Around ninety-nine percent of families in America own a television, which means they watch TV a little bit each day. So Steven Johnson is writing to a very big audience and tries to persuade to them that watching TV makes you smarter. He starts out his article with a conversation of two scientists from the Woody Allen’s movie Sleeper. The script was supposed to be an opening joke because in the movie all the food that is supposed to be bad for you, turned out to be good for you in the future. The central claim of Steven Johnson’s article would be that watching TV makes you smarter.
Two images, the refrigerator and the television would probably dominate a glance at modern civilization. Television is the center of most homes. Families generally spend downtime with the rest of their family watching a TV program. Keeping this in mind it is easy to realize how much of an impact that the content broadcasted on television has on the human race. The writer of a TV show, especially today, has a highway to communicate with the entire world.
(289~291) I agree with Johnson’s claim of, Sleeper Curve makes the viewers improve so they Liu 2 can and will want to watch more TV shows. However, watching TV have more factors that make you more stupid than make you smarter. This skill ends up letting people watch more and more TVs, which already is a bad thing, and they become more stupid. First of all, TV shows’ content also is a great factor of being smart which Johnson never talks about. 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.
One word that would describe the place perfectly would be loud; which isn’t surprising for a sport and bar grill. With televisions scattered all throughout the establishment, it is a great spot for sports fans to catch a game. Not only are sporting events on the televisions; video poker or Buzztime, an interactive trivia game, are included also. To join in on the games, all that is needed is a handheld controller which can be easily obtained by asking a server or worker. For slightly more entertainment, there are a few games in the waiting area that can be played, as well as a few in the dining area.
Landen has at least thirty Barney DVDs, recordings on DVR, plus he watches episodes on Netflix. The benefits are clear to me. As Anderson, Kirkorian and Wartella (2008) stated "although research clearly demonstrates that well-designed, age-appropriate, educational television can be beneficial to children of preschool age studies on infants and toddlers suggest that these young children may better understand and learn from real-life experiences than they do from video". It still amazes me at the little things that could bring such an amazing innocent smile to such a bright child's
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
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!
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.
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.
This is still done today through networks such as MSNBC, FOX news and ABC. There is live up to date coverage of almost every event going on in the political campaigns. Although television sets have advanced in technology, the ways that people gather round in their living rooms watching their favorite prime time sitcom hasn’t changed a bit. It was a time for relaxation and entertainment as it remains the same today. Television was in control over society, but would