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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. Effects and Need to Counter Media Violence

The amount of violence that is portrayed in the media is overwhelming. In all the newspapers, magazines, radio and television broadcasts, films and Internet sites, violence is the most often shown and recurring theme. Many television programs, the most popular form of media, contain violence in one form or another. In fact, 61% of all television programs feature violence and violent acts. These images however do not often show the effects violence has on victims, and they glamorize the users of violence in almost half of violent acts. Perpetrators of violence have qualities that make them attr...

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2. Television: How It Might Affect Children

... fast emotionally and are not being instilled with the proper values that are vital to development. I believe that, in part, television is to blame for the corruption of youth. Television, as we know it today, has become a widely excepted epidemic that has profound negative effects on the development of children's ... violence, three things can occur as a result: One, children may become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others, both on television and in real life; Two, children may become afraid of the world around them and possibly even develop anxiety and sleeping disorders; A...

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3. Television

... content of its programs, but there are more general aspects of influence of TV viewing on intellectual activity. 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. An abundance of ... interesting, and slow down when it is difficult or enthralling. He can put down the book for a few moments and cope with his emotions without fear of losing anything. Unlike reading, the pace of the television experience cannot be controlled by the viewer; he cannot slow down a delightful program or ...

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4. News and the Television

... direction it's headed, so that if you need to find shelter, you will have the opportunity to do so. No other news medium has the instantaneous informing power that the television wields. In conclusion, while it isn't perfect, television is our main source of information, news, and current events for many people out there. Television simply doesn't have the time required to go ... in depth into anything but the biggest stories, unlike the newspaper, news magazines, and internet have. However, the positives regarding the television far outweigh the negatives ... . The television allows ins...

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5. Children, Television and Obesity

... influence on children. Over the past decades, more and more young children are sitting in front of the television for extended periods of time, and the increasing obsession with TV has been found to be directly related to weight gain. In 2003, ... World concluded that adolescents who were subjected to commercials advertising alcohol were more likely to start underage drinking than those who were not. The amount of television and what children are exposed to has a lot to do with their health and who they will be later in life. One thing that ... has dramatically changed the world in the ...

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6. Television - The Plug in Drug

... influence people to act cruel and do stupid things, however, the majority of shows people watch on television are not educational, but simply for their own entertainment purposes. Winn states that "television emerges as the important influence in children's lives today." I do agree it is a major influence, but on the contrary, I do not believe it is the major influence on children ... show that the attention deficit disorders in children can be traced back to watching television. Researchers claim that watching too much television can lead to a developmental disorder in the part of the ...

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7. Students and Excessive Television

... rules as well. Finally, learning within the classroom enhances the ability to learn simply because of the resources available. Children who watch a lot of television have an increased risk of overweight. "One explanation for the long-term effects of childhood viewing is that lifelong patterns of body mass and physical fitness are established during childhood." (Landhuis, Poulton, Welch ... you do buy at McDonalds will only lead to obesity. Advertisers know that children will indulge themselves with something they have seen on television therefore they are a easy target in order to sell t...

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8. The Dangers of Violence in the Media for Today's Youth

... a very young age now, which can stimulate a string of negative events and severe emotional reactions. Though it is a reoccurring theme in movies and television shows, it is also becoming more publicized in current events. CNN is now going into wars and placing its audience in the frontlines with lead flying ... and whizzing past the camera's lens. Violence is becoming overly accepted in today's society, and has very real effects on today's youth. To children, television equals reality. Watching Stone Cold smash a guy's head into the turnbuckle teaches children that this sort of violence i...

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9. Impact of Television on American Society

... each room of the house. This has had an effect on the family in America in that at one time watching television was a social occasion for all the family to share whereas nowadays the family is split into their own various places inside the home watching their own choice of programmes. George Comstock argues that, "the ... the reduction in families watching programmes together is having an impact on American society. It could be argued that America television controls what people talk about socially. For those who do not own a television it must be a nightmare to attempt to engage in a ...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

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