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- 141: Violence on Television: Violence is Everywhere
- Violence on Television: Violence is Everywhere " I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war, But I felt for the rest of that day, as if I had had my feelings excited and harrowed ... get excited whenever we come across these situations and sometimes don't know what caused the ordeal in the first place but nevertheless it grabs us and we become involved, mentally and/or physically. The television set is a virtual fire hose of violence being forced into our minds. Whenever there is a boxing match that is a bigger fight than usual, Pay- Per-View is always there charging anywhere from ...
- 142: Media Violence
- ... portable color televisions in every room, and pocket radios the size of a basic calculator have all taken their toll on American society. In a furious outburst reflecting the contemporary society in which we live, television has come to represent all that is evil and wicked for our children. Through gruesome, explicit, and often unrealistic portrayals of death and violence, the impressionable clay of our children's minds are being molded ... violence in their lives and in other Americans lives. It's a founded and plausible justification. Over 1,000 detailed studies confirm this link. Advanced scientific research illustrates the horrific results we hate to hear: television is bad for kids. Our electronic babysitter has reached the end of her employment - she shoots out too many intensely violent acts in a surprisingly perfunctory way. Leonard Eron, PhD at the University of Illinois, conducted a close study of television viewing from age 5 to age 30. The results hurt our television-loving brains: the more hours of television violence viewed, the more the tendency for aggressive behavior in teenage years becomes as does ...
- 143: A Zipper for Pee-Wee Herman
- A Zipper for Pee-Wee Herman Leaders in childrens television are and always have been concerned about what programs actually make it on the air. Most early programming for children of school age in the 1950's was the western program. Another type was the ... School". The Ding Dong School offered the conversation, low-key instruction, commercials, and entertainment of Miss. Frances, a professional teacher. With the help of these types of shows, a new genre was born. Children's television which was a mixture of songs, education, fun, and a whole lot more. In 1969, the first airing of "Sesame Street" took place. Sesame Street had programs which were sponsored by different letters of the ... The children loved it, and the parents approved of it. During the following years, many new shows came about which still fit this genre. In the year 1986, yet another show was born into childrens television. "Pee-Wee's Playhouse". This series, starring host Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) used animation, puppets, and vintage cartoons to entertain and educate its audience. Between Pee-Wee Herman and his extraordinary playhouse, children ...
- 144: Gender Roles In Moderen Advert
- Commercials on television tend to portray stereotypical roles of gender. ³The effect of television imagery can be particularly consequential in modern industrial societies like the United States, where 98% of households have at least one television set and the average American watches over 30 hours of television each week²(Coltrone, Adams 1997, 325). These images do not create an accurate image of the modern woman, often demeaning their role in ...
- 145: Fahrenheit 451: Books - A Part of Our Past
- ... idea that people are starting to forget more about books and what they mean. People have started to take books for granted, instead of reading books they watch a movie or a program on the television. People do not realize that books, scrolls, manuscripts are a big part of our past. Since the beginning of time, people have been recording things they saw, did and took part in on birch bark ... there were no televisions, not even close to that technology yet. Who would we study and learn about, if no one had written things. Man kind would be studying the man who had invented the television because he would have been able to record himself, and then everything after that, which is only about fifty years. But without the recordings of Einstein and all the other famous scientists, television probably would not be invented that early. In our day and age people are watching too much television. We figure that everything that is in books is on the television. If we need to ...
- 146: Fahrenheit 451: Books - A Part of Our Past
- ... idea that people are starting to forget more about books and what they mean. People have started to take books for granted, instead of reading books they watch a movie or a program on the television. People do not realize that books, scrolls, manuscripts are a big part of our past. Since the beginning of time, people have been recording things they saw, did and took part in on birch bark ... there were no televisions, not even close to that technology yet. Who would we study and learn about, if no one had written things. Man kind would be studying the man who had invented the television because he would have been able to record himself, and then everything after that, which is only about fifty years. But without the recordings of Einstein and all the other famous scientists, television probably would not be invented that early. In our day and age people are watching too much television. We figure that everything that is in books is on the television. If we need to ...
- 147: Demystifying The A-Team Formula
- ... survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team." Most everyone who has been watching television since the 1980's can recognize this introduction as the beginning of every A-Team episode. A good handful of these people probably can even sing the theme song, which sounds as if it could ... or was it truly the violence that sold the show? Compared to NBC's new experimental shows like Hill Street Blues, and St. Elsewhere, whose innovative use of realism sparked the Third Golden Age of Television and quality TV as we know it; The A-Team (TAT) is just another parody of the action/adventure genre. Or is it? The truth is The A-Team 's popularity was so brilliant because ... I intend to demystify the formula that was exclusive t o TAT created by exploring the character personalities and old genres that the show employed. At the time of the premiere of The A-Team , television was going through a major transformation. Networks were battling for ratings in a constantly decreasing market. Innovative programs such as CBS's Cagney & Lacey were targeting the wo rk-force woman audience by creating ...
- 148: The Edutained American
- ... in a society so permeated with media, how do we regain ourselves? Part One: What are our influences? For many of us who attend college now, the media has been around us since birth. The television was a effective babysitter, and we grew up accustomed to the quick, joke-a-minute style of cartoons and situation comedies. With the advent of MTV in 1981, we learned to absorb information through the ... those of our parents. While they ask for respect and obedience within reason, we learn that adults are the outsiders, the butt of jokes and objects of ridicule, probably not very bright either. The regular television shows that we sit down to watch, often with our parents, are not much better. It has become much cooler to defy and be irreverent than to listen. This is certainly nothing new, one need ... as anyone still alive can remember. It does seem, however, that the adolescent exuberance and resistance of the Baby Boomer generation became something very different for their children, something darker and dangerous. Of course, the television that they were raised with stressed old-fashioned family values: respect for elders, kindness to neighbors, do your homework, eat your broccoli. The shows that children and young adults watch now are very different. ...
- 149: Cartoon Violence
- ... very badly. Before one can understand how harmful cartoon violence can be to children, one must understand how easily children are exposed to cartoon violence. The average child spends twenty-eight hours each week watching television, and fifty-four percent of children have televisions in their bedrooms (Huesmann and Eron 13). These facts alone set the stage for exposure. Also, almost half of all television violence is in cartoons (14). In fact, Saturday morning cartoons alone feature thirty-two acts of violence per hour. Considering that cartoons rarely show the long-term effects of violence and that two-thirds of ... studies consistently prove that cartoon violence is detrimental to children. One study shows that by three years old, children willingly watch programs made for children, such as cartoons, and will imitate something they see on television, just as they will imitate a live person (Parke and Kavanaugh 46). Since children do not process information in the same manner as adults do, they do not have the experience to judge what ...
- 150: Effects
- ... than it would be in an empty room with a two way mirror. Not only will their awareness level be raised, they may be more concerned in the changed viewing environment and less on the television programs. In a person's home they may watch TV with a high or low awareness level for the program. Some people choose to watch TV just as a background noise while others may be ... levels of awareness it is hard to see what people get out of TV in a controlled setting. It is just very hard to isolate TV from other variables. People react in many ways towards television viewing. Often it much easier to view changes in behavior in younger children. When a small child watches a violent television show like Power Rangers, they often imitate the heroes and begin to punch and kick pretending to kill evil villains, the children may not realize that they are in fact demonstrating a new violent ...
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