托福写作指导：范文汇总-Movies and TV Influence People's Behavior 电影电视

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　　Essay by 谢振礼老师 Jeenn Lee Hsieh
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        　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Movies and
television have more negative effects than positive effects on young people's
behavior. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
        　　范文:
        　　Do movies and television influence the way people behave? Certainly they
do, and who will argue otherwise? Here, refuting two common fallacies, our
logical claims intend to focus on the assumption that there are more good
effects than ill effects on the audience, including children and teenagers, of
course.
        　　Fallacy No. 1: Myths about Evils. Largely being fiction about myths for
entertainment, most films and television programs are meant to influence people
in the positive context. Some are designed to make the audience think; others
are designed primarily to amuse; and probably none are designed to encourage
evil-doing. Besides the emotional impacts, reducing stress and killing free
time, there is something deeper about them that shape our minds and hence change
our behaviors. In light of this, our participation in that kind of popular media
may help alter the consciousness of society, either for good or ill, depending
on the myths portrayed. Accordingly, it is groundless to think that we are
always exploited negatively by the entertainment seen on the screen.
        　　Fallacy No. 2 about Rising Crime Rates. Because of cinema's persuasive
power, it is easy to blame movies and television (along with other media
outlets) for imprudently showing violent scenes against a landscape of rising
crime rates. At this point, we should consider, for a moment, that the like of
many of those criminal minds had existed long long before cinema was ever
invented. This means that the message of cinema today is far from leading the
average person, young or old, to commit a crime, and that a good film or TV
program usually has a unique ability to influence the popular culture with a
"moral" ending (like poetic justice) tinkering around inside our brains that are
supposed to be able to distinguish right from wrong. In fact, there are no
evidence to prove the direct relationships between crime rates and cinema
consumption. Is anybody so naive as to believe that most criminals may enjoy
watching television more often or, on the contrary, most innocent people may not
go to movies as often? Who is kidding who?
        　　On the whole, it makes sense to think that the impacts of movies and
television should be considered as more positive than negative on the audience
of all ages, young people in particular. To paraphrase Walt Disney: "Movies can
and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of
entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood". Therefore,
the bottom line is how to incorporate logical behaviors in all our films and TV
series.