“On average, children spend 6.5 hours per day watching television and videos, using print media, playing video games, using computers and listening to CD, MP3 players, tapes and the radio” (Haines, J. & Neumark-Sztainer, D. 2006). These types of activities do not burn many calories, which results in weight gain. Children are subjected to advertisements for fast food and unhealthy snacks which, in most cases, the children would rather have than a healthy meal cooked at home. Many families either have a two parent or single parent working home.
California State University Professor, Norman Herr states that “the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day” (Herr). With this there is very little time for family communication. American parents have reached the point where television is the educational tool, the babysitter and the most prized possession when lost. Unfortunately, majority of television has little to no educational value. Give a study done by University of Arizona Professor, Dale Kunkel "Only one of every eight E/I shows (13%) is rated as highly educational.
In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury makes lots of predictions about the future and some of them are exaggerated but some of the predictictions are pretty close to what is happening in the modern world. The citizens in Fahrenheit 451 aren’t allowed to read books because the government banned them so they wouldn’t get too smart, because everyone should be equal. In Ray Bradbury’s, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury makes numerous predictions about the future, some of which are coming true today such as the importance of technology, people moving so fast they don’t have time for others, and people’s lack of responsibility for their actions. In the book people can’t reading so they sit inside on the couch and watch TV. Today it is almost the same, some people like to sit down and watch TV or play video games more than they like to sit down and read.
“Fahrenheit 451”, Ray Bradbury’s novel, presents a darker image of what the future could be with an eerily futuristic and glum tone. It is a world where there is no individual thought, and books are seen to cause conflicts. “We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. That's our official motto.” The firemen who have a responsibility to protect the people, ironically burn books filled with history and thought. The government caters to people’s material needs, and prevents them from thinking too deeply on matters.
The rate for teenagers who stay on the wagon after treating their addiction at a treatment facility alone is less than 10 percent. Three Strikes Policy But not every student attending the school manages to stay clear of drugs and alcohol. An average of seven students a year fall back into addiction, and they are not coddled. For those students there is a tough "three strikes, and you're out" policy. Judi Hanson said the importance of carrying out that tough policy was a lesson she had to learn.
Immigration policy's effect on the labor force should be carefully considered, but the vast majority of immigrants are not admitted based on education or skill level. In 2009, the U.S. admitted over 1.1 million legal immigrants, just 5-8 percent of whom possessed employment skills in demand in the United States. By contrast, 66.1 percent were based on family preferences, or 73 percent if the relatives of immigrants arriving on employment visas are included. 16.7 percent of admissions were divided among refugees, asylum seekers and other humanitarian categories, while 4.2 percent of admissions were based on the diversity lottery (which only requires that winners have completed high school). Some family-based immigrants may be highly educated or skilled, but the vast majority of admissions are made without regard for those criteria.
According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, during the 2011-12 school year more than 13,700 kids, aged 5 to 18, were treated for backpack-related injuries. This means textbooks and school are jeopardizing your health. Tablets only weight approximately 1-2 pounds. Tablets can hold hundreds of textbooks on one device, plus homework, quizzes, and other files, eliminating the need for physical storage of books and classroom materials. The average tablet contains anywhere from 8 to 64 gigabytes (GB) of storage space.
These lifestyles range from sedentary habits, bad eating habits, and lack of exercise. Firstly, statistics have it; that child obesity has increased 30% in the last 20 years. These are staggering results that come out of the lifestyle that parents have chosen for their kids. Having the TV babysit for hours does no one any good. The average American child watches TV, plays video games in front of a TV and also staring in a computer screen a good part of the day.
Many researchers, including Nicholas Carr, believe that the internet and technology are causing fewer and fewer people to read. In Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” he states that technology negatively affects our minds, especially the younger generations. Patrick Kingsley also supports the notion that the internet and technology are hurting us in his article, “The Art of Slow Reading.” While many people refuse to believe this lack of reading results directly from the internet and technology, Carr uses an alluring metaphor of a scuba diver and a jet skier to make his claim whereas Kingsley challenges us to simply slow down. Carr’s metaphor explains this apparent change the best, “Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski” (Carr 1).
Why are people in the human society not interacting as much as before? Whether it be just physically talking to somebody or maintaining family relationships with relatives. This decline in interaction is caused by technology. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, acceleration of technology minimized the socialization among people leading to a society in which young adults were not exposed to the real world resulting in a depressed generation that could not face reality and live by themselves lacking enough understanding of how the world functions. In the twentieth century, there was a rapid growth of technology.