As soon as Landen hears the beginning theme song, he stops what he's doing and finds the television. It just amazed me how excited one little child could get over a show. When it came time to plan his first birthday party, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I searched
This let us know she is not just focusing on one age group. I believe, she writes, this essay because she came across an article about watching television makes you smarter. This allowed her to come up with her own disagreement for Johnson article “Watching TV makes you smarter.” One example of Stevens logical argument is when she writes “Not only does Johnson fail to account for the impact of the sixteen minutes worth of commercials that interrupt any given episode” (Steven 232). I believe she is saying that are brain is still focusing on what is going on during those sixteen minutes of commercials whether its educational or our favorite TV show. We will still be glued to the TV set waiting on what going to happen next.
In the essay, “The Smurfette Principle”, the author Katha Politt explains how there should be more female dominant characters in the world of movies, books and cartoons. Parents usually give in when their child asks for something. Katha Politt gave her daughter “The Little Mermaid” cassette. Areal is a heroine, she is brave and encouraging such as Cinderella, Barbie and Sleeping Beauty. Movies with a boy cast are going to be the more popular rated movies at the video store.
Modern Sitcoms Compared To 1950s Sitcoms Today people watch sitcoms on TV for entertainment and sometimes we can relate to them because it is realistic to people’s lives today. In the 1950s people watched sitcoms to compare or imitate values with their families. In Stephanie Coontz’s “What We Really Miss about the 1950s”, it talks about a poll that was taken in 1996 by Knight Rider news agency that more Americans preferred the 1950s over any other decade for children to grow up in. Coontz suggest our nostalgia for the 1950s could be miss leading. Coontz believes it is not a good decade for people to remember there was change in values that caused racism, sexism, and discrimination against women.
Even television tried to clean up the image of Rock-n-Roll with shows like American Bandstand, hosted be Dick Clark. He promoted good, clean fun for teens by having artist perform songs that parents would approve of. He also made strict guidelines for dress codes for the teens on his show as wells as how they danced. There were even artist, such as Pat Boone, who took pride in setting a good example for teenagers. He even wrote a book to encourage teens to do the right things by their parents, and also practice abstinence until marriage.
As a family they would watch the shows in their parent’s room. Alvarez essay was effective in explaining the importance of self-love. Her general audience was teenage girl watching television. Alvarez uses her personal experience to show the huge influence of mainstream media stereotypes toward women. Alvarez essay explains how her parents and media taught Alvarez self-worth.
Even though watching television might be considered a waste of time because we are sitting around for hours heedless. It is important to know that we are not becoming less intelligent, passive and insensitive as a result of doing this activity. Shirky states, “I was forced into the channel of media the way it was because it was the only option” (240). Regardless of the author’s statement that when he was growing up, the only recreational thing available to do was to watch TV, naturally his intelligence or social consciousness and proactivity was not affected during this period of time. Shirky expresses, “It doesn’t mean that we’ll never sit around mindlessly watching Scrubs on the couch” (240).
For instance on the website “Hi I’m Emily-Anne Rigal” says that she has been on many talk shows like The Today Show,Nickelodeon Halo Awards,Good Morning America and many other shows. Also her quote ‘We stop hate” has been on hit childrens show Monster High. According to article Daily Mail.Com titled, :Teenage Star of Documentary Finally Escapes his Tormentors… and Finds Happiness in New School”, claims that Alex Libby created a movie,Bully which he created to try and stop bullying and helped a little but not enough to end bullying for him. Also in the article About We Charity, titled A Connection Around the World, claimed that Iqbal a boy who was sold into child labor at age four because his parents could not afford to pay for a wedding so Iqbal had to work in a carpet factory and escaped when he was 10 and did many speeches which were shown on live television and was murdered at age twelve.This grabbed many people’s attention especially Craig Kielburger who became an activist because of Iqbal. From Time for Kids,titled a heroic return says that Malala Yousafzai has been on many talk shows for example she has been on the Jimmy Kimmel Late Night Show,Jon Stewart Show,etc.
That is why he felt that his children should be proficient readers. Ever since his kids were born he felt the need to pass his intelligence onto Scout and Jem. He believed that if he taught his kids to be as intelligent as he was, they could grow up to be successful people. Once, when Scout had started the first grade, her teacher, Ms. Caroline, told Scout that she was not allowed to read. However, Atticus encouraged reading and prompted his daughter to read every night with him.
When I was in school the kids would sometimes tease me. I would go home and tell my mother about it and she would always make me feel like I was the prettiest thing on earth. She even gave me the nick name Princess. She stated “no matter what other say about