In Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows‚ he talks about many things‚ including the titular topic of What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. He relates the story of the development of the written word‚ and the book‚ and the computer‚ and then the Internet‚ telling how the advent of each sparked a revolution in our culture‚ and‚ in the case of the internet‚ in the way we think‚ going on to say that “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet ski.” (Carr
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often changed themselves. Czar Nicholas II is an example of an individual who helped spark World War I. However‚ more notably‚ he is also an example of how the war affected him in ways much larger than the way he impacted it. Czar Nicholas II‚ also known as Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov‚ was born on 18 May 1868. Czar Alexander III‚ Nicholas’s father‚ died with kidney diseased at the age of 49‚ and Nicholas II “succeeded his father in 1894” (NicholasII BBC). Czar Nicholas II was neither trained nor
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According to Nicholas Carr in his book The Shallows‚ the Net is changing the way people view and live their everyday lives‚ and is the single most powerful mind-altering technology that has ever come into general use since the book. One can agree with Carr’s thesis because it is easily supported by observing the changing culture of humanity. Due to rapidly advancing and expanding technology‚ human beings are dealing with memory issues and diminishing human interaction. The Net is changing the way
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ENGINE PERFORMANCE & CAPACITY ENGINE SPECIFICATIONS Engine used :- TVS fiero F2 Bore * stroke :- 57mm*57.8mm Engine type :- Single Cylinder‚ 4-Stroke‚ Air cooled OHC Arrangement :- Vertical cylinder engine Displacement :- 147.55cc (Otto cycle based SI engine) Maximum power :- 12bhp(8.95KW)@8500RPM Maximum Torque :- 10.5NM@6500rpm Compression Ratio :- 9.4:1 Method Of Ignition :- Coil Ignition System Transmission :- 4speed Fuel Supply :- Carburettor Type
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Emily Hubbard 4-3-12 9th English A SPARK NEGLECTED BURNS THE HOUSE “A Spark Neglected Burns the House” is about two feuding neighbors‚ Ivan and Gabriel. After almost a decade of quarrels and pure hatred for one another‚ Gabriel decides to burn down Ivan’s house. In this story‚ Leo Tolstoy teaches that hatred has horrible consequences‚ that humility is essential in forgiving‚ and that forgiveness saves one from a lot of trouble. One of the first lessons Tolstoy teaches is that hatred has horrible
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For those of you somehow unfamiliar with the tale‚ here are the Spark Notes: Dorothy is a small-town Kansas girl who dreamed of life somewhere over the rainbow. She gets swept up in a tornado and dropped into a strange yet wonderful land called Oz. How did the author come up with the name Oz anyway? Baum said it came to him one day when he was staring – probably asking that question Ian shared concerning the ending time of class – at a set of filing drawers labeled A-G‚ H-N and O-Z. As a result
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Welcome Ladies and gentlemen‚ we’re here today not only to pay our respects‚ but also to remember and celebrate a life that was full and lived albeit far too short‚ and Colin‚ or Colin Walker to give him his Sunday name‚ was a family man‚ a golf addict‚ yes‚ but a family man first. Luckily all his family played golf too‚ so that wasn’t going to be a problem. Colin was a man people just warmed to‚ he had many many friends through work‚ socially‚ and the different golf clubs he has been a member
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The abdication of the Tsar Nicholas II brought light to ideologies that were present in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Sentiment towards that Tsar was negative as the USSR was ruled by a small nobility with a population that was composed of mainly peasants. The main groups trying to cause revolution in the USSR were the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Both groups had ideologies that were based on Marxism‚ and they were anti-Tsar with the Mensheviks having a longer-term plan and the
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Kids around the world wake up every Christmas morning hoping to find a stack of presents under the tree‚ having no doubt that Santa is real. But‚ once their parents confess the truth about Santa Claus‚ they are devastated. It looks like parents want their children to be wounded for all the rest of their Christmas’. Instead of destroying one of the significances of Christmas‚ being truthful and kind to each one and all‚ parents should rethink before talking their children into believing the Santa
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The statement says that Nicholas Carr thinks that technology’s power is alienation. His words are “the toll can be practically high with our intellectual technologies. The tools of the mind amplify and turn numb the most intimate‚ the most human‚ of our natural capacities – those for reasons‚ perception‚ memory‚ emotion. (Carr‚ 211) He says that by using tech so much we eventually go numb to everything around us‚ is that the truth? Well at this point in time all there was‚ was the ability to observe
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