I enjoy watching sports on television as well. If you watch enough sports, you will see a common theme among athletes. Many athletes grew up in an environment that did not help them at all. Drew Brees was told he was too short to be a quarterback. He is now one of the best quarterbacks in the game.
Natale 1 Brooke Natale Professor Thoreson English 101 10 October 2006 Unplugged In Marie Winn’s essay, “Television: The Plug-In Drug,” she states that television once was viewed as something that was positive and brought families together; it now has more negative effects. Winn puts it best when she talks about “early illustration…a family cozily sitting together before the television set, Sis on Mom’s lap, Buddy perched on the arm of Dad’s chair, Dad with his arm around Mom’s shoulder…twenty years or so later Mom would be watching a drama in the kitchen, the kids would be looking at cartoons in their room, while Dad would be taking in the ball game in the living room” (par. 5). There is no such thing as family television anymore.
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.
He was a product of all the societies he lived in in some way, but more importantly he shaped society with his brilliant mind for years to come. He affected the society in so many ways that pinpointing one of his accomplishments in one category would not be enough, which is why I will end with this paragraph from the autobiography; “When we try to force Franklin into a single role, when we choose one portrait of him over many others, we lose him. He was a printer and scientist, politician and humorist, cartoonist and poet. He was Silence Dogood, the Busy Body, Poor Richard, and the dozens of other names he gave to his myriad writings. He was even Ben Franklin.
Nowadays, with the amount of time the average person spends watching television, the spread of useless information has increased dramatically. I think Postman did an excellent job of making the reader really think hard about this passage and consider how much un-important information they take in on the daily. “Television has found in liberal democracy and a relatively free market economy a nurturing climate in which its full potentialities as a technology of images had not yet been exploited. One result of this has been that American television programs are in demand all over the world. The total estimate of U.S. exports is approximately 100,00 to 200,000 hours, equally divided among Latin America, Asia and Europe.” (Postman
The popular rise of baseball, boxing, and football were broadcasted over local radio stations to be heard at home. This gave America new generations of heroes. Babe Ruth, Carl Mays, and Hones Wagner were all major sport heroes of the time. Nickelodeon movie theatres, were made in the early 1900’s but were made famous in the 20’s with everyone’s new found free time since the allowed time to work each day was a max of 8 hours. So in the spare time they went to go see a silent film, which is a movie with no audio maybe an overlay of music, then it goes to a text screen you read the text that goes with the next clip then the video
There were 3.1 million television sets in American homes, and over 100 television stations operating in 38 states across the USA. (Think Quest). The 1950’s were known as “The Golden Age of Television,” and it became the dominant form of media over radio, newspapers and other advertising mediums. The three networks – NBC, CBS and ABC were the main networks in the 1950’s and they still remain the top networks today. All of the programming originated, live, in New York.
Heru Zink 9.16.10 AP English Many years ago, having a television would be a rare commodity for most people whether living in the United States or a country foreign to us. Nowadays, 92% of the American community has at least one television set in their home, and the same can roughly be said for most foreign countries as well. I myself am an avid t.v. watcher, like most people I have at least one show that I love to watch every time it airs. There are people who look down upon watching t.v.
The rhetor, or presenter, of this advertisement is Morgan Freeman; he is a well known public figure around the globe. He has countless years of experience and is very well respected; not only as an actor, but as a human rights activist as well. Morgan Freeman was chosen to narrate this commercial because of how well recognized his voice his, as well as the effect he can have on the potential viewers. Freeman narrates the commercial but is never seen on screen. Morgan Freeman is used to place a gentle yet authoritative image in the viewers mind.
Since the 1920’s, situation comedy has evolved into one of the most popular TV genre’s, generally focusing on day to day events to highlight humorous faults of human behaviour. Voted number 1 on 2002’s list of 50 greatest Shows by TV guide, Seinfeld is a perfect example of a sitcom whose non-thinking humour attracts vast audiences. Seinfeld’s popularity is underpinned by the shows successfulness of making characters truly seem like everyone else, whereby audiences find it easy to identify with the characters. Since its premier in 1990 on NBC, Seinfeld has received 20 major awards including an Emmy award, Golden Globes, People’s Choice Awards and Screen Actors Guild awards, along with being nominated for another 60 awards over its 8 year domination.