Reading and watching television are two things I like. Reading is better than watching
television and the reason is that, when I read books, articles, news, newspapers, magazines,
etc. I always learn something no matter what it is always stays in my mind; on the other hand,
watching television is an entertainment. I can also learn from watching television, but it never
going to be the same and the reason is that, when I watch television, I know my mind is not
working, or at least not in the same way, as it works, when I read. Watching television is
completely different is just be seating there in front of the television, and I would say this is just
like having fun.
Reading leave me a lot of good things, such as learning what is going on around the
world, what our president is supporting for our country and many other good things. When I
read, it is amazing, I focus in the lecture, and it is like make a traveling. I am no physically there,
but my brain thinks I am. It is really fun when this happen, because is when I start learning what
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Postman mentioned that to watch television you do not need to have continuity meaning that it is not necessary for someone to watch a show from the beginning to comprehend what is going on. The types of behavior that you execute while watching television can be adapted to your behavior in your everyday life. For example if a kid is put in a situation in which he watches TV every day a show like Sesame street and they get used to the colors, the customs, the songs, and the puppets, by the time they are old enough to be inscribed in to school they are going to feel so uncomfortable and are going to see the environment as different. It is not a different environment then what they are used to and they are going to feel hostile at first. But if instead the kid is taught every day to spend time with his parents while they teach him or her how to read or how to write him or her is going to be better prepared for school because they know how to interact with other people, they have a continuous set of rules and regulations they have to follow, and because you as a parent would be completely sure they are learning instead of pretending they are learning with a
In Steve Johnson’s article “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” he argues that a region of the brain is stimulated that makes people think. He claims that TV makes you smarter, and I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I agree that people tend to contemplate more when watching television. On the other hand, I still insist that viewing TV doesn’t make you any smarter, but in fact, it can actually lower one’s intelligence.
In a Class Dismissed when the narrator says,” because we have seen television as just entertainment, we readily disregard its impact on our thinking”. When I heard that statement, I thought to myself that our perceptions of things are based upon what we see on TV, although I do view TV as entertainment as well. However, I never paid attention to how TV impacted my thoughts until viewing and reading in the material in this class. Because of some of the things that we studied and the familiar shows that we talked about I understand and noticed small things in TV shows and ad
As a child, I have always been fond of reading books. My mother would read to me every single night before I went to bed and sometimes throughout the day. It was the most exciting time of the day when she would open the cabinet, with what seemed to be hundreds of feet tall, of endless books to choose from. When she read to me, I wanted nothing more than to read just like her. Together, we worked on reading every chance we had. Eventually I got better at reading alone and could not put a book down. Instead of playing outside with my brothers during the Summer, I would stay inside in complete silence and just read. I remember going to the library with my mom on Saturdays, and staying the entire day. I looked forward to it each and every week.
In spite of the social stereotype that watching TV is bad there are many advantages of TV which either people don't care or don't want to care. But the fact is either people love or hate TV they cannot avoid it and it keeps on playing the major role in their life as a mass communication media, entertainer and education provider. The new generation of the TV is the smart TVs which even simplifies the three aspects gaming, web surfing and watching TV and they are eye friendly as well which only keeps on making it better. It is not wrong to say that TV is the major weapon to be in touch with the new technology and the things that are going around the world before being left behind.
Mason Cooley says about reading “Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are .” Reading is like a journey you can take when you want to go somewhere. Everyone always wants to imagine they are in the journey with the character in the book. When the story is over the person that is reading never wants to leave the journey. Everyone starts a new journey when they open a new book to read. Sometimes people who read don’t have a journey with the character; they just want to read because they don’t have anything else to do. For me reading is really fun to do.
According to Kubey and Csikszentmihalyi television actually slows brain functions, so other activities are far better for people’s minds. They assert, “someone who lives to 75 would spend nine years in front of the tube” (50). During that times, television viewers will spend hours “exercising their brain” by watching television, rather growing intellectually. They go on to share research results of a study involving television watching and Electroencephalogram tests (EEG). “The EEG studies similarly show less mental stimulation, as measured by alpha brain-wave production, during viewing than during reading” (Kubey & Csikszentmihalyi 50). What if viewers spent those nine years reading, socializing, exploring, or being active? Kubey and Csikszentmihalyi would agree that waves would show up more active and
The possibilities are endless with the information available: encyclopedias, articles, books, magazines. Moreover, a reason I read, is for a source of enjoyment and entertainment. Every now and then I find a book that I can not take my eyes off of; freshman year I found a book that I loved so much, that I read all 300 pages in a matter of a day! Furthermore, reading may enhance vocabulary, advance writing skills, and improve analytical thinking. As author, Lana Winter-Hebert wrote, “should you ever find yourself in dire circumstances, remember that although you might lose everything else—your job, your possessions, your money, even your health—knowledge can never be taken from you” (Winter-Hebert). On the other hand, there are various of other thoughts about reading.
Before television existed people had to depend on Radio stations to receive their little bit of entertainment and news. But in 1878, the invention of TV began. The first TV made didn’t look anything like the way TV’s look today. It was a mechanical camera with a large spinning disc attached to it (Kids Work). But as over the years, of course, inventions of different TV’s progressed and by the 20th century about 90 percent of our population had a TV in their household (MGHR). Television today is mainly used for people take a break from their life by relaxing and enjoying some entertainment.
Besides this immersion into a world of books, I credit my love of reading to the fact that my parents only let me watch an hour of TV a day. I learned to use my mind and imagination to entertain myself. It's not really surprising that literature became my vocation. When not reading or writing, I enjoy watching films, baking, going to the city to eat Thai and Ethiopian food, walking, and relaxing with my friends.
Reading has changed me for the worse because there will always be times in my education that I know I will not get to choose what novel I read. The most important thing I have learned from reading is that it gives you a lot more knowledge. I have learned things from reading that I discovered to be true. For example, I have learned new words from reading by using context clues to determine what they meant, later to find out that I was correct.
There had been a very heated debate on the benefits and drawbacks of watching TV and weather or not TV was actually making us as a society smarter when Steven Johnson wrote his book Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Makings Us Smarter. The book was published in 2005 as well as a portion of the book, Watching TV Makes You Smarter, was published by the New York Times Magazine in the same year. This only added fuel to the fire of the debate and served as a wake up call to many readers. The debate focuses mainly on the ideas that TV can make a person more or less intelligent. In this essay, Johnson overtly suggests that the consumption of TV programming in making us smarter. He tries to convince the reader of this idea of television making us smarter by appearing to be credible, by using sound logic, and seeming to be knowledgeable on the subject matter. All of these approaches may work on those who read and run but don't take time to digest the content, but for everybody else that slowed down to think about the information he presents his logic d...
Television is the center of the household. It will always be there. You cannot ignore it just as you cannot ignore a
Television is a wonderful invention that can give us well deserved laughs, at the end of a hard day or can entertain us. Children learn many things from watching television, because most of the children learn by imitation and listening....