Essays Tagged: "Television set"
this essay is about television violence and it's effects on young children.
Violence on TelevisionIn "television violence and its effects on young children" Betty Jo Simmons, Kelly Stalswo ... its effects on young children" Betty Jo Simmons, Kelly Stalsworth, and Heather wentzel describe how television violence affect young children. They describe how 98% of all households have at least one ... television set in the household. They also described that young children watch at least 28 hours of television each week and before the age of 12 the average child has viewed over 8,000 murders.Violen ...
Subjects: Art Essays
an essay abut why in today's scociety people believe that we do need television.
Why we Need TelevisionA black male appears on your television set and immediately a concept enters your mind; yo ... different supposing the subject was white, and you are aware of this. As you continue to watch the television, the program plays out with precision as presumed. The lifestyle, language, and appearanc ... ive as a result of such assumptions.Why are the standards and expectations of what is acceptable in television and reality two completely different things? How can such hypocrisy exist? Why do we crea ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Kafka's "Metamorphoses".
burgers both hung from nails by the front door.The kitchen was painted blue. A big, black and white television set sat on a side table. Next to the television was a whole pineapple and half an onion. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays
Television Essay.
TELEVISIONHistory of the Television1927 - American engineer Philo T. Farnsworth develops the dissect ... ision1927 - American engineer Philo T. Farnsworth develops the dissector tube, the basis of current televisions.1939 - RCA and researcher Vladimir Zworykin research and perform experimental telecasts ... orm experimental telecasts from the Empire State Building. These efforts culminated in the debut of television at the 1939 Worlds Fair.1952 - The first UHF station, KPTV in Portland, Oregon goes on th ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
This essay explores the effect that television (as a new media form) has on culture.
nd events by electromagnetic radiation' (Oxford, 1992:111) or as it's more commonly referred to as 'television', is the most widely used mass media form in Australia and in the world. Television is on ... % of homes had T.V sets'. (Thompson, 1997: 28,41) Today, about '99% of Australians own at least one television set and, on average, they spend over 20 hours a week...watching television programs' (Cun ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Telivision, For or Against?
Argumentative Essay on TelevisionChristopher McNallyThe first ever television set was made in 1926 by Scotsman, John Logie ... n Logie Baird. Ever since then almost every home in the United Kingdom has one. Alternate names for television are: TV and the box because the are easier to pronounce.What do you think of television, ... er to pronounce.What do you think of television, good or bad? Continues to be asked. I believe that television is a remarkable piece of technology. I have strong reasons for this.Firstly, television a ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Effects of teenage on media.
around us and for this reason I feel it is inevitable that it will have some sort of effect on us. Television is the most popular and accessible form of media; everybody has at least one television s ... id to be the most vivid portrayer of the world. Screen violence is a term given to violence seen in television programmers, videos and cinema; basically any violence viewed on a screen. What causes a ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
The Essay "Broadcast Engineering" is about all aspects of the broadcast engineer occupation, including work setting, education required, and pay scale.
Admit it, television is entertaining, if it was not, then why would ninety-eight percent of all American house ... the "telly" is turned on for an average of seven hours a week! You are most likely a watcher of the television and may wonder what goes on behind the scenes, or who keeps the show running. The people ... rs do vary greatly. There are people that operate cameras, people that sit in a dark room and watch television monitors, and even people that supervise the engineers. But they all have one thing in co ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
This essay debates whether violence on television affects our kids and causes them to act violently
Does Television Cause Murder?The essay "Murder on the Dial: Does Television Set the Killer Loose?" by Nea ... on the Dial: Does Television Set the Killer Loose?" by Neal Peirce starts out with an argument that television causes murders. Peirce backs this up with a study of three countries by Brandon Centerwal ... wall. The author points out that in the studies, when children became adults, about ten years after television was introduced, murders began to rise. In South Africa, before television was introduced, ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
The Day that time stood still, September 11th.
ait for the bus to drop us off at home. I walked through the front door and my mom was glued to the television set. She told me that my dad didn't go to the Pentagon that day because he had a weird fe ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Television is for people with room temperature IQ
Nowadays, television has a big influence on our life. Almost everyone has at least one television set at home. ... e existing without it, because it appears to them as a first need. There are also people who regard television as an easy joy for brainless public. As far as I am concerned television is for those who ... far as I am concerned television is for those who can profit from it.Firstly and most importantly, television is an immense resource of information on several subjects. To be precise, I find in telev ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Liberate Technology and iTV
out today, it is not suprizing to learn that LiberateTechnology has come up with a way to integrate television and the internet. The product that will behitting the market in the near future is called ... ill behitting the market in the near future is called iTV, which is an abbreviation for Interactive television.People will be able to plump themselves on the couch, press a few buttons and order telev ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Impact of media violence on society: an argumentative speech
Television. This box...it's just a piece of plastic...inside there are hundreds of electronic do-dad ... e evenings, can't you just see that family of five, maybe six, basking in the glowing warmth of the television set as it captures the images beamed from satellites up in space. Yes television is true ... satellites up in space. Yes television is true friend in deed. Then why is it that our friend, the television, is being blamed for the breakdown of society?I have searched ever so long to find the an ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Entertainment Music and Television
EntertainmentMusic and TelevisionTelevision was introduced into Australia just in time for the Melbourne Olympic Games. The ... e from either America or Britain but eventually the broadcasting was introduced into Australia. The television, set a revolution of entertainment in the 1950's and 1960's for Australian homes.The deca ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History
Wrestling changes by bret lane. a look into the television world and changes taking place
Unfortunately for the world and myself, the quality of television has declined in the past couple years mainly because the shows have gotten faker. Watchin ... after two minutes, I get so annoyed of it that I want to throw the remote through the screen of the television set. The producers changed the name from "World Wrestling Federation" to "World Wrestling ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Review of the available evidence concerning the influence television has on its audience
ge, the mass media has become an instrumental provider of information to the general public. With a television set in virtually every home and recent research indicating that children spend on average ... rtually every home and recent research indicating that children spend on average 3.3 hours watching television a day, it is evident that television has become a powerful medium possessing the ability ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Television Violence.
Today, watching television has become a daily activity for Americans. Most Americans nowadays own more than one tele ... t Americans nowadays own more than one television set. And most Americans watch at least 2 hours of television a day. Even though some shows are educational, most are now are fictional, violent, and s ... Even though some shows are educational, most are now are fictional, violent, and sexual. Prime-time television seems to be the most violent of all the programming during the course of a day. Violence ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
A Deeper Look.
ld Head Nurse oversees and there only link to the outside world is a black and white cracked Zenith television set with no knobs, a dime stuck in the channel selector and the sound and picture work at ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
The Involvement of Computers in Future Jobs.
n be able to talk to a person on the telephone as well as lookat the person you are talking to on a television set. Also television iscomputerized. Soon we will have true three dimensional television. ... vision iscomputerized. Soon we will have true three dimensional television. Wewill be able to watch television like we never have watched it before. Wewill be able to touch the characters, and feel th ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
The Assassin
ys.I continued walking to the bedroom and was totally unprepared for what I was about to see on the television screen.I was totally shocked. How could the person I killed just six hours ago have been ... ewhere but I always take so much care when doing these things.I was petrified; I was staring at the television set in disbelief, my eyes pierced like daggers, sweat dripping from my brow by the litre. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing