The impairment is not usually what is disabling, but the environmental and attitudinal barriers are. People have the tendency to believe that because you are disabled, you are not able to do anything for yourself, live a full, normal life and hold a job. The characters in Geek Love strongly go against these assumptions. Starting off with the parents, they knew what it meant to be different. To be different to them meant to be special.
She then brings up the issue of unnerving newspaper headlines such as “Bloodlust Video Games Put Kids in the Crosshairs” (205). Sternheimer feels not enough emphasis has been given to other issues such as “social rejection and depression” (206). She also brings our attention to information on statistical evidence. Sternheimer believed it to be “controversial” and feels it “exclude[s] a host of other factors” (207). Sternheimer feels it is these other over looked factors that are truly the cause of “young killers” (210).
It seemed his thirst for relief overpowered his reasoning. He held four arguments that supported Spyware being used. The first told that trusting your child can border on negligence when dealing with the internet (Coben). He implies that access to an adult’s private documents that are held on a computer might not be safe in the hands of the son or daughter. However, this problem can be solved by simply buying your child his own computer or adding additional users and password protection for the administrator.
Weiss opens up his article with, “As a reformed online gaming thief, this ruling makes no sense to me. It places too much value on the time people spend playing video games. Video games are not work or investments for which people should be compensated; they are escapism.” (Alex Weiss) Some may say that time is money, but that may not be the case. The productivity in the game is what makes each individuals’ time valuable. Therefore compensation for piracy of an object that does not exist would place the value of the time spent to gain a merely hypothetical item.
The essay “Why Games Are Good for You” written by Steven Johnson, was written not to say that video games are any better or worse than reading books but simply to clear the misconception that video games are a hindrance to people who play them when it comes to a normal education or learning the social skills people need to live a healthy life, Johnson believes nothing can replace the benefits of reading a book and the written word. However, video games appear to deliver information that would bore the average student in a way that entices them to learn more and keeps them interested in something ordinarily dull. Johnson believes it is because games give people visual rewards for our time spent that books or other forms of media aren’t able to deliver. For example, in certain games such as “SimCity” a user is encouraged to build a thriving metropolis, which teaches about taxes, population, economics and other subjects that must be considered in order to be progressive in the game. Video games require the player to memorize the information they take in, use their cognitive skills to solve a puzzle in the game or use their sensory skills to complete a task in addition to other benefits that haven’t been mentioned.
Taking Sides: Divorce Affecting Children’s Development In today’s society, divorce is becoming a prevalent issue that plagues the traditional family. More and more couples are turning to divorce as the answer to their marital conflicts. But while divorce may be the answer for the parent’s contention, many researchers are claiming divorce may not be the best solution for children. One such researcher, Karl Zinsmeister, wrote an article in The American Enterprise entitled, “Divorce’s Toll on Children,” in which he expounds on the negative impact that divorce has on today’s children. The purpose of this paper is to critique Zinsmeister’s article, and explore its potential flaws and strengths.
| | C. that relying on computers negatively affects our intellectual tendencies and capacities | | D. that using technology of any sort affects the way we think. | | E. that the trend to use computers for more and more aspects of our lives is dangerous. | | | | | * Question 5 | | | James Moor's central belief about invisibility regarding computers is | | | | | Answers: | A. that it is too easy for programmers to take advantage of the invisible operations of computers to engage in ethical misconduct. | | B. that there are benefits to the invisibility of computer use but that this invisibility makes us vulnerable | | C. that the invisibility factor of computers is morally wrong and we should strive to make computer activity more visible | | D. that there are only three kinds of invisibility which have ethical significance | | E. that they will become so small that they will be virtually invisible | | | | | * Question 6 | | | In Christine Rosen's article,
Very few people write letters these days, they just feel it would be much easier, and make more sense, to send a brief text message, IM, or e-mail. Even though we feel more connected with others through the internet, we are still very far removed from one another. We aren't giving one another the full attention we should whenever we communicate via e-mail or text message. To make her point more noticeable between the difference of postal mail, and e-mail, Goodman uses very well-written imagery. “All the speed in the Internet cannot hurry the healing of a friend's loss.” Through these words, Goodman is trying to say that handwritten mail shows more feeling than an e-mail.
It is also true that these children are less supervised because they don’t receive the time and communication from their parents. Even though there is no evidence behind all this, these are the reasons why single-parent households are viewed as problematic for
I will never promise any young person anything I can’t deliver. These young people have been let down by society in many ways and so many now feel a lack of trust in any organization. Admittedly the scheme that I am part of is purely voluntary and so you would be right in thinking that engaging with these young people would be easy but far from it. But if we begin to force young people to engage with us as youth workers then we no longer become youth workers but social workers and that is not what I want the young people to think of me as. I always feel that unless you are learning something from young people then you’re not really working with them.