Rhetorical Analysis “Has technology ruined our ability to communicate?” by Natalie Bencivenga appears in the premier American news website The Huffington Post. In this article‚ Natalie aims to convince that social media and the new technology such as smartphones have worsened our communication skills. We live in a new era‚ an era in which people communicate with text-messages‚ Facebook‚ Skype and tons of other social networks that connect people. Back in the days‚ there was only the phone‚ letters
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The troops that were returning from war some 12 million served during the war years were going back in the workforce. Most of these men were mere children when they signed on‚ some from rural America that never returned to work the earth. Farming technology was being made to counter act this problem. So much so that at the turn of the twentieth century 50 percent of the workforce was on farms that provided the nation’s food. By the end of the 1950’s only 7 percent of the workforce was working the nation’s
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How Technology has changed our Lives Even though it seems like technology has reached its limits and will stop changing‚ it’s still improving and will probably stop improving itself. Just twenty years ago‚ personal computers became small and affordable enough for families to buy and use them at home. Since then‚ technology has shown no signs of stopping or even slowing down. These days‚ it seems hard to imagine the original size of computers. Over just a few years‚ they have become smaller‚ and
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Has technology made our society rude? I was in a Starbucks one morning and in front of me was a woman on her cell phone. She was laughing and caring on a conversation in Spanish. She was not paying any attention to what was going on around her. A woman asked if she was in line and then the woman having the conversation said yes and moved up to the counter. She continued her conversation on her phone while the person on the other side of the counter waited for her to order. Finally‚ the person
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Social media tools and other technology provide a way to meet and stay in touch with other people through the Internet and it links millions of people together across the globe. The technology has significantly changed the way we think about identity. Unlike face-to-face‚ online interaction provides an opportunity for one to be anonymous‚ invisible‚ and multiple. Users have the opportunity to portray‚ experience‚ and express unexplored aspects of the self. The computer and interaction online provide
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networking sites have brought more harms than benefits.” Do you agree? Social networking sites such as Friendster‚ Twitter and Facebook all vary slightly‚ yet one of the main feature they have is that they enable users to create a profile within the website to represent themselves and interact with other users using emails‚ instant messaging and other integrated communication channels within the site. The popularity and growth of social networking sites over the years has been colossal. Today‚ there
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treatment of newborn babies is a tragic reflection of the state of social ills in our society involving erring youths and teenagers. It is also symptomatic of problematic families where the family institutions have failed to inculcate noble values in the young generation. The easy availability of pornographic materials as well as the influence of pornography through the Internet is also a factor that cannot be ignored and this has led to the emergence of many social ills. In the wake of all these disturbing
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Imagine what you would do without ‘Facebook’. Imagine not being able to send that ‘WhatsApp’ message to your loved ones overseas. Imagine life without the Internet… The rise of the Internet in the past few decades has brought massive changes in political‚ social‚ economical and even environmental aspects across the world. These changes are not only for the better‚ but some of them are for the worse. I believe that these benefits‚ however‚ outweigh the Internet’s negative impacts. Traditionally
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Good morning I bid to the Mr/Madam speaker Wise and honourable adjudicators‚ Accurate and precise timekeeper My fellow comrades‚ My worthy yet sadly misguided opponents‚ And last but not least‚ The respected members of the floor. I as the 3rd speaker of the negative strongly disagree with the motion for today which is SUCCESS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HAPPINESS. As such‚ I am bound by my duty to rebut‚ refute and expose all three points brought forward by the affirmative. After that‚ I will
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ESSAY ON STRESS Nowadays‚ stress is becoming a common problem. Our younger generation thinks that modern life is generally much more stressful than in the past. However‚ others say that the amount of stress people have today is overstated as older generations coped with more pressure‚ but they never thought about such a phenomenon as “stress”. This contradiction makes many people compare the negative aspects of stress to society today and in the past. On the one hand‚ the previous generations
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