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A Response to Pete Hamill's article entitled "Crack in the Box," relating the symptoms of a tv addict to a drug addict
Title: A Response to Pete Hamill's article entitled "Crack in the Box," relating the symptoms of a tv addict to a drug addict
Category: Arts & Humanities / Film & TV
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A Response to Pete Hamill's article entitled "Crack in the Box," relating the symptoms of a tv addict to a drug addict
Pete Hamill's article "Crack in the Box" describes how television has the same negative effects as drugs. He states that television is addictive and creates the same influence over a person's life that a drug can have. The abuse of drugs provides an escape from reality, a feeling of indifference towards society, and generates an undeserved stimulus to the brain. Hamill is correct in his assessment that watching television produces the same symptoms as taking …showed first 75 words of 455 total…
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<Tab/>The symptoms of a television addict are interchangeable with the symptoms of a drug addict. The cocaine addict's mind travels to a realm of disillusionment where problems do not exist. He or she becomes apathetic about the real world and focuses on false emotion stimulated by the cocaine. The addicts of both drugs and television need to treat their cravings like they are treasures; they need to be buried.
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