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Watching TV and Hazards for Children

This paper consists of five pages and examines what hazards watching television represent for children. Two sources are cited in ...

Children, TV, and Ethics

It can seriously affect all aspects of their behavioral health. For example, "Exposure to and the influence of media violence dire...

Metaphors and Symbolism in Children's Stories

help, grownups refuse to give it what it needs, and offer it instead what it detests. As a substitute for stories that bring suns...

Language Development and the Effect of TV Viewing

screen media, but that this learning is dependent on three interrelated factors, which are the: "attributes of the child; characte...

Glued to the Tube

a moment of quiet for themselves" (Winn 6). The answer seems obvious when its put like that, and Winn argues that it is the desire...

Children's Learning and TV's Effects

reinforced over interactive learning, it can be stated. Shows such as Barney and Sesame Street encourage small spuds to become cou...

The Effect of TV Violence on Young People

62 percent of the time" (Tepperman, 1997). Perhaps the worst message of all is that "violence is pleasurable. Clint Eastwood, in D...

Raising Children in America Today

200,000 violent acts on television alone" (Chatfield, 2002; p. 735). The study indicated that "Between the ages of two and 18, an ...

Movie Theaters and People

(Fetto and Lach, 2000, p. 9). Geographically speaking, 74 percent of these attendees live in the Western United States as opposed...

Relaxation Techniques

Reading a book is also a relaxation technique for many people. Often, people read before going to bed, allowing them time to unwi...

Cat's Perspectives on Either Hunting Birds are Watching TV

and be a potato with them. Dogs crave the attention and approval of their humans, while we cats could truly care less what people...

Violence and Watching Television

In ten pages this paper applies the catharsis and social learning theories to the premise that male violent behaviors are exacerba...

Television, Movies, and Differences in Class, Race, and Gender

In ten pages the imagery featured in TV and films regarding the differences of class, race, and gender are the focus of this resea...

Comparative Analysis of Seeing a Movie in a Movie Theater versus Watching a Movie on a Television Set

do not have to move when watching a film on television and the light from the images makes direct contact with the eye lens, corne...

Narrative Complexity in Popular Entertainment: Does TV Make Us Smarter?

opens his argument with the claim that the majority of todays popular television shows utilize a form of narrative complexity that...

Scripted Television is an Art Form

many are scripted. There is a sameness in terms of quality in what the individual can expect. There is entertainment value in both...

Young Children and TV's Benefits

children. Such television programs are important in that they "talk to kids" instead of talking down to them. There are many tha...

Kids and the Influence of TV

on the development of children, yet we continue to watch (Miller, 1997). Recent research indicates that it is not just violence,...

Australian Children's TV

dilemmas regarding sexuality and drugs, conflict with school and parents, and so on. Even though these are recognised as being aim...

ON-THE-JOB HAZARDS FOR POLICE OFFICERS AND ON-THE-JOB HAZARDS RESEARCH PROPOSAL

the depth and scope of what on-the-job hazards exist for police officers is an instrumental way in which to help mitigate the detr...

Reality TV/Why We Watch

lives. Ralph Rosnow, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Temple University, comments, "If people arent talking about other people,...

Lead Poisoning

of paint chips. The primary method of exposure is when the child lives in an older homes that have been contaminated by lead paint...

Ritalin and the Hazards of its Use

depression and even cancer in mice (Wittmeier 29). Some preschoolers on the drug also can experience severe social withdrawal, inc...

Defining a Classic - Casablanca

to watch everyone else who comes for the same reason. Intrigue is served with each glass. The plot clinks with the cubes about w...

Amelie, A Film Review

understand the main thrust of the film without subtitles, as it follows Amelie from childhood to adulthood, showing the main event...

COMMUNITY POLICE INITIATIVE

prevent potential crimes before they happen. The citizen watch also keeps in touch with the department to report suspicio...

Negative Impact Television Programs Have Upon Children's Behavior

a social ill that grows worse with each passing generation as children are exposed to cleverly marketed television commercials foc...

12 Angry Men/TV's Law and Order

entitled "House of Cards," the detectives and attorneys who are featured in the show similarly face what seems like a case of cert...

Why Television Viewing for Children Should be Limited

include many violent or negative acts. Cartoon characters are killed all the time, only to return immediately without explanation....

An Article on Childhood Obesity and Television Critiqued

In six pages an article addressing the problems of children who spend too much time engaging in sedentary activities such as watch...