Tony Morales Classics 40 18 March 2015 Glory and Story: How Greek Mythology Informs Modern Culture “Excellence is not an action. It is a virtue.” Says Aristotle. In a way‚ as an action‚ excellence would seem episodic‚ occasional‚ or lucky. As a virtue‚ excellence would appear to be serial‚ rehearsed‚ or practiced. In both contexts‚ just as ancient Greek philosophy made different‚ lasting conceptual designs about the idea and ideal of “aristein” or to be the best of yourself and/or the better of your peers
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Eagleman‚ David. "Six Ways the Internet Will save Civilisation." Wired UK. Wired Magazine‚ 9 Nov. 2010. Web. 22 Mar. 2013. Protalinski‚ Emil. "The More Facebook Friends You Have‚ the Unhappier You Are." ZDNet. N.p.‚ 21 Mar. 2012. Web. 20 Mar. 2013. Turkle‚ Sherry. “Alone Together.” YouTube. YouTube‚ 25 Mar 2011. Web. 19 Mar. 2013.
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quickly across networks‚ and people often overlook that what they’re sharing might reach someone they don’t want to connect with. Despite technology’s intent to bring us together‚ it’s actually tearing us apart. In Source A‚ Alone Together‚ Sherry Turkle addresses how technology has offered us substitutes for connecting face-to-face‚ “They talk about how hard it is to understand family and friends…A forty-four-year-old woman says‚ “After
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could convince people it was not a machine” (Turkle‚ Turning 45). In this case this scene best shows Theo is incapable and cannot necessarily detach ideal thought(s) that Samantha can be human too due to her human like qualities even if it means not psychically seeing her. Yet on Samantha’s thought process is capable to feel emotions of her own and his through tone goes back to: “Can machines develop emotions?...emotions that machines cannot achieve?”(Turkle‚ Lindman 139). Although Samantha is aware
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written by Sherry Turkle talks about how technology is changing the way we have conversation and connect with each other. The technology that Turrkle mentions in the article is smart phone. The author describes the impact of smart phone on our communication. “In a 2015 study by the Pew Research Center‚ 89 percent of adults felt that the way they used their phones in social settings hurt the conversation.” People seem to be on the phone more than socialize with the people around them. Turkle states that
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Rachael Sharp Sharpr1@mail.montclair.edu (973) 362 6822 10788849 January 23‚ 2013 Professor Morris Being Connected Essay In the past few years‚ the increase in the use of social media has skyrocketed. A countless number of people of all ages have continuously been using technology in their everyday lives. The problem with this is that some overuse it and cannot detach themselves from it. This causes a distraction to allowing people to live their everyday lives and hurts their
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Although using Facebook has some advantages‚ there are some negative effects of extreme using. In the 1990s‚ critics held the diffusion of Internet as evidence of individuals ’ increasing alienation from society and public life (see Kraut et al.‚ 1998; Turkle‚ 1996; White‚ 1997). The story with Facebook‚ MySpace‚ and other social network sites (SNSs) is not any different. Unsafe disclosure of information‚ cyberbullies‚ addiction‚ risky behavior‚ and contact with dangerous communities are popular concerns
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References: Gopnik‚ A. (2007) Angels and Ages: Lincoln ’s language and its legacy The New Yorker‚ retrieved from http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/28/070528fa_fact_gopnik. Library of Congress (2012) "Preservation of the drafts of the Gettysburg Address at the
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To predict the future in one hundred years is a huge accomplishment. Aldous Huxley’s author of Brave New World gives his own unique perspective of the future. While Huxley’s book Brave New World does reflect our current culture in that people are immersed into technology‚ the book fails in today’s world that humans do not have their genes genetically manipulated. Huxley believed that advancement in technology would bring people into a false reality. In fact‚ the more there is technological improvement
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technological advances are bad for our society because of addiction‚ censorship‚ and they may lead us into another technological weapons war between countries around the world. First consider how addictive technology has become. According to Sherry Turkle from TED Talk‚ her daughter spent time with her friends together looking at their mobile phones devices (Ted.com). These kids had so much fun on their mobile phones that they didn’t even look at their friends. On the other hand‚ technology became
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