Question

"Television and videos are corrupting the minds of the young." Give your views for or against the statement(300--350) words.

Answer 1

Nowadays, Television plays a very important role in our life. We are getting a lot of knowledge and entertainment from it. The effects of TV on young minds is profound both for the better and the worse. On the one hand, TV do positive effects on young mind. Nowadays, there are countless TV programs concerning all fields of life such as society, science, education, technology …providing a sea of information on over the word. I can say right away that TV is the best way for the young and all of us to get up-to-date information, knowledge, new conception and technology because of its faster transmission speed than newspapers, more visual effect than radios, more economical consumption than network. In addition, TV is also a most popular form of entertainment. After a long day at study or work, we need a break. Watching a film on TV, we could forget all trouble of the day, feel good and get ready to go back to our work or studies. On the other hand, We can say that TV are making us less active. We receive everything that TV gives to us. Some of them may be good, some may be bad but the most important thing is we will lose our imaginary ability. Watching TV for a long time can seriously damage us, both mentally and physically. Some people are destroying themselves by watching TV so much, which may cut them off from the real world little by little. We often hear some parents complain that their children spend hours before the little TV screen, ignoring their study, outdoors activities and even their family. Mental laziness becomes physical laziness: we would like to watch sports on TV than to participate; We would like to chat with somebody on Internet than to socialize with neighbors; we would like to stay in bed on sunny weekend that to go out for a walk. Another negative effect of TV on young minds is that it make them more violent. The more violent programs they watch, the less sensitive they become. They are being accustomed to the violent scenes on the movies...

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Answer 2

TV has moved on from the innocent world of Camberwick Green to become a fearful source of seemingly imponderable questions. Should parents be limiting the time children spend in front of the television? Does it matter what they watch? Parents' fears are fuelled by surveys purporting to demonstrate that TV viewing is harmful. Last week, a report in the Lancet warned parents of a link between children's excessive viewing habits and long-term health problems such as poor fitness and raised cholesterol. It also claimed that youthful TV addicts were more likely to smoke.

One study has linked television viewing to obesity and another to aggressiveness. Earlier this year, an American survey claimed to have found an association between TV viewing among toddlers and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at school age. On a positive note, you might think that the hyperactivity would help to cancel out the obesity, and that the consequences of aggressiveness might well be ameliorated by wandering attention (they might forget who to hit), but researchers at the Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Centre in Seattle don't seem to have considered these possibilities. They were concerned to show that the hard-wiring of toddlers' brains can be detrimentally affected by the unrealistic visual stimuli that television allegedly sends pinging all over toddlers' synapses. Not only are kids destined to become fat and thuggish, it seems, but early exposure to TV is going to make them prone to concentration problems at school.

"We all know that the brains of newborns continue to develop rapidly, that the final tuning is done, as it were, outside the womb. The rapid pace of TV may not help," Dr Dimitri Christakis, who led the research, tells the Guardian. "The idea came to me when I was at home with my three-month-old son. If he saw a television he was mesmerised by it. He had no idea of what the content was. I was curious what the effect of that degree of stimulation would be."

His hypothesis was that very early exposure to television during critical periods of synaptic development would be associated with subsequent attention problems. "In contrast to the pace with which real life unfolds and is experienced by young children, television can portray rapidly changing images, scenery, and events," says Christakis's paper. "It can be overstimulating and yet extremely interesting. This has led some to theorise that television may shorten children's attention spans."

We cannot deny a proliferation of programmes and videos aimed at pre-school children, and even at the under-twos including Teletubbies, Fimbles and Tweenies. The Disney corporation bought up a company called Baby Einstein which allegedly helps in the educational development of small children and is exploiting its new acquisition assiduously here and in the US. If Christakis's theory holds, all these programmes and videos are going to create not a generation of Baby Einsteins, but hordes of unprecedentedly dim children.