1. Name: The age of stupid Producer: Franny Armstrong Presenter: Pete Postlethwaite Type: Documentary This documentary is about the influence of people on the total destruction of the Earth as we know it. 2. According to the presenter and producer it is our fault the earth over floods (seen in the intro). The main problem that caused the world-wide flooding and the end of the world population of people and animals as we know it was us. the human race. Or mostly they set the blame to the
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argument made by author Andrew Keen in his work‚ "Are Smartphones Making Us Stupid"‚ is that smart phones are making us stupid. More specifically Keen argues that we don’t use our technology correctly‚ if we did we would be more intelligent‚ but instead they are making us more and more self absorbed. He writes “So rather than transforming us into Albert Einstein‚ Steven Spielberg‚ or Toni Morrison‚ our smartphones are actually making us more wrapped up in ourselves.” (Keen‚ 22). In this passage‚ Keen
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Period 2 Global Connections 4/15/2013 Smart Devices and Stupid People Our world is one that revolves and relies on technology completely. As technology evolves‚ our means of communication and social interaction change with it. However‚ with greater technological advances comes greater responsibility. Such easy accessibility to the outside world can make it nearly impossible to keep your thoughts‚ your actions‚ and your information private in a place like the internet. Our means of communication
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STUPID LITTLE BOY Drown me in the water next to me Tell the porcupines to stop poking at me The pain make me fall‚ but I will stand Cause all of them are jerks while they take my hand Now they want a whisper‚ a whisper from me Cause all of them have seen me‚ on the big screen T.V. But what about little ol; little ol’ me The one that got bullied because of his teeth I hope you all see my hand wave bye to the people in the school yard I know my pain is on your mind Now you say we are friends‚ but
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Yue Li MKTG544 Jaebeom Suh 17/09/2012 Summary of “The hidden traps in decision making” This article is written by John S. Hammond‚ Ralph L. Keeney‚ and Howard Raiffa in 1998. The article talks about many manager were cheated by the presentational right decision and they already fall into the traps. Many Executives likely made the right decision‚ in fact this is sensory misperception. There are various traps that discussed in article:
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ESSAY PORTFOLIO Is the Internet making us less intelligent? Essay Plan In my essay I wish to argue that the Internet is not making us less intelligent‚ but that it has provided a whole new dimension to the way we interact‚ communicate‚ think‚ create‚ share and exist. The accessibility of the Internet provides a magnitude of knowledge and information in real time that could have never have been accessed
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Stephen Marche: is Facebook making us lonely? “Is Facebook making us lonely?” In an article for The Atlantic magazine‚ Stephen Marche explores a few articles‚ expert opinion and even quotes a scientist in his quest to answer this question. The article has an overall negative tone. Although Facebook is the most well-known and widely used social media site‚ is it really the culprit? I do not think so. If being lonely is something we can control‚ then we have to read this and reflect. That is‚ of
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10/7/2013 Google Book E-Commerce Model‚ Knowledge Integration & Ethic Discussion Case Study – YMBA 19/1 Group 5 Background Books‚ Google and Google Books 1 2 Ancient Ages The Royal Library of Alexandria‚ or Ancient Library of Alexandria‚ in Egypt‚ was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The Library is famous for having been burned‚ resulting in the loss of many scrolls and books‚ and has become a symbol of "knowledge and culture destroyed“
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In Stephen Marche’s article “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely”‚ he starts with a very powerful story of Yvette Vickers who was found dead nearly a year after her actual death of being isolated for so long. Yvette Vickers was later known as a “horror-movie icon”‚ after news of her death had spread all across the internet via social media people view her as “a new and different kind of horror” because of this new kind of fear everyone is terrified in which Stephen Marche says is “our growing fear of loneliness”
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Cover all Executive Summary Thorsen Bank is planning to develop an app that enables users to carry out a range of banking services via their smartphone for four months. Since Thorsen bank has a limited time & budget with a small team of existing software developers‚ it is not able to develop both iOS and Android OS apps together at once. In this report‚ we will address the key strengths and weaknesses of each OS‚ and give our recommendation that we believe would be in the best interest
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