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Week 27; No TV-Trombly

Submitted by Chelsea Trombly on August 22, 2007 - 10:46.

Yes to TV
By Chelsea Trombly
Chaplain Valley Union High School, Grade 11

I walk into the house I notice a change -- and this was not a good change: My TV is missing from my TV stand.

What am I going to do! This can’t be happening! How am I going to watch the all-star game? Oh my god! No, not today! The new episode of Laguna Beach is on, how can this be? Now I have to go outside and make use of my time. Oh no, now I have no excuse not to do my homework.
Just because it’s National TV turn-off week, doesn’t mean that my family needs to participate in it. If it was up to me, I wouldn’t demolish this obscure tradition. Why would you want to take away my television? What has it done to you?
I do not want participate one bit in this activity; it’s unconstitutional and unreasonable. A television is a part of me, it controls me, and it makes my day less stressful. A TV is like a dog, you love it to death, but sometimes when it acts up or plays a lame show, you just want to kick it.
If someone were to take away my TV for a week, that would be like going to the NBA, taking away their basketballs and telling them to go play. It would be like going to McDonald's and finding out they'd discontinued the Big Mac.
Life wouldn’t be life without television. It teaches you things and keeps you updated about events happening all around the world. If there was no TV how would you be able to check the weather? Or stay updated about the war in Iraq? You wouldn’t, you would never know what disaster was occurring for that week.
TV Turn-off week should be stopped and switched to something like National Kids Are the Parents Week.
We need to keep the TV in the house now and forever.

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