...Technology affecting families With technology becoming more prominent these days it’s affecting families in a negative way. All of the social websites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Myspace and more don’t help with this problem. While technology has it’s downfalls it has its benefits also like with safety and communication. However, there's no doubt technology within family life has its conflicts. In addition the conflicts have only amplified as the Internet and social media have joined distractions such as TV, the cell phone and the computer. They will continue to increase if we don’t change are habits now and stick to it. This paper will look into five ways technology has negatively affected families. Away we go. Meagre performance in school is becoming problematic with kids not paying adequate attention. “Kids who get too much "screen time" -- through watching lots of TV, surfing the Internet and playing video games.”(Williamson) Too much screen time is triggering kids to get desensitized and then kids can’t focus on the simplest task like reading a book. Playing video games so much these days is causing the reading skills to decline. It is virtually impossible to get your entire family around a dinner table anymore. “Traditionally a haven from the outside world and a chance...
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...Have you ever wondered if the fictional stories that authors from years ago write come true? Author Ray Bradbury, who wrote Fahrenheit 451, predicted that we would have TV that highers our chances of diseases. He also predicted that we would have earbuds that would hurt our physical health. Plus, Bradbury predicted that we would have technology that can do everything for us with just the tap of the finger. Clearly, Ray Bradbury made predictions about technology that would inflict danger to our health and came to be. Throughout Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury writes about ‘walls’ that take away the character’s human traits. In our world today, TV is the equivalent of the walls. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury focuses a lot on the walls that occupy Mildred...
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...My trend will be society's increased desensitization to violence due to the media. This trend has occurred to more violence in the media that we consume for entertainment like tv shows, game of thrones, and movies, saw, as well as through the violence in our world that is shown to us through the news. I chose this trend because people always seem to talk about how hyper violent our world is and I wanted to see if it is affecting us the way people say it is. Plus I know this trend to be occurring as when I was little movie and tv shows with the same amount of gore that those things have now was shunned as people found that to be inappropriate. I believe this trend is cause by, especially in tv and movies, the fact that people are watching these...
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...with it certain concerns linked to how people have embraced this form of communication. Reality shows are a type of Television shows which have gained continuous popularity over the years. Due to reality shows being linked to real life scenarios, they have grown popular among viewers who prefer them and willing to watch them as compared to other shows available on Television (Ford and Kosnik). Soap-opera, survival and wildlife documentary are just some of the popular reality shows aired on TV in recent years with each attracting its own audience but yet these shows are very unrealistic. Each Reality show will have a different effect on a viewer. Some People may like survival and wildlife commentary that tend to provide actual knowledge, while others like soap-operas. Soap Operas tend to attract more women than men. Some examples include Love and Hip Hop, The Real Housewives etc. These types of shows are more destructive to the family unit because they glamorize and over exaggerate family problems. Soap-opera’s mainly focus on creating shows that depict families and couples suffering from major disputes and stress. At home family problems should not be handled the way they are on tv(Wyatt and Bunton). While this may be overlooked by many people to be just a Television show, these reality shows have been identified to have a major effect on the viewer’s mind. Research shows that since Television began being viewed by large numbers of people in the 1960’s and 70’s the rate of marriage...
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... The mass media, including Television, Video Games, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines, the Internet and Advertisements, have a great influence in shaping peoples thoughts and ideas, sometimes in a better way, but most of the time in a unconstructive way. The purpose of mass media is to entertain, inform and persuade information to a large group of people, and it can affect how we dress, what we buy and how our society functions. Even though there are a lot of positive influences in the media, in my eyes there is still way more negative influence. The media is affecting children, the youth and society in general. According to the studies by the Kaiser Family Foundation there was a 400% increase from 1976 to 1996 in sexual references. Not to mention all of the television shows that influence crime, drugs and drinking alcohol. If children learn by observing, imitating and making behaviors their own, then why are all of these negative influences on the mass media? People are trying to understand why the crime rate is so high in the youth population, maybe they should take a look at what they are watching on a day to day basis. Now day’s children have an extremely easy access to the media. Sometimes parents will even hand their children the remote, or buy them a new video game to act is if it were a babysitter. What people need to know is; children learn by observing, imitating and making behaviors their own, so all of the things they are watching on T.V. or see in a movie...
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...During the last years, music, movies and TV programmes have been downloaded for free from Internet affecting CDs sales, TV programmes and movie rights. So, is this harming artists and TV corporations or helping them? Many people argue that downloading music from internet is not just illegal but morally wrong because you are stealing the artist who has put a lot of effort into that music that you are stealing. If you believe that you should not steal from an old shoemaker, who works because he needs the money to live, so why do it from a music artist who puts a lot of work in his songs is right? However, many of these artists make more money that they will ever need as they also make money from concerts. A lot of people run short of money and do not have much to spend on music, movies or TV programmes and downloading it for free seems the best option for them who don’t want to be left aside from the new technological society who offers these entertainments. Before you had to spend a lot of money to get all of these, but nowadays they are closer to our needs, closer for the people with limited resources, so why are we going to take away this privilege from them. People who support this side of the argument consider that downloading music, movies or TV programmes is not a way of steeling it, is a way of sharing. It is very common that when you are with your friends you listen to list of music so you share songs with your friends and widen your music spectrum including more artists...
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...Reality Television Affecting Body Image Media of today has swallowed lives of the youth as it constantly portrays an image of perfection in which they must live up to. Individuals have seen through reality television and other sources what is categorized as this image. This is shown psychologically as it is not directly stated but represented. The Hills and The Real World, two MTV reality television shows, are provoking public interest showing these wrong images influencing the youth. This is changing the youth, as they are slowly becoming more and more degraded as the generations’ progress. Our next generation is constantly fighting a battle against reality television shows and their overall visual portraying what teens of today must live up to. Due to these programs today, the youth of today are constantly competing with “unrealistic self-expectations to be perfect; not just physical appearance, but more importantly, overall peer ranking” (dailytitan). Shows like The Real World and The Hills, both MTV programs, “sensationalize the physical attractiveness, sexual promiscuity, drug and alcohol abuse, co-dependent relationships and other negative connotations as to what is the norm” (dailytitan). For example, a young teen of today, could watch Real World or The Hills and see perfect body images, generating insecurity within them, leading to vulnerability around “popular kids” who induce self-doubting. This changes the teens overall impression of perfection. Magazines of...
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...products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.” (“pop culture”) Television, movies, music, art, the internet, famous people, sports, and politics are some of the major components that make up pop culture. As expected by the standards of society there is a profuse amount of controversy about pop culture being either good or bad for someone. In an email written to Schlessinger, the writer expresses that, “...teenager had been using very offensive swear words since the age of 5 when this person saw an R-rated movie” and “...teenager had started inhaling cocaine after seeing it done in a movie.” (Schlessinger) According to the writer, the above actions are a result of children being over exposed to pop culture. Yes, it is possible that the effect pop culture can have on children can be more profound since it influences their developing morals, but that does not rule out the possible effects it can have on adults as well. In his own experience Carr states that, “[He’s] not thinking the way [he] used to think...[he’d] spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now [his] concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages...” (Carr) So it can be concluded that pop culture has a way of affecting not just the young and innocent, but also mature adults. In “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” Johnson proposes that, “...it [TV] is largely a force for good: enhancing our cognitive faculties, not dumbing...
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...surrounding that topic. o Animal experimentation o Outsourcing o Media violence Identify if the topic you chose—as presented by both articles—is a problem or an issue, and explain what makes it a problem or an issue. If you believe the articles present both problems and issues, identify and explain what the problems are and what the issues are. The article I chose to discus was the Media violence topic. I believe that this topic is an issue. I believe it’s an issue because there are arguments that can defend both sides. One article believes that media violence is proven to have a direct impact on viewers. The other article believes that the research produces no clear answers on the subject. Many people react to things they see in the media differently. Some may be easily influenced by the violence, but other may not be affected by the violence at all. So by not being able to prove the argument either way, this makes it an issue and not a problem. Were the problems or issues expressed effectively? Describe how the problems or issues were or were not best expressed. I feel that the article that was talking about the exaggeration of media violence was more accurate and effectively expressed the issue. I am aware that I may have a bias because this is the side that I agree with personally. Both of the articles identified the challenge. One of course, was talking about how we need to change how much violence is shown in the...
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...one television set in their home. There are many people who gather around the TV to have Super bowl parties, movie nights, and even game nights. Whoever has the bigger television usually wins the rights to throw the party. Families get together to watch the biggest new TV show that is on, such as American Idol. It is fun to sit with your family and watch some shows and have discussions about how it will end. It can bring families closer together. Another big form of visual entertainment is video games. There are so many “gamers” in the world today. Some children and teenagers are hard to pull away from the games. Video games have become more popular in the last ten years with all of the advancements in technology. You can now speak to many people around the world which enhances communication skills. They also help with problem solving and how to figure things out on their own. Sometimes, they can be a problem though. If not careful, too much time playing video games can hurt communication skills as well as become too lazy. The social influences of visual entertainment media can be positive and negative. The new smart television sets are on the shelves, and they are becoming more of a household necessity than a luxury. With this new technology, you have the ability to have everything you could want at your fingertips. YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, HuluPlus, Crackle, Yahoo and many more apps that can be downloaded to your TV, are there with the click of a button. In some cases...
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...Cirque’s competitive advantage is its culture that supports and energizes its innovation goals. Cirque strengthens its distinctive competency of creativity and achieves business objectives by creating an environment of trust and dedicating resources to encourage employees to hone their craft and try ideas. Analysis and Recommendation In order to attract more talent and increase its employees’ satisfaction along with its commercial success, Cirque will need to change how it manages its culture, talent and growth. It must create and communicate a vision and mission that establishes a shared sense of purpose. And, it must manage its culture through systems that alter and reinforce how employees should think, behave and feel about team work, taking risks, diversity and innovation to further drive its brand and strategic evolution. To manage its talent needs, recruitment should be a continuous process managed online where candidates can upload videos of their talents and complete assessments. The website will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of finding the right fit and can be used to create a “B” candidate database to replace injured artists last minute. Cirque should also create a succession planning program that helps artists identify alternate career paths in the backstage aspects of the entertainment business. This will boost the motivation of the performers knowing their part in Cirque does not end when they can no longer perform and will build Cirque’s future...
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...BEHAVIOR INFLUENCE ON DETERGENT POWDER IN RURAL MARKET BY DIFFERENT AGE GROUP Dr. B.Chandra Mohan Patnaik Associate professor , School of management , KIIT university, Bhuvneshwar, Odisha Deepak Kumar Singh Ph.D Research Scholar, School of management, KIIT University Bhuvneshwar, Odisha Mr. Prakash Kumar Pradhan Ph.D Research Scholar , School of management, KIIT University Bhuvneshwar, Odisha. ABSTRACT India is the most populous country in the world. India is the country of villages. Nearly 75 percent Indians resides in villages. Rural India represents the whole nation in tradition, conventions, rituals and beliefs of the people in all. This is the main reason driving force for rural marketing. The markets are now concentrating heavily on high potential rural markets. As the urban markets are reaching to the saturation point in terms of market growth, the markets are reaching the rural markets to sustain in the highly competitive market. Heavy demand for goods and services in the rural areas is the main reason for the growth in rural markets. Different marketing strategies have been adopted by the firms to capitalize the demand. Rural India consumes more products than the urban India. Different income group consumers of different age group purchases various brands as per their preferences. Overall the marketer should understand the customer before taking up the road to the rural market. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of rural consumer based on different...
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...variety of different programs on primetime television. All of us want to know what is out there in the world that we are not able to experience in our own regular lives. For example, we want television to inform us and educate. We can retain this valuable information and expect it to be there every time we tune into the specific program or channel. These programs have different paces and speeds to catch the attention of the audience. For example, educational programs are slower in order to be understandable. On the other hand, action programs moves a lot faster to catch attention. Reality TV shows are in today’s primetime now because we want to know how other people interact in different situations. On the contrary in a TV sitcom, Novak sates in his essay “television is simplified and homogenized”. Writers of TV sitcoms control what a whole culture is going to watch and thereby shapes people souls. In other words, they are always keeping the same script. This creates and shapes the mind of the audience to what is socially normal. Different programs have different effects on the audience. This is why some programs are more appealing to me than others. Mystery programs that are fast paced and have serious plots where viewers have to pay close attention, as they analyzed every scene in order to keep up, therefore speeding up the rhythm of attention. For example, Law and Order and 24 are shows where multiple scenes are running at the same time, and are only linked by specific details...
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...Is Youth Culture Apathetic Towards the Modern Political Process? It is often said that young people lack interest and concern in politics, showing indifference to the modern political process. This claim will be explored in the context of contemporary Britain, acknowledging possible explanations for this apathy and analysing how recent trends may be affecting the level of political interest amongst the youth culture. The difference between old and modern politics will also be discussed, examining how this fits in with youth culture. To begin to acknoweldge why young people may be apathetic towards the modern political process, it is crucial to understand how the youth view politics and how these views have been acquired. For some it would seem that there is a definite lack of education in what politics is, rather than a complete lack of interest. The National Curriculum consists of 4 key stages and it is not until Citizenship lessons at key stage 3 (11 - 14 years old) that British children are taught "knowledge and understanding about becoming informed citizens" (National Curriculum Online: nc.uk.net) which includes topics on politics. Because of the legal obligations to schools to abide by the National Curriculum many find it difficult or impossible to offer content outside of its scope - the result being that only National Curriculum material is covered. In terms of political education, this means that many children have had no educational of politics since the introduction...
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...Erin Burgwinkle 1/21/15 Macroeconomics 006 Pg. 18 Homework Question 8; a-f 8a. Regulating cable TV prices: Efficiency- This government policy corrects the market failure of market power, or a monopoly, that is often associated with the cable TV industry. 8b. Providing some poor people with vouchers that can be used to buy food: Equality- A difference in economic well-being means that poor people are not able to have access to necessities such as food. Granting vouchers to these individuals helps equally distribute economic shares. 8c. Prohibiting smoking in public places: Efficiency- Science has proved the dangers and health hazards associated with smoking. Because of these negative connotations, this government policy reflects efficiency, relating to a negative externality market failure. One person smoking in public can have a affect on another person who is also n the premise; hence smoking provides a negative externality on bystanders. 8d. Breaking up standard oil into several smaller companies: Efficiency- By breaking up the oil industry into smaller parts, society gets more benefits from its scarce resources. This policy corrects the market failure caused by a market power, or monopoly, in the oil industry. 8e. Imposing higher personal income tax rates on people with higher incomes: Equality- This government policy is helping to more evenly distribute economic well being throughout society. 8f- Instituting laws against driving while intoxicated: ...
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