Science And Technology

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Science and technology are not two words that bring much excitement when hearing them together. To read about subjects that you do not have interest in is difficult. The writer has to make sure they find a way to amuse the reader. It is a difficult task for both the writer and the reader to adapt to and understand the concept of science and technology. Writers must make their work easy to read but at the same time get their point across; readers must want to read but also be able to understand what they are reading. In the essay The Arrow of time K.C Cole uses personal experiences to involve the reader into the subject of entropy. In Cole’s essay she uses entropy to describe how things are moving forward and we can’t go back. When something is done it can’t be easily undone, but it can be fixed. Cole’s essay uses a lot of everyday lifestyle issues, helping the reader feel a connection with the essay. For example “After all, what was the point of spending half of Saturday at the Laundromat if the clothes were dirty all over again the following Friday?”(238). Then we realize that no matter how much we clean and do chores we will do it all over again the next week. That is entropy the order of things in this universe. She continues to talk about how entropy is seen in day to day encounters. K.C. uses strong vocabulary to get her point across and inform the reader. “Though combating entropy is possible, it also has its price. That’s why it seems so hard to get ourselves together, so easy to let ourselves fall apart.”(239) It is clear that this statement is strong and filled with emotions. One can let go of a goal, and always wonder what life would have been if they would have accomplished the goal. Yet one can never move backward just forward. Like The arrow of time, if you shoot an arrow with time it will go forward but it will never go backwards and eventually it
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