...Is TV Good or Bad? There are many people who think that television is a bad thing. As is the case with many things, television has its good points and its bad points. The first bad point about television is the amount of violence that occurs in some of the programmes. This may have a bad effect on children, who might be tempted to copy some of the violent acts. However, if children do react to that, it is not all the fault of the programme makers. As parents should be more careful about what they let their children view. Another disadvantage of television is that it has had a bad effect on people's social habits. In many cases, television has replaced hobbies such as reading and chess and has even prevented family members from having conversations with each other. Often people even eat their meals in front of the TV. However, people should limit their viewing to programmes that really interest them. The main advantage of television is that it provides us with a wide range of information. This information like news programmes and documentary provides us about what is going on in the rest of the world. This makes television a very important educational tool. It also has a social advantageas well. It can stop people from feeling lonely. People who live alone and have few friends often find TV a great comfort. There are good things and bad things about television. The most important thing about it is that we should learn to use it...
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...and even in the classroom. This pervasiveness stresses the importance of having a good design in order for the user to be able to interact with the TV with minimal problems. The manufacturers take this into consideration when they built the TV by aiming to provide a remote control that supplements the TV they have designed. However, remote controls fail over time and must be replaced and manufacturers don’t tend to offer a replacement for a specific TV model. Therefore, the TV owner must find a universal remote that is useful, it supports the capabilities of their TV, and that has good usability. With this in mind, through the course of this paper I will be reviewing the design of what I believe to be a bad universal remote compared to a good universal remote by giving a personal example of each. I had to replace the remote of my 25 year old Sony TV and I decided to get the cheapest one they had at RadioShack, which turned out to a very bad universal remote overall. Getting the universal remote setup with my TV required me to press certain buttons in the correct sequence and then entering the right code for my TV model. The whole process was straight forward enough, but there were multiple codes for my model TV so I had to perform the setup steps multiple times before I got it to sync with my TV. Once setup, I noticed that the remote did not have buttons for certain features offered by my TV, input selection being one of them. There were other buttons on the remote that performed...
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...statement? "Watching television is bad for children. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer" Today, television become a popular entertainment. Many people think that this kind of entertainment is good for children while others do not agree with this idea. In my opinion, watching television is not good for children because of several reasons. First, Television contain many bad program which make them easily become crimes. In facts, a lots of children are intensively influenced by violent films which often appear on TV. Some of them become familiar with violent and having tendency to use violence in schools. Moreover, advertising which sometimes present expensive stuffs such as mobile phones, mp3 or laptop, cause children waste a lot of moneys into them. In some cases, a little numbers of them even steal their parents money just because they need a thing that they desire. Therefore, TV is not a healthy entertaining medium for children. Second, TV sometimes is a reason for bad performance of children in schools. Many children spend lots of times for TV because it has so many interesting program. It is sure that the more times children experience for watching, the less times they use for studying. According to Institution of Children Investigation on Health Journal, they state that each of normal children in American cities spend 3 hours per day for watching TV. This Institution also assume that children wasting 2 hour per day for TV usually get higher grades than...
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...In the media, reality TV stars like Snooki and Kim Kardashian are on the rise. Most channels on television have at least one reality show, from following housewives to remodeling homes of real life families. However, there are some reality programs that display bad examples, especially for young audiences that are keeping up with each episode. On MTV people see girls being drunk in public, addicts doing drugs, and young girls raising babies at young ages; these are situations seen on reality TV shows. Jeremy W. Peters’ “When Reality TV Gets Too Real” and James Poniewozik’s “Why Reality TV is Good for us” inform readers about what the general public can view on television and how it affects the minds of children. Reality TV shows such as Jersey Shore, 16 and Pregnant, Intervention, and The Real World all are bad for kids because they show inappropriate and explicit behavior, they send a bad message, and they humiliate people. For these reasons, parents should make sure their kids do not get the wrong message of how life should be. Reality TV shows are inappropriate and explicit. In Jersey Shore, Italians are portrayed as partyers and classified as Guidos and Guidettes. Actual Italians are disgusted since they think it is an insult to their Italian culture. Furthermore on MTV, young girls can be seen struggling with teen pregnancy. The show 16 and Pregnant follows expectant teens and their partners at a young age with a baby on the way struggling to maintain basic needs for themselves...
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...Television is good for children EL senior Jagaa In twentieth century everyone is getting information knowledge and skills from tv. There are many programs running on the tv. Tv becomes around in 1900s that situation tv have several channels. Television, or TV for short, (from French ;meaning "far", and Latin visio, meaning "sight") is a telecommunication medium typically used in the 2000s for transmitting and receiving moving color images and sound. In the broader sense, TV can also refer to images that can be black and white or with or without accompanying sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set television programm or television transmission. In its early stages of development, TV employed a combination of optical mechanical and electronic technologies to capture, transmit and display a visual image. Nowadays there are thousands of channels there are : Music, movie, cartoon, science, nature, and such kind of government news.Children have to watch for knowledge advertisement and lessons. Some experts, however, believe that TV is not all that bad. They qualify though that viewing TV can be good if the program being watched is selected : some TV shows can educate, inform and inspire. It can be more effective than books or audiotapes in teaching your kid about processes like how a plant grows or how to bake a cake. Kids who watch informative and educational shows...
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...even put on the internet for that matter. There is a major difference between the two though. Good reality TV should be able to keep broadcasting, but shows that are produced on MTV, VH1, and other networks should be banned from television because it promotes stereotypes in relation to race, gender, and ethnicity. In today’s infinitely expanding world of technology it is becoming easier and easier to influence the minds of viewers with TV, therefore reality TV poses a dangerous threat to society and the way are thoughts are molded. However not all reality TV is bad and should not be punished for the programming that is damaging our society’s future by changing our views and thoughts. When talking about reality TV that has a bad influence and is dangerous to society the first thing that should put into someone’s mind is any programming that is on MTV. MTV produces mind altering and numbing shoes that create stereotypes for gender, race, and class. There biggest success and the most dangerous show of all is their most popular show the “Jersey Shore”. I believe that the “Jersey Shore” is the worst thing to happen to TV for many reasons. The first reason is that it is sending the wrong message to our young female youth. It is basically telling young women if they go out to the club, get drunk, and act disorderly, then somehow there is a chance one might get discovered and put on TV, which is absolutely dangerous to our children....
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...TV or Radio –Which is The Best Way to Advertise There are a lot of different ways to advertise . when you want to increase your business what is the first thoughts that you have? How to make people know about your product, how good your product is . The best and fastest way is through advertising. Here we are going to talk a little bit about the two effective way to advertise. First of all, before we start advertising with TV, radio or any other form of advertising, it's very important to make sure we have a good offer. What we call an offer is what most of people want to trade our prospects for their time or money. It is the main thing that will determine the success or failure of your TV/radio advertising. For example, good offer or bad offer? The answer to that question determines, more than anything else, how well our TV/radio advertising will work. For example, if we have a very good offer , new refrigerators that normally sell for $499 each. We want to unload them for $299 each. How much advertising do we think it would take to sell these refrigerators? But what if we had a very bad offer? We have refrigerators, but they're all old, beat-up and ugly. In a used appliance shop, they might sell for $59 each. But you want $199 each for them! Would any amount of truthful advertising move those refrigerators at that price? After that, we should analyze which way is the better way to do our advertising. Many new advertisers assume that they should...
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...be banned A child has a vulnerable mind. He is attempting to understand how the world works, and constantly absorbing all kinds of impressions by scanning the environment he lives in. Television advertisements are very stimulating to adults, let alone to a child that lacks the knowledge of knowing whether an advertisement message is good or bad for his wellbeing. I believe that there should be a restriction on television advertisements aimed at children because they have immature minds and are easily influenced. Nowadays, children spend most of their time in front of TV screens and as a consequence, allowing TV to manipulate their minds to a great extent. It alters their way of thinking. Children’s mind is not mature enough to differentiate what is right and wrong. For that reason, they majorly rely on the feedback they receive from their parents and school. They are told in school or by their parents that something is not good for their health or dangerous but on TV there are advertisements going on that say those acts or things are completely fine and they should be followed. Eventually, kids will develop a bad mindset of how happiness is achieved. They will grow up with the delusion that they will get fulfillment from objects, however, the reality is that materialistic products will only briefly satisfy them. This leads to their minds being effectively brainwashed. Another important consequence of advertising, directed towards children,...
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...about the bad stuff in life. . First, pregnancy is really bad in teenage life. A lot of them have babies in their teenage life. Most teenage mothers are single and receive no support from the father. They might end up having another baby and not thinking and make another mistake. Most of them don’t finish high school cause of all the work they have to do with the baby and it be stressing them out all the time. Then sometimes people don’t get help from the family and they get really mad. They should have had second thoughts before they did it. If they just wait until they get out of school and get a good job they will be ok having a child. Second, then you got drugs and alcohol. This is also bad for teens and have of them don’t know what they putting their self into when they do drugs and alcohol. Then when teenagers start smoking cigarettes then they will go to a store and buy some without showing proof of age. All stores should always ask for a id when somebody buy stuff like that because you don’t know who you selling them things to. Sometimes teenagers will have someone that’s older go in the store and have someone buy them some cigarettes. They see people on TV and music videos doing drugs and alcohol thinking it’s ok to do that type of stuff. Thirdly, a lot of teens are in gangs. They are out there killing people for no reason at all. Then they get locked up for some time and then when they get out they will do something stupid again. Teens watch too much TV and thinking...
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...of time the children spent watching television would hinder their comprehension and the second part is to show what programs where watched when the children did watch television. The surprising thing was from both questions being answered, the one that made the most impact on the children was the time the children actually spent watching TV. Playing video games or doing anything in front of the television is time away from socializing with peers and family. Television and the Effects on a Childs reading ability The two part panel consisted of elementary children from second to fourth grade. These studies were conducted in a Dutch elementary school using 1050 students. The study was conducted to find out if television helped or harm children’s reading performance. THE amount of time spent watching TV The first part of the study was to understand if the amount of time children watched was effecting there reading or comprehension levels. The amount of time did have an effect on the children in a negative way. This statement automatically makes people think; oh TV is bad, but not necessarily true. There are few but good programming out there that will help teach your child the, alphabet, problem solving, and other scholastic properties. However, the television is just another outlet to consume time away from something else that might be more constructive or productive, such as been social with family and friends or being physical...
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...ENGL107-1204A-14 English Composition II Discussion Board 4 Is Television a Bad Influence on Children? The television has become such an integral part of homes in the modern world that it is hard to imagine life without television. In today’s world, it takes no effort to get a child’s attention. From food products to virtual entertainment; from toys to clothing, all ages of children are susceptible. Children love to watch TV and prefer to stay “glued” to the TV screen all day, rather than playing outside. Is it true that children consider television to be significant in their daily lives? “Television has become a "member" of almost every single family on our planet. And not just an ordinary member, but a very important one, because the time spent next to it exceeds the amount of time spent together with any other family member”. (Watterman, Alex 2010.) Some people can argue that children should be allowed to watch a lot of television because it is educational. However, I believe television has a 50/50 effect on children. Well what do you mean? What can prove otherwise that makes you believe that chidren are effect in good and bad ways? Children learn through the action of others that they can gain what they want through being stronger and treating other people like they are inferior. Statistics have proved that the growth of time spent next to the TV-set scales up the development of aggression (Watterman, Alex. 2010.). However, with the increased rate of working parents...
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...without. Nowadays, there are hundreds of television channels. For those who are ill or housebound, television provides them with a company while they are alone, whereas others just enjoy the entertainment factor. Entertainment in the home can be very challenging for the most loving families; therefore television can be a good thing as it can provide parents with a "babysitter"! For those older folk who can no longer cope with going out for shopping, TV is the answer! Not to forget the teens who simply can't seem to have enough of Hannah Montana or the lovely middle-aged ladies who love watching their favorite series of either 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Sex and The City'! Though, actually going to a concert has a better atmosphere than just watching it on television, some people praise this as it is much cheaper than buying a ticket to go to the venue itself. TV has brought the education at viewers' door-steps. It has encouraged formal and open education in a big way. Well, those were just the 'WOW' factors of Television. However, its not all good! For instance, while I was in middle-school, I had this unforgettable poem on a couple who was highly addicted to TV. They watched Television for days and nights together; never did they make a single movement! It seemed as if Television was the one and only sole reason for them to stay alive. Suddenly, after a few days, the electricity went off making the screen go blank. Its just at that point of time that they looked at each other...
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...you ever wondered how TV effects yourchildren?Have you ever wondered the reason why your children can’t hear you when they watch TV?Hundred of arguments can be made on the topic that are the advantages of TV worth taking the disadvantages,but it is certain that all around the world no matter what parent’s social status,religion or nationality is,they let their children watch TV because TV has a big role in our lifes.Although the negative results of TV may not be visible in a short-term,TV is a real danger for our children’s lifes with it’smany negative results. There are several negative effects of TV on children. First of all, one of the negative effect of TV is that TV effects children’s physical development. Studies have shown that children who watch TV for more hours are more likely to be overweight. In fact, the study results are not surprising. Half of the commercials encourage children to eat unhealthy foods such as chips, candies especially high-calorie foods. Commercials have a big influence on children’s bad eating habits because children are unable to distinguish program content from commercials especially when a cartoon character is promoting the product. For example, in order to introduce the product ,Pingui,advertisers used a cartoon characters and made the characters talk with each other. After this commercial ,the sales amount of Pinguiis increased because they’d drawn children’s attention.Furthermore, children who watch more TV, are more likely to...
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...being blame for problems, especially in children. Many researchers now claim that too much television is not good for kids. They have a point; watching too much TV often does have negative effects on youngsters. One negative effect of TV on kids is laziness. Nowadays kids do not think that outdoor activities are as entertaining as a TV show can be. In the commodity of the couch they can pass hours and hours without moving even a finger watching TV. On the other hand, if they go to play outside it requires physical activity and a little bit of imagination; it can be too hot or too cold. Staying inside watching TV is not a hard option. Attention, imagination, or physical effort is not a requirement anymore if you they want to pass a good time. It is very simple, just stay home, lie on the couch and with a remote control in hand, hours and hours will pass without even noticing. Another negative point about TV watching is that it may cause children to have difficulty distinguishing between what is real and what is not. Movies and kids’ shows are full of fantasy worlds. Event adults’ shows are very unreal these days. Kids are like sponges and absorb very fast anything that happens around them. If television is a big influence in their lives, television now plays the role of a teacher of a parent. Kids believe things are as they see they happen. If they see it on TV and nobody is there to...
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...Is TV Distancing People or Connecting People? (Rough Draft) Fred Allen, a comedian from the 30’s and 40’s, once said “Television is the triumph of machine over people.” In others words, Allen believes that television was made to control people; their decisions and to manipulate their opinions. Is television bad as they say? It has been a great debate trough the years. Dana Stevens; a movie critic and journalist for the “New York Times” suggests that watching TV only makes people want to watch more TV. She argues that commercials and programs on TV, including those focused on children, encourage people to watch more TV and to buy things. Thousands of programs being streamed every day in many countries are full of education and informative content. It demonstrates that TV is not bad; it has many advantages over other mass media. TV is a great tool of entertainment for people all around the world, it is a great tool of information that offers a great diversity of programs that help people to open their minds. According to some people, TV encourages people to be lazy and less productive because it does not involve any activity; the only thing they do is just sitting down and enjoy what is on TV. Many programs on TV are based on the happy-ending, it may cause people to lose the sense of reality and think that everything is perfect. It is demonstrated that an excessive use of TV can cause isolation because it decreases social interaction with others. Danna Stevens clarify her...
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