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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What keeps you alive? In addition to air‚ water‚ and food‚ people require something to motivate them‚ to keep them going. These motivations are oftentimes dreams which others consider to be unrealistic or even impossible. So what are we to think of people whose very existences are predicated on their own delusions? By definition‚ a person who cannot separate their own delusions from reality is considered to be insane. By this measure‚ it is possible to be a person whose entire existence is predicated
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and has had a significant change on everyone in some type of way. It is heavily influenced by technology. In some form of way technology has allowed people to gain more knowledge on general topics. “2b or Not 2b” by David Crystal‚ and “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” by Steven Johnson‚ both discuss how technology has had a huge impact on the way our modern day society works. Crystal argues the benefits that come with texting. He explains that although in many ways texting has tainted the English language
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The Current Undergraduate The article‚ “Ask Not What You Can Do For Your University‚ but What Your University Can Do For You”‚ written by the University of California Los Angeles Student WebZine‚ claims that universities are no longer providing education for students‚ but rather running a business. Colleges have turned into a profit seeking institution‚ making decisions based on financial concerns. The article claims that students are customers and education is a purchase. Webzine scolds the students
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the attitude? Ethics will have it as “love your neighbour as yourself” and “Do unto others if you want others do unto you”. "Philosophy starts with Socrates in the streets of Athens taking his message to the people and speaking in their language - agricultural analogies and common mythology." Through the centuries‚ though‚ philosophers retreated into academia‚ creating a convoluted vocabulary that can appear inaccessible to the average first-year university student - those "deontological" ethics
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How Can You Help the Earth to Survive? Try to imagine living in a world where weather conditions‚ like hail the size of oranges or hurricanes with unseen wind force‚ are reality. In the movie “The Day After Tomorrow”‚ scenes with disastrous weather conditions like the one mentioned above‚ are shown as a result of greenhouse effect and global warming‚ if they continue to increase. Fortunately‚ what the movie shows us is not very realistic‚ and the outrageous weather conditions are most likely never
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reality on TV. Johnson‚ Steven. “Watching TV Makes You Smarter.” They Say I say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing.Eds. Gerald Graff‚ CathyBirkenstein‚ and Russel Durst. New York: Norton‚ 2009. 213-230. Print. In the article written By Steven Johnson‚ “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”‚ states that the TV audience has become more cognitively demanding then earlier generations. Johnson believes that shows on TV are popular because they make the audience think more to understand the show.
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land‚ Off-Book and All-In jointly entered into a lease for the casino with the following key terms: The lease has a 20-year term beginning on the date construction of the casino is completed. The expected life of the casino is 40 years. All-In will make annual lease payments to Off-Book in the amount of $5 million‚
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most of what you know is semantic memory. Implicit memories include practiced skills and learned habits. On the other hand‚ explicit memories are memories of specific information. 2. Encoding is the translation of information into a form‚ which is called encoding. This is the first stage of processing information. The two types of encoding the mind uses are visual and acoustic codes and semantic codes. Visual and acoustic codes are learning something through visuals or by listening you repeat something
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will make you smarter Getting smarter isn’t something that happens overnight. Instead‚ you have to build your intelligence every day through intentional daily habits. In a recent Quora thread‚ "What would you do to be a little smarter every single day?"‚ readers shared their advice on good habits you can establish. Here are some simple actions that could help you become a smarter person. 1. Come up with 10 ideas every day. Think about how to reduce poverty‚ how to solve a daily problem you have
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