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- 301: An Essay On Equus
- ... society for eccentric, different, individual, passionate and nonconformist people, Alans own parents are the prime example. Alans background includes a fanatically religious mother who is polarized by a socialistic atheist father who opposes television. Alans fathers distaste with television is further contradicted by his mothers allowance of the television medium to play a significant role in Alans life. Frank: ...its the Bible that responsible for all this...night after night having this stuff read to him: an innocent man tortured to ...
- 302: Children Are Easily Influenced
- ... are young, they tend to act different than when they are older. They are not mature yet and are still easily influenced. Little kids are usually very easily influenced by their surroundings. Whether it is television, friends, family members, or just plain strangers, everyone and everything are influences on a little kid. I believe that young boys are usually more easily influenced than young girls. First, one influence that has a major effect on children's behavior is television. Believe it or not, T.V. plays a big role in how kids act. Shows like the Power Rangers and Beetleborgs can make boys violent and want to fight. Girls are not so easily influenced by television as boys are. Although there are some girls that want to fight along with the boys, for the most part, girls do not like those types of shows. Along with television, children may also ...
- 303: Barney The Hitler Of My Generation
- Barney is The Hitler of My Generation 1992 marked a dark year in our nation's television history. That was the year a small production company brought to life an over-sized, giggling buffoon on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). Barney & Friends was born. Oh, if only we had known better. Barney ... then, researchers have proven Barney to be the spawn of Satan, and even educational leaders ponder the validity of his Nazi-like teachings. Barney & Friends is a show that PBS should definitely remove from its television line-up. Following the film Jurassic Park and TV shows such as Dinosaurs, Sheryl Leach, a Texas school teacher frustrated by the lack of "quality interactive and educational entertainment," created a fat purple dinosaur named ... unfocused educational goals. Gerald S. Lesser, a professor of education and developmental psychology at Harvard University, said, "I'm not sure what the strong attraction is, because it does not make much use of the television medium. If there is an organized curriculum, I haven't figured it out" (Walsh 2). Some more reasons that Barney hurts, rather than helps, children are as follows: Barney presents a candy-coated, unrealistically ...
- 304: Tracking TV Programs
- Tracking TV Programs Since its invention, television has been an important part of American life and culture. In our modern society, there are even those who would argue that it has become an absolute necessity. Recently, many people have been debating whether or not television content is corrupting our youth and Americans in general. In spite of this, I believe that the networks do an adequate job of providing programs that appeal to the different categories of viewing audiences. In ... begin airing. The reason for this is that these are the cheapest time slots to buy and broadcast on. These hour long commercials usually end out the viewing day. In conclusion, it is apparent that television programs are devised to target specific groups of viewers. The networks set aside the early evening for children and families, and still provide entertaining programs for mature viewers in the late evening. To state ...
- 305: Ron Howard
- ... parents, Rance Howard his father was an actor, director and writer, his mother Jean Howard was an actress, in 1959 his family relocated to Hollywood. Young Ron quickly joined the family business and his first television role was on an episode of "Playhouse 90" and was followed by an appearance on "The Red Skelton Show." He also was in four episodes of "Denis the Menace" and five shows of "The Many ... a boyish charm. For some viewers he is always remembered as Opie Taylor and to others as Richie Cunningham, while the more populated group of the confused he is know as Opie Cunningham. (sitcomsonline) The television producer Sheldon Leonard, who had seen Howards performance in Barnaby and Mr. OMally, cast the actor in the "Andy Griffith Show" which began its eight years on CBS on October 3, 1960. The ... the jukebox played rock-and-roll songs of this period. The show struggled in popularity for a while but was said to eventually thrive because of the "skill of the oldest young professional performer in television, Ron Howard." Instead the show increased its popularity by focusing on one of the supporting actors, the auto mechanic and high school dropout named Arthur Fonzarelli (Henry Wrinler), mostly know as Fonzie or the ...
- 306: Telecommunications Act Of 1996
- ... changes, they have not been as substantial as many analysts, law- makers, and regulators had anticipated. The Act addressed five major areas of telecommunications: 1) Local telephone service, 2) Long distance telephone service, 3) Cable television service, 4) Radio and television broadcasting, 5) Censorship of the internet. The primary goal of the Act was to promote competition for local telephone services, long distance telephone services, and cable TV services. Inter-exchange carriers (IXC) (such as AT ... overseas telecommunications giants (e.g., British Telecom) are permitted to enter the U.S. market. This increased competition in the U.S., but the greatest effect is likely to be felt in emerging countries. Cable television and television broadcasting also met changes. Deregulation of the cable industry meant big changes. Rate regulation requirements were removed this year also allowing cable companies to offer long distance services. The act also mandated ...
- 307: The Real Reason Behind The Rec
- ... E-mail: emrucker@zoomnet.net Family environment and the press are two major influences resulting in the recent tragic school shootings. As much as society continues to focus the killing rampages on factors such as television and music, what children are exposed to in reality contributes to the violence. The most recent school shooting in Michigan involved a six-year-old first grader who killed a classmate with a .22 caliber ... young age. The Michigan shooting should have enlightened Americans to the dilemma we face in this country. Two weeks after the Columbine High School shooting, information on the mass murder was still being broadcast on television. The press was feeding young viewers ideas on how to kill their classmates. News was reported how the teenage murderers acquired information regarding building bombs, obtaining guns, smuggling guns into the school, and proceeding to ... This onslaught was ridiculous and the news coverage should not have been permitted to continue for countless weeks. Society has determined three reasons on which to blame the shootings. First, the nation blamed it on televisions violent programs. Following that, Americans gave the music recording companies the evil eye as well as attacking the gun manufacturers. All of these reasons involve material objects that are unable to think for ...
- 308: Religion is the Opiate of the Masses
- ... of the Masses There was once a great philosopher who stated that religion is the opiate of the masses. i believe that this holds true even today. Except what keeps people in a daze is television. Television is rarely used for any good today, for example, do you really think that full house is an intellectual stimulus? hell no. TV is designed to be brain candy for the weak-minded and ignorant ... medium in which you can interact and communicate with others instead of sitting on your ass drooling watching itchy and scratchy. There are honestly interesting sites available on this medium. I have heard people call television the "one-eyed monster", this simply suggests to me that this person is obviously poor-bred or simply ignorant. Television can be used to convey pornography, religion, drug use, love, or any other possible ...
- 309: Justify The Knowledge Or It Wi
- Justify the Knowledge or It Will be Taught in Vain If you were to ask a teenager today if he or she would rather study or watch television, what do you think the answer would be? From what I have seen in myself when I was a teenager and in almost everyone that I meet, nobody would rather study. Today's fast food ... the manner in which they were presented in school. Whether in school or out, reading books sucked. When that last bell rang it always sparked the conditioned thought of myself hanging out with friends, watching television, listening to music, smoking pot, and doing anything but being productive. Being productive seemed like something that old people do because they need to survive, not because it is something that they loved to do, and its perquisite implied hours of monotonous dedication to memorizing conceptual relics from a former epoch that have no relevant applicability to my modern life. Watching television consumed most of my out of school time since that was mostly what people in my surroundings talked about. Why was it important? It provided for my parents a relief from doing work that ...
- 310: Childhood Enemies
- ... based; now children are placed in institutionalized care while still infants,h she says. When children are deemed old enough, they are often left alone and told to play their video game or watch the television. gAlso, many children of single parents are exposed to dating or cohabiting parents. This close view of inappropriate supervision and intimacy erodes childhoodfs innocence.h (Pipher, 1999). Even time itself -- or the lack of ... with the children during the day dropped from 66.7 to 16.9 percent (U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1994). And the average age child spends seven hours a day watching television. By the end of grade school hefs seen over eight thousand murders and one hundred thousand acts of violence (Berry, 1993). Is it realistic to think that children are going to be impervious to ... really believe the TV program directors who claim there is no hard scientific evidence to show a correlation between violence and immorality in our society and the graphic scenes they choose to show on the television screen -- and then quote hard scientific evidence to show how much a twenty second advertisement will impact the behavior of the viewers? Is it reasonable to think that young adults exposed to a visual ...
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