David Mindich wrote an article entitled, “The Collapse of Big Media: The Young and the Restless” for the Wilson Quarterly, Spring 2005, a magazine based in Washington, D.C. Studies done by news executives show young adults are not engaging in news, even as they get older. In the article, Mindich points out that as people mature, they keep the habits of their youth. Fewer and fewer parents are bringing newspapers into their homes. Young adults are choosing to watch “reality” television rather than CNN. Kids do not even rely on the Internet for news.
EFFECT WATCHING TELEVISION ON STUDY HABITS Televison effect Television is so awful, and students watch so much of it, that it's not surprising that there's been much sociological research on its effects. Most of the studies, though, suffer from the third-factor effect - yes, student who watch a lot of TV tend to be more aggressive, but could a third factor explain both behaviors? Student with lower IQ scores also tend to watch more TV and be more violent, as do person from poorer families. The correlations between heavy TV watching and other behaviors could be merely effects from common cause. Definition Television habits consist of patterns of behavior determined by the amount of time and importance individuals give to watching television broadcasts and recorded videos and DVDs.
n the article “Television the plug in drug” the author Marie Winn is writing about what a negative roll the television set is playing in American house holds today. ''In many states the TV has attained the rank of a necessity, safe from repossession''. There have been a number of studies done when the TV was relatively new demonstrating how the television interfered with family activities. ''When studies were made most american homes only had one television set, now nearly two thirds of children live in homes with more then 2 or more television sets''. In the article there are a few paragraphs from very different people expressing their own personal negative experience with the television set.
He did not make eye contact when his name was called. He put toys in his mouth and climbed on things and did not interact socially with anyone. His mother expressed that she felt frustration and negative emotions when she tried to play with him and he wouldn’t respond to her. The nurse and psychologists assessed the child developmental skills can concluded that the child’s developmental age was 19.5 and 15; for locomotion was and motor ability; 15 and 15 for self-help and motor ability; and 10 and 10 for linguistics and comprehension. The child’s joint attention behaviors were measured to be at an 8 month old level at intake (21 months) while the mother’s negative emotions were measured to be at level 12 at intake.
Is it the only method of discipline that works? Now what a lot of parents don’t know is that, not only does smacking have short term mental and physical effects, it also has long term psychological effects which is why I believe smacking should be banned. Research shows that smacking undermines children’s confidence, weakens their emotional relationships and encourages the use of violence to solve any conflict with people around them. Psychologists say that alcoholism, depression, masochistic fantasies and suicidal thoughts arise from being smacking during childhood. Let’s just stop for a minute and think about this, how on earth can we expect children to play with other children without hitting each other, if we as
Amy Goldwasser’s essay “What’s the Matter with Kids Today” effectively demonstrates young people’s lack of history and literary knowledge is not because of the amount of time spent on the internet. Goldwasser starts of by reporting findings from two surveys. One survey’s finding found young people to be living in “stunning ignorance” of history and literature. The other survey findings reported a diminished role of voluntary reading among 13-17 years olds. Doris Lessing, in an acceptance speech for a Nobel Prize in literature, states “Kids today don’t read, don’t write, and don’t care about anything further in front of them than their iPods.
However, I was still guilty of watching it as a kid, when my parents weren't home. I believe this type of television has a negative impact on children.
She is a young mother with a little boy who she did not care much of only that he would hurry and turn eighteen so that he can move out, instead of giving the little boy up for adoption or to a family member she rather abuse him (Dunbar, Copyright 2012 Barrington Broadcasting Group, LLC). The ethical of this situation is that this little three year old boy was kept in a room for over twenty hours, with no food only fed once a day supposedly, the bedroom was filthy and it smelled so bad, and the little boy was not even allowed to leave the room at any given time not even to use the bathroom (Dunbar, Copyright 2012 Barrington Broadcasting
Critical Analysis of “Television: A Harmless Pastime?” By Sara Hutchinson For D.F.Jochims November 4, 2013 ENC 2300-10236 Sara Hutchinson ENC 2300-10236 Mr. Jochims November 4, 2013 Critical Analysis of “Television: A Harmless Pastime” In “Television: A Harmless Pastime,” Barnabus Declan Biggs is trying to persuade his audience that it is important to take control of television violence. The purpose of his essay is that television promotes violent behavior and to urge parents to demand limiting violence in TV especially in programming for children. This is a very well put thesis for the following topic. Even though the essay portrays a fairly good purpose, Barnabus does have a few weak points that should be addressed; such as his methods of argument, his one sided persona, and providing the audience with definitions and examples of violence. Barnabus’s method of argument is the first weakness that should be taken in to consideration.
Curious, she answered as she feared something terrible happened, resulting in her getting her cell phone taken away. Little did any of them know, her dad had just had a heart attack and was put on a ventilator to be kept from dying instantly. “These rules and limitations are beyond not helpful!” commented Mrs. Terry Lighton, the mother to a student that attended Kacies ‘school. Eighty-six percent of parents would like their school or school board to work with their cell phone provider to give Students access at school to their cell phones with predetermined limitations. Seventy-five percent also agree that their cell phone provider should offer a feature which allows them to limit their child's cell phone use at school.