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  • Television Violence The Article
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    Television Violence The article "Television Violence: The Power and the Peril" is an article written by George Gerbner in 1994 that covers information about television violence over a period of twenty one years. Gerbner's purpose in this article is to address the audience about the problems that exist in television today. This article covers a very big controversy that has brewed up in our society. The controversy is that there is way too much violence on television, and therefore it could be af...
  • Er Show To An Outsider
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    Six Hours of Television In looking at modern television programming there are hundreds of shows to choose from. Picking six hours of television to analyze from the prospective of an anthropologist is by no means easy. It is easy however, to talk about what our nation looks like to others who have never been here. Everyone is gorgeous, lives happily, and overcomes all problems, but more on that later. Four hours of the programming I chose is perhaps the most popular programming this year, consist...
  • Educational Television Programs For Children
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    Positively Effects of Television Without a doubt, television is the central and principal form of communication in many people's lives. This form is most often exposed to a child who instantly becomes accustomed to its presence. Children are televisions largest audience, as Morris shows, "Children aged two to five look at the TV tube on an average of 28.4 hours a week; those between the ages of six and eleven average 23.6 hours a week". Television has played an important role in many children's ...
  • Reality Of The Television Show
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    Children and Television The children of America spend their time on many different activities. One of the most time consuming activities is watching television. Television plays a large role in the social and emotional development of children today. One good quality that television has is that it conveys information and happenings around the world that they may not otherwise know about, but some people have been questioning whether television does more harm than good. Many have been analyzing wh...
  • Children View Television
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    A Lasting Effect The alarm clock sounds, but this time Jeff wakes up well rested. It is the first day of summer vacation, and that means he can watch all of his favorite day time television shows with no interruptions. Grabbing a big bowl of his favorite cereal he settles on the couch for what is to be a very eventful day in the world of soap opera heaven. As he gets comfortable little does Jeff know the effect his television watching will have on him. Since the 1920's the television has been an...
  • Tv Screens Of Many Australian Households
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    The Americanization of Australian Television is a sad and terrible thing. It is a process whereby ordinary Australians are bombarded every day with images of American lifestyle, so much that it merges almost unnoticed into their own lifestyle. It is a process whereby our home-grown entertainment industry is overwhelmed by the enormous powerhouse of the American economy, with drastic effects upon the modern Australian nation. Not only is Australian free to air TV being dominated by American produ...
  • Television Show For Children
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    effects of television Television violence is a negative message of reality to the children who see it. In this essay I am going to show and prove that violence on television causes children to be more violent. Over the years there have been many studies to show that there is an excessive amount of violence, not only in adult programs, but also in children's programs. Television and the American Child by George Comstock, states on page 27, that the National Television Violence Study, which took t...
  • Children Watch On Television
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    Beginning back in ancient times of message couriers, and progressing to newspapers, film, radio, television, and now the Internet, the mass media is unquestionably the principal way to receive information in recent times. There is quite a dichotomy in mass media. At the same time of being an essential means of socializing people values and beliefs and educating, it also has horrible consequences of being able to negatively affect and corrupt people. This paper will examine both sides of this pro...
  • Situation Parents
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    It is an Unalienable Right Television censorship should not be implied. In the Bill of Rights the first amendment states that we have the Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition (Bill of Rights, 1971). If this country worked so hard in order to gain these rights and preserve them, why would it want to abolish them The constitution and the United States of America gave people these rights and freedoms so a person should be able to use them as they please. If the law put a barri...
  • John Logie Baird
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    John Logie Baird and His Miraculous Television Advancement Born and raised in Scotland, John Logie Baird received a science degree and took an engineering job. At twenty-six years old Baird decided he didn't like his job, so he quit and decided to become an inventor. He spent nearly ten years producing failed inventions then he put full thought into television development. By the end of 1923 John Logie Baird, through sheer determination, had finally managed to build what were effectively the wor...
  • Violence On Television
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    E-mail me @ for the bibliography or if u have any questions (make sure u read this whole thing over before u hand it in) THIS IS A GRADE 11 PROJECT (web has been popular since the 1960's and is always getting more and more popular the continuing growth for higher ratings and more money makes people forget about the consequences of the shows they feature. Some of the most popular shows are not scripted and made in a studio. They are of real people and doing pranks and doing stunts to and around o...
  • Children And Television Violence
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    Sponge Bob Square Pant is Taking Over FACT: The average American child will have watched 100,000 acts of televised violence, including 8000 depictions of murder, by the time he or she finishes sixth grade (approximately 13 years old). We live in an era where both parents are often working and children have more unsupervised time. The children of America spend their time on many different activities. One of the most time consuming activities is watching television. "The average child spends more ...
  • Motion Picture Code And Rating Program Needs
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    The movie industry became a big hit in America after 1910. These movies were silent movies so therefore; we didn't have the problem with vulgar language. The first spoken movie was in 1927, called The Jazz Singer. At that time, the movie industry was so worried about keeping his or her audience happy and didn't want to offend anyone. That we didn't have the problems that we have today. In 1922, William H. Hays founded the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. This organization, w...
  • Reality Television
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    Our Lives Benefited By Television Television has become an important part of our society. There are all types of genres ranging from informative cooking shows, to old classic reruns of I Love Lucy, to reality based programs. There are television shows for every occasion. Even when a person's schedule is full, he or she will always have time for a little television. Television serves us with many purposes including information, entertainment, reality and loss of reality. Information about varies ...
  • Particular Show On Television
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    Coarsening of American Civility in Television Television programming serves as a catalyst to the coarsening of civility in American society. When children and adults view television programs there is a certain amount of retention that occurs. Those who say that it is just "television" and viewers should know not to carry out what is seen are ignorant towards reality. The show "Married With Children" portrays an excellent example of the coarsening of civility in today's American society. "Married...
  • Funny Part Of The Show
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    The television series Married... with Children started in late 1987 and had a schedule for thirteen shows. It came about from the minds of two directors named Amanda Bearse and Gerry Cohen. Their goal was to bring up a comedy series different than others in the recent past. The series was taped in Sony Studios and had brought up many controversial issues. For example, the third season of the show is the time when the show got increase fame. A woman by the name of Terry Rakolta, who lived in Mich...
  • Television
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    From a giant box with the two projecting antennas to the present figurine looking flat screens; from black and white to colour pictures; from one channel viewing to a choice among hundreds of channels. The 'idiot box' has truly evolved. But is this just the beginning? With the technology evolving faster than the eyes blink, our present television sets could soon find itself a place in the history. The recent shift in television is from analog transmission to digital transmission. Interactive TV'...
  • Dawe's Criticism Of Consumerism
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    How does Dawe's poetry challenge us to be critical of consumerism? Consumerism is the process of selling, advertising and promoting goods and services. Society tends to become acquisitive, that is, it becomes a desire to acquire and possess goods and services. Consumerism is suggested to be an obsessive consumption of goods because of the 'ism' associated. Bruce Dawe describes the negative aspects of consumerism in the poems: Enter Without So Much As Knocking; Televistas and Americanized. Dawe e...
  • Most Influential Comedies In Television History
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    At the end of World War II, a new toy swept the houses of many Americans. This new invention was known as the television set. In a nation once marked by strong regional differences, network television programming helped create a national popular culture. Perhaps no phenomenon shaped American life in the 1950's more then television. With this advance, it is only natural to be built upon. Thus, programs viewed on the network became more diversified and many sitcoms were produced. These new sitcoms...
  • Today's Views Of Television Housewives
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    Television housewives of the sixties were depicted as humble glamorous women; however, in today's busy world they are viewed as empowered comic icons. Women like Rosanne rule our television sets, and dictate their independence of a male dominated world. The home is their world and they are taking back the right to rule it. Why were the television housewives portrayed to live to serve their husbands and family? Because that was their role back then, it was almost unheard of for a women to hold a ...

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