Multitasking Hurts Performances but Makes You Feel Better‚ the title says it all. The authors’ main reason for this article is to share the truth about multitasking with the public. The article talks about studies taken on individual students over a period of time and their urge for multitasking. The students who multitasked seem to think that when they are studying and listening to music‚ watching television‚ texting‚ or on the internet that it makes them more productive. In reality the students
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Watching TV Makes You Smarter Steven Johnson’s argument in “Watching TV Makes you Smarter” that television increases intellectual and enhances our cognitive faculties‚ therefore making us smarter Johnson’s states that‚ “For decades‚ we’ve worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a path declining steadily toward lowest-common- denominator standards‚ presumably because the “masses” want dumb‚ simple pleasures and big media companies try to give the masses what they want. But as that
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Failing is natural; everyone does it. You have to fail to learn how to better yourself to avoid failure again. Failure can be avoided at times‚ but for the most part it is unavoidable. I have learned allot from my failure in basketball. It shows me what I need to improve on‚ what i need to stop or start doing‚ and what i should do differently. Failure is a huge help when you want to be better at anything you do. How does Losing Make Athletes Stronger Sometimes failure can be used as a teacher
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Does Advertising really make you spend more? A standard claim is that people who watch less t.v. spend less on things they don’t want. But I started to wonder if that’s really true. How influenced are we by advertising? Do we buy things because we see them repeatedly on t.v. or would we buy these things to make us feel good? I bought a new vehicle without seeing one single commercial‚ I decided I wanted a new car‚ and I just went shopping for one. It’s pretty clear that advertising works on
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Steven Johnson the author of “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”‚ argues that TV programing has become more cognitively demanding‚ and therefore believes that both watching TV and playing violent video games are somehow beneficial (278). By stating‚ that TV programing and reading focus on the same mental faculties such as attention‚ patience and retention (280) he makes it seem that is acceptable to indulge in such distractions. Ever since the multi-threading was introduced in the 1980 culture has
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Question 3 what reading have you enjoyed most in the past year and why? The reading I have enjoyed the most in the past year is ‘To kill a mocking bird’ by Harper Lee. The story’s main theme is about racial discrimination and gender inequality. It used a child’s point of view to tell the story so I can throw myself into the main character Scout. Thanks to her naivety‚ the injustice and the hypocrisy of Maycomb folks are enhanced. The most exciting part of the story is the fight in the court. Scout’s
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A powerful tool‚ but to what end? The Internet is the gateway to a seemingly limitless amount of information. This however‚ is where many people have differing perspectives on the Internet. In Nicholas Carr’s article‚ “Does the Internet Make You Dumber”‚ and Steven Johnson’s article‚ “The Genius of the Tinkerer”‚ these men share their perspective on the Internet. The authors believe that the Internet is a source for lots of information‚ but they differ in that Carr believes that the distractions
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author of “Watching TV makes you smarter” sheds light on the concept he calls the Sleeper Curve that essentially states that the cognitive complexity of today’s popular media is steadily increasing with passing time. And shows like Greys Anatomy and House clearly portraits the sleeper curve that Johnson is talking about when it comes to multithreading‚ flashing arrows and social networks. These shows are both medical dramas which use a ton of medical jargon which could make it difficult to comprehend
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To what extent do male and female literary characters accurately reflect the role of men and women in society? Plan: Deconstruct the question Talk about both the novels Come to the point and compare both the novels. Don’t deviate from the topic Talk about characters. The male and female characters play a vital role in both the novels and it definitely reflects the role of men and women society. In Gabriel Garcia’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold and in Khaled Hosseini’s thousand splendid
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Pills To Make You Smart The plague of “smart pills” is rapidly growing throughout the World. Ritalin‚ Adderall‚ and Provigil are taking over college campuses and business offices each day. Why ADHD pills though? The answer is that ADHD medication gets into your brain so that you can maintain focus. These pills are called cognitive-enhancing drugs‚ which means that they access the brain to enhance. However‚ you have to have a prescription to get the pills. Many people believe that gives people who
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