Comp. 101-18 31 October 1996 According to Marie Winn and her essay "The Plug-In Drug‚" television has various negative effects on our society today. In her essay Winn explores the ways in which television has harmfully caused disruptions with the quality of family life‚ rituals‚ and values. She recognizes there is a problem with our society and the way in which it is consistently influenced by television. I am able to agree with Winn on this point‚ but I do not feel that the totality
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Black‚ Zaqueri Emily Skaftun English 101 06 April‚ 2011 Analysis of Marie Winn ’s‚ "Televison: The Plug-In Drug" In the current world‚ many families have more than one television. It has become a necessity as food‚ clothing and shelter. In Marie Winn ’s essay‚ she describes the effects of television on young children and the family environments at home. Television is one of the most dominating factors that diverts from family time and family relationships. It also has a strong impact
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lot in the recent years‚ and the critics have been making comments about those negative influences. Excluding the negative influences we can be seen on the TV‚ television is generally a helpful technology in delivering modern information. From Marie Winn’s essay"Television: The Plug-In Drug" has stated‚ "Yet parents have accepted a television-dominated family life so completely that they cannot see how the medium is involved in whatever problems they might be having." (467). This is just possibly
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effect in both different and similar ways. TV: The Plug-In Drug‚ by Marie Winn‚ is about televisions “taking over” quality family time. Winn uses pathos by talking to different types of people who come from different types of families; this way you get to hear from other people how the television is taking away from precious memory making. Trying to touch each of our emotional sides‚ although you might not start crying‚ Winn is able to talk to people and get information about families and the time
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this writer based it all on facts or a matter of opinion? Marie Winn makes it sound as if everyone that watches television becomes "addicted" to it like people become addicted to drugs or alcohol. I myself am not one of those people that become "addicted" to watching a show. Watching television for about more than 30 minutes in a row gives me a major headache‚ I honestly don’t know how people can stare at it for hours and hours at a time. Marie talks about how people refer to addiction as "a tendency
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Nkosi Ife Bandele Writing 101 March 12‚ 2014 Defending TV In her essay “Television addiction‚” Marie Winn considers TV to be very addictive. She compares watching TV to taking drugs. She also never mentions any of its benefits. Television is one of the most important inventions of our time‚ and it certainly had benefited mankind. Watching TV causes no chemical substance addiction. Still‚ Winn thinks that‚ the level of addiction from excessive television viewing is comparable to drug and alcohol
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Marie Curie - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie Wikipedia Marie Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on ... Pierre Curie - Aplastic anemia - Ève Curie - Irène Joliot-Curie Marie Curie - Biography - Physicist - Biography.com www.biography.com/people/marie-curie-9263538 Fyi Explore the scientific mind of Marie Curie‚ two-time
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Full name: Marie Sklodowska Curie Place of Birth: Warsaw on November 7‚ 1867 Age of death: JULY 4TH 1934 CAUSE OF DEATH CANCER- LEUKEMIA Early life: in what was then the Russian Empire‚ with Poland having been divided up amongst various European nations due to war and subsequent treaties. When she was only 10 years old her mother died of tuberculosis‚ a short time after her elder sister had died of typhus. Despite this setback‚ Marie struggled on with her studies‚ graduating high school at age
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Did Marie Antoinette deserve to die? http://www.marie-antoinette.org/articles/biography_english/ http://www.marie-antoinette.org Line 45) Marie grew more unpopular by the day and the people of France didn’t approve of her Austrian relations. Line 47) much like the population even members of the royal family began question Marie‚ even the kings own brother Line 54) a scandal was created before the revolution framing Marie for purchasing a diamond necklace that cost great
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Marie Antoinette: Misrepresentation and Her Effects on the French Revolution While Marie Antoinette may have inspired hatred and disgust in the monarchy by the French people‚ the drastic misconceptions surrounding her involvement in sparking the French Revolution are endless. The public used her as a scapegoat to blame all of their problems on. In reality‚ she did very little of what she was accused. Economic problems and bad politics are actually greatly responsible for the rise of the French
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