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What is TV to our society now
As the media industry developed, we now have more choices in terms of getting information and keeping ourselves entertained. Television was one of the greatest inventions of the 20 century. It mainly has two roles: which is to inform and to entertain. From my perspective, TV should be playing a critical role in news spreading placing more emphasis on informing than entertaining. Here are some of my reasons.
First of all, the audiences of TV is almost everyone in the society. Instead of playing operating as an entertainment media, it should act as a national channel that can educate people as well as establish a positive image of a country. Secondly, due to its attributions which will be accessed to all groups of ages by groups of all ages, children should be more carefully considered as the main audience. Nowadays, there are many violent and sexual related scenes can be found in a lot of TV programs which definitely has a negative impact on the young generation.
In terms of how TV performs each role in an effective way, I think that TV is not effective in the acting a role of informing. It is nowadays we are very easy to find that many TV channels have their own position towards news including international relations, political views or current social affairs which should be unbiased in the first place. In addition to this, TV should be objective towards facts, and the main purpose of news should lie in spreading the news instead of giving judgment based on some stereotypical opinions.
In conclusion, I think there might be some regulations that could be set to rule the news and media industry to better serve the people in the society and present them with a clear picture of fact, not some judgments without any solid grounds.Note: nicely done! Interesting views on the matter.
0 votedJune 12, 20180- I think it depends on what type of learning you prefer. The benefit of taking classes is that mistakes you make can be corrected by your teacher on the spot. I prefer self-study because I find there is too much distraction in a classroom full of people. The only thing I haven't had much training in is the speaking element, luckily there are platforms like iTalki to make up for that. Hope that answers your question. Best regards, Marijn0 votedJune 12, 20181
Een verhaaltje.
Fita is trots dat ze als giraffe geboren is. Ze is net 12 maanden en is al langer dan haar beste vriendin, een aardig konijn genaamd Orejotas. Fita denkt dat later, wanneer ze groot is, ze door haar lange lijf de wolken kan ruiken en prachtige dingen kan bekijken, die andere dieren niet kunnen zien.Note: I had to severely rearrange and change the words to make your translation work. In my opinion, translating something word for word rarely, if ever, holds up. I think that, when writing stories for little children, you need to be extra delicate and try to prevent using adult words. It's no easy feat. It's a really cute story tho! I think it might help if you would stop translating your own language in Dutch and just go Dutch altogether. Software like Rosetta Stone really helps with this kind of learning, because it is based on images and audio, not a translation from > to.
Best of luck and if you need someone to chat in Dutch with, I'm here.Marijn
0 votedJune 11, 20182Doug Stanhope is certainly worth watching, here are some others of the same level:
Bill Burr
David Brent (especially his show about the Noah's Ark)
Louis C.K.
Bill Hicks <- my favorite
Billy Connolly (Scottish so you might want to enable English subtitles while watching)
Andy Kaufman <- in a league of his ownHave fun watching :)
0 votedJune 9, 20180Hello Naomichi,
It seems we are somewhat in the same boat. I too often contemplate about such matters. In my mind, there has always been a thought that the world we are experiencing as it is indoctrinated in our behavioral patterns from the day we were born is distracting us from the life we could experience on this earth as human beings unbound by the pressure of society. To be fully mindful, to me, means to be able to stop the ongoing stream of thoughts about participating in this human world that is constructed of so many things that are irrelevant to our true and simple self.
Attaining this freedom of thought and liberty of doing things is a long but, I imagine, rewarding journey. If there is one thing on my list of doing things before I die, it is this and only this.
There is a movie called Labyrinth by legendary puppet maker Jim Henson, and in it is a woman who has gathered so much stuff that she has become a walking garbage dump. I always found this to be a pretty accurate portrayal of humanity. Maybe it is therefore that people who seem to possess almost nothing seem to be happier.If you are interested in practicing mindfulness there are some very good books on the subject by a Zen Buddhist monk called Thich Nhat Hanh:
Read
https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Mindfulness-Introduction-Practice-Meditation/dp/0807012394/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
and
https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Buddhas-Teaching-Transforming-Liberation/dp/0767903692/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
These are books about mindfulness by the person who brought the concept from to the western world. I've only just begun to read them but they have already opened my mind's eye in ways I couldn't have imagined.
I sincerely hope these books help you further on your path to understanding!
Best regards,
Marijn
0 votedJune 8, 20180
