'In Praise Of A Snail's Pace'

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In Ellen Goodman’s essay, “In Praise of a Snail’s Pace”, Goodman expresses her opinion against the losing art – face to face communication. Throughout her essay, she clearly claims that with technology, communication has sped up; but at the cost of losing personal touches our predecessors valued. Like Goodman says,” the lack of personal communication is likened to serving Thanksgiving Turkey at a fast-food restaurant.” With instant-messaging, text-messaging, e-mail and the cell-phone, people nowadays have not only massacred the English language, but also lack appropriate attentiveness for true humanly interaction. Goodman’s essay, using light tone and metaphor persuades the readers to agree with her point; she also gives out examples to further
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