The essay take the F by Ian Frazier is about his experience living in Brooklyn and that people that live there. People that live in Brooklyn don’t describe where they live in terms of direction like east or north but rather they refer to their neighborhoods and the subway lines that are nearest to them. He talks about the F train that he rode in and out of Manhattan and that diversity of the people who are riding the train. He mentions three classes that are classified as upper‚ middle‚ and low class
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Sherry Turkle states that communication is important in any relationships and the idea that technology changes the way we communicate isn’t for the better in fact it creates a distraction to the relationship and the world around us. The chapter “Friendship” by Sherry Turkle explains how technology have interrupted friendships over the years and how people now care about media rather than friendship. Turkle states how technology affected the communication between people and their social skills‚ it
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Impact of Technology on Society in Sherry Turkle and Malcolm Gladwell Technology has a great impact on our authenticity of a relationship because many people have no concern for the person on the other end. When one has a face to face conversation with someone‚ body language and facial expressions show the person’s emotions. One can represent love‚ hope‚ fear‚ or happiness in an eye to eye conversion‚ but in terms of texting one cannot show real emotions. In Sherry Turkle’s essay “Alone Together”
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Mary Thompson Executive Summary In order to further our understanding of the decisions of Mary Thompson involved in the case Mary Thompson‚ we conducted a study and selected detailed analysis to gain insights for her dilemma. Mary Thompson had had been conducting fieldwork in a Southeast Asian community for 18 months. Her house was ideally located on the edge of the village plaza‚ allowing her to readily observe daily activities that took place in the plaza. In addition to gatherings of women who
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Mary Maloney‚ a loving and pregnant housewife with many hobbies has recently added a new category to her list of abilities‚ murder. It was ten minutes till five when Patrick‚ Mary’s husband‚ came home from work. She greeted her helpless spouse with open arms and took his things as he took a seat. Mary proceeded with her activities and made drinks for herself and her husband and offered to make a meal for him but‚ he did not want it. She and her husband talked‚ he brought up his job and explained
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As soon as people can string a few words together to form a proper sentence as an infant‚ they start asking questions. They ask questions about their surroundings in an attempt to make sense of what goes on around them. A toddler’s question of ‘where’s mommy and daddy?’ when his parents have been out shopping for groceries can be answered without difficulty. But some questions‚ even when asked at such a young age‚ are difficult to answer. Questions like‚ “Why does nobody come? Why was I forgotten
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Sleeping in the Forest by Mary Oliver is a poem which‚ as with other poems she has written‚ connects things in nature to human experience and feeling. The first line held my full attention saying "I thought the earth remembered me‚" as I did not know at first why Oliver included the word thought. After closer examination and re-reading responses to this poem from Discussion Number 1‚ I came to the conclusion that this line could be talking about some sort of death‚ or what happens in the mind directly
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In Pico Iyer’s essay “In Praise of The Humble Comma” examples‚ and comparisons to God‚ are used to convey to the audience the necessity for punctuation in the written language. The necessity can be broken down into two different needs‚ the first being the grammatical need‚ and the other being the emotional need‚ which will be discussed later. In the beginning of the essay Iyer compares the comma to the gods because they can both “give breath and take it away” (1). The gods are said to have created
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Beauty is a very indefinite concept‚ every person has a different idea of what they view as attractive. So when an entire civilization of people collectively define such a word; an automatic categorization of the physical appearances‚ personality traits‚ fashion sense‚ social class‚ and attitude of the people separates and divides them into what is acceptable and what is not. By doing this‚ we are taught to desire certain people that fit into these specific traits. But does that change the way we
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3/3/13 Developmental Psych Topic Paper I chose an article I found on the internet on the website Psychology Today titled In Praise of Frustration‚ by Bruce Poulsen. I had taken a look at several different articles‚ but this particular one I felt I could relate to course material and concepts I have learned thus far. The American Psychological Association had published new research suggesting that praising children for their personal qualities rather than their efforts towards a situation
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