The average American watches over 4 hours of T.V every day. That’s 28 hours a week! That’s more than a whole day dedicated to sitting on the couch, doing nothing but watching television. For hours on end people stay inside, enjoy snacks and soda, and stretch out across a couch. Americans spend too much time watching television. It keeps Americans cooped up inside, it keeps families from spending quality time together, and it keeps Americans from getting active outside, which not only affects your physical health, but also your mental.
In America, we have many of the opportunities that other people across the globe wouldn’t even dream about. So why are we wasting all these precious opportunities doing something that will only affect us in a negative way? Watching T.V is going to keep you cooped up inside, away from the outside world. Like I said earlier, the average American spends 4 hours a day watching T.V. If you think about it, that’s more than a whole day’s worth of television a week. Many people say that they never have time for exercising, or spending time with their children or their parents. Although, us Americans
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Many televisions these days have become more and more affordable. Making them available to many Americans across the country. People with T.V’s often spend a whole lot of time watching it. That means more and more Americans are being restricted from getting outside and getting active. When your watching T.V, you are probably eating snack or a meal, and drinking soda or juice. So not only is your favorite T.V show keeping you from getting outside, it makes sure that you are able to access all the junk food you want in your cabinet. Staying inside watching movies and shows instead of going outside is like eating mcdonalds every day of your life. It won’t benefit you in any way, and it will negatively affect your
This article, “Tune Out, Light Up”, by David Kopel poses an unrealistic and over exaggerated argument of explaining why watching television presents greater harm than smoking cigarettes. Unfortunately, this argument is unsuccessful because of the weak execution but it has potential for success if exaggeration is limited and scientific evidence is given. Referencing journals and clinical research can be beneficial for this argument, since health matters are of concern. Kopel paints individuals with the same brush in this article, and fails to acknowledge the unique details of genetics and specific television channels. This article does promote future talks about how simple leisure activities in life could be far more dangerous than expected, especially when compared with a massive threat. Therefore, if the improvements are specifically made and the writing is more formalized in that regard, then this article can be effective in implementation of the overall
In the essay "Why We Tuned Out" by Karen Springen she brings up many facts of how TV is bad for kids. She has many details explaining her topic and contains some good advice of how TV is bad for children. She claims that children who watch television more than 10 hours a week are likely to become overweight and are slow to learn in school. TV contains many events in our social life. It contains many educated channels, but some that arn't willing for kids to watch.
Everyone today knows about the popular streaming franchise that is Netflix. Netflix is available in over 25 countries, and up until now was the leading competitor in the online streaming business. It has a subscription based service that charges a rate of $7.00 USD a month and is able to be used on multiple media devices. After the up rise of Netflix multiple other services have risen and fallen apart such as: Hulu plus, Amazon prime instant video, Redbox instant by Verizon, and Blockbuster. As well as multiple local streaming services in Australia like: Foxtel/Seven West Media, Presto, and Quickflix. However as our economy faces trouble every day, luxuries such as Netflix become more costly to maintain. Some people can’t afford to have a monthly
One of the largest “booms” that this country has witnessed is in the area of the ultimate “entertainment” source, the television. The growth in popularity of the use of the television is harming Americans in every aspect of their lives,
In this middle ground, the amount of television watched is moderate, sometimes just turning on the set to catch tomorrow’s weather or the latest sports score, other times sitting down for an extended period. Those in the middle ground don’t believe that television is a total waste of time, but neither is television the main part of their day. These are the folks who remain active and healthy. They are the people who realize that, while there are certainly some negative effects of television, television is not all bad.
One major electronic that makes many Americans lazy is watching tv many will spend up to 8 hours or more just sitting on the couch. These people will be so sucked up into watching their favorite movie or tv show they won’t even have a conversation with the person next to them. This may bring strain on families for example a father may be watching football having a beer while his 2-year-old daughter is playing by herself in another room where
1. In the articles "The Box that Changed America" and "Television Transformed," both by Lauren Tarshis it talks about how TV has impacted American Culture in a few different ways. For instance in the first article "The Box that Changed America" it explains a few reasons how it has impacted Americans. According to the article it states “... TV was becoming a powerful cultural force that brought Americans together. Whether you lived in a big city or a tiny town, you watched the same shows. Everyone learned the day’s news from the same nightly broadcasts” (Tarshis 21). This helps us support how TV has impact our lives because it brings people together because people are able to watch the same things and then later on talk about it.This claim is also supported and talked about in the other article "Television Transformed". For example in the
The Contestant is a story about a game that show changes a small town in Peru forever. The objective of the game was to answer as many questions as one can while being truthful in order to obtain a certain sum of money for each question you answered. In this game, as it gets further and the money offered increases, the questions being asked get closer to one’s personal life and privacy. Therefore, one had the options to stop playing if the questions were too personal and scary to answer.
The staggering amount that we waste our day watching TV for more hours than we should. There are days where I tell myself I’m going to leave my apartment to do something active, but most of the time that never happens because of how distracted I get from the TV. My little TV time ends up being more than expected in a matter of seconds without even realizing. Unproductiveness is a very important trait into becoming unhealthy, it can lead to something even more serious, like obesity. In Sach’s essay, he explains how there are at least two-thirds of the population in America whom are obese and I agree that TV can be one of its leading factors. The Nurses Healthy Study followed over 50,000 women for six years and notice that for every two hours of TV spent a day increased their chances of being obese by 23% (Obesity Prevention Source). As it is, we can watch TV for numerous amount of hours without even noticing that the time has passed by, so could you imagine how much percentage has increased now?
The health system is subsidized by the community, and, as patients, community members make conclusions about how to use the health system(Selvey & Larkin2011) .The health system has a significant role to play in serving people to become more independent and better able to make the best choices to manage their own healthcare needs. This includes helping people, both as individuals and a community, to make knowledgeable decisions on issues such as smoking, alcohol consumption, a healthy nourishment and passable physical activity(Petter William2009).The role of Media. The use of media — including time spent watching television, playing video games and using a computer — has been identified as one of the contributing issues for a number of reasons, including: substantial advertising and elevation of high-sugar, high-fat foods during children's programming. Likewise, it is obviously shows that Media use is shifting physical activity as children spend progressively time watching television and playing video games and less time being physically active. Without a doubt, today's children are flooded with media competing for their attention (Andrew Korner
“"[If] someone is just watching TV all the time, primarily to kill time and as an excuse not to socialize, it could be a sign that he or she is suffering from loneliness, anxiety or depression," Adding that binge-watching could be a way for people to avoid or escape unpleasant realities in their lives. The way people handle what is going on in their lives differently, humans cope from different events in their lives in ways that could harm them in the long run. Netflix is not necessarily an unacceptable concept, but it can and needs to be fixed. Binge watching can be a harmful addiction, this can lead to many other addictions and side
This essay examines three reality TV shows: MTV's The Real World: Denver, CBS's Survivor: Cook Islands, and the FX network's miniseries Black. White. The essay argues that the reality shows promote differences in individuals. Each reality show positioned race as the main factor in the conflicts the cast members experienced while on the show. The shows put the cast members in situations that reinforced “cultural codes” (Bell-Jordan) and stereotypes. The cast members of each of the shows were put into situations that were constantly enforcing racial stereotypes, done on purpose by the producers. In the essay, the author argues that media makes the viewers have a struggle in what they choose to believe. She also states that society participates in an unconscious struggle on how to discern what they see on the television. Society is in a fight to discover what is the meaning behind what they are watching on the television. Viewers are not realizing the material being transmitted to them on the television is causing an impact on how they look at individuals of other races. An individual is unconsciously accepting all that is being transmitted to them, but they must decide how valid what is being portrayed about certain races. Producers give specific roles and place stereotypes on individuals in order to gain viewers. Producers place stereotypes on the cast of their show because it attracts attention from viewers; the producers stereotyped the models on the show Americas Next Top Model. The models were given “roles” that categorize them with a specific race. The "role" the models portray is often dehumanizing to the models and is misinterpreting to who is watching the show. The roles that the models are made to act in gives the viewer t...
According to experts, children who watch too much TV tend to be less interested in physical activity, often develop verbal skills more slowly and tend to be less confident in social situations.
Television has become one of the major entertainment providers in our modern life. It sits in the living room of about almost every home in the world and it is the one thing that most people like to come home to after a long day of work or school. Not only does it give us something to laugh or get scared at but it also provides us with valuable information about what is happening around our local community and around different places in the world. But, as good as this sounds, Television may be affecting us without even realizing it. Being one of the major distractors in today 's society, it gets us attached to its content in which a lot of people spend a lot of their time watching. Being thus, watching too
One of the physiological effects of watching television in excessive amounts is eye-strain. It is true that there are specifications for watching television; television should be 5 m. away from the eye, the room should be adequately lit, television should be placed at the same height with our eyes, etc. However, these do not prevent our eyes from getting tired if we keep watching television for a long time. Another effect is obesity, which is widely observed in people who like watching television and eating snacks everyday (there is even a term “television snacks” to refer to fast food that is suitable for eating in front of the television). television is such a powerful machine that people cannot get away from it – it is addictive. Apart from the physiological effects, television also causes psychological effects. One is a result of being exposed to