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    COURT OF APPEAL Slater v Clay Cross Co Ltd [1956] 2 QB 264 Full text 17 May 1956 DENNING LJ: In Derbyshire there has been for well over a hundred years a railway line owned by the defendants. We were told that George Stephenson himself made it. The defendants use it so as to carry limestone from their quarries at Crich down to Ambergate. It is a small gauge line‚ only three feet‚ three inches wide‚ and is 2 1/2 miles long. On that small line there are two tunnels. One of them‚ with which we

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    Mind The author‚ Lauren Slater is an American psychologist and writer. She is the author of seven books‚ including Welcome To My Country‚ Prozac Diary‚ and Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir. What promoted the author to write this piece was her story using prescription drugs resulting in her gaining weight. I know this because the the main title and text says it. For example‚ in the header Lauren Slater states “Would you gain 80 pounds to cure a crippling depression? Lauren Slater did and learned that her

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    operations to look more like one‚ they try to become more like an animal. In her essay‚ "Dr. Daedalus‚" Lauren Slater suggests that by altering our physical selves to emulate something more animal‚ our brains‚ and possibly even our souls‚ we become somehow more animal as well. She feels that we transform‚ and become more animal like every time we alter our body into the form of an animal. Slater is correct to point out that when we change our self to look more like animals we might have more in physical

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    surgery does the person become more or less authentic? In Lauren Slater’s essay “Who Holds the Clicker?”‚ Slater studies the symptoms and experience of thirty-six years old Mario Della Grotta‚ who is diagnosed with obsessive – compulsive disorder‚ or OCD. He suffers from a live of looped-loop in which he repeats actions fearing incompleteness. In Sherry Turkle’s essay‚ “Alone Together‚” Turkle explores the idea of authenticity and how in the future robots could offer humans better relationships as

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    by Sherry Turkle My Rhetorical Analysis Argument will be over “How Computers Change the Way We Think” by Sherry Turkle. In this article Turkle explains how computers have changed the way we store information‚ our sense of privacy and our competence to think ahead. Turkle studies the sociology of sciences of mind‚ a study of the interactions among technical‚ literary‚ and popular discourses about the self as they develop in specific social contexts. (Turkle 663) In this article Turkle expresses

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    Turkle reflects on how “only a decade ago” teenagers would hang out in local shopping malls and parks to visit and talk to each other‚ and today people would rather tweet each other than go out with one another (Turkle 91). The use of the word “only” illuminates how we have become so engulfed in our devices today‚ and makes the audience feel a sense of remorse due to how distant we’ve become over such a short period of time. This helps Turkle present her ideas in a satisfactory

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    hinder people from the physical and verbal realm of communication. Although Turkle backs her argument well‚ I disagree with her in the sense that social media acts as a villain in this case because Facebook helps friends and families to connect and communicate‚ it helps people say what they want to say and in some cases is a great way to get your voice heard on a higher platform. In “The Flight from Conversation”‚ Turkle tends to be a more one sided and bias towards her opinion without truly recognizing

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    Wallis emphasizes the importance a parent plays in monitoring an adolescent’s technological use‚ while Turkle appears to rely on the adolescent’s own self-awareness to determine the appropriate use of technology. The importance of family and technology can be felt when reading how Wallis chose to start her essay; Wallis’ short story not only highlights the disconnect felt between family members‚ but also how much control parents have lost to technology. Wallis’ “The Multitasking Generation” puts

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    Need to Call”‚ Sherry Turkle starts by making a point. Her point is that phone calls have been replaced by text messages‚ instant messages and emails. She gives examples to show how people benefits from text messages and instant messages. Her first example is Elaine who is seventeen year old. Elaine is a shy person. She uses text messages and instant messages instead of phone calls. She said that shy people can write freely on the screens. After Turkle’s first example‚ Turkle argues that not only

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    Sherry Turkle‚ a psychologist and a professor at MIT‚ uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to convey her opinion about modern technologies. Additionally‚ she exhibits some ways she believes technology is harming relationships in one of her Ted talk. TED (Technology‚ Entertainment and Design) is a non-profit organization that supports the ideas through strong rhetoric and persuasive appeals. In 2012‚ social media‚ texting‚ and online communication were on the rise; it was affecting human ability

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