In ther essay, Winn describes television as a “decline of family life in America” and “damaging to family relationships”. Although she obtains strong supporting evidence within her work, I find pleasure in contradicting her opinion as she misinterprets the influence of television upon American families. In her essay she states her opinion of television’s influence upon modern day families. Winn questions her readers as she uses the statements, ”When do they talk about what they did that day? When do they make plans, exchange, views, share jokes, tell about their triumphs or little disasters?
Ehrenreich asserts that viewers rarely see characters on television watching television, on account that such a sequence would be boring, and TV only features interesting and exciting content. Her assertion is meant to show viewers they would be unwilling to watch what they do on television, so, logically-speaking, their lives are boring. I know this claim to be true because in my countless hours of watching television, I’ve never encountered characters watching TV for any extended amount of time. When it so rarely occurs that one of the characters on the show that I’m watching is just watching TV, my attention goes to something different. I have noticed when I visit friends and their families are gathered around the TV set, the experience is quite boring until I join them on the couch.
They find the ultimate paradise in heroin and their intoxicating love becomes not enough. For Dan, Candy becomes his metaphor, she is the embodiment of his need and his loss and the distinction between heaven and hell. Throughout the film, Candy and Dan’s world slowly deteriorates from a fantasy into a whirlwind of addiction suggesting drugs will always bring you back down to hell. The first few scenes are titled ‘heaven’ following the beginning stages of Candy and Dan’s drug abuse. Candy tells Dan “I wanna try it your way this time”, suggesting she wants to find the limitlessness of pleasure in her life.
In analyzing Dr. Grohol’s article, “The Debilitating Effects of TV on Children”, the main purpose is to portray the harm that watching television has on children during their childhood and the effects throughout their future. He argues that television is an unhealthy activity by comparing it to cigarette smoking, which is a harmful activity that society continues to whitewash. What is worse is that children are exposed to it as if it were as innocent as playing with their toys. Grohol, J. (2009).
All Mildred wants to spend money on is another television screen that she doesn’t even need. Bradbury shows that in his society television is more important than spending time with other people. People can be easily manipulated through advertising, as Millie had been, watching countless hours of TV all day, never developing true self-awareness. Where one may live a life though never really having lived, but just falling victim to watching actors perform on a screen. As the existence of technology has grown more apparent people have become unable to function properly for themselves.
He concludes that there should be a limit for how far one can go, when you are making reality TV show. Mr. Sam Mettler, Intervention’s creator says that it is not easy to show the reality on TV, sometimes he has to come forward and stop someone for hurting themselves like crack addicted or alcoholics. He adds that he can cross the line if someone is putting someone else in immediate danger, but it is very delicate balance. 161 words Outline Text 2: “When reality TV gets too real” is written by Jeremy W peters. The text is focusing on whether it’s the television station and the team behind the cameras that have the responsible for actions the participants may do to themselves or others such as a crime, while participating on the show.
I agree but disagree with some of the text stated in (Doc.4) because sugar is compared to as alcohol by its addictive taste to people that had never tasted sugar before. Once the people started liking sugar it became a weakness, which caused more sugar to be desired. The journalist in (Doc.4) is most likely bias towards sugar consumption. I terminate this
The results in these losses in brain tissue are that the brains conscious control system becomes impaired and less able to modulate actions. The brains working memory becomes poorer and people addicted will have more and more trouble retaining information. Some may think that pornography would excite you to find women in real life, but it won’t. Chances are, you will not find naked women who want a lot of fun, when you go outside. Then you'll say to yourself, “But there’s always naked girls on my computer", and then just go home and turn your computer on.
Neil Postman believes our society is closer to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World than George Orwell’s 1984 because of our society’s addiction to television. Huxley feared that no one would want to read books and that people would become passive and egotistical. He dreaded the day that the truth would carry little power and pleasure and love would control the public. Huxley’s worries become terrifying realities when one observes how much television has overtaken the American people’s lives. Ridiculous television statistics, youth corruption, and the need for “TV Turnoff Week” prove that television is an evil.
Society tells the people that television is destructive; excessive watching of a screen destroys brain cells and may even shorten lives. However, there has been scientific evidence that shows watching TV is actually beneficial for and can maybe even increase the viewer’s intellectual capacities. Two authors, Carolyn Ziel and Steven Johnson, explore this idea in their essays, “Why Watching