Monday, November 7, 2011

BLOG 10

The In Imitation of Film, Nicholas Balaker states that many of kids around globe are sometimes affected or influence by the actors in the movies they see. Thirty-eight percent of children started smoking by watching their favorite movies.

In the findings of Dr. James explaining that the “R-rated movies contain twice as much smoking “as other films, I think that a child picking up the habit in smoking just because they are watching a movie or television is outrageous.

In reading reading describes, Dr. James D Sargent, the lead author on the study for pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical school, who interviewed 6,522 children nationwide about their movie watching, children who had the highest exposure to watching movies with smoking scenes, they are more than two and a half times likely to start smoking as those who had the least contact.

The reason for me saying that is the fact that, every individual is different and the makeup of everyone is. Now, if a child is watching a R-rated movie and see’s one of his or her favorite movie star smoking ,and that child decided to follow in their footsteps, and that child took the first pull and hated the fact that it don’t feel right, that child might not turn out a smoker.

However I think R-rated movies are influential to a child, who may have grown up in the environment seeing his or her parents smoking and watching a favorite actor or actress doing the puffing, as a result of that I think that child might turn out a smoker. Yet I do believe that it’s the upbringing of that child will tell the future, poor or rich.



In reading this piece in my life growing up, my mother and father smoked and I have tried doing it but grew it out of it, I will never put that in my mouth again.

Or what about the percentage of a child who started smoking who can’t watch movies or the child who has no television,

In conclusion the affect that the parents have on a child is great impact on his or her life not the television or a movie star .




1 comment:

  1. This is the best answer to a CAT prompt you have made so far, even if one of your paragraphs reads awfully similar to someone else's in the class.

    Good job. The next step is to try to refer back to reading a bit more in your response.

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