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Need For Television

            Television has revolutionised the way we live our lives, but do we need it? Is it a good thing that we have T.V. Or are we simply wasting our lives away with mindless rubbish? There are better things to do than watch T.V.
             Academic achievement falling in children's work of children that watch ten or more hours of television per week, and studies prove that children that watch excessive television achieve lower on written expression, reading and mathematic achievement tests. The number of hours spent watching television has increased sharply and now the average American child spends more time watching television that they do at school. The average youth spends an average of nine hundred hours at school and fifteen hundred hours watching television in an average year. Children need to stop watching so much television and do something worthwhile that could help them in the long term, rather than wasting their time on television because the average child aged two to eleven watches almost twenty hours of television per week .
             Obesity in children up. Since the introduction of television into children's lives they percentage of obese children aged six to eleven has also rapidly increased. In 1963 the percentage of seriously overweight children was 4.5% and by 1993 it had jumped to 9.5% to 14% of six to eleven year olds being obese. In 1985 there were twelve medical studies that had linked excessive television watching to obesity.
             There is a good chance that there is a link between television violence and real life violence, 80% of Hollywood executives believe there is a strong link between violence on T.V. ad in real life. The number of violent acts that an average person by the time they are 18 of the television is 200,000 and the number of homicides seen on the television by the same age is 16,000. The number of news reports on homicide from 1990 - 1995 has increased by 336% and in 1997 there were 19,500 homicides in America.


Essays Related to Need For Television

1. Television

One researcher noted that a child's television experience, or the amount of time a child spends watching television, has some effects on his or her brain development (Winn, 1977, p. 46). ... Winn believes that the problem is not that children learn about sex by watching television but that viewing explicit or violent acts on television conditions children to deal with people as if they were on television screen (Winn, 1977, pp.73-74). ... The problem of too much sex on television has been furthered by the increase in cable television viewers, since many of the Federal Communications Com...

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2. Children and the Invasive Influence of Television

Some people may ask if television is harmful to children. ... For some, it may teach them how to prepare for disasters, make emergency calls, or even providing help to ones that may need it. ... While they are still young, set guidelines on how much television can be watched on television. ... Even though television can be a big help for some parents, some children still need guidance to do the right thing. ... Everyone knows that family time is important and parents need to control the time limit of television. ...

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3. Children and Television Addiction

Some people watch television because they want to be updated about what is happening in the world. ... Nowadays, not only adults and teenagers, but also children, get hooked on television. ... Television causes trauma on children, otherwise, desensitization. ... (Television and Children, 2009) It is true that children need to be aware of the reality, but during their growth years is not the right time. ... Violence already cannot be prevented on television programs that is why watching television is bad for children because it causes aggressiveness, trauma, and desensitization. ...

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4. Children, Advertising and Television

Television advertisements take advantage of children. ... That is what television advertising has done. ... A child should not have to feel the need to have a product to be sufficient. ... Kids want them because they see them on television. ... Today, it is normal to see explosions on television. ...

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5. Students and Excessive Television

Have you ever wondered what the effects of children that watch too much television would be? ... Children who watch a lot of television have an increased risk of overweight. ... Furthermore, parents need to be more aware and cautious of what their children are watching and encourage their child with something a little more educational like playing outside or reading a book. ... Furthermore, teachers and parents need to help get rid of the disturbing amounts of violent advertisements that surround our children otherwise our future nation will have a large quantity of angry adults and criminals....

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6. Sex On Television

Even in the beginning of the life of television, certain individuals had dreams of making the television an "entertainment phenomenon". Today, with more than 1 billion television sets spread throughout the world, and an average of 2.84 television sets in each household we rely more on TV than any other communication device (Inventing Television, 1999). ... To understand the effects of television and sex on our society and on our growing generations we can examine what acts are actually shown on television, who watches what, how children and teens respond to television, how soap operas and ot...

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7. Television Advertising

Television can be used to demonstrate the product in action, or to use colour and sound to build an atmosphere around the product, thus enhancing its image (Fahy & Jobber, 2006). The emphasis for this thesis will be television advertisements, because of the many elements of television, sound, colour, sight and motion that aid the presentation of the message. Also the fact that Brassington and Pettitt (2000) argue that television is better for creating an advertisement message with emotional appeals, contributes to our concentration to television advertisements. The degree of television adv...

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8. Violence In Television

It is not the Television Broadcasting Company's job to sensor the television shows, it's the parents job to make sure children do not watch these shows. ... This is a special chip that can be put into televisions. ... The parent can educate the child on violent television shows. ... Television violence can destroy a young child's mind. ... They come to expect it, and when they don't see it the world becomes bland and in need of violence. ...

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9. Television

To make sure of that we need to look scrupulously at every aspect of this phenomenon in general, not emphasizing on the quality and content of its production. ... Television affects family life. ... Nor did anyone imagine the number of hours children would eventually devote to television or the common use of television by parents as a child pacifier. ... Not only must each child discover the need to suppress certain of his own impulses, but he must also discover the difficulties that attend the varying levels of aggression normally existing among his playmates. ... I do not deny...

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