount of teenage pregnancies if teens are consistently imitating what they watch on television. ... I also feel that what children watch on TV should be monitored. The AAP3 says "It may be tempting to put your infant or toddler in front of the television, especially to watch shows created for children but don't do it....

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Among all the modern entertainment media, people spend the majority time in watching television. ... What will happen if the husband spent his evening watching sports in the living room and the wife spent her time watching soap opera in her room, after they finish watching their show they go to bed. ... This is not a big issue when the television first came out. ... Some people may even hurt their back for watching television in an inappropriate position. ... Television today has gone into a wrong direction. ...

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According to many medical studies, in today's world we have more and more children becoming overweight, and I believe that comes from children doing nothing but watching television. ... In some cases families don't even eat in the same room together, they each go to their separate rooms to watch television, barely even saying two words to each other. ... Although some people do believe that television shows like Boomtown, NYPD Blue, and Law in Order depict what is really going on in today's world, I believe that watching these shows makes people numb to when things like murder ...

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Television (TV) has long been considered as one of the most important media for many people due to its notorious easy access (Selby & Cowdery, 1995, p. 1). ... The other TV show- Code is considered to be a "flagship" sports entertainment program of Maori Television. First aired in 2005 as a half an hour show, it then further increased to an hour in duration and broadcast 'live' on air since (Maori Television Service, 2014). ... Talk shows hence are considered to be "television's creation of a public sphere" where "rational debates" are free to expr...

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TELEVISION IN TODAY"S SOCIETY The family television is one of the most loved pastimes, and is thought to be one of the greatest inventions. ... Many parents watch different programs with their children. ... People are mostly sitting in their houses, and they are watching movies. ... Now the young people after watching different shows, stopped respecting their parents and grandparents. ... They do not spend much time together, they prefer to watch television....

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Many parents watch different programs with their children. ... People are mostly sitting in their houses, and they are watching movies. ... Now with television, storytelling stopped. ... Now the young people after watching different shows, stopped respecting their parents and grandparents. ... They do not spend much time together, they prefer to watch television. ...

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There are many types of television shows to choose from these days. ... To easily decide what type of show you want to watch, they can easily be broken down into separate groups. ... The first type of television show is drama. ... On to a newer type of television show, comes the reality shows of today. ... The reality part here fits in the case that if you watch one of the grotesque stunts being performed, you might really end up sick! ...

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Sit on your couch, take the remote control and turn on the television. ... In the meantime, back to "terra firma- of USA, TV watchers were waiting impatiently every Thursday night to watch a one-hour episode on CBS, which summarized three days of island life, for the TV audience. ... It was a strange entertainment, where viewers sitting in warm living rooms, watched people surviving on a tropical island for a million-dollar reward. ... However nothing was deterring me from turning on the television and watching them do Three years after, as I stand back from things, I realize that some hum...

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Reality TV is one of the most popular television programs out today. ... Frisby first discusses how genres and how media gratification makes viewers want to watch reality TV. ... There are alot of factors that viewers consider when they choose which reality TV show to watch. ... Contacted 110 people to complete a uses and gratification survey, which listed 37 reality shows and the goal of the survey was to demonstrate that social comparisons may be elicited by certain television content and to see if viewers use reality television images and content as a source of social comparison. ... The ...

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The information was collected through content analysis of web sites that focus on the institution of Television and, also, through a series of Television shows and advertisements. During the 1950's(1), television was eventually embraced by Australia. ... The situation of Big Brother articulated the social issues of relationship, gender, the battle of the sexes, and middle-class life--the things that a majority of television buyers and television watchers are concerned with. ... Television plays a major role in constructing social reality. ... In conclusion, Television culture is ...

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Television is more than just entertainment; we receive late breaking news, latest fashions, and society's trends from watching it. ... Also children spend more than 900 hours in a school year, but many will watch over 1000 hours of television in the same year. ... The cultivation theory says "heavy watching of television is seen as "cultivating" attitudes which are more consistent with the world of television programs than with the everyday world" (Chandler). Watching television may tend to induce a general mindset about violence in the world, very apart from any effects it might have in ...

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Children can not relate to what they see when they are so young, making the act of watching violent television extremely questionable. ... "Children ages 2 to 5 watch about 28 hours of television each week, or almost 4 hours per day." ... Children who watch a lot of television are less bothered by the violence they see on television than those children who watch only a little. ... Many times, children do not enjoy watching the programs they see on television, but they do not respond by turning the set off simply because it is there to be watched. ... Providing other activities for childre...

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If someone does nothing but sit on the couch and watch television all day, they are considered to be a couch potato. ... And most of the parents are not watching or do not care what their child is watching so the child watches whatever he/she chooses to watch on television. If a child does not know what is right from wrong, then the child should not be able to watch what he/she wants to watch on television. ... If you sit on the couch and watch television long enough you eventually turn into a couch potato. ... If television required you to analyze the shows instead of easily just synthes...

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Influence of television violence for children Each day, millions of child open their television and pass hours watching it.What they listen can be cartoon, reality show, game show, educational program or movie. ... They came to the conclusion that children who are exposed too much at violence by watching television: become immune to the horror of violence Gradually accept violence as a way to solve problem imitate the violence they see in television Identify with some characters, victims/victimizers That show us that child could real problem, like becoming more aggressive after watch...

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