Interpreting The “Prodigal Son” This story was a reminder for me‚ because it still happens today. When the young son wanted and demanded his money‚ he decided to move far away from his family. He thought that he didn’t need any one and just be on his own‚ having fun and spending all his money. Today that still happens‚ when we are young; we tend to want to move out as soon as possible from our parents home. And eventually we realized like the young son that life is not as easy as we thought. So
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Discussion 3 Digital Nation 1) In todays technological immersion environment‚ do you think the good side of it outweighs the bad? Technological environment is very powerful and complicated to people. The reason is that some people think digital life gives positive and good affections‚ but the other people consider many people get negative effects by new technologies. However‚ I think new technological environments gives benefits on people’s life. According to the video‚ in schools‚ students
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Final exam study Digital Media and Society Week 1 What this class is about… * Humans exchanging meaning * Through messages‚ by innovating using devices originally intended for corporate and government data management... computers * The debates about emerging media * How these debates are important to you profession development * You are a… knowledge worker Field labels * New communication technology * New media * Digital media Article: how is work changing
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My son the fanatic Growing up with teenage attitudes and not having a role model around can make it difficult to be loved. The short story “My son the fanatic”‚ by Hanif Kureishi is set in 1997 in England. Ali has no one to look up to – He starts as an attentive scholar who got straight A’s‚ but turns into a dedicated Muslim‚ which gives Ali the opportunity to find it in his religion. We get to know Parvez‚ who is a Pakistani immigrant in England. He had an indignant experience with
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MOTHER TO SON: VIDEO PRESENTATION ‘Mother to Son’ is an ecstatic poem composed by Langston Hughes. The poem is structured in a form of a conversation between a mother and her son. Hughes assures her son that her life wasn’t crystal stair‚ she also had to face several struggles in her life. Hence‚ she commands her son not to look back and keep climbing higher in life even if he thinks climbing is hard. He should try not to fall and climb the stairway of success without any fear because his mother
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“Mother to Son” The speaker of the poem “Mother to Son‚” by Langston Hughes is a mother who is giving advice to her son. Her life has been difficult and hard at times. As readers‚ we know this because the speaker talks about how life is a staircase and her staircase has had “tacks and splinters in it” (line 3-4). This means that her life has not been perfect and she had many challenges to deal with. Perhaps she was born into poverty‚ because the images in her poem reveal a ragged‚ old staircase
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The role of the youngest son Throughout the progression of my life‚ I must take a certain roles. Some of these roles are extremely important. Being young give me experiences about the crucial roles that will benefits me for the rest of my life. Taking positive interest in my actions is what enables me to improve in my roles. Even if I do not succeed in life‚ there will always be responsibilities and consequences that I must face and learn. Being the youngest son in the family is challenging since
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Eliana Dockterman’s article concerning Digital Parent Trap discusses how some want their children to have technology and some don’t. In Dockterman’s article she uses dependable evidence‚ reasoning‚ and highly academic word choices to prove a strong point about technology. First Dockterman uses dependable evidence in her article to get the readers attention to think about technology. She uses the fact “While there are dangers inherit in access to Facebook‚ new research suggests that social-networking
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television series and seasons of our favorite shows have become so glamorized and important in our lives that we tend to overlook the sexism laid upon characters that are often subtly presented‚ yet sometimes acerbically insulting to both men and women. Sons of Anarchy is a well-known show that airs on FX Networks‚ has an all-star cast‚ a deep‚ heartfelt story line that chronicles the rough life of the
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In today’s society‚ technology may be acknowledged as either being a useful tool in life to aid in one’s daily routine‚ or a detrimental item that is hurting people as it takes away time from more important matters. In the video called “Are We Digital Dummies” the concerns and advantages of living in a technological world are evidently shown. Foremost‚ the video raises concern about the takeover that technology has on the world. People are gradually moving towards having a total reliance on technology
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