" Television Violence "

        I agree that television violence does have a negative effect on society due to the amount of violence it promotes. Television has a lot of violence in it that sometimes children get easily influenced by. They spend long hours just sitting in front of the television instead of doing something productive. Television doesn’t only affect children, television affects everybody and anybody. People of many ages become “couch potatoes”; they sit there, and don’t move because if they move they feel like they will miss something.

            People who currently watch television learn to pick up things from television. There may be a show on that handles a situation a certain way and people tend to get an Idea of hey maybe that’s how they supposed to do it, and it may not be.  Television doesn’t have the answers, you do. Depending on what channel you may watch you might get even worse things. The problem is that the television is causing many people to not to be able to concentrate on other important things. They make their minds only be able to focus on television.

            The television also effects how people eat. Television has many commercials about foods and other junk that people see and think they have to buy it. That effects their weight and they end up obese and sometimes at a young age for children. Television also affects the way people dress, some people want to look like the models or the rappers, and all the time that’s not good especially when they dress bad. Television contains so much advertisement is ridiculous; they put these commercials and ads everywhere saying you have to buy this or that and people actually fall for it.

            There are also shows about arresting people, killing people, gang violence, and all these other bad examples for children. Children see that and assume that’s the correct way to play or act out. They go out in public and display this time of behavior and end up in bad places due to just watching that type of television show.  Since the invention of television the rate of crimes have skyrocketed just because of people acting out what they see on TV. I mean ever since TV people can’t go anywhere without fearing for their lives, because people see shooting on TV so they want to try it or experience it.

            In conclusion, Television has done some good but more bad to the society. People don’t understand TV is not the only thing in the world; you can grab a book, or do some homework. They tend to not do anything because they feel TV is more important and they it will teach them something. It gets so bad sometimes that the parents cant even get the children to get up from in front of the TV or the parents may be sitting right there with them. Sometimes they sit so close up on the TV because they feel if they scoot back they may not get the same effect of the show. I say that people should give TV a break, and they will see how much they accomplish without it.