Television Is The Worst Thing Ever Invented?

The main reason we watch TV is for entertainment where we can view shows and movies. Shows and movies expose individuals to a variety of cultures and values that they do not see often. Another use of television is for information such as news, political views, and advertisements. Televisions inform us of news around our community and world, and also persuade us in buying products or donating money to a cause. An ongoing controversy has risen such tha televisions can be harmful to children because of the vulgar language and violence shown through modern day shows or even celebrities. Viewing too much television can be time consuming and may even discourage children to go play outside and be social. Watching the newscast has changed my life by informing me of the violence that goes on throughout my community. Also, a negative effect of watching too much television has taken up my time when I could have been doing more productive tasks.

Books have been the main source of obtaining information and discovering a world of knowledge, imagination, and exploration throughout all periods of time.

The Television is often the centerpiece of typical American house. TVs are now a representative the American dream. TVs are even used to measure finical wellbeing. Huge flat screen TVs symbolize success, while smaller TVs represent modesty. People crowd around the TV to watch the big game, to catch up on the news and keep up with pop culture. Is there something wrong with this so-called wonder device known as the Television? Marie Winn, author of book Unplugging the plug-in drug, argues this point in the chapter “The Trouble with Television” claiming that the television negatively affects families and specifically children. Marie Winn is an author and journalist who is known for her write ups on wildlife and television. The book was published in 1987 and describes eight ways in which the television is damaging. Winn makes it a point not to argue against the content of television, but rather how the television effects family relationships and is a detriment to children’s development. While I agree with some of Winn’s, overall, I disagree with her assessment of television. The points that Winn made that I disagree with include, TV allows kids to grow up less civilized, TV keeps family from doing other things, TV makes children less resourceful, TV has a negative effect on children’s school achievement and TV has a negative effect on children’s physical fitness.

As in Barbara Ehrenreich's passage from “The Worst Years of Our Lives”, she offers that television is turning people into inactive couch potatoes, however, children learning the alphabet or the number system can easily be taught by many television

Books give you the opportunity to let your mind make up the pictures about the story, based on how you want. It allows your mind to think outside the box and use your imagination. In a movie or show, the television shows the picture for you, without having to think or question why it is that way. Books also give the reader more details and information about the story, while movies just show it the way they think it should be. Lots of people claim that when you read a book and watch a movie over the same topic, the movie is always better. In that case, you should open a book and dive into your own

TV forces images of certain things on us not allowing us to be as curious about certain subjects because it’s placed in front of us. TV is very surface level when presenting information. Reading lets us form our own questions and beliefs because we have to think about it. You are able to connect to the characters or real people you are reading about. Empathy is nurtured.

Children who watch T.V shows instead of reading the book won’t have the same feel and the details they should have gotten. Even though the children have fun watching the T.V. They will hate reading books in the future and depend on technology to help them.

Can you ever find some things for entertainment, information and communication all at once other than television ?. The answer most likely is no. As the matter of fact, research shows that ninety nine percentage of households that possesses at least one television. Additionally the average of youth and adult spend time watch television is more than one thousand hours per year. These numbers are higher than everyone expect. With those statistic shows above, its prove that television is one of the most important material to human life in both sociology and psychology. Since the television was developed, human life was changed enormously. In brief, without television, human life would take a slow process in development and civilization. There are many essays emphasize about the essential things which have a huge impact to our life. However, from my opinion, one of the great example is “ Chronicle of Ice” of Ehrlich. In this essay Ehrlich concerned about the important role of the glacier and it effect to our life by personified it. Moreover, she points out the potential dangerous disaster to our life without the glacier and how society is being selfish . Ultimately, she addresses it not too late to rescue the glacier. Just as my concern about the important role of television .

Major changes in children’s literature have been shown throughout these years. There was much more value to the older book that I used compared to the newer book. The older book included more of a story with vibrant colors. Also, the older book was more educational compared to the newer book. The older book presented the alphabet in

In this article, Author gave an example of Television that tells that TV has become very important part for many people's life and it can gradually end the profession of teaching. One more example, he mentioned in his article was about computer technology that has made a group of people more powerful than those people whose privacy is risked because of them. This is all because of technology which remained the same but has different effects in different ways.

Reading for pleasure allows your imagination to take over. Books expand our minds, and people who read often tend to have a very creative imagination. When you watch television the images are already created for you, but, when you read, you create the images using your imagination. The possibilities are endless when you use your imagination.

According to Bly’s text, “television is the thalidomide of the 1990’s. In 1995, American children spent about one-third of their awake time watching television” (page 61). Television stunts the development of adults. Most children, and or teenagers watch T.V. when doing homework, but what they do not know is that their brain goes in an alpha state that prevents them from learning. Research has proved that it takes more skill to eat than to

The author says the reason for the illiteracy problem is television. He feels that television is the main root cause of all the problems. People are beginning to mainly stop talking to each other, and the author feels television is the problem. “Television is a narcotic not a stimulus,” says the

Raymond Mar, a psychologist at Your University in Canada and Keith Oatley a professor An The University of Toronto, they both say that “individuals who often read fiction appear to be better able to understand other people, empathies with them and view the world from their perspectives.” I agree that reading certain types of books can help people further understand and see things from a different point of view. Reading helps to open people's eyes and to teach life lessons or to show there are other things to believe in and know other than what they have always been told to know. Getting different types of books, types that are not always the same as the books that you normally read can help you to view things differently. For example from personal experience a new book can help your imagination grow, readings helps me a lot when I need to come up with new ideas for an art class. The new places a book takes you the new images you see while you are reading the new stores you hear and the happy ending your book might have can change the way you are feeling it can brighten up your day.

And books are a tactile experience, meaning they are supposed to be experienced through touch and smell (especially for the old books). A book is meant to be an experience that can have depressions and elevations on the cover and text, feeling the weight of the pages as you turn them and all of these elements when combined make a book what it is, but when you read an e-book you are exposed to digitized text and a screen. And it’s been proven that when people are exposed to screens of TVs or computers they are less likely to have a good night sleep. On a web poll about e-books vs. books one person commented, ‘I've tried reading a few e-books but I've always given up. I just don't like looking at digitized text when I'm reading a novel. I like the feel, the weight and even the smell of books,’ many of the following comments made by others agreed with this persons thoughts.