The statistics are famous and unnerving. Most high-school graduates have spent more time watching television than they’ve spent in school. That blight has been overtaking us for fifty years‚ but it’s only in the past two decades that I’ve begun to notice its greatest damage to us–the death of personal imagination. In all the millennia before humans began to read‚ our imaginations were formed from first-hand experiences of the wide external world and especially from the endless flow of stories
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Technology is very much a part of modern life. Many people see technology as a force that has escaped from human control. Others feel that technology has improved the quality of life. Do you think that the contribution technology has made to modern life has been positive or negative? State your position on this issue and support it with appropriate examples. Technology has become a part of our lives. The issue of decide if this part is or not good for life is a controversial one. Many believe
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Is media a boon or a curse? Everything in this modern age is powered by media from the moment we wake up until we sleep at night. Have we ever asked ourselves how all of this affects our reasoning‚ our power to choose and our lifestyle? Since mass media is used to communicate and interact with people from various walks of life‚ it can often result in a conflict of opinions. The media‚ specifically in India‚ represents a convergence of paradoxes: tradition and modernity; anarchy and order; diversity
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ARMED CONFLICT BANE OF AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT: CAUSES AND PREVENTION By Colonel JJ OGUNLADE NIGERIAN ARMY INTRODUCTION 1. The end of the Cold War between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States of America (USA) was expected to usher in relative peace‚ security and stability globally. The corresponding calm was to facilitate meaningful economic and technological growth in most nations of the world. Unfortunately‚ these expectations have not been realised‚ as
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everything and more than we wanted. Plastics are one of the greatest inventions of modern science. Plastics play a major role in our lives. The inventors of it little knew about it’s harmful consequences that we are facing now as they thought it to be a boon to mankind. Today they are a great threat to the environment. Everywhere around us we find plastic bags as a carrier of all kinds of materials. I have always gone against the use of plastic bags because of its adverse effects on nature. Plastics
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Computer considered as Machinery God ‚ is an electronic device that reduces human laborious effort.In this 21st century‚computer can be known by the name of next human brain.The invention of computer made human life much easier‚faster and comfortable.Computer is regarded as one of the greatest achievements made by Scientist till now.Computer ‚an electronic device‚ which has made life easier and comfortable is today surrounded with many questions of threats .Whether Computers are helping us or creating
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very much familiar about the internet and its usage. At the beginning‚ when computer are introducted‚ people are against the computer since it reduces the manpower and so many people will be unemployment. But this reason does not changed the development. After few years‚ situation changed as without computer‚ it is impossible to make things better. But now all the organizations are computerized. The same situation is going on for internet usage today. Everywhere Internet. Without internet‚
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The bane of living in big cities in Malaysia When we discuss about living in big cities or small towns‚ different people have different point of view. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages. From my personal opinion‚ big cities have more advantages as compared to small towns‚ which I quiet disagree with the topic. There are three points I would like to highlight here on why I said living in big cities brings more benefits. Firstly‚ big cities have far better quality education from lower
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Is the two-week Christmas vacation is a boon to Filipinos? By: rey malero 01/16/11 Christmas!! It is pleasing to hear when we know that it’s near. Specially to those students like me because we knew that it’s going be a long time of rest in our studies and we can do other things that we can’t during school days and also to the kids and small children because the first thing that comes to their mind when they hear Christmas are gifts and new toys. It is not new to us Filipinos already the yearly
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Is the Internet – a blessing or a bane? Discuss In this current era‚ internet plays a very important role in our society. Yet what is internet? Internet can be defined as a tool that able to link together all the people around the world‚ or we can also say that internet is a global network connecting millions of computers from different countries all over the world. Furthermore‚ in this high-tech society‚ the computer is no longer an advocate of the internet; we can also surf internet by using
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