“Lonely Hearts” “Lonely Hearts” by Wendy Cope is a statement on the disconnectedness and isolation of modern city living. By showing the reader five different people all searching for love‚ all in the same area of North London‚ all of whom have different but very basic needs in a love interest‚ Cope is highlighting the fact that current societal means of meeting ones mate have changed. In addition the use of the villanelle style of closed form poetry gives this the presentation of a Greek chorus
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Lonely planet Introduction: * Type of organization: Lonely Planet has a internal culture in there company. That means that employees are free to be themselves‚ to exchange ideas and try new approaches to problems. The work space in informal and open‚ so that people can communicate easily with each other. * History: The company was founded in 1972 by the couple Tony and Maureen Wheeler. Their passion is traveling. They went on vacation and they wrote a traveling book so that they can
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? By Nicholas Carr Adapted from The Atlantic Monthly July 2008 “Dave‚ stop. Stop Dave. Will you stop‚ Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001:A Space Odyssey. Dave Bowman‚ having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine‚ is calmly‚ coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial brain. “Dave‚ my brain is going‚” HAL says forlornly. “I can
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Model Passage: “Is Facebook Making You Mean?” “Ummmmm…ew?” This statement may not seem like a harmful comment‚ but think about that mixed with a whole barrage of snide and sarcastic comments swallowing a picture you posted on Facebook from your family vacation. The picture was posted just to share an experience with others—who knew it would also cause such hatred from all those “friends” on Facebook? In the article “Is Facebook Making You Mean?‚” by Lauren Tarshis one Facebook user named Maya
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In the article‚ Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is making us less attentive and overall less intelligent‚ Which in his opinion is making us "dumber". Carr’s article refers to a growing body of scientific work to prove his point. A study conducted at Cornell University revealed that while some areas such as visual-spatial intelligence are increased by internet use‚ "new weaknesses in higher-order cognitive processes‚" such as "abstract vocabulary‚ mindfulness‚ reflection‚ inductive problem
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that depends on if it is making us smarter. There is a lot of technology coming out these days‚ and most of it is helpful to almost everyone. Essentially‚ technology is making us smarter. But‚ some technology is making short cuts for us. Students used to go to the library and checked out books to help with their homework. Nowadays‚ students go home and Google the answers‚ rather than searching for information to help them. In my opinion‚ the technology is making us better readers. The more a
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is it making us lazier‚ or is it increasing our productivity throughout our lives. In today’s world‚ we rely heavily on the internet for day to day uses and it has become something of a crutch for humans. From things such as looking up how to get to the nearest Sub-way‚ to ordering and purchasing items online‚ the internet has done nearly everything to make our lives easier. In a way the internet could be making us lazy as people. Alternatively‚ there’s the argument that the internet is making us more
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Is Google Making Us Stupid In the Atlantic Magazine‚ Nicholas Carr wrote an article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr poses a good question about how the internet has affected our brain‚ by remapping the neural circuitry and reprogramming our memory. Carr states‚ “My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell-but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the say way I used to think.” Carr went on farther‚ saying that he cannot read as long as he used to‚ his concentration starts to wonder after two or three
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In “Is Google Making us Stupid”‚ an article published in Atlantic Monthly 2008‚ Nick Carr writes that Google has made it easier for us to take in information‚ quickly at great volumes‚ the effect of the mechanical clock‚ along with the algorithm‚ and finally he finishes his essay writing about Google being a perfect search engine. Carr states that the technology is changing the way that society reads and writes; the Internet is shaping the process of thought. The Internet has caused the concentrations
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Michelle Huynh English 4 Professor Polster April 22‚ 2015 “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains‚” the author Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet has detrimental effects by altering the way we comprehend and the way our brain functions. Carr’s mind is changing because he is not thinking the way he used to think. He used to love reading books and articles‚ but now he can barely get through two or three pages because his
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