Reading Log #5 I found the essay: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” very interesting because it criticizes one of the most important aspects of my life. I am a very tech-centered type of guy who always tries to use the technology at my disposal to either help or entertain me. For example‚ to maintain focus and concentration‚ I use a special timer that forces me to work for 30 minutes‚ then gives a 5 minute break right after. Another example of how I use technology in my life is how I use the application
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In her novel The Stone Angel‚ Margaret Laurence uses the stone angel monument to embody the qualities of Hagar . Over the course of the novel‚ Hagar reflects back on the memories that have made up her life. Hagar’s loneliness and depression are self induced and brought on by her pride‚ lack of emotion‚ stubbornness and the ignorance which she has towards anyone’s opinion but her own. The qualities of Hagar are identical with those possessed by the stone angel monument and paralleled by Laurence many
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How does Clint Eastwood generate emotional response in ‘American Sniper’ (2014) I am going to micro analyse the scene from ‘American sniper’ when Chris Kyle‚ played by Bradley Cooper shoots a Taliban soldier carrying a rocket launcher and a little boy then picks it up. American Sniper is a film based on the biography of Chris Kyle (America’s most dangerous sniper)‚ it was released in 2014 and was directed by Clint Eastwood. This essay will focus on the way that key micro features help to create
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Question 1: Written language is not neutral. Explore this idea making reference to your experience of written language. Written language can only be neutral if it has a non biased with preconceived values/beliefs‚ and the author or the narrator must not favour any side of the conflicts at hand. Written text is Not Neutral- supported by “The Handmaid’s Tale” written by Margaret Atwood (Main Points)- Play on words‚ Point of View‚ Neologism/Connotations of words‚ Intertextual links‚ Epigraphs
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feel detached and worried and begins to pray to God for direction. Frank was trying to get her attention and bring her toward the moving ship and continuously shout at her but Eveline does not move. She remains fixed to the land‚ motionless and emotionless. This story is about a young woman who faces the difficult choices of taking a risk or remaining in safety. If she decides to go she doesn’t know what the future would bring her but if she remains at home she wouldn’t be faced with anything knew
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Technology‚ Man’s Emotionless Invention In the short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” Bradbury demonstrates that the technologies created by humans are incapable of obtaining emotions. The house is so advanced that it can survive the explosion of an atomic bomb‚ but is still unable to express emotions similar to that of humans. After the explosion‚ the house now stands alone in the city of Allendale‚ California during 2026. It seems as if the owners of the house were anticipating a disaster so
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response from the viewers because it is about the organs rather than the persons. But it also doesn’t mean that genital representations cannot be beautiful. Another distinction between art and pornography is their manifestation. Porn is aggressive‚ emotionless and alienated while art is about love‚ passion and equality. Erotic art or any works that are sexually explicit differ from porn because they capture the formal elements of art and depict men and women with equality and respect. Erotic art came
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Mary Shelley paints a picture into her reader’s minds. She uses descriptive words that create images. She describes the scenery seen through the eyes of her character. Shelley writes “Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens and gave me a sensation of pleasure. I started up and beheld a radiant rise from among the trees.” (91). In this part of the text‚ I believe that the author is describing a sunrise. She talks about the “gentle light over the heavens”‚ when she says “heavens” she is referring
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Hip hop‚ is an art form created‚ popularized‚ maintained and honed by black people. Macklemore argues that the success they have is worth nothing is they don’t acknowledge that their place in the hip hop industry was cultivated by black people. Macklemore wrote this song from his perspective and his personal experience when it comes to the matter. He’s singing about his internal struggle with tying his identity to a culture he wasn’t born in and the black culture in which he found his success. His
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Do you ever wonder what it would be like if we lived in a place where everything is perfect and everybody is happy? In the famous novel The Giver‚ written by Lois Lowry‚ a utopia is seem to be created where the expectations are too high and it is too good to be true. But actually‚ it is quite dystopic because the society neither have the ability to choose anything on their own nor any feelings. Throughout this image‚ several euphemisms are used. In order to undermine the significance of the events
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