Television and Emotional Properties
Since I was a young boy my parents would sit me down in front of the picture box and let me enjoy my favourite flashy cartoon for a few hours. My parents never let me just sit there for hours on end and let my brain turn to mush, they actually cared about my mental health and also got me more physically involved with other things such as arts and crafts, learning to ride my bike, going out to the shops or taking me down the brook to splash about in the Summer so I was active.
Many years ago that's how life was. Money was tight for many years, but my mum still tried her best to keep me and my brother active by doing whatever it takes to do so rather than plopping us both down in front of the television like most parents do today. The television... for £1000 - £1500 you can buy yourself and the family a great piece of kit most probably full HD or maybe 3D, Sony or Samsung etc... It doesn't matter how much money you have most families in the world will have a decent TV or maybe 2 - 3 of them.
Since I reached the age of 13 - 14 my tastes changed in what I loved to watch. My taste changed from watching cartoons on repeat to watching the History channel, Geography channel and the Real World channel. That's when it all changed. Shows started to appear about the Wars other countries have been involved with, shows about Global Warming, Animal documentaries and deforestation of their homes in the Amazon Rain Forest. The television can project so many different emotions upon teenagers such as Sad, Energetic, Caring, Angry and Worry. We are brought up not to be bothered about what goes on in the world because at the age of 14 there is nothing we can do to prevent it our parents say, so why should we bother?
I watch the News on a daily basis on stations such as the BBC, CNN, Channel 4, CBC, SKY, ITV and Channel 5. All I see is constant blood shed or constant bombs going off in the Middle East, but when does the good things that us ' Humans ' get shown...? Hardly never. I have stopped watching TV now because of my own emotional state watching the News seeing American and British troops being brought home in coffins just because the president will not bring then out quick enough. Oil results in death and the greed of the country.
Many years ago that's how life was. Money was tight for many years, but my mum still tried her best to keep me and my brother active by doing whatever it takes to do so rather than plopping us both down in front of the television like most parents do today. The television... for £1000 - £1500 you can buy yourself and the family a great piece of kit most probably full HD or maybe 3D, Sony or Samsung etc... It doesn't matter how much money you have most families in the world will have a decent TV or maybe 2 - 3 of them.
Since I reached the age of 13 - 14 my tastes changed in what I loved to watch. My taste changed from watching cartoons on repeat to watching the History channel, Geography channel and the Real World channel. That's when it all changed. Shows started to appear about the Wars other countries have been involved with, shows about Global Warming, Animal documentaries and deforestation of their homes in the Amazon Rain Forest. The television can project so many different emotions upon teenagers such as Sad, Energetic, Caring, Angry and Worry. We are brought up not to be bothered about what goes on in the world because at the age of 14 there is nothing we can do to prevent it our parents say, so why should we bother?
I watch the News on a daily basis on stations such as the BBC, CNN, Channel 4, CBC, SKY, ITV and Channel 5. All I see is constant blood shed or constant bombs going off in the Middle East, but when does the good things that us ' Humans ' get shown...? Hardly never. I have stopped watching TV now because of my own emotional state watching the News seeing American and British troops being brought home in coffins just because the president will not bring then out quick enough. Oil results in death and the greed of the country.
People ask me why I am so Cynical and Negative, but I don't really have a clue. I blame parts of it being the fact I use to watch shows such as the ones I have said and also the News for nearly 5 hours a day, but is it really the TV shows that make me like this? Since I have stopped watching TV I have become happier I suppose which is a plus at the moment seeing as I have nothing good to say about how our world is governed.
Television is a big box of emotions that people try to enforce upon the public that watch it. At the end of the shows they say " If you've been effected by the actions in this episode of a soap please contact such an such and they will be able to help you out " I think they do it on purpose because for one they make a lot more money out of their shows if they relate it to real life and they have to be as realistic as possible to get their point across. The parents of today have also become to lazy by just letting their kids become obese whilst watching their favourite TV shows, they all think it's a lot easier just to smack their kid down in front of the box and let them become less developed rather than teaching them stuff such as mathematics and also improving their English. I have become someone with so many thoughts and opinions from watching TV and personally I hate it. Seeing things for what they really are has become a sixth sense and it's not good.
Luke St.Denis
Television is a big box of emotions that people try to enforce upon the public that watch it. At the end of the shows they say " If you've been effected by the actions in this episode of a soap please contact such an such and they will be able to help you out " I think they do it on purpose because for one they make a lot more money out of their shows if they relate it to real life and they have to be as realistic as possible to get their point across. The parents of today have also become to lazy by just letting their kids become obese whilst watching their favourite TV shows, they all think it's a lot easier just to smack their kid down in front of the box and let them become less developed rather than teaching them stuff such as mathematics and also improving their English. I have become someone with so many thoughts and opinions from watching TV and personally I hate it. Seeing things for what they really are has become a sixth sense and it's not good.
Luke St.Denis
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