...Watching television is an experience shared by most adults and children. It is cheap, appealing, and within the reach of the general public. In this way, TV has become an important mass media around the world. Sadly, this resource isn’t used in a way that people could get the best possible benefits from it. The purpose of this essay is to persuade the reader that people shouldn’t watch too much television because the content of many TV programs is not educational; it makes people waste time that could be used in more beneficial activities; and it negatively affects people’s mental development. The first reason why people shouldn’t watch too much television is because the content of many TV programs is not educational. Nowadays, we can see movies, series, and shows that present scenes of violence, sex, and drugs. This has established wrong concepts among the audience that influence them into having a negative behavior. Moreover, the impact this tendency has on children is worse because they grow up with the idea of a world where women must be slender and blonde to stand out, where problems can only be solved with money and violence, and where wars are inevitable. The second reason why people shouldn’t watch too much television is because it makes people waste time that could be used in more beneficial activities. The time we spend watching TV could be applied to useful activities like exercise, reading, interacting with friends and family, activities that are a crucial for...
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...Watching television is an experience shared by most adults and children. It is cheap, appealing, and within the reach of the general public. In this way, TV has become an important mass media around the world. Sadly, this resource isn’t used in a way that people could get the best possible benefits from it. The purpose of this essay is to persuade the reader that people shouldn’t watch too much television because the content of many TV programs is not educational; it makes people waste time that could be used in more beneficial activities; and it negatively affects people’s mental development. The first reason why people shouldn’t watch too much television is because the content of many TV programs is not educational. Nowadays, we can see movies, series, and shows that present scenes of violence, sex, and drugs. This has established wrong concepts among the audience that influence them into having a negative behavior. Moreover, the impact this tendency has on children is worse because they grow up with the idea of a world where women must be slender and blonde to stand out, where problems can only be solved with money and violence, and where wars are inevitable. The second reason why people shouldn’t watch too much television is because it makes people waste time that could be used in more beneficial activities. The time we spend watching TV could be applied to useful activities like exercise, reading, interacting with friends and family, activities that are a crucial for...
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...Article 1 Divorce rates in Dubai plummet to 24pc in the space of just two years The divorce rate in Dubai has become the lowest not only in the UAE but the whole of the Arab world, thanks to a new counselling service offered by the emirate's court service. Divorce rates have plummeted from 35 per cent to 24 per cent in the space of just two years. It has been attributed to the success of the Reformation and Family Direction Section created by Dubai Courts in 2000 to tackle marital problems. Wodad Lootah, a social worker at the section said Dubai Courts had set up the section following an increase in divorce rates during the 1990s. She said the main aim was to allow couples to settle disputes amicably without resorting to court action at an early stage. Since the Reformation and Family Direction Section was established, it has received 1,496 couples who claimed they wanted to divorce. Of these, 471 couples changed their minds and did not divorce - nearly one third. "The main causes of divorce are lack of understanding between the husband and wife because neither know how to communicate effectively with each other, as well as how to solve their problems in the right way," she said. Wodad added that the section has taken many steps to reduce divorce. It has distributed about 1,200 social packages to newly married couples at the court which has helped in dropping divorce rates by six per cent in the year 2002 alone. However, it's not all...
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...following statement? "Watching television is bad for children. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer" Today, television become a popular entertainment. Many people think that this kind of entertainment is good for children while others do not agree with this idea. In my opinion, watching television is not good for children because of several reasons. First, Television contain many bad program which make them easily become crimes. In facts, a lots of children are intensively influenced by violent films which often appear on TV. Some of them become familiar with violent and having tendency to use violence in schools. Moreover, advertising which sometimes present expensive stuffs such as mobile phones, mp3 or laptop, cause children waste a lot of moneys into them. In some cases, a little numbers of them even steal their parents money just because they need a thing that they desire. Therefore, TV is not a healthy entertaining medium for children. Second, TV sometimes is a reason for bad performance of children in schools. Many children spend lots of times for TV because it has so many interesting program. It is sure that the more times children experience for watching, the less times they use for studying. According to Institution of Children Investigation on Health Journal, they state that each of normal children in American cities spend 3 hours per day for watching TV. This Institution also assume that children wasting 2 hour per day for TV usually get higher...
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...media of human kind. It’s also the indispensable device in our daily life. By watching TV , we can see many things happened in the surrounding us world , therefore it help us to catch and avoid being dropped back from the world of information. Everyone must agree that the advantages of watching TV are very considerable .But beside those benefits , there are some disadvantages that we must notice to be sure that we watch TV most effectively. Beginning from the first one, I must say that television is one of the most important invention in transforming information history . From very long ago, people had already known how to transform information in many different ways but only when the first television programme was broadcasted , a new age had begun , the age of image transformation. Television nowadays has been very popular, and almost every family have the access to it. By sitting ideally at home , watching TV , you can get a whole look all over the world. The appearance of television and television broadcasting enriches our entertainments . Many events and competition can be watched “live” and many exclusive movies are presented as well (although it’s a bit late in comparison with seeing those movies in the cinema) , but all are legal and you’re free to enjoy them. In addition, if you want to travel but do not have enough money, I suggest you can enjoy traveling in the TV (for example watching the discovery channel or national geography channel) , they’re screened 24/24....
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...Free Writing – TV Habits We all watch television. Whether it’s when we are at home, on work, at a pub, etc. The bottom line is that the modern human, or teenager to be more specific, today spent 21 hours a week on just watching TV. In my opinion that’s a waste of time, since that more than a half of time we watch television, we use on programs with very low content. I spend about 1 hour a day watching television. It varies, because in the weekends I watch a lot more TV, than what I do in the weekdays. But in average I watch about 1 hour TV a week. My favorite program is American DadTM. It’s an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman for the Fox Broadcasting Company. I find it entertaining because of its ability to break people limits. It has, all though, been criticized by Parents Television Council (US) They have the opinion that the program is featuring suggestive dialogue, offensive language, moderate to strong sexual content, and graphic violence. But, as I mentioned earlier, that’s what I like about the program. American dad is of course not the only program I watch. Another program if find very interesting is TirsdagsanalysenTM which I watch with my dad every Tuesday. I like to be nuanced in my politician views, and therefore I think it’s a good property, that the program has both a leftist man and a rightist man to comment on the features the host brings up to debate. Watching TV can be both entertaining and damaging...
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...Liberty University Effects of Watching Too Much Television Sheila Adams July, 28 2014 MLA Format English 101 Television started a long time ago. Around the late 1940’s actually, and it was a wonderful thing. It gave the world easy access to entertainment at home. Over the years it has 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...
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...that (aisi baat jo sun kar aap khush hojayenge tap on the link) what does this means???????? But if you click on that nothing happens. So I am saying to say that most of the people add wrong information to the social media. 2) Most of the people follows other friends as compared to the friends with they are related with blood relations. They do not make good relations with them as compared to the relations on social media. 3) Most of the people when guests come to the house they will talk to them for sometime and then they get busy in the social media such as tv, facebook,internet, now they doesn’t have the time to talk with them as social media connect them each and every day and there is no kind of news or topic on which they has to be discussed as compared to the time when there is no media………….. 4) It is also the wastage of time because most of the time we spent on the social media such as tv etcs. No one spent time with their family members. They get informed from their country but not from their own...
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...The situation with TV nowadays is rather controversial, and writing this essay actually required quite a lot of effort to make up my clumsy thoughts. Even though many people claim that TV might follow the footsteps of, for example, VHS-cassettes, no one can deny the pleasure of watching films in full HD, and other possibilities, that are kindly offered by the brand new smart-TV's. Like the majority of teenagers I don't watch TV often and its not surprising at all, if we mention Internet. However I still cannot dodge it completely throughout my daily routine, and therefore, I can think of some reasons why to spend your time in front of TV screen, and why not. The first and foremost advantage of TV for me is its perfect ability to run in the background. I bet a lot of people can confess in doing the same thing - just casually switching the TV on, and heading to do some other stuff. This gets especially effective if the TV is in the kitchen. It becomes the main source of news and current events for me, unlike Internet, where I always end up forgetting about everything the moment I enter social networks. Secondly, TV shows entertain people when they are tired or lazy to go out. Most of the youth like TV channels like MTV because of great variety of music clips and others entertaining shows, and I'm not an exception. Finally, I can't but mention a vast amount of educational programs available, particularly on Discovery and National Geographic channels, which can educate and stimulate...
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...Topic: Are sitcoms and TV shows a bad influence for teenagers? Box Full of Perfection Ah, TV shows –– they are just so damn corrupted. I mean look at us, all we do is compare ourselves to the characters of the sitcoms that we watch on TV and most of the time we worship their so call “fabulous” life. And how is the important again? Exactly, it’s not. Staring at a "stupid box" with moving pictures that shows “perfect looking” people, is not how teenagers suppose to waste their time. Oh, god we are so corrupted. Just the other day, one of my friends was complaining, over the fact that she is not pretty or skinny like Hanna (a character) from the sitcom Pretty Little Liars. “Apparently”, Hanna has beautiful shiny blond hair, has smooth glowing skin, also, she is very very slim ––– Seriously. Sounds like a Barbie doll to me. Not to mention, it’s called “Photoshop”, where any ordinary person can be turned into a beautiful swan from an ugly duckling. TV channels like MTV and CW, they have all changing drastically over the years. Most of my friends waste their time watching shows like Teen Wolf, Jersey Shore, Sweet 16, ANTM, Degressi and various types of shows. Funny thing is that, all these shows have one thing in common, and that is “physical perfection”–––– Seriously. How’s that even entertaining? I thought entertaining was about laughing at hilarious shows and crying when a sad sitcom comes on. How is staring at plastic faced actors even funny. Yeah sure, they...
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...Perception: Baseball Ever since I was a child, baseball has been a passion and love of mine. I would watch the Mets play every night on TV. with my family ever since I could remember. On the hot summer days, we would bring the TV. outside and watch the games until the stars were shinning over us. Playing baseball was also something I did almost every day too, whether it is in my back yard with my older cousins or parents or on the baseball field during a game. When I was young I loved the game and played more for the love of the game but as I grew older, I began to understand the game and pay close attention t hw my teammates played and my opponents as well. Baseball has now turned into somewhat of a class now for me. I try and correct my mistakes to better myself and I watch others to see what they do in certain situations or to see what they do that allows them to overpower their opponents. My perception of baseball is now focused on pitchers in the major leagues. I try to learn what the great ones do to excel because watching and studying the best will only benefit me down the road. After watching baseball for practically 15 years, I have learned that all pitchers have their own styles, deliveries and philosophies but the mechanics of most pitchers are the same. Many pitchers believe in the same types of mechanics. Some examples would be to keep your shoulders level while in your motion or driving off the rubber with your back leg to generate their maximum power...
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...Reality Television Summary This article is about reality television. Experts point out their opinions of what they think about reality TV and discuss why us people spend the time we spend on watching reality television shows such as; ”X-Factor”, ”Britain's got talent” and ”Big Brother”. In Elizabeth Days article she talks about “why reality TV works”. She talks about how everyone thought the end of Big Brother would be the END of reality shows. But our enthusiasm for Simon Cowell's prime-time talent search shows no sign of abating. Cowell has brought reality shows to a whole new level. Experts such as Beverley Skeggs say that reality shows makes us feel like we are a part of something. That people can connect with other people who have the same values and who behave the same way. That makes us viewers want to help and support the person we feel connected to. According to the Brand Driver Research which examines allure of reality television such as the “X-Factor” which is made to appeal to personal relationships and to make the viewers feel more bonded with the contestants and feel a part of an extended social network and part of a community. Nowadays people have started looking for more simple entertainment. The part that attracts viewers to “X-Factor” is the sense of control it gives us. Viewers have a power to vote for their favorite contestants, even though their lives are being shaped by government cutbacks, job losses and social deprivation. the fact that...
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...THE TIME TRAP ASSIGNMENT ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT 500 “MANAGING THE ENGINEERING FUNCTION” Mohamed Elsayed (79273930) 11/02/2014 THE TIME TRAP ASSIGNMENT Introduction “Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens”. Samuel Gompers While I was exploring the internet looking for quotes talking about the time importance in order to finish my Time Trap assignment, I found Samuel’s quote that struck the chord, in the beginning I felt that he was talking to the people all over the world, but soon I realized he was talking to my instinct to be more better and better than what I am now. Since I came to USA with my family in 2012 I am looking to what will stop me accomplish my targets and dreams, is it the feeling of leaving my beloved people or feeling homesickness? I can develop myself, give my family time, and be socially having new relationships, interact with the community, adapt with the new environment, but give me Time. As Alec Mackenzie referred in his book that all of us saying “There is never enough time”, yes I was saying the same, and I was repeated it all the time until I found I was digging my grave by my own hands, the reason that I was taking my family’s responsibilities over my shoulder even the minor details with no asking for help even from my second half “My Wife”, in fact...
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...Some people think children's spending time on tv, video and pc games is good, while others think it is bad. Discuss both views and give your own opinion. Topics of should avoid teenagers to spend time on tv, video and pc games never fail to arouse people's attention. Some individuals argue that it is good for young people while others hold the opposite opinion. As for me, there is more truth in the letter. Admittedly, youngster are enjoyed the relax by spending times on the entertainments such as tv, video and pc games. As we all know the competition come from the peers lay unbearable stress on children. There is no denying the fact that watching tv and playing games offer children spiritual comfort. For instance it can reduce children's tension and clam them down. In addition, children also can realize a large of information what is happening in the world. Specifically, it broadens the student's horizon and enriches their knowledge. However, the opinion of the other side sounds more convincing. For one thing, it is bad for young students' study. Taking time on tv, video and pc games wastes a large amount of time which should have been used to study. For another, it is harmful to the mental health of children. The excessive use of Internet may arouse many web-addition-related mental illnesses such as depression, isolation and so on. Last but not least, the hazardous information contains violence and eroticism will also lead teenagers astray. Based on the discussion above...
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...Rosa Aguilera 10/22/2012 C. Millan ENG 1A DLA Television in our Life Since TV was invented in 1926, it has been a tool that has contributed to the development of humans. Television is considered to be the most effective means of communication in our world today. Many people think that watching TV is a destructive activity and a waste of time, but television is a positive cultural force in America for three important effects in people’s life; to provide knowledge, quick information, and entertainment. The first effect of television is to provide people knowledge by giving them the chance to know more things about the world. Since television is a source that almost every person can have at home, one can take advantage of the different educational programs. Also, one can watch the file of science, politics, and economics, and thus acquire knowledge in these fields. The second effect of television is that provides quick information.TV offers a variety of channels where people can find information about what is going on around the world. Through the news channel a person can make himself aware about any event that might have occurred. Today viewers can watch local, regional, and national news programming at any time of the day. TV is a simple convenient and fast way to be informed. The third effect of television is of entertainment. Prior to television era, people have different notions of entertainment, just as parties, sports, festivals, concerts, and cinema, but that list...
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