essay on thought pollution -root cause of all ills 500 word limit
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essay on thought pollution
With the advent of new technologies and their versatile products, people are directly or indirectly subject to mental pollution – contamination of mind by various forms affective visual stimuli mostly with sexual, violent, and scary content ranging from short internet clips to popular commercial advertisements widely prevalent in the digital and virtual world. Similar to the way water, air, and environment pollution threatens human life, a high amount of uncontrolled exposure to mental pollution may result in poor memory and thus hinder learning. Therefore, it is necessary to raise the awareness of public on the side effects of various media tools which may impact a society's level of literacy and education. The purpose of this qualitative study based on semistructured interviews with different members of the society including students, academics, and parents is to find out how people view mental pollution and whether or not they are aware of its negative consequences. Besides the content analysis of transcribed interviews, this study also elaborates on the pedagogical implications of mental pollution by providing helpful information to maintain a strong memory.
This present study is valuable in that it provides a new perspective to learning difficulty in relation to pedagogy, psychology, and technology in particular foreign language education. This study contributes to second language research from a cognitive and psychological aspect besides sociological, biological, and cultural factors which all play an important role in the second language learning process. The present study indicates that mental pollutants exposure to a high amount of violent, scary, sexual and bizarre visual stimuli from various media sources including TV, computer, movies, internet, video games- can hinder not only second language competence but also learning other subjects like mathematics, history, literature, and so on. Thus, this study calls for further research which may investigate possible harmful effects of various media tools widely used in social life as well as in education. It is also important in relation to this study to raise public awareness on the side effects of modern technological tools to human mind which are planned and designed to facilitate rather than inhibit human life.
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