Ambient awareness is a term dubbed by social 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
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other people. I personally think everyone is connected in some sort of way. Since everyone is connected in some sort of way‚ it starts to bring drama and make some people do crazy things. Sometimes people mess with other people on the internet and make them hurt themselves. In my life I’ve learned many lessons. One lesson that has stuck to me and is important to me is to think before speaking and acting. I’ve learned this lesson from many experiences I had. One experience was when I was in middle
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What have you learned from your audience feedback? When creating a teaser trailer‚ it is important for us to get audience feedback. Firstly‚ we decided to use Survey Monkey which is an online survey tool. In this survey we asked people a set of 9 questions so we can get their thoughts on which sort of trailer appeals to them the most. This is so we can create a target audience for our teaser trailer in order to get the feedback from them. By looking at the audience feedback we took into consideration
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Have you ever been skeptical about what you eat everyday is not essential as you think? You may doubt that what am I talking about. I am going to talk about something that you eat everyday. Guess what? That is rice! Recently‚ my mother decided to choose brown rice instead of white rice as our food staple. This raises my attention about white rice. At present‚ half the world’s population sees rice as their staple food‚ mainly in parts of Asia‚ southern Europe‚ tropical America and Africa. Among the
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Do you agree watching television is waste of time? Most people agree that television is one of the most important inventions of the past century. Opinions vary as to its value‚ but no one can deny the great effect that television has on society. Many people in the world cannot live a day without the television. I think watching television can be beneficial if we do not abuse using it. Firstly‚ television is one of the greatest educational tools of all time. Documentary programmes about foreign
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Nowadays people say that not everyone is capable of upbringing a child. Parenthood‚ which used to be a natural status for almost anyone‚ is now the source of long debates among couples and a very profitable field to writers and publishers. First of all‚ a good parent should be a good listener‚ a person who understands what his or her child needs. Parents that listen are supportive people who put aside their high expectations and will keep their ears open for their young offspring‚ ready to
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students whose brains have become accustomed to digital media‚ such as playing computer games‚ listening to music on Ipods and looking at computer screens for lengthy times. Many of them have today evolved from sitting in front of screens to using handheld devices to send e mails‚ text messages and send instant messages. Some of them even talk to each other in bytes. In fact this generation is called the digital generation. Students of today live in a very different world from the world previous
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Do you believe that mankind is born good or evil? I believe that mankind are born to be good‚ but to be taught good or evil as they grow up.It depends on how their life was or how their parents taught and treated them. There is no such as thing being born evil only being born innocent. When people are born into this world‚ they are born innocent and new. Innocence‚ to me can be seen as good. They are babies‚ knowing nothing‚ not even evil . Then they grow and learn and begin to think about behavior
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Why do you think people attend college or university Education is a very important part for human life‚ that is why people spend their time in educational field‚ which starts from Kindergarten to College. When students finished high school‚ they need to make an important decision either to continue studying‚ which means attending college‚ or to start working and planning for their life right away. However‚ many students choose to go to college because some of them think that they can increase their
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The day that for so long I had been waiting for had finally arrived. It was my high school’s talent show. Excitement and nerves overpowered my body; at last I was going to dance in front of all my friends and family. I thought nothing and no one could ruin my day. That was off course until my brother Hector‚ who is 20 years old but still acts like a 10 year old‚ had to come and try to ruin it by telling me that I was an awful dancer and that his girlfriend‚ captain of the dance team and number one
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