Television is for appearing on, not looking at. How do you understand the statement?

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1. Television is for appearing on, not looking at. How do you understand the statement?

2. Jess C. Scott said: "People are sheep. TV is the shepherd." Agree or disagree with his quotation, provide your reasons.

3. Average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube as a real couch potato. Shall something be changed in people’s attitude toward television? How much time, according to your own point of view, should person spend in front of the TV?

4. Comment on Groucho Marx’s quotation “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

5. Comment on Chuck Palahniuk’s quotation: “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.” Do you agree or disagree with the saying. Provide your reasons.

6. World community considers Ukrainians to be a nation which celebrates too many holidays. Do you agree with the statement? What could have caused such point of view about our celebrating traditions?

7. British people are extremely inventive about their celebrations. Think about typical British holiday which is the most extraordinary for you. Describe the traditions of its celebration.

8. It is so important to have traditions. They are part of the glue that holds families together, they give a sense of security, they show that in this uncertain world some things stay the same. Tell about the family tradition from your childhood you will never forget about.

9. Is there any holiday you consider to be odd? Explain your choice. What does the holiday need to become traditional and common?

10. Derek Bok’s statement reads: “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”. Explain what it means for you.

11. Think about somebody you know who is very educated. How does that person demonstrate erudition? Does it make you respect him/her more?

12. Comment on Martin Luther King Jr.’s quotation “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

13. Bill Watterson said: "You know, sometimes kids get bad grades at school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's at school." Agree or disagree with his quotation, provide your reasons.

14. Does Ukrainian system of education need some transformations? If you are to name three things which are necessary to change, what would choose? Explain your choice.

15. A famous public official Kofi Annan once said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. Is globalization so inevitable? Is this process of globalization positive or negative? Provide and explain your own attitude towards it.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

William Westmoreland

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Alfred Hitchcock

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

Noam Chomsky

“If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.”

― Dorothy Gambrell, Cat and Girl Volume I

“If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”

― Warren Ellis

Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control. ~Donna Gephart

Television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. ~David Frost

Television - the drug of the nation

Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation...

Television is for appearing on, not looking at. How do you understand the statement?

[Television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. ~David Frost

It is often believed that the main aim of television is to impress people who watch it. There are a lot of TV shows which are not useful at all but still they stay on the air. But anyway with the help of it many talent people beat a path to their goal to become famous. To my mind every person who watches TV wants to see part of him/her there. I’m convinced that all of us at least once imagined himself/ herself on the air, all of us wanted to get in TV atmosphere.

But at the same time TV was created for earning money. All TV shows, all movies, all advertisements were created for it. That’s why TV put more and more unuseful and stupid programs on the air. It is the simpliest way to get easy money. Once I watched program in the internet where some guy told how important to find person who can endear people. They conducted many castings for finding exact person for show. It can take much time, even years because exact person can bring much money for producers. And unfornately sometimes your deep inner world or your certificate can’t help you if you haven’t bright and catchy appearance. Nowadays people like watching shows maybe cuz of that fact they have boring lives and with the help of it they try to compensate lack of show in their lives. There are a lot of boys who became girls and girls who became boys, people who made tattoos and piercings all over the body for glory. Television - the drug of the nation. Now it is easiest to make smth with your appearance than to be long hair man. Now you shouldn’t have brain you should have appearance and specialist will make you an idol for people who watch you on TV.