In the article “ The force in ‘Star Wars’ is stupid and immoral” written by Ben Shapiro He states that “The vision of the force in the star wars galaxy is morality free its feelings centered wich another way of saying “selfish” who cares about your feelings?” I think the point of the force is that the light side is about using it to help others‚ and the dark side is about using it for yourself. The key to avoid becoming a dark sider is to control your emotions‚ like a good political leader should
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Julio Alvarado English 914 “Driving While Stupid” Summary In his article “Driving While Stupid‚” Dave Barry shares his experience of bad drivers. He talks about many scenarios that are taking place in many places. He first starts by stating that downtown Miami is home to the worst drivers. He claims that although some may try to say otherwise‚ that there is no way to compete with Miami on the worst driver scale. Barry backs up his clam by giving examples of how he has driven in every major U.S.
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Too Fast‚ Too Stupid Everyone has felt as if they were moving too fast‚ like Stupid Fast. Felton Reinsteins’ life is full of unexpected turns. His life started off hard as he was the one who walked into their family garage and found that his dad had committed suicide. His mother decided to go impracticable and destroy everything that his dad owned so he could not remember what he was like; although he was allowed to keep his dad’s bike the Varsity Blue. But this bike would not last for long as well
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Grammar and Technology: Are teens stupid‚ lazy‚ and illiterate? yayyy. mmmhm. princessprobz. errybody. teamspurret. A quick scroll through a Twitter feed includes a multiplicity of “techspeak” terms. Clearly‚ changing “everybody” to “errybody” does nothing to the time it takes to type the word‚ nor does changing “team spirit” to “teamspurret.” If teenagers spend hours on end communicating through technology‚ why must they use such strange‚ faulty grammar and spelling? As researchers
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Is Google Making Us Stupid Nicholas Carr’s Atlantic Online article “Is Google Making Us Stupid‚” discusses how the use of the computer affects our thought process. Carr starts out talking about his own experience as a writer and how he felt like “something had been tinkering with his brain‚ remapping his neural circuitry and reprogramming his memory”. Since starting to use the Internet his research techniques have changed. Carr said before he would immerse himself in books‚ lengthy articles and
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Gary Earl Ross’s article "Choosing not to read is choosing to be stupid" discusses the debatable topic that the nation is becoming less intelligent due to the decrease of people reading novels‚ poems and plays. As a University at Buffalo Professor Ross argues that he sees first hand "Slowly but inexorably we‚ as a nation‚ are getting dumber." I agree that the nation as a whole is becoming dumber‚ however it was not the article that persuaded me of this is was my former outside knowledge of this
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Nicholas Carr argues in his article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” that the internet is changing the way we think and work for the worst. I have to disagree. Although the internet is changing us‚ it’s for the better. First‚ the internet has become a great equalizer in terms of education. Second‚ communicating across the web allows for intercultural experiences that were once impossible without a plane ticket. Third‚ even though Carr may feel uncomfortable with his brain being molded by the
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In these days‚ it is difficult to find the family who doesn’t have a television in their living room‚ bedroom and even study room. Television is widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images with sounds. It was available to be set in homes‚ businesses and institutions since 1920‚ particularly as a source of entertainment and news. As the other technologies develops‚ the television also have been had huge developments. Just a few decades ago‚ television showed the
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to bed before 9:00pm‚ they couldn’t have pop before they went to bed‚ they didn’t get allowance‚ and they always have chores. Then they started talking about how if they made a big fuss about it‚ they might get their way. One kid had said "those stupid silly suckers don’t know what’s coming to ’em!" (Alliteration) They started talking about protesting. They wanted to make signs that would say things like "if you don’t give us what we want‚ we’ll kick your
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The poem "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes purposefully is reminiscent of Walt Whitman’s "I Hear America Singing" in which Whitman is optimistic about this land of democratic opportunity. Hughes‚ however‚ writing from a black man’s perspective‚ is much less optimistic about what American has been or will be. While Whitman’s’ poem was very unstructured in blank verse‚ Hughes’s poem is more tightly controlled with rhyme‚ tone‚ rhetorical questions‚ and more unified with repeated anaphora
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