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[|TV Viewing and Computer Screening Linked to High Blood Pressure in Youth] 1. The social issues associated with television and computers are they’re making more people live a more sedentary lifestyle leading to more people having high blood pressure. More and more youth are living a more sedentary life as technology advances; people use to be more active since there were no such things as television or internet. They use to do active activities such as walk around the park, playing sports and other active activities. ( References should be with this and you should use numbers if available) (Can you find some numbers for me if possible?)
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2. Internet was a big thing that led to children and people in general to use computers more. Children started to do their homework on the computer or socialize on social network and chat with friends. The television got more popular with better quality and began having shows that attracted more people.( The IT developement is the technology behind the computers and the amount and cost of the devices in the home) (Can you research the amount and cost of the devices in a household?)

3. The stakeholders are the viewers, actress, actors, broadcast television, health care providers, people associated with health issues through technology and the owners of the channels.

4. Actors and actress are making tons of money. Broadcast television are making millions and providing a lot of jobs. The viewer gets to choose what they want to watch and have the option of changing the channel and they to entertain themselves. They don’t really get a say about what’s on television. While the stakeholders that are getting unhealthy due to the technology and developing health issues aren't benefitting but indeed having a disadvantage.

5. People could decide to allow their kids less time watching television and computer time and have more active activities with their children. Don’t have cable or internet in your house.If the government charge higher taxes on these technology, it could perhaps lower the amount of television and internet usage. If broadcast television raised the price, they still will benefit and make profit while lowering the amount of time spent on the television

6. More and more people will have higher blood pressure since this is also an inherit disease. The numbers of people with high blood pressure will keep rising. The health of our society will just get worse gradually. ( I wouldn't focus in only on high blood pressure, I would use the article as a way to explore the rise in computers and TV in homes versus health effects) (Can you find something about that for me?) :)

7. Some social impacts are kids will be less socialible and live a more unrealistic lifestyle, talking to people through technology, or just sitting all day on the couch and just not socialize at all. People in general will be less healthy because high blood pressure could damage any part of your body.

1. Ethical issues associated with this is that kids are choosing to be lazy and get fat, by spending all their times doing enactive activities. People are entertaining themselves with some unethical things such as killing, fights, and other things. In my opinion, parents are fully responsibility for their childrens health. Children are still young and vulnerable to danger that they're unaware of which parents should have a sit down and talk with them. I don't believe people are morally responsible to take care of their body. It is their choice whether they want a healthy body or not. Some healthcare don't provide care for diseases such as high blood pressure so the cost will be tremendous.( Other ethical effects, health care, income, poverty (choice of entertainment), freedom of sloth etc..) (I don't really understand what you meant by health care, income, and poverty and how it's associated with ethical issues)
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2. Children and parents are responsible. I believe that children have a choice in this to be active or not. Parents are also responsible because most children listen to their parents and parents shouldn’t allow their kids to watch too much television or spend too much time on the computer. Childrens are influenced greatly by their parents and most of the time, they will listen to their parents order. The providers of the entertainment is responsible for having this disease causing thing out in the open but they're not entirely responsible, just a little responsible. Society as a whole is responsible because as a democratic country, we're allowing people to create harmful things such as television and computers which both have benefits and cons.( References should be with this and you should use numbers if available) (Can you find some numbers or a website about this for me?) You should learn how to do research on things like this that google will pull a blank on. Pubmed is good, tons of free journal articles and abstracts: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ as is google scholar: http://scholar.google.com/ Numbers would be hard on this, though, but citing vague sociological works might pass. Hmm. Here's a couple I pulled up: http://uwashington.worldcat.org/oclc/114533114&referer=brief_results and http://uwashington.worldcat.org/oclc/425118520&referer=brief_results. You can probably just get away with saying parents have a great deal of influence on children's behavior.

3. Parents and youths are accountable. Children are responsible for how much time they spend watching TV and on the computer. Also, parents should be keeping a close eye on their kids making sure they’re active and not too sedentary. School could provide more active classwork and homework. Government could protect their citizens by creating laws to prevent dangerous things.

4. Lots of parents have rules about how much time their children can spend doing sedentary activities such as computer screening and television viewings and how much active activities their kids are involve in.

5. Be more active and join more sports. You should be getting daily exercise and these are great options, walk around the park, playing tag, anything that gets you moving will be an alternative ethical decision. You could also just work out at home, run around inside your house, do sit-ups or push-ups.

6. You will live a less sedentary lifestyle and have a lower chance of getting high blood pressure. Society as a whole will have better health. The number of people dying from heart attacks or strokes will minimize. People will be more aware of the danger and will hopefully prevent the chance of getting the disease.

Other issues associated with television and computer screening will be stated with specific examples.
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 Presentation of the Issue Criteria A  As technology has advanced, it has become part of our daily lives and society. This generation is known for its technology. Children are known to be more high-tech than previous. There is more available technology for children of this generation. Children are using technology more than ever before and this has become a drastic problem to our society. Children are spending more and more time in front of a television set or in front of the computer doing their homework or surfing the web or socializing on a social network rather than actively working out. The average person in the United States watches television 28 hours a week! It is said that children spend more time behind a television set than they do at school.

Television and computers are technologies that were created to entertain us and help us but they’re starting to become an issue. They’re becoming more of our everyday life and preventing us from doing active activities raising a concern about high blood pressure in youth.

Word Count: 169 The IT Background of the Issue Criteria B  Television has been around for a very long time. It was approximately invented in 1929 but not introduced to the public until 1939. Around the same time, computers were invented; roughly around the 1940s. Television and computers has been around for a while but has just recently exploded with the internet, reality show, and high definition television.

There are many key elements required for television to work. They typically include a video source, an audio source, a transmitter, a receiver, a display device, and a sound device. The video source is the object that is recorded by a camera then it’s transmitted. The transmitter sends out both the video and audio signals over the air waves. Both audio and video signals are electrical in nature and are transformed into radio waves which can then be picked up by receivers. A receiver is usually incorporated in your television set and it’s able to grab radio waves and process it back to audio and video electric signals that can now be played on your television set. A display device is usually a television set, but can also be just a monitor. The display device is able to receive electrical signals, usually sent from the receiver and turn these electrical signals into a viewable image. Most standard TV sets incorporate a cathode ray tube, however new display devices can include LCD and Plasma display devices among others.

The major parts of a computer are central processing unit (CPU), motherboard, and computer memory. The CPU is an electronic circuit that executes computer programs. The primary responsibility of a computer processor is to execute a sequential set of instructions that constitute a program. CPU operation can be divided into four basic steps, namely, fetch, decode, execute and write back. The motherboard consists of sockets in which microprocessors are installed, memory slots, a chipset that acts as an interface between the CPU bus and the peripheral buses. The computer memory refers to those components of a computer, which retain digital data. It forms the core of a computer and makes up the basic computer model in collaboration with the CPU.

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The Impact of the Issue Criteria C  Society as a whole will be effected dramatically. As time goes on, the number of children living a sedentary lifestyle will increase and continue to which will be linked to children spending more time behind a screen such as a computer or television set. Children will be kept entertained by these technologies which involve less movement rather than doing active activities such as playing sports or walking around a park. Health care will have to prepare more care to children due to the high blood pressure and link to obesity.

People with high blood pressure may have it without even knowing due to the fact that the symptoms may show up a few years after you got the disease while it is damaging your body. People that don’t control their high blood pressure may end up with a disability, a poor quality of life or even a heart attack. High blood pressure may damage some important organs in your body such as heart, kidney, arteries and even your brain.

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Solution to Problems arousing from the Issue Criteria D
One solution to the ever growing number of children living a sedentary lifestyle is to force them to do active activities and less of sitting around behind a screen. Make it into a law that children can’t have too much screening time and that there is a certain amount of time that is required each week that each children must meet, and it’s upon the parents to enforce this in order for their child’s health. If the child still opposes, they will be sent to a boot camp with the objective of being active and staying healthy. Otherwise, they could choose to do anything they would like but it has to keep them moving and away from a computer screen or television set. A good way to do this is to provide more activities that children may enjoy such as a basketball hoop, a bike, running tennis shoes, or a canoe. Just provide them with choices that are lively and pleasurable. Do the activity with them, make it a whole family thing and do it daily (NBA).

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