UCWR 110 September 8‚ 2014 Essay 1: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” summary and response Summary: In the article of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and has some negative effects on our lives. In the article of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and has some negative effects on our lives. The article begins with that the Internet is the excellent resource
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“Is Google Making Us Stupid” In “Is Google Making Us Stupid‚” Nicholas Carr discusses over the question about the cause and effect of how Internet impacts our thinking‚ reading‚ writing habits‚ and how our brains react to adapt to the “new-media rule”. The author uses many specific examples and statistics to demonstrate his point of view. Throughout the first part of the article‚ Nicholas Carr argues whether our reading and writing habits may be affected by the search engines on Google. We used
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“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In the article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid” in the magazine The Atlantic‚ the author‚ Nicholas Carr‚ recounts his difficulties with concentration while reading lengthy articles and books. Carr claims that these difficulties may be caused by an increase in the time he spends on the internet. His principle argument is that the internet provides us with a means of rapidly accessing information that we are searching for and this causes our minds to be used to obtaining
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Samantha Hammack Dr. Turner English 111-011 24 October 2012 Rhetorical Analysis of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas G. Carr has written an abundance of articles about technology. Some of his work includes: Does It Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage‚ and The Big Switch: Rewiring the World‚ From Edison to Google. One of Carr’s achievements‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid‚” smoothly persuades the reader to believe that the Internet is taking over the human mind
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“How to make sure that the annoying‚ complaining guest leaves satisfied and happy” Complaining guests: not really the most exciting part about working in the hospitality industry. But handling those complaints is one of the most important aspects of your job. If you ever made a complaint yourself‚ you know the big influence the handling of that complaint has on your decision whether to visit that restaurant or bar again‚ or not. And the chance you will tell your friends about the great service
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Careless Back in Hemmingwayś time‚ women were treated way different than they are today. Hemingway portrays how women were treated in his stories‚ “Cat in the Rain”‚ and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”. In Hemingway’s stories he portrays women as people who have no morals or values. In the stories he makes women seem helpless‚ greedy‚ and careless. First Hemingway portrays the female characters in his story as helpless. In the story “Cat in the Rain” the husband says mean things to his
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media platforms. In the article “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” the author argues that Facebook‚ one of the most popular forms of social media ever‚ is the reason why much of society is the way it is. For example‚ there used to be a point in time‚ where friends and families remembered each other’s birthdays and would mail you a birthday card‚ offer to take
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on‚ TV’s we watch have all advanced in major ways. My thinking has been influenced by the technological devices that I use. In my personal life‚ I use lots of technology. My favorite piece of technology is my cell phone. On my phone I can not only make calls‚ but I can download and play games‚ surf the web‚ keep track of my agenda‚ download different apps‚ and even check my emails. I also use the computer‚ tv‚ dvd player‚ radio‚ and gaming consoles to keep me entertained. I love to listen to the
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Through the analysis and exploring the text "happy feet" by Warren Coleman‚ Old foot by Roy Bradbury and Peter Skrzynecki poems (10 Mary street‚ Felix Skrzynecki) ‚ a vast array of representation of the concept of belonging. The abundance of idea’s from the text explore the concepts through it paradoxes and it’s thesis. Firstly‚ in Felix Skrzynecki the father figure is describe as a self sufficient person "my gentle father/the joneses of his own minds making" this can be back up later as we learn he
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The Death of A Salesman. Happy Loman‚ a character dominated by his material greed and desire to crush anyone standing between him and the almighty dollar‚ represents a skewed perspective of that Dream‚ a perspective shared by an increasingly large amount of Americans. Through his insatiable appetite for power‚ lust‚ and wealth‚ Happy Loman embodies the modern capitalist American Dream. And through his never-ending discontent and incessant feeling of unfulfillment‚ Happy also embodies the fallacy
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