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News and horror movies I believe things surrounded us can influence us in a subtle way, consciously and subconsciously, however unwillingly we might admit. Here is an example. There is a TV program called News Simulcast at my country which mainly broadcasts about politics, economics, agriculture and so on. My parents, like many other people of their generation, have a tradition to watch it at dinner time. But I have never found it appealing. And I thought I would never proactively watch this kind of programs. One night, my parents were out and left me alone at home. After watching a horror movie, I was totally scared and began to wonder if there was any ghost hiding somewhere in the dark corner of the house. I turned on all the lights. But it doesn’t help much. By accident, I switched the TV to the station which is showing the News Simulcast. The always serious broadcaster was presenting to the audience about farmers in a remote village who was happy about the harvest. Quite amazing, by the time his voice came, I was immediately cured. His voice was so familiar and comforting. The imaginary ghost faded away, the secular life came back. Until then I realized that without awareness, this kind of news broadcast had become psychological comfort to me. What a surprise!

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News and horror movies

I believe things surrounded that surround us can influence us in a subtle way, consciously and subconsciously, however unwillingly we might admit unwilling we might be to admit it. Here is an example.

There is a TV program called News Simulcast at in my country which mainly broadcasts about focuses on politics, economics, agriculture and so on. My parents, like many other people of their generation, have a tradition to watch of watching it at dinner time. But I have never found it appealing. And I thought I would never proactively watch this kind of programs.

One night, my parents were out and left me alone at home. After watching a horror movie, I was totally very scared and began to wonder if there was any a ghost hiding somewhere in the a dark corner of the house. I turned on all the lights. But it doesn’t didn't help much. By accident, I switched the TV to the station which is was showing the News Simulcast. The always serious broadcaster was (1) presenting a program to the audience about farmers in a remote village who was were happy about the harvest. Quite amazing amazingly, by the time his voice came on, I was immediately cured. His voice was so familiar and comforting. The imaginary ghost faded away, and the secular life came back.

Until then I realized that without awareness, Before then I had not realized that this kind of news broadcast had become provided psychological comfort to me. What a surprise!

 

(1) Because the verb to present is a transitive verb, it needs to have a direct object. Not all verbs are transitive, but to present is. So are to put and to give.

The always serious broadcaster was presenting a program to the audience about farmers in a remote village who were happy about the harvest.

 

Mary put the bottle on the table next to the salad bowl.

 

Louis gave an apple to Fred. 

 

 Red = subject

Violet = verb

Blue = direct object

Orange = indirect object

Green = prepositional phrase (adds extra detail that is not needed to make a correct sentence) 

 

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