Use Sources 13 14 and 15 and your own knowledge. Do you agree with the view that the main reason for hostility towards James I in England‚ in the years before 1618‚ was the immorality and corruption of the royal Court? Before the years 1618‚ there were various factors which contributed towards the hostility of James I. These factors include his unpopular decisions‚ uneasy relations with parliament‚ matters of religion and finally the issue of his extravagant lifestyle in which he shared with
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memory and become forgetful‚” if they rely so much on these substitute and accessible knowledge. And Carr still agrees with him‚ that because people would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction‚” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.” They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.” But Carr reminds us that there also many advantages despite these fears. It would serve to spread information
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people that suggests they are finding it more difficult to stay focused and even actually read something more than 3 pages and this evidence is from a previous columnist for the guardian and executive editor of the harvard business review author Nicholas Carr. Furthermore‚ the information we read on the internet minimizes the amount of thinking our brains have to do this is not a good sign if anything‚ the analyzing process of the text is more important‚ this process is there to help us remember information
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Though Amusing Ourselves to Death was published in 1985 and The Shallows was published in 2010‚ both authors tried to inform its readers of the alarming signs. We are blind and not even aware of it. The invention of technology has transformed it users to become flat out lazy. Carr once said‚ “ Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy of a Jet Ski.” We no longer can enjoy the adventure of scuba diving because it takes too long. We now prefer Jet Ski’s so
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? The article written by Nicholas Carr criticizes the Internet’s (not just Google’s) effects on our cognition. It points out the problem of lower concentration and contemplation and the problem of decreased focus on long pieces of writing or reading. It also states that according to the research users are not reading in traditional sense online. Even though I am highly aware of negative effects of Internet‚ there are still many advantages that Internet and Google brought
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Cooper. Bloomberg Businessweek. July 30‚ 2008. http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2008/08/immigrants_should_learn_english.html Dealing with Classroom Apathy in Literature. Janet Young. Cambridge Press. 2004. Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr. The Atlantic. August‚ 2008. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/ Pulp & Paper Pollution. Terri Paajanen. BellaOnline. The Voice of Women. http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art19308.asp Meyers
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through talking face to face. There are many humans in the Internet society affected by how the brain truly works when one is faced with emotional‚ educational‚ and spiritual problems using the Internet as an easy fix to get through the day. Nicholas Carr argues‚ “we risk turning into pancake people…we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button”(809). In the modern advances of cell phones‚ there are now Internet browsers to gain access to the outside world
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children turning to the internet for all activities such as games‚ learning‚ and pleasure. it’s socially not normal for kids to be on the internet all day. In How the Internet Gets Inside Us Gopnik gives us a statement from Nicholas Carr who is an author about technology and culture. Carr says‚ “As a technology‚ a book focuses our attention‚ isolates us from the myriad distractions that fill our everyday lives. A networked computer does precisely the opposite. It is designed to scatter our attention. .
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activities without leaving home and saving people a ton of time. In the article “The Juggler’s Brain” the author Nicholas Carr claims that studies that have shown that there’s more usages of the Internet‚ the brain becomes more expert in focus and analyze information because “As we practice browsing‚ surfing‚ scanning‚ and multitasking‚ our plastic brains may well become more facile at those task” (Carr‚ 2011 140). The more people use the Internet they accomplish a daily routine of activities‚ to make easy
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reflecting on the information provided. For example‚ the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” published in The Atlantic by Nicholas Carr blames Google for the changes in mental and comprehension abilities of most people. Carr describes his challenge of reading books like before and writes “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet Ski” (Carr‚ 2008). He argues that the internet inhibits his
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