form of peripheral social awareness (Wikipedia‚ 2015). This awareness comes from constant contact with people via social networking platforms like Facebook‚ Myspace‚ Twitter‚ Blogger‚ etc. We see this term being a big part of Clive Thompsons book Smarter Than You Think and is an essential element to understanding technology today. According to Thompson‚ ambient awareness is “almost like being in the same room as someone and picking up on his/her mood and thoughts by the stray signals he/she gives off”
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grateful now that I still love and play the sports of my youth. On the other hand the world today is dominated by computers and electronics so it‛s important that children learn to like and understand computers and technology early in life. The older generation didn‛t have the opportunity to have this electronic entertainment and so don‛t understand the attraction. In conclusion I would certainly agree that it is bad and unhealthy for children to spend all their time indoors with electronic entertainment
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The Younger Generation In the Twenty-first Century Good evening‚ ladies and gentlemen. We always say ‘we are the future’. Indeed. We‚ the younger generation represents modern knowledge‚ new concepts‚ ambition and great desire for success. But‚ have you ever thought of this question: how can we be successful in the 21st century‚ which is full of great challenges and fierce competitions? In my opinion‚ there are two important factors. First‚ we have to catch the opportunities and face the
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Seasonal a¤ective disorder Rosenthal NE‚ Sack DA‚ James SP‚ Parry BL‚ Mendelson WB‚ Tamarkin L‚ Wehr TA (1985) Seasonal a¤ective disorder and phototherapy. Ann N Y Acad Sci 453 : 260 –269 Rusak B (1977) The role of the suprachiasmic nuclei in the generation of circadian rhythms in the golden hamster‚ Mesocricetus auratus. J Comp Physiol 118 : 123–133 Schlager D‚ Schwartz JE‚ Bromet EJ (1993) Seasonal variations Sonnenberg J‚ Luine VN‚ Krey CR‚ Christakos S (1986) 1‚25Dihydroxyvitamin D3 treatment results
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Children aged 2-5 average 25 hours Children aged 6-11 average 20-28 hours Children aged 12-17 average 23 hours "By adulthood (18 yrs}most Americans have spent more time in front of the television set than in school‚ and far more than they have spent talking with their teachers‚ their friends and their parents." Time Spent Watching Television Takes away from important activities such as; Reading School work Playing Family Interaction Social Development Knowing the difference between fantasy and reality
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The Influence of the Internet on our younger Generation Mass media in general but especially today’s Internet plays a big role in our society. Our global communication is functioning based on the Internet as it transmits all kinds of information. The American Academy of Pediatrics shows that according to a study‚ teenagers spend in average up to 11 hours a day with variety of different media. For up to 1.5 hours from this time‚ they are sitting in front of a computer‚ which seams not so much.
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Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? As I walked into the gas station I couldn’t help but envy the cashier without even seeing who they were because they had a job that required zero mental capacity and required little to no thinking. I had just gotten off of work‚ where I was quite literally running a business‚ which was no easy task. It wasn’t until I laid eyes on who was ringing out my late night purchase did I immediately regret envying them. It was Jordan Davis‚ our graduating class’ valedictorian
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Why Girls are Smarter than Boys By Tyler Bradford It seems like girls have always been smarter than boys. Throughout the years girls have proven to excel with their brains. For example‚ a woman was the one to discover DNA instead of a boy. Girls are hard workers‚ mature individuals‚ and more aware than any boy has dreamed of being. Being hard working is just something most females are. They work hard to keep themselves organized. For example‚ my mom has always been the one to scold me for
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Why girls are smarter than boys Let’s Start with the truth‚ let’s face it guys it’s no secret that girls are smarter than boys the fact of the matter is we just have you beat in every way physically‚ emotionally‚ and even mentally. Anything you can do we can do better so is the way of the world. So please allow me to just prove why the females are the apex predator and the males are just another meal in the food chain. We’re just the elite sex in this situation for one you boys can’t give birth so
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any aspect of life when technology is far more advanced in problem solving and productivity. However‚ others would disagree with these statements; in Clive Thompson’s article‚ “Smarter than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better”‚ he proposes that technology acts as an enabler for humans rather than a hindrance. Thompson believes that if humans and technology can seamlessly work together‚ humans can be transformed into experts in their respective fields of study regardless
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