lumber-room The story under analysis was written by Hector Munro‚ a British novelist and a short-story writer. After his parents’ death he was brought up by a grandmother and two aunts‚ one of them was a woman of ungovernable temper‚ of fierce likes and dislikes‚ imperious and a moral coward. She was the last person who should have been in charge of children. The character of the aunt in The Lumber-Room is Aunt Augusta to the life. The story is about a little boy Nikolas who lives with his cruel
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Nicholas Carr is a first gerenration‚well informed author who writes about how the internet is impacting our minds and lives.Since 2003 Carr has been writing critically about the consequences due to this vast creation‚ that is the internet. He has written several books and articles including “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains” and "IT Doesn’t Matter". This response essay is to one of Nicholas Carrs articles in particular from The Atlantic called‚ “ Is Google Making Us Stupid
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Phineas Gage is considered to be one of the severe brain injuries. Gage suffered from personality changes after the brain injury. Gage was injured when excavating rocks to create a path for railroad track. Gage and other employees were injured by rail roads during the construction work. Gage was later treated after the accident as he his brain had been damaged. The accident caused damaged to brain structures and doctors argued that Gage started behaving differently after the accident (Damasio‚ Grabowski
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named Ken and a brain injury patient from the 1800s named Phineas Gage may not actually be that different. Both people used their brain injuries to help people. Gage’s case was a gift to scientist. They were able to help people who suffered frontal lobe injuries. Ken made more things accessible to disabled people. Both struggled with obstacles and roadblocks in their way. Ken had to deal with prejudice against disabled people and Gage had to find a way to live despite his social awkwardness and negative
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Nicholas Kristof is a columnist for the well known newspaper The New York Times. His main focus for his column is Human rights‚ women’s rights‚ health‚ and global affairs. He has written his column for the NY Times since 2001. Kristof grew up in Oregon and graduated from Harvard University. He went on to study law at Oxford. He is fluent in more than 3 languages and was a foreign correspondent for the NY Times for many years. He won two pulitzer prizes and received many humanitarian awards. One
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Matilda Gage was a strong supporter of freedom. She was one of the leading figures in the women’s rights and suffrage movement during the mid-1800s. Gage was born on March 24‚ 1826 in Cicero‚ New York and was raised in a house dedicated to antislavery. ("Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation") The activist and free thinker Matilda Joslyn Gage is relevant in today’s American culture because of her work in the abolitionist movement which led to the emancipation of slaves; her pioneering work to start the
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Nicholas Copernicus’ Cosmos Nicholas Copernicus was a Polish cosmologist born in the year 1470. Copernicus had always been an intelligent‚ and very well rounded person. When he was of age‚ he was sent to the university in Italy to study. When he graduated he was proficient in areas such as‚ medicine‚ accounting‚ and the liberal arts. Copernicus was also a religious man. He was a Brother in his church due to his uncle being a Bishop. His work as a cosmologist was completely of his own interest
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St. Nicholas St. Nicholas is a saint for his gratitude and mercy towards others. He gave his possessions to the poor and needy. He was imprisoned for his faith and declared that Arianism is not real and was bad (“St. Nicholas”). St. Nicholas was born in Patara‚ Lycia Turkey on March 15‚ 270 A.D. Both of his parents died when he was young (Biography.com Editors). Both of his parents were wealthy so he received a large inheritance. Instead of using his inheritance for himself‚ he gave it all to the
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much information almost instantaneously. The internet has become our way of life just due to all the things it has for us. The invention of the internet is almost as powerful as maps and clocks and even the radio; This can be seen in The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. One of the biggest things the internet and advanced technology has created‚ would have to be all forms of social media. A huge benefit for social media would have to be staying connected with people. By using social media friends and family
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Compared to the technology we possessed before 1980‚ Our technology today is significantly more advanced and it is only the beginning. As the use of technology has increased dramatically in our everyday life many argue that it can be very useful‚ but others can say that technology only seems to be affecting the way Millennials think and process information. Mark Bauerlein is a prime example of this way of thinking‚ he declares that all of those under 30 years of age‚ also known as the Millennials
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