JJ Matthews Rhet 105 MW 3-4:15pm The Hand that Pulls the Trigger Television has made a tremendous impact on the way of living for people of the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries. Some people claim that television has corrupted the morals of America’s youth. Some even compare television to drugs. Peter Hamill did so in his essay entitled Crack and the box. Peter Hamill states that television is as addictive as crack/cocaine. His idea …showed first 75 words of 1162 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1162 total…cocaine from the coca plant. Television is a device, which has exploded over the last half century. TV does not significantly contribute to drug addiction and violence, because both have been around well before TV was invented. Television is a vital tool that many people sometimes overly rely on, but there is a difference between relying on television for news in the world and being addicted to television. TV is not as addictive as crack.