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"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd be millionaires, movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."- (Tyler)
We are a generation babysat by the television and raised by sitcoms. The remote, we are taught at a young age will perform the magic ability of changing the channel and we can hardly imagine a world in which we have to physically get up and have to manually operate the television. While flipping through the channels we are constantly bombarded with ads that tell us everything, from what we should wear to what we should eat. When we go to the store the ads persuade us subconsciously to buy the product we see over another "inferior" product. Kids, at a very young age, are exposed to an extreme amount of material on television. Kids see life fitting neatly into an hour block and expect the same out of life. When this does not happen kids get bored and distracted. This behavior......

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Title: Television And Control
Approximate Word Count: 1875
Approximate Pages: 8 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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