Are scientific inventions making us happier ? One of the most popular questions which is often asked is: "Are scientific inventions making us happier ?" Science today has given us such comforts as were unimaginable years ago. Today we switch on the radio and listen to music‚ We have electricity‚ telephones‚ televisions‚ washing machines‚ refrigerators‚ air-conditioning plants and a host of other gadgets. All these things have made the life of man very easy and comfortable. The flush-lavatories
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The question of what is real and what makes us real has been a philosophical question with many different answers. Aristotle’s theory of Hylomorphism explains the reality of the universe‚ objects‚ and people in a materialistic way. Hylomorphism is the depiction that every physical thing is composed of two things: Matter and Form. Matter is the potency‚ or the potential of the physical object or being and the Form is its essence. Aristotle describes substance or Form as the truest and primary sense
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Facebook it is a great place filled with “nice” people and angsty teenagers yet somehow this amazing place of happiness has on some few occasions made people unhappy.The article How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy by Maria Konnikova‚ is about the ways that a person’s interactions on Facebook can cause them them to be more happy or unhappy. It does seem likely that how a person’s interactions on Facebook could affect their happiness. All people want to be liked and if someone uses Facebook hoping to
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In “How the Internet Gets Inside Us” Adam Gopnik claims that “It’s that our technological revolution is the big social revolution that we live with.” The revolution people live in now has changed people’s perspectives on the internet changing. Some people are found over it‚ some hate it‚ and some do not care what goes on with the internet changing. Gopnik establishes three types of views‚ the Never-Betters‚ the Better-Nevers‚ and the Ever-Wasers. The Never-Betters is someone who is enthusiastic about
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In the BBC article “How comedy makes us better people”‚ Mary O’Hara claims comedy holds a very relevant place in not only British politics and culture‚ but also in the entire world because it can be used to comprehend and come to terms with confusing events or tragedies‚ challenge the authority of our governments‚ and destroy bigoted states of mind. Humor continues to mystify the philosophers and intellects that study it to this day. Why does humor play a major part in our everyday lives? What is
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INTRODUCTION The internet has enabled faster access of information worldwide. It is the cheapest means to accessing any information. The internet is defined as a tool that can link up all the people in the world who have interconnected computers. We depend on the internet nowadays so much‚with its convenience but again it can act as a weapon against us. Firstly In 1969‚the US Department of Defense started a project to allow researchers and military personnel to communicate
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In the article‚ Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is making us less attentive and overall less intelligent‚ Which in his opinion is making us "dumber". Carr’s article refers to a growing body of scientific work to prove his point. A study conducted at Cornell University revealed that while some areas such as visual-spatial intelligence are increased by internet use‚ "new weaknesses in higher-order cognitive processes‚" such as "abstract vocabulary‚ mindfulness‚ reflection‚ inductive problem
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When is the last time you used the Internet? Maybe 1 minute‚ 30 minutes‚ 45 minutes ago. The things we can do on Internet are so technologically advanced that we use it for different reasons such as Facebook and Twitter which all require the internet. The Internet is a technology used by almost everyone around the world. This technology makes it possible for people to access valuable information through millions of sites that have been created by people willing to share there personal knowledge.
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POSITIVE and NEGATIVE Effects from Internet [pic][pic] [pic][pic][pic] Group Members : List of Pages Cover and Group members ………………………………………… 1 WHY WE CHOOSE THIS TOPIC ? …………………………………. 3 Internet Nowadays ………………………………………………….. 4 The Positive Effects …………………………………………………… 5 The Negative Effects ………………………………………………….. 7 How to use The Internet Wisely …………………………………….... 9
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The Internet In our present time‚ many of us are already using internet for our daily lives. The Internet is the mechanism or matrix that connects networks around the world to each other and is generally referred to as the World Wide Web. Internet has been the most useful technology of the modern times which helps us not only in our daily lives‚ but also our personal and professional lives developments. The internet helps us achieve this in several different ways. For the students and educational
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