There are many eras in the history of human civilization and each of them has its own name. An era can be named after important events, personalities or inventions. The era in which we live today can have different names but if we would like to find the best name for it, we would probably call it "The Era of Television".

Jim Morrison, a famous singer and poet once wrote in his poem - "Do you know we are ruled by T.V.". Many of the researches made on the influence of the television support this opinion.

First, I have to describe the state in which people are while watching television. Watching TV is a passive event. Children and also adults remain completely immobile and quiet while viewing the box. All attention is given to the images. Both mind and body are passive (called an alpha state) allowing people to concentrate on the vast, and often fast, array of bright pictures. People are just sitting in front of that thing, receiving the pictures, images and information of different quality and in different quantity but usually these are made to help the people leave their real lives and to enter an imaginary world where everything seems to be perfect. The more and mor

In order to become a good reader and writer and, of course, to have vocabulary wider and to be able to think in higher levels, people need to practice reading and writing. Basically, the students who read the best are those that spend their non-school hours reading and writing. Households that value literacy and push the children to read will have kids that excel in this area.

e people watch TV the more and more they become cut from reality and they can get lost in the space of television, which has no borders.

Speaking about the perfection of television, many psychologists speak about "The Beautiful People Syndrome". In a very simple way it means that TV influences the way we view others. Of course we know that television is not real. Everyone knows that. But despite of it, the world of television effect our daily lives, influences our opinion of people and impacts our fashion, speech and social interaction.

The study sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, shows that 88 percent of all U.S. households have two or more television sets; 60 percent have three or more sets; and 53 percent of all children have a TV set in their room. It seems that television more and more becomes the main friend of most of people of all age

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