EX Giving an Explanation 7

How do movies or television influence people’s behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.

Television is a big influence in the lives of most of us. We spend hours every week watching television programs, so of course this will affect our behavior. Unfortunately, the effect of television is usually negative. Television makes people more violent, more inactive, and less imaginative.
Many programs and movies on television are violent. The more we see violence on television, the less sensitive we become to it. Eventually violence doesn’t seem wrong. This is specially true because violence on television doesn’t seem to have consequences. Actors can be killed and come back for another movie. Sometimes we confuse that with reality and we forget that killing someone is permanent.
Watching television makes us less active. The act of watching television requires almost no activity on the part of the watcher. We just turn it on and change the channels. In addition, all the time that we spend in front of the television is time that we are not spending moving around, playing a sport, or taking a walk.
When we watch television, we don’t exercise our imagination. All the stories are told for us. We don’t even have to imagine that a character or a place looks like because everything is shown to us. When we have television, we don’t have to invent a way to spend a few free moments. We just turn on the television and watch.
Television is a big influence in modern life and it can be a valuable educational tool. The other side of television, however, is that it has a strong negative effect on our behavior, encouraging us to accept violence and to be inactive and unimaginative. (274 words)