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    Assignment 12 Name: Wendy Number: 100501042 Real Life vs Virtual Life For many‚ the first thing they do to start a day is logging into their Facebook account to check out news feeds. After catching up with all their friends’ updates‚ they go to the virtual farm or restaurant that they are running and begin the works. Meanwhile‚ they are preparing for their real-life exam or meeting. But things used to be a lot easier when there were no Facebook and Farm Ville. With the popularity of social

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    create relationships with local human beings. I did agree with his positive points and can compare them to Professor Turkle’s negative views in my source Alone Together. Turkle‚ Sherry. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. 1. New York: Basic Books‚ 2011. Print. Professor Sherry Turkle teaches Social Studies of Science at MIT and is a licensed clinical psychologist. In Alone Together she compares the Internet to a ball and chain that keeps us tethered to

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    blissful as it seems. Ignorance can be compared to being trapped in a prison of someone’s own mind where no man is ever truly free; he will always be imprisoned either by ignorance or by education. Authors such as Plato‚ Fredric Douglass‚ and Sherry Turkle all have faced bouts of ignorance but have overcome them through the want and drive to learn. Throughout Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” there is an internal struggle with in the protagonist to escape from the only place he has known as home just to

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    In the film “Her”‚ Theodore works in a company in which he creates love letters and express the emotion of each couples where he only sees them through pictures. As Theodore gets of his work‚ he had a same routine of playing this horrific‚ and boring video games where this creature is trying to help him find his way out. And there is Samantha‚ Theodore’s artificially operating system who lives in a computer which is designed to provide companionship. “Any person is available to become part of one’s

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    We try and predict the outcome of many things in life‚ like what we got on a test or paper. Or what our life will look like after high school and what job we might have. What if many of our dissections weren’t realing our own? What if the shows we watched as kids were preparing us for the future? Predictive Programming described by the Coincidence Theorist as “a theorised method of mass mind control‚ proposes that people are conditioned‚ through works of fiction‚ to accept planned future Scenarios

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    Cited: Rampell‚ Catherine and Claire Cain Miller. “Yahoo Orders Home Worker Back to the Office.” New York Times 02 25 2013‚ n. pag. Web. 22 May. 2013. Turkle‚ Sherry. “The Flight From Conversation.” New York Time 04 21 2012‚ n. pag. Web. 22 May. 2013.

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    In Alone Together Sherry Turkle demonstrates some of the negative effects technology has on society. She explains the current decline of human connection and interaction. Through technology and networking‚ people create and alter reality. Turkle argues that though social media websites and technology can enhance friendships and connections by it breaking the barrier of distance‚ this

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    11/8/2013 Basic Composition Final Draft 4 Losing Intimacy People yearn for relationships in order to experience intimacies and relate with others. It is in their nature to connect with other people to share emotions to try to‚ ultimately‚ avoid the feeling of being lonely. People desire relationships so they can have someone to share their interests with‚ confide their feelings with‚ and share experiences with. In earlier times‚ relationships primarily involved in-person interactions with one

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    potential‚ and work as hard as they possibly can to reach their goal. All of their goals have potential for greatness. I believe that like Locke that all children are a “blank slate” and are waiting to be written on with the chalk of knowledge (Gopnik 10). There are multiple colors of chalk that represent the different types of knowledge that is represented by the different colors.

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    INNOCENT FACEBOOK(!) Facebook is a social networking service‚ which has over one billion active users create profiles with photos‚ lists of personal interests‚ contact information and other personal information. So it creates a question in my mind why such a huge number of people wants to use Facebook. A pitch‚ which is called “Advantages of Maintaining a Facebook Profile”‚ was published in February 2011 in facebook. A lot of benefits were explored in that pitch‚ first of all someone who has an

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