three or even more than five & so on… V ve the time & means & education to pursue careers & hobbies & personal achievement goals that our parents & their parents before them could never have even dreamt of (‘m really proud abt it)! :) V guys have numerous choices‚ unlimited exposure‚ ample opportunities & a sound financial security tat our parents could ever have thought of? Yet‚ we’re a Notoriously Unfulfilled Generation!? :-/ Yeah!!! Y do we so much already & still we so many opportunities
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technology improving how we think‚ or is it negatively impacting it? Are we getting “smarter” with the rise of this technology? This highly debated topic brings up many differing arguments. Clive Thompson in “Smarter than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better” argues that technology makes us smarter by extending our memory and augmenting our abilities. I argue that this view is dependent on the way that you define the word smarter. What makes a person smarter:
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stress free but today even though technology has gifted a luxurious life to man we are stressed. Earlier man had to roam from place to place in search of food & shelter. Today the modern man can even work by sitting at home through technologies like laptops & cellular phones. Yet today man has been confronted by various diseases & has to tackle stress. Why is it that a primitive man working several times harder than the modern man had time for pleasure activities but a modern man has to make work
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Are We Better Than Our Forefathers? In the 21st century‚ mankind is evolving. Now we live our lives in a manner that our forefathers did not. If our forefathers could see the life we live now‚ they would be very disappointed as we are not as hardworking as they were. They worked day and night to achieve the smallest success. We depend on machinery to do our work and because of that‚ people nowadays have grown obese and lazy. Watching television too long can harm our eyes and it affects our physical
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scientists to describe a new form of peripheral social awareness (Wikipedia‚ 2015). This awareness comes from constant contact with people via social networking platforms like Facebook‚ Myspace‚ Twitter‚ Blogger‚ etc. We see this term being a big part of Clive Thompsons book Smarter Than You Think and is an essential element to understanding technology today. According to Thompson‚ ambient awareness is “almost like being in the same room as someone and picking up on his/her mood and thoughts by the
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“Ticket‚ please.” I am Syeda Nashra Raza and I am here to speak about Women are smarter than men. Now you all must be getting idea of how harsh my words are going to be on the hearts of the men sitting here. Tons of smashes don’t worry. Adela Rogers said: “God made man and then said I can do better than that and made a woman”. Even though scientific research shows that the average male IQ is 2.08 times higher than the average in women‚ in the game of life‚ women are able to do more with less
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Are Bilinguals Smarter Than Monolinguals? A Review of the Literature Luke James Walkington La Trobe University Are Bilinguals Smarter Than Monolinguals? A Review of the Literature ‘Bilingual’ people are differentiated from ‘Monolingual’ people by their frequent communication with two or more languages (Barac & Bialystok‚ 2012). Bilinguals are thought to be smarter than Monolinguals (Rubio-Fernández & Glucksberg‚ 2012). Smartness is a measure of successfulness in their education
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Psychopharmacology (1998) 135 : 319323 © Springer-Verlag 1998 O R I G I NA L I N V E S T I G AT I O N Allen T.G. Lansdowne · Stephen C. Provost Vitamin D3 enhances mood in healthy subjects during winter Received: 28 May 1996 / Final version: 6 May 1997 Abstract Mood changes synchronised to the seasons exist on a continuum between individuals‚ with anxiety and depression increasing during the winter months. An extreme form of seasonality is manifested as the clinical syndrome
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Monday class English Essay We should not add our parents as friend on facebook According to the statistic updated in year 2013‚ there are total numbers of 1.26 billion of Facebook users. It is common to have a Facebook account‚ vice versa. The percentage of teenagers that add their parents as friend on Facebook is 70%. 70% of them think that there is no problem to add their parents as friends on Facebook. However‚ it is my view that I should not add my parents as friends on Facebook as it retrains
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saturated our job market and has restricted people’s ability to think deeply in a specific area of study. Many people are starting to question the need for human input in any aspect of life when technology is far more advanced in problem solving and productivity. However‚ others would disagree with these statements; in Clive Thompson’s article‚ “Smarter than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better”‚ he proposes that technology acts as an enabler for humans rather than a hindrance
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