There are different opinions regarding whether people spend a lot of time on watching television or movies, by which people's behavior and way of thinking can be affected negatively. It is a widely accepted fact that people can enjoy their leisure time and relieve stress from work or school by watching television or movies. Even so, I strongly believe that an influence on people by watching television or movies have a tendency to affect people negatively rather then positively. In this essay, I will explain my idea by presenting two reasons as follows.
First, people tend to spend too much time which they can invest on more constructive achievements on watching multimedia such as television or movies, which means that they waste time watching television instead of doing what they want and have to do. Futhermore this act is an act of reducing time to live their life. According to the research conducted by an investigation cooperation in Japan, people in Japan spend a couple of hours watching television. By changing its unit by the year, we can find that people spend 730 hours, or 30days, per years. Futhermore, by repeating this operation by the average human's life span, or 80 years, it is calculated at about 2400 hours, or about 6 years during the whole life of human. They spend 6 years thinking of nothing but just watching television. This time can be felt enormous with the thought that people's life can be extremely changed depending on how they spend 6 years. Ordinary people take 6 years to become professional in the field that require some abilities and knowledge. By not watching television but spending time on the development of new abilities and acquirement of knowledge. they can be a professional person or have an opportunity to have new relationships with people in the field.
Second, I maintain that watching television and movies is not effective way to relieve stress because programs on TV screen , being set according to the regular schedule, are not controled by audiences. Even if boring programs such as fishing shows in my case is on television, I, not having any choices, cannot help watching them. After watching them, I get rather stressed out than relieved from it. Futhermore, not only does watching television worsen people's sight but also can be a cause of obesity. There are frequent occasions where current children, spending almost time on watching television or computer in house, become obese. In addition, they can have problems of forming relationships with the same age group, by which they can have difficulty in their social life.
In conclusion, based on what I have just mentioned, I am convinced that movies and television have an effect on people and their life negatively. |