"An Hour with Abuelo" by J.O. Cofer shows some of the many hardships of life. In the beginning Arturo says "my mother wants me to to spend some time with him, since the doctors say that he doesn't have too long to go now" (Cofer 592) (they are talking about his grandfather), this shows that his grandfather is going to die very soon and he wants to spend his last moments with family. In the middle of the story Arturo says "his children, including my mother, came to New York and New Jersey (where I was born) and stayed there until my grandmother died. Then he got sick, and since nobody could leave their jobs to go take care of him, they brought him to this nursing home in Brooklyn" (Cofer 593), this shows that after Arturo's grandfather moved…
According to Carr’s article, I noticed that the Internet has obviously influenced human’s life nowadays. Now, we prefer to obtain information easily and quickly without any intention of understanding it first. We are likely will not try to read the information thoroughly anymore because the Internet has served all information instantaneously. I also noticed about what Carr said about the Internet changed the way we think because unconsciously the Internet serves us all answers swiftly. This convenience makes us easily losing our focus on reading a long article. People now tend to skim rather than to read and understand the whole article, which means it is the beginning of the Internet’s bad effect. It made me think that Internet has become something crucial in our life that maybe we cannot live without its existence because of our “addiction” of it. Also, it made me think that the Internet could affect our brain, and maybe it could reprogram our brain.…
A long with the development of society is the development of scientific and technical, including the development and popularity of the internet. Beside the undeniable benefit is the tremendous impact that the internet bring. With most teens and adolescents, there is a thin line between casual Internet use and addiction. The first cause make person is addicted to the Internet is the family’s management. From that, they have much time to spend to do something on the Internet. Initially, you only use Internet when you have spare time. Gradually, you spend more and more time on it. And you are addicted. Internet addiction brings a lot of bad effects. When you use too much time to use the Internet, you lost your valuable time to do other things. We can see that the first harm is waste of time. Every time when someone require you shut down or out internet you will say “just for minutes”, right? Second, it is bad influence on your health. If you use it for along time, day to day you will fatigue, your brain will be damaged. And your studying? Of course it will decline, too. It leads to damage your eyes, west your money, neglected education… It terrible! And then, it is internet addiction that the risk of your health or education and more other thing being negatively impacted by internet addiction need to stop immediately. For those reasons, we have to have a using internet timetable reasonablely. Especially, we should go outside and do more something useful. When we attend outside activities, you will not enough time to…
Ever since its inception in 1982, the internet has become an essential part of the average person’s life. Many people see the internet as a place for entertainment, research, and communication. Although the invention of the internet allows for easy access to information and communication, there are some negative effects, such as encouraging cheating, corrupting children, and hindering development of social skills as well.…
Internet its full attention, placing real life interaction “on the backburner.” One should limit his or her Internet usage, for one’s dependence on the Internet can often hinder his or her communication skills, apply a tremendous amount of pressure, and possibly distract one from his or her everyday life.…
Many people view the internet as an ultimate resource for anything they desire. The people who say that the internet is a brilliant invention for the best have reasons backing up their idea. For example, Sherry Turkle writes about such ideas explaining how the internet is an excellent tool for the better in her essay, “Can You Hear Me Now?” Turkle believes strongly that the invention of the internet is an innovation for the better and emphasizes to her readers how important it is in everyone’s lives nowadays. On the other hand, some believe exactly the opposite of Turkle’s invalid inquisition that the internet is a tool that is most definitely not for the greater good. The internet is a major promoter of violence and bad habits, it allows abusers to reach people that do not want to be reached and it opens many of us up to identity theft and malware viruses. The internet is an extremely risky device that many of the common users take for granted due to the lack of knowledge of its dangers. With the great power that the internet provides comes great responsibility that its users must also provide. Just like many other things, there are people who lack such responsibility and use the internet with bad intentions.…
The third and last negative effect of internet is the identity theft. If the chain letters we were talking about don’t scares you yet, pay attention to your personal information. Each day two out of five citizens suffer some king of identity theft. Because a lot of transactions are made through the internet it is easy to steal your social security number and your credit card number. Furthermore, sometimes you give the information to the thieves without knowing it when you apply for that risk free credit card online, or pay for products on-line.…
Nowadays, the usage of internet is rapidly spreading. Advanced and breakthrough technology that are growing very fast in the new generations drives us to gain knowledge about it. Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of the U.K. had once said, "If you don't see the internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone." Likewise, in my point of view of the internet usage today, although everyone believes that using it is exceedingly useful, many lacks to perceive its dark side.…
Froese-Germain, B. (2008, August). Bullying in the Digital Age: Using Technology to Harass Students and Teachers. Our Schools / Our Selves , pp. 45-54. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.…
In this time and era, internet is the most important device in our lives. It provides us with helpful information, keeps us up to date with the latest news, and answers every question we could possibly think of. This usually gives us an unrealistic perception that everything on the internet is true, even though anyone from any country or city or state can say whatever they please, and still make that information sound as if it is straight from a professor. People can do anything imaginable on the internet, which gives the wrong people the power to manipulate innocent victims. Now, this kind of power and anonymity has huge potential in destroying your reputation, giving you viruses, and attaining identity theft.…
" What are the advantages and disadvantages of the internet?" These days the internet has become more and more popular all over the world and is now an integral part of modern society. The internet refers to a global network of computers connected by servers, which allows for the free and easy sharing of information. This essay will assess whether the internet can be seen as beneficial or harmful. The essay will analyse the arguments and form a conclusion about them. To begin with the positive points : First, the internet is good for communication. In this way, people all over the world can communicate quickly and conveniently with each other by chatting or sending emails. Second, it has lots of benefits for education. In this way, students are able to conduct research online to help them with their studies. Next, businesses get lots of advantages by using the web. For instance, it is now possible for companies to advertise and sell their products by setting up web-sites, or alternatively they could promote themselves effectively by utilising some of the e-commerce tools available in cyberspace. Last, there are plenty of entertainment sites on the net. For example, it is possible to download songs, play games and listen to music all with the click of a mouse. Moving onto the negative aspects : Firstly, the internet has no rules or laws. This means that criminals and terrorist organisations can openly operate behind the safety of a computer screen. The terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda have been extremely effective in using the power of the web to promote terror on a worldwide scale. Next, sex sites are a fundamental problem online. In this regard, if children were to view such obscene material, their minds would be adversely affected. Lastly, viruses are easily transmitted via the internet. A good example of this was the Love Bug virus a few years ago, which caused havoc and mayhem by infecting a large number of computers over a very wide area. In conclusion, it can…
Thirdly, computer help people reduce stress after long hours working and studying every day. They can use a lot of function in Internet to entertain themselves. For example, the can play game online or chatting with their friend. Moreover, they can listen to music, read news or watch their favorite television movies by Netflix website on the internet. In short, computers bring home entertainment to everyone. However, using too much internet everyday can bring negative effect. For instance, students…
What are you guys doing to kill time? Tweeting, BBM-ing, tumblr-ing, or playing online games might be the choices. Today’s era is filled with those sophisticated softwares and technology. Can you imagine a world without those stuffs? With no internet connection which supports those online things? Some elders may say ‘yes’. They have lived in the world without Wikipedia and Google which can answer almost all of questions. But for us, teenagers, we will say ‘Oh nooo! What kind of world is that? I can’t even live!’. Is that right? Internet nowadays has become a part of our lives. It helps us almost in all aspects. You don’t know the answer of your homework? Just ask Wikipedia. You want to get new friends? Just go and browse Facebook. Want to share your story to others? Just post it on a blog. It’s easy, isn’t it? Internet can be a media of banking and it is also used by government. With all of those multi-tasking works, internet is a miracle. But have you ever thought about its drawbacks? All good stuffs come with bad things, so does internet. Here are the drawbacks of internet.…
Most Americans do not go a single day without accessing the internet. Within the past few years, the number of internet users increased dramatically. In fact, in 1996, 15.2 million households were online, and in 2000, the number grew to 51.5 million (Mur 11). The internet has changed life dramatically over the past few years and will continue to alter society in the future. It is important that the internet is used in positive ways, rather taking advantage of the power it enables users to have. Unfortunately, more and more people are choosing to make the internet their personal tool for cheating, spying, and criminal activity, and using it far too often. Many of these issues have produced a counter action response to stop the unmoral undertakings.…
Day by day, with the high speed Internet, people are more connected than ever. We study, work, entertain, shop, and even date online meanwhile saving times. Internet with its visual stimulation and constant distractions , it can interrupt important meetings, make driver distracted when driving and texting or phoning, which causes increasing deadly accidents. Moreover, some psychologists are proving that Internet might impact to our brain and the attention span, along with the concern if Internet addiction can be compared to chemical substances addiction.…