Some say it has changed for the worst; that it is a bad influence on others choices, whereas others say it still has the same typical concept. They fail to realize that reality television is simply just a documentary of people’s lives. Whether they choose to take each other’s heads off or make love to their best friends’ boyfriend, it will not have a negative effect on people’s life decisions or choices. When people think about Reality TV they begin to picture a group of people arguing and punching each other out simply because that is what reality TV has become today. For some reason the bickering and fighting on these shows tends to attract a large audience.
In “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” when he talked about the show 24, he ignored the content of the show like the torture scenes, and go straight to the Sleeper Curve. (278) He should talk about the scene because it is also an important factor of being smart or not. South Park is a TV show which
It seems to me that throughout the years TV has become more popular, and most people have at least one TV in their house. Comparing Fahrenheit 451 to our world exposed how close we are to becoming like them. With the government controlling us, ad our addiction to TV; we have to battle against ourselves to prevent becoming like the world of 451. We do have our differences to 451, because we do not burn books. I find it I retesting that Bradbury wrote this book in 1953 and does an excellent job at predicting what todays society would be like.
Imagine a kid solving a puzzle -which will help to develop his brain- instead of watching TV; also this kind of activities will keep him safe from violence. Ratings: I have seen a TV channel specifying violence ratings, I cannot recall the channel but every time I see it has violence on it I change the channel. We shouldn’t have to watch a program to see if it is violent. Sometime we start watching a program just to see if it appropriate or not to watch and then we realized that even it has violence we watched the entire TV show I think ratings will work just
Have you ever wanted to know what a Medical Technician does? Most people think it sounds like a boring job and it doesn’t make a lot of money. They are wrong. I chose this career because I always wanted to be a paramedic. I enjoy watching TV shows about people saving other individuals lives and it really interested me how the professionals do it in real life.
Steven Johnson’s article called “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” directs his writing to the audience of people who watch television, with the claim that watching television makes you smarter. On the other hand Dana Stevens’ article called “Thinking Outside the Idiot Box” disagrees with Johnson’s article and claims watching TV does not make you smarter. Steven Johnson seems to believe that watching TV makes you smarter. He released an article to the audience of people who watch television. Around ninety-nine percent of families in America own a television, which means they watch TV a little bit each day.
Adverts are something that everyone wants to escape from which is why I adore the BBC; I can watch a movie without having to listen to annoying jingles in between that make me forget what happened in the movie before the break. Unfortunately, not every channel is like the BBC and the BBC doesn’t have all the good programs. This is why I end up watching the adverts. But there is ONE advert that keeps on haunting me. The new sun bingo advert: Eurgh!
Some parents do not realize that when they are allowing their children to sit down and watch television for hours on end that there could be a show that is educational and will help to fill the child’s mind with knowledge and not pollution. Such as many parents realizing that Sesame Street was also an educational show that helped children to
For those of us that seek adventure, TV shows offer programs that vary from actors to themes to genres and have one of two purposes: to entertain or to inform. While informative shows are regularly watched, most of television viewers prefer entertaining shows. Comedies are the most familiar TV shows watched and
The media not only distracts society from reality, but also provides temporary pleasure; for example, television instantly fulfills the wish for relaxation. If people have the self-control to sample television in small doses, it can be relaxing without being harmful. However, when television is integrated into the daily routine and becomes "necessary," people rely on it for artificial happiness. Depending on entertainment for pleasure is detrimental to health and mind. For some people, entertainment yields greater joys than physical activity does.