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- 391: Being Young
- ... to live with. In Norway, children above twelve years have the possibility to make their own choice. When youngsters today seek entertainment, he or she has a tendecy to drop down in front of a television set. This is not very constructive, because it leads to passivity. In the past, kids used to tell stories to each other and play games, both inside the house and out in the streets. I think that was a more developing way of entertainment. One can already see the results of the television's influence. Young people are getting more violent as the movies today contain a lot of violence. There are exceptions, though. Many teenagers are members of athletic assosiations, and this is a solid counterweight against bad television influence. Another and perhaps just as frightening problem in the big cities is that drug abuse among youngsters appears more and more frequently, and that several young lifes are ruined because of this. Increasing ...
- 392: Gender Differences
- ... always looking good would be greater if I was to be a female. I would always try to look good and to please others. Girls, I think, are faced with enormous pressures to look good. Television, for example, almost never features old, heavy, or unattractive women. Even if a character is a doctor or a scholar on television, she looks like a Playboy bunny. When it comes to sexuality, I think there is great confusion for both males and females. One contributing factor is the double standard still existing. For instance, the same ... and the media, and each of us must integrate these messages and arrive at some value system that makes sense to us. Another reason there is confusion is that we are taught by movies and television that sophisticated people are free and spontaneous while we are being warned that casual sex can kill us. Double binds and impossible expectation trap us. Becoming a female Asian Catholic, I think my parents ...
- 393: Industrial Revolution 3
- ... Later Marconi and five others set up the BBC this was ran by charging 10s at the post office for a license to listen to programmes. Around 1924 JON LOGIE BAIRD sent the very first television picture, the BBC used the Baird system initially but EMI came up with a system that had much clearer pictures. The first television pictures were broadcast in 1936 and by 1939 there were nearly 80’000 sets picking up daily programmes in Britain. This stopped the day war broke out. The BBC kept its monopoly until 1954 when ITV was formed to oversee regionally advertised broadcasting. In 1980 there were four channels and the new development of teletext (pages of information sent to television sets). Nowadays there are hundreds of TV channels available to view and with the use of computers and the Internet the amount of information available is endless. The Main Branches of Industry Engineering industry ...
- 394: Communication Progresses Between People
- ... listening to a "Walkman" over the halfway point for more than forty minutes a day, three days a week, is a leading contributor to permanent hearing loss. This syndrome can also be taken relate to television watching, especially in this day and age when we have "Much Music" broadcast all over the country. A short attention span and a lack of concentration are other factors in this ongoing problem. With the introduction of the remote control television, not more than fifteen years ago, people have had the opportunity to change stations as soon as the action isn't as fast as they'd like it, or to skip over commercials. So, it ... alone. Married couples often spend most of their day working, so they have less time to talk. Families should set aside a time for some informal talk each day, where they're away from the television and similar distracting devices. Sitting down with the family for dinner is a good time to talk. It is actually quite helpful for family members to listen to one another, and share concerns, instead ...
- 395: The Phenomenon Of Professional
- ... fixed doesn't mean you know who is going to win. The atheletes sacrifice their bodies to all kinds of punishment for the fans. Professional wrestling is completely unlike any other form of entertainment on television. Professional wrestling is a television production and a touring live show consisting mostly of fixed matches and interview-like segments. These are used to build angles and feuds among the performers. Storylines may last several weeks or months before they ... more). Detractors of professional wrestling usually misunderstand the purpose. When asked why a person doesn't enjoy watching wrestling, the most common answer is: "because it's fake." Of course, about 90% of everything on television is "fake," so why is it so wrong for professional wrestling to be fixed? It isn't wrong at all, but it does have the look of a real sporting event (arena setting, thousands ...
- 396: Pornography
- ... available period, and some could even argue this point against the types of women used in pornography: "A far greater variety of female types are shown as desirable in pornography than mainstream films and network television have ever recognized: fat women, flat women, hairy women, aggressive women, older women, you name it" (Carol 25). If we could all decide on just exactly what pornography is and what is acceptable, there wouldn ... way, these youngsters cannot expect other adults to act any differently. Therefore they accept this type of behavior as normal. Diana Russell claims that tactics like these are being used more often in advertising and television, which has led media watchdogs and anti-porn activists to believe that this sort of masked imitation of pornography tricks mainstream television viewers into having an "everybody's doing it" attitude about pornography. She also feels that this attitude subconsciously leads them into seeking pornography out (39). We need to show the younger generation that everyone ...
- 397: Feminine Mystique
- ... writers were female and supported involvement in the labor force and after the war many of these women’s jobs were taken by men with the desire of a “cozy domestic life” (312). “Almost overnight, television became the preeminent mass medium, carrying imaging--feminine or otherwise—of American culture into the home” (313). Television shows displayed the personification of what a husband thought a wife should be. An example of this was the show “Ozzie and Harriet” which showed a warm-hearted, attractive, submissive woman who was only competent within the confines of her own home. Children who grew up seeing this behavior in their own home as well as on television tended to use that lifestyle as a model. Without any external reinforcement, and only by repetition the children learned that men and women had different roles in society. It was this learned behavior which ...
- 398: Analysis Of Lorca’s Lament For Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
- Analysis Of Lorca’s Lament For Ignacio Sanchez Mejias Today’s society has a tendency to rely on television and movies as their sole source of enjoyment. Advanced technology and special effects have kept people glued to their television. As a result, they are not exercising their minds, which is causing them to lose intelligence. People could remedy this situation by simply reading on a regular basis. The main reason why people don’t ... bull seem like a dance rather than a challenge. Lorca makes a reference to “Andalusian Rome” in the poem. He was comparing the spectacle with the bull to the gladiatorial tournaments that are broadcast on television. Lorca was, of course, aware of the significance of the bullfight in Spain, but was strongly lukewarm in his reaction to it. In 1930, he declared in a lecture that ‘Spain is the only ...
- 399: Violence In The Media
- ... old and a 13-year-old shot down and killed four school mates and a teacher? The outrage has been put down to many things including exposure to violence in the media and computer games. Television authorities will tell you that TV doesn t breed murderers, and to some extent it is true, but the fantasy violence on TV and computer games is enough to tip a blood-drenched fantasy or ... on the school fence. The idea supposedly came from a form of media or computer game. This lead to the investigations of the so-called "Nintendo generation", a generation so focused around computer games and television that reality is no longer easy to distinguish from fantasy and abnormality. Professor Fukaya of the New York Times says "They haven t been growing up with real feelings, living with real friends, or with ... would be a terrible experience but after a time a murder would be just a murder; who cares? For a child s eager eyes the words cut and action never existed. The movie-makers and television makers of Hollywood have succeeded in their job very greatly; so much in fact that their audiences are transported to a world of fantasy, a one in which they are suspended in disbelief, where ...
- 400: Teaching Kids
- ... and education. Children learn better from their parents than anyone else; parenting needs to be the first priority over any other concern. Parents need to take the time to regulate what their children watch on television, become involved in their education, help them in time of need, and encourage them when they do well. This also involves reestablishing the importance of family as the most integral part in the lives of ... best. Most parents have neither the time nor the resources to raise their children in preparation for the real world. So when parents aren't there to stop their children from watching excessive violence on television or to point out the evils and consequences of drug and alcohol abuse, this is when problems arise. If parents haven't explained the issues of race and religion in society, how are children supposed ... family unity. It is the time that conversation, expression and shared experiences contribute to the character development of children in the family. Instead, this affair has been replaced by sharing a quick meal with the television when it is individually convenient. Although the discontinuance of this ritual may seem somewhat unimportant, it is highly representative of the well-being of the family. The interaction that takes place at the dinner ...
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