Is the Internet Really Bad for Today’s Generation’s Literacy Skills? A POSITION PAPER BY: Philline Lopez April 8‚ 2013 The internet has been one of the – if not the most - major advancements in technology that this century had to offer. It has opened us to countless possibilities and it paved way for an easier means of communication and information-access. The internet is considered the largest information base. Because
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The Internet can influence us in many different ways. The internet is a great resource for subject you need help with. Without the internet we would be looking through book for hours‚ most books can be outdated. It helps us stay up to date with the latest news. The internet is made up of information that anyone can put up‚ even you. Which means most information can be incorrect‚ or someone trying to troll users online. Everything on the internet is not always true. Not only will you find false information
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How has the internet changed the way we communicate ? We are becoming slaves of our own creation. Nowadays the internet has become something indispensable. It has changed the way we communicate and interact by transforming our social lives‚ changing the way we learn‚ and created cyber bullying as an additional negative intention. People don’t socialize anymore as before. We don’t think nor read critically anymore which is making us more stupid. The internet was created to help us positively but we
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information "the book"‚ and we would find out that people back then relied completely on books for information‚ stories and history. And the best way to reach into somebody’s mind was to open his book. Today‚ after the fascinating invention of the internet or in other words the World Wide Web‚ books are no longer relied on and people buried all the books in libraries. The internet is now considered to be the modern source of information instead of the old fashionable books. Paragraph 1:
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The Internet was introduced to the world not too long ago. However‚ since it’s introduction‚ it has since grown at an amazing rate. People now source the Internet for information‚ research‚ and recently‚ even shopping. Faster modem speeds have caused more people to rely on the Internet as information can be found at an amazing speed. In today’s business world‚ it has now become essential for a company to have Internet access. There are very few businesses today that do not have their own websites
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Internet; Beneficial or Detrimental? The general argument made by Nicholas Carr in his work‚ “From The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains‚” is that technology is dangerous to the brain‚ conditioning the body that they need more technology‚ and less of anything else. More Specifically‚ Carr states that‚ “I used to find it easy to immerse myself in a book or a lengthy article...Now my consideration starts to drift after a page or two” (Carr par. 2). In this passage‚ Carr is suggesting
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The internet has become a major centre of extremist activity‚ one so important that Osama bin Ladin back in 2002 said that 90% of all jihadist activity will soon be through the media‚ which in turn is increasingly being dominated‚ at least from a jihadi point of view by the internet. Often spread out geographically‚ communication online has become the primary tool for their discussion and organization. Not only cat-lovers but also radical Islamist movements have capitalised on the potential of the
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The History Bubble Gum Introduction I. Gum. It’s been around for centuries—from the ancient Greeks to the American Indians‚ everyone’s chewed it. But the best kind of gum—bubble gum!—wasn’t invented until 1928‚ when an enterprising young accountant at Fleer Gum and Candy used his spare time to experiment with different recipes. (McCarthy‚ 2010) II. Bubble gum is a type of chewing gum that is especially designed for blowing bubbles (McCarthy‚ 2010) III. Chewing bubble gum is a common
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Rough Draft for The Shallows Essay In Nicholas Carr’s book‚ “The Shallows: What The Internet is Doing to our Brains‚” he makes the powerful point that in order to assume technology’s power‚ especially intellectual technology‚ we must pay a particularly high price. Carr states this idea in one quote from his book‚ “The price we pay to assume technologies power is alienation. The toll can be particularly high with our intellectual technologies. the tools of the mind amplify and in turn numb the
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The article called Does the Internet Make You Dumber by Nicholas Carr states that‚ “The Internet grants us easy access to unprecedented amounts of information. Growing body of scientific evidence suggest that the Net‚ with its constant distractions and interruptions‚ is also turning us into scattered and superficial thinkers” (1). Carr states in his article that the Internet affects people in a negative way‚ messing with their attention and memory. Carr also states how focused you are affects your
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