of whether Internet imposes a positive or a negative impact on out personalities and intellectual skills is one of the most often discussed issues in the modern society. Both the supporters and the opponents of the activities in the Internet provide rather well developed and foundational arguments supporting their positions. The examples of such writings are the articles written by Clay Shirky and Nicholas Carr published. The article by Clay Shirky under the title Does the Internet Make You Smarter
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Does The Internet Make You Smarter? Brentney Davis Ivy Tech Community College Cover Letter Dear Professor Downton: In my peer responses‚ I noticed a lot of the students said I didn’t have the questions I proposed answered for them so I went back and included that into my final draft. I also made sure to state the article in the introduction that I am summarizing and responding to. Problems I encountered while revising my draft were the compatibility of the computer I was using with the Microsoft
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Level D Level D Juan Sadut (Lazy Juan) Narrated by Nicolas Zafra‚ an Ilocano from San Fernando‚ La Union. The story is very popular among the country people about San Fernando‚ he reports. (1) Many years ago there lived a certain old couple who had an only son. Juan‚ for that was the boy’s name‚ was known throughout the village as an idler‚ and for this reason he was called Juan Sadut. He had no liking for any kind of work; in fact‚ his contempt for all work was so great‚ that he never even
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Why Technology Makes Us Fat: the Answer Isn’t as Simple as You Think Posted by Juliana Weiss-Roessler on Oct 23‚ 2012 Canada is facing an obesity epidemic. Almost a quarter of Canadians over the age of 30 were classified as obese in 2009‚ and the numbers have been going up consistently for the last 30 years. And along with them‚ the rates of heart disease‚ diabetes‚ hypertension‚ and even some forms of cancer. Much of the research conducted has largely shown the obvious—that increasingly poor
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Why are youngsters so lazy nowadays!\ Are kids really lazier? Or are we just more aware of the kids we didn’t necessarily cross paths with when we were younger? I know that when I was in high school‚ about half of the students went to a vocational/technical high school. Those kids learned a trade early in life‚ graduating with a certificate and a diploma. But quite a few of us were separated from that segment of the population. But let’s suppose that kids are becoming lazier. I have
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I think that in this story‚ it makes it clearly how lazy and selfish Arnie is and how kind and hard worker José is. In the story José asks Arnie‚ about his part in the team and his says “ Shoot‚I’ll round up all kinds of jobs for you. You won’t have to do anything. Except-you know- do the work.(86)” In here Arnie demonstrate how lazy he is to work and how selfish he is that wants José to work alone. Also‚ when Arnie and José went to spray paint for a job they had to do‚ in the story it says “ While
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arrested her on the spot. With the basic knowledge that I posses about the way that retail employs handle shoplifters‚ and the fact that police gave out citations for such crimes because they have better things to devote manpower to than arresting people for petty larceny‚ I knew that the story was a tall-tale his mother had spun in order to prevent him from shoplifting. Such cautionary tales are a time honored tradition that present themselves in different cultures for as far back as spoken languages
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towel and headed straight for the shower. “Dang you’re so lazy” my mom said with steam rushing her face from my hot shower. I also remember another time I was called “lazy” but it was way worse. It was when I was just a little kid about 8 years old. And my neighbors window got broken into. So then my neighbors right away blamed us. They called us a bunch of “lazy Mexicans”. They even called the cops on us even though we didn’t do it. The word lazy actually comes from low Germany. In Germany it’s actually
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Hodgkinson‚ I recently read your article ’Live lazy‚ live long - look at Britain’s oldest man’ that was published in ’The Guardian’ on 5th November 2012. After reading your article‚ I felt it was important to write to you explaining why I disagree with the message within your article. My first criticism is that initially you stated‚ “It seems to make sense that slow lives‚ as well as being enjoyable‚ are long lives.” I would like to point out
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influence of internet: more good than harm. 5 thoughts on “The influence of internet: more good than harm.” 1. Olivialathianza on January 29‚ 2012 at 10:47 am said: I don’t agree if the internet give more good than harm influence‚ as we could see nowadays teenager or child had been contaminated by lots of negatives in internet‚ they become more lazy to study‚ do homework‚ and they also wasted their time mostly on internet. Some negatives are like Porn and social networking‚ porn have make them become
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