Why Televisions Should Be Unplugged
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I believe all the televisions in America should be unplugged, and we
should become a nomadic, goat-herding race- well, maybe not the part about the
goat herding. Anyway, television programming is corrupting our youths' minds;
they are being stupefied and are becoming virtual vegetables as they are ....
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.... violence is on the rise at an exponential rate. Many teens watch
action movies such as Terminator and its sequel or the Die Hard trilogy and
conjure up bright ideas to go vandalizing or attacking innocent people. This is
especially true when speaking of the gang situation that is currently plaguing
our nation. Before the era of the television, crime like the kind we now have
was virtually non-existent.
Obesity is another indirectly related effect of television on our bodies
for people of ....
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