...an escape from their hectic daily lives. In our society today, there is an ongoing debate about violence in the media. Media violence has been an issue that most of the literature seems to avoid, but it is important in our lives. To give you perspective on just how much violence kids see on TV, consider this: “The average American child will witness 200,000 violent acts on television by age 18. Kids may become desensitized to violence and more aggressive. TV violence sometimes begs for imitation because violence is often promoted as a fun and effective way to get what you want” (Kids Health, 2010). With this one can see how much of an influence T.V has on kids. As the teens and kids continue to watch and read these violent images depicted in music and film, detrimental effects affect their judgment, attitudes, and behaviors. Concerns about media violence have grown as television has acquired a global audience. While TV violence is not the only cause of aggressive or violent behavior, it is clearly a significant factor. Television can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior. Unfortunately, much of today's television programs include violent images! The impact of TV violence may be immediately evident in the child's behavior or may surface years later. Media is responsible for inciting violence. Thus said, there are many profession; scientist, doctors, educators, police detectives, etc. spending a lot of time trying to fully understand the cause...
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...How TV Affects Your Child Television watching is becoming more prominent in America culture. Children are being plugged into the television at younger and younger ages. Each day after school, thousands of kids sit in front of their T.V. sets at their homes and kill their precious time watching T.V. programs when they should be active or doing homework, etc. Parents will want to get work done and the television is a very convenient “babysitter.” Parents do not have to pay the television to keep their children pre-occupied. However, too much television can be detrimental and I believe television viewing should be used in moderation or as a privilege. There are many reasons why parents should limit screen time for their children. One important reason is that watching a lot of television can lead to childhood obesity. Part of the problem is that the child is not moving when watching. When children spend their free time lying around watching TV, they don't get the exercise they need. It's hard to exercise in front of the TV set. The other part is all the food commercials aimed at kids. TV commercials advertise candy, soda, and sugary cereals, encouraging children to eat high-calorie junk food. Even if they don't get the food on the commercial, it will probably lead them to the kitchen, looking for a snack. Often, children eat junk food while watching TV and are unaware of how much they're overeating. Down the long run, childhood obesity can lead to numerous health problems...
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...part was to show if the amount of time the children spent watching television would hinder their comprehension and the second part is to show what programs where watched when the children did watch television. The surprising thing was from both questions being answered, the one that made the most impact on the children was the time the children actually spent watching TV. Playing video games or doing anything in front of the television is time away from socializing with peers and family. Television and the Effects on a Childs reading ability The two part panel consisted of elementary children from second to fourth grade. These studies were conducted in a Dutch elementary school using 1050 students. The study was conducted to find out if television helped or harm children’s reading performance. THE amount of time spent watching TV The first part of the study was to understand if the amount of time children watched was effecting there reading or comprehension levels. The amount of time did have an effect on the children in a negative way. This statement automatically makes people think; oh TV is bad, but not necessarily true. There are few but good programming out there that will help teach your child the, alphabet, problem solving, and other scholastic properties. However, the television is just another outlet to consume time away from something else that might be more constructive or productive, such as been social with family and friends or being physical...
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...The effect of television on a childs attention span Samantha Martin COM/156 May 6, 2012 Jodi Galvan Axia College of the University of Phoenix The effect of television on a childs attention span In watching my 13-year-old daughter, and constantly trying to get her to complete the simplest of tasks such as loading the dishwasher. I have often wondered if watching too much television has anything to do with her inability to complete the smallest of tasks. Some people think that children who watch too much television are likely to develop ADHD; however, it may be the opposite. The child who is prone to Attention problems may be drawn to watching television to sooth their minds (New Scientist, 2007). Is it possible that children too watch much television? According to Eric Landhuis of the University of Otago, children should not watch more than two hours of television per day (New Scientist, 2007). More than two hours of television can lead to attention problems in adolescence. Children who watched more than three hours of television had above average symptoms of ADHD (New Scientist, 2007). Rapid scene changes can over stimulate the brain. Recently their was a controversial news story on how the rapid scene changes in the cartoon Sponge Bob Square pants on the network Nickelodeon over stimulated the young brain of children under the age of six. The over stimulation can make real life seem boring. Landhuis goes on to say, “children who watch...
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...understand what they want. They are attracted by colorful pictures on advertisement and influence by misleading information. So they annoy their parents to buy those things and this can upset the budget of many families. “According to the Consumer Union's report, “elementary-age” school children spend around $ 15 billion, $11 billion of which goes for products from toys and games to food and clothes also elementary-age children influence $160 billion spending controlled by their parents- for cereals, shampoos, and even cars”. (Wikipedia) The advertisements of fast foods are bad for children. They are attracted to fast foods and these are very detrimental for their health. Nowadays a lot of children are suffering with obesity; this comes from eating fast food a lot. The fast food advertisements are so attractive, colorful and interesting that when kids see them and they are hungry they annoy the parents to go...
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...become a lot more popular and it’s hard to find a home without a television. We have flat screens, touch screens and even TV’s that can connect to the internet. Americans love it and some feel they can’t live without it. Is this a healthy relationship? According to Statistic Brain, 99% of American families have at least one TV in the home. 65% of American families have three or more TV’s in the home. (Statistic) For most homes that is a TV in every room. It’s nice to be able to watch movies with your family on a comfortable couch. We all have our favorite shows that we like to watch at a specific time on a specific date every week and that’s ok. However, is there such a thing as watching too much TV? The average American watches more than four hours of TV each day. In a 65 year life that’s nine years of just watching TV. Nine years is a long time to waste on TV. We as Americans always complain about not having enough time in a day. If we really made the effort to turn the TV off and leave it off, I bet we would all get a lot more done in the day. Back in the day the types of TV shows that used to play were funny and the whole family could watch them. More kid friendly shows were played back in the day. Now days what appeals to America is sex and drama. It seems to be on almost every channel. Cursing, swearing and other things contradict what we try to teach children in school. Watching so much television can affect a child’s health. The American Academy of Pediatrics actually...
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...and tune into their sporting event of choice. With such a large quantity of viewers glued to their TV sets, companies have begun paying top dollar to direct their advertisements at sports enthusiasts. Commercials relating to sports have commonly been extremely successful and consumers purchase these companies products at an astounding rate. The problem I have with sports related advertisements specifically relates to the beer industry. These are some of the most profitable corporations and suck people in with multimillion-dollar commercials. These commercials are clever yet often deceitful. Beer commercials also air more frequently than that of nearly any other product. This gives viewers a constant reminder to purchase a product that, in fact, can be dangerous and detrimental to one's health. Beer commercials should be banned from televised sporting events because beer commercials make viewers believe they are dependent on alcohol consumption to enjoy watching sports. Watching televised sports is viewed as a social event. Gathering around the television with friends, living and dying with every pitch, is a rich part of the American culture and its tradition. These are the moments people look forward to. Spending time with ones closest friends while watching their favorite sports team is a way to escape the pressures of everyday life and enjoy professional sports at its finest. TV and sports have an extraordinary ability to bring people closer together as people celebrate their...
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...essential in society no doubt. It provides us information on any subject or matter. We receive information on subjects like the weather, local, and worldwide news, to entertainment. With the positives of the media outweighing the negative aspects people may think that the media is not hurting today’s children and adolescents, but the truth in many people’s opinion is that the negative can be very detrimental. To see how detrimental the media truly can be on children, one needs to examine just how much children and adolescents are exposed to it. Today’s children ranging from infants to 17 become exposed to an enormous amount of media and in most opinions much more than ever before. In today’s society, “the average American child spends three to five hours a day watching television” (Adams, 2008 para.2). If one really stops to think about that statistic, it seems somewhat absurd. In most cases children are in school anywhere from four to eight hours a day by the time that they get to and from and nowadays “the average youth will spend 900 hours a year in school and 1,500 hours of watching TV” (Adams, 2008 para.5). This statistic is proving how much children and adolescents are exposed to television, but it does not show how much they are being exposed to the negative aspects of...
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...The Onset of Consumerism on our Youth through Massive Advertising By June 16, 2014 ENGL 101 – B17 LUO Professor Sholes Associates of Arts – Religion Turabian Format Philippians 4:19 reads “but my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus”. Twenty different translations of this text and not once does it mention God supplying wants. Yet, advertisements teach the youth of America today that they should have all of their wants, not just needs. Advertising agencies, through massive and expensive efforts, have infused the idea of ultra-consumerism into the lives of American youth as evidenced by the priorities and ideals exemplified by children at young ages and as adults. Companies have recognized the deep influence of advertising on young Americans as evidenced by their massive amounts of money and effort spent on targeting children. It is not hard to imagine that companies would see children as a true market for their products. In fact, children under eighteen years old being considered consumers is a widely accepted viewpoint. Even as far back as 1958, an American youth, a teenager in particular, was being referred to as a “merchandising frontier.” In 1998, advertising agencies spent $2 billion specifically towards children in order to promote their products. This formidable amount of funding translates to a significant amount of influential ad time. The astounding 40,000 commercials a child views in a year make up approximately...
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...christelle manga EN:102 Prof: davis slogan 02/26/16 Essay Words:487 “Violent Media is Good for Kids” Gerald Jones in his article, “violent media is good for kids” asserts that violent media is good for kids because it is not detrimental to kids rather it helps in character molding such as making them to be courageous, confident, self-esteem, and brave. Therefore, Jones believes that violent entertainment strengthens reason because of the way he grew up. Jones was sheltered from media, so he lived a passive type of life at his early age. The comic book his mother borrowed from Hulk violent character in the comic book helped him to overcome his fear. Just in the same way, I myself play video games, listen to explicit music, and enjoy watching TV. But I do this either to relieve stress, or just entertain myself. According to Jones, violent media often have positive effects on young kids because it can help them to draw out of emotional trouble and face some challenges in life. By showing the consequences of these violent acts, the media can show the kids the difference between real life. Jones discusses his personal experiences with children, especially his son and Emily. For example, his son was afraid to climb a tree, so Jones read the stories about Tarzan to his son which overcome him fears of climbing trees. In addition, he said that throughout the years, his son used the superheroes in films that he watched to overcome some challenges in his life. Jones second evidence...
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...citizen of any age (myself included) whose life has not been influenced by TV. The invention of TV was one of the most profoundly culture-changing developments of the 20th Century, and it continues to shape society in both obvious and subtle ways. In this essay I will try to identify and explore a major effect television has on society: the general decline of societal health. Certainly this premise is controversial, and many think that TV’s advantages enrich society more than the medium harms us. The term “societal health” and even the word “health” have many implications and mean different things to different people; I will focus on the physical health and mental health of our population, as they are commonly defined. Surely there will be some overlap when speaking of the sub-effects of these two areas. The first area of TV’s effects on society that I will discuss is human physical health. There is, undoubtedly, ample evidence that TV has made society less physically healthy in general. Since the inception of television in the 1940s, obesity rates have increased dramatically in America, especially among children. (Hicks, 1) While TV is not solely to blame, it is a major factor in our lifestyles which lead to poor health. TV-watching is, by nature, a sedentary activity. The vast majority of TV shows are consumed Bermudez 2 in a sitting or lying position; time spent watching TV replaces time spent exercising, being active, or playing outdoors. To make...
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...sexualize young girls, wear high heels, cause cognitive and emotional problems. French lawmakers want an all-out ban on child pageants. They are accusing the media and reality TV of promoting stereotypes that transform young girls into sexual morsels. Look at the growing number of schoolgirls as young as 8 who wear padded bras, high heels, or makeup, and strike suggestive poses. What is that telling the children about how they present themselves to society? In the other hand, children in pageants can carry over into a multitude of other activities, like dance, drama, music recitals, and future public speaking. A pageant girl usually learns to be comfortable in front of strangers, giving her self-confidence a big boost When little pageant contestants wear heels it unnecessarily pushes their weight forward, causing lower back pain and hindering proper development of the feet. In some cases, these girls are forced to continue wearing heels outside of pageants because their feet have grown in a way that makes wearing other kinds of shoes very uncomfortable. One of the most widely used products in child pageants is hair spray, which contains phthalates, or plasticizers, that can act as hormone disruptors. For an adult beauty contestant, this is no big deal, but for a growing girl, the effects could prove detrimental. Excessive exposure to phthalates has been linked to stunted growth and even lung cancer. A 2007 report by the...
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...On the other hand, lack of wealth is an issue in A Taste of Honey. Poverty had detrimental effects on Helen and Jo. However, it is mostly Helen’s fault that they suffered so much. If she had cared about her daughter, stayed in one place and had gotten a decent job instead of semi-whoring, things might have turned out differently. As Jo says, she was never at one school long enough to show them anything (Delaney 14). If she had stayed in one school for some time, she most likely would have developed some relationships with caring teachers and friends. Those two groups of people are the most important ones in a teenager’s life after family. All the same, Helen’s behavior did not allow Jo to acquire these support groups. Teachers and friends can...
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...present in all fields of our modern societies. The debate about the positive and the negative effects of advertisements is still relevant today. Despite the fact that the main purpose of publicity should be the informational aspect, advertisers use their influence in a distinct way. Sometimes manipulative, their controversial techniques use psychological appeals in order to increase purchases. Publicity has unfavorable side effects on individuals, especially on young and vulnerable consumers: children. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate that food habits, lifestyles and behaviors are guided by advertising detrimental models. Teenagers represented core targets for advertisers because media has become one of the most substantial socialization agents known today. Adolescents spent 140 billion dollars a year in 2004 in various products, and 12 years old kids 25 billion dollars, but they are also able to act upon a $200 billion dollar budget (Mary Story and Simone French, Food Advertising and Marketing Directed at Children and Adolescents in the US). According to the Professor Sharon Beder, “[y]oung children are increasingly the target of publicity and marketing because of the amount of money they spend themselves, the influence they have on their parents spending […] and because of the money they will spend when they grow up” (101). The powerful advertising industry has understood since few years the potential of the adolescent market force. They have seen an opportunity...
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...Obesity has become plaque of the twenty-first century as about 5, 9 percent of Americans have an excessive amount of bodily fat, thus large portion of US residents are overweight and there is considerable amount of those who are severely obese. Moreover, obesity shouldn't be treated as a minor health issue as it has a chain of devastating consequences that are likely to worsen not just our health condition but our life span as well as our well-being. Lately, global scientific community has paid a lot of attention to a rising concern of childhood obesity among diverse cultural groups, which are composed from various race types. It is essential to differentiate the meaning of such related, yet still dissimilar terms as "race" and "ethnicity" in order to understand both biological and social roots of obesity, which is consequently, mediated through the roots of one's culture and socio-economic background as well as some other environmental factors. In general, race is viewed as a combination of biological characteristics, which could be observed without difficulty, they may include skin and eye color as well as some specific body shapes and so on. In fact, biological determines basic genetic traits which can gradually develop into risk factors, especially if we take into account some biologically-based digestive process that is certainly compound a substantial amount for one's metabolic process. As a matter of fact, metabolic processes ought to be those core elements that contribute...
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