Documentaries do have power‚ the eco-drama 2009 “The Age of Stupid” relays a message the audience will never forget. The year is 2055‚ in a world devastated by mankind’s lack of foresight. The film maker attempts to make the documentary informative yet personal‚ the film maker innovative the film by adopted a new model of funding known as crowd funding. By selling shares to over 200 individual and groups who donated between 500-35000 euros‚ it created the best possible chance for the documentary
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Christina Robinson ENG 101 College Compositions 1 Professor Roberto C. Garcia Is Google Making Us Stupid? Feb. 18‚ 2014 Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr narrated his essay based on a thesis‚ by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001movie: A Space Odyssey. A character named Bowman‚ whom has been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine‚ is calmly‚ coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “brain.” The
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1. Name: The age of stupid Producer: Franny Armstrong Presenter: Pete Postlethwaite Type: Documentary This documentary is about the influence of people on the total destruction of the Earth as we know it. 2. According to the presenter and producer it is our fault the earth over floods (seen in the intro). The main problem that caused the world-wide flooding and the end of the world population of people and animals as we know it was us. the human race. Or mostly they set the blame to the
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Nicholas Carr believes a person often becomes distracted due to the amount of time that they have consumed on the Internet. In Carr’s article‚ he’s not necessarily saying that Google is making us “stupid‚” but the fact that there is so much that can be going on Carr then formed a hypothesis on why he thinks people are easily distracted‚ the Internet. The Internet contains numerous of information‚ which caused individuals to change the way they process their thoughts‚ in another word‚ the way they
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“Stupid Freshman”‚ are the words every freshman hears entering high school. Everything they do‚ is wrong no matter what. I remember entering freshman year and being so excited‚ that was until the first month had passed. I wasn’t scared coming into highschool because I had many friends who were already in high school. Many upperclassmen tried to warn my friends and I what to do and what not to do. As usual‚ we didn’t listen. As freshman we thought we were all grown up and so mature‚ little did we
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Cody Miller Collins English 1105 30 October 2014 Is Google Making Us Stupid? Today‚ the Internet has become a big part of our lives. We rely deeply on it to obtain information‚ but it makes it harder for us to retain information. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr uses allusion‚ metaphor‚ and an appeal to logos in order to explain that the Internet is making society less smart and more reliant on technology. Carr uses various allusions in order to give the reader a better understanding
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stress to occur‚ but when sudden change in lifestyle can cause people to lose this feeling of control and contentment. Adolescent years of an individual’s life can be very strenuous‚ because of sudden change in lifestyle and understanding. In the novel Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach‚ the author uses the development of Felton Reinstein to demonstrate strenuous teenaged conflict and the struggle to find contentment. Geoff Herbach throws in difficult situations that are strenuous to Felton‚ HerBach does this
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Food Labels Compare and Contrast You are standing in the diary section of the grocery store‚ and in your hands is cottage cheese and mozzarella cheese. You are trying to pick the better food choice to meet your dietary needs. How do you know which one is the best choice? Well‚ the best way to know which of these two foods meets your dietary needs is by reading each items food label to see what nutrients they both contain. The first thing the food label tells you is the serving size of each food
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Look Beyond the ’Latino" Label Precis Summary Gregory Rodriguez in the editorial‚ "Look Beyond the ’Latino’ Label"‚ argues that in order for the ’times’ to actually look beyond the ’Latino’ label like they claim they would like to‚ they need to stop overusing such vague terms such as ’Hispanics’ and ’Latinos’ and focus on discerning peoples differences. Rodriguez supports his claim by explaining how using‚ "these catchall terms undermine the accuracy of stories". For example‚ he describes how
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