When W.S goes into his room he dims the television screen but can’t turn it fully off, as it says in chapter one “ Winston turned a switch at the sound on the telescreen sank somewhat, thought the words were still distinguishable. He knew it was watching him. This again is abnormal, nowadays it is against the law to spy on someone via there television but in this amazing novel George Orwell does write about people “spying” on people throughout the novel. My fourth dystopian detail is what the main character W.S says “every human is doomed to die.” Here, George Orwell has chosen his wording very carefully, giving Winston's statement as
Composition I English 101.25 Spring 2012 Penny Davis Paragraph 1 January 30, 2012 3. Choose one or two sentences from Winn’s essay and explain why you agree or disagree with the ides(s). AGDAGDAGDAGDDDDAAAAAAGGGDDDATTENTIONGETTINGDEVICE. Marie Winn’s essay, Television: The Plug-In Drug, is misleading due to her negative opinion of television’s effect upon modern day American families. In ther essay, Winn describes television as a “decline of family life in America” and “damaging to family relationships”.
She states in the first paragraph “… I haven’t noticed any women like me on television…” yet her next paragraph is centered on a television show about a woman with MS. Mairs tries to redeem herself by describing how this woman’s emotional weakness, for running back to her doctor/love interest, is inaccurate, but that is mostly a sexist representation of women and less a misrepresentation of the disabled. Mairs continues the rest of the essay in her mostly hostile fashion. She tosses in many rhetorical devices to the reader which, admittedly, makes her feel somewhat relatable and real. Her informal style of writing makes it seem like she knows her reader on an intimate level, therefor you are more inclined to accept her statements without evidence, succumbing to her requests for disability to be viewed as normal. She wraps up her essay
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. Ehrenreich also establishes that the “American people” have turned into the all to familiar term, “couch potato.” While not all want to admit it all of us at some point have spent hours upon hours watching our favorite television show and in that moment are a couch potato. Ehrenreich makes it clear that at one point she herself was a common couch potato she also describes the various other activities that could replace the hours
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.
Media and Television in America and Its Moral Decline As our nation and the media within it has evolved and grown over the past few decades we have slowly, but surely, turned away from the nice, family-friendly television shows we were used to seeing for so long. Instead, the media and television have turned towards an immoral and more-or-less vile direction, with shows such as: Family Guy, a famous animated show that airs on TBS and Adult Swim as well as other stations, “which contains plenty of profanity. One of the children has an ambiguous sexual orientation…” (Alexander); The Big Bang Theory, which airs on TBS and includes “frequent discussions about sex including masturbation, and is sprinkled with profanity” (Alexander); and last but least NCIS, which airs on the CBS network and features crime and death as well as “profanity, plenty of sexual hookups and frequent discussion of kinky sexual fetishes” (Alexander). These are just a very few of shows that are considered “entertaining” to the American public nowadays. Foul language, sexual references, sexual acts, drug references, violence, and death have completely taken over the national media and televisions all across the nation.
I thought about this while I was home sick from school. It was that time during the day when there was nothing good on TV. So I started to ask myself questions, "Why do I have to choose from the shows that the TV networks want me to watch? A lot of my most favorite shows I like are either off the air, or they're on while I'm at school. Sometimes they're on channels that I just can't afford.
La Sim June 5, 2012 Television viewing and violent behavior The influence of television viewing on the psychosocial development of children is profound. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), statistics show that the average child or adolescent spend about three to four hours of television viewing per day (Committee on Public Education. 2001). To put in perspective, by the time a person reaches the age of seventy the person would have watch about seven to ten years of television in their lives. Studies of cognitive development indicate that television provides a stimulus for learning and that children learn from television.
Anita Chandra, a behavioral scientist at RAND, states that the amount of sexual content on television has doubled in recent years, and there is little representation of safer sex practices in those portrayals (Aubrey). Representations of sexual content on television can drive teens to unrealistic impulsive behaviors that will lead to early pregnancy, sexual transmitted diseases, and disengage them from education. Studies emphasize the effects on the relationship between teen pregnancy and sexual content on television: A new study in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics suggests that sexually active teens who watch a lot of these types of programs are about twice as likely as those who don't to get pregnant or get a partner pregnant. Researchers from RAND Corp., a nonprofit research organization, interviewed 2,003 boys and girls, aged 12 to 17 years old, by telephone between 2001 and 2004. The researchers asked specific questions about television viewing habits, including how often they watched more than 20 popular TV shows that were found to contain lots of sexual or suggestive content.
Do children become violent watching violent program on T.V? Among all the mass media, television violence is one of the main factors for both short-term and long-term effects upon children (Huesmann and Eron,1986 as cited by Slotsve, et al., 2008). According to some findings in research, the amount of hours children spend in watching Television has drastically increased by years. American Psychological Association gave a report on television and American society saying that by the time an elementary child leaves school, the child would have seen at least 8.000 murders and more than 100,000 other kinds of violence on television (Huston, et al., 1992 as cited by Smith, Marilyn E. 1993). It can be stated that most children spend more time watching TV rather than with parents or in the classroom.