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SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is a government assistance program to help low-income households pay for food. SNAP used to be called the Food Stamp program. The federal government changed the name of the program on October 1, 2008. SNAP is a modern program that uses EBT cards instead of old style paper food stamp coupons. The amount of SNAP food stamps a household gets depends on the household's size, income, and expenses.…
The paper that I was required to read was "Snaps to Riches" by Ellen Huet. She is a staff writer for Forbes magazine. The purpose of this article was to inform the audience reading to understand the uniqueness of this social media application called Snapchat. This article mainly focused on the growth of the application. Within the particular platform it has surpassed many in a very small amount of time. Snapchat has developed many careers by single handedly being a useful tool. Within this application communication between people happens, and stories go viral! I follow a famous snapchat celebrity on social media, by the name of Julieanna Goddard. She utilized snapchat to jumpstart her career as a party promoter and entrepreneur.…
At this point in time it seems as if though the majority of Millennials, myself included, have mastered the art of digital conversation. “I Had A Nice Time With You Tonight. On The App.”, an editorial written by Jenna Wortham, the author delves into the vast number of social media outlets we’ve grown accustomed to having at our exposal and convenient it is for so many opportunities to communicate lie in the palm of your hand. Although social media and the internet can get out of whack sometimes, I certainly agree with what Wortham has to say about it.…
“When every thought is externalized, what becomes of insight? When we reflexively post each feeling, what becomes of reflection? When friends become fans, what happens to intimacy?” (348). Orenstein has a strong argument, when we share every moment for the world to glimpse at, it strips away your personal identity. People lose their own sense of humanity and how they treat others in real life. It is analogous to the saying where people become objects and objects become people. Everyone loves the wrong object and treats others in the wrong way. A study by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan concluded that people have lost empathy, especially after the beginning of social media. Orenstein states, “Social media may not have instigated that trend, but by encouraging self-promotion over self-awareness, they may well be accelerating it” (348). The destruction of relationships will worsen as time goes on since people are slowly losing humanity traits, such as empathy, due to people being engrossed in social…
Within the article, Roxby recognizes social media sites as a facilitator of demeaning commentary and a promoter of our instinctive tendencies to compare ourself to others that impairs the self-confidence of millions of active users. Roxby discusses how users utilize endless photo editing applications to enhance images to become eligible members in the “beauty contest dynamic” that pervades Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites. Roxby explains how society today uses social media as a primary mean of communication; therefore, endangering one’s self confidence by simply using these messaging sites is nearly…
Can events in real life show what is going to happen in the short future? Showing foreshadowing can be essential for a short story. There are a wide variety in lines of foreshadowing, that are well displayed, in the stories “The Scarl Ibis” by James Hurst and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe. In the short story “The Scarl Ibis”, a line which includes foreshadowing is, “I ran as fast as I could, leaving him far behind with a wall of rain dividing us” (Hurst 323). This shows that Doodle, the little brother will die, because throughout the book Doodle tells the narrator to not leave him and he is left and dies in the harmful weather. In the piece, James Hurst presents this in a moment of fear and chaos that makes the foreshadowing more interesting and intriguing. While…
Green, R. Kay. "The Social Media Effect: Are You Really Who You Portray Online?" The…
Authors Becky Herz, and Kim Phuc wrote essays that not only touched hearts, but also made people take a different look at life and those around them. “The Long Road to Forgiveness” and “My Husband Will Call Me Tomorrow” are two essays that use literary devices such as pathos, imagery, ethos, and repetition to effectively tell their stories. By using different rhetorical and literary devices in their writing they were able to make an impact with their words. Words are very powerful weapons in the battle of making a point and trying to make sure that people actually understand that same point. In Herz’s “My Husband Will Call Tomorrow” she was able to use repetition as well as visual devices to effectively tell her story. Her use of these devices allows the reader to be able to connect and see things from her level. Phuc’s essay on the other hand, was able to evoke gut-wrenching emotion, just using devices such as imagery and details about to make her story credible.…
Data aggregators are collecting personal information from websites. It is not only a name and a basic location, but what a person searches on the internet. Any action online has been tracked by these vultures, always scavenging for scraps of meat to fill their daily quotas. These bits and pieces of information become a second-self; “In essence, a second-self – a virtual interpretation of you – is being created from detritus of your life that exists on the web” (Andrews 710). As if this portrayal of the true self was not enough, social media makes a more psychological argument of the true self. Orenstein explains how the self is “becoming a brand”, something that is being advertised to others hoping for some people to buy into this persona (447). The problem is that this persona is also false. The self should be developed from within not developed by the likes and retweets received when interacting with social media (Orenstein 447). Orenstein even admits she has noticed at times when she has fallen to the need of updating a status, “As I loll in the front yard with Daisy [Orenstein’s daughter] or stand in line at the supermarket or read in bed, part of my consciousness splits off, viewing the scene from the outside and imagining how to distill it into a status update or a tweet” (448). This need to inform everybody online of what is happening at that moment by tweeting and posting pictures that are sure to be judged…
Social media and the impact it has on self-esteem. The way we put a lot of efforts on what we post, when we post and who sees what we post for self-actualization is coming to be a problem. Could this be how people’s self-actualization are fulfilled in the near future and what does it mean for the present? Introduce the life Black Mirror depicts.…
Snapchat has become a real craze lately in society. Research has been done that nearly 77 percent of U.S. college students use Snapchat every day. Some researchers go as far as saying that “Snapchat is bad for children’s mental health.” Many people say that it has affected us negatively and positively.…
As Caitlin Dewey observes people using their smartphones she finds some interesting facts. As I witness not only myself but others that our devices have become a problem how we interact with one another in person. We all use our smartphones to hide our insecurities when it comes to communicating with a one on one setting. Not knowing that it’s the reason we have a problem, to begin with. It causes us to focus on ourselves instead of the person in front of you.…
In this article, a meme helped a doctoral student who was suffering from depression and anxiety. Since the meme helped him, he shared the meme with others in hope that it would help them the same way it helped him through a tough time. Jonathan Sun, the doctoral student explains, “I make memes to explain my own feelings” (paragraph 3). Sun hopes that the memes he shares make people feel a little better. Unfortunately, memes as of lately are not all good.…
On May 28, 2011 Jonathan Franzen published the story “like is for cowards. Go for what hurts.” in the New York Times. In the story Franzen claims that people are more connected and infatuated with technology than they are with the real world. Since technology takes ups a majority of our lives it effects our ability to create relationships and to love others. Franzen states that technology has advanced so much, most people have no desire to go out in the real world and connect with others. Phones now days are made to give us everything that we ask for without ever letting us down. Social media sites such as face book, Instagram, and twitter allow people to hide behind technology and still become likable. Franzen believes the goal of technology is to replace the real world indefinitely.…
Twelve missed calls, seventy messages, and thousands of updates are what I came to after one of the loneliest days of my life. Twenty four hours doesn't seem like much but spending twenty four hours away from something so important to you makes it seem like an eternity. During my time away from my phone I found entertainment in things I usually don't do, such talking with my sister and just spending time with my family. I knew being home all day without a phone was going to be tough so I made some plans with friends to go out later in the night, but the time I did spend home alone was horrible. A day without my phone made me realize that I, like most of my generation, rely too much on our phones and electronics for our social needs.…