How do movies or television influence people’s behavior? Use reasons
and specific examples to support your answer.
Television- the greatest invention of the past century, is one of the most important sources of information and entertainment. Millions of people , now , have at least one television in their home. In my opinion, it has a significant influence on people, mainly in the negative direction.
First of all, television is an important grabber of time. Spending too much hours in front of it consumes the precious time that can rather be spent in fruitful and healthy activities. For example, people could go in for sports and improve their health or could preferably read books , which is more beneficial because it develops one’s imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary. Television also uses up the time that can be spent with family and friends.Chatting and communicating with the near ones is a better expenditure of time than watching TV.
The increasing violence in TV shows and movies is another reason why television has become an extremely negative influence. Specialists affirm that 57% of television programs contain psychologically harmful violence and exposure to it leads to a more aggressive behaviour. This affects mainly children because they can’t distinguish the right things from the wrong ones and try to immitate certain scenes viewed in their favourite films. For example if their heroes are beating up somebody ,they think that immitating them is a good thing.In this way children become violent and insensible.
Television-viewing may also lead to serious health consequences.Sitting passively in front of the television means following a sedentary life. Sedentary lifestyle is a medical term used to denote a type of lifestyle with no or irregular physical activity and contributes to many preventable causes of death. For example it is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease,diabetes and obesity. Therefore people who spend too much hours in front of television are more exposed to these diseases and risk to die younger.
To sum up, television gas a great influence in people’s life mainly in the negative direction as it grabs a lot of time and prevents people from doing more fruitful and useful activities, it affects human psychology developing aggressiveness in behaviour and also represents a high risk for various diseases and dying young.
TOEFL listening lectures: A lecture from an American History class
How do movies or television influence people’s behavior? Use reasons
and specific examples to support your answer.
Television- the greatest invention of the past century, is one of the most important sources of information and entertainment. Millions of people TODAY have at least one television in their home. In my opinion, it has a significant influence on people, mainly in the negative direction.
First of all, television is an important grabber of time. Spending too MANY hours in front of it consumes the precious time that can rather be spent in fruitful and healthy activities. For example, people could go in for sports and improve their health or could preferably read books , which is more beneficial because it develops one’s imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary. Television also uses up the time that can be spent with family and friends.Chatting and communicating with the near ones is a better expenditure of time than watching TV.
The increasing violence in TV shows and movies is another reason why television has become an extremely negative influence. Specialists affirm that 57% of television programs contain psychologically harmful violence(,) and exposure to it leads to a more aggressive behaviour. This affects mainly children(,) because they can’t distinguish the right things from the wrong ones and try to imitate certain scenes viewed in their favourite films. For example if their heroes are beating up somebody ,they think that imitating them is a good thing.In this way children become violent and insensible.
Television-viewing may also lead to serious health consequences.Sitting passively in front of the television means following a sedentary life. Sedentary lifestyle is a medical term used to denote a type of lifestyle with no or irregular physical activity(,) and contributes to many preventable causes of death. For example it is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease,diabetes and obesity. Therefore people who spend too MANY hours in front of television are more exposed to these diseases and riskS to die younger.
To sum up, television Has a great influence in people’s LIVES mainly in the negative direction(,) as it grabs a lot of time and prevents people from doing more fruitful and useful activities, it affects human psychology developing aggressiveness in behaviour and also represents a high risk FROM various diseases and dying young.
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Very well written Myhaele. You wrote a very good essay indeed.
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