With the sophisticated revolutions and commercialization made from the past decades, the television has now become a necessity and is affordable to everyone. This can be proven with the fact that more than ninety per cent of households in modern countries have at least one television set (Sharif 1999). Moreover, according to the UK 2000 Time Use Survey, most of the full time workers regardless of male or female spent their leisure time most on watching television. Due to it, the availability of this invention now has raised many issues regarding its pros and cons. However, I strongly believe that the television viewing brings the negative effects more than the positive effects to humankind. For instance, the television viewing can cause poor behavioural development among children, poor thinking skills and sedentary lifestyle.
First of all, the television viewing can cause poor behavioural development among children. Since the children are on the stage of forming their own identities, they are likely to follow and behave like what have been portrayed by the programs they watch. The violence depicted programs are often broadcasted and the children may continually become desensitized to violence after watching them. More than that, there have been instance where children have put on Superman costumes and injured themselves while imitating the character. This can be disastrous especially when it comes to the extent that the children try to impersonate the stereotype characters in the movies (Sharif 1999).
Apart from that, the television viewing can also lead to poor thinking skills. It misguides the youngsters to have perspective that the problems can be easily solved. They become frustrated and give up easily when encountering some complex situations in real life (Sharif 1999). Moreover, according to Dr Geraldine, watching television is a passive activity, thus putting obstacles for children in developing the vivid imaginative skills to create fictitious characters, situations, and make-believe words, skills which are important in nurturing problem solving and organizational ability. This is why heavy viewers are associated with the lowest achiever at school. Besides that, when the television is on, it is also difficult to stay focus on things like homework as the fascinating programs can be very distractive (Leigh 2001).
Moreover, television triggers sedentary lifestyle which is very unhealthy. Prolonged period in front of the television means the children are not physically active (Sharif 1999). More than that, many find it easier to flick between channels to search for something interesting and this can be very time wasting which eats into the period set aside for homework or exercise. Some families even have their meals in front of television making communication among family members to be difficult. The incident becomes even worse if they indulged in with junk food which in turn may lead to obesity and related diseases in the future (Rutherford 2002).
In a nutshell, invention of the television does pose the negative effects like poor behavior development among children, poor thinking skill and sedentary lifestyle. Human ourselves in the end will have to bear the costs of enjoying the conveniences being invented indiscriminately. For this, I firmly agree that the television viewing brings the negative effects more than the positive effect it brings to human kind
Friday, May 21, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Argumentative Essay 2: Television Viewing Draft 2
With the sophisticated revolutions and commercialization made from the past decades, the television has now become a necessity and is affordable to everyone. This can be proven by that it is estimated more than ninety per cent of households in modern countries have at least one television set (Sharif 1999). Moreover, according to the UK 2000 Time Use Survey, most of the full time workers regardless of males or females spent their leisure time most on watching television. Due to it, the availability of this invention now has raised many issues regarding its pros and cons. However, I strongly believe that the television viewing will bring the negative effects more than the positive effects it brings to humankind. For instance, the television viewing can cause poor behavioural development among children, poor thinking skill and sedentary lifestyle.
First of all, the television viewing can cause poor behavioural development among children. Since the children are on the stage of forming their own identities, they are likely to follow and behave like what have been portrayed by the programs they watch. The violence depicted programs are often broadcasted and the children may continually become desensitized to violence after watching them. More than that, there have been instance where children have put on Superman costumes and injured themselves while imitating the character. This can be disastrous especially when it comes to the extent that the children try to impersonate the stereotype characters in the movies (Sharif 1999).
Apart from that, the television viewing can also lead to poor thinking skill. It misguides the youngsters to have perspective that the problems can be easily solved. They become frustrated and give up easily when encountering some complex situations in real life (Sharif 1999). Moreover, according to Dr Geraldine, watching television is a passive activity, thus putting obstacles for children in developing the vivid imaginative skills to create fictitious characters, situations, and make-believe words, skills which are important in nurturing problem solving and organizational ability. This is why heavy viewers are associated with the lowest achiever at school. Besides that, when the television is on, it is also difficult to stay focus on things like homework as the fascinating programs can be very distractive (Leigh 2001).
Moreover, television triggers sedentary lifestyle which is very unhealthy. Prolonged period in front of the television means the children are not physically active (Sharif 1999). More than that, many find it easier to flick between channels to search for something interesting and this can be very time wasting which eats into the period set aside for homework or exercise. Some families even have their meals in front of television making communication among family members to be difficult. The incident becomes even worse if they indulged in with junk food which in turn may lead to obesity and related diseases in the future (Rutherford 2002).
In a nutshell, invention of the television does pose the negative effects like poor behavior development among children, poor thinking skill and sedentary lifestyle. Human ourselves in the end will have to bear the costs of enjoying the conveniences being invented indiscriminately. For this, I firmly agree that the television viewing will bring the negative effects more than the positive effect it brings to human kind.
First of all, the television viewing can cause poor behavioural development among children. Since the children are on the stage of forming their own identities, they are likely to follow and behave like what have been portrayed by the programs they watch. The violence depicted programs are often broadcasted and the children may continually become desensitized to violence after watching them. More than that, there have been instance where children have put on Superman costumes and injured themselves while imitating the character. This can be disastrous especially when it comes to the extent that the children try to impersonate the stereotype characters in the movies (Sharif 1999).
Apart from that, the television viewing can also lead to poor thinking skill. It misguides the youngsters to have perspective that the problems can be easily solved. They become frustrated and give up easily when encountering some complex situations in real life (Sharif 1999). Moreover, according to Dr Geraldine, watching television is a passive activity, thus putting obstacles for children in developing the vivid imaginative skills to create fictitious characters, situations, and make-believe words, skills which are important in nurturing problem solving and organizational ability. This is why heavy viewers are associated with the lowest achiever at school. Besides that, when the television is on, it is also difficult to stay focus on things like homework as the fascinating programs can be very distractive (Leigh 2001).
Moreover, television triggers sedentary lifestyle which is very unhealthy. Prolonged period in front of the television means the children are not physically active (Sharif 1999). More than that, many find it easier to flick between channels to search for something interesting and this can be very time wasting which eats into the period set aside for homework or exercise. Some families even have their meals in front of television making communication among family members to be difficult. The incident becomes even worse if they indulged in with junk food which in turn may lead to obesity and related diseases in the future (Rutherford 2002).
In a nutshell, invention of the television does pose the negative effects like poor behavior development among children, poor thinking skill and sedentary lifestyle. Human ourselves in the end will have to bear the costs of enjoying the conveniences being invented indiscriminately. For this, I firmly agree that the television viewing will bring the negative effects more than the positive effect it brings to human kind.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Argumentative Essay 2: Television Viewing Draft 1
With the sophisticated revolutions and commercialization made from the past decade, the television now has become a necessity and is affordable to everyone. This can be proven by that it is estimated more than ninety per cent of households in modern countries have at least one television set (Sharif 1999). Moreover, according to the UK 2000 Time Use Survey, most of the full time workers regardless of male or female spent their leisure time most on watching television. Due to it, the availability of this invention now has raised many issues regarding its pros and cons. However, I strongly believe that the television viewing will bring the negative effects more than the positive effect it brings to human kind. For instance, the television viewing can caused poor behavior development among children, poor thinking skill and sedentary lifestyle.
First of all, the television viewing can cause poor behavior development among children. Since the children are on the stage of forming their own identities, they are likely to follow and behave like what have been portrayed by the programs they watch. The violence depicted programs are often broadcasted and the children may continually become desensitized to violence after watching them. More than that, there have been instance where children have put on Superman costumes and injured themselves imitating the character. This can be disastrous especially when it comes to the extent that the children try to impersonate the stereotype characters in the movies (Sharif 1999).
Apart from that, the television viewing can also lead to poor thinking skill. It misguides the youngsters to have perspective that the problems can be easily solved. They become frustrated and give up easily when encountering some complex situations in real life (Sharif 1999). Moreover, according to Dr Geraldine, watching is a passive activity, thus putting obstacles for children in developing the vivid imaginative skills to create fictitious characters, situations, and make-believe words, skills which are important in nurturing problem solving and organizational ability. This is why heavy viewers are associated with the lowest achiever in school. Besides that, when the television is on, it is also difficult to stay focus on things like homework as the fascinating programs can be very distractive (Leigh 2001).
Moreover, television triggers sedentary lifestyle which is very unhealthy. Prolonged period in front of the television means the children are not physically active (Sharif 1999). More than that, many find it easier to flick between channels to search for something interesting and this can be very time wasting which eats into the period set aside for homework or exercise. Some families even have their meals in front of television making communication among family members to be difficult. The incident becomes even worse if it is indulged in with junk food which in turn may lead to obesity and related diseases in the future (Rutherford 2002).
In a nutshell, invention of the television does pose the negative effects like poor behavior development among children, poor thinking skill and sedentary lifestyle. Human ourselves in the end will have to bear the costs of enjoying the conveniences being invented indiscriminately. For this, I firmly agree that the television viewing will bring the negative effects more than the positive effect it brings to human kind.
First of all, the television viewing can cause poor behavior development among children. Since the children are on the stage of forming their own identities, they are likely to follow and behave like what have been portrayed by the programs they watch. The violence depicted programs are often broadcasted and the children may continually become desensitized to violence after watching them. More than that, there have been instance where children have put on Superman costumes and injured themselves imitating the character. This can be disastrous especially when it comes to the extent that the children try to impersonate the stereotype characters in the movies (Sharif 1999).
Apart from that, the television viewing can also lead to poor thinking skill. It misguides the youngsters to have perspective that the problems can be easily solved. They become frustrated and give up easily when encountering some complex situations in real life (Sharif 1999). Moreover, according to Dr Geraldine, watching is a passive activity, thus putting obstacles for children in developing the vivid imaginative skills to create fictitious characters, situations, and make-believe words, skills which are important in nurturing problem solving and organizational ability. This is why heavy viewers are associated with the lowest achiever in school. Besides that, when the television is on, it is also difficult to stay focus on things like homework as the fascinating programs can be very distractive (Leigh 2001).
Moreover, television triggers sedentary lifestyle which is very unhealthy. Prolonged period in front of the television means the children are not physically active (Sharif 1999). More than that, many find it easier to flick between channels to search for something interesting and this can be very time wasting which eats into the period set aside for homework or exercise. Some families even have their meals in front of television making communication among family members to be difficult. The incident becomes even worse if it is indulged in with junk food which in turn may lead to obesity and related diseases in the future (Rutherford 2002).
In a nutshell, invention of the television does pose the negative effects like poor behavior development among children, poor thinking skill and sedentary lifestyle. Human ourselves in the end will have to bear the costs of enjoying the conveniences being invented indiscriminately. For this, I firmly agree that the television viewing will bring the negative effects more than the positive effect it brings to human kind.
Argumentative Essay 1: Junk Food Final Draft
Junk food is any food that is perceived to be unhealthy and of low nutritional value (Smith 2005). It embraces any fast food, instant noodles, potato chips and chocolate bars that raise the kilojoule intake (Tran 2005). Indubitably the selling of them at canteen will generate more profit than selling of regular food does (School News 2005). Nonetheless, it has caused health problems to children as well due to its high fat, salt, sugar and synthetic flavour contents. This may lead to obesity which in turn causes heart diseases, osteoarthritis and some cancers in the future (Tran 2005). Hence, it should be banned as the health problems trigger more serious cost that outweighs the advantages it brings. Moreover, sale of junk food in school will also lead to nutrition deficiency, behavioural and litter problems.
The sale of junk food in school can be directly linked to nutritional deficiency among youngsters. The selling of junk food in school will make the children to have wrong perspective that junk food can be eaten anywhere whenever they like without any consequences (Reynolds 2005). With junk food readily available in the school daily, students may not get sufficient nutrients needed for healthy development and growth, thus reducing their learning potential (The Food Show 2005). It has been shown that the nutritional value of food eaten by Australian children has been falling progressively due to the increased availability of fast food especially in school (Tran 2005). Moreover, the Dental Association also calls for a ban in selling junk food in school as there is decline in dental health problems among children (Tran 2005).
Besides that, the sale of junk food in school will lead to behavioural problems in children. In order to enhance the flavour and appearance, most of the junk food contains chemicals additives and the consumption of it will cause hyperactivity and poor concentration among children (Smith 2005). Hence, it indirectly declines the learning potential of children (The Food Show 2005). Research has also shown that to improve children behaviours, unhealthy food like junk food should be reduced in their diets (Caputo 2005). Thus, with the ban of the sale of junk food in school, teachers notice that there is improvement in students’ behaviour (Green 2005).
Last but not least, the sale of junk food in school will lead to litter problems as well. Fast food packaging is a safety besides health hazard, causing pollution (Smith 2005). When junk food is sold in the canteen, the school will have major problem with litters such as cans, crisp packets, cartons and plastic containers and etc. This increases the cleaning cost and spoils the image of the community. With the ban of junk food is implemented, there will be reduction in litter and groundsmen will have more time to spend on maintenance project that benefits the school (Green 2005).
In a nutshell, the sale of junk food in school should be banned for the sake of disadvantages it brings. However, the banning itself is not efficacious enough as children may simply bring the junk food from their home to school. Hence educating youngsters good eating habits can make a difference and schools play a major role in it through healthy food policies (Tran 2005).
The sale of junk food in school can be directly linked to nutritional deficiency among youngsters. The selling of junk food in school will make the children to have wrong perspective that junk food can be eaten anywhere whenever they like without any consequences (Reynolds 2005). With junk food readily available in the school daily, students may not get sufficient nutrients needed for healthy development and growth, thus reducing their learning potential (The Food Show 2005). It has been shown that the nutritional value of food eaten by Australian children has been falling progressively due to the increased availability of fast food especially in school (Tran 2005). Moreover, the Dental Association also calls for a ban in selling junk food in school as there is decline in dental health problems among children (Tran 2005).
Besides that, the sale of junk food in school will lead to behavioural problems in children. In order to enhance the flavour and appearance, most of the junk food contains chemicals additives and the consumption of it will cause hyperactivity and poor concentration among children (Smith 2005). Hence, it indirectly declines the learning potential of children (The Food Show 2005). Research has also shown that to improve children behaviours, unhealthy food like junk food should be reduced in their diets (Caputo 2005). Thus, with the ban of the sale of junk food in school, teachers notice that there is improvement in students’ behaviour (Green 2005).
Last but not least, the sale of junk food in school will lead to litter problems as well. Fast food packaging is a safety besides health hazard, causing pollution (Smith 2005). When junk food is sold in the canteen, the school will have major problem with litters such as cans, crisp packets, cartons and plastic containers and etc. This increases the cleaning cost and spoils the image of the community. With the ban of junk food is implemented, there will be reduction in litter and groundsmen will have more time to spend on maintenance project that benefits the school (Green 2005).
In a nutshell, the sale of junk food in school should be banned for the sake of disadvantages it brings. However, the banning itself is not efficacious enough as children may simply bring the junk food from their home to school. Hence educating youngsters good eating habits can make a difference and schools play a major role in it through healthy food policies (Tran 2005).
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