Benjamin Odell 9/20/10 English 102 Randi Vaughn Rhetorical Analysis In her essay “Disconnected‚” Lynda Smith makes the point that technology that claims to bring people together is actually doing just the opposite‚ driving them apart‚ but her argument is ineffective because she fails to provide concrete evidence of her claim. Very early in the essay she claims she is a technophobe‚ which only reduces her credibility on the topic. She then continues on with an altogether weak argument on the
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Disconnected in an Interconnected World Danielle Searle In a world filled with interactivity and interconnectedness‚ how is it possible to be so disconnected from the people who live the closest you? Peter Lovenheim’s article‚ “Won’t you be my Neighbor‚” discusses this very ideal. After a terrible murder-suicide occurred in Lovenheim’s neighbor he was forced to asked him-self do I really know who lives next me? Lovenheim realized he didn’t and decided to something about it. He decided he
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With another ten could she have gotten “Dearly” too? She had not thought to ask him and it bothered her still l that it might have been possible- that for twenty minutes‚ a half hour‚ say‚ she could have had the whole thing‚ every word she heard the preacher say at the funeral (and all there was to say‚ surely) engraved on her baby’s headstone: Dearly Beloved. But what she got‚ settled for‚ was the one word that mattered. She thought it would be
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Disconnected is about three college students who choose give up their computer for a documentary. Some key aspects of the documentary are how attached our society is to computers and the internet in general‚ even in 2007. Our culture is heavily reliant on technology to help them get through our daily lives. It is basically a requirement for professional communication‚ school‚ and even to access to other older forms of media such as books and old articles and diagrams. Those ideas were made especially
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In his paper “Disconnected Urbanism” by Paul Goldberger that was published in metropolismag.com‚ Goldberger describes how we as humans are being disconnected from the world around us. Cellphones are one of the many ways that we are now able to connect with one another. Cellphones are capable of being a Global Positioning System (GPS)‚ a way of communication‚ and many other ways cellphones can be helpful. Despite the fact that cellphones can be a positive‚ they can also harm the world around us. A
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Lynda Smith “Disconnected” Rhetorical Summary”. In her essay‚ “Disconnected”‚ Lynda Smith argues that today’s technological forward movements are taking over our basic human interactions. She explains that we are being brainwashed into believing that cell phone‚ computers and other technological gadgets help us to stay connected smoothly and instantaneously. However‚ the reality is by using these gadgets we are not experiencing face to face communications; instead we are increasing
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dangerous‚ but a warning of the effects on human behavior. As I began reading the essays “Our Cell Phones‚ Our Selves‚ by Christine Rosen and Disconnected Urbanism by Paul Golderger‚ I knew which direction the authors were heading. Within the first few sentences Christen Rosen‚ talks about how the cell phone is changing our behavior and how we are becoming disconnected with society. The authors achieved their goal by staying on the topic from start to finish describing how it is destroying interpersonal
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Disconnected in a Connected World Technology is supposed to connect us‚ but just take a look around and see how disconnected we truly are. Everywhere we go people are on their cell phones: texting‚ tweeting‚ and snapchatting. The list could go on. Someone we know could walk walk right by us and we might not even notice because our eyes are to focused on the screen. While technology has enriched our lives and extended our reach of communication‚ it has disconnected us from those around us because
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be a dying art – replaced by text messaging‚ e-mails‚ and social media. Human communication and interactions are getting shaped by available technologies. Thus we have to ask – in today’s tech-savvy world‚ are we really connected or essentially disconnected? Is social media sabotaging the art of personal communication? ****************** On a crisp Friday afternoon last October‚ Sharon Seline exchanged text messages with her daughter who was in college. They ‘chatted’ back and forth‚ mom asking
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Analysis of “Dearly Beloved” In “Dearly Beloved” (2006)‚ Cal Thomas argues that gay marriage should be illegal for the “betterment of society.” He supports his argument by asserting that same-sex couples use the political system to their own advantage and sue those that discriminate against them‚ such as religious groups and employers. Thomas states‚ “If same-sex ‘marriage’ is allowed‚ no one will ever be able to say ‘no’ to anything again.” His purpose is to not legalize gay marriage in order
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