...Review Once a Teen Wolf, Always a Teen Wolf He shoots, he scores! He celebrates by… accidentally turning into a full-fledged werewolf creature of the night? In 2011, MTV got the rights to recreate the famous Michael J Fox flick, Teen Wolf. But instead of giving us a friendly little hour and a half film about a boy who figures out he’s born into a family of werewolves, we get a television series about a young asthmatic boy who in midst of beginning his Sophomore year in high school, ends up taking- or receiving- too big a bite for his slightly crooked but charming jaw to chew. Scott McCall, a character so closely named and only slightly modeled after the classic Michael J Fox character is the main protagonist of this story. He, his family, friends, and enemies all live in the midst of a supernatural world in the small town of Beacon Hills, California. With a set of writers like Jeff Davis, the mind behind Criminal Minds, Jeff Vlaming, one of the many people who works on NCIS and Fringe, and Monica Macer who worked on Lost, Prison Break, and 24- there’s no way this show could be anything but intelligent, smart, and completely fun, right? Well, minus a few incredibly cheesy moments that seem to make the viewer cringe away, that statement is completely true. Teen Wolf, a show trying desperately to keep its fame while flailing around madly amidst episodes of 16 and Pregnant and The Jersey Shore, is an MTV hit that has a lot more heart than expected. As the Pilot begins...
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...and teens. This paper will focus on the negative side, on two major fields: Behavior (including health) and Interpersonal relations. I picked 10 current Pinoy music videos of varied genres. I formulated a mini questionnaire and let random children and teens answer it. It took me almost 3 weeks to gather information and make conclusions. I chose to do a research on the effects of listening and watching pop music/music videos because me, myself is an avid listener and viewer of pop music. It will be much easier for me to do a research if I choose a topic, which is very relatable/close to my heart and to my being. And also, the reading assigned to me in the class, which is an experiment to pop music video viewers and its effects to gender and sexuality of teenagers, influenced me to do this paper. Below is the actual survey questionnaire that I gave to 8-20 year old children and teens, to be followed by an explanation of why I chose those kinds of questions. Questionnaire 1. State your gender: _____M _____F 2. Age range: _____5-12 _____13-25 _____26-30 3. Do you watch music videos? _____Yes _____No 4. How often do you watch music videos? _________Hours 5. Where do you watch music videos? _____TV _____Phone/iPod _____Youtube 6. Do you like to see dance routines within a music video? _____Yes _____No Why? ________________________________________________________________ 7. Do you eat while watching the TV? _____Yes...
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...Marnice Thomas Mass Communications 101-5XB 04-14-09 Sex in the Media and Its Effects on Teens The mainstream media portrays sex in a way that permanently scars many teens before their teen years are over. Sex can be portrayed as the way to attain status and happiness in life. Advertisements still use sex to sell products, maybe more than ever. As a society, we are more aware than ever of the danger of sexually transmitted diseases. Yet teens are bombarded with sexually explicit images as if STDs were something that only happened to other people. It is not surprising that some young people today act out their fantasies of sexual domination and power by raping or murdering others. Sex is a gift from God. When a man and a woman marry, they should be able to look forward to enjoying a fulfilling sexual relationship for the rest of their lives. Yet long before people marry in our society, they have been forced to view images of cosmetically perfect bodies engaged in simulations of sexual acts. The way mainstream media portrays sex leaves many teens ill prepared for a life where lasting sexual joy can only come from a relationship built on mutual love, respect, honesty, and trust. Sex is the second strongest of the psychological appeals, right behind self-preservation. Its strength is biological and instinctive. However, its effectiveness...
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...television shows. Our young children look up to the young actors or individuals that they watch on television through TV shows or music videos or even ones they read about in magazines. And there are a lot of women that look up to the women that play some of the parts on screen. The popular media plays a significant part of the problems that a lot of regular households go through. Everyone wants to be like who they watch on television. Is it wrong to allow our children to watch these shows? Are people losing the ability to raise decent, responsible and respectful children today? Are the adult’s that allow this decent and responsible people? This paper will raise issues about popular media today and display the effects of it on our generation. You will see how the popular media that kids are watching today influence them to have low self-esteem, a lack of discipline and consequences, ability to make grown up decisions, have no or little respect for adults and basically raise themselves. You have TV shows that alter the way that we raise our children. Kids learn a lot of what they see on the T.V. screen. They learn about sex, drugs, how to be disrespectful and disobedient. You cannot turn on the television without seeing half naked women washing their hair or rubbing lotion on their bodies. Indecency is the one thing that plagues us most. We have TV commercials that are basically...
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...with the 21st Century and leading the way is American Express (AmEx) by offering a first-of-its-kind innovation by partnering with four external environment television networks. The four ways AmEx is externally reaching diversity is through a T-Commerce Program with FOX Broadcasting Company, NBCUniversial & Zeebox, BrightLine, and Shop Small Provincetown (Forbes). AmEx is strengthening their clients’ shopping experience at their fingertips, with access to purchasing items on phones and computers, which also includes thirty-second commercials launched across all gaming consoles, tablets, telecom companies’ satellites and cable to reach their diverse consumer ("America Express News: Press Release.", 2012).. Targeting ranges from mothers and teens to Hispanics, members of the LBGT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community and many other diverse groups of people (Forebs). AmEx is reaching the people who drive their company forward by finding out who has more pull in the purchase decisions made in a particular household. They also analyze how certain age groups purchase their merchandise, how to advertise to those who need support in purchasing a product, and more importantly partnering and sponsorships with Human Rights Campaign (Forbes). Through the partnership with the four companies, AmEx helps to reach their consumers more easily, and make purchasing more accessible. Partnering with a broadcasting company opens many doors as to spreading to customers. To take...
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...Children who consistently spend more than 4 hours per day watching television are more likely to be overweight. Health experts have long linked excessive TV watching to weight gain. While watching TV, kids are inactive and tend to snack. They're also bombarded with ads that encourage them to eat unhealthy foods. The problem isn't just how long children are watching TV but, what they are watching. According to William H. Deitz, pediatrician and prominent obesity expert at Tufts University School of Medicine, "The easiest way to reduce inactivity is to turn off the TV set. Almost anything else uses more energy than watching TV." Television affects the health of both children and adults. First and foremost, television ads are constantly bombarding us with information about health and nutrition, and unfortunately, most of it’s skewed. Our children are most susceptible to these leading advertisements. For instance, children may have a hard time recognizing fact from fiction when they see an ad that shows thin beautiful people enjoying high calorie, high fat foods and drinks. Roughly two-thirds of the 20,000 TV ads an average child sees each year are for food and most are for unhealthy foods. The majority of children who watch health related commercials believe what the ads say, even if the ads do not give accurate or balanced information. Watching television also affects one’s health by replacing other activities and by slowing the metabolic rate. Television viewing leads...
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...Teens at Risk By Robert Morris My book is about teens at risk in life. It talks about the violence, pregnancy, what happens to them when there is no father, and drug and alcohol. I have a lot of friends who go thru this in life. Its mess up that’s teens go thru this in life. All they need is mentor, somebody that will talk to them about the bad stuff in life. . First, pregnancy is really bad in teenage life. A lot of them have babies in their teenage life. Most teenage mothers are single and receive no support from the father. They might end up having another baby and not thinking and make another mistake. Most of them don’t finish high school cause of all the work they have to do with the baby and it be stressing them out all the time. Then sometimes people don’t get help from the family and they get really mad. They should have had second thoughts before they did it. If they just wait until they get out of school and get a good job they will be ok having a child. Second, then you got drugs and alcohol. This is also bad for teens and have of them don’t know what they putting their self into when they do drugs and alcohol. Then when teenagers start smoking cigarettes then they will go to a store and buy some without showing proof of age. All stores should always ask for a id when somebody buy stuff like that because you don’t know who you selling them things to. Sometimes teenagers will have someone that’s older go in the store and have someone buy them some...
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...advertising, not necessarily for the adults’ sake, but for the sake of their children’s impressionable minds. With the average teenager spending 10 and a half hours a day absorbing the media’s messages, it is imperative that parents become aware of the negative effects it is having on their child, especially young teenage girls. The media has targeted this demographic and the results are tragic. The average teenage girl spends 31 hours a week watching TV, 10 hours a week online, and 17 hours a week listening to music. (Kaiser Family par. 13) With that much time spent doing these things it’s a safe assumption that the media has a huge influence on teens and takes up a majority of their free time. Drew Altman, Ph.D., President and CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation said, “When children are spending this much time doing anything, we need to understand how it’s affecting them – for good and bad” (par. 7). With the media imposing so much influence over young America, it is crucial that action be taken to mitigate the effects and teach teens that they’re in a futile pursuit of a impossible standard. Young girls are so frustrated trying to achieve this ideal of perfection that they resort to extreme measure like dieting, developing eating disorders, having sex at a young age to gain social acceptance, cutting, and even suicide. One problem with the media is the ease in which they can...
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...Media and its Influence on Teens Benjamin Morgan COM/172 September 12, 2012 Judith Arent-Morency Media and its Influence on Teens The media surrounds society in a major way. Most people within society are influenced by television, movies, and music whether they realize it or not. The violence in these forms of media can have a heavy impact on a child’s learning process which can carry on into adulthood. Children view cartoons which contain high levels of violence that then teach the children violent behavior without consequence, because parents often do not explain what fantasy is and what is real. All forms of media can have a substantially negative effect on society especially teens. Parents are the key to preventing such major influence by talking with children and teens and help them understand what is right and wrong. As society has grown so has technology. Before television times were more easy going; people were happy to help others, and they had a sense of safety in the community. TV, movies, and music have all changed this. More people break laws and are dishonest, most of society does not feel safe as it is evident by locking of doors and constant upgrades of security measures. TV has greatly influenced these changes. Television promotes alcohol, drug use, sex and violence on a daily basis. Violence has become more prevalent in primetime television; the average child will see thousands of simulated murders before they...
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...Ambur Dumais TV Essay TV Doesn’t Distract People, People Distract People There is no doubt that the debate of the limits the media should have has been ongoing. More and more people are becoming the types that automatically find someone else to blame for their problems or life choices. This continues through to the producers of the media, but viewers have to realize it is who they are that determines how they interpret the media they watch. Although there are multiple articles about the harmful effects of pop culture on society, it can only be influencing if someone is willing to witness it. Most people start attacking the producers of a certain show when an event happens. Every time a student causes chaos in school, one of the first questions is what is this student watching or listening to. This is not totally unjustifiable because young minds are more prone to the influence of the media. Producers have a responsibility to their viewers as they are planning to air a new show they’ve created. This is why there aren’t live murders or why most TV shows mock difficult topics to be able to talk about them, but what is aired isn’t much better than that. As Johnson says in Watching TV Makes You Smarter, “the usual counterargument here is that what media have lost in moral clarity, they have gained in realism”. The problem doesn’t entirely rest on the producers; it also lies within what the viewers are willing to subject themselves to. All types of people...
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...11th, 2009, the TV show 16 and Pregnant first aired on national television. This show depicts the lifestyle, steps taken, and emotions felt before and after the birth of a child from a teenager’s view and opinions. Eighteen months after the show first aired, the number of babies born to teens in the United States, from the ages fifteen to nineteen, decreased by almost six percent. TV shows like 16 and Pregnant discourages teenage pregnancy rather than promoting it by portraying the emotional/personal struggles, future regret, and financial issues. Imagine a teen nearly sixteen years old, and she finds out she is pregnant. What are her feelings? Most teens who get pregnant have at least two traumatic emotional effects that stick with them throughout their life. One is depression. Most teens, when they start their journey as a young mom, worry and often look at the downside of getting pregnant which ultimately leads to depression according to an article on Emotional Effects of Teenage Pregnancy by Bhadra Kamalasanan. Another traumatic emotional effect is hopelessness. When a teenager is pregnant, many uncertainties about the future may arise. The teenager may feel as if she doesn’t have enough knowledge to be a mother and end up loading her brain with information available on the internet, which can make it worse. She also may...
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...Chapter 11 11.3 A. Data: Statistical Questions: What is the normal distance the students go for their food? How many students like health food? What is the cost that students can bear? B. Data: Expert opinion Questions: Is professional dress code on the job improve business? Has someone do some analysis about it? Who are the experts? What are their biases? C. Date: Expert opinion Questions: Who are the experts? What are their biases? D. Data: Expert opinion Questions: Who are the experts? What are the details about the analysis? What are their biases? E. Data: Individual or group opinion Questions: Whose opinions would the reader value? Have surveys or interviews been conducted on this topic? 11.6 In this paraphrased passage, when the writer use background data, he should do quotations. The development of casual online games offers less risk than creating games running on Xbox and other consoles. "Usually, casual games are cheaper, costing under $200.000 to create and six to twelve months to produce." (Original Passage) Developers save on shelf space, packaging, and CD production too. Moreover, they have more freedom to innovate. B.The paraphrased changed original idea. The drop in computing costs now makes cellular communication affordable around the world. In fact, one out of every two new phones is cellular. The digital revolution in cellular...
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...The use of media is overpowering the amount of time children and teens spend on doing something proactive. Over the last decade, technology has made major upgrades. The evolution of the media has begun to pull in the minds of the young. They spend less time doing activities that will benefit them such as reading, athletics, and socializing; but they spend more time social networking, playing video games, and browsing the web. Today, just as the author Ray Bradbury predicted in the novel Fahrenheit 451, the addiction to media has led to a substantial amount of time loss, social isolation, and an increase in negative effects on children’s and teen’s well being. The youth would rather be on their cell phones than spend time with their families. The media usage of teens has jumped to over “53 hours a week” (Toppo). “I feel like my days would be boring without it” (Lewin). It is not only that teens would rather spend time on their phones; they would rather stay in their rooms then go out and do something proactive or spend...
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...violence, negative peer pressure that can get youth into trouble, and TV and movies that emphasize sex, profanity, and gore. These influences effect teenagers and lead teens into trouble. Society needs to find alternative outlets for teens to plug into in order to avoid these negative influences. The main negative moral influence is video games. Games rated “MA” or “T” can sometimes be too violent and may have a lot of nudity. Having young teens exposed to this kind of materials can put them in the mindset that this kind of behavior is acceptable in the real world. A few games like “Grand Theft Auto”, “Mortal Combat”, and “Call of Duty” contain violence and too much gore. What teens can do to avoid their interaction with these games is to play less video games and find other things to do such as, playing outside, go to the mall with their friends, or even join after school clubs and activities. These outlets can help teenagers become well rounded, learn more about life and themselves as an individual, and get in to less trouble. The second negative influence is peer pressure such as smoking, drinking, or coaxing someone to do something illegal. Teens could avoid these situations by choosing to hang in the right crowd of friends that don’t do these things. They can also avoid this situation by speaking up and saying “No!” to things they think might get them into trouble and just walk away from the situation. Teens can also find positive outlets like joining the Boys and Girls...
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...Consumer Behavior BCB7094 Hispanic Teens: The New Bicultural Youth Prepared By: FATIMA AL-QADHIBI - 1121200083 Graduate School of Management Session: June 2013 LECTURER : DR. MUHAMMAD SABBIR RAHMAN Hispanic Teens: The New Bicultural Youth Summary Hispanic teens constitute about 20 per cent of all teenagers, and they are very important to marketers. The Hispanic teens represent $20 billion in spending power, and this is growing by 62 per cent through 2020, which make it the faster than other teen’s market. And more important, these teens are joined black teenagers as fashion and style leaders for the over all teens market. Hispanic teens are often different from their parents, who feel that they are under pressure to blend in and be an American, but their teens don’t. The trend for Hispanic is to be bicultural, this is by adding second culture, not replacing their first culture. To do so requires a balancing act, and how they divide between inside and outside the home. This is challenging given the importance of family. The balancing proses leading to biculturalism seems to be working as expert describes “ I’m always amazed by the Hispanic teens. They are speaking Spanish at home, both with friends, English for college and Internet, but they are very much into Hispanic culture even when they are born in US. It is not about being bilingual, it is about being bicultural. They are engrossed in the American culture, and also they are very proud of being...
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