Not only does Carr believe this but states others, including friends and colleagues are also experiencing this affect. Carr’s goal is to push readers to think more critically about the negative impact internet usage can have on one’s ability to read and articulate articles. Although Carr provides some anecdotal evidence it is not sufficient evidence to prove that Google is making us stupid. In completing a critical analysis of Carr’s essay I will examine both the weaknesses and strengths of his argument and provide research and literature to support my belief that Google is not in fact making us stupid. Carr begins his essay by saying “I’ve had the uncomfortable feeling that over the past few years someone, or something has been tinkering with [his] brain”(91).
When there were automatic looms, the mind was like an automatic loom; and, since young people in the loom period liked novels, it was the cheap novel that was degrading our minds. When there were telephone exchanges, the mind was like a telephone exchange, and, in the same period, since the nickelodeon reigned, moving pictures were making us dumb. When mainframe computers arrived and television was what kids liked, the mind was like a mainframe and television was the engine of our idiocy. Some machine is always showing us Mind; some entertainment derived from the machine is always showing us Non-Mind.”(Gopnik
Assess GCSE Reform Michael Gove is a British politician and currently serves as The Secretary of State for Education. In June of this year a national newspaper leaked information that showed Gove’s plans to scrap GCSE examinations. The information received widespread praise from senior Conservative figures but teachers unions and Labour MP’s were not so supportive in hearing the proposals. The articles written by Martin Stephen for The Telegraph and Melissa Benn for The Guardian look at Michael Gove’s reform from two different perspectives. The first article by Martin Stephen is written for The Telegraph, a known Conservative supporting newspaper.
“So much of American society has become sloppy and laissez faire about the mechanics of writing” (Naomi Baron 88). Baron is making a bold statement by saying that, but she is a linguistics professor at American University and has seen a bad impact on student writing. Another statement made was “it reinforces simplistic writing that may be acceptable for conversation but is not so good for critical thinking or analysis” (Cullington 89). Both of these points are very true and definitely affect what the final outcome will be, weather it makes writing worse, or has no affect at
His argument has a lot of people from different backgrounds and perspectives reading it. To start, the title, “What’s Wrong With Vocational School?” offers a different perspective in and of itself; for many traditional American middle-class families, vocational school is simply never considered. In some way, this makes his bold writing style more impressive because of the potential risk he is taking. The supposed risk, however, is in the perspective of each reader. If one views it as Murray’s support of the less talented, or less affluent, then he seems very democratic and generous.
The outcome would have been very different in different battles across the world, such as The Battle of El Alamein in North Africa in which Turing had cracked the Army Enigma code and revealed crucial information about the lack of supplies. The outcome of the Second World War changed dramatically as many of the Nazi messages were intercepted and acted on accordingly. Solving the enigma did change the outcome of the Second World War since it provided critical information and was a breakthrough in the way we think of machines in the modern world. If the Enigma was never solved the faith of many lives would have lost and the world we know today would certainly been very much different. The future of the war is very uncertain as their were many things that could have changed such as Operation Sea Lion in which was Hitler’s plan of the invasion of Britain.
Jenee Buchwalder Mrs. Leirssano Seminar Advanced English 1, 2 13 April 2010 The Effects of Media with Character Restrictions on the English Language Text messaging abbreviations tend to have a negative connotation to them, based on irritated English teachers who have witnessed various errors due to them. Nonetheless, there have always been people trying to “up the ante” by taking it a step further. Take IMO, for instance. These words have been transformed into IMHO, IMCO, IMHBCO, and IMNSHO (in my humble/considered/humble but considered/not so humble opinion, respectively) (Txtng 53). David Crystal indicates, “This is a form of language play... [the desire to] outdo what has been done before.” This type of minor changes of words are a prime example of the effects of text messaging media on the English language.
‘Multiculturalism is increasingly under attack in Europe as having ‘failed’ to integrate minorities.’ Discuss this accusation. In this essay I will discuss the accusation that multiculturalism is increasingly under attack in Europe as having failed to integrate minorities. It is hard to make a sweeping generalisation on this topic due to the many factors involved and pros and cons of multiculturalism. It encompasses such a large number of people who are affected therefore there will always be exceptions to the general trends but I will be looking at both sides of the argument. In writing this essay I will examine the efforts made by governments to integrate people of ethnic minorities into Western society by means of government policy and government bodies set up to aid this integration.
Today I want to try my best to persuade you why you should read books. It is a disappointment that nowadays people read books less often due to the widespread of technology Books were v hundred years ago, but with the invention of radio, television, and the Internet and computer games, people careless for reading books.However, once you complete reading a great written book it will have a great effect on it will motivate you to become a better person and increases your knowlage a lot and provide you with great inspiration. Some people argue that television in the present days is much more informative and interacting I agree on that to some extent. Television, on one hand, offers a colourful motion picture, whereas, the books, on the other hand allows you to think imaginatively with the characters in the book and their background story and the atmosphere that the story takes place.There are also people wondering why they would read from books rather than from online websites? spending hours reading from internet can cause you headaches and pain in your eyes, on the other hand books dosent cause you headaches nor problem in your eyes no matter how long you read except if you are reading it from a wrong angle .
Nicholas Carr and Clay Sharkey debate whether or not the internet is actually making us smarter or dumber. “Never has a communications system played so many roles in our lives- or exerted such broad influences over our thoughts, as the internet does today. “that is one of Carr’s viewpoints. Shirkey believes that “every increase in paperback book to you tube, alarms people accustomed to the restrictions of the old system, convincing them that the new media will make young people stupid. This fear dates back to at least the invention of movable type.” I tend to agree more with Sharkey because there are a lot of learning toold we can gain from the web.