days give you the answers to practically everything. From searching the web to always communicating through a text; cellular phones have tethered the adolescents themselves including the people around them; it involves everyone. In the sections of Sherry Turkle’s essay Can You Hear Me Now‚ ‘The Tethered Adolescent’ one can connect to prove that society is losing itself through technology but it starts at a young age when given a cellular phone which then evolves into using technology in day to day
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from conversation I don’t remember which one it is‚” Sherry Turkle argues that people have become so accustomed to texting or other communication about everything that people are struggling to have a sit down conversation. She influenced my writing‚ and places where she showed up in this part is when I talk about having a conversation and not being able to focus on it because you are focused on your phone or distracted by something else. Sherry Turkle’s thoughts and mine intersect where I talk about
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D. The essay The F Word‚ written by Firoozeh Dumas‚ tells her interesting history of experiences related to her unpronounceable name and the way most Americans respond to unfamiliar‚ foreign names. Dumas presents this attractive essay that holds the reader’s attention by making it a very fun piece to read. Using humor as a big part of the writing‚ she also uses an informal‚ entertaining tone to capture the audience’s attention and keep them engaged. Dumas starts The F word by showing how most
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The essay‚ “The F Word‚” written by Firoozeh Dumas‚ fulfills its purpose to entertain with a humorous‚ enriching account of her interesting history of stories related to her hard-to-pronounce name. It also attempts to describe the way in which Americans respond to unfamiliar‚ foreign names. Dumas presents this engaging essay that holds the reader’s attention by making it a very fun piece to read. This work was originally incorporated into an excerpt titled “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up
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Sticks and stones can break your bones‚ but words can cut you deeply. The well-known saying “sticks and stones can break your bones‚ but words can never hurt you” has continuously been told to children struggling with bullying. The earliest known citation that used this phrase was from an American periodical The Christian Recorder in 1862 and was meant for a largely African American audience. During the Civil War‚ African Americans faced prejudice in the form of physical abuse and degrading insults
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I don’t know about you but I’m proud of who I am and where I come from. Just because your race or culture is different from everybody else‚ it don’t mean you should be judge‚ put down‚ or be disrespected just because of that. In the text‚ “The F Word” and “Peeling Bananas” shows us how different cultures is combined together or how people immigrate from the own country and go to a new country where people don’t understand their background or culture. People constantly saying their names wrong and
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In the introduction to her book‚ The “Tethered Self: Technology Reinvents Intimacy and Solitude” (2001)‚ Sherry Turkle‚ an MIT professor suggest that the online personas have negative effects on the growth of a healthy individual‚ healthy relationships‚ and a healthy community. The technology itself and the online personas provide the society a troubling effect. She gives her readers a list of effects in the opening passage. Then‚ she looks at two examples‚ the technological devices‚ and online
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by verbal speech such as ’can you try to do it’? or non verbal ways such as hand gestures thumbs up or smiling etc. Also after a child has done something positive we must always praise them verbally with a ’well done’! or thumbs up etc even a sticker chart or team points has the same effect. If we do not give children praise and encouragement they are less likely to join in new activities which will not give them confidence to experience new things and become independant. It is important that children
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Frazier’s “In Praise of Margins”‚ Frazier emphasizes the importance of engaging in “marginal” activities. He does not like the negative connotation that the word “marginal” has been given. It’s negative connotation comes from the thought that it describes things that have close to‚ or no purpose. All activities start out as having no purpose to them always end up having a deeper meaning to them in the end. Activities such as traveling‚ playing basketball‚ and exploring the woods in “In Praise of Margins”
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Response Essay 2 In the article by Ian Frazier‚ “Take the F” describes about Brooklyn‚ New York. Frazier mentions that‚ in Brooklyn people do not use term north‚ west‚ south or east to describe their location. Instead they use neighborhood and nearest subway lines. He gives a clear and detailed description about his neighborhood and F train he uses. Furthermore‚ he mentions about a group of people as well as diversity he sees around. I like the way Frazier had given all the details to explain the
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