Television, 1946–Present
Television brought unforgettable sounds and sights of war to the American home front. Geographically isolated from major conflicts, U.S. citizens had become accustomed ...
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The Birth of Television
Overview
The invention of television has exerted a profound and wide-reaching effect on the nature and quality of modern everyday life. More vivid than radio, more intimate tha...
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1920s: Tv and Radio
This decade marked the shift in American culture to electronic media for entertainment and news. The first radios were sold in the United States for home use in 1920. By mid-decade...
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Television
At the same time radio began to achieve commercial viability in the 1920s, the United States and Britain began experimenting with "television," the wireless transmission of mo...
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Television
About the same time that Guglielmo Marconi was experimenting with radio transmissions in the late 1890s, other scientists were exploring the possibility of transmitting visual images. The f...
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Families and Television
Families and television are practically inseparable. Although television sets are now prominently featured in restaurants, airports, lounges, and the like, the center of televi...
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Television
Along with the radio, television has become the primary means for broadcast communication and entertainment. As such it calls for ethical and political assessment. What follows will thus fo...
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Television and Aggression
The effect of television violence on children has been studied extensively since the 1950s, and most researchers
agree that what children see on television does cause behavi...
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By the time she was seven, Sarah had witnessed countless murders and numerous horrifying acts of violence ranging from spousal abuse to violent beatings, rape and other atrocities of war and gang vio...
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As Americans we should be very concerned about the effects that television is having on our children. Today's children watch far too much television. As a result, a number of horrific condition...
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Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor
By: Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyl
Scientific American - February 23, 2002
Have you ever heard the expression "love hurts"? Sometimes it's the...
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Television has been around for over a half century. The first view of TV in the United States took place at a World's Fair in 1939, but standard television broadcasting did not begin until the late 19...
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Throughout the years, there have been many debates as to whether or not television, and the commercials seen there, actually have a positive or negative effect on society. The purpose of this essay is...
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Is it true that there are five sexes, not two? Can a person be both male and female? How is the phantom-limb syndrome explained scientifically? Television's Nova program is the good source for answeri...
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The legacy and vestiges of slavery still plagues a majority of Blacks in our society today, Blacks lag behind their White counterparts significantly in attaining post-secondary degrees and in entering...
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Dear Tom,
As a class, in Advance Comp, we just read the book Four Arguments to the Elimination of Television, by Jerry Mander. It discusses the harms and dangers of TV. While reading it, I thought...
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My most favorable television program has to be the `Friends'. I did not find it funny at first; in fact, I found it rather silly and could not relate to the six characters on the show. Then one day,...
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I have always hated mid-day television. It started when I was in grade school. I remember staying home sick one day and being forced to flip endlessly through mindless talk shows, sappy soap operas, a...
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Did anyone ever think that people's form of entertainment and relaxation would save a person's life? On August 4, 2004 an attorney was held hostage at Riverplace Tower, a 28-story downtown office buil...
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Many people are aware how powerful and influential the media are. Over the past 30 years, the delivery and scope of mass media have changed dramatically. It have became a major influence s...
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How many people today watch family sitcoms to imitate or compare values with their own? Probably not as many as there were in the 1950s. In Stephanie Coontz's "What We Really Miss about the 1950s", s...
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On television today you will see stereyotypes of male and female roles in society. These stereyotyps are exemplified in many tv shows and even childrens cartoons. Some shows which stereyotype sex ro...
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All television programs claim to portray reality and relate to its viewers. The vast majority fails to even slightly depict truth. Teen programs such as Dawson's Creek and Beverly Hills 90210 insist o...
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How do you spend your free time? Spending free time has various ways. Here we talk about one of the most popular past time activities. Watching television is the most popular ways to spend free time i...
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When thinking about the effects that television has on children, the first few things that come to mind are violence, wastage of time and parental control. What we fail to acknowledge is the informati...
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Television is to be Abandoned from the Children
Nowadays, television, TV in short, is a must have device for every household. All the variety of genre, including sports, movie, drama, music, cartoon,...
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The average Canadian family would describe a Monday night at home with everyone gathered around the television, engrossed in their favourite TV shows for hours on end. Has this become the new definiti...
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Television, 1946-Present
The Birth of Television
1920s: Tv and Radio
Television
Television
Families and Television
Television
Television and Aggression
