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    Compare and Contrast I will be comparing the two stories of David Gelernter and Sherry Turkle. Gelernter’s story explains why children who use computers in schools are not learning basic skills‚ while Turkle’s story tells why children who use computers in school are actually changing the way people think in life. I will be showing their similarities throughout my paper. Both Gelernter and Turkle talk about using computers in the school system. They both believe that this does not help anyone learn

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    texting and driving or walking and texting. Turkle explains how some people use technology as an escape from the real world by creating their own virtual lives. Another one of her points is that people can easily lie about who they are on social media‚ and it’s hard to know what is real and what isn’t. She concludes her essay by talking about a kid named Brad who has freed himself from technology by simply rather talking to people on the telephone. Although Turkle doesn’t expand much on how the use of

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    Children Pretend?” she shows us the difference between how children and adults perceive things. At the same time in Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together” we are shown how growing technology affects are views on reality. When one combines the ideas of both Turkle and Gopnik‚ they see a correlation between technology’s growing influence and the rate at which your view of reality changes. Turkle reveals how a gap in age might affect a changing view of reality. During a trip to the American Museum of Natural

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    Sherry - a Unique Drink

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    Sherry a fortified wine made mainly from Palomino grapes. Sheery is produced in south Spain in Andalusia in three towns - Jerez de la Frontera‚ Sanlúcar de Barrameda‚ and El Puerto de Santa María. These areas are very close to each other but there is a difference between wines produced from them. There are actually a number of different Sherry types that range from very dry with pale straw-like yellow‚ to sweet with a dark mahogany color. But what makes sherry unique? The main answear is combination

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    Sherry Turkle states that communication is important in any relationships and the idea that technology changes the way we communicate isn’t for the better in fact it creates a distraction to the relationship and the world around us. The chapter “Friendship” by Sherry Turkle explains how technology have interrupted friendships over the years and how people now care about media rather than friendship. Turkle states how technology affected the communication between people and their social skills‚ it

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    In Sherry Turkle’s essay “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk” she explains how people are so immersed in their electronics‚ that they fail to connect with others during conversation. She argues that people have become less empathetic when they communicate with each other. She also claims this is caused by excessive use of electronic devices. She writes this essay so that people will observe how electronics change us. She describes how people rely on technology to communicate by introducing the ideas that

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    “No Need to Call”‚ Sherry Turkle starts by making a point. Her point is that phone calls have been replaced by text messages‚ instant messages and emails. She gives examples to show how people benefits from text messages and instant messages. Her first example is Elaine who is seventeen year old. Elaine is a shy person. She uses text messages and instant messages instead of phone calls. She said that shy people can write freely on the screens. After Turkle’s first example‚ Turkle argues that not only

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    possible without the support of my group members‚ my classmates‚ Sherry Turkle‚ Professor Mahaffey‚ and UNC Charlotte. My group members and my fellow classmates have peer reviewed all of my sources and summaries. To Duane‚ Jason‚ and Nicole- Thank you for being patient with me and giving me all of the help I needed to make my paper better. They have gave helpful and valuable feedback for better improvement on my paper. Sherry Turkle has given relevant information in Reclaiming Conversation and it

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    tremendously. People rather text than talk; use social technology to communicate with the loved ones whenever it is. In Sherry Turkle’s essay: “” she worries about human connection with social technology might have negative impacts to human intimacy. Naomi Klein‚ author of “” talks about both beneficial and destructive “fences” that are existed to keep people isolated from things that

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    The article “The Flight From Conversation‚” by Sherry Turkle‚ address problems that today’s society‚ a technological universe‚ rely too much on technology instead of connecting with real people. She makes a unique perspective when analyzing how we live in a modern technological world. From what she has studied‚ the technologies of mobile connection and surveying hundreds of different groups and ages of people‚ we can come up with a conclusion that many people today‚ whatever they are doing‚ they

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